Ivory Guard Quotes

“Love doesn’t make you fall. It gives you wings on good days, so you still feel their comfortable weight at your back as you grit your teeth and fight through the bad ones. Love – I mean real, everyday love – is a choice. Love is you choosing someone, despite it all, every day, every year.” - Lillian”
― Natalie Herzer, Ivory Guard

“Pawns were always underestimated - until they marched across the board and changed into queens.”
― Natalie Herzer, Ivory Guard

“You want anything from me before the sun is up, you better have a cup of coffee in your hand.”
― Natalie Herzer, Ivory Guard

“They tip-toed around each other always watching, never touching. At least he tried to avoid the touching, and yet at times his body would betray him, reaching out for her as if out of its own accord, being at ease in each other’s company without wanting to be and even falling back into their old routine filled with orders and witty comebacks. It was quite the dance really. One he had missed and come to secretly enjoy again. Yeah, apparently he really liked torturing himself.”
― Natalie Herzer, Ivory Guard

“She walked over while he poured her a mug and even added the right amount of sugar. It did funny things to her heart that he hadn’t forgotten how she drank her coffee. Such a small and ordinary piece of knowledge, but still a piece of her.”
― Natalie Herzer, Ivory Guard

“Although he wanted nothing more, he hadn’t even watched her out of the shadows. Not really because it was too creepy but because it was too damn tempting.
- Raz”
― Natalie Herzer, Ivory Guard

“Just a scratch.”
“Tell that to your pinky.”
“My pinky?” Frowning he held up his left hand - which only sported four fingers now instead of the more healthy five - in front of his face. “Where the hell’s my pinky?”
“On the floor.”
“Oh.”
― Natalie Herzer, Ivory Guard

“Humans have created too many beautiful songs to settle on one particular genre. Whether techno or opera, it doesn’t matter, as long as it has that certain edge, that something that makes it more. You just have to be able, or simply in the mood, to listen to it.”
― Natalie Herzer, Ivory Guard

“You sure you aren’t the angel of discipline or some such?”
“Yeah, pretty much. He’s my brother.”
Of course.”
― Natalie Herzer, Ivory Guard

“Lillian just stared at him, utterly speechless. “I don’t know what to say. Whenever I think we might get along and that I will get through this, you open your mouth and everything goes to hell.”
“Not hell, purgatory. Thought we established that much.” He actually grinned at her.”
― Natalie Herzer, Ivory Guard