No Rest for the Wicked Quotes

“If you stop fighting me for one minute, little minx, you might find you like this,” he murmured against her lips. “I might still shoot you,” she warned before letting him kiss her again.”
― Lauren Smith, No Rest for the Wicked

“Had the captain read that from some book entitled How to Infuriate Free and Independent Women? Perhaps he had written it.”
― Lauren Smith, No Rest for the Wicked

“To the farthest horizon!”
― Lauren Smith, No Rest for the Wicked

“Life has never been fair. All we can do is make the best of the time we have.”
― Lauren Smith, No Rest for the Wicked

“Dominic put a dagger between his teeth, tucked his cutlass into his waistband, and leapt from his vessel to the merchant ship.”
― Lauren Smith, No Rest for the Wicked

“You know, when I was little, I thought I could trap light, like one would trap an insect in a jar. I was always putting jars on my windowsill in the morning. My father didn’t have the heart to tell me it wasn’t possible. When I cried over my darkened jars, he would hold me close and whisper, ‘You cannot catch the purest of lights, my dear. It cannot remain there. It becomes a part of you instead. Can you feel it, Roberta? That glowing warmth deep inside your heart?’ And I would feel it. I felt my love for him, my love for life, my love for myself—it was all within me, glowing like the sun, bright and bold.” Dominic smiled. Perhaps he was picturing her as a child thinking and feeling these things. “When I grew older, it became harder to find that light. But now you’ve chased all the shadows from my heart.”
― Lauren Smith, No Rest for the Wicked

“You are like the sea, he thought. Deep, fathomless, full of fury, and yet capable of such soothing peace. I could die happy in your arms.”
― Lauren Smith, No Rest for the Wicked

“One could never reclaim innocence. Once lost, it was lost forever.”
― Lauren Smith, No Rest for the Wicked