Dukes of Peril Quotes

“But you don’t fight for yourself, Remy. You let everyone else do that for you.” He just stares at me, unblinking as I turn away. “That’s our albatross.”
― Angel Lawson, Dukes of Peril

“Little birds, striking vipers, and angry bears… These are all wild, resilient things. And a cage could never hold her heart.”
― Angel Lawson, Dukes of Peril

“The Lucia name won’t live on. But Perilini, Maddox, and Bruin will.”
― Angel Lawson, Dukes of Peril

“This isn’t anger, even though I have the right to it. And it’s not revenge, either.” My gaze stops on Nick, whose blue eyes gleam proudly back at me. “This is freedom.”
― Angel Lawson, Dukes of Peril

“You made us stronger, Lavinia. We just showed you how strong you already were.”
― Angel Lawson, Dukes of Peril

“We’re not just a star and a moon, we’re a whole goddamn constellation.”
― Angel Lawson, Dukes of Peril

“If my first act as Queen is marking my King, then I’ll count myself lucky.”
― Angel Lawson, Dukes of Peril

“He raises his chin. “I’ll need your help, little brother.” “Didn’t you hear me before?” Nick asks, nodding toward Ballsack. “We’re a package deal. All of us.”
― Angel Lawson, Dukes of Peril

“Family isn’t blood or the right series of letters, Sy. It has to be something a hell of a lot stronger than that.”
― Angel Lawson, Dukes of Peril

“I never wanted to be King, Sy. All I ever wanted was one worth following.” Holding his stare, Nick sets the ring down right in the middle of the pile. “Now, I’ve got it.”
― Angel Lawson, Dukes of Peril

“It strikes me then, why I’ve known from the first second I saw her that Lavinia is it for me. She’s not just a fighter. Lavinia is a victor.”
― Angel Lawson, Dukes of Peril

“What good are wings if you can’t see the sky?”
― Angel Lawson, Dukes of Peril

“None of us want to be remembered for our worst moments.”
― Angel Lawson, Dukes of Peril

“This is Lavinia, I want to say. She put the parts of us we couldn’t find back together.”
― Angel Lawson, Dukes of Peril

“Because stars guide the way, but moons–they wax and wane, always revolving.”
― Angel Lawson, Dukes of Peril

“I’d never drink in front of someone I didn’t feel safe with.”
― Angel Lawson, Dukes of Peril

“A man who’s cheated death twice doesn’t just give up.” “He fights,”
― Angel Lawson, Dukes of Peril

“You know what this means, don’t you?” Remy leans forward, holding my gaze. “We’re going to have to ask Nick for relationship advice.” I drag a palm down my face, hiding my laugh. “God, help us.”
― Angel Lawson, Dukes of Peril

“You know what this means, don’t you?” Remy leans forward, holding my gaze. “We’re going to have to ask Nick for relationship advice.”
― Angel Lawson, Dukes of Peril

“There’s nowhere you could be that I couldn’t get to you. You understand me?”
― Angel Lawson, Dukes of Peril

“I made the mistake of letting you go once,” he says, guilt etched into his features. “Once, Little Bird. It’ll never happen again.”
― Angel Lawson, Dukes of Peril

“This is the man who put stars into my sky. The man who first showed me what it felt like to be touched with reverence. The man who looks at me as if I could save him, even though I can’t.”
― Angel Lawson, Dukes of Peril

“While we were in the air, falling to what easily could have been our deaths, he turned so that he took the brunt of it. Right there, at the end of the world, he was protecting me.”
― Angel Lawson, Dukes of Peril

“Being loved by a psycho like Nick Bruin might mean hurting sometimes, but there are some advantages to knowing he’ll never let me go.”
― Angel Lawson, Dukes of Peril

“To the victor, Vinny.” “For the record,” my jaw clenches in frustration, “I’m getting really sick of the spoils being our own fucking lives.”
― Angel Lawson, Dukes of Peril

“We’ll call ourselves the Monarchs.”
― Angel Lawson, Dukes of Peril

“I pick up the tattoo gun, comfortable with the weight of it in my hand these days. “You never told me what you want me to put on you.” Flippantly, Nick says, “It’ll be easy. No templates. No drawings. I just want two letters in your own handwriting.” His fingertips trace over the area. “L.B.” Face growing hotter, I realize, “For Little Bird.” His eyes hold mine for a heartbeat, the muscle in the back of his jaw ticcing. “Yeah, for Little Bird.”
― Angel Lawson, Dukes of Peril

“The kiss I push into his lips isn’t just about distracting him. It’s to show him that I can be that–a soft place for him to land.”
― Angel Lawson, Dukes of Peril

“Tend to my lady garden, Big Bear. Cultivate that flower. Plant those seeds. Fertilize my—”
― Angel Lawson, Dukes of Peril

“Your lady garden?”
― Angel Lawson, Dukes of Peril