Alyssa Day Quotes

The rebel leader and the priest.
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Emotion kicked logic’s ass. He was going after Quinn.
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I don’t care about his quest for redemption. I don’t want him anywhere near Quinn,” Alaric snarled. “I will leave for St. Louis as soon as we adjourn this meeting.”
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She’s alive, Alaric. She was wounded, but it was minor,” Alexios said, a rough compassion in his voice. A strange weakness raced through Alaric and he had to fight his own lungs to draw breath. Quinn was wounded. “How minor?” he snarled. “Tell me, now.
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Something in Alaric’s chest tightened painfully at the thought of Quinn, but he refused to allow it to overcome him. She would be fine. She had to be fine. If Quinn were to die, he would have no reason to continue existing.
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Lucky for you, since you’re the most dangerous man I’ve ever met. Asane woman would run away from you, not toward you.
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You don’t always have to take it all on, either, you know. The weight of the world. The responsibility for everyone else’s problems. Sometimes it’s okay to let somebody else worry about you.
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So he was frustrated with her. Most people rolled their eyes when they got frustrated. Alaric made dolphins do ballet.
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Never, do you hear me? I will give up my friends, my country, my duty, and even my honor—but never you.
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That seems to be another habit of yours. I get broken, and you fix it.
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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.
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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.
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Wishes have voices sometimes.
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I’ve trusted human women before. Twice. The first died, and the second paid a terrible price and despises me. Never, ever again.
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With Quinn, safety wasn’t even an illusion. It was an impossibility
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Except for Quinn, a dark voice whispered in his mind. A smile from her would be a gift beyond price.
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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.
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I would give a century of my life for a single taste of your lips
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Translation: I’m an idiot.
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Yet where Denal had prayed to Poseidon for death, Alaric was praying to the same god for life.
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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.
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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?
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Quinn,” Alaric said quietly. “His aim is to ignite your temper. Perhaps you might allow me the chance to assist you this one time?” “Fine, but you seem to be making a habit of it,” she shot back. “We can discuss that later, too. Be my guest.”
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He shot across the dark and dank room and gently lowered her slight body, which seemed to weigh almost nothing, until she stood with her back to the wall, as he called a shield of water to block her from any danger.
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I'm a little tired of protecting people who help the ones trying to conquer them
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The priest was Quinn's biggest danger of all.
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You know better than that the only thing about you that scares me isyour absence, Alaric
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No matter what it takes. Make at least part of him live, and I can find the rest of him somehow. Someday.
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Your magic is unbalanced without the soul-meld
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He'd saved her life and killed her trust. He'd thought it a fair trade, at the time.
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