Unbound Quotes

“We do not gossip. We simply exchange facts, suspicions, and bits of news.” “So you gossip.”
― Penelope Bloom, Unbound

“All we have is right now. Here. We can’t change the past, but we can use it to find strength.”
― Penelope Bloom, Unbound

“Raith. You can’t threaten my friends.” “I already did.” “I like him,” Typhon rumbles in my mind.”
― Penelope Bloom, Unbound

“If you come for her on campus, it will be your blood on the stone. That’s a fucking promise. Am I clear?”
― Penelope Bloom, Unbound

“I need you with me, Typhon. What if somebody looks at me wrong? Who will threaten to eat them?”
― Penelope Bloom, Unbound

“Anything you have to say to her can be said in front of me,” Raith states, voice deadly calm. “Is that because you’re too dense to comprehend it, or because you fancy yourself as some sort of guard dog?” “Maybe come closer. Find out if I bite.”
― Penelope Bloom, Unbound

“In this world, the blues are sharper and deeper—eye-watering in their intensity. It stands on two powerful hind legs, long serpentine body erect with forelegs that end in three deadly curved claws. The tail winds behind its hind legs, curled and tipped in a barb of scales that gleam wicked and pure black like obsidian. Its head is as large as my whole body and dragon-like, with two elegant horns that sweep back with a single twist. The wings are veined and tipped in those same obsidian colored spikes, nearly translucent as the beast spreads them wide and lets out a terrible roar that shakes my insides. The fire wolf snarls, the sound seeming impotent compared to the roar. The water dragon lets out a low, clicking snarl as it prowls to the side, its size dwarfing even the big wolf.”
― Penelope Bloom, Unbound

“Beck, leans his head forward, voice low. “When are you going to tell us what happened in the Lake, Nessa? I’m hearing wild rumors, and as your friend, I should be the one spreading wild rumors.”
― Penelope Bloom, Unbound

“can do this. It’s never going to be easy. It’s never going to be pretty. But I can fucking do this.”
― Penelope Bloom, Unbound

“Staying scared is only going to mean staying weak. And I’m fucking tired of being scared.”
― Penelope Bloom, Unbound

“The unbound can pull them, shape them like a conductor shapes music from instruments.”
― Penelope Bloom, Unbound

“Unbound. The fifth affinity. Mender and the breaker. Dangerous, powerful, and essential.”
― Penelope Bloom, Unbound

“You’re acting like I’m dangerous, or something.” “You are. More than you realize.”
― Penelope Bloom, Unbound

“I quickly conclude that I’m royally fucked.”
― Penelope Bloom, Unbound

“His scars should make him grotesque, but instead, they only enhance the raw magnetism that emanates from him like heat from a forge. When his golden eyes catch the light, something deep and primal in my brain registers him as a predator”
― Penelope Bloom, Unbound

“Impossible.” “Dangerous.” “Potential.” “Kill her.” And then, more clearly and powerfully than any of the words before… “Unbound.”
― Penelope Bloom, Unbound

“The left side of his face is twisted with burn scars that begin at his temple and disappear beneath his collar, yet somehow they only enhance his dangerous allure, like veins of fire frozen beneath his skin.”
― Penelope Bloom, Unbound

“tall, broader and more muscular than anyone else in our group, standing apart like a predator among prey. The space around him is conspicuously empty, as if everyone senses the danger rolling off him in waves. He’s beautiful in the way dangerous things often are—like the perfect stillness of a viper before it strikes. The moment of collapsed time when the danger is as clear as the impossibility of escape. His features are carved perfection, sharp and soft in all the right places. He has a strong jaw, a mouth that looks made for both cruelty and pleasure, and those eyes—gods help me—they’re the deepest shade of amber I’ve ever seen, almost molten gold in the fading light.”
― Penelope Bloom, Unbound

“Primals are the elite of the elite, and the magic they command is the stuff of legends. Rarely seen, often heard about, and completely surrounded in mystery and confusion. And now I’m standing in front of the academy that creates them.”
― Penelope Bloom, Unbound

“shakes”
― Penelope Bloom, Unbound

“You never let me eat people, so I improvised. If I can’t eat them, I will settle for humiliation.”
― Penelope Bloom, Unbound

“The words tumble out before I can stop them—apparently near-death experiences make me mouthy.”
― Penelope Bloom, Unbound

“40 RAITH”
― Penelope Bloom, Unbound

“I swear this oath to you now. I swear I’ll do everything I can to help you. To protect you like you’ve protected me.” The words come from somewhere deep inside me, pulled forth by instinct and desperation. “Your life is my life. Your fight is my fight.”
― Penelope Bloom, Unbound

“Avoiding the blade at your throat only makes it slice deeper,”
― Penelope Bloom, Unbound

“He studies me for a long moment, searching for hesitation, for doubt. Finding none, he nods. His mouth finds mine with unerring accuracy, and the kiss is one without any semblance of control. Just raw need and desperate relief.”
― Penelope Bloom, Unbound

“Looking at him reminds me of how I used to feel back home on our fishing boat when a storm was about to roll in. Some instinctive part of me knew I needed to drop the oars and row for the docks—to save myself from the raw power coming my way. And yet all I ever wanted to do was stand there and stare.”
― Penelope Bloom, Unbound

“He's beautiful in the way dangerous things often are—like the perfect stillness of a viper before it strikes. The moment of collapsed time when the danger is as clear as the impossibility of escape.”
― Penelope Bloom, Unbound