Noble Prince Quotes

“Scarlett, tell me to stop.”
“No.”
“I’m doing my best to stay in control here.” I jerked my hand to my side, closed my eyes and gritted my teeth. “Scarlett—”
She leaned in close. The whisper of her breath skated across my chest. “Lose control, Luke.”
― Devney Perry, Noble Prince

“Being unafraid isn’t what makes you brave, beautiful,” Luke said. “Being brave means you look that fear in the face and admit that it scares the shit out of you. But you don’t give up anyway.”
― Devney Perry, Noble Prince

“She leaned in close. The whisper of her breath skated across my chest. “Lose control, Luke.”
― Devney Perry, Noble Prince

“This isn’t black and white, Luke,” Dash said. “Never will be. There’s justice for Scarlett. She holds no blame here. She was in the wrong place at the wrong time. You can’t balance the scales. You’ll go crazy if you try because there’s no such thing. We live in a gray world and you’ve got to pick the shade closest to white. So do what your heart tells you.”
― Devney Perry, Noble Prince

“We live in a gray world and you’ve got to pick the shade closest to white. So do what your heart tells you.”
― Devney Perry, Noble Prince

“It would be heartbreaking to walk away. But Luke deserved to have that dog one day. He deserved to get his wife pregnant on a rainy day and have her at his side beyond these walls. So I’d walk. Because if I didn’t have dreams of my own to fight for, then I’d fight for his instead.”
― Devney Perry, Noble Prince

“What do I want from life? I wanted to be the woman Luke got pregnant on a rainy day. I wanted to love the dog who’d be his best friend. I was still choosing other people’s dreams and trying to retrofit them as my own. If I was going to find my own answer, I had to make sense of my life. I had to unwind the mess. Starting with the truth. It was time to tell Luke everything.”
― Devney Perry, Noble Prince

“A dog for a best friend. To talk about life every day with someone I love. To get my wife pregnant on a rainy day and raise my children the way my parents raised me. To end each day with a smile.”
― Devney Perry, Noble Prince

“That your beauty is unmatched. Your bravery runs deep. And that you guard your pure heart.”
― Devney Perry, Noble Prince

“I don’t want another woman.” “You don’t?” Crash. My control shattered. I closed the distance between us, holding her gaze, willing my next words to sink in deep. “The only woman I want is you.”
― Devney Perry, Noble Prince

“If you give me the choice of anything outside these walls or being here with you, I choose you. Every time. Trust me when I say that I would much rather share dinner with you than lose fifty bucks to Emmett at the pool table.”
― Devney Perry, Noble Prince

“Are you a good man?” Luke stared down at me, his dark blue eyes unwavering. “If you don’t know the answer to that already, I guess I’ve got some work to do.” Damn. That was a great answer.”
― Devney Perry, Noble Prince

“If word got out of the video on my phone, I’d die a slow, agonizing death at the hands of the Warriors. Or it would mean a one-way ticket to a new identity.”
― Devney Perry, Noble Prince

“I was trapped. Never alone. Always alone.”
― Devney Perry, Noble Prince

“I wasn’t just a cop, but a man falling in love who wasn’t ready to give Scarlett up.”
― Devney Perry, Noble Prince

“Hold on to me, beautiful.”
I gripped his triceps. “Like this?”
“No.” He shook his head and brushed a lock of hair off my forehead. Then he touched the corner of his eye. “Hold on to me.”
Luke didn’t need to worry. He had me transfixed.”
― Devney Perry, Noble Prince

“Luke was ravenous. For me. Screwed-up head and all, he wanted me.
Why? He could have any available woman. He was the ultimate catch. So why me?
“Scarlett.”
“Yeah?” I breathed. My hair fanned around me, bright against the dark quilt on his mattress.
He bent to whisper in my ear. “Stop thinking.”
― Devney Perry, Noble Prince