A Kiss of Iron Quotes

“For the women who are, behind their smiles, fucking furious.”
― Clare Sager, A Kiss of Iron

“Who made you deny yourself so much? Who hurt you so badly your only protection was to persuade yourself you wanted nothing at all?”
― Clare Sager, A Kiss of Iron

“I’ve done awful things, Kat. Some I’m not proud of. Don’t think that just because I’ve helped you, I’m some noble hero. I’m the villain in many other people’s stories.”
― Clare Sager, A Kiss of Iron

“Survival alone is not enough. There comes a point when you need to live.”
― Clare Sager, A Kiss of Iron

“How does making you small keep you safe? Laughing quietly, folding your hands, letting the men talk. Are they matters of your safety or just keeping you manageable?”
― Clare Sager, A Kiss of Iron

“I’m just trying to survive. You have no idea what that requires.” “Survival is a slow death. No one can keep treading water forever—it’s just a slow way to drown. If their situation doesn’t change—if no lifeline comes or they don’t find a boat or solid ground—they will sink.”
― Clare Sager, A Kiss of Iron

“find”
― Clare Sager, A Kiss of Iron

“Take what you want for once, not only what you need.”
― Clare Sager, A Kiss of Iron

“Pearlwort to save you from the faeries. Pearlwort to guard your heart.”
― Clare Sager, A Kiss of Iron

“What am I going to do with you? What nonsense lies live in this pretty head of yours?” She stroked my hair and held me a long while. I didn’t deserve it, but I also didn’t pull away. Just as I sank into a doze, head in her lap, she spoke again. “I’ll help you unlearn it all.”
― Clare Sager, A Kiss of Iron

“A bigger part of me enjoyed it, though, like it was an antidote to some poison I’d taken long ago.”
― Clare Sager, A Kiss of Iron

“I’m sorry, darling, I quite forget myself. Lady Eloisa-Elizabetta-Belladonna Fortnum-Knightly-Chase.”
― Clare Sager, A Kiss of Iron

“The druid sprinkled lunar water and placed a yew branch on her casket before the grave diggers filled it in.”
― Clare Sager, A Kiss of Iron

“That perfect mouth spread into a wicked grin. “Not entirely appropriate.” He said it slowly, like he savoured each word and the fact I’d said it. “You’ve just described my entire existence.”
― Clare Sager, A Kiss of Iron

“She’s far above you, Langdon.” There was a flash of sharp canine as Bastian spoke. “Keep her name out of your mouth.”
― Clare Sager, A Kiss of Iron

“Pointed ears. As sharp as the dagger at my belt. He was even more deadly than steel. Because he was a fae. A fucking fae. And I’d just stolen from him.”
― Clare Sager, A Kiss of Iron

“He didn’t treat me badly because of me. He treated me badly because of him.
That more than the strike made my eyes burn. It had never been me.”
― Clare Sager, A Kiss of Iron

“turning”
― Clare Sager, A Kiss of Iron

“Because yours is a life half-lived. You're constantly on guard, holding back, and I can't work out why. I certainly can't stand to see it. And I can't stand that Langdon stopped you from eating a piece of damn cake.”
― Clare Sager, A Kiss of Iron

“Better to knowingly fall for your manipulation than let you make out that there’s a version of the universe in which I can’t dance.”
― Clare Sager, A Kiss of Iron

“My stomach growled, though, and my fatal weakness for sweet treats had me leaning over the table, inhaling as deeply as I could.”
― Clare Sager, A Kiss of Iron

“He’d worked his way deep under my skin to my most vulnerable places and made me feel new things. He’d made me think there might be more to life than just survival. Cruellest of all, he’d made me hope. “I’m”
― Clare Sager, A Kiss of Iron

“I’d achieved nothing with my life half-lived. I”
― Clare Sager, A Kiss of Iron

“You’re making it sound like I’ve done something wrong by being with you, but it feels like this is the first right thing I’ve done in my life.”
― Clare Sager, A Kiss of Iron

“Sleep meant I didn’t have to do anything, think anything, be anything. I welcomed it with open arms.”
― Clare Sager, A Kiss of Iron

“You don’t need to worry about anything other than what you need right now.” His voice drifted over me as the world faded. “Tell me, and I’ll make it so.”
― Clare Sager, A Kiss of Iron

“When I emerged from what I now realised was a shirt, my eyes burned and my lip trembled. Bastian’s brow crumpled. “Oh, love.” He pulled me against him. “But I wet myself. I’m dir—” “I don’t care.” He squeezed me like he really didn’t care that my legs were still covered in my own piss.”
― Clare Sager, A Kiss of Iron

“Time was a fuzzy concept, a bit like the space around me that seemed to shift and wobble at unexpected moments, even though I knew the walls were solid.”
― Clare Sager, A Kiss of Iron

“It’s fine. I’m fine.” My voice came from very far away, not quite sounding my own. “I just need a drink and some sleep.” My answers to everything. I didn’t want to think, didn’t want to feel, didn’t want to exist, just for a while. A bottle would take me there.”
― Clare Sager, A Kiss of Iron

“What must it be like to be one of them? A man. A very, very wealthy man. One with status and power. One who could sleep with a dozen women and face no consequence. One who didn’t live in fear of saying or doing the wrong thing, or even the rumour that he had. One whose estate made more money in a year than I’d known in a lifetime.”
― Clare Sager, A Kiss of Iron