With A Vengeance Quotes

“I think I’ll always want to die. Some part of me, the weaker part,”
― Freydís Moon, With a Vengeance

“I’m alive because I survived myself, I guess.”
― Freydís Moon, With a Vengeance

“It was funnier how often Eli had to remind himself that loving them had been accidental. Because sometimes, most of the time, Kye felt perfectly placed.”
― Freydís Moon, With a Vengeance

“But Eligos had existed before Eden. He’d seen a billion different versions of beauty. And Kye Lovato was fucking gorgeous.”
― Freydís Moon, With a Vengeance

“You were a miracle,” they murmured, smiling against his mouth.  Eli flashed a wicked, handsome grin. “And you were my revival.”
― Freydís Moon, With a Vengeance

“I’m not a prize.”  “You’re the prize.”
― Freydís Moon, With a Vengeance

“Sometimes I think you forget what I am.”  “I never forget.” The lie came easily.  Demon, false deity, fallen angel.  Irreplaceable lover, possessive elitist, wild-eyed man.”
― Freydís Moon, With a Vengeance

“but enough to remind them that their mother had been a life raft to anyone and everyone but them. The dredges of society had found sanctuary with Rosa yet her own offspring had been held to impossible standards, expected to be righteous and pure, selfless and sacrificial. They had grown inside her, so she’d expected them to be exactly what she’d anticipated—beautiful woman; loving daughter; caretaker of the family matriarch.”
― Freydís Moon, With a Vengeance

“He was deadly handsome. Like an expensive gun. Like a jaguar.”
― Freydís Moon, With a Vengeance

“Eligos, duke of Hell, caring for Kye, a nobody he’d found praying in a rundown apartment? No. They certainly wouldn’t let themself believe that. If they did, they’d have to face the love nestled like a wasp in their chest; hate chipped away and replaced by antennae, wings, stinger.”
― Freydís Moon, With a Vengeance

“We’re magical fuckbuddies,” they snapped.  Laughter barked from him. “Is that right?”  “What the hell would you call it?”  He crossed the room in a puff of smoke and placed his lips close to their ear. “The start of a really sexy cult.”
― Freydís Moon, With a Vengeance

“You asked what it’s like to fall from grace, but you already know the feeling. My father abandoned me—our father. But I could’ve stayed, could’ve been obedient. I chose to fall; you chose to leave. You asked me how that works, and it’s really fuckin’ simple. I saw the fault in something infallible—a lot of us did—and I thought I’d be better suited with the sinners. That’s all.”
― Freydís Moon, With a Vengeance

“Let me break you,” he whispered. “You’ll come back together better than you are now.”
― Freydís Moon, With a Vengeance

“The house was a corpse, but everything that’d once called it home still lived, somehow, wandering through its skeleton like mice in a castle.”
― Freydís Moon, With a Vengeance

“You prayed for deliverance. Begged God to send a message. Please, Lord, hear me.” Their voice overlayed atop his, tumbling unnaturally from his lips like a warped recording. He wrapped the bandage around their arm, over the curve of their thumb, and lifted his eyes to meet theirs. “But I heard you first.”  Kye swallowed. “And you are?”  “Not God.”
― Freydís Moon, With a Vengeance

“But they’d gone home because home couldn’t hurt them when it was hollow, right? Home couldn’t crawl under their skin if it was carved out like a Jack-o-Lantern and left to rot. Couldn’t break against them like it used to, and demand the impossible from them, and call them wrong.”
― Freydís Moon, With a Vengeance

“How could someone rested understand their sleeplessness? How could someone satiated commiserate with their hunger?”
― Freydís Moon, With a Vengeance

“Boss babe material.”
― Freydís Moon, With a Vengeance

“Home is a carried thing. Given and taken.”
― Freydís Moon, With a Vengeance