The Cities of Dead Quotes

“I still felt like I was out on the little boat in the obsidian sea, under the obsidian sky, lost. But when I looked out into the darkness, now there was something different. Now there were stars.”
― Alys Arden, The Cities of Dead

“I’m not going to let the boat tip, Adele.” When he touched my face, I shuddered. “You can feel whatever you need to feel for as long as you need to, and you don’t have to worry—I won’t let the boat tip.”
― Alys Arden, The Cities of Dead

“New Orleans was a place you wanted to be born from and die in.”
― Alys Arden, The Cities of Dead

“There had always been a safety in our flirtation because it was like a dead-end road with an impenetrable steel wall. But now something felt different. Was it possible for steel to chink?”
― Alys Arden, The Cities of Dead

“The ache for some other life, where I walked into the room and wrapped my arms around her waist, and kissed her neck without being enraptured by the scent of her blood, became so overwhelming it bruised my insides.”
― Alys Arden, The Cities of Dead