Dark Heir Quotes

“I will find you,” Anharion said. “I will always find you. Try to run.”
― C.S. Pacat, Dark Heir

“You were mine in a past we can't remember”
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“Even in the darkest night, there is a star.”
― C.S. Pacat, Dark Heir

“So you can take a shadow,' said Will, 'you can pledge yourself to darkness, but I can't be trusted with my own power, even when I want to use it to do what's right?”
― C.S. Pacat, Dark Heir

“But what is death,' saif Kettering, 'to one who can return?”
― C.S. Pacat, Dark Heir

“To be seen was to invite the violence of destruction.”
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“This one stays with me.”
― C.S. Pacat, Dark Heir

“Darling, I'm not here to kill you.”
― C.S. Pacat, Dark Heir

“The words were soft, too soft to be entirely playful. 'If I were king, would you be my queen?”
― C.S. Pacat, Dark Heir

“I - ' James didn't answer, just said, 'I want to be yours, not his.'
They were moving towards one another again, that cliff edge drawing closer. 'I want that too'.”
― C.S. Pacat, Dark Heir

“There was something impossible about his beauty. He suited the sunset, as if he was part of the light that was slipping from the world.”
― C.S. Pacat, Dark Heir

“You came to me.'
'You asked me to.”
― C.S. Pacat, Dark Heir

“Always and forever, he was bound to one person”
― C.S. Pacat, Dark Heir

“It was Will’s turn to flush. James lay like a sleeping Ganymede, his enervated beauty belying the cruelty and destruction he had rained down on the Stewards. Will hadn’t fluffed James’s pillow, but he had brought him a drink and a blanket. And hung his jacket to dry on the mantel. And his shirt.”
― C.S. Pacat, Dark Heir

“He knew how dangerous it was to want acceptance from a mother.”
― C.S. Pacat, Dark Heir

“He's loyal to us,' said Will.
'Is he?' Cyprian's voice was hard. 'Don't forget that he was reborn to serve the Dark King.'
'I never forget that,' said Will.”
― C.S. Pacat, Dark Heir

“Light is not something you can extinguish," she said. "Even in the darkest night, there is a star.”
― C.S. Pacat, Dark Heir

“And if I am to be queen, shouldn’t I know my subjects as they are, rather than as they are rumored to be?”
― C.S. Pacat, Dark Heir

“I told them when they ran me out of the Hall that I’d come back to walk on their graves.”
― C.S. Pacat, Dark Heir

“He's the Dark King,' said Violet. 'And I'm his lieutenant,' said James, 'here to fight by his side.”
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“We can look out over desolation and ruin together.”
― C.S. Pacat, Dark Heir

“Will felt James’s hand come to rest on the back of his neck, fingers curling into his hair, a possessive gesture unmistakable in its meaning. “This one stays with me.” Will flushed, blood hot in his cheeks. He had not shared a room with James before. There had been two rooms at the inn at Castleton. Staying with James was a terrible idea.”
― C.S. Pacat, Dark Heir

“The land would be cold and dark if you were gone. Seeing him now, Will felt lost forever to the knowledge that James was all he had wanted in his past life, and could never possess in this one.”
― C.S. Pacat, Dark Heir

“His heart beating, he lifted his eyes to James. He didn’t see immediate rejection. As the seconds stretched out, he thought—maybe—maybe. Pull like an undertow: he wanted to. He wanted to tell him, to find in him a harbor, where they could be two lost souls together.”
― C.S. Pacat, Dark Heir

“James, who looked like a golden temptation to sin.”
― C.S. Pacat, Dark Heir

“It’s all very well caring about sheep when you killed six of my men,” said Phillip.”
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“Someone I believe could save this place.” And then, so quietly Will almost didn’t hear, “Someone I believe could save me.”
― C.S. Pacat, Dark Heir

“He tried to stand and get to them, and collapsed. How had he made it off this mountain last time? He remembered dizzily that Will had carried him. Will had put him on a horse, then put him to bed and lain down next to him. He remembered looking up into Will’s eyes, remembered how it had felt to have all that attention focused on him, dark eyes looking down into his own, a warm hand brushing hair from his face. God, he hated when he was weak”
― C.S. Pacat, Dark Heir

“While many of the king’s victories were celebrated in the sun, they were won in the dark.”
― C.S. Pacat, Dark Heir

“This cage will open. I will see your face. And you will draw your sword. I know that you will be the last thing I will see. I know it. Justice.”
― C.S. Pacat, Dark Heir