The Hurricane Wars Quotes

“Do you make it a habit to compliment everyone who's trying to kill you?"

"Not everyone." His eyes flashed with a hint of amusement. "Just you.”
― Thea Guanzon, The Hurricane Wars

“May the gods help me. Alaric resisted the urge to put his head in his hands in a fit of despair. I’m attracted to my wife.”
― Thea Guanzon, The Hurricane Wars

“Given our respective objectives, it would probably save a lot of time if we died together.”
― Thea Guanzon, The Hurricane Wars

“You've been fighting all your life, Your instinct is to strike first, before anyone can hurt you. But, sometimes it's the blow the molds us. Taking it. Letting it ring against our defenses, until we are assured in the the knowledge that, when it's over, we will still be standing.”
― Thea Guanzon, The Hurricane Wars

“Fire of my blood, sun of my soul, I would raise my armies in your defence and I would stand by your side though the Eversea itself be against us.”
― Thea Guanzon, The Hurricane Wars

“I hate you," she spat.
Alaric sneered at her. "See? Already you are acclimatizing so well to married life.”
― Thea Guanzon, The Hurricane Wars

“Someone finally understood. Someone could give voice to all the things that he could never put to words.”
― Thea Guanzon, The Hurricane Wars

“Until we meet again, Lightweaver." His gray eyes were back to being hard and impassive. "In the meantime, do try not to let more falling rocks get the best of you when I'm not around to help.”
― Thea Guanzon, The Hurricane Wars

“Come on, darling, some darkly wicked, impulsive part of him thought, one last fight before I leave you.”
― Thea Guanzon, The Hurricane Wars

“I bring you the whole of my heart at the rising of the moon and the setting of the stars.”
― Thea Guanzon, The Hurricane Wars

“She was all too familiar with what it was like to have one’s day ruined by Alaric Ossinast.”
― Thea Guanzon, The Hurricane Wars

“We can’t all be overgrown trees, my lord,” she retorted,”
― Thea Guanzon, The Hurricane Wars

“Without restraint, in times of good fortune and in times of trial, in light and in darkness, and in life and beyond, in the Sky Above the Sky where my ancestors sail, where we shall meet and remember, and where I will marry you again.”
― Thea Guanzon, The Hurricane Wars

“He stiffly offered his arm out to her, and Talasyn turned just the slightest bit pink. It was fetching. Alaric briefly considered punching himself in the face.”
― Thea Guanzon, The Hurricane Wars

“By the gods. He was unable to tear his gaze away. She ate like she fought. Relentless and without mercy.”
― Thea Guanzon, The Hurricane Wars

“He grabbed her wrist before she could draw it back. “I liked you better when you were afraid of me,” he drawled. “Well, I liked you better when you were unconscious.”
― Thea Guanzon, The Hurricane Wars

“She bristled. “You are my consort. You don’t get to order me around.”
“You are my empress,” he shot back. “You answer to me.”
― Thea Guanzon, The Hurricane Wars

“It was not a sweet kiss. Talasyn would have been foolish to deem Alaric Ossinast capable of sweetness, but she’d heard that first kisses were supposed to be sweet. This was violent, almost brutal. His lips were as soft as they looked, but they were relentless. Furious. And she couldn’t help but give as good as she got, just as she’d done her whole life.”
― Thea Guanzon, The Hurricane Wars

“Talasyn blinked at the trees on the rooftop, dark against the dimming sky. It was a revelation, to be held like this, to have someone else’s warmth so near, surrounding her. It was hunger, the thing that made her tighten her arms around his neck until there was no more space between them, skin to skin, the urgency with which he had latched on to her echoing everything that her soul had cried out for all these years.”
― Thea Guanzon, The Hurricane Wars

“There was no rational explanation for that kiss. None of it could be forgiven. She would have to return to Eskaya burdened by the knowledge that she’d had the Night Emperor’s tongue in her mouth. The next time she faced the Sardovian remnant, it would be with the memory of the Night Emperor’s hand on her ass.”
― Thea Guanzon, The Hurricane Wars

“How unsettling, that an evil man could have had people who cared for him so.”
― Thea Guanzon, The Hurricane Wars

“Could it be that being nicer to the Lightweaver made her nicer to him as well? Could Sevraim, in fact, be a genius? He could never tell him he was right.”
― Thea Guanzon, The Hurricane Wars

“Gods, there seemed to be nothing more humiliating than being attracted to someone who didn't feel the same.”
― Thea Guanzon, The Hurricane Wars

“Who better to keep a Shadowforged husband in line than a Lightweaver wife?”
― Thea Guanzon, The Hurricane Wars

“—he could only think that she was beautiful. Every part of her was beautiful.”
― Thea Guanzon, The Hurricane Wars

“You,” Alaric said, “are a beautiful little idiot.”
― Thea Guanzon, The Hurricane Wars

“Their love has seemingly insurmountable odds stacked against it, but it manages to blaze amid the darkness in the same way that our stories, our ancestral memory, our hope can survive three waves of conquerors. Love can make us do impossible, beautiful, terrible things. Love can bloom like revolution.”
― Thea Guanzon, The Hurricane Wars

“But this wasn’t just someone. This was Alaric, her husband, her enemy, her dark mirror, and the Lightweave in her veins soared in triumph, recognizing him for what he was, calling out to his shadows, and everything was golden, was eclipse, was forever, was theirs alone.”
― Thea Guanzon, The Hurricane Wars

“She was kneeling on the bed, her hands clasped together in her lap. She looked like a summer’s eve and like an offering all at once. She looked…
…very, very grumpy.”
― Thea Guanzon, The Hurricane Wars

“After their duels, after going through all those forms of breath and magic, they knew the rhythm of each other’s body too well to pretend otherwise. They swayed and they glided and she led him into a twirl, feeling the heat of his tall, strong frame even after she spun away, entranced by it every time she came back to him. They moved together like water and moonlight.”
― Thea Guanzon, The Hurricane Wars