My Blade, Your Back Quotes

“Even if our lives are shorter, I’m going to live every single one of them with you, Em. I love you. I yearn for you even in my dreams.”
― K.M. Moronova, My Blade, Your Back

“I hate that I can’t comfort her. I hate that she doesn’t braid her hair anymore. I hate that I did this. It’s my fault.”
― K.M. Moronova, My Blade, Your Back

“I’d pursue you to no end. You are the only home I’ve ever truly known,”
― K.M. Moronova, My Blade, Your Back

“Her eyes flicker with all the colors of a burning sunset”
― K.M. Moronova, My Blade, Your Back

“Every flower in my field of death.”
― K.M. Moronova, My Blade, Your Back

“Wet strands of his hair spill onto my forehead as I find the universe in his eyes.”
― K.M. Moronova, My Blade, Your Back

“And I’d fall in love with you over and over”
― K.M. Moronova, My Blade, Your Back

“Goodbye”
― K.M. Moronova, My Blade, Your Back

“He’s proposing that you be promoted to Sergeant Mortem of the Hades Squad.” His beady eyes are like pits of darkness as they watch my expression morph with shock. Hades? That’s what Emery told me Mikah said she found intel on…the new squad to replace ours. And he wants me to be the sergeant?”
― K.M. Moronova, My Blade, Your Back

“People are complex”
― K.M. Moronova, My Blade, Your Back

“No one has earned their cards because it’s a farce. A lie. Something they tell the soldiers to keep you motivated because you truly believe that there will be a way out someday. That you were saved from death row and can be fixed if you serve the Dark Forces. Well”
― K.M. Moronova, My Blade, Your Back

“I can’t help it. Even when I forgot who you were”
― K.M. Moronova, My Blade, Your Back

“I love you. I love every wrong thing you’ve done”
― K.M. Moronova, My Blade, Your Back

“And you did the same for me?” I ask”
― K.M. Moronova, My Blade, Your Back

“Mori gives me a sympathetic look before saying through a clenched jaw”
― K.M. Moronova, My Blade, Your Back

“Bree. The moment her name hits me is like a punch in the gut”
― K.M. Moronova, My Blade, Your Back

“I shouldn’t give in and hold her”
― K.M. Moronova, My Blade, Your Back

“I betrayed the only person I ever loved”
― K.M. Moronova, My Blade, Your Back

“All I ever need is you. The rest doesn’t matter.”
― K.M. Moronova, My Blade, Your Back

“I want to know everything about him”
― K.M. Moronova, My Blade, Your Back

“She and I thrive in the worst of things. Like English primroses, blooming in the dead of winter when we’ve never known the warmth of the sun.”
― K.M. Moronova, My Blade, Your Back

“They can take everything from me as long as it isn’t you,”
― K.M. Moronova, My Blade, Your Back

“What the fuck do you mean she doesn’t remember who she is?”
― K.M. Moronova, My Blade, Your Back

“I never stopped caring about you, Em. I just wanted you to be safe from me.”
― K.M. Moronova, My Blade, Your Back

“There could be endless versions of you, and I’d love each one as fervently and entirely.”
― K.M. Moronova, My Blade, Your Back

“I’m screaming his name over and over. Cameron. Screaming for him to stop. Cameron. Such a lovely name”
― K.M. Moronova, My Blade, Your Back

“I see it in his eyes—the moment he surrenders to his lust. The ice he keeps set in his soul melts and his lashes lower, hooding his gaze. He stares upon me like there is no separation between light and dark, as if we truly are two soldiers cursed to circle one another dangerously, only to secretly meet at dusk and let the blood on our hands disappear with the sun.”
― K.M. Moronova, My Blade, Your Back

“I would do anything for her. Even if she never remembers my love for her.”
― K.M. Moronova, My Blade, Your Back

“hate that I can’t comfort her. I hate that she doesn’t braid her hair anymore. I hate that I did this. It’s my fault.”
― K.M. Moronova, My Blade, Your Back

“We’re only lovely monsters made of flesh and bone.”
― K.M. Moronova, My Blade, Your Back