Alas de Hierro

“My house. My chair. My woman.
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― Rebecca Yarros, Iron Flame
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“I do. I’m sorry if you expect me to do the noble thing. I warned you. I’m not sweet or soft or kind,
and you fell anyway. This is what you get, Violet— me. The good, the bad, the unforgivable. All of
it. I am yours.” His arm wraps around the small of my back, holding me steady and close. “You want
to know something true? Something real? I love you. I’m in love with you. I have been since the
night the snow fell in your hair and you kissed me for the first time. I’m grateful my life is tied to
yours because it means I won’t have to face a day without you in it. My heart only beats as long as
yours does, and when you die, I’ll meet Malek at your side. It’s a damned good thing that you love
me, too, because you’re stuck with me in this life and every other that could possibly follow.”
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“Because love, at its root, is hope. Hope for tomorrow. Hope for what could be. Hope that the
someone you’ve entrusted your everything to will cradle and protect it. And hope? That shit is
harder to kill than a dragon.”
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“Violence, remember it's only the body that's fragile. You are unbreakable.”
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“The first year is when some of us lose our lives. The second year is when the rest of us lose our
humanity.”
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“Stop bringing logic into an emotional argument.”

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“You must save yourself," Tairn demands. "I chose you not as my next but as my last, and should
you fall, then I will follow.”
tags: beautiful, tairn, tragic
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“You’re my gravity. Nothing in my world works without you.” “Gravity,” he whispers, a slow,
beautiful smile curving his mouth. “The one force we can never escape,” I tease.”
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“I love you,” I whisper. “You could throw my entire world into upheaval, and I would still love you.
You could keep secrets, run a revolution, frustrate the shit out of me, probably ruin me, and I would
still love you. I can’t make it stop. I don’t want to. You’re my gravity. Nothing in my world works
without you.”
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“My heart only beats as long as yours does, and when you die, I’ll meet Malek at your side.”
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“How long do you think it takes for someone to fall out of love?” He studies the skyline. “A day? A
month? I’m asking because I don’t have any experience with it.”
What the fuck? I fold my arms to keep from giving in to the impulse to jab him with the sharp point
of my elbow.
“I’m asking,” he continues, his throat working as he swallows, “because I think it will take you all of
a heartbeat once you know.”
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“There’s nowhere in existence you could go that I wouldn’t find you, remember?”
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“I think I liked you better before you decided that feelings were something we need to discuss.”
“Sorry to inconvenience you, but this year the role of Violet Sorrengail”—he points to me—“ will be
played by Xaden Riorson”—he taps his chest—“ who will drag her, kicking and screaming if he has
to, into a real relationship with real discussions, because he refuses to lose her again. If I have to
evolve, you do, too.”
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“You’re capable of hurting me in ways I’m not sure you’ve even begun to fathom, Violet. I might be
skilled enough to land a death blow, but you alone have the power to fucking destroy me.”
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“Secrets make for poor leverage. They die with the people who keep them.”
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“Good idea. I could use a snack.” Andarna’s tone is indecently excited. “We do not eat our allies,”
Tairn lectures. “You never let me have any fun.”
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“Love doesn’t even have the decency to die. It just transforms into abject misery.”
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“I'm just as reckless for you as you are for me.”

tags: love, quotes, reckless, recklessness, violet-sorrengail, xaden-riorson
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“I could torch him if you would like,” Tairn offers. “But you do seem attached.”
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“Scratch her eyes out,” Andarna suggests. “Really. The eyes are the softest tissue. Just jab your
thumbs in there—”
“Andarna! Use some common sense,” Tairn snaps. “The kneecaps are a much easier target.”
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“I love you. The world does not exist for me beyond you.”
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“Touch me and I swear to the gods, I’ll cut your fucking hands off and let the quadrant sort you out
in the next round of challenges, Dain Aetos.”
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“I bet we get seven inches tonight.” “Maybe more if you’re good.”

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“You want to know something true? Something real? I love you. I’m in love with you. I have been
since the night the snow fell in your hair and you kissed me for the first time. I’m grateful my life is
tied to yours because it means I won’t have to face a day without you in it. My heart only beats as
long as yours does, and when you die, I’ll meet Malek at your side. It’s a damned good thing that
you love me, too, because you’re stuck with me in this life and every other that could possibly
follow.” My lips part. It’s all I’ve ever wanted, ever needed to hear. “I do love you,” I admit in a
whisper.”
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“You do not have the right to burn what is mine.”

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“She made it,” I whisper up to Liam.”

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“I chose you not as my next, but as my last, and should you fall, then I will follow.”
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“But I’m begging you, Violet. Don’t offer me your body unless you’re offering me everything. I
want you more than I want to fuck you. I want those three little words back.”
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“I haven’t exactly made it easy for you to trust me,” he says, stroking his thumb over my cheek. “I’m
still not making it easy. But you and I are not easy people. What we build together has to be strong
enough to withstand a storm. Or a war. Easy isn’t going to give that to us.”
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“If you didn't figure it out, you weren't worthy of knowing." She huffs. "I waited six hundred and
fifty years to hatch. Waited until your eighteenth summer, when I heard our elders talk of a weakling
daughter of their general, the girl forecasted to become the head of the scribes, and I knew. You
would have the mind of a scribe and the heart of a rider. You would be mine." She leans into my
hand. "You are as unique as I am. We want the same things."
"You couldn't have known I would be a rider."
"And yet, here we are."
A thousand questions go through my head, none of which we have the time for, so I give her exactly
what I wanted–to be seen for who and what she is.
"You are not a black dragon, or any of the six that we know of. You're a seventh breed."
"Yes." Her eyes widen in excitement.”
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“I can handle pain.” I turn toward her. “I live in pain. I practically built a house there and set up a
whole economy. I can take whatever they dish out.”
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“With trembling hands, I unfold the paper—and smile. Xaden Riorson wrote me a letter.”
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“Who the fuck’s flight jacket are you wearing?”

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“People are trying to kill you?” Jesinia’s brow knits. “It’s Thursday.”
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“Fucking Dain.”
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“Because you didn’t fall for an ordinary rider. You fell for the leader of a revolution,” he whispers,
the sound so soft it barely carries to my ears.”
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“I meant what I said on the parapet. Even when I’m not with you, there’s only you.”
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“I will happily watch Aretia burn to the fucking ground again if it means you live.”
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“My gaze finds Xaden’s in under a second, and it’s not because he’s seated at the center of the table,
or because he’s one of only two men dressed in black, or even because he’s turned around as if he
sensed me coming—which he probably did. I locate him within a heartbeat because he’s the center
of my gravity.”
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“You still don’t trust me, and that’s all right. I told you I’m not in this for a battle. I’m winning the
damned war. I’m a fucking fool for saying this, but when haven’t I been a fool when it comes to
you?”
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“We do not eat our allies. —Tairn’s personal addendum to the Book of Brennan
as quoted by Cadet Violet Sorrengail”
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“That trick you mentioned? You know, with the fingers?” A slow smile spreads across my face.
“Thanks.”
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“Words are just as capable of eviscerating someone as a blade,”

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“Well, this is awkward,” Xaden calls out. And every head in the courtyard turns our direction.”
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“You should take her at her word. In fact…” Xaden doesn’t bother to lower his voice. “If you don’t,
I’ll take personal offense. She made her choice, and it wasn’t you. It will never be you. I know it.
She knows it. The whole quadrant knows it.”
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“I’m more than willing to let you burn me.”

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“To which I will remind you that not a single dragon chose her. You were selected by two.”
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“Me? Argue with you about books? I only pick fights I can win.”
― Rebecca Yarros, Iron Flame, Iron Flame
tags: xaden-to-violence
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“The four of us stick together. That’s the deal. We make it to graduation, no matter what.”
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“You love me,” he whispers. “Stop reminding me. I thought we agreed not to fight tonight.” I
snuggle in deeper, his warmth lulling me into that sweet middle space between wakefulness and
oblivion. “Maybe you’re not the one I’m reminding.”
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“Yeah, well, it cost me you.”

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“I love you. I’m in love with you. I have been since the night the snow fell in your hair and you
kissed me for the first time. I’m grateful my life is tied to yours because it means I won’t have to
face a day without you in it. My heart only beats as long as yours does, and when you die, I’ll meet
Malek at your side.”
tags: violet-sorrengail, xaden-riorson
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“Now cease this line of thinking. It does not serve to make you stronger.”
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“Turns out, falling in love with someone only brings that blissful high all the poets talk about if they
love you back. And if they keep secrets that jeopardize everyone and everything you hold dear?
Love doesn't even have the decency to die. It just transforms into abject misery. That's what this ache
in my chest is: misery.
Because love, at its root, is hope. Hope for tomorrow. Hope for what could be. Hope that the
someone you've entrusted your everything to will cradle and protect it. And hope? That shit is harder
to kill than a dragon.”
tags: violet-sorrengail, xaden-and-violet, xaden-riorson
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“Remember it's only your body thats fragile. You are unbreakable.
- Xaden Riorson”
tags: fourth-wing, iron-flame, violet-sorrengail, xaden-riorson
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“I need to know you’ll be here. That no matter what happens, you’ll come back so we can talk it out
or fight it out.” His gaze drops to my mouth, then skims over my features. My heart clenches, and I
slide my hand along his chest, around his ribs, to his back, and then I hold on.
“Done.”
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“Home. Gods, he tastes like home.”

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“My love isn’t fickle.” I shake my head slowly, keeping my gaze locked on his. “So you’d better
live, because I’m ready to ask you all the fucking questions.”
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“Violence, remember it’s only the body that’s fragile. You are unbreakable.”
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“Because love, at its root, is hope. Hope for tomorrow. Hope for what could be. Hope that the
someone you’ve entrusted your everything to will cradle and protect it.”
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“All this time, you’ve been convincing everyone you’re the hero, and now you’ll be the villain…
especially in her story.”
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“We do not eat our allies”

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“I go where you go.”

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“Tell me something real.” It comes out as a plea, just like it did last year.
He sighs and curls around me. “I know who you really are, Violet. Even when you keep things from
me, I know you,” he promises.”
tags: violet-sorrengail, xaden-riorson
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“Can you fly her back to the Vale?” I ask Tairn. “She’s…huge.” “I’ve killed lesser riders for that
kind of insult.” “So dramatic.”
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“Just remember who trained me.”

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“Shit. What is this? Jealousy? Anxiety? Insecurity? “All three,”

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“I want the woman I fell for. It kills me every time I have to keep my hands off you, every night I lie
awake next to you, both blessed and damned with the memory of how hot, how wet, how fucking
perfect you feel when I’m losing myself in you.”
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“In that moment, you wielded him, our unyielding, uncompromising, headstrong heir apparent.”
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“I lift my flight goggles as Tairn walks off with Sgaeyl, their tails swishing in rhythm. It’s a little
thing, but it makes me smile.”
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“pull me in like a moth to a fucking flame.”

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“I want you more than my next breath, but I can’t fuck you into looking at me like you used to. I
refuse to use sex as a tool to get you back.” He takes my hand and presses it to my chest. “Not when
I want to be here.”
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“Who did you kill?" She directs the question at Xaden.

"Everyone" he responds unapologetically.
She nods, then drops her blade.”
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“Aren’t you going to tell me how brilliant that idea was?” Tairn scoffs. “I chose you last year for that
brilliance, and now you’d like to be congratulated like it’s something new? How odd.”
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“Whatever is going through that beautiful mind, I’m here for it.”
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“Xaden loves me. He chose me. I will be the most powerful rider of my generation.”
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“I do. I’m sorry if you expect me to do the noble thing. I warned you. I’m not sweet or soft or kind,
and you fell anyway. This is what you get, Violet—me. The good, the bad, the unforgivable. All of
it. I am yours.” His arm wraps around the small of my back, holding me steady and close. “You want
to know something true? Something real? I love you. I’m in love with you. I have been since the
night the snow fell in your hair and you kissed me for the first time. I’m grateful my life is tied to
yours because it means I won’t have to face a day without you in it. My heart only beats as long as
yours does, and when you die, I’ll meet Malek at your side. It’s a damned good thing that you love
me, too, because you’re stuck with me in this life and every other that could possibly follow.”
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“That question insults me.” “Can you carry a luminary while insulted?” she prods.”
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“Most generals dream of dying in service to their kingdom. But you know me better than that, my
love. When I fall, it will be for one reason only: to protect our children. —Recovered, Unsent
Correspondence of General Lilith Sorrengail”
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“Good. That hilt is eight inches—” “Seven,” Dain corrects. “Imagine a man actually shortening a
girl’s estimate,” Maren teases.”
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“It’s been my honor. Liam’s last words to me.”

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“I will already know, as I am continuously with you,” he grumbles. “Forced to bear witness to the
awkwardness that is twenty-one-year-old humans.”
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“Garrick Tavis. Xaden Riorson.” Captain Fitzgibbons’s voice carries over the formation as he reads
from the death roll. “Well, this is awkward,” Xaden calls out. And every head in the courtyard turns
our direction.”
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“I love you. The world does not exist for me beyond you.” Leaning down, he rests his forehead
against mine. “I couldn’t tell you that the last time we flew into a fight, and I should have.” “I love
you, too.”
tags: love
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“Are you trying to bring me to my knees? Or win the argument?” His hand flexes at my hip as his
heated gaze sweeps over me. “Yes,”
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“You didn’t get leave?” His voice lowers to that dangerous tone that terrifies everyone in the world
besides me. “When you already know that Varrish is going to—” His words die abruptly as his focus
drops to my shoulder. “Who the fuck’s flight jacket are you wearing?”
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“I want you feral.”

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“The lines between his brows smooth. “I need you to know that no matter what information I hold,
you trust me, love me enough to realize I’d never let it hurt you. I’m not the easiest person to know,
but I’ve learned my lesson, believe me. Even if it’s classified, I won’t withhold any information that
affects your agency.” He swallows, then balances his weight on one arm and runs the back of his
hand down the side of my cheek. “I need to know you won’t run, that you know you’ll never have
to.”
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“I would have done the same thing you did because I’m just as reckless for you as you are for me.”
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“You’ll lose everything you’ve worked for.” My voice breaks. “Because of me.” “Then I’ll have
everything I need.” He lowers his face, leaning in so he’s all I see, all I feel. “I will happily watch
Aretia burn to the fucking ground again if it means you live.” “You don’t mean that.” He loves his
home. He’s done everything to protect his home. “I do. I’m sorry if you expect me to do the noble
thing. I warned you. I’m not sweet or soft or kind, and you fell anyway. This is what you get, Violet
—me. The good, the bad, the unforgivable. All of it. I am yours.” His arm wraps around the small of
my back, holding me steady and close. “You want to know something true? Something real? I love
you. I’m in love with you. I have been since the night the snow fell in your hair and you kissed me
for the first time. I’m grateful my life is tied to yours because it means I won’t have to face a day
without you in it. My heart only beats as long as yours does, and when you die, I’ll meet Malek at
your side. It’s a damned good thing that you love me, too, because you’re stuck with me in this life
and every other that could possibly follow.”
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“We’ve always been the better-looking species,” Tairn”

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“His jaw flexes, his hands curl at his sides, and his beautiful face… Well, he hasn’t looked at me
with that much anger since discovering my last name at Parapet, back when he wanted to kill me.
Guess I should be careful what I ask for, because I’m so fucked. “You aren’t where I left you,
Violence.”
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“She will,” he says, his head lowering slightly, but he doesn’t dip his shoulder even as I reach his
front left claw. “Humans have the memories of gnats. Dragons hold grudges.” “I’m going to forget
you said that,” I tease back.”
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“It’s already snowing up the pass. I bet we get seven inches tonight.” “Maybe more if you’re good.”
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“And for the first time in my life, I feel weak. That’s what that monster did to me in this room. He
took my strength.
“But he didn’t break you, Violet,”
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“Think about that later,” Tairn commands. “I’m fine, thanks for asking.” “Of course you are. I chose
well.”
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“For the first time in months, I feel whole. A smile spreads across my face. “Andarna.”
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“How many times has he read me? How many pre-thoughts has he eavesdropped on? Do I actually
love him? Or did he just say what I wanted to hear? Do the things I needed in order to— “Less than
a minute,” Xaden whispers as Sgaeyl moves toward him—toward us. “That’s how long it took for
you to fall out of love with me.”
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“Not sure how it’s possible, but I simultaneously want to climb the man and kick him hard in the
shins.”
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“As complicated as our connection is, it’s also undeniably simple. He’s the horizon, and nothing
exists beyond for me.”
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“My house. My chair. My woman - Xaden”

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“She makes a good point," Andarna agrees. "Can you carry a luminary?"
"That question insults me."
"Can you carry a luminary while insulted?" she prods.
Tairn growls.”
tags: humour
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“The fuck he will. “Do you know who you sound like right now?” “Please, enlighten me.” He folds
his arms across his chest. “Dain.” I shut the door in his face.”
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“You have to find your center again, Violet. I can't do it for you." He holds my gaze, letting his
words sink in, before adding, "You are a creature of logic and facts, and everything you know got
turned upside down and shaken. You'll never know how truly sorry I am for that. But you can't just
sit there and hope. You want it to change, then you have too figure it out, just like Gauntlet. You're
the only one who can.”
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“So scared I’m pretty sure either my heart’s going to give out or I’m about to shit myself,” Ridoc
answers from her other side.”
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“You want full disclosure when it comes to me, right? How is this for open?” His gaze drops to my
mouth. “I would have done the same thing you did because I’m just as reckless for you as you are
for me.”
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“I want you more than my next breath. Xaden to Violet.”

tags: iron-flame, xaden, xaden-and-violet, xaden-riorson
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“I love you, the world does not exist for me beyond you. Xaden to Violet.”
tags: iron-flame, xaden, xaden-and-violet, xaden-riorson
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“Sorry to inconvenience you, but this year the role of Violet Sorrengail”—he points to me—“will be
played by Xaden Riorson”—he taps his chest—“who will drag her, kicking and screaming if he has
to, into a real relationship with real discussions, because he refuses to lose her again. If I have to
evolve, you do, too.” He folds his arms across his chest.”
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“You’re my gravity. Nothing in my world works without you.”

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“Good idea. I could use a snack.” Andarna’s tone is indecently excited.

“We do not eat our allies,” Tairn lectures.
“You never let me have any fun.”
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“Say those three little words, and I’ll have you naked in seconds.” He looks at me with so much heat
that I do a double take when I glance up, my breath catching. “I want you.” All day. Every day.
“Those are not the three words I need.” He slides into my mind like a caress.”
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“Power crackles through my hands without being called and erupts overhead, streaking across the
sky horizontally. Oops.”
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“He is not doing this to me. “‘ Anything you want to know and everything you don’t.’ Those were
your words.” “Everything about me.” Oh, fuck me, he is doing this to me. Again. I shake my head.
“That is not what you promised.”
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“I’d much rather have you under me on the mat than spare time.”
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“I kiss him back like my life depends on his surrender and tilt my head for that perfect angle. He
finds it without even trying, taking the kiss deeper, stealing little pieces of my soul with each swirl
and slide of his tongue with an expertise I can’t fight.”
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“I’d rather you scream at me than pretend everything is all right with silence.”
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“Fuck off and leave, Riorson.” “I would, but you’ve got a death grip on me.” He glances between
our bodies. “Ugh!” I drop my hands from his waist and step back. “Go.”
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“Xaden slides his hands beneath my thighs, then lifts me so we’re level as he lays expert claim to
every line and recess of my mouth like this is the only time he’ll get. Like kissing me is more vital
than his next breath.”
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“I’m pleasantly fuddled but not entirely sloshed.”

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use to sharpen us.”

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“You want to know something true? Something real? I love you. I’m in love with you. I have been
since the night the snow fell in your hair and you kissed me for the first time. I’m grateful my life is
tied to yours because it means I won’t have to face a day without you in it. My heart only beats as
long as yours does, and when you die, I’ll meet Malek at your side. It’s a damned good thing that
you love me, too, because you’re stuck with me in this life and every other that could possibly
follow.”
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“Mom and Dad are fighting, and everyone knows it.”

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“I’ll earn your trust as soon as you realize you don’t need full disclosure. You only have to have the
guts to start asking the questions you actually want answers to. Don’t worry about the bed. We’ll get
back there. The anticipation is good for us.”
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“what even is that? Yearning? Infatuation?” I roll my eyes. “Love?” She says the word like it’s
poisonous, and something on my face must give me away because the disgust on hers morphs into
shock. “Oh, no. You’re in love with him, aren’t you?” “You can’t possibly know that just by looking
at me,” I counter, my spine stiffening. “Ugh. Let’s go throw knives at shit.”
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“My house. My chair. My woman.

“Stop bringing logic into an emotional argument.”

“I'm just as reckless for you as you are for me.”

“I bet we get seven inches tonight.” “Maybe more if you’re good.”

“You do not have the right to burn what is mine.”

“She made it,” I whisper up to Liam.”

“Who the fuck’s flight jacket are you wearing?”

“Words are just as capable of eviscerating someone as a blade,”

“I’m more than willing to let you burn me.”

“Yeah, well, it cost me you.”

“Home. Gods, he tastes like home.”

“We do not eat our allies”

“I go where you go.”

“Just remember who trained me.”

“Shit. What is this? Jealousy? Anxiety? Insecurity? “All three,”

“pull me in like a moth to a fucking flame.”

“Who did you kill?" She directs the question at Xaden.

“It’s been my honor. Liam’s last words to me.”

“I want you feral.”

“We’ve always been the better-looking species,” Tairn”

“My house. My chair. My woman - Xaden”

“I want you more than my next breath. Xaden to Violet.”

“You’re my gravity. Nothing in my world works without you.”

“Good idea. I could use a snack.” Andarna’s tone is indecently excited.

“I’m pleasantly fuddled but not entirely sloshed.”

use to sharpen us.”

“Mom and Dad are fighting, and everyone knows it.”

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