Star Crossed Quotes

“You will not mock me—and you will let me finish. I have owned and lost a kingdom, and I have battled death. I have been through all that, and I will not chase after you like some lovesick poet spouting verse. If you wish to call me yours, then you will have to act as if you are mine. On the front of surrender, there is no middle ground.”
― Nenia Campbell, Star Crossed

“He wanted a fight, yes—but he wanted her willing, not besieged, with his name shattering from her lips like a broken shield as she surrendered.”
― Nenia Campbell, Star Crossed

“I know what you want. You’re a vicious little hellcat—all teeth and claws. And you want to use them, don’t you? You want to fight. You like to fight.” She stiffened at the pinch of his teeth at her neck and he blew gently into her ear. “Fight me, then. Fight me as much as you want. As hard as you want. Because no matter what you do, I’m going to ruin you. No one will ever fuck you the way I do.”
― Nenia Campbell, Star Crossed

“We are nothing more than game pieces on a celestial board whose sheer scale we could not possibly fathom. All of it is inevitable—just like you and I. You can’t fight Fate.”

“I can fight you.”

He smiled. It was a courtier’s smile. An elegant cover to endless secrets and depravities. “I’m counting on it.”
― Nenia Campbell, Star Crossed

“You’re a wild and disobedient girl with violence impulses who chafes at authority and your thin veneer of polished civility has all the transparency of a whore’s nightgown.”
― Nenia Campbell, Star Crossed

“You were the most beautiful thing that I’d ever seen. I couldn’t decide whether to pluck you out of the sky and cage you, or simply break your wings.”
― Nenia Campbell, Star Crossed

“Ice could sear and burn—sometimes far more intimately than fire—and he had scorched her with a savagery sheathed in only the merest pretense of restraint.”
― Nenia Campbell, Star Crossed

“It was as though he had awakened something inside her. All those desires she had felt in passing had culminated, growing deeper, hungrier, darker.”
― Nenia Campbell, Star Crossed

“There it is,” he breathed. “That’s how you looked the night you came to me. Hot and golden, with that black dress all but falling off your body. You looked at me just like that.”
― Nenia Campbell, Star Crossed

“Fuck you.”

Finn glanced her over, once, leisurely, and when his eyes returned to her flushed and angry face, he said, “You certainly did.”
― Nenia Campbell, Star Crossed

“She was full of fire and he had never wanted to burn so badly.”
― Nenia Campbell, Star Crossed

“His eyes were like a forest at night—dark, wild, and dangerous. They were as fey as the rest of him, calling to mind thoughts of terrifying legends and powerful magic. You could fall into eyes like that, she thought, and find yourself trapped forever.

In that moment, he resembled exactly what he was: a witch prince, out for blood.”
― Nenia Campbell, Star Crossed

“With a low sound, he moved against her so that her backside was flush with his hips and she could feel every inch of him through his boxers.

There were a lot of inches.”
― Nenia Campbell, Star Crossed

“Humanity was a precipice and she was standing on the edge of it, staring into the wild and yawning void that encompassed all things bestial and frightening. It would be so easy to jump, to let go and fall in—but once she started falling, her fear was that she would never stop.”
― Nenia Campbell, Star Crossed

“This is what he likes—violence and rebellion. But only when he can control it.”
― Nenia Campbell, Star Crossed

“In the absence of deliberate cruelty, the harshness of his face and the fullness of his mouth just looked sullen and a little wicked. An angel frozen into a tableau of marmoreal perfection as he contemplated his imminent fall from grace.”
― Nenia Campbell, Star Crossed

“She pressed herself to him willingly, opening his mouth with her lips. He’d been expecting a fight, and a heartbeat before he kissed her back she felt all the tension melt from his body and he yielded to her fully, bending to her like a blade of grass against the wind.”
― Nenia Campbell, Star Crossed

“I suppose you don’t care about anyone,” said Catherine.

Finn paused. “I find few people are worth the effort.”

“A charmer like you?” she said. “No. I don’t believe it.”
― Nenia Campbell, Star Crossed