The Shadows Between Us Quotes

“All the time in the world is worth nothing if I don't get to spend it with you.”
― Tricia Levenseller, The Shadows Between Us

“I think that when you care enough for someone, you reach a point where it's far more painful not to have him at all than to have him and risk losing him. You realize the risk is worth it. Because happiness, however short-lived, is always worth it.”
― Tricia Levenseller, The Shadows Between Us

“They've never found the body of the first and only boy who broke my heart. And they never will.”
― Tricia Levenseller, The Shadows Between Us

“Waiting. Not waiting. One lover. A hundred lovers. There should be no judgement either way. A woman is not defined by what she does or doesn‘t do in the bedroom.”
― Tricia Levenseller, The Shadows Between Us

“I want a life with you, Alessandra, one without the shadows between us. And I don’t care about being vulnerable.”
― Tricia Levenseller, The Shadows Between Us

“My little hellion. Quite the force to be reckoned with, aren't you? Oh, say you'll marry me, Alessandra!”
― Tricia Levenseller, The Shadows Between Us

“The rebel in me loves to throw dirt in the face of decorum.”
― Tricia Levenseller, The Shadows Between Us

“He swallows the bite in his mouth. “Alessandra Stathos, that’s positively despicable.” He says the words like they’re the highest compliment he can give me. “You are an absolute gem, do you know that?”
― Tricia Levenseller, The Shadows Between Us

“Aren't we all drawn to friends in the beginning by trifling things? True bonds develop afterward, when character is revealed.”
― Tricia Levenseller, The Shadows Between Us

“A woman is not defined by what she does or doesn't do in the bedroom.”
― Tricia Levenseller, The Shadows Between Us

“Who in the world would steal and then not keep the riches for themselves? That’s just bad business.”
― Tricia Levenseller, The Shadows Between Us

“Tell me,” I say. “You don’t need to read a letter. Just tell me.”

He closes his hands into fists at his sides. “I want you.”

I wait for him to say more. When he doesn’t, I say, “Surely you can do better than that.”
― Tricia Levenseller, The Shadows Between Us

“Because happiness, however short-lived, is always worth it.”
― Tricia Levenseller, The Shadows Between Us

“I hate him.
But I love him more.”
― Tricia Levenseller, The Shadows Between Us

“It is what originally caught my interest, but i lose interest in everything sooner or later. Everything save you. Because in you, i found my match. In you, i found my equal.”
― Tricia Levenseller, The Shadows Between Us

“Kallias laughs so loudly and abruptly, I nearly topple out of the armchair. He has his hands on his knees while his whole body shakes from the force of the laughter. What the devils?

Did I break the king?”
― Tricia Levenseller, The Shadows Between Us

“Do you love him?”

Of course not, I think. I do not do such childish things as fall in love. Love made me into a murderess. It broke me for a time. I had to build myself back up.”
― Tricia Levenseller, The Shadows Between Us

“No one but me is allowed to decide when Kallias Maheras, king of six realms and counting is going to die.”
― Tricia Levenseller, The Shadows Between Us

“I'm not a trollop, i announce to the empty room. "i'm a sexually empowered woman, and there is nothing wrong with that.”
― Tricia Levenseller, The Shadows Between Us

“When a man sees something that several other men want, he can’t help but want it, too.”
― Tricia Levenseller, The Shadows Between Us

“I told you, you’re my equal. You’ve assisted me in more ways than one. You’ve been my constant companion these last couple of months, and I don’t ever want you to leave, Alessandra. I want to show you how I respect and appreciate you.”
― Tricia Levenseller, The Shadows Between Us

“Don't you think you will forget how to be human if you push away all the mortals in your life?”
― Tricia Levenseller, The Shadows Between Us

“I want to be your first choice. And maybe I’ve never made it clear that I am a choice for you. I like you, and if you let me, I know I could love you. My title might not be as fancy as Kallias’s, nor my pocketbook quite as deep, nor my estate quite so large.

“But my heart is bigger, Alessandra. And I would love you completely, wholly, as a woman ought to be loved. I won’t hide behind shadows. I won’t love you from afar. I won’t only take parts of you. I want all of you. Mind, body, soul. I want to be with you. Always.”
― Tricia Levenseller, The Shadows Between Us

“Kallias opens his mouth. Shuts it again. Then, “You and I are playing a very dangerous game.”
― Tricia Levenseller, The Shadows Between Us

“But I’m desperate for you all the same. And though I will not have millennia to live, I want to give however many years I have left to you. Because I love you. I love the woman who saved me. And though she doesn’t need me, I want her. Fiercely.
“All the time in the world is worth nothing if I don’t get to spend it with you.”
― Tricia Levenseller, The Shadows Between Us

“Father, Chrysantha couldn’t catch the attention of a rabid dog.”
― Tricia Levenseller, The Shadows Between Us

“Yes, I know the law. No one is allowed to touch the king. To do so is punishable by death.

Oh, he is a delightful mystery that I can’t wait to solve.”
― Tricia Levenseller, The Shadows Between Us

“I handled Hektor as I have handled everything else in my life: alone and with the utmost thoroughness.”
― Tricia Levenseller, The Shadows Between Us

“They’ve never found the body of the first and only boy who broke my heart. And they never will.”
― Tricia Levenseller, The Shadows Between Us

“I’ve done passion before. That’s what it was with Hektor. It didn’t go over well. Passion doesn’t lead anywhere good. It turned me into a murderess.”
― Tricia Levenseller, The Shadows Between Us