The Bridge Kingdom Quotes

“Even if I'm a goddamned fool for it, there will never be anyone but you.”
― Danielle L. Jensen, The Bridge Kingdom

“This man might be a hunter. But he was mistaken if he believed she was prey.”
― Danielle L. Jensen, The Bridge Kingdom

“Alive isn't living.”
― Danielle L. Jensen, The Bridge Kingdom

“Since the moment I set eyes on you in Southwatch, there's been no one but you. Even if I'm a goddamned fool for it, there will never be anyone but you."

You are a fool, she thought as darkness took her.

And that made two of them.”
― Danielle L. Jensen, The Bridge Kingdom

“I love you," he said, his lips grazing against hers. "And I will love you, no matter what the future brings. No matter how hard I need to fight. I will always love you."

The words undid her, broke her apart completely, then forged her into something new. Something stronger. Something better.”
― Danielle L. Jensen, The Bridge Kingdom

“Forgive her. She loves you."

He dropped the old woman's arm, feeling Lara's gaze on him. Knowing she was listening. "She doesn't know what love is."

"That's why you should forgive her.”
― Danielle L. Jensen, The Bridge Kingdom

“Go!" He shouted the word at her, leveling the arrow at her forehead even as tears poured down his cheeks. "I never want to see your face. I never want to hear your name. If there were a way to scour you from my life, I'd do it. But until I find the strength to put you in a goddamned grave, this is all I have. Now run!"

His fingers quivered on the bowstring. He would do it. And it would kill him.”
― Danielle L. Jensen, The Bridge Kingdom

“Aren't we bold now that we believe we are untouchable.”
― Danielle L. Jensen, The Bridge Kingdom

“Its in your nature to survive”
― Danielle L. Jensen, The Bridge Kingdom

“All she had ever known was violence. It was nothing to her. And everything.”
― Danielle L. Jensen, The Bridge Kingdom

“I heard you call my name," she whispered. "I heard you order me to fight."

"First damned time you ever listened."

She smiled, but sadness swelled in her chest. "Don't get used to it.”
― Danielle L. Jensen, The Bridge Kingdom

“Loved. Past tense. Because she’d never deserved his love, and now she’d lost it for good.”
― Danielle L. Jensen, The Bridge Kingdom

“She was so painfully beautiful, and even knowing that she'd used it against him didn't lessen how powerfully he was drawn to her.”
― Danielle L. Jensen, The Bridge Kingdom

“We can save the naked sprints for storm season. It’s far more exciting if there’s lightning biting at your ass.”
― Danielle L. Jensen, The Bridge Kingdom

“There was, Aren thought, nothing the Great Beyond could offer that would be more perfect than her.”
― Danielle L. Jensen, The Bridge Kingdom

“There would be no happily-ever-after. Not for her.”
― Danielle L. Jensen, The Bridge Kingdom

“How am I supposed to get back to shore?” “You have a paddle,” he shouted back, a wild grin on his face as the wind caught at his hair. “Use it!”
― Danielle L. Jensen, The Bridge Kingdom

“And do us all a favor and keep your cock in your trousers and your eyes on the enemy for the rest of War Tides.”
― Danielle L. Jensen, The Bridge Kingdom

“You need me because I am the Queen of Ithicana.”
Twisting, she threw the knife in her hand, watching as it embedded in the map, marking Vencia—and Aren—with perfect precision. “And it’s time my father was brought to his knees.”
― Danielle L. Jensen, The Bridge Kingdom

“Good, she was not. Yet neither did she believe that she was evil.”
― Danielle L. Jensen, The Bridge Kingdom

“I am used to it. But that doesn’t mean I have to like it.”
― Danielle L. Jensen, The Bridge Kingdom

“Everything you’ve said, everything you’ve done, everything between us has been a damned lie.”
― Danielle L. Jensen, The Bridge Kingdom

“Ice and fire might ravage the world, but still the cockroach survives,” he’d said. “Just like you.”
― Danielle L. Jensen, The Bridge Kingdom

“Who did this?” The heat in his voice made her skin prickle.”
― Danielle L. Jensen, The Bridge Kingdom

“Ithicana—and its king—bent to nothing and no one. But he bent for her.”
― Danielle L. Jensen, The Bridge Kingdom

“God, you’re beautiful,” he growled. “Insufferable and venom-tongued and the most incredible woman I’ve set eyes on.”
― Danielle L. Jensen, The Bridge Kingdom

“Ithicana needed a queen who was a warrior. A woman who’d fight to the death for her people. A woman who was cunning and ruthless, not because she wanted to be, but because her country needed her to be. A woman who’d challenge him every day for the rest of his life. A woman Ithicana would respect. And there was one thing he was certain: Lara Veliant was not that woman.”
― Danielle L. Jensen, The Bridge Kingdom

“She’s beautiful. And kind.” “Yes.” His gaze was intense. “But she’s not you.”
― Danielle L. Jensen, The Bridge Kingdom

“Alive isn’t living”
― Danielle L. Jensen, The Bridge Kingdom

“his fingers grazed the skin of her back, following a familiar pattern. Scars, which her sister Sarhina had rubbed oil into every night for years until they’d faded into thin white lines. “Who did this?” The heat in his voice made her skin prickle.”
― Danielle L. Jensen, The Bridge Kingdom