The Wolf and the Crown of Blood Quotes

“I love her, I love her, and it's the most idiotic, suicidal thing I've ever done in the entire thousand years of my existence. And I would rather let the world burn that lose her.”
― Elizabeth May, The Wolf and the Crown of Blood

“I would rather let the world burn than lose her.”
― Elizabeth May, The Wolf and the Crown of Blood

“It feels like finally exhaling after a lifetime underwater. It feels like surfacing. It feels like coming home.”
― Elizabeth May, The Wolf and the Crown of Blood

“Don’t worry, Devaliant. When I end you, it will be a reckoning to echo through eternity. I’ll carve a monument to our mutual ruination from your bones and build you an altar worthy of the ages.”
― Elizabeth May, The Wolf and the Crown of Blood

“You told me once that you would crave me in any lifetime, across every eternity. And I wanted to tell you… I’d find you in all of them. At the end of everything, when the stars winked out one by one. In the dark and the cold and the nothing. So I’ll wait for you, in some other forever. Where there’s no blade between us. When we can mean more than nothing.”
― Elizabeth May, The Wolf and the Crown of Blood

“He kisses me as if he’s been dying for a taste and wants to savor it. He kisses me like maybe he wants to keep me. He kisses me like a liar.”
― Elizabeth May, The Wolf and the Crown of Blood

“Fuck, I love sunsets. There’s something savage about that final blaze of color spilling across the horizon—the way the gold burns into red before the dark swallows it up. Night always wins in the end. It’s nature’s daily execution.”
― Elizabeth May, The Wolf and the Crown of Blood

“You look like someone I'd keep, if you were anyone but you.”
― Elizabeth May, The Wolf and the Crown of Blood

“Can you even imagine the violence it took to make me this monstrous?” I ask her. “And I’m monstrous down to my fucking soul”
― Elizabeth May, The Wolf and the Crown of Blood

“Love isn’t just words or promises… it’s choice. It’s sacrifice. It means standing in front of a blade meant for the one who holds your heart and bleeding so they don’t have to.”
― Elizabeth May , The Wolf and the Crown of Blood

“I’ll never be able to fly with you”
― Elizabeth May, The Wolf and the Crown of Blood

“So you're going to let me fall, and then you're going to let me get back up and do it again. Today, tomorrow, a century from now." Her finger flex against my skin. "I'm going to be pregnant with our child one day, and you'll have to keep your promises. You'll have to watch me hurt and scream, even if some of it ends up being directed at you, because I'll be scared out of my fucking mind. I'll say awful, unfair things to you that I don't mean because this"--a rueful twist of her lips--"is a process. Us being together is going to be messy and ugly and so damn hard sometimes. Because humans and gods are enemies, and everyone will want to see us fail and tear each other apart." She wipes away a tear from her cheek. "We're both fucked up, and we've got more jagged edges than smooth, but anything worth fighting for is like that. You have to mix the bad in with the good."

Her hands flatten more firmly against my chest, and I feel her certainty down the shimmering tether of our bond. "I can't hide behind your wings forever," she tells me. "You can't shield me from every hurt. That's not who I am. It's not who we are." I love her. I love her so damn much I can't breathe around it.

"Then be angry," I tell her, voice rough with emotion. "Scream. Rage. Break shit. Fall and claw your way back up as many times as it takes." I lift my head, catching her lips in a gentle kiss. "Have my babies. Burn this place to the ground. Just promise you'll leave room for me to offer a hand when you need it."

A wondering sort of smile touches her mouth. "I promise."

"Good." I kiss her again. "You belong with me, Bryony Devaliant."

"I belong with you," she breathes.

"Shout it, nemesis. My queen doesn't need anyone's permission to take up space. She owns it. She takes what's hers."

Bryony inhales sharply. "I belong with you!"

A fierce sort of pride explodes in my chest. "That's my Chosen. Never let anyone make you feel small and shut you up. Not those courtiers. Not Alexios. And sure as fuck not me.”
― Elizabeth May, The Wolf and the Crown of Blood

“Love is the thing with teeth. It will take a bite out of you and dare you to bleed. To carve yourself open and cut a vital piece of who you are. When it's right, the pain becomes something else, something necessary. Like breaking a bone to set it properly. But it's worth it. Every bite, every scar, every lesson that got me here.”
― Elizabeth May, The Wolf and the Crown of Blood

“I wonder if this is what lunacy feels like. Wanting something so desperately even as you understand, intimately, the shape of its ending. And stupidly wanting it anyway.”
― Elizabeth May, The Wolf and the Crown of Blood

“There is no pain I would not endure for her. No horror I would not rain down on her enemies.”
― Elizabeth May, The Wolf and the Crown of Blood

“Because monsters like me--we don't just love. We obsess. We fixate. We annihilate anything that threatens what's ours.”
― Elizabeth May, The Wolf and the Crown of Blood

“I love her. I love her, and it's the most idiotic, suicidal thing I've ever done in the entire thousand years of my existence. And I would rather let the world burn than lose her.”
― Elizabeth May, The Wolf and the Crown of Blood

“My scar is a reminder that a man will still smile when he plans to hurt you.”
― Elizabeth May, The Wolf and the Crown of Blood

“Sometimes the pain of having someone for a few hours is better than the agony of not having them at all. [...] Desire doesn't give a fuck about should or shouldn't. We want what we want, even when we know it'll destroy us.”
― Elizabeth May, The Wolf and the Crown of Blood

“I'm not alone in wanting to pretend, for one day, that we're something we're not.”
― Elizabeth May, The Wolf and the Crown of Blood

“A lot of injuries bleed beneath the skin [...] You can't see them, but you feel them with every breath. It's worse when someone else is there to witness you break apart [...] Especially if it's someone you hate. Like you're handing them the knife, knowing you'll end up bleeding out all over the floor. But it's easier, too, because they're already primed to hurt you. And that means you don't have to be the one to dig your fingers into your own wound. You get the agony without the guilt.”
― Elizabeth May, The Wolf and the Crown of Blood

“If I hold tight to this pain, maybe I can block out all the rest for a little while. This is hurt I choose. This hurt obeys me.”
― Elizabeth May, The Wolf and the Crown of Blood

“Waiting is an unlatched window inviting memories to come slinking out of the dark.”
― Elizabeth May, The Wolf and the Crown of Blood

“[He saw] the empty space where most people keep a conscience and figured he'd found the perfect killers, loyal not because we love him but because he's the only one who can give our grief purpose.”
― Elizabeth May, The Wolf and the Crown of Blood

“This is what happens when everything goes to shit.”
― Elizabeth May, The Wolf and the Crown of Blood

“For those who have always pondered the question: If villain bad”
― Elizabeth May, The Wolf and the Crown of Blood

“Stars grant me patience, because if you grant me strength, I will absolutely do something regrettable with it.”
― Elizabeth May, The Wolf and the Crown of Blood

“You told me once that you would crave me in any lifetime, across every eternity. And I wanted to tell you...I'd find you in all of them. At the end of everything, when the stars winked out one by one. In the dark and the cold of nothing. So I'll wait for you, in some other forever.”
― Elizabeth May, The Wolf and the Crown of Blood

“And the Wolf of Asteria is a soulless fucking monster.”
― Elizabeth May, The Wolf and the Crown of Blood