Quotes by Alyssa Day

Im a little tired of protecting people who help the ones trying to conquer them

The priest was Quinns biggest danger of all.

You know better than that the only thing about you that scares me isyour absence, Alaric

No matter what it takes. Make at least part of him live, and I can find the rest of him somehow. Someday.

Your magic is unbalanced without the soul-meld

Hed saved her life and killed her trust. Hed thought it a fair trade, at the time.

Never, do you hear me? I will give up my friends, my country, my duty, and even my honor—but never you.

That seems to be another habit of yours. I get broken, and you fix it.

I am needed here. Atlantis can burn in the nine hells for all I care. I have sacrificed enough to Poseidon. My days as high priest are done.

Finally, she looked up at him and met his gaze, and she gasped. He knew what must be visible on his face and therefore did not try to deny it. “You know,” he rasped out. “You have always known, and you will always know that I am yours, and yet never can be. I am the most powerful high priest Poseidon has ever appointed, and yet I am too weak to hide the depths of my feelings for you.

Wishes have voices sometimes.

I’ve trusted human women before. Twice. The first died, and the second paid a terrible price and despises me. Never, ever again.

With Quinn, safety wasn’t even an illusion. It was an impossibility

Except for Quinn, a dark voice whispered in his mind. A smile from her would be a gift beyond price.

No. Merely a trick of the light. But I had the impression you were seeking something more formal than‘Okay, go for it,’ as Ven would say,” Alaric said, a hint of a smile surfacing. “Looked pretty impressive,didn’t it? It’s a priest thing.

I would give a century of my life for a single taste of your lips

Translation: I’m an idiot.

Yet where Denal had prayed to Poseidon for death, Alaric was praying to the same god for life.

Alaric, go after her. Since Daniel forced the blood bond on her, Quinn has been different. Lost. She deserves better than for you to abandon her and, priest or no, you know it.

Always you, since the moment I first lay my hands on you to heal that bullet wound. SinceI fell inside your soul. Don’t you know that by now, Quinn?