Barbarian Lover Quotes

“But I do know that living in fear of what might happen prevents us from enjoying what we have today.”
― Ruby Dixon, Barbarian Lover

“I am interested in you. All of you. Your sad eyes, your soft smiles, your tears, your courage, and your worries. I am at your side now, and I will be at your side until you tell me to leave. I do not need a khui to tell me who is the mate for me. You are mine and I will take every moment with you as a gift.”
― Ruby Dixon, Barbarian Lover

“Kira, this is dangerous.”

“I know.” I look up at him. “So give me a kiss for luck, and make it a really good one.”

He makes a strangled noise in his throat. “I don’t want to kiss you right now. I want to throttle you for being foolish.”
― Ruby Dixon, Barbarian Lover

“I am not giving up on you even if you have given up on yourself.”
― Ruby Dixon, Barbarian Lover

“If my khui resonates for someone else? I will not let it.” He grins, utterly confident. “My heart is for you and you alone.”

“That’s not how it works, Aehako.”

“That is how it will work for me,” he says, ever stubborn. “And if your khui should resonate for another, I will send you to his arms with gladness for your happiness.”
― Ruby Dixon, Barbarian Lover

“Are you finished vomiting excuses at me?”
― Ruby Dixon, Barbarian Lover

“You’d be safe if it wasn’t for me.”

“I’d be lonely and sad if it weren’t for you,” I tell her. “Do you think you are not worth a little risk?” At her silence, I continue. “I do.”
― Ruby Dixon, Barbarian Lover

“Even if tomorrow goes to hell, we have today. Maybe I need to claim today for myself. Maybe I need to make a few memories to carry me through the bad things that are certain to be ahead.”
― Ruby Dixon, Barbarian Lover

“If it means I must smile one day and weep the next, then I shall enjoy the day of smiles all that much more.”
― Ruby Dixon, Barbarian Lover

“I am happy,” I tell her, and it is true. Other than the nagging worry about the Little Green Men returning, I’m incredibly happy. My translator’s gone, and I have…Aehako. Big, flirty Aehako who treats me like I’m the best thing that’s ever happened to him. Really, it’s the other way around. He’s the best thing that ever happened to me. I think even if I were offered a ride home back to earth tomorrow, I’d decline, just so I could stay with my big alien mate.
Maybe that makes me crazy. But what did I have back on earth? No one that cared about me, an entry-level job in finance, and a mountain of student debt. Here I have an entire tribe of people, and Aehako.”
― Ruby Dixon, Barbarian Lover

“The pain of loss is like nothing I’ve ever felt before. I’ve always been a lucky one, born into a large, loving family. We were spared when the khui sickness hit the caves hard many years ago. I’ve never lost someone I loved so intensely as I loved Kira.”
― Ruby Dixon , Barbarian Lover

“No one can predict what will happen tomorrow, Kira. I might fall off of a cliff and break my neck. I might catch a khui sickness. Or…I might live to be old and grizzled like Kemli and her mate Borran.” He shrugs his big shoulders. “But I do know that living in fear of what might happen prevents us from enjoying what we have today.”
― Ruby Dixon, Barbarian Lover

“He just wants a mate - he doesn't care that Kira's eyes are sad or that she feels alone. He's not right for her.”
― Ruby Dixon, Barbarian Lover

“Even if tomorrow goes to hell, we have today. Maybe I need to claim today for myself. Maybe I need to make a few memories to carry me through the bad things that are certain”
― Ruby Dixon, Barbarian Lover

“I am interested in you. All of you. Your sad eyes, your soft smiles, your tears, your courage, and your worries. I am at your side now, and I will be at your side until you tell me to leave. I do not need a khui to tell me who is the mate for me. You are mine and I will take every moment with you as a gift.” “But what about—“ “If my khui resonates for someone else? I will not let it.” He grins, utterly confident. “My heart is for you and you alone.” “That’s not how it works, Aehako.” “That is how it will work for me,” he says, ever stubborn. “And if your khui should resonate for another, I will send you to his arms with gladness for your happiness.”
― Ruby Dixon, Barbarian Lover

“I’m afraid I can’t turn my mind off enough to live in the moment. I wish that I could.”
― Ruby Dixon, Barbarian Lover

“My goal is to make you smile, not bring more sadness to your face.”
― Ruby Dixon, Barbarian Lover

“I would not mind sleeping atop Kira.”
― Ruby Dixon, Barbarian Lover

“You were mine the moment you landed on this planet, Kira,” Aehako says. “It does not take a khui to tell me that. Nor will I let anyone take you from me. So, come, we shall remove this shell from your ear and free you from worry, and then you will fall into my arms and lick every inch of my skin to show me your appreciation.”
― Ruby Dixon, Barbarian Lover

“that life is sweetest when we take what it offers with no worries.”
― Ruby Dixon, Barbarian Lover

“And let us not predict doom for our future. Let us live for today, yes?”
― Ruby Dixon, Barbarian Lover

“You are mine and I will take every moment with you as a gift.”
― Ruby Dixon, Barbarian Lover

“I have always been a practical male. I have seen too much sorrow to let it guide my life, like Haeden does.”
― Ruby Dixon, Barbarian Lover

“Did you want her to go? I can speak to Kira..." My voice trails off into a chuckle at the scowl he gives me. "No? Joh-see is harmless." "She talks incessantly," he says in a curt voice, placing a small, leather protective case over the tip of his spear. "Regardless of whether or not I am interested in hearing her words." Amusing. "Perhaps if you spoke to her instead of ignoring her, she would realize what an unpleasant fellow you are.”
― Ruby Dixon, Barbarian Lover

“This might be my one chance to give her the human courting gift that her friend Leezh suggested.”
― Ruby Dixon, Barbarian Lover

“What are they going to do when they find out that I'm sterile? That when my appendix burst as a child, it infected my ovaries and I won't ever have children?”
― Ruby Dixon, Barbarian Lover

“She looks up at me with such big, soft eyes. Her hand moves to my cheek and she strokes it, and my heart aches with love for her. “I’m yours,” she tells me. “All yours.”
― Ruby Dixon, Barbarian Lover

“Because we didn't resonate to each other," I say, tired. And we won't, because my body won't produce children, no matter how much I might want them. Or the guy standing next to me.”
― Ruby Dixon, Barbarian Lover

“Can we not take what pleasure that our bodies offer us?" He leans in closer, and I feel the heat of his body against mine even though I won't look at him. "Can we not know the joy of touching another?”
― Ruby Dixon, Barbarian Lover

“We’re home.” “My home is wherever you are,” Aehako tells me. I touch his face gently. “I feel the same way.”
― Ruby Dixon, Barbarian Lover