The Archduke Quotes

“Thadred exhaled out his nose. “You know, all those times I said you needed to find yourself a girl? I didn’t mean one that tried to kill you.”
― Elisabeth Wheatley, The Archduke: A Daindreth's Assassin novella

“Even if you did become lost,” Daindreth murmured, “I think I could find you anywhere.” (return) Amira swallowed, telling him she had understood it as the promise it was-if you flee, I will chase you down.”
― Elisabeth Wheatley, The Archduke: A Daindreth's Assassin novella

“The assassin twisted again and this time she flipped him off her, landing a kick to his ribs as she did. She scrambled out of reach, stumbling to her feet and drawing yet another life. How many of those did she have?”
― Elisabeth Wheatley, The Archduke: A Daindreth's Assassin novella

“She’s an Istovari sorceress. They cursed you.”
“And it seems they let her be cursed,” Daindreth shot back, still waiting,
still watching the door. To his mind, Kadra’han vows were as good as a
curse.
Never one to pull punches, Thadred went on. “Do you really want to
marry a known assassin?” Thadred jabbed a finger toward the door where
Amira had gone with the guards. “Not knowing if you’ll get out of your
wedding night alive?”
Daindreth ignored him for several heartbeats, then whirled on his cousin
with a grin.
Thadred’s eyebrows shot up. “I didn’t know you were into that.”
― Elisabeth Wheatley, The Archduke: A Daindreth's Assassin novella

“As much as a part of him ached to force her into compliance right now, he knew better. Force had been what had brought this curse on his family in the first place. Force wouldn’t fix it.”
― Elisabeth Wheatley, The Archduke: A Daindreth's Assassin novella

“Daindreth lowered his family’s most precious weapon—pretense.”
― Elisabeth Wheatley, The Archduke: A Daindreth's Assassin novella

“By all the damned flames of the Dread Marches, who was she?”
― Elisabeth Wheatley, The Archduke: A Daindreth's Assassin novella

“By every power in the Dread Marches and the Eternal Plains, I will find a way.”
― Elisabeth Wheatley, The Archduke: A Daindreth's Assassin novella