The Midwife and the Orc Quotes

“No,” she gasped at him. “No. I helped you. I trusted you. I gave you so, so many chances. I listened to you again and again, I put my whole future in your hands. All my hope. And this is how you repay me? This?!” Her voice was ringing through the corridor now, and she didn’t care if Silfast or Kalfr heard, if the entire blasted mountain heard. “You don’t come to me again,” she hissed. “You don’t touch me again. You don’t even speak to me again. I am finally done with being your plaything, your target, your fool! And as stupid as I am, I am never, ever falling for your rubbish, ever again!”
― Finley Fenn, The Midwife and the Orc

“But it was cruel, impossible, unfathomable. Because how could Gwyn ever know if he was telling the truth again? Or if he was only saying what needed to be said, to gain his own ends? To make his visions real?”
― Finley Fenn, The Midwife and the Orc

“Do you know why Joarr first sought you out? And why he brought you here?” Right. That. Gwyn swallowed, and attempted a careless smile at Jule’s face. “Yes, actually, I do,” she replied. “My father is Lord Anton of Dunburg, and together with his horrid lord cronies, he’s been working to create an abhorrent new law targeting women who are pregnant with orcs. And in retaliation” — she swallowed again — “Joarr tried to seduce me, and have me become pregnant with his son. Thereby obliging me to take action on the new law, whether to try to sway my father, or to — to testify, and publicly humiliate him.”
― Finley Fenn, The Midwife and the Orc

“Then come to my home, my fierce little witch," he purred, "and show me all you can do.”
― Finley Fenn, The Midwife and the Orc