A Fire in the Flesh Quotes

“I can’t…I love you. I do. Fates, I do. I fucking love you. How can I not? How can this not be love?” He screamed to the elms …“I love you, even if I cannot. I’m in love with you.”
― Jennifer L. Armentrout, A Fire in the Flesh

“But if the shoe fits, lace that bitch up and wear it.”
― Jennifer L. Armentrout, A Fire in the Flesh

“I’m nothing with you, liessa … And there will be nothing without you.”
― Jennifer L. Armentrout, A Fire in the Flesh

“Life was worth living even when it was full of unfairness and injustice. When the heart felt light and when the chest was too tight to breathe.
Because death was final.
The absence of choice.
And life was a collection of new beginnings.
Full of unending choices.”
― Jennifer L. Armentrout, A Fire in the Flesh

“I never wanted until you.”
― Jennifer L. Armentrout, A Fire in the Flesh

“You’re brave, strong, and resilient. You don’t need anyone to fight your battles. You never have. You don’t now.”
My chest rose and fell rapidly as I listened to him.
“But I will fight for you.”
― Jennifer L. Armentrout, A Fire in the Flesh

“I am yours. All of me. My body. My blood. My soul.” His voice roughened. “My heart.”
― Jennifer L. Armentrout, A Fire in the Flesh

“But every day, there is a choice to keep going, to face the future head-on or not. Every day, there is a choice to be honest with yourself or to lie. One will be the hardest thing you’ve ever done, and the other the easiest, but there is always the opportunity for choice if you don’t take the easiest path.”
― Jennifer L. Armentrout, A Fire in the Flesh

“I never felt alive until you,” he whispered. “And I should’ve known then what you were to me. That you were the impossible … My heartmate.”
― Jennifer L. Armentrout, A Fire in the Flesh

“Even if I’m not looking at you, you are still all I see … I see you, Sera. I always have.”
― Jennifer L. Armentrout, A Fire in the Flesh

“I know who you are, Sera, and what you mean to me. And that is everything because you are everything to me” He pressed a kiss to my forehead. “And that will never change.”
― Jennifer L. Armentrout, A Fire in the Flesh

“I still fell, Sera. Hard and fast. Irrevocably. Even without my kardia, I fell in love with you.”
― Jennifer L. Armentrout, A Fire in the Flesh

“A guttural, inhuman growl shook the cage. “Get your fucking hands off my wife.”
― Jennifer L. Armentrout, A Fire in the Flesh

“I always wanted before you.” A tremor ran through Ash, and I knew it had nothing to do with the Primal rage building in Iliseeum and spreading into the mortal realm. “Liessa…” “I wanted to be known,” I whispered, needing him to hear this. “I wanted to be accepted.” Another shudder rocked Ash. “I wanted to be included.” I slid my hands free of his hair, drawing them down the cool skin of his neck. “I wanted to be talked to and touched.” “Sera,” he breathed. The tips of my fingers grazed the hard line of his jaw. “Most of all, I wanted to be valued, to be needed and cherished and wanted for who I was and not who I was supposed to be or what I could do for someone. I wanted to be seen.” A surge of emotion clogged my throat as the ground trembled once more. “You gave me all of that, Ash. I’ve lived because of you.”
― Jennifer L. Armentrout, A Fire in the Flesh

“I’m sorry,” he rasped, quickly moving us from the cage. “I’m sorry I didn’t get to you sooner, but I’ve got you now, liessa, and I won’t let go. I’ll never let go again.”
― Jennifer L. Armentrout, A Fire in the Flesh

“Leaning into Ash, I cupped his cheek. Those frigid eyes landed on me. “I love you,” I whispered. “I love your protectiveness. I love that you see me. That I’m important to you. That I matter. I love you so very much for that.”
― Jennifer L. Armentrout, A Fire in the Flesh

“I don’t care what you become.” He lowered his wrist. “I don’t care, as long as you’re alive. As long as you don’t leave me. I don’t care. I want you however you come back to me.”
― Jennifer L. Armentrout, A Fire in the Flesh

“The one thing that could return a kardia, scratching itself together from the wound its removal left behind. My heartmate.”
― Jennifer L. Armentrout, A Fire in the Flesh

“So don’t miss me.” I touched his jaw, feeling the slight stubble there. “Love me instead.” “I do,” Ash swore. “Fates, Sera, I do.”
― Jennifer L. Armentrout, A Fire in the Flesh

“Fuck the greater good, Sera.” “Fuck the greater good,” I mumbled instead of screaming as I’d done before. The embers hummed throughout me. “Because we aren’t…” “We aren’t good, liessa.” “But you are.” “Not without you,” he said. “Not without you.”
― Jennifer L. Armentrout, A Fire in the Flesh

“I suppose love made you capable of that: wanting happiness for another, even if it meant them finding it with someone else.”
― Jennifer L. Armentrout, A Fire in the Flesh

“You are the only thing that matters.”
― Jennifer L. Armentrout, A Fire in the Flesh

“With my sword and my life.” Eather-laced eyes lifted to mine. “I swear to you, the One who is born of Blood and Ash, the Light and the Fire, and the Brightest Moon, to honor your command.”
― Jennifer L. Armentrout, A Fire in the Flesh

“I will spend the rest of eternity making sure you never doubt what I feel for you,”
― Jennifer L. Armentrout, A Fire in the Flesh

“I love you, even if I cannot. I’m in love with you.”
― Jennifer L. Armentrout, A Fire in the Flesh

“With my sword and my life,” Rhain spoke, lifting his head. The others echoed his words. “I shall honor you.” Silvery, crackling eather erupted from his fingers, spreading across the sword. The blade collapsed first, and then the hilt turned to ash. “In blood and in ash, forevermore.”
― Jennifer L. Armentrout, A Fire in the Flesh

“Even when it was unfair and heartbreaking, dark and full of the unknown, life was still worth living.”
― Jennifer L. Armentrout, A Fire in the Flesh

“Liessa,” Ash spoke, his rough voice a balm. “I’ve got you. Everything will be all right now. I’ve got you.”
― Jennifer L. Armentrout, A Fire in the Flesh

“Because rewards could be found among the chores. Little pieces of enjoymen that would come to mean something. Darkness always gave way to the light if given time, and whhile some heartbreaks may never completely heal, living allowed there to be space for new sources of happiness and pleasure.”
― Jennifer L. Armentrout, A Fire in the Flesh

“It does. Or did.” He exhaled heavily”
― Jennifer L. Armentrout, A Fire in the Flesh