King of Pride Quotes

“For all the girls who think smart is sexy. (And who know the quiet ones are the freakiest).”
― Ana Huang, King of Pride

“I never really lived before you … And I don’t want to imagine living after you.” I dropped my forehead to hers, my chest aching with need and want and a thousand other emotions only she could make me feel. “Stay with me, love. Please.”
― Ana Huang, King of Pride

“How does he look at me?”
“Like he never wants to look away.”
― Ana Huang, King of Pride

“And she looked so damn beautiful it made my heart stop for a second, just long enough to confirm she owned every beat.”
― Ana Huang, King of Pride

“I’d never fallen in love before her. Once I did, I did it the way I did everything else. Completely. Totally. Irrevocably.”
― Ana Huang, King of Pride

“I wish you could see yourself the way I see you. Smart. Strong. Beautiful. Imperfect by your own standards but so wonderfully perfect for me.”
― Ana Huang, King of Pride

“I remember everything when it comes to you.”
― Ana Huang, King of Pride

“In that moment, I wanted to hunt down every person who’d ever made her feel like she was a failure, a disappointment, or anything less than fucking perfect.”
― Ana Huang, King of Pride

“You have five minutes, sweetheart, or you’ll find out firsthand that I’m not always the gentleman you think I am.”
― Ana Huang, King of Pride

“I love you, Isabella Valencia.” Simple and raw, stripped of all pretense except for the naked truth that had been staring me in the face all this time. “Every single part of you, from your laugh to your humor to the way you can’t stop talking about condoms.” One of those laughs I loved so much slipped out, thick with emotion. A smile flashed across my face before I sobered again. “You think you’re broken, but I wish you could see yourself the way I see you. Smart. Strong. Beautiful. Imperfect by your own standards but so wonderfully perfect for me.”
― Ana Huang, King of Pride

“trying to stay away from her was like asking the ocean to stop kissing the shore. Impossible.”
― Ana Huang, King of Pride

“Come on. Live a little, Young. I promise it won’t kill you.” “No, but you might,” he muttered.”
― Ana Huang, King of Pride

“She was everything I shouldn’t want, but it didn’t matter.
I wanted her anyway. So much so, I couldn’t breathe.”
― Ana Huang, King of Pride

“We’ve been through some dark times, but you were always the brightest part of my life.”
― Ana Huang, King of Pride

“She’d touched down in my life like a tornado, gotten my drink wrong during her first shift at Valhalla, and hadn’t left my thoughts since.”
― Ana Huang, King of Pride

“It’s about love, and there’s nothing reasonable about love.”
― Ana Huang, King of Pride

“when he took off his glasses and tossed them to the side before kissing me again,”
― Ana Huang, King of Pride

“Isabella.” I forced a swallow down my throat. “Yes?” “Shut up and let me kiss you.”
― Ana Huang, King of Pride

“That there’s no going back after this.” His admission was a warm breath on my skin. “You should’ve never let me take you, Isabella. Because now that I have, I won’t be able to let you go.”
― Ana Huang, King of Pride

“Typical Volkov.”
― Ana Huang, King of Pride

“I couldn’t have done it without you.”

“Yes, you could have.” His mouth skimmed mine in a gentle kiss. “But I’m glad we were able to do it together.”

He’d been there through the late nights, the caffeine crashes, and the mid-edit breakdowns. Yes, I could’ve survived them on my own, but he made the journey so much better. He always did.”
― Ana Huang, King of Pride

“I’m afraid not.” Kai’s voice could’ve melted butter. “I don’t like sharing.”
― Ana Huang, King of Pride

“Her sentence cut off with another hiccupping sob. The sound ripped through me like a bullet, and I would’ve given up anything—my title, my company, my entire legacy—if it meant I could soothe her hurt for just one minute.”
― Ana Huang, King of Pride

“I’m translating the book into Latin.” He flipped the page and scribbled another sentence without looking up or touching his drink. “Why?” “It’s relaxing.” I blinked, certain I’d heard him wrong. “You think translating a five-hundred-page novel into Latin by hand is relaxing?”
― Ana Huang, King of Pride

“I’m never going to stop being me, Kai, and I don’t want you to stop being you. So how can we be together when we belong to separate worlds?”

“By building one of our own,” I said simply.”
― Ana Huang, King of Pride

“Here’s the thing about humans. We’ll almost always throw aside common sense in favor of instant gratification.”
― Ana Huang, King of Pride

“You think you’re broken, but I wish you could see yourself the way I see you. Smart. Strong. Beautiful. Imperfect by your own standards but so wonderfully perfect for me.”
― Ana Huang, King of Pride

“Kai was the epitome of aristocratic sophistication, and he’d nailed the British stoicism that went with it.”
― Ana Huang, King of Pride

“You think you're broken, but I wish you could see yourself the way I see you. Smart. Strong. Beautiful. Imperfect by your own standards but so wonderfully perfect for me.”
― Ana Huang, King of Pride

“Do you think I’m boring, Isabella?” The question came out soft. Dark. Suggestive, like he was ruminating over all the ways he could prove me wrong. It trailed down my spine and left delicious little bursts of electricity in its wake.”
― Ana Huang, King of Pride