In the Wake of the Ruined Quotes

“Loving you is not the end, it’s the beginning of everything.”
― Kalie Cassidy, In the Wake of the Ruined

“I don’t know how you make me feel like a starving supplicant. How you’ve made everything that is not you taste like ash. I’m certain nothing truly good existed before you.”
― Kalie Cassidy, In the Wake of the Ruined

“You think that I've missed something. That I cannot possibly love you when you are made up of unknown dangers and lurking threats. But I don't see you the way you see yourself. Looking at you is like looking at the turquoise sea on a clear day. I can see through it in places. It's full of beauty and shadows, and though I cannot know the whole of what it contains, I would happily spend my life trying.”
― Kalie Cassidy, In the Wake of the Ruined

“After everything, you have no claim on me? I still feel you. Not your blood, not our bond, but something more ...beguiling. More devastating. I don't know what Godsdamned spell you cast, or how, but you left a mark on every part of me. You are a spirit I cannot banish. A ghost that wails the word mine as you haunt me. If you never wish to return to me, then be merciful, and tell me now.”
― Kalie Cassidy, In the Wake of the Ruined

“He leaned closer, lips close. "So instead of walking into hell alone, you will take me with you.”
― Kalie Cassidy, In the Wake of the Ruined

“I stiffened. "Do you mean, Eftan, that I am the vessel, and you are the captain? That I am the sword and you the fist?" I waited, anger rising in my chest like the burning sun, but he only stared at me with a clamped mouth. I picked up my goblet and hurled it at the wall above his head. "I am the captain, and you are a single fucking line of rigging. When you are snapped, you will be easily replaced."
He'd frozen, his dark gaze touched with surprise. A gnarled silence grew between us, and it struck me that Eftan had never known this sort of resistance.”
― Kalie Cassidy, In the Wake of the Ruined