House of Pounding Hearts Quotes

“You are mine, mo krrá. The same way that I am yours. From now until the end of time.”
― Olivia Wildenstein, House of Pounding Hearts

“Fight for us, Behach Éan. Your monster is coming.”
― Olivia Wildenstein, House of Pounding Hearts

“Crows have one mate, Fallon. One. I’ve waited for mine—for you—for centuries, and your reaction is, so what?”
― Olivia Wildenstein, House of Pounding Hearts

“If you hurt her, Lore, you better pray for Mórrígan to lend me mercy.” “Have you met your daughter? Odds are rather high that I’ll be in need of your pity more than your mercy.”
― Olivia Wildenstein, House of Pounding Hearts

“Ha'rovh béhya an ha théach'thu; ha'ral béih. (Until I met you, little bird, I was merely living; I was not alive.)”
― Olivia Wildenstein, House of Pounding Hearts

“But I cannot hide inside a mountain while the world crumbles.”
― Olivia Wildenstein, House of Pounding Hearts

“You are mine, mo krrá. The same way that I am yours. From now until the end of time.”
― Olivia Wildenstein, House of Pounding Hearts

“You haven’t even eaten, I deflect. I will. When? When we get to my bedchamber. Should I make you a plate? I’ve an appetite for something other than food.”
― Olivia Wildenstein, House of Pounding Hearts

“Allow me to hold you a moment longer, Behach Éan. You’ve no idea how long I’ve waited to touch you.”
― Olivia Wildenstein, House of Pounding Hearts

“That makes me your monster. The one who will fight off all the others in order to keep you safe.”
― Olivia Wildenstein, House of Pounding Hearts

“Welcome to the resistance, micara.”
― Olivia Wildenstein, House of Pounding Hearts

“Zendaya’s stare arrests me yet again with her arched brown eyebrows that shade long-lashed pink irises, a hue that doesn’t exist in Luce, or in Nebba, or even in Glace.”
― Olivia Wildenstein, House of Pounding Hearts

“I’m pretty certain I have second-degree cock burn from the four times we made love last night, my core—that little vixen—revs right up,”
― Olivia Wildenstein, House of Pounding Hearts

“Although his body was made for the sky, it moves like the ocean, a swell that rolls in deep, dashing itself against my shores, before retracting like the tides.”
― Olivia Wildenstein, House of Pounding Hearts

“And he does, his golden gaze gleaming as he carves himself deeper into every corner of my being. From now until the end of time, Behach Éan.”
― Olivia Wildenstein, House of Pounding Hearts

“I grip his ass to keep him from dematerializing, and although bliss softens the edges of my lucidity, I’m painfully aware that not even I have the power to hold on to this man if he decided to leave. “Stay.” On me. In me. With me.”
― Olivia Wildenstein, House of Pounding Hearts

“I grip his ass to keep him from dematerializing, and although bliss softens the edges of my lucidity, I’m painfully aware that not even I have the power to hold on to this man if he decided to leave. “Stay.”
― Olivia Wildenstein, House of Pounding Hearts

“You can thank me by bringing me breakfast in bed tomorrow. If, that is, you’re not still tripping and impaling yourself on a certain Crow’s colossal—”
― Olivia Wildenstein, House of Pounding Hearts

“It’s a much better story that you fell into his lap because you thought falling onto his giant penis was too forward.”
― Olivia Wildenstein, House of Pounding Hearts

“My target was neither his cock—which would’ve been, I assure you, unmissable—nor his leg. My target was the exit.”
― Olivia Wildenstein, House of Pounding Hearts

“Keeping my eyes shut, I confess, “I stumbled onto his lap.” “Clever. I may recycle your trick.”
― Olivia Wildenstein, House of Pounding Hearts

“Till the sky is darkest, and I can taste you everywhere.”
― Olivia Wildenstein, House of Pounding Hearts

“And I’ve missed your mercurial character.”
― Olivia Wildenstein, House of Pounding Hearts

“I don’t ask, of course, for that would reveal I’ve never attended a gilding revel, which would in turn reveal I’m not the type of guest invited to such a party.”
― Olivia Wildenstein, House of Pounding Hearts

“Funny, Lore. Who knew demonic kings were endowed with such a developed sense of humor?”
― Olivia Wildenstein, House of Pounding Hearts

“Yes. She explained she could not marry you, which disappointed her father.” “Why couldn’t she marry me?” Lorcan stands and circles the table toward me, gait unhurried. I pivot as he stops on the other side of my bench. “Because you didn’t do it for her.” The male-faced harpy grins now. “I see you memorized her speech word for word.”
― Olivia Wildenstein, House of Pounding Hearts

“Why couldn’t she marry me?” Lorcan stands and circles the table toward me, gait unhurried. I pivot as he stops on the other side of my bench. “Because you didn’t do it for her.” The male-faced harpy grins now. “I see”
― Olivia Wildenstein, House of Pounding Hearts

“unctuous”
― Olivia Wildenstein, House of Pounding Hearts

“I reach out and cocoon Phoebus’s fist between my palms. “Pheebs, you may be Fae, but underneath it all, you’re a man, like him, with a heart, like his. He sees you. We all do. Now square those shoulders and ask him out.” He peeks up at me from beneath his lowered blond lashes. “What if he says no?” “What if he says yes?”
― Olivia Wildenstein, House of Pounding Hearts

“So many things could go wrong, thinks the Fallon who’s been betrayed and crushed and shot at with a poisoned arrow. I long for the optimistic version of myself, but she died the day Lorcan came back to life.”
― Olivia Wildenstein, House of Pounding Hearts