Between Tides & Thunder Quotes

“Because I know you wouldn’t tolerate anything less than being treated as my equal.”
― Leena Kazak, Between Tides & Thunder

“It’s the lies we tell ourselves that keep us moving forward.”
― Leena Kazak, Between Tides & Thunder

“I should have done this the night we danced beneath the stars,” he murmurs, his breath fanning my lips. “Know that it will always be my greatest regret.” And then he kisses me.”
― Leena Kazak, Between Tides & Thunder

“A soft whimper slips out, and Zevayr draws me against his chest. His arms tighten around my shoulders, a ghost of a kiss brushed across my forehead, so faint I might have imagined it. “I’ve got you,” he whispers into my hair. “You’re safe.” I am. I know I am, and I hate it.”
― Leena Kazak, Between Tides & Thunder

“Except he isn’t delivering her, like bartered goods to be traded. He’s safeguarding her. Like a treasure.”
― Leena Kazak, Between Tides & Thunder

“And nonwielders are treated abhorrently by both kingdoms. The matter is personal to me. Sura and Tumaas had been nonwielders. My mother had been a nonwielder. And all of them are dead.”
― Leena Kazak, Between Tides & Thunder

“Take off his ring,” he growls, tugging it from my finger. It clatters to the floor, forgotten. “I’ll get you another one.”
― Leena Kazak, Between Tides & Thunder

“You will wed Zevayr.”
― Leena Kazak, Between Tides & Thunder

“I’ll bathe in his contempt until I’m covered in every drop of his wrath.”
― Leena Kazak, Between Tides & Thunder

“And I would’ve helped you. I’d have helped you kill them all,” he admits”
― Leena Kazak, Between Tides & Thunder

“I won’t be kind. I won’t be gentle. I’m going to ruin you”
― Leena Kazak, Between Tides & Thunder

“you’re mine.”
― Leena Kazak, Between Tides & Thunder

“Which. Guards.”
― Leena Kazak, Between Tides & Thunder

“Don’t get enough of me at night?”
― Leena Kazak, Between Tides & Thunder

“What do we do now, oh great commander?”
― Leena Kazak, Between Tides & Thunder

“I’ve never met a more infuriating man. It’s as though his every comment is designed to burrow beneath my skin and rile me up.”
― Leena Kazak, Between Tides & Thunder

“twitching.”
― Leena Kazak, Between Tides & Thunder

“But the way he looks at me—like I’m the only thing that’s ever mattered—splits me open, leaving me powerful and fragile all at once.”
― Leena Kazak, Between Tides & Thunder

“He kisses me as if he’s been waiting for me his entire life.”
― Leena Kazak, Between Tides & Thunder

“He whispers my name like I’m his salvation.”
― Leena Kazak, Between Tides & Thunder

“Lightning flashes in his eyes as he glares at me, and I want it to strike me down.”
― Leena Kazak, Between Tides & Thunder

“all.”
― Leena Kazak, Between Tides & Thunder

“I rather like his broody scowl.”
― Leena Kazak, Between Tides & Thunder

“It’s dangerous for me to want.”
― Leena Kazak, Between Tides & Thunder

“Mayah…” He whispers my name like I’m his salvation.”
― Leena Kazak, Between Tides & Thunder

“Sometimes”
― Leena Kazak, Between Tides & Thunder

“archaic.”
― Leena Kazak, Between Tides & Thunder

“If so much as a gentle breeze dares to touch her, if even an invisible splinter pierces her skin, you will each suffer a slow and brutal death. Your screams will echo for weeks. Your families will have nothing to bury. Do. You. Understand?”
― Leena Kazak, Between Tides & Thunder

“Is your brother a good man?” I whisper into the dark. A beat passes. “No.” His voice is hollow. “But neither am I.”
― Leena Kazak, Between Tides & Thunder

“If you think this counts as sleeping together, you’ve been doing it wrong.”
― Leena Kazak, Between Tides & Thunder