Between Tides & Thunder Quotes

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

“You will wed Zevayr.”
― 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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“If you think this counts as sleeping together, you’ve been doing it wrong.”
― 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

“And Father has just arranged my marriage to Faramir, the crown prince of Arbinj.”
― Leena Kazak, Between Tides & Thunder

“A lump forms in my throat as her pitying gaze meets mine in the mirror. She squeezes my hand, her eyes glistening. “When … when he comes to your bed, just do as he says, Princess. It will be easier.” I nod numbly, but inside I’m screaming. How many women before me were told the same thing? How many will come after?”
― 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

“Hey", Zev says softly. "You look perfect.”
― Leena Kazak, Between Tides & Thunder

“Hey,” Zev murmurs”
― 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

“Sometimes, it’s the lies we choose to believe that let us keep moving forward.”
― Leena Kazak, Between Tides & Thunder

“He left his scent on my skin and his promise in my chest. But his absence leaves space for something else to return, me.”
― Leena Kazak, Between Tides & Thunder

“him!”
― 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

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

“This is the Dark Commander. And he’s terrifying.”
― Leena Kazak, Between Tides & Thunder

“Except he isn’t delivering her”
― Leena Kazak, Between Tides & Thunder

“My palm stings”
― Leena Kazak, Between Tides & Thunder

“Except Zev takes the longest shower in the history of showers. In the history of man”
― Leena Kazak, Between Tides & Thunder

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

“If so much as a gentle breeze dares to touch her”
― Leena Kazak, Between Tides & Thunder

“Some wounds never close. No matter how many times you pass glowing hands over them.”
― Leena Kazak, Between Tides & Thunder