The Dark Days Pact Quotes

“Slowly he turned into the curve of her palm, cut lip pressed against her skin. She heard two whispered words, felt them kissed into her flesh: amore mio. My love. Two words: the shock of them held her still.”
― Alison Goodman, The Dark Days Pact

“He has offered to help me, and right now I need his help."
"Is it just his help, or are you going because you wish to be with him?" He leaned closer, face fierce. "Do you love him? Is that it?"
"You, of all people , have no right to ask me that."
"Maybe not, but I ask it anyway. Do you love him?"
"Love him?" Helen's voice rose. "Apparently I am not allowed to love in this godforsaken world!"
"Apparently neither am I," he said through his clenched teeth. "Yet..."
Yet what? His face. his body, were so close. So dangerously close.
"Stay," he breathed.
She shook her head.
He stepped away, the sudden distance between them full of pain.”
― Alison Goodman, The Dark Days Pact

“Never turn yer back on the sea, and remember what's hidden beneath her is always more deadly than what's in plain sight.”
― Alison Goodman, The Dark Days Pact

“But there is a chasm between what is known and what is said.”
― Alison Goodman, The Dark Days Pact

“Knowledge, after all, could not be unlearned.”
― Alison Goodman, The Dark Days Pact

“Which way do we run when we see danger: away from it, or towards it?"
"It depends on what the danger is," Helen said.
"No. It depends on what is at stake.”
― Alison Goodman, The Dark Days Pact

“She was to be a fine young man, at least in the cut of her clothing. Her manner, however, was not so easily stitched into masculinity. According to his lordship, she still needed to deepen her voice, be less careful with the placement of her arms and legs, and now also take up more space. No easy task since she had spent most of her life learning to control any excess gesture or movement.”
― Alison Goodman, The Dark Days Pact

“The course of love was never straight.”
― Alison Goodman, The Dark Days Pact

“That seems highly unlikely, Lady Helen. Two weak elements do not make a strong whole. We would prefer that you have a male Terrene. I am sure you are most intelligent, but you are still a woman and therefore reliant upon emotion rather than logic, and subject to your sensibilities as are all your sex. You cannot be expected to have the same strength, strategic mind or logic competence as a man. A male Terrene would counter that deficit.”
― Alison Goodman, The Dark Days Pact

“It is how it will be done in this case," Pike said. "There has never been a female Terrene, let alone a female Reclaimer and Terrene partnership trained to fight as well as reclaim. There is doubt that such a pairing could be effective.”
― Alison Goodman, The Dark Days Pact

“Carlston drew a breath through pinched nostrils. "Then what about Lady Helen herself? She is a direct inheritor; the Reclaimer daughter of a Reclaimer mother. That, at least, is documented."
The wave of a thin hand dismissed his lordship's words. Or, Helen thought, maybe it dismissed such a female lineage.”
― Alison Goodman, The Dark Days Pact

“They are Deceivers, Lady Helen," Pike said with a note of condescension in his voice. "They manage to live as humans and fool us all. Deception is their nature.”
― Alison Goodman, The Dark Days Pact