Arising Son Quotes

“Blue light streamed out from her hands and pounded into the desert. An enormous mass of sand flew into the air, leaving behind a gaping hole. The officers closest to it fell back on the ground from the energy pushing up into the air as if the earth was exhaling a breath held for hundreds of years.”
― Marie Montine, Arising Son: Part Two

“The commander stopped in front of Audray. “Well, isn’t this a special day. We have the temple, this chamber I never knew about, and the woman who stole my husband!”
― Marie Montine, Arising Son: Part Two

“A perverse sensation glided across his skin. It wanted to search deeper until Ryan understood that this presence wanted to do more than that: it wanted him. Normally he was the one that could touch and get to know objects or people. But this temple was also exercising the same gift on him.”
― Marie Montine, Arising Son: Part Two

“He held his head back to let the rain fall on his face with a small grin. When he opened his eyes, he looked across the crowd, straight at Cassandra. All the rain in the world could not wash down the growing heat of her passion for him.”
― Marie Montine, Arising Son: Part Two

“Night Realm. He is the one who had the power to change the Empians: the Dark Descent.” She turned to him. “The fact he’s beckoning you means a lot. For one: you are not on his side, and he wants you to be.”
― Marie Montine, Arising Son: Part Two

“The images of the dead woman flew into his mind like a bat that had just feasted, blood dripping from its fangs where it wanted to seep into his subconscious and awaken a hidden side of him.”
― Marie Montine, Arising Son: Part One

“He reached out to touch her cool flesh…bright flashes of heated fear soared through him as if his soul was dipped in the boiling liquids of purgatory.”
― Marie Montine, Arising Son: Part One

“It was a limbo of an existence; he couldn’t have what he once had, and he was never able to move on. His memories were his only company.”
― Marie Montine, Arising Son: Part One

“Ryan’s passion towards Stephanie surged around the restaurant like lightning from the love-gods and re-ignited her own dormant feelings for Lharkin.”
― Marie Montine, Arising Son: Part One

“Sand rose into the air, spinning a maelstrom of protection against bullets. She looked up at him: his face contorted with concentration while the wind played with his dark hair. His arms tightened around her until she felt every contour of his body against hers. Her heart raced faster than the churning sand, and her breath was lost as if the vortex siphoned it.”
― Marie Montine, Arising Son: Part Two

“I don’t know how much more of this I can take,” Ryan said. “I don’t know who or what I am anymore. How can I help and heal people when I am drinking their blood!”
― Marie Montine, Arising Son: Part One

“How can you help me and protect me when you lie to me? How can I be a good man when you don’t have faith that I will be one?”
― Marie Montine, Arising Son: Part One

“The truth had always been there, but he had been afraid to delve into his past. It only eventually caught up to him anyway, like a relentless monster, gobbling up his entire life, the bones having been spat out, leaving behind a pathetic existence.”
― Marie Montine, Arising Son: Part One

“Not even her lover’s embrace could penetrate the chill that founds its way deep into her soul.”
― Marie Montine, Arising Son: Part One

“Pain seared through Cassandra as if the Gods answered by slicing her belly with a serrated knife, wanting to extract the horror from inside of her before she could let it loose into the world.”
― Marie Montine, Arising Son: Part One

“It was this dichotomy of one’s perspective towards a child that could drive a parent insane.”
― Marie Montine, Arising Son: Part One

“From all of the battles over the years, Raesha changed into something darker than any Empian who had gone through the Dark Descent ever did. She entered the Dark Guardian’s spirit domain and came out something horrific. She is dead, and I want memories of her to be, too.”
― Marie Montine, Arising Son: Part Two

“Be careful with your visions, Ryan; that the nightmare doesn’t consume your reality, where you begin to live in that nightmare, and can only dream back your reality.”
― Marie Montine, Arising Son: Part Two

“Over the years, the rough edges of torture hardened her soft face and dimmed the brilliance of her eyes. In her trials of fighting to have his father regain the Light, she had in turn lost her own.”
― Marie Montine, Arising Son: Part One

“The world rumbled around them. The Kins walked away from the long line of sand that rose into the air. An extensive tunnel emerged like a ginormous serpent, shaking off the desert as if it was done its play.”
― Marie Montine, Arising Son: Part Two