Love Quotes
37"You fly into night, and when all grows dark, remember who you are. Remember you are never alone. The hopes and dreams of our people go with you. Remember home.” She pulls me down to kiss my forehead. “Remember you are loved."
- Deanna O'Lykos
Morning Star, ch. 39: The Heart, p. 306
"Darrow’s wife…” Sevro croaks, larynx damaged. “His wife,” he says more deeply. “And my father never met. But they shared a dream. One of a free world. Not built on corpses, but on hope. On the love that binds us, not the hate that divides. We have lost many. But we are not broken. We are not defeated. We fight on. But we do not fight for revenge for those who have died. We fight for each other. We fight for those who live. We fight for those who don’t yet live."
- Sevro au Barca
Morning Star, ch. 54: The Goblin and the Gold, p. 428
"She loves you, you know,” Daxo says. “She’s just afraid of losing you, so she holds you far away.” He smiles to himself. “Funny how we are, isn’t it?"
- Daxo au Telemanus
Morning Star, ch. 55: The Ignoble House Barca, p. 436
"Love is for the weak. The only thing you and I have in common is our hunger. You think that I cannot be satisfied. That I always yearn for more. But look in the mirror and you’ll see the same man staring back at you. Tell your little Red friends what you like. But I know you lost yourself among us. You yearned to be Gold. I saw it in your eyes at the Institute. I saw that fever on Luna when I proposed that we should rule. I saw it when you rode that triumphal chariot up to the steps of the citadel. It’s that hunger that makes us forever alone."
- Adrius au Augustus
Morning Star, ch. 56: In Time, p. 441
"My wife is not as fickle as a flame. She is an ocean. I knew from the first that I cannot own her, cannot tame her, but I am the only storm that moves her depths and stirs her tides. And that is more than enough."
- Darrow O'Lykos
Iron Gold, ch. 3: Darrow, p. 26
"I know it may be impossible to believe now, when everything is dark and broken, but you will survive this pain, little one. Pain is a memory. You will live and you will struggle and you will find joy. And you will remember your family from this breath to your dying days, because love does not fade. Love is the stars, and its light carries on long after death."
- Kavax au Telemanus
Iron Gold, ch. 17: Lyria, p. 149
"He turned to me at the foot of the stairs and told me he loved me. He’d done it a thousand times before. But it was different. ‘The boy has fled,’ he said. ‘In his place, I see a man.’ It was the first time I felt I deserved his love, to be his son. I realized how lucky I was, how blessed I was to have a father like him. In a world of terrible men, he was patient, kind. Noble in the way the stories told us to be as boys."
- Cassius au Bellona
Iron Gold, ch. 40: Lysander, p. 384
"what luck I have to call a man like you my son. It is an honor you cannot understand. One day you will have children and if you have just one who is as dear as you are to me, you will understand how blessed my life has been. Stay true to your own heart, no matter the cost."
- Romulus au Raa
Iron Gold, ch. 62: Lysander, p. 579
"These ten years I’ve been looking for the man I married. Now I see him again. The young Moon Lord who burned a city for a girl of the pearl shore. Romulus the Bold. Dido of Numidae. What a pair they were. What an end they had."
- Dido au Raa
Iron Gold, ch. 62: Lysander, p. 581
"This is not the end. I loved you before I ever met you. I will love you until the sun dies. And when it does, I will love you in the darkness. Goodbye, wife."
- Romulus au Raa
Iron Gold, ch. 62: Lysander, p. 582
"Thank you for helping me. I have never had a friend so small be so big."
- Volga Fjorgan
Dark Age, ch. 88: Lyria: Mercury Has Fallen, p. 715
"Love may give one wings, but everything burns when it flies too close to the sun."