Breath of Fire Quotes

“I will never let you go, and I will never leave you. I would defy creatures, and Gods, and terrible, brutal queens to keep you safe and by my side. I would move Mount Olympus itself to hold you in my arms and feel your heart beat against mine. You are my soul, and yes, I will fight for you and protect you until my dying breath.”
― Amanda Bouchet, Breath of Fire

“You’re the shield, and I’m the sword.”
― Amanda Bouchet, Breath of Fire

“I love you like a man insane.”
― Amanda Bouchet, Breath of Fire

“When a crumbling house reaches a certain point, there’s no fixing it. You tear it down. You clear the rubble, and then you build something better.”
― Amanda Bouchet, Breath of Fire

“I will always come back to you.”
…I lean forward and kiss him because he’s my hunger and my food, my thirst and my water, my air and my every breath.”
― Amanda Bouchet, Breath of Fire

“I don’t know why it’s not universally acknowledged that looking back is a terrible idea. It only makes going forward that much harder.”
― Amanda Bouchet, Breath of Fire

“I make a show of smoothing down my hair – a lost cause at this point. “Ah, that. It’s getting to the stage where it deserved a name. The Knotted Nest? The Twisted Tresses?”
“What about the Terrible Tangle?”
I nod. “That has serious possibilities.”
“The Matted Mess?” he suggests.”
― Amanda Bouchet, Breath of Fire

“He’s barely finished himself inside me when my release hits. My thighs tense. The breath stalls in my lungs, and then I kick back my head and let out the loudest, throatiest, and most breathless moan in the history of all history, going boneless in a blissful rush.
“Gods, I missed you,” Griffin rasps, holding me as I throb around him.
The high-impact tremors fade into sweet, lingering aftershocks. I look up at him with heavy-lidded eyes. My lips part, but no words come out. Even the drag of frosty air over my kiss-swollen lips is almost too sensual to bear.
Griffin quirks a dark eyebrow, looking smug. “That was easy.”
I grin, falling in love with him all over again. “Then do it again.”
― Amanda Bouchet, Breath of Fire

“Griffin’s eyes capture mine. He holds my face in his hands. “You. Belong. With. Me.”
― Amanda Bouchet, Breath of Fire

“You like to pretend otherwise, but don’t you see? You’re the shield, and I’m the sword. Together, we’ll forge a new world.”
― Amanda Bouchet, Breath of Fire

“Trial by fire. It forges a heart of iron.”
― Amanda Bouchet, Breath of Fire

“The minute you cease being afraid of yourself, there’s nothing in this world that can stop you.”
― Amanda Bouchet, Breath of Fire

“It’s time to be the person you were meant to be, Cat. You don’t just have to make decisions and stand by them now. You have to live with them.”
― Amanda Bouchet, Breath of Fire

“Kato looks ill. “I… It… Me…” He stares at the massive snake. “Big.”
I squeeze his arm. “Don’t worry. You’ll speak in complete sentences again soon.”
― Amanda Bouchet, Breath of Fire

“We were friends before.” Sort of. We never tried to kill each other.”
― Amanda Bouchet, Breath of Fire

“Who’s arguing now?”
“Cat…”
I smile innocently. It’s hard not to laugh. “Yes, Your Growliness?”
He growls.”
― Amanda Bouchet, Breath of Fire

“A heart of iron means I do not break. You cannot break me. I may not be the strongest, or the fastest, or the best, but I will fight. I will fight for everyone I love. I will fight for myself. You can beat me until I’m bloody. You can break my bones. You can tear my skin. You can burn me. You can crush me until I can’t breathe, and you’re sure I’m dead, and then do you know what?”
Flynn looks at me, his mouth a compressed line. “What?” he finally asks.
“I will get up, and I will fight some more.”
― Amanda Bouchet, Breath of Fire

“PANOTII LOOKS PUT OUT ABOUT BEING LEFT BEHIND AND dogs my steps as I stow his tack under the deep overhang on the south side of the wizard’s hovel. There’s plenty of grass here, water at the lake, and it’s not that cold yet, despite the shift in seasons. If the rains start before we get back, the horses can take shelter under the overhang. I’m not worried about them wandering off. Not one of them has stepped outside of the large makeshift corral of God Bolt pits since we got here.

“You can’t come with us,” I tell him. “It’ll be cold and slippery. And big monsters will want to eat you.” He tosses his head, snorting. “Really big monsters. There might be Dragons. And the Hydra. And I can’t vouch for the friendliness of the Ipotane toward regular horses.” I blow gently into his nose. Panotii chuffs back. “You’ll be safe here, and if anyone tries to steal you, Grandpa Zeus will throw down a thunderbolt. Boom! No more horse thief.”

“Zeus may have better things to do than babysit our horses,” Flynn says, stowing his own equine gear next to mine.

I glance northward toward the Gods’ mountain home and speak loudly. “In that case, I’m announcing right now that I’ll make an Olympian stink if anything happens to my horse.” Flynn looks nervous and moves away from me like he’s expecting a God Bolt to come thundering down.

“She’s not kidding.” Sunlight glints off Griffin’s windblown hair. Thick black stubble darkens his jaw. He flashes me a smile that brings out the slight hook in his nose, and something tightens in my belly.

I turn back to Panotii and scratch under his jaw. “You’re in charge here.” His enormous ears flick my way. “You keep the others in line.” Panotii nods. I swear to the Gods, my horse nods.

Brown Horse raises his head and pins me with a gimlet stare. I roll my eyes. “Fine. You can help. You’re both in charge.” Apparently satisfied, Griffin’s horse goes back to grazing, shearing the grass around him with neat, organized efficiency. Griffin and Brown Horse were made for each other.

Panotii shoves his nose into my shoulder, knocking me back a step. Taking a handful of his chestnut mane, I stretch up on my toes to whisper into one of his donkey ears. “Seriously, you’re in charge. I’ll bet you can even rhyme.”

Carver and Kato chuckle as they walk past. Griffin bands his arms around my waist from behind, surprising me. “I heard that.”
― Amanda Bouchet, Breath of Fire

“I swallow, my throat painfully dry. If it were just me, I wonder how hard I’d fight, what extremes I’d go to to survive. But it isn’t just me, and extremes don’t even come close to what I’d do to protect the people I love. I”
― Amanda Bouchet, Breath of Fire

“I huff. Sort of. “Well, would Your Logicalness care to take me to breakfast and tell me about his plans?”
… “Would your Nakedness care to get dressed first?” he asks.”
― Amanda Bouchet, Breath of Fire

“I shortened my name to Cat for a reason – as in Cataclysm.”
― Amanda Bouchet, Breath of Fire

“The minute you cease being afraid of yourself, there’s nothing in this world that can stop you.” *”
― Amanda Bouchet, Breath of Fire

“Unfortunately, ambition isn’t limited to the noble and sane. “No”
― Amanda Bouchet, Breath of Fire

“Stop looking for things that could go wrong instead of finding things that will go right.” I”
― Amanda Bouchet, Breath of Fire

“I’ve always been good at denial. I didn’t know I’m such an expert that I can crawl into an abandoned room and put myself into a coma. “All”
― Amanda Bouchet, Breath of Fire

“Don’t you get it Cat? You’re the key. I knew it the day I laid eyes on you.”
― Amanda Bouchet, Breath of Fire

“I turn back to Griffin. His expression is stony and unreadable, although if I had to take a wild guess, I’d say it was tending toward ominous.”
― Amanda Bouchet, Breath of Fire

“Real freedom is answering to only yourself, and being responsible for no one. Since that's a moral vacuum, none but the truly wicked are every truly free.”
― Amanda Bouchet, Breath of Fire

“I may not be holding you with a magic rope anymore, but I will never let you go, and I will never leave you. I would defy creatures, and Gods, and terrible, brutal queens to keep you safe and by my side. I would move Mount Olympus itself to hold you in my arms and feel your heart beat against mine. You are my soul, and yes, I will fight for you and protect you until my dying breath.”
― Amanda Bouchet, Breath of Fire

“Fine. I hereby declare myself Alpha Sinta. I’ll send Egeria a scroll.”
― Amanda Bouchet, Breath of Fire