Legend of the Lightborn Quotes

“This was the place where he and Lyrin had met back when they were children and he knew her as Ellie.”
― Abbey Peterson, Legend of the Lightborn

“Who am I?” “It doesn’t matter,” Beck said into her hair. “It doesn’t matter who you were. You’re Lyrin. You’re the person who saved my life. You’re a guardian and you fight best with a knife. You’re River’s auntie, and you’re funny when you’re drunk, and you have the prettiest laugh I’ve ever heard. You’re all these things. It doesn’t matter where you came from.”
― Abbey Peterson, Legend of the Lightborn

“Lyrin rested her head against Aida’s. “Hi, River,” she whispered. “Welcome to the world.”
― Abbey Peterson, Legend of the Lightborn

“Beck, I agreed to help you because you are worth saving.”
― Abbey Peterson, Legend of the Lightborn

“need you with or without this curse on my arm. I need you because you’re what it feels like to come home. I haven’t had a home since I was a child, but when I’m with you, I’m home. And I know you told me not to say this. I know I said that I shouldn’t. But I need you.”
― Abbey Peterson, Legend of the Lightborn

“I feel like I’m drowning,” he murmured, “except when I’m with you. When I’m with you, it all goes quiet.”
― Abbey Peterson, Legend of the Lightborn

“Did she have any idea? Did she know it was her he wanted sleeping by his side? How it irked him to see her with Kai, and how unbelievably stupid he felt for it?”
― Abbey Peterson, Legend of the Lightborn

“I thought I loved you,” she cried, her body shuddering against him. Beck swallowed hard, trying to sound sure when he said, “I hope one day you realize you were wrong.”
― Abbey Peterson, Legend of the Lightborn

“How could I be jealous when I knew this would happen—that whatever you gave me would be fleeting? I knew that, eventually, you would meet someone who was your equal, and that you would realize it, too. I knew that I had nothing more to offer you than a listening ear. So why would I be jealous when I have spent our entire time together knowing that you were never mine?”
― Abbey Peterson, Legend of the Lightborn

“Tearing himself away from Sola had been like pulling a knife from a wound.”
― Abbey Peterson, Legend of the Lightborn

“I do my best to keep my relationship with the princess professional,” he said.”
― Abbey Peterson, Legend of the Lightborn

“Or maybe everything he’d seen had been real.”
― Abbey Peterson, Legend of the Lightborn