Feather & Flame Quotes

“He gives Ivan a narrow look. With a good-natured harrumph, the café owner departs in search of a more available partner. Darius pulls me to him. A scant column of air separates us. Flames rise in my blood. “Hmm.” I slide my arms around his waist. “If I were a gambler, I’d bet you were jealous.” “Ante up, baby.” He tightens his hold on me, his breath stirring my hair. “You’d win the whole pot.”
― Nina Lane, Feather & Flame

“I love you, Nell … I love you so much. More than I knew it was even possible to love someone.”
― Nina Lane, Feather & Flame

“My beautiful girl … You are the only thing that makes perfect sense in this world.”
― Nina Lane, Feather & Flame

“I’ve been loving you from a distance for the past four years. I love you still.”
― Nina Lane, Feather & Flame

“You’re so much a part of me that I don’t even know how I existed without you … you’ve always been my light in the dark.”
― Nina Lane, Feather & Flame

“I’ve seen wrongness. I’ve done and felt more wrong things than I can count. But what I feel for you has never been one of them.”
My breath stops in my throat.
“In fact…” He lifts his head to look at me. “It’s the most genuine, pure thing I’ve ever known.”
― Nina Lane, Feather & Flame

“I need her, the woman whose entire life is woven into the loops of my memory. My heart can’t beat without her.”
― Nina Lane, Feather & Flame

“He presses his forehead to mine. I stare into his eyes, oceans deep. If we are given only one certainty in life, one inviolable truth, then this is mine. He is mine.”
― Nina Lane, Feather & Flame

“My sweet, beautiful Nell. I want you more than I want to breathe.”
― Nina Lane, Feather & Flame

“I thought that was it, that I’d broken free and was charting my own path … But the path doesn’t always stay the same. It veers off in different directions or gets blocked…or sometimes it just disappears altogether. So you have to find it again or make a new one.”
― Nina Lane, Feather & Flame

“Even though years can pass without us talking to each other, I’m always aware of you in the world. I always know you’re here. And I will always drop everything and run to you if I think you need help, even if you don’t want me to. Maybe that’s overstepping or whatever you want to call it, but it’s the truth. I will always come to you.”
― Nina Lane, Feather & Flame

“This
This is what I’ve been missing, what I’ve been searching for, what I feared I would never find. But of course, he’s the one who had it all along.”
― Nina Lane, Feather & Flame

“We’re not doing this again.”
“No, we’re not doing it again because I’m a different person now.”
“I’m not.”
“Good. Because I only ever wanted the man you are.”
― Nina Lane, Feather & Flame