Barbarian's Hope Quotes

“And even if you did not come back to me, if you were happy, I could live with that. It is your sadness that tears me apart.”
― Ruby Dixon, Barbarian's Hope

“Because I will be at your side every moment of every day. When you frown, I will give you mouth-matings until you smile again. When you are sad, I will hold you close until you are happy again. When we sleep, it will be together, under the same furs.”
― Ruby Dixon, Barbarian's Hope

“Worrying about what might happen does nothing but make you crazy.”
― Ruby Dixon, Barbarian's Hope

“Let the world bring what it does. I will take it all on.”
― Ruby Dixon, Barbarian's Hope

“I am afraid, too.”

That is not what I expected him to say. “Why are you afraid?”

“The same reasons you are, I imagine. I worry you will hate me and we will struggle again. I worry about the kit we will make. I worry if anything happens to it, it will destroy what we have again.” He kisses my cheek. “But I do know that I am more afraid of not trying.”
― Ruby Dixon, Barbarian's Hope

“I do not hate you.” Hate is the furthest thing I feel for her. But I know that trying to hold Asha is like trying to hold a handful of snow—the tighter I grip, the more she will trickle between my fingers and disappear.”
― Ruby Dixon, Barbarian's Hope

“Who sings next?” someone asks.

“I will,” Megan says, standing up. She clears her throat dramatically and puts a hand out in front of her like an opera singer. “Me me me me me,” she sings, warming up. People giggle at her theatrics.

Her mate Cashol nods. “It is a simple song, but I like it. The words are easy to remember.”
― Ruby Dixon, Barbarian's Hope

“You pushed him away.” She lifts her shoulders again in another small, careless shrug. “I’m not going to say being mated to Raahosh is nothing but daisies and kittens. Sometimes you have to make a relationship work. And I’m just saying maybe you should have tried a little harder. He lost his kit, too, you know.”
― Ruby Dixon, Barbarian's Hope

“Then I frown to myself. All of my memories of Hemalo and I in a cave together are unpleasant ones, of me sniping at him or making angry comments. Of him trying to please me and me pushing away his help. Maybe I was never like that, after all. Perhaps I was never a good mate.”
― Ruby Dixon, Barbarian's Hope

“And because I love her, I will not be here when she finally comes to seek me.”
― Ruby Dixon, Barbarian's Hope

“—Te preocupas demasiado. Pase lo que pase, lo enfrentaremos juntos. Deja que el mundo nos traiga lo que quiera. Me encargaré de todo mientras tenga a la pareja perfecta a mi lado”
― Ruby Dixon, Barbarian's Hope

“Ask me to return, I beg silently. Tell me that you miss me in your furs. That you miss the warmth of our bodies together. Tell me that you miss my smile like I miss yours. All will be forgotten in an instant and we can be back together tonight. Now. In the next moment.”
― Ruby Dixon, Barbarian's Hope

“Very well. Now feed me, female, before I am overcome by my mate’s beauty and tackle her to the furs.”
― Ruby Dixon, Barbarian's Hope

“I have the most beautiful female in the tribe, whose vibrant blue skin and laughing eyes are the most spectacular thing a male could see. And…I gave her up.”
― Ruby Dixon, Barbarian's Hope

“I may not always show it, but all I have ever wanted is your happiness. You are a good person and you deserve happiness.”
― Ruby Dixon, Barbarian's Hope

“I might not have picked you at first, but you are the only one I can see myself with. You are the one that is right for me…except that you keep leaving,” I add, unable to resist jabbing at him. “Twice now you have abandoned me.”
― Ruby Dixon, Barbarian's Hope

“I am sad he has abandoned me. I am sad he no longer wants to be mated to me. I know I was not a good mate to him. I pushed him away when he tried to be kind, and eventually he decided to stop trying.”
― Ruby Dixon, Barbarian's Hope

“A mating should be for life, and I drove my mate away with my bitterness.”
― Ruby Dixon, Barbarian's Hope

“It is rather nice to sit inside and talk of plans and things other than wallowing in my grief. Perhaps I have been stuck in my own head for too long. Perhaps I am just making myself miserable and need distractions. Whatever it is, Claire’s presence is making me feel more like myself than I have in a long, long time.”
― Ruby Dixon, Barbarian's Hope