Firstborn Quotes

“Fine,” I said. “I’m very sorry. The next time one of us gets kidnapped and the other is chosen to be carved up like a family roast and forced into an experimental ritual, we’ll do everything we can to drag you into the disaster with us.” Bryn nodded as if this was a perfectly rational promise for me to make. “Good.”
― Isla Frost, Firstborn: The Complete Series

“Gus it is then.” Gus sighed.”
― Isla Frost, Firstborn: The Complete Series

“Galladrius Mordenaare Kindroth Sorfildur. I was never going to remember that. “Hmm, those godlike beings that named you had a lot of time on their hands, did they? What does it mean?” Illustrious Slayer of All That Must Be Smote. “Well, nice to meet you,” I lied. My sword made a sniffing sound. I wish I could express a similar sentiment. I ignored this and plowed on. “I think I’m gonna go ahead and call you Gus.” Gus? Really? It sounds most uncouth. “I could make it Mord the Sword if you’d prefer.” Do that and I’ll fillet you myself.”
― Isla Frost, Firstborn: The Complete Series

“Dad. His eyes were shining with wet. He had never held me at arm’s length, never put distance between us. Instead, it was if he’d tried to pour all the love he held for my lifetime into these past seventeen years. I was his favorite. He told me so all the time.”
― Isla Frost, Firstborn: The Complete Series

“ambition. I wanted to protect her wonderful, gentle soul and her warm and tender heart too. So I would lead the way. And anything that tried to get to Ameline would have to do so over my dead body. Not that I told her that.”
― Isla Frost, Firstborn: The Complete Series

“shining with wet. He had never held me at arm’s length, never put distance between us. Instead, it was if he’d tried to pour all the love he held for my lifetime into these past seventeen years.”
― Isla Frost, Firstborn: The Complete Series