Kissed by the Gods Quotes

“Strength without control is just destruction”
― Caty Rogan, Kissed by the Gods

“But I don’t want his apology. I want things to fucking change.”
― Caty Rogan, Kissed by the Gods

“He smiles at me, and I don’t like it.”
― Caty Rogan, Kissed by the Gods

“Beauty is not an invitation to touch.”
― Caty Rogan, Kissed by the Gods

“I didn’t mean to fall in love— I tripped over your slow smile”
― Caty Rogan, Kissed by the Gods

“I didn’t break my oath. Our oath was never about obedience. It’s about protection”
― Caty Rogan, Kissed by the Gods

“Because people need you to live”
― Caty Rogan, Kissed by the Gods

“Let’s go, rebel girl.”
― Caty Rogan, Kissed by the Gods

“For the girls who’ve been told they’re too much.
For the women who’ve been told they’re not enough.
For every time you nearly gave up—
and chose instead to whisper, to shout, to rage:
I’m not finished.”
― Caty Rogan, Kissed by the Gods

“Humans can be just as brutal as the monsters from our nightmares.”
― Caty Rogan, Kissed by the Gods

“I didn’t mean to fall in love⁠— I tripped over your slow smile, landed in your eyes, and found home.”
― Caty Rogan, Kissed by the Gods

“I didn’t mean to fall in love—
I tripped over your slow smile, landed in your eyes, and found home.

—Nyrica’s first poem for Thalric, aged seventeen”
― Caty Rogan, Kissed by the Gods

“And then”
― Caty Rogan, Kissed by the Gods

“Warriors—I will not lie to you. The truth stands before us as plainly as the enemy on the horizon,” Aruveth shouts. “We are woefully outnumbered. This is not a battle we can win. But it is a battle we cannot forsake. Beyond these walls our mothers”
― Caty Rogan, Kissed by the Gods

“I like knowing I’ll be marked tomorrow. Marked by him.”
― Caty Rogan, Kissed by the Gods

“like knowing I’ll be marked tomorrow. Marked by him.”
― Caty Rogan, Kissed by the Gods

“It’s messy. Imperfect. Deeply human. It’s about seeing someone—not as they should be”
― Caty Rogan, Kissed by the Gods

“My mother used to say that love isn’t a prize you win for being perfect or a currency traded for good behavior,”
― Caty Rogan, Kissed by the Gods

“What is romance if not the universe’s finest performance?”
― Caty Rogan, Kissed by the Gods

“The teachings say love clouds the mind,” the Elder calls after me. I stop. “But what the priests and the teachings don’t understand is the irony of forbidden love. It is like watching a flower bloom in the desert. The more it’s denied water”
― Caty Rogan, Kissed by the Gods

“Let them call love a weakness if they must”
― Caty Rogan, Kissed by the Gods

“Love threads the Veil like silver through shadow”
― Caty Rogan, Kissed by the Gods

“No one is closer to dying than when Ryot is whispering.”
― Caty Rogan, Kissed by the Gods

“Come on”
― Caty Rogan, Kissed by the Gods

“Time spent in rest is not lost. It is the foundation upon which strength is built.”
― Caty Rogan, Kissed by the Gods

“If you’re in a sandstorm”
― Caty Rogan, Kissed by the Gods

“Don’t you dare lecture me about things that are distasteful. You don’t have the faintest idea of what that word means. Distasteful is working from sunup until sundown only for all the food you slaved over to get shipped somewhere else”
― Caty Rogan, Kissed by the Gods

“Thrones are built on graves.”
― Caty Rogan, Kissed by the Gods

“I can’t have you”
― Caty Rogan, Kissed by the Gods

“This. This is the training that counts.” He opens his eyes then and they meet mine”
― Caty Rogan, Kissed by the Gods