Kissed by the Gods Quotes

“He smiles at me, and I don’t like it.”
― 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

“It’s not about perfection,” Ryot says. “It’s not even about letting go. It’s about staying. Right here”
― Caty Rogan, Kissed by the Gods

“love isn’t a prize you win for being perfect or a currency traded for good behavior,” I say. His arms tighten around me. “It’s messy. Imperfect. Deeply human. It’s about seeing someone—not as they should be”
― Caty Rogan, Kissed by the Gods

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

“Let them call love a weakness if they must. But I know the truth. I’ve never fought more fiercely than with Thalric’s life in the balance.”
― Caty Rogan, Kissed by the Gods

“We didn’t get the life we dreamed up in that blue house”
― Caty Rogan, Kissed by the Gods

“This is how you win before the fight even starts. You have to learn to hold your ground when everything turns unfamiliar. When the world shifts and nothing feels real. You don’t slash through that with a blade. You breathe through it. Anchor to something—your breath, your body, your name. That’s how you stay you, even when the dark tries to take that from you.”
― Caty Rogan, Kissed by the Gods

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

“They say blood makes you family, and I think that is true. But not birthright blood. It’s the blood that’s spilled, the blood that’s given, that does it. The man who taught me how to stand was not the one who gave me life, but the one who charged into battle next to me, who held the line when I faltered, who called me son before I ever believed I could be one. That’s the blood that matters.”
― Caty Rogan, Kissed by the Gods

“this world doesn’t cradle love. It stomps it out as if it’s a weakness. Especially in our boys.”
― Caty Rogan, Kissed by the Gods

“Don’t hide your pleasure from me,” he growls. “Don’t you ever hide from me.”
― Caty Rogan, Kissed by the Gods

“Leina Haverlyn.” The way he says my name—it’s not a surrender. It’s a vow. “Will you be mine? My ward”
― Caty Rogan, Kissed by the Gods

“I know all about ‘worse’.”
― Caty Rogan, Kissed by the Gods

“I’ve walked through Lako’s hells with nothing and I’ve come out with less. I have no fear left to give you.”
― Caty Rogan, Kissed by the Gods

“I'd come to think of the veil as something I had to fight. It's wild, unknowable, dangerous. But as its endlessness swallows me, surrounds me with something vast and strangely soft, I realize what Bri had tried to tell me: it's also alive.
It hums around me. It has an heartbeat. A breath. I shudder from the terrible, aching familiarity of it. The Veil isn't a place.
It's a who.
And it's everyone.
I don't go to places. I go to souls.”
― Caty Rogan, Kissed by the Gods

“I stumble on the words to tell her - likely the last words I'll ever speak to her. 'I love you' seems too trite, the words somehow unequal to the horror and the honour of this, our last stand. Instead, I whisper, " You made me whole, Leina Haverlin".”
― Caty Rogan, Kissed by the Gods

“You don’t belong in my world. Leina, you are my world.”
― Caty Rogan, Kissed by the Gods