A Game of Retribution Quotes

“Darling,” he said, his voice low and fierce. “I would burn this world for you.”
― Scarlett St. Clair, A Game of Retribution

“You are my weakness. Losing you is my greatest fear, and your love is my most treasured possession.”
― Scarlett St. Clair, A Game of Retribution

“Hermes leaned across the bar so far, his chest almost touched the counter, and he whispered, “Has anyone ever told you…you need therapy?” Hermes had, in fact, told him often. “Pot, meet kettle,” Hades replied.”
― Scarlett St. Clair, A Game of Retribution

“grief was strange, and it transformed emotions into monsters.”
― Scarlett St. Clair, A Game of Retribution

“because love did not end when life did. It carried on in the absence of it.”
― Scarlett St. Clair, A Game of Retribution

“Get wet, Daddy Death,” Hermes said.”
― Scarlett St. Clair, A Game of Retribution

“You look like a fucking queen."
She always did.
She smiled as she answered, "I am your queen.”
― Scarlett St. Clair, A Game of Retribution

“You would burn the world for me?” she said, and there was an energy gathering around her that was both feral and volatile. “I will destroy it for you.”
― Scarlett St. Clair, A Game of Retribution

“You are so centered on securing her hand in marriage, you aren’t even focused on laying the foundation for it.”
― Scarlett St. Clair, A Game of Retribution

“And even if their future were to unravel, he would fight for it. Desperately.”
― Scarlett St. Clair, A Game of Retribution

“What we were once and we are today, we shall not be tomorrow.” —Ovid, Metamorphoses”
― Scarlett St. Clair, A Game of Retribution

“there was no comparing grief. Hearts did not break the same. They did not heal the same. They would not beat the same.”
― Scarlett St. Clair, A Game of Retribution

“Get wet, Daddy Death,”
― Scarlett St. Clair, A Game of Retribution

“Hades," Persephone whispered, drawing closer to him. "Why is it snowing?"
He did not look at her as he spoke, staring angrily at the flurries whirling over New Athens.
"It's the start of a war," he said.
And you—you're at the center of it.”
― Scarlett St. Clair, A Game of Retribution

“There are few truths in this world,” he said, “but the one you must always remember is that I love you.”
― Scarlett St. Clair, A Game of Retribution

“If you will not help me overthrow Zeus, then you shall have to earn your right to marry Persephone.”
― Scarlett St. Clair, A Game of Retribution

“A woman entered the bathroom and hesitated at seeing it occupied by the three, but her expression quickly morphed to interest, and she sauntered inside. “Want a fourth?” she asked.”
― Scarlett St. Clair, A Game of Retribution

“Think about it, Hades. Who’d mess with you if you started chopping off balls?”
― Scarlett St. Clair, A Game of Retribution

“Is this how you smuggle contraband into your club?” Ariadne asked. “No,” said Dionysus, stepping past her. “We bring that in the front door.”
― Scarlett St. Clair, A Game of Retribution

“This is the game, Hades, and all gods play it. I asked for your aid and you declined, so I shall seek retribution all the same.”
― Scarlett St. Clair, A Game of Retribution

“I would burn this world for you.”
― Scarlett St. Clair, A Game of Retribution

“Even having experienced varying degrees of loss, there was no comparing grief. Hearts did not break the same. They did not heal the same. They would not beat the same.”
― Scarlett St. Clair, A Game of Retribution

“But you are immortal.” “I am, but moments are not. They are fleeting.”
― Scarlett St. Clair, A Game of Retribution

“He had few vices, among them racing, whiskey, and Persephone, his Goddess of Spring.”
― Scarlett St. Clair, A Game of Retribution

“Hades liked the way her lips pouted as she frowned.”
― Scarlett St. Clair, A Game of Retribution

“Oh, dear king,” said Clotho. “There is no path,” said Atropos. “That will leave her unbroken,” said Lachesis.”
― Scarlett St. Clair, A Game of Retribution

“He had not punished Apollo as he had Leuce.”
― Scarlett St. Clair, A Game of Retribution

“he had forgotten.”
― Scarlett St. Clair, A Game of Retribution

“they had an audience—”
― Scarlett St. Clair, A Game of Retribution

“Her eyes flashed, full of defiance,”
― Scarlett St. Clair, A Game of Retribution