Tethered Quotes

“She wasn’t pretty. That was too simple of a word. She was a ray of sunshine in the middle of a dark night. A cool breeze amid a storm. The first flower that bloomed after a long winter. She was an infusion of light into the abyss that was my soul.”
― Elayna R. Gallea, Tethered

“I thought it was far more artful to use creative words than an outright curse, but sometimes good, old-fashioned curse words seemed to fit the situation perfectly.”
― Elayna R. Gallea, Tethered

“Make no mistake, darling, you are mine. My wife. My princess. Your enemies are my enemies. Your problems are now my problems. I will destroy anyone who threatens you. I will tear them limb from limb, painting the snow with the blood that runs through their veins before presenting you with the stakes used to pierce their blackened hearts.”
― Elayna R. Gallea, Tethered

“Luna Montquartier, beautiful wife of mine. I was never expecting you, but now you're here. I don't want anything else. I swear to you that no matter what comes our way, I will protect you.”
― Elayna R. Gallea, Tethered

“I was being reckless, but I wasn’t stupid.”
― Elayna R. Gallea, Tethered

“People were brave every day, even when they felt like their lives couldn’t go on.”
― Elayna R. Gallea, Tethered

“Entire worlds were made and destroyed as we stared at each other.”
― Elayna R. Gallea, Tethered

“If something couldn’t be measured or seen or touched or tasted, was it real? I didn’t think so.”
― Elayna R. Gallea, Tethered

“Suffering? How are you suffering?”
― Elayna R. Gallea, Tethered

“Do you know that when I was young, they used to call me the Ice Queen?” A rush of anger flooded through me, and I clenched my fists. “Who called you that?”
― Elayna R. Gallea, Tethered

“I ran my tongue over her soft flesh. Goosebumps pebbled her flesh, and she shivered as I licked the cut. As soon as I tasted her blood, my legs buckled as an overwhelming flavor burst into my mouth. It took everything I had in me to remain upright. Luna was unlike anything I had ever tasted. Her blood was like sunshine and golden wheat, mixed together. It took every ounce of self-control I had built up over the past three centuries not to break my promise and enjoy the feast waiting for me beneath her skin.”
― Elayna R. Gallea, Tethered

“I could safely say that coffee was one of my favorite parts of life.”
― Elayna R. Gallea, Tethered

“I want you to live so we can explore this connection between us. Please.”
― Elayna R. Gallea, Tethered

“Lists were good. Lists were doable. If I worked on the list, I didn’t need to think about anything else.”
― Elayna R. Gallea, Tethered

“Death was my companion. It was in the very shadows I wielded. It pulsed through my veins, singing a lullaby as I drifted off to sleep.”
― Elayna R. Gallea, Tethered

“I need you,” he whispered, his voice so rough it was barely more than a breath. “All of you. You’re driving me mad. The way you taste. Your smell. Sitting across from you in the library for the past twenty-one days, sleeping in the same room as you, and refraining from touching you has been the most agonizing experience of my entire existence.”
― Elayna R. Gallea, Tethered

“Old things long forgotten are stirring. The gods are angry and the balance is broken. The harbinger is the key. Promise me you will keep her safe.”
― Elayna R. Gallea, Tethered

“Good gods, you’re an absolute idiot. Why is it that males always think that females are out to get them?”
― Elayna R. Gallea, Tethered

“he eyed the weapon in Luna’s hands. “Is that really necessary, Princess?” “It is,” I growled. “If it makes her happy, she can keep it.”
― Elayna R. Gallea, Tethered

“If there was one thing I had learned over the course of my life, it was that while the romantic love of ballads did not exist, bravery certainly did. People were brave every day, even when they felt like their lives couldn’t go on.”
― Elayna R. Gallea, Tethered

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― Elayna R. Gallea, Tethered

“But if I waited for the right time for everything, there was a very real chance life would pass me by. There was no right time in life. It was just the here and now.”
― Elayna R. Gallea, Tethered

“I remembered what Sebastian said about the Binding. My blood was the only one that would give him what he needed.”
― Elayna R. Gallea, Tethered

“The scholarly approach kept me calm, giving me the strength to push through the panic.”
― Elayna R. Gallea, Tethered

“Life was funny like that. Choices we could have made, things we could have done, always seemed to come when the most horrible of realities faced us head-on.”
― Elayna R. Gallea, Tethered

“It did not take a scientist to deduce that we were no longer inside.”
― Elayna R. Gallea, Tethered

“He could not claim me like some uneducated being who hailed from the snowy mountains of Eleyta.”
― Elayna R. Gallea, Tethered