Cruel Magic Quotes

“My thoughts slid back to the fierceness in her dark blue eyes when she’d tried to stare me down, the flush of color in her pale cheeks. Maybe more than friendship if I got my way. And, let’s be honest, I usually did.”
― Eva Chase, Cruel Magic

“My Bloodstone scion. My Ice Queen. My avenging angel. Mine, mine, mine. The thought rolled through me with the pounding of my heart, but I wasn't really aiming to make her mine. I was aiming to be hers. Her ally, her friend, her lover, her whatever-the-hell-she-needed-me-to-be, as long as it meant she'd have me, one way or another.”
― Eva Chase, Cruel Magic

“Declan stopped at the sight of me, his eyebrows rising. “Are you okay?” he asked, with just a touch of that gentle concern I’d heard in his voice that morning in my parents’ house.
The last of my patience disintegrated. I looked at him, letting all the frustration running through me burn in my gaze. “If I’m not, are you actually going to do anything about it?” He opened his mouth and hesitated, his hand twitching at his side.
That was all the answer I had to see. “All right then,” I said, and marched on past him without a backward glance.”
― Eva Chase, Cruel Magic

“I'm pleased to announce that Miss Bloodstone will officially be joining us here at Bloodstone University as the only student currently or recently in residence with a strong talent in all four domains of magic.”
― Eva Chase, Cruel Magic

“Miss Bloodstone, your performance was far more than ‘okay’,” she said. “Even with much debate, no one can deny the results. You show great and equal strength in all four domains. This is the first time any of us has encountered a power that balanced or that potent in our time.”
― Eva Chase, Cruel Magic

“I walked to the testing circle, trying to shut out the clamor in my head. Fear for Deborah. Embarrassment that the scions had managed to trick me again so thoroughly. And doubt. So much doubt, worming through every other thought in my head.”
― Eva Chase, Cruel Magic

“Rory deserved better than a double-edged welcome home. She’d barely had a chance to find her feet. Given a little more time, I had the feeling she’d become something magnificent, just perhaps not in the way these people wanted.”
― Eva Chase, Cruel Magic

“You don’t need magic to be powerful, Rory. If your will is strong enough, you can do just about anything. I had my will, and now I had magic too, if I just reached out and took it.”
― Eva Chase, Cruel Magic

“Exhilaration shivered through me. I’d made something beautiful. Something beautiful out of fear.”
― Eva Chase, Cruel Magic

“Physicality wasn’t just about what you could do with your own body but creating solid things too. What kind of figurines could I create with magic as my clay?”
― Eva Chase, Cruel Magic

“He grinned at me, and damn did his face transform when he really smiled.”
― Eva Chase, Cruel Magic

“I’d gone my whole life without magic, but now that I’d had it, I couldn’t imagine ever being at ease without at least a little at my beck and call.”
― Eva Chase, Cruel Magic

“Believe me, if you ever manage to turn the tables on Jude and drag out a bunch of his uncomfortable memories for everyone to hear, I won’t jump in on his behalf either.” I couldn’t stop the corner of my mouth from quirking upward at the thought.”
― Eva Chase, Cruel Magic

“She wasn’t just beautiful. I’d never seen the kind of determined ferocity with which she’d pushed back at Malcolm before. She had principles, and she was willing to fight for them, hard. It made me want to fight for her.”
― Eva Chase, Cruel Magic

“I tried not to let my mind stray to the pain I’d watched cross that face less than an hour ago, to the way she’d looked to me as if I could shield her from it. It had reminded me too much of the distraught girl I’d done my best to reassure in her captors’ home. I had wanted to shield her from the shock and brutality of that moment. Seventeen years ago, she’d lost so much more than even I had.”
― Eva Chase, Cruel Magic

“And Declan, across from her, was watching too, his expression so impassive it felt like a slap to the face. Did you “rescue” me just so you could feed me to a bunch of fucking wolves?”
― Eva Chase, Cruel Magic

“Insight sounded like the simplest of the fearmancer skills. You figured out what people were thinking, what they wanted, and what they cared about, like normal people tried to all the time. We just had the benefit of magic to sharpen our perceptions.”
― Eva Chase, Cruel Magic

“I’d gathered from Professor Banefield that once a fearmancer had a handle on their abilities, they started coming up with their own private words for the spells they wanted to cast. Eventually you’ll be able to come up with the sounds and connect them to your meaning on the spot, he’d said. If no one can understand what you’re saying, no one can predict how you’re working the magic before it hits them.”
― Eva Chase, Cruel Magic

“Of course this place didn’t just look the other way but outright rewarded students for tormenting each other.”
― Eva Chase, Cruel Magic

“I kind of wanted to ask what he planned on doing if none of his machinations brought her begging for forgiveness. Rory Bloodstone might have been new here, but she was a scion. I wasn’t sure she was any more likely to back down than Malcolm was. She had been a bitch to him, and I’d be happy to see her brought down a peg for that, but the thought of their squabble turning into some kind of war within the pentacle didn’t sit well with me.”
― Eva Chase, Cruel Magic

“So, that was the Bloodstone scion. She hadn’t had any more idea who we were than we had about her. Totally fitting that she’d have started asserting dominance the second she’d walked into Blood U.”
― Eva Chase, Cruel Magic

“You just got here, darling,” he said. “It’s a little early to start drawing battle lines.”
― Eva Chase, Cruel Magic

“The types of magic we do are divided into four major domains: Physicality, Illusion, Persuasion, and Insight.”
― Eva Chase, Cruel Magic

“That was a fearmancer staring back at me. Powerful or pathetic, every inch of me fit the role now. No matter how hard I fought, Villain Academy was absorbing me.”
― Eva Chase, Cruel Magic