Quotes from Alyssa Day

Never, do you hear me? I will give up my friends, my country, my duty, and even my honor—but never you.

I am needed here. Atlantis can burn in the nine hells for all I care. I have sacrificed enough to Poseidon. My days as high priest are done.

Your magic is unbalanced without the soul-meld

The priest was Quinn's biggest danger of all.

He thinks I'm pining away for you, and he thinks I should be his mate

I've trusted human women before. Twice. The first died, and the second paid a terrible price and despises me. Never, ever again.

You can shoot a gun. You just can't hit anything you aim at.

With Quinn, safety wasn't even an illusion. It was an impossibility

You don't actually know much about tigers, do you?" "Orange and white stripes, long tails, and an excessive love for frosted cereal.

Except for Quinn, a dark voice whispered in his mind. A smile from her would be a gift beyond price.

No. Merely a trick of the light. But I had the impression you were seeking something more formal than'Okay, go for it,' as Ven would say," Alaric said, a hint of a smile surfacing. "Looked pretty impressive,didn't it? It's a priest thing.

Yet where Denal had prayed to Poseidon for death, Alaric was praying to the same god for life.

For Pete's sake, Quinn, you should have seen him when I was pregnant. He practically set a peacock on fire for daring to walk across my path in the garden one day.

Translation: I'm an idiot.

I would give a century of my life for a single taste of your lips

Finally, she looked up at him and met his gaze, and she gasped. He knew what must be visible on his face and therefore did not try to deny it. "You know," he rasped out. "You have always known, and you will always know that I am yours, and yet never can be. I am the most powerful high priest Poseidon has ever appointed, and yet I am too weak to hide the depths of my feelings for you.