A Throne From the Ashes Quotes

“But I’ve come to realize tomorrow isn’t my promise to give. What I can promise…is me. Until the last tomorrow comes. I want you to know every broken piece of me belongs to you.”
― C.C. Peñaranda, A Throne From the Ashes

“I vow to stand by your side. I vow to protect you with my sword and my life. And I vow to bind my fate to yours, if you will have me. I’ve lived enough years in this world to know should you leave it, so too shall my desire to stay here without you.”
― C.C. Peñaranda, A Throne From the Ashes

“To have Faythe: to live like death is a game, love is a prize, and danger is desire.”
― C.C. Peñaranda, A Throne From the Ashes

“But sometimes you have to fight fire with fire. Watch the world burn and then rise from the ashes.”
― C.C. Peñaranda, A Throne From the Ashes

“Keep having…Faythe.”
― C.C. Peñaranda, A Throne From the Ashes

“This is reality. And we are the monsters who don’t get the happy ending even if we want it.”
― C.C. Peñaranda, A Throne From the Ashes

“I don’t want anything from you.” “Yet those were not your words last night, Zaiana.”
― C.C. Peñaranda, A Throne From the Ashes

“It’s not the act but the intention that separates the good from the evil.”
― C.C. Peñaranda, A Throne From the Ashes

“You call me feeble, but look at you,” she said vacantly, head tilting at the sphere in her palm. “So small on the inside. You use fear to distract others from seeing your own. You are nothing but a coward.” Faythe met his eyes then, and he was right to look vulnerable; to surface that fear as an unveiling of his true self before he met his end. “Do you have anything you would like to say?” Rezar’s eyes were back to blazing. “This kingdom will burn before you claim it.” “Then it’s a shame you won’t bear witness,” Faythe said calmly, “when I sit upon a throne from the ashes.”
― C.C. Peñaranda, A Throne From the Ashes

“I want your fealty, not your disappointing bedroom favors.” “In the bedroom, I might just yield both.” “If you were the last male on the continent, our species would cease to exist with us.”
― C.C. Peñaranda, A Throne From the Ashes

“I’m looking forward to seeing you kneel before me.” “I’ll get on my knees for you anytime, Zaiana. You know you need only ask.”
― C.C. Peñaranda, A Throne From the Ashes

“Don’t be afraid of the past that has made you stronger.”
― C.C. Peñaranda, A Throne From the Ashes

“The thing about a weapon is that it has no allegiance. Craft a lethal blade, perfect its sharpened edge, and it can kill its maker as easily as it can slay any enemy.”
― C.C. Peñaranda, A Throne From the Ashes

“Those who are petty enough to spread gossip never care for the truth anyway.”
― C.C. Peñaranda, A Throne From the Ashes