Souls In Ruin Quotes

“Yshera,” he said, and there was a rawness, an honesty, in his voice I hadn’t heard before. “Taking on your pain is nothing compared to the pain I feel when you experience it.”
― Jacqueline White, Souls in Ruin

“I’m not built for happiness,” I told him, the closest thing to truth I could offer. “Only for survival.”
― Jacqueline White, Souls in Ruin

“You will not die today, yshera,” Death replied, low and dangerous. “The world is not prepared for what I would do if this,” his thumb pressed against my pulse point, “were to stop.”
― Jacqueline White, Souls in Ruin

“I had been called many things in my life—bastard, abomination, living shame—but beautiful was rarely among them, and never in reference to the very feature that marked me as different.”
― Jacqueline White, Souls in Ruin

“I was no longer certain which of us was predator, and which was prey.”
― Jacqueline White, Souls in Ruin

“I seek what I have always sought,” he said, his voice dropping to a near whisper, forcing me to lean slightly forward to hear. “That which is mine by right.”
― Jacqueline White, Souls in Ruin

“You play with fire, little queen,” he whispered, his voice deepening, acquiring an echo that hadn’t been there before. “You provoke a god.” “Good,” I breathed. “Burn me.”
― Jacqueline White, Souls in Ruin

“And in the end,” he whispered, each word laced with quiet certainty, “you—your soul—will belong to me. I will make you mine.”
― Jacqueline White, Souls in Ruin

“If these chains were broken, if this wall between us was dust... I would show you the true meaning of divine intervention.”
― Jacqueline White, Souls in Ruin

“I believe, Mireille, that you deserve to be worshipped as thoroughly as you have been neglected.”
― Jacqueline White, Souls in Ruin

“Your eyes,” he murmured, his voice softer than I had heard it yet. “They’re quite unusual.” I stiffened, bracing for the familiar disgust or suspicion that typically followed such observations. “Beautiful,” he added, his gaze never wavering. “Like moonlight captured in a storm.”
― Jacqueline White, Souls in Ruin

“I would not break. I was Mireille of Vareth, bastard daughter of a king, wife to a monster. And somehow, I would find a way to turn this nightmare to my advantage. Even if it took an eternity.”
― Jacqueline White, Souls in Ruin

“This was my life. My story. And only I would write its ending.”
― Jacqueline White, Souls In Ruin: the hottest enemies to lovers dark fantasy romance to obssess over!

“His face… gods, his face was devastation carved into marble. He looked at me as if I were water after an eternity of thirst, light after endless darkness, home after millennia of wandering.”
― Jacqueline White, Souls In Ruin: the hottest enemies to lovers dark fantasy romance to obssess over!

“There are fates worse than death, hungers deeper than blood, and no chains—mortal or divine—can hold the prey that has decided to become the monster.”
― Jacqueline White, Souls In Ruin: the hottest enemies to lovers dark fantasy romance to obssess over!

“Duty. Such a convenient concept for those who wish to absolve themselves of the responsibility for their choices.”
― Jacqueline White, Souls in Ruin

“You are not meant to belong to him.”
― Jacqueline White, Souls in Ruin

“Undergarments. No shoes”
― Jacqueline White, Souls in Ruin

“If she is harmed”
― Jacqueline White, Souls in Ruin

“How unfortunate for them”
― Jacqueline White, Souls in Ruin

“Make no mistake”
― Jacqueline White, Souls in Ruin

“What is the weight of a life that was never meant to be? Heavy enough to crush the dreams of those foolish enough to hope”
― Jacqueline White, Souls in Ruin

“How worthless was I”
― Jacqueline White, Souls in Ruin

“If I could reach you now,” he began”
― Jacqueline White, Souls in Ruin

“It was a pleasant sight. Not magnificent enough to build a life around”
― Jacqueline White, Souls in Ruin

“I do not share my toys.”
― Jacqueline White, Souls in Ruin

“will endure. I will escape. I will not break.”
― Jacqueline White, Souls in Ruin

“Isolde collected pressed flowers,” I continued. “She kept them between the pages of poetry books. She said it was to remember that beauty endures”
― Jacqueline White, Souls in Ruin

“The silk clung to the places where his hands had been only minutes before”
― Jacqueline White, Souls in Ruin

“I believe”
― Jacqueline White, Souls in Ruin