The Blood Traitor Quotes

“Everyone deserves to have someone fight for them, even―and especially―when they're unable to fight for themselves.”
― Lynette Noni, The Blood Traitor

“We can look at the darkness and let it consume us, or we can recognize that it’s only temporary, trusting that once it passes, the light will return,”
― Lynette Noni, The Blood Traitor

“Small steps are still steps.”
― Lynette Noni, The Blood Traitor

“I can't change the past. But I can still be annoyed by it”
― Lynette Noni, The Blood Traitor

“What happens now?"
"Now, we dream.”
― Lynette Noni, The Blood Traitor

“There is no such thing as beyond repair. You're breathing, aren't you? You're still alive--that means you can fix what you've broken.”
― Lynette Noni, The Blood Traitor

“Something on the ground caught her attention, and she clapped gleefully. “Happy kitty!” Jaren tugged her back before she could try to pet it. “That’s a dead rat.” Kiva pouted as he pulled her away. “Sad kitty.”
― Lynette Noni, The Blood Traitor

“Life is worth living, even the parts that make us feel like we want to die.”
― Lynette Noni, The Blood Traitor

“Try to remember that as important as it is to mourn the dead, it's just as important to celebrate the living. And if you can't... Come and wake me. I'll battle your demons for you.”
― Lynette Noni, The Blood Traitor

“For anyone who has ever wanted to give up but chose to keep going, to keep trying, to keep hoping to keep surviving: this book is for us.”
― Lynette Noni, The Blood Traitor

“You are who you choose to be. You are what you choose to be.”
― Lynette Noni, The Blood Traitor

“I chose you, Jaren. I will always choose you. Because I love you, and I-”
― Lynette Noni, The Blood Traitor

“We’re in this together, Sunshine. You and me. Got it?”
― Lynette Noni, The Blood Traitor

“Jaren will always find me. He might wish he'd never met me, but he'll always protect me. He can't help it. He's too good. Too pure. None of us deserve him.. Especially me.”
― Lynette Noni, The Blood Traitor

“You once told me I was strong and powerful and I could survive anything. That I owed it to myself to find a reason to live. Now I'm telling you the same thing.”
― Lynette Noni, The Blood Traitor

“I did fall in love with a lie, but that lie was you. I fell in love with you, Kiva. I am in love with you. Then and now, nothing about that has changed — except now I know the real you.”
― Lynette Noni, The Blood Traitor

“If my heart didn't already belong to Jaren, I think I'd be in love with you.”
― Lynette Noni, The Blood Traitor

“Tears blurred Kiva’s eyes, and she lunged forward to embrace Caldon, whispering in his ear, “Thank you.” “Gods, why do you always cry when you’re hugging me?” he muttered, patting her on the back. “We really have to work on that.”
― Lynette Noni, The Blood Traitor

“You’re both idiots,” he grumbled into their ears. “I don’t know why I love you. Frankly, I deserve better.” He then released them to place loud, smacking kisses on first Kiva’s and then Jaren’s cheeks, before saying, “No more lovers’ spats. My poor little heart can’t take it.”
― Lynette Noni, The Blood Traitor

“I’m s-sorry!” he cried, tilting his tearstained face back to look at her through watery blue eyes. “I’m s-s-so sorry! J-Jaren said I should f-forgive you, that you d-didn’t have a choice and you o-only lied to protect me, but I was j-just so mad! And you n-nearly drowned thinking I h-hate you! I d-don’t! I don’t hate you, K-Kiva! I couldn’t n-never”
― Lynette Noni, The Blood Traitor

“Who is this Tipp I keep hearing about?” Ashlyn murmured. “Unnaturally happy kid,” Cresta said, sounding bored. “Like a little brother to Kiva, until he learned she’d been lying to him for years. Keep up, would you?”
― Lynette Noni, The Blood Traitor

“Who did this to you?” he asked, in that same quiet tone, but now it was brimming with something else: anger.”
― Lynette Noni, The Blood Traitor

“By the laws of the country to which we were born, I, Crestoria Vossendi Kildarion, challenge you, Navok Arakkis Kildarion, to the blood duel.”
― Lynette Noni, The Blood Traitor

“For them, she would fight
For them, she would live”
― Lynette Noni, The Blood Traitor

“We can look at the darkness and let it consume us, or we can recognize that it's only temporary, trusting that once it passes, the light will return.”
― Lynette Noni, The Blood Traitor

“Cresta — she’s —” “A Kildarion?” Caldon said, his grin widening. “That was a delicious little secret to keep, let me tell you.” Kiva gaped at him. “You knew?” He rolled his eyes. “When are you going to realize that I know everything?”
― Lynette Noni, The Blood Traitor

“Because it was Caldon. He was paler than a corpse, his golden hair a tousled mess, but his cobalt eyes were sparkling as he drawled, “I leave you alone for a few hours, and look what happens.”
― Lynette Noni, The Blood Traitor

“If I end up with a cricked neck, you’re giving me a massage tomorrow,” he said, leaning his head against Tipp’s mattress, his long legs stretched out in front of him. He closed his eyes and said, “Go to sleep, Kiva.” She couldn’t keep the tears from welling this time, knowing he was only staying there for her. “Gods, don’t start crying again,” Caldon mumbled, somehow sensing her overflowing emotions, even with his eyes closed. “Come here.” He reached out blindly and drew her closer until her head rested on his shoulder, and only then did he repeat, “Sleep, Kiva.”
― Lynette Noni, The Blood Traitor

“Instead of laughing as he’d intended, Kiva felt new tears well in her eyes at how he was treating her. At how normal he seemed. “No, gods, please don’t start again.” Caldon raised his hands in a pleading sign. “I don’t have anything dry left for you to snot into.”
― Lynette Noni, The Blood Traitor

“Kiva shot a look at the princess. “You said it’s mostly men who it kills.” Ashlyn shrugged. “I might have fibbed a little. It’s an equal-opportunity poison.” Her silvery eyes danced as she added, “If you’d died, at least you wouldn’t have had to marry Navok. I figured you’d be happy either way.” Deadpan, Kiva said, “Please never try to help me again.”
― Lynette Noni, The Blood Traitor