Shadowheart Quotes

“Will you be my conscience, hellcat?” He sounded amused.
“I do not jest,” she said.
He held back her hair and traced his forefinger along her temple. “Nor I. I am in dire need of one.”
― Laura Kinsale, Shadowheart

“She had thought Raymond handsome. But the Raven was something beyond handsome. Beyond gallant manners and teasing glances. He was like the old, old stories, like the unknown man who waited on a darkened hill, the mist around him, hand outstretched ...
In the stories, if a woman went to him... she did not return.
But she wanted to go ...
She wanted.”
― Laura Kinsale, Shadowheart

“He came down the nave, walking with his graceful stride, dangerous and tear-stained.”
― Laura Kinsale, Shadowheart

“She held the ring in her palm, looking down at it. When she turned it in her hand, she saw for the first time that there were letters engraved on the inner curve as well as the outside. She tilted it to the light.

A vila mon Coeur, it said in French.
A vila mon Coeur. Gardi li mo.

She closed her eyes, curling her fingers tight around the ring, and bowed her head with a whimper of despair.

Here is my heart. Guard it well.”
― Laura Kinsale, Shadowheart