Blood Passage Quotes

“You cannot have the moon without the night. Its light needs the darkness to kiss. Who else can hold it but the shadows? What else can make it shine?”
― Heather Demetrios, Blood Passage

“So you’re the sister,” Taz said, coming up to Zanari.

She nodded, unsmiling. “Yep. I’m the sister.” She was getting so tired of that role.

“Also known as the Incredibly Talented Seer?” Taz raised an eyebrow and when he did, his face lost some of its perfect beauty. It made her warm to him, just a little.

A small smile sneaked onto Zanari’s face. “Now you’re just trying to get on my good side.”

Taz nodded in mock solemnity. “You’re the one who’ll see the ghouls coming—I plan to stick quite close to you for the next . . . however long we’ll be roaming impenetrable darkness.”

“I have a personal bubble,” she said. Nalia had taught her that human expression after one too many of Noqril’s advances.

“I like bubbles.”

Zanari rolled her eyes and he laughed. For a jinni who’d been imprisoned in a bottle for thousands of years, Taz was remarkably well adjusted.”
― Heather Demetrios, Blood Passage

“He’d play dirty, break the rules—he didn’t care. He wanted to stay in the game and this was the only way he knew how.”
― Heather Demetrios, Blood Passage

“All of the jinn had refused to manifest a mattress for him, but the skag lay on the stone floor as though it were a king’s bed.”
― Heather Demetrios, Blood Passage