Shadow's End Quotes

“You did not walk away from those you loved. You fought for them, always, with everything you had, even if it meant fighting the long fight, and staying on the hardest, quietest, most difficult course.”
― Thea Harrison, Shadow's End

“I treasure the breaths we take together, and I am stricken with envy for them, for they mingle closer and more completely than our bodies can join. Your beauty makes me fall out of the sky and want to stay tethered to earth. Let me follow you everywhere, my love, through the lightest moments, and the darkest. I can only be happy if we share all our pain. Don’t leave me, I beg of you, for my spirit will go with you, and then I will truly become clay. He”
― Thea Harrison, Shadow's End

“She paused and unexpectedly stroked her fingers down the feathers of his neck.
He froze. She couldn't know how intimate that seemed, or how sensitive he was to her touch even through the sleek covering of eagle feathers. Pleasure at being petted ran down his spine.
He should say something or step away. He did neither. Instead, ever so slightly, he leaned into her touch.
It was wrong of him, but his wrong button seemed to be broken, and he didn't care.”
― Thea Harrison, Shadow's End

“Almost as if speaking to herself, she continued, I would love to fly. I've always wondered what it be like to have that sense of freedom.
A wistful note in her voice tugged at something deep inside him.He replied. I couldn't conceive of living without it. I can't imagine being forever grounded.”
― Thea Harrison, Shadow's End

“London was littered with social clubs and houses of chance, but Malfeasance was not just any gaming hell. It was located in the most notorious part of London and, Graydon had heard, was run by a pariah Djinn named Malphas.”
― Thea Harrison, Shadow's End

“He had not become a sentinel by worrying about what he should or shouldn't do. He would live or die as he always had, by making decision he knew to be right...
Graydon didn't hide from life. He flew at it with everything he had.”
― Thea Harrison, Shadow's End

“Maybe it was unwise. But she was tired of trying to be wise. Of trying to think only of the greater good or taking the best course of action. She was fed up with taking the long view, holding the course. Always looking out for other people. And fuck diplomacy. Really, just kick that shit to the curb. This, she thought, is about what I want. No one else.”
― Thea Harrison, Shadow's End

“Sometimes in life you had to draw a hard line and say this will not happen, no matter what the cost, not as long as I am alive to stop it.”
― Thea Harrison, Shadow's End

“And fuck diplomacy. Really, just kick that shit to the curb. This, she thought, is about what I want.”
― Thea Harrison, Shadow's End

“I can't mate with you and hope to live.”
― Thea Harrison, Shadow's End

“Giving him a grateful nod, Graydon turned away.
A heavy hand fell on his shoulder, causing him to stop in his tracks. Dragos' grip clenched, almost to the point of pain.
Normally, Dragos was not demonstrative with anyone other than Pia and Liam. Moved, Graydon angled his face away. After a moment, he reached up to grip the other man's hand in return. Only then did Dragos' hold ease and allow him to continue on his way.”
― Thea Harrison, Shadow's End

“He closed his eyes. Swiftly like a predator, the vision of his death struck. This time it would not be denied.

The white ground, black rocks, and red drops of his heart's blood growing on the ground like blooming roses. He lost himself in the sensation of liquid warmth flowing between his fingers.

When he could finally see again, he found himself kneeling on the floor, shoulders hunched. That damned scene hung like an albatross around his neck, until he almost wished it would go ahead and happen, just so that he could get it the fuck over with.

He had carried that albatross for almost two hundred damn years - exactly from the moment when he had responded to a damsel in distress and had embroiled himself in another man's curse.”
― Thea Harrison, Shadow's End

“Eternity might be captured in a single kiss.”
― Thea Harrison, Shadow's End