Lord of Gold and Glory Quotes

“I can’t help feeling we might just be quite perfect together. So don’t ever worry … there’s no comparison. You’re incomparable. And tell me if you ever doubt that, because it will be my pleasure to remind you a hundred times more.”
― Lisette Marshall, Lord of Gold and Glory

“What’s the sense in winning a war if you’ve become the evil you were fighting by the time you triumph?”
― Lisette Marshall, Lord of Gold and Glory

“I can’t save you, Creon. But I can love you to death while you save yourself.”
― Lisette Marshall, Lord of Gold and Glory

“Did you know?” I murmured, lifting my hand to run my fingers through his wet hair. “You’re all mine.”
“I knew before you knew.”
― Lisette Marshall, Lord of Gold and Glory

“Do not ever forget what I would do to keep you safe.”
― Lisette Marshall, Lord of Gold and Glory

“I’m glad you’re back,’ I whispered. I’ll always come back, Em. He buried his face in my hair, his breath faltering for a moment as he kissed the crown of my head. I’m sorry I made you doubt that. I’ll always come back for you.”
― Lisette Marshall, Lord of Gold and Glory

“Hell, I can’t save you, Creon. But I can love you to death while you save yourself.”
― Lisette Marshall, Lord of Gold and Glory

“It would have been helpful, after all, if there were any books to be found with titles such as Ten Ways To Quietly Get Rid Of Murderous Alves or The Lady’s Guide To Dealing With Dejected Demons.”
― Lisette Marshall, Lord of Gold and Glory

“You’ve never been stupid. Angry, but never stupid.”
― Lisette Marshall, Lord of Gold and Glory

“every next stroke sent another bolt of lightning into the very heart of me,”
― Lisette Marshall, Lord of Gold and Glory

“His thumb rushed along my slippery lips”
― Lisette Marshall, Lord of Gold and Glory

“It’s so gods-damned easy to get drunk on you, Em – on the way you feel about me. As if maybe I’m a soul worth saving after all.”
― Lisette Marshall, Lord of Gold and Glory

“You need to understand there's nothing gentle about me," he interrupted. "Nothing tender, nothing kind. Do not mistake me for something mortal just because I'm trying to keep the monster down for you. You're courting darkness, and I'm so very frightened of eclipsing your light.”
― Lisette Marshall, Lord of Gold and Glory

“I do miss my voice sometimes, Em.

My mouth went dry. ‘What do you—’

I’d kill to tell you just once how senselessly in love with you I am. To be able to whisper it in your ear at night. His fingers moved with breathless urgency between us, his other hand tight on my hip. This gods-damned silence has never destroyed me the way it does with you.”
― Lisette Marshall, Lord of Gold and Glory

“Ten minutes to prepare for war. I’d make do with it.”
― Lisette Marshall, Lord of Gold and Glory

“I’ve never wanted anyone to be happy the way I want you to be, and you’re telling me to let you walk straight into the arms of some murderer with a monster’s heart?”
“Yes, because I can think for myself, you self-castigating idiot!” … “Because you’re supposed to respect my wishes, and if my wishes are to throw myself into some murderer’s arms, then who the hell are you to think you know better?”
― Lisette Marshall, Lord of Gold and Glory