A Taste of Gold and Iron Quotes

“She stopped at the foot of the bed. “Good morning, Your Highness,” she said. “As we are alone, I am using my discretion to dispense with formalities, as per the privileges granted to me by my rank.” “Yep,” he mumbled around the stick. “Go right ahead. I deserve it.” “You sure made a decision, eh? There was a decision to be made there, and you really just made the shit out of it. My gods.” “I know,” he groaned, and pulled a pillow over his head too. “But he made some really good points.” “Oh, I bet he did.”
― Alexandra Rowland, A Taste of Gold and Iron

“By the sea and in the eyes of the Mother and the Lord of Judgement, I declare myself to you. I come to you without distinctions and without glory, without the trifling and meaningless trappings of mortal honours. I come to you as nothing and no one but myself. Take my hands and see that they are empty - I offer you no wealth but that of my heart, and ask for none but that of yours. Hear my words and know that they are true - I swear myself to you and none other”
― Alexandra Rowland, A Taste of Gold and Iron

“Happy wedding,” Evemer said. “I got you this door.”
― Alexandra Rowland, A Taste of Gold and Iron

“Evemer’s heart ached, and for the first time in his life, he wondered if he was going to be able to survive this. Probably not. Chances were that it wouldn’t drive him to a literal death, but it was beyond a shadow of a doubt that the Evemer who endured that heartbreak and came out on the other side was going to be a different person than the one who sat here now, half-naked and dripping wet and miserable.”
― Alexandra Rowland, A Taste of Gold and Iron

“You sure made a decision, eh? There was a decision to be made there, and you really just made the shit out of it. My gods.”
― Alexandra Rowland, A Taste of Gold and Iron

“Reciprocity was a thing you had to learn. Someone had to tell you, first, that you deserved to be treated well, before you knew it for yourself.”
― Alexandra Rowland, A Taste of Gold and Iron

“So he let himself look, he let himself yearn, he let his heart ache for his lord, for that noble little fool-that beautiful good man”
― Alexandra Rowland, A Taste of Gold and Iron

“This wasn’t going to end well. It couldn’t. It was going to break him. Evemer would not survive this—likely he had already failed to survive it. Likely it had already changed him, and he was only just now beginning to realize.”
― Alexandra Rowland, A Taste of Gold and Iron

“Halfway through his twenty-fifth year, and to his acute relief, Prince Kadou became an uncle.”
― Alexandra Rowland, A Taste of Gold and Iron

“I don’t know who thought a Senate was a good idea. All it seems to do is turn out a load of annoying power-hungry bureaucrats.”
― Alexandra Rowland, A Taste of Gold and Iron

“He would have had a map for that
wilderness—but Evemer had no map, and both he and his heart were
already lost . . . Except for Kadou, burning like the compass star, the center
of his sky that all the heavens turned around, steady and constant enough
for Evemer to set his course by.”
― Alexandra Rowland, A Taste of Gold and Iron

“It was an exceptionally clear night and the starlight was silvery on his dark hair, and the candlelight made his skin glow warm, and his eyes were bright and and unafraid for the first time in days, and then he smiled like the sudden rise of the king-tide and he was the most beautiful thing Evemer had seen in all his life and probably the most beautiful thing he’d ever see.”
― Alexandra Rowland, A Taste of Gold and Iron

“Incredible. Unbelievable. Trying to come up with a scheme at a time like this! “You can run it however you’d like,” Kadou said, carefully patient. “But come back here and finish kissing me first.”
― Alexandra Rowland, A Taste of Gold and Iron

“You take, say, a hundred coins, and you melt them down and put cheap stuff in to bulk it out, then you mint ’em new again, and then you have a hundred and twenty coins. Free money, right? So life is good. Until everybody finds out, and adjusts accordingly, and then you’re back where you started.”
― Alexandra Rowland, A Taste of Gold and Iron