Bright Familiar Quotes

“Seems like we should just declare war on the entire Convocation and have done with it,” he muttered blackly. “Oh yes,” she shot back in the same tone. “That’s a brilliant idea. Then we wouldn’t have to spend all this time and energy rebuilding House Phel. We could simply sink the whole thing ourselves and go live in the swamps like Seliah.”
― Jeffe Kennedy, Bright Familiar

“Dancing can’t be that different from sword-fighting.” “I’d prefer not to be gutted at my wedding ball, darling.” “So noted. No sword on the dance floor.”
― Jeffe Kennedy, Bright Familiar

“Nic, in her characteristically passionate fashion, was all in. No matter what it was or what he asked of her, she gave him everything of herself. Whether compelled by the Fascination, the bonding, or her quintessential self, she simply didn’t have it in her to do anything halfway. He couldn’t stop her or change that. In all truth, he didn’t want to. As much as he’d love to save her pain, he also wouldn’t change anything about her. All he could do, he was slowly beginning to realize, was to do his best to reciprocate. He could right the balance between them by giving her everything of himself in return.”
― Jeffe Kennedy, Bright Familiar

“He saw the peril clearly, however. Since his magic had manifested, it had felt like he clung to a rapidly eroding slope of what had once been firm footing. With every step he took to embracing his magic and becoming Lord Phel, it seemed he lost sight of one more bit of integrity. This is how it happens. Give in to the power, and it gradually eats you alive until you have no humanity left.”
― Jeffe Kennedy, Bright Familiar

“But seriously, there must be plenty of people who don’t attend the academy for one reason or another.”
“Sure.” She ticked off the reasons on one hand. “Lack of magic, lack of connections, lack of money.” She slid him a look. “Lack of sense.”
― Jeffe Kennedy, Bright Familiar

“It might be nice to do something really kinky—for us—and have sex in a bed for once,” she suggested with a saucy smile. “Unless you’re too tired for it.”
― Jeffe Kennedy, Bright Familiar

“Gabriel’s gaze flicked down at her excitedly heaving bosom, then up to her face again. He raised one brow sardonically. “Are you done now?”
“I believe so,” she replied as coolly as she could, drawing on her best Lady Veronica Elal poise. “Though I reserve the right to add additional counterarguments as they occur to me.”
― Jeffe Kennedy, Bright Familiar

“What’s gone before is gone.”
“It will be when he’s dead,” Gabriel replied with grim purpose.
“Excuse me?” Completely taken aback, she’d nearly stammered in her shock.
“I resolved back then to find out the names of all three of those suitors who brutalized you—and to kill them.”
“But… but you can’t kill the House Sammael heir.” Curse it, now she was stammering.
“Watch me.” Gabriel’s eyes glittered with black hatred. The dark side of the moon. “They will not abuse my wife and live.”
― Jeffe Kennedy, Bright Familiar

“He made you cry, then and just now. You’re a fierce, proud woman, Lady Veronica Phel. Anyone who hurts you enough to draw tears deserves to die.”
― Jeffe Kennedy, Bright Familiar

“Isn’t that how these things begin, though? You abandon a bit of integrity to survive the moment, exchange what’s right for another day, another hour of security, telling yourself you’ll make it up later, but by then you’re midway down a slippery slope, gaining momentum for the chasm below.”
― Jeffe Kennedy, Bright Familiar

“What is the difference,” he mused, “between appearing to be a thing and becoming it? I suspect if I act the role long enough, the clothes will begin to fit so well that I’ll forget I was ever pretending.”
― Jeffe Kennedy, Bright Familiar