C.J. Redwine Quotes & Sayings

That's not what he meant," Rachel says again, pink flushing her cheeks.
"Actually, I meant-" I start to say, but Willow cuts me off.
"What? It's true. He looks at you like he'd like to dip you in sugar and eat you up. — C.J. Redwine

She stares at me, a tiny smile flitting across her lips, and the affection on her face makes me feel like the richest man in the world. — C.J. Redwine

Death is an insatiable creature with greedy hands. — C.J. Redwine

Sylph and Jodi return to my side, each carrying a cloth sack full of chickweed. I wrap my arm around Sylph's waist and give her a quick squeeze. "Lesson's over for today. I have something to discuss with Logan."
"Sounds serious." Jodi wiggles her brows at me.
"I think that's just Rachel for 'I need to go kiss my boy.'" Sylph laughs when I glare at her. — C.J. Redwine

I'm bleeding inside where no one will see. Where no one will ever know to look. — C.J. Redwine

Let Ian laugh. Let him believe pain will ruin me. I know better. I've already been ruined once, and I know how to rise from the ashes. I know how to find my broken pieces. — C.J. Redwine

Mind telling me what's so funny?" he asked as he spooned beans onto their plates. "Nothing." Lorelai avoided looking at Kol. "Then if nothing is funny, you two can stop grinning at each other like village idiots and start eating your dinner. I imagine tomorrow will be another difficult day." And — C.J. Redwine

The princess snorted. "If you haven't figured out by now that I don't care what you think of me, let this be the lesson that sticks. — C.J. Redwine

I'll stall them. You go," Logan says.
Quinn frowns and looks at me.
"Ignore him. He doesn't get to play the martyr today."
"Isn't that his choice?" Quinn asks.
"Not while I'm still breathing. — C.J. Redwine

I love you best, and I'll miss you forever. — C.J. Redwine

Sometimes the right thing costs us the biggest piece of ourselves, but it still has to be done. — C.J. Redwine

I don't want to pretend that everything is black and white, that people are either all good or all bad, and that I'm the one best qualified to tell the difference. — C.J. Redwine

I'm not a threat to you or Kol."
"Tell that to Trugg. You just sent him into a wall."
"Because he was trying to intimidate me. And also because once again he has yet to put on a pair of pants. I am already having a spectacularly difficult day. I don't need to add avoiding a pantsless Eldrian to the list of things I still have to do. — C.J. Redwine

lazy spirals overhead, — C.J. Redwine

Even for the worthy cause of giving both Rachel and Oliver what I know they want. I'll have to come up with another way to put Oliver in charge of Rachel. Maybe as her new Protector, it's within my rights to assign her to another? — C.J. Redwine

Besides, what do I know about being a wife? There are much more important qualities to have than a docile disposition. — C.J. Redwine

His lips twitched upward, and warmth spread through him as he said, "I can't dance."

"Dancing is for people who don't truly appreciate the buffet."

"I have nothing to wear."

"I'll find something for you."

"The nobility will gossip about you until the day you die," he said. One last attempt to talk sense into her even though he knew it was a lost cause.

"They need a new hobby anyway." She smiled at him. — C.J. Redwine

I learned that true family is found in those who choose you. Wealth has nothing to do with it. — C.J. Redwine

Gabril's voice was strong and sure. I believe in you, and I've fought for you, because in a world full of people who crumble before an evil too terrifying to comprehend, you put up your fists and fight. — C.J. Redwine

Forgive us, my lord, for you have us at a disadvantage. My sister is frankly deplorable at conducting courtly conversation. The only thing worse than her ability to make appropriate small talk with royalty is her attempt to let a man lead her on the dance floor. Your timely interruption has saved me from the chore of attending dance lessons with her. My feet thank you. — C.J. Redwine

It's probably my job to tell you life isn't fair, but I figure you already know that. So instead, I'll tell you that hope is precious, and you're right not to give up. — C.J. Redwine

I need you, Logan. Just you"
I tighten my grip on her tunic. "Why?"
"Because I still love you." Her voice catches. "I never stopped. I thought I had. I wanted to. But somehow .. it's like a part of you lives inside the most important part of me, and I don't know how to separate the two." Tears spill over, tracing a glistening path down her cheeks. "I love you, Logan"
Joy surges through me, brilliant and wild. I cup her face in my hands and wipe away her tears. "I love you too, Rachel. Always" And then I do my best to use the full hour I've been given to kiss her senseless. — C.J. Redwine

Forget math and peotry. Especially poetry. — C.J. Redwine

Don't let the bad leg fool you, son. If you hurt my princess, I will be the nightmare you never see coming. — C.J. Redwine

Tears aren't for the people we've lost. They're for us. So we can remember, and celebrate, and miss them, and feel human. — C.J. Redwine

The truth is too harsh to touch, and I shy away from it before it sears itself into my brain and becomes real. — C.J. Redwine

Nobody appreciates a woman with vinegar in her soul." ~ Melkin to Rachel — C.J. Redwine

I smile as I walk toward her and nearly trip on a stack of haphazardly organized books.
Why don't I eve put things away around here? — C.J. Redwine

Of course, I believe most of the older noblemen are actually bringing their sons - only ones eligible for marriage, of course - to dance with me. The consensus seems to be that I would make a pretty good catch.
You aren't going to marry a boring nobleman's boring son.
No?
No, because if one proposes to you, he'll be eaten by morning. Dragons have very healthy appetites.
Draconi don't eat people.
I've been looking for a new hobby. — C.J. Redwine

The best way to punish a good deed is to announce it to everyone else. — C.J. Redwine

You don't go into battle because you're sure of victory. You go into battle because it's the right thing to do. — C.J. Redwine

What could be worse than death?"

"I am. — C.J. Redwine

There's a restless, pent-up power in the sea, and you know if it ever decided to stop respecting its boundaries, it could destroy you. But it does respect its boundaries. It stays where it should, so its power feels safe. When you stand here, surrounded by mystery and beauty and power, you feel safe. — C.J. Redwine

Sometimes having courage means the hardest tasks fall onto your shoulders, and those leave the biggest scars. — C.J. Redwine

Lorelai smirked at Leo, who raised a brow and then glared up at the sky. "The two of you are conspiring against me again, aren't you?"
"She just wants to share her lunch with you."
Leo blanched. "Last time she shared, I got a face full of rabbit guts from above. Tell your bird to keep her victims to herself. — C.J. Redwine

Silent acquiescence in the face of tyranny is no better than outright agreement. — C.J. Redwine

Because on some basic, soul-deep level within me, he is the solid ground beneath my feet. — C.J. Redwine

Remember, sometimes diplomacy is the better side of warfare."
"Dipolomacy is a lot easier to accomplish if you've got your foe on his knees hoping you don't lop off his head. — C.J. Redwine

And for me, it means honoring those who've loved me and sacrificed for me by choosing to be the kind of warrior who delivers justice even when it threatens to hurt me. — C.J. Redwine

I never thought it was fair that anatomy decided what my brain was fit for. — C.J. Redwine

No matter what has happened. No matter what you've done. No matter what you will do. I will always love you. I swear it. — C.J. Redwine

His knives are nice. Mine is better. — C.J. Redwine

Irina's smile disappeared. "I don't require all of the princess, huntsman." A — C.J. Redwine

Thad: "But this is a boy, and you need to think of your reputation if you're spending time alone with him - "

Ari: "Learning how to put a man's eye out or take him down at the knees. Very romantic stuff, Thad. Very romantic. Oh, and we also hid a body together, so we're practically engaged. — C.J. Redwine

Maybe that's what love is. Giving others the power to hurt you and trusting that they'll use it to heal you instead. — C.J. Redwine

Pain is such a useful thing. It corrects us when we're wrong. It shapes our character. It teaches us that we're alive. — C.J. Redwine

I'm scarred, inside and out, but I'm also stronger. I've learned how to be a warrior. I've learned that hope rises out of the ashes if I let it. — C.J. Redwine

I lie sleepless long after Melkin takes the first watch and press my fingers to my lips as I remember Logan leaning in, his breath fanning my face, his eyes locked on my mouth. A delicious ache pulses through me. I feel like a stranger waking up in my own skin
aware of every inch. Heat runs through my veins, both exhilarating and terrifying. — C.J. Redwine

We walked through the streets with our protectors. We wore our dresses. We gave up our education because that was the price of safety. That was the bargain we made with the devil we knew to escape the devil we didn't. — C.J. Redwine

My bird can drive her break straight through your neck and into your artery in less time than it takes for you to draw a weapon, and she already dislikes you intensely. If I were you, I'd do my best not to antagonize her further."
"I thought the bird obeyed you."
"Better not antagonize me either. — C.J. Redwine

A muscle in the Commander's jaw jumps, and he levels his fierce glare on Willow. "You have a big mouth."
"I need a big mouth to keep up with my big brain. — C.J. Redwine

A warrior doesn't focus on the odds stacked against her. She focuses on her heart, on her will to face the evil in her world and defeat it, and then she finds a way to do it. Lorelai — C.J. Redwine

Coin didn't protect you. It didn't save you from your secrets. Only absolute power did that. He — C.J. Redwine

You're worth so much more than anything I can give you. If you can't believe that right now, believe in me. — C.J. Redwine

I love how you still think if you tell me to do something, I'll just check my brain at the door and do it. — C.J. Redwine

Please tell me you're not that stupid.
Rachel to Melkin — C.J. Redwine

We all just do the best we can with what we've go. Sometimes it works. Sometimes it ruins everything — C.J. Redwine

Mind over matter. Reason over pain. — C.J. Redwine

I'm honor-bound not to struggle with this since you just retrieved it all by yourself. Please do me the courtesy of pretending this is hard for you as well. — C.J. Redwine

Her skin was as white as snow, her lips as red as blood, and her long hair as black as ebony. — C.J. Redwine

Take the blame that belongs to you, and nothing else. I'm asking you to look it in the eye and face it for what it is. — C.J. Redwine

I will carefully stand guard and if anyone tries to hurt someone in the camp again, I will carefully spill their guts across the wasteland floor and carefully wait for the vultures to feast on the remains. — C.J. Redwine

Losing your head in a crisis is a good way to become the crisis. — C.J. Redwine

Healing is the hardest thing you'll ever do.' ~Quinn — C.J. Redwine

He pulls me to a stop in front of a stall selling steaming hot stew of beef an onions. "Two please."
"It's too expensive," I whisper to him, even though I know he won't listen.
he treats me one of his wide, gentle smiles, his dark eyes shining. "Who else am I going to spend my money on? I already know you won't let me buy you and of the pretty, frilly things girls your age like to have, and I'm not about to purchase another weapon to add to your collection."
"Because I don't like pretty, frilly things. And there's nothing wrong with having a nice collection of weapons. — C.J. Redwine

I'm no longer a daughter.
No longer a granddaughter.
No longer a girl with dreams. With hope.
I'm a weapon, now. — C.J. Redwine

Make sure the man you choose sees you as you truly are and loves you for it. — C.J. Redwine

Oh no. Lorelai pulled her hand from Kol's, her skin prickling with heat from absolute humiliation. Maybe if she prayed hard enough, the forest floor would open up and swallow her. If there was any justice in the world, it would swallow Leo too. — C.J. Redwine

The courier of wolves the daughter the dance.
Hopeless.
Betrayal.
Forbidden.
Departure. — C.J. Redwine

What's the use in being diplomatic? I'd rather just pull my weapon and wing it. — C.J. Redwine

His words feel like a gift I want to keep reopening when no one else is looking. — C.J. Redwine

I reach up and pat them both on the head. Poor things. If you had a boy that looked like Logan, you'd be kissing him every chance you had, too. — C.J. Redwine

I ache to hear her tell me she loves me, but forcing her to put words to how she feels pushes her further into the silence she seems comfortable calling home now. I tell myself to be patient and understanding, but inside there's a longing only those words will fill, and it hurts to ignore it. — C.J. Redwine

Talking to her is like coming home and finding the furniture in every room rearranged. The same pieces are there, the same sense of comfort, but nothing is exactly the where you'd expect. — C.J. Redwine