The Librarian and the Orc Quotes

“You didn’t tell me,” she hissed, “about this bond, between us. The control-bond. The one that apparently makes me want to please you, and obey you, and even kill our son, as long as it helps your campaign to become Priest!”
― Finley Fenn, The Librarian and the Orc

“Ach, this good Priest not speak this to own mate?” he said. “Bond come with all orcs. Orc fuck woman, put scent upon her, fill with seed. Woman then hunger, and follow, and obey.”
― Finley Fenn, The Librarian and the Orc

“some of these orcs are utterly clueless about women. And, they’re outrageous exhibitionists, which really is a shock — until they’ve properly accustomed you, at least.”
― Finley Fenn, The Librarian and the Orc

“I am an orc. And this is what orcs do to silly little women like you. We mark you. We bare you for all to see. We make you ours. We do whatever we wish with you!”
― Finley Fenn, The Librarian and the Orc

“you didn’t like Mr. Efterar questioning you about me,” she said. “So you used me, to show yourself justified. To make a point. To make it seem like this” — she gave a jerky wave between them — “is all due to me being stupid and foolish and useless, and nothing whatsoever to do with you!”
― Finley Fenn, The Librarian and the Orc

“My son,” he hissed, “shall tear you in two, woman. He shall rip you apart, and you shall die screaming and in agony. And as much as I might welcome this fate for one so foolish as you, I have sworn to help you, so now I am bound to this, and to you!”
― Finley Fenn, The Librarian and the Orc

“And even if Rosa was a particular favourite of Lord Kaspar’s, and had been for years, her willing service was only part of a larger transaction. Another bargain. One that traded her steady job at this library for Lord Kaspar’s unlimited, unfettered use of her body, her brain, her research. For his war.”
― Finley Fenn, The Librarian and the Orc

“To take me, and plough me, and fill me until I burst.”
― Finley Fenn, The Librarian and the Orc

“My lovely little rose finally blooms for me,”
― Finley Fenn, The Librarian and the Orc

“And also” — she twitched a grin at him — “serving you, as your loyal pet.”
― Finley Fenn, The Librarian and the Orc

“No,” she choked out. “I am not touching you, Lord Kaspar. Never again. I told you, it’s over.” But he only laughed again, advancing closer, one hand on his swollen bared cock, the other still holding her papers. “Are you sure, Rosa darling?” he asked. “Oh, I think you could be convinced. Maybe I’ll make you a student. Maybe I’ll even make you my wife. Will that do, for now?”
― Finley Fenn, The Librarian and the Orc

“He hadn’t said it aloud, no, but he’d still made it very clear. And rather than asking the simple question to make it even clearer, Rosa had stayed silent.”
― Finley Fenn, The Librarian and the Orc

“Even one of the most powerful humans in the realm stole you for his own, so he may gain from your insights.”
― Finley Fenn, The Librarian and the Orc

“Is there aught more you might wish to ask of me, upon this? Or tell me?” He was offering to answer more questions, Rosa realized, blinking at his too-remote face — and he was also giving her one more chance. One more out. One more opportunity to say, Lord Kaspar’s bribed me to spy on you, and help him start this war… But John couldn’t know. Ever.”
― Finley Fenn, The Librarian and the Orc

“Ég fíla Aelakesh,” Rosa gasped, forming the unfamiliar words as carefully as she could. “Ég fíla — John-Ka.” I like Aelakesh. I like — John.”
― Finley Fenn, The Librarian and the Orc

“before his death he arranged for me” — she dragged for air — “to go to boarding school. Until the money ran out, at least, but after that, I learned —” John’s eyes were very intent on hers, his hands very still, waiting, listening, safe — so Rosa somehow found more air, the rest of the words. “I learned that there were — other ways to pay,” she whispered. “With men. Like Lord Kaspar. And before him, my schoolmaster. Mr. Sullivan. They took care of me, gave me an education, as long as I” — she swallowed hard — “obeyed.”
― Finley Fenn, The Librarian and the Orc

“Suddenly Rosa needed it again, craved it again. This rare, hidden version of John that teased and laughed, and argued over technicalities, and — wanted her. Cared for her.”
― Finley Fenn, The Librarian and the Orc

“I should have chosen,” he hissed, “a tall, hale, hearty, and serene woman. One who does not sell herself to the highest bidder, or prattle constant questions with every breath, or play-act as wiser than she truly is!”
― Finley Fenn, The Librarian and the Orc

“Do not flatter yourself, woman,” he snapped. “Had I truly wished to cast some absurd magic upon a woman, you may be sure I should not have chosen you! A bony, vexing, fickle little strumpet, who thinks herself clever, yet is thrown into a foolish raging fit over a few words from a Skai!”
― Finley Fenn, The Librarian and the Orc

“I want to stay with you. Please. You promised to teach me.”
― Finley Fenn, The Librarian and the Orc

“Rosa blinked at him, at the cold command in his eyes, at the danger in his voice — and for some bizarre, unaccountable reason, she felt her curled-up body relaxing, her throat swallowing hard against that press of his palm.”
― Finley Fenn, The Librarian and the Orc

“Yes,” she whispered, to his hands, rather than his face. “But I told you. Men don’t give. They only take.”
― Finley Fenn, The Librarian and the Orc

“Even as the words came out her mouth, she realized that they were no doubt a grave mistake, committing her to days of work, if not entire weeks, and for what? So this orc could have a few more books to read? This awful, selfish orc, who’d been unspeakably rude and cruel to her, and who was currently supposed to be proving to her why she should stay? And failing miserably in the task, clearly, because somehow Rosa was the one accommodating him, yet again?!”
― Finley Fenn, The Librarian and the Orc

“I did not,” he said, his voice thick, “truly wish to frighten you, or harm you, or speak false to you. I did not wish to — use you. I only” — he grimaced, those eyes squeezing shut, opening again — “I have never before — known aught, such as this, between us. I do not — understand.”
― Finley Fenn, The Librarian and the Orc

“But you don’t want me to stay here, John,” her thin voice choked. “You don’t even like me. You’re only trying to manipulate me again. To get your way again. You already swore to keep me safe, and tell me no falsehoods” — her voice wavered — “and just look how that’s gone for me. You don’t care. I can’t trust you.”
― Finley Fenn, The Librarian and the Orc

“He would read them to her. It was enough to snap Rosa’s watery eyes up to his, searching for the truth of that — and here, whirling to life in her stunted-feeling brain, was the realization that this — this was indeed exactly what she needed.”
― Finley Fenn, The Librarian and the Orc

“Oh. Of course. Rosa felt her hopefulness fall again, plummeting deep, her eyes dropping to the floor. Of course he didn’t really want her to know, to learn, to discover more about his people. Offering up the library was surely just another empty gesture, another manipulation. And that was all.”
― Finley Fenn, The Librarian and the Orc

“How many holdings,” Rosa heard her traitorous voice say, her eyes narrow on John’s. “And what kinds? How old? Sourced from where?”
― Finley Fenn, The Librarian and the Orc

“Don’t let him get your hopes up, Rosa,” Jule replied flatly.”
― Finley Fenn, The Librarian and the Orc

“But you — you don’t care for me,” Rosa finally said, her voice cracking. “You don’t even like me. You think I’m silly and stupid and useless. You only want to use me, for your own gain.”
― Finley Fenn, The Librarian and the Orc