Soul of Smoke Quotes

“Talking to Rhys was nothing like talking to Cadoc. With Cadoc, everything was a game. He smoldered because he meant to smolder. There was nothing calculated or put on about Rhys, and that made him more mesmerizing than Cadoc could ever hope be.”
― Caitlyn McFarland, Soul of Smoke

“The world still has rules, we’ve just been playing with an incomplete set.”
― Caitlyn McFarland, Soul of Smoke

“We don’t have that kind of magic anymore. This world—your world—you could call it our post-apocalypse.”
― Caitlyn McFarland, Soul of Smoke

“Wake her up,” she commanded Ashem.

The dark man folded his arms across his chest. “Politeness is the sinew that holds the wing together.”

Exasperated, Kai bared her teeth. “That is especially rich, coming from you. What is it, some kind of dragon proverb?”
― Caitlyn McFarland, Soul of Smoke

“You were in the wrong place at the wrong time with the wrong destiny.” Kai laughed, a sad, hollow sound. “I don’t believe in destiny.” He smiled, just as sad. “Something I’ve learned over the course of a long life, Kai, is that truth doesn’t care what we believe.”
― Caitlyn McFarland, Soul of Smoke

“You were in the wrong place at the wrong time with the wrong destiny.”
― Caitlyn McFarland, Soul of Smoke

“Ashem doesn’t like anyone. He loves and he hates.”
― Caitlyn McFarland, Soul of Smoke

“All Rhys could see when he closed his own eyes were her fey green ones, the scattering of freckles over her nose . . . lips sweet and full. Ancients, That was lust, not love. Lust had caused him enough problems.”
― Caitlyn McFarland, Soul of Smoke

“It was a dragon, which, Juli thought, was somewhat rude. A sixty-foot spiked monstrosity with luminous golden eyes should not under any circumstances have the audacity to exist.”
― Caitlyn McFarland, Soul of Smoke

“Kai wasn't sure from one minute to the next if they would shout at each other or rip each other's clothes off.”
― Caitlyn McFarland, Soul of Smoke

“Once, shame on you. Twice, shame on me. Thrice, I'm an idiot. I'm an idiot anyway, but I'm not falling for this again.”
― Caitlyn McFarland, Soul of Smoke

“The world contracted. His ears filled with rushing wind. Her skin burned in his grip. Magic ros up like a tide, loosing the anchorings of his soul.”
― Caitlyn McFarland, Soul of Smoke

“Her lips were as soft as starlight.”
― Caitlyn McFarland, Soul of Smoke

“Darkness deeper than night coalesced around him then burst forth like a negative image of the sun.”
― Caitlyn McFarland, Soul of Smoke

“The sun had set, the light changing from orange and red to the washed out grayscale of a nearly full moon.”
― Caitlyn McFarland, Soul of Smoke