Penny's Protector Quotes

“Instead, he gets to his feet. "Um…are you going somewhere?" I ask as he crosses the cave. "I thought we were talking." He picks up a length of fur from the cave's supplies, studies it, and then approaches me and settles it over my head, hiding my gaze and completely covering my face. I sputter, laughing. "What are you doing?" "I am going to wed-hing you when we get back to the tribe." I jerk the fur off my head, gaping at him. "You what?" S'bren gestures at the fur. "You cover your head. We will do the ceremony when we get back to your people.”
― Ruby Dixon, Penny's Protector

“P’nee,” he murmurs. “Don’t, S’bren,” I begin, my heart hurting. “I would do all of this with you.” There’s such an ache in his voice. “I would hold you and honor you and take you as my mate until resonance separated us. And if we never resonated, I would be glad, because it would mean you were mine forever.” He pulls my hands to his mouth and presses his lips to them. “Let me be your mate.”
― Ruby Dixon, Penny's Protector

“No commitment. No mating. Just having fun in the furs. No hearts involved.” S’bren shakes his head. “It is already too late, P’nee. I lost my heart to you long ago.” I sigh, because that’s sweet and romantic and so, so not the thing I wanted to hear. “Oh, S’bren.” “It is all right. I know I am the only heart in this cave that hopes for resonance.”
― Ruby Dixon, Penny's Protector

“I fear what the future will hold, too, but we cannot hide from our path.”
― Ruby Dixon, Penny's Protector

“I do not care what other males have thought in the past. It is only S'bren here with you now. It is only S'bren you should be thinking of pleasing, and your pleasure pleases me. I do not care how long it takes for you to come, only that I give you pleasure.”
― Ruby Dixon, Penny's Protector

“I've always been all-in with relationships. I love the idea of being in love, but in the past, I've always been the one that loved more in the relationship. I've always been the giver, the pursuer, the one that changes to try and please the partner.”
― Ruby Dixon, Penny's Protector

“Now that we're here at the Ancestors' Cave—which is an old, old spaceship”
― Ruby Dixon, Penny's Protector