Tethered In Blood Quotes

“Fine. But if you end up dead, I’m leaving your body for the crows.” I grinned and started walking through the hall. “I wouldn’t expect anything less.”
― H. L. Rillon, Tethered In Blood: The Gods are Waiting.

“I kept going because even if it was just one more patient, one more person, I could help them. Because no one had done it for me.”
― H. L. Rillon, Tethered In Blood: The Gods are Waiting.

“For as long as I could remember, I had been too much and never enough. Overly stubborn. Excessively plain. Quite inconvenient. I learned that my usefulness measured my worth; that my hands could heal, but my face could never inspire softness. My presence was tolerated at best and ignored at worst.”
― H. L. Rillon, Tethered In Blood: The Gods are Waiting.

“An unseen pulse rippled outward, warping the surrounding space. Silver-blue light bled from his veins, fierce and untamed, crackling in strokes of lightning beneath the surface. The darkness recoiled and peeled away as if it had never intended to touch him. The cursed veins shattered, brittle as ink on glass, burning away into nothing.”
― H. L. Rillon, Tethered In Blood: The Gods are Waiting.

“One moment, the creature stood beneath the cursed tree; the next, it loomed before us, a twisted horror of gnarled limbs and malevolence. Its form shifted as if the land itself rejected its presence.”
― H. L. Rillon, Tethered In Blood: The Gods are Waiting.

“Oh, I’m sorry.” Her voice dripped with mockery. “Should I have waited for you to scowl at it first, Sir Knight?”
― H. L. Rillon, Tethered In Blood: The Gods are Waiting.

“I’m here to do my job, not stroke your fragile ego. Your opinion of me is irrelevant.”
― H. L. Rillon, Tethered In Blood: The Gods are Waiting.

“You’re reckless,” he muttered. A short, dry laugh escaped me, and I wiped my hands dry on my uniform. “And you’re paranoid. Guess we—” A sharp, wet crack shattered the night, reverberating through the trees. Then another. The sound was the unmistakable resonance of bones cracking under immense pressure.”
― H. L. Rillon, Tethered In Blood: The Gods are Waiting.

“Oh, you know. Life. Death. The possibility that I could be thrown off this horse at any moment and break my neck.” “Not if you hold on properly,” I scoffed “So, you do care if I fall off.” “I care about getting to Silverfel without having to scrape you off the ground halfway there.”
― H. L. Rillon, Tethered In Blood: The Gods are Waiting.

“Other people’s needs. Their pains and illnesses. You started keeping track of them.” I nodded. “I did.” Calder lifted her gaze from the pages, fixing me with a stare that saw far too much. “Why?” The single word reverberated in my mind.Why? Because nobody had ever kept track of mine.”
― H. L. Rillon, Tethered In Blood: The Gods are Waiting.

“Dilthen Doe.” She turned at my voice. Her gaze searched my armor as I exited the shadowy corridor, eyes flashing with an emotion that carried too much depth and weight. In that quiet moment, a soft blush crept across her cheeks. Her lips parted, and my heart skipped a beat. It was an intense and unwelcome experience. One that I detested.”
― H. L. Rillon, Tethered In Blood: The Gods are Waiting.

“She was trying too hard. Her shoulders were too relaxed, and her posture appeared too deliberately casual. A radiance that felt feigned rather than genuine.”
― H. L. Rillon, Tethered In Blood: The Gods are Waiting.

“I had met powerful men who sought to own, control, and break others. But he was different. There was no pretense of civility and no need for manipulation.”
― H. L. Rillon, Tethered In Blood: The Gods are Waiting.

“This man didn’t go to war; he was the war. He didn’t need to seize power; it yielded to him.”
― H. L. Rillon, Tethered In Blood: The Gods are Waiting.

“Aurelith’s courts may have condemned magic, but within these walls, it breathed.”
― H. L. Rillon, Tethered In Blood: The Gods are Waiting.

“You can’t change what you are with books and pressed flowers, Eden.”
― H. L. Rillon, Tethered In Blood: The Gods are Waiting.

“real monsters didn’t lurk in the shadows of the trees. They sat at dinner tables where they bargain with their blood.”
― H. L. Rillon, Tethered In Blood: The Gods are Waiting.

“The world had never been kind to me, but I never needed kindness to survive.”
― H. L. Rillon, Tethered In Blood: The gods are waiting

“The audacity of her.”
― H. L. Rillon, Tethered In Blood: The gods are waiting