A Light in the Flame Quotes

“I never wanted to love. Not until you,liessa.”
― Jennifer L. Armentrout, A Light in the Flame

“I would have loved you if I could have. There would’ve been no stopping me.”
― Jennifer L. Armentrout, A Light in the Flame

“I can sense your need. Feel it. Taste it. You’re drowning in it.” His eyes slammed shut. “I’m fucking drowning in it.”
A sharp dart of desire sliced through me. “Then drown with me.”
― Jennifer L. Armentrout, A Light in the Flame

“Why did you visit my lake if you had this?”
Nyktos was quiet for so long that I looked at him. He was still staring at the pool. “Because it was your lake.”
― Jennifer L. Armentrout, A Light in the Flame

“What do you feel for me?”
Nyktos was silent and then tipped his head back to look at me. Eather pulsed intensely behind his pupils. “I feel too many things. Curiosity and excitement that remind me of what I think yearning must feel like. Need.Want,”he said roughly, his voice low. “Amusement at times. Sometimes, even anger. But alwaysawe.I am always in awe of you. I could keep going, but most of all, what I feel is the closest thing to peace I’ve ever experienced.”
― Jennifer L. Armentrout, A Light in the Flame

“Daddy Nyktos is not happy,” Ector murmured.”
― Jennifer L. Armentrout, A Light in the Flame

“Needing me or anyone to look out for you doesn’t mean you’re weak, that you can’t defend yourself, or that you’re afraid. We all need someone to watch over us.”
― Jennifer L. Armentrout, A Light in the Flame

“Forgiveness benefits the forgiver, and it’s easy. Understanding is acceptance, and that is far harder.”
― Jennifer L. Armentrout, A Light in the Flame

“Just because someone shares the same bloodline as you doesn’t mean they deserve your time or thoughts.”
― Jennifer L. Armentrout, A Light in the Flame

“Fuck,” Nyktos growled, his breath hot against my cheek. “You will be the death of me.”
― Jennifer L. Armentrout, A Light in the Flame

“Because you just tore apart a god with your hands, and I found that…kind of hot.”
― Jennifer L. Armentrout, A Light in the Flame

“For the first time in my life, I felt like I was more than a destiny I’d never agreed to. More than the embers I carried within me.
I felt like…more.”
― Jennifer L. Armentrout, A Light in the Flame

“I will gladly suffer anything Kolis dishes out as long as my blood is spilled instead of yours.”
― Jennifer L. Armentrout, A Light in the Flame

“Even if you had your kardia, Ash, there was no guarantee you’d love me—” “Yes, there is.” His eyes were wide and wild as he caught my wrists. “I would’ve loved you if I could have. There would’ve been no stopping me.”
― Jennifer L. Armentrout, A Light in the Flame

“You never know how much you can take until you can’t take more,”
― Jennifer L. Armentrout, A Light in the Flame

“He felt…gods, my head fell back. He felt like we were made for each other.”
― Jennifer L. Armentrout, A Light in the Flame

“Heartmates usually only occur between two people whose unions are linked to some great purpose.”
― Jennifer L. Armentrout, A Light in the Flame

“That is what infuriates me. From the first moment I saw you, you’ve behaved as if your life holds no value for you.”
― Jennifer L. Armentrout, A Light in the Flame

“Fate just sees all the possible outcomes of free will.”
― Jennifer L. Armentrout, A Light in the Flame

“Are you feeling unwell?” Rhain blurted out.
“I feel quite fine,” I told him. “And I know why everyone keeps asking me that.”
“Keeps?” Nyktos questioned.
“Orphine asked if I was fine about two dozen times,” I said, exaggerating.
“Probably because you’re being…” Rhain frowned. “Polite.”
My expression mirrored his. “I don’t know why that would make anyone think I’m unwell.”
“Have you met yourself?” Rhain countered.”
― Jennifer L. Armentrout, A Light in the Flame

“Rise for the One who is born of Blood and Ash, the Light and the Fire, and the Brightest Moon,”
― Jennifer L. Armentrout, A Light in the Flame

“every choice to do or not do something creates a chain reaction. You can’t help but wonder exactly how much is preordained.” “You’ll drive yourself mad thinking about that,” Nektas replied. “But none of your choices are preordained. Fate is not absolute. Fate is only a series of possibilities.” “How can you be sure of that?” I asked. “Because I was there when mortals were created. I lent my fire to breathe life into their flesh,” he reminded me. “Mortals were created in the image of the Primals, but they were also given more.” “The ability to feel emotion.” “And free will,” he said. “Fate doesn’t usurp that, no matter how much the Arae probably wish they did in some situations. Fate just sees all the possible outcomes of free will.”
― Jennifer L. Armentrout, A Light in the Flame

“I never wanted to love. Not until you, liessa.”
― Jennifer L. Armentrout, A Light in the Flame

“Maia,” he said, speaking of the Primal of Love, Beauty, and Fertility. “I had her remove my kardia.” Penellaphe gasped, her eyes widening with shock. “Good Fates,” she whispered. “I have known none who’ve done that.” I was obviously missing something and also getting tired of asking questions. “What is a kardia?” “It’s the piece of the soul—the spark—that all living creatures are born and die with. It allows them to love another not of their blood irrevocably, selflessly.” Penellaphe swallowed. “It must have been terribly painful to have that torn from you. To truly be unable to love.”
― Jennifer L. Armentrout, A Light in the Flame

“Sotoria didn’t belong to him then, and Seraphena doesn’t belong to him now.” Seraphena. I could count on one hand how many people called me by my full name, and none of them spoke it like he did. As if it were a prayer and a reckoning.”
― Jennifer L. Armentrout, A Light in the Flame

“I will not allow any harm to come to you.”
“I don’t need you to keep me safe.”
Thick lashes lifted, and those wisps of eather fragmenting the silver in his eyes were brighter than I’d ever seen them. “But you do.”
― Jennifer L. Armentrout, A Light in the Flame

“I belted out a quick, sharp laugh. “You’re a viktor named Vikter?”
― Jennifer L. Armentrout, A Light in the Flame

“For the one born of the blood and the ash, the bearer of two crowns, and the bringer of life to mortal, god, and draken. A silver beast with blood seeping from its jaws of fire, bathed in the flames of the brightest moon to ever be birthed, will become one,”
― Jennifer L. Armentrout, A Light in the Flame

“Perhaps there is a silver beast and a brightest moon. Two. Not one,” he rambled. “Two then one.”
― Jennifer L. Armentrout, A Light in the Flame

“A series of luminous golden swirls swept over the top of my hand and between my thumb and pointer finger, sweeping in several whirls along the lines of my palm. I looked at Ash’s hand. He bore the same mark as I did.”
― Jennifer L. Armentrout, A Light in the Flame