Raihn Quotes

“You aren't my prisoner,' he said. 'You're my queen.”
― Carissa Broadbent, The Serpent and the Wings of Night

“Do not,' Raihn said sharply, 'speak about her that way.”
― Carissa Broadbent, The Serpent and the Wings of Night

“You are more than what he made you,' he said. 'Do you understand? That isn't the strength. The shit her tried to carve out of you is. You have every reason to keep going. Now more than ever. And I say this knowing- knowing how stupid it is for me, of all people, to say it.'

He wasn't talking about the Kejari. He was talking about something bigger. And his fingers clutched mine, trembling, as he hissed, 'So don't you fucking dare stop fighting, princess. It would break my damned heart.”
― Carissa Broadbent, The Serpent and the Wings of Night

“I love you. I loved you from the first moment.' Bubbles of blood formed at the corners of his mouth. His gaze drifted past me, to the night sky. Then it dragged back to me- the movement slow, laborious, like he was working very hard to make sure I was the last thing he saw. 'So many mistakes in the end,' he choked out. 'Never you.”
― Carissa Broadbent, The Serpent and the Wings of Night

“I'm not marrying you,' I spat.

'Yes, you are.'

'Fuck you. I am not.'

A muscle feathered in his cheek.

'It's the only way I can keep you alive. If you're not my wife, you're my enemy. And I can't justify letting you go.”
― Carissa Broadbent, The Serpent and the Wings of Night

“Think about this. Power is a bloody business. You know that as well as I do. We have teeth, you and I. Now is the time to use them. We'll rip apart the worlds that subjugated both of us, and from the ashes we'll build something new. And there is no one I would rather have beside me to do that with than you, Oraya. No one.' His voice lowered to a plea. His gaze dipped- to my mouth- before flicking back to my eyes. 'And when I leave this room, and come back with a priestess, you will marry me. You will do it because I can't kill you. I tried. I can't. A world without you would be a dark, depressing place. And I've already inflicted enough pain without committing that fucking injustice, too. So let me save you.”
― Carissa Broadbent, The Serpent and the Wings of Night

“Oraya of the Nightborn,' he murmured. 'I give you my body. I give you my blood. I give you my soul. I give you my heart. From this night until the end of nights. From daybreak until our days are broken. Your soul is my soul. Your heart is my heart. Your pain is my pain. I bind myself to you.”
― Carissa Broadbent, The Serpent and the Wings of Night

“There's no bonding like bonding over murder,' Raihn said dryly.”
― Carissa Broadbent, The Serpent and the Wings of Night

“Impressive,' I said.

'Thank you. I've had plenty of practice drinking terrible alcohol.'

'Not that,' I gestured broadly to him, up and down. 'That.'

His eyebrow twitched. 'I've had a lot of practice on my physique, too. I didn't think you'd noticed.”
― Carissa Broadbent, The Serpent and the Wings of Night

“Never make deathbed promises, Oraya. Always bites you in the ass.”
― Carissa Broadbent, The Serpent and the Wings of Night

“The lone human and the mangled vampire,' he murmured. 'The others should be trembling in pure fucking terror.”
― Carissa Broadbent, The Serpent and the Wings of Night

“I'm coming for you, Oraya.”
― Carissa Broadbent, The Serpent and the Wings of Night

“Fear is the fucking KEY to it, Oraya! Raihn's voice, booming with fear of his own, filled both of our minds. USE IT. Pretend that you're throwing me out the fucking window. Pretend that you're dragging Mische out of that burning apartment.”
― Carissa Broadbent, The Serpent and the Wings of Night

“You were fucking magnificent, Oraya,' he murmured. 'I hope you know that.”
― Carissa Broadbent, The Serpent and the Wings of Night

“Don't be so quick to throw away your humanity, Oraya,' he said. 'You might find you miss it once it's gone.”
― Carissa Broadbent, The Serpent and the Wings of Night

“I've lived through some injustices in the last couple of centuries. Seen some fucking travesties. But one of the biggest, Oraya, is that anyone taught you that you should become anything other than exactly what you are.”
― Carissa Broadbent, The Serpent and the Wings of Night

“I didn't want you to see me that way,' he went on. 'So I pretended that version of myself didn't exist. It does. And I'm- I don't like people to see it. I didn't want you to see it.”
― Carissa Broadbent, The Serpent and the Wings of Night

“You're safe,' he whispered against my skin.

And then he bit.”
― Carissa Broadbent, The Serpent and the Wings of Night

“He smelled like the sky- he tasted like falling.”
― Carissa Broadbent, The Serpent and the Wings of Night

“You don't even know, Oraya.' The corner of his mouth, where a little smudge of blood remained, curled as he shook his head. 'The things I've thought about. "Want" doesn't even fucking cover it. I have a list.”
― Carissa Broadbent, The Serpent and the Wings of Night

“You are the most stunning thing I've ever seen, Oraya.”
― Carissa Broadbent, The Serpent and the Wings of Night

“Don't fucking touch her,' he growled...”
― Carissa Broadbent, The Serpent and the Wings of Night

“We'll probably die tomorrow,' I said. 'Show me something worth living for.”
― Carissa Broadbent, The Serpent and the Wings of Night

“I would beg,' he murmured. 'For you, I would. You have fucking destroyed me, Oraya. Do you know that?”
― Carissa Broadbent, The Serpent and the Wings of Night

“... And the difference between nothing mattering and one thing mattering is a big one.”
― Carissa Broadbent, The Serpent and the Wings of Night

“If we fight, we fight to the end. Whatever end that might be Whoever's blood needs to spill to win it.”
― Carissa Broadbent, The Serpent and the Wings of Night

“Breathe, Oraya. Come back to me. Please.'

He said this like he cared.

Like he fucking cared.

I hated him.”
― Carissa Broadbent, The Serpent and the Wings of Night

“Maybe that was why I picked you, too. Because right away, I liked you, princess. I was curious about you. You reminded me of me. Someone different. After a few hundred years, everyone seems the same. Not you. Not from that first night...”
― Carissa Broadbent, The Serpent and the Wings of Night

“Later, he will hate himself for this—for begging so pathetically for his own damnation.”
― Carissa Broadbent, The Ashes & the Star-Cursed King

“I wanted to drown myself in her. Drown myself in her sounds, her breath, her body—her blood.”
― Carissa Broadbent, The Ashes & the Star-Cursed King