Beyond a Darkened Shore Quotes

“We had challenged the gods and won.”
― Jessica Leake, Beyond a Darkened Shore

“Who knew you Northmen were so delicate?” “We’re as fragile as petals.”
― Jessica Leake, Beyond a Darkened Shore

“I learned to hate the sea. Not because it was unbearably cold, and not because I loathed swimming in its salty depths. I hated it because, in spite of its raw beauty, it brought death to our doorstep”
― Jessica Leake, Beyond a Darkened Shore

“There is greatness in you, Ciara of Mide, beyond even what you have accomplished so far. It matters little where your power comes from”
― Jessica Leake, Beyond a Darkened Shore

“Honor is the only code we uphold and I would die for it.”
― Jessica Leake, Beyond a Darkened Shore

“Demon, they called me in their minds. Changeling. Cursed. And every time I took hold of someone's mind, I wondered if perhaps they were right.”
― Jessica Leake, Beyond a Darkened Shore

“I am no maiden.”
― Jessica Leake, Beyond a Darkened Shore

“Leif was a Northman, an outsider, but he accepted me more than any of my own clan ever had.”
― Jessica Leake, Beyond a Darkened Shore

“I do not ask, he had said, I take.”
― Jessica Leake, Beyond a Darkened Shore

“Our tongues met, and the reaction within me was like the sudden flash of lightning.”
― Jessica Leake, Beyond a Darkened Shore

“Honeyed words do nothing but anger me.”
― Jessica Leake, Beyond a Darkened Shore

“This is my fight, Leif.” He grinned. “I appreciate your efforts to emasculate me so early in our relationship, but you know I cannot resist a battle.”
― Jessica Leake, Beyond a Darkened Shore

“The bloodthirsty warriors I’d come to know transformed into loving husbands and fathers; even the most fearsome of them were surrounded by laughing children. Here they were not dragons, only ordinary family men.”
― Jessica Leake, Beyond a Darkened Shore

“Each-uisce can never be tamed. They may appear as sleek black horses, eerily beautiful, or even ponies, deceptively small. Always their manes and tails are dripping wet, and their eyes glow like a wolf’s.”
― Jessica Leake, Beyond a Darkened Shore

“In all the world, there are only two strong enough. One born for it, the other through great sacrifice.”
― Jessica Leake, Beyond a Darkened Shore

“Were we to fight the gods themselves?”
― Jessica Leake, Beyond a Darkened Shore

“take the reins, Leif said, dropping them into my lap. I nearly jumped out of my skin when I first felt his hands upon my hair. With gentle yet efficient movements, he combed the hair back from my face, His fingers were warm and strong as they brushed against my neck, and I could feel an answering warm stir inside me. No one but my handmaiden had ever touched my hair, and having a man touch it seemed intensely intimate. A few moments of a tugging sensation, and then my hair was neatly plaited behind me. Thank you, I said quietly, I reached back and felt the smooth braid. How strange that this Northman warrior should know how to do something so domestic.”
― Jessica Leake, Beyond a Darkened Shore

“Demon, they called me in their minds. Changeling. Cursed.”
― Jessica Leake, Beyond a Darkened Shore

“A warrior maiden, perhaps, but a maiden just the same.”
― Jessica Leake, Beyond a Darkened Shore

“Men poured from its side like a wave of death.”
― Jessica Leake, Beyond a Darkened Shore

“Regardless of why I was told, these men are dead. They were slaughtered like animals in a place your people consider sacred. You have the power to make their deaths worthy; they will have given their lives to bring forth an army strong enough to destroy the Jotnar. An army strong enough to bring Sigtrygg and his Jotnar allies to their knees,”
― Jessica Leake, Beyond a Darkened Shore

“Agony shattered my body in a million pieces. The black nothingness of death threatened to take hold, but I fought it, my gaze fixed on the lit doorway.”
― Jessica Leake, Beyond a Darkened Shore

“But that was before I had become of age, before my abilities had manifested and my own mother treated me as though I were more wolf than daughter—one to be respected and feared.”
― Jessica Leake, Beyond a Darkened Shore

“I would think you of all people should realize that if I cannot hold these lands with my own power, then I don't deserve to hold them at all.”
― Jessica Leake, Beyond a Darkened Shore

“Then ... some of the Jötnar are also your gods? I asked. Some are, Leif answered, and some are not.”
― Jessica Leake, Beyond a Darkened Shore

“But on this dark night, I didn't dare pull away.”
― Jessica Leake, Beyond a Darkened Shore

“No one is as skilled as my brother.”
― Jessica Leake, Beyond a Darkened Shore

“You'll pay for that, spawn of Loki. I'll tear your gown from your body and have you here on the floor.”
― Jessica Leake, Beyond a Darkened Shore

“Find the Northman's seer. There is a power you must master before you can complete your journey. The enemy is closer than you think. Every moment you waste brings them closer to their goal.”
― Jessica Leake, Beyond a Darkened Shore

“The seer is a woman?”
― Jessica Leake, Beyond a Darkened Shore