Awakened by Fire Quotes

“The Tempus, a young woman, fair with light brown hair, bowed her head to him. So she knew to acknowledge a dragon lord, though that wasn’t the role he played in his life these days. A respectful spy. How quaint.”
― Erin Kellison, Awakened by Fire

“I thought you would never arrive.” “Traffic.” Warrick smiled at Samantha. She felt herself blush. She loved traffic. She hoped there was more on the way back to his penthouse.”
― Erin Kellison, Awakened by Fire

“Xanthippe recognized it.” “She would,” his mother said. “She once called for its destruction.” “And you didn’t think she’d wonder why I was in possession of it?” She shrugged. “Xan was my backup plan if you were too slow.” His mother had basically planned to set a half-mad dragon on him. She didn’t care if it would have made him look like an idiot: What do you mean Tempus? I’ve made no Tempus. I’m wearing my mother’s diamond chain. Why? She told me to. If it weren’t for the bitter smell of fire surrounding them, he might’ve laughed at the absurdity of it. Lady Voclain was more devious and ruthless than the rest of the Bloodkin put together. Her own son!”
― Erin Kellison, Awakened by Fire

“Do you hear yourself? You’re a hundred and forty. A member of the Bloodkin Triad. Not a…a…boy.” His mother was having trouble forming words. She was stuck between human and dragon. She wanted fire, but if she shifted, she’d lose her ability to argue with him. How terrible for her.”
― Erin Kellison, Awakened by Fire

“Voclain needs an heir.” “As she lacks the anatomical structures to lay an egg, my human issue will have to inherit.” “Voclain is a Bloodkin legacy, one of the oldest—” “Then, mother, I suggest you get cracking and give me a brother. He can have Voclain. I’m going to be happy.”
― Erin Kellison, Awakened by Fire

“we have some decisions to make. You’d just be going back and forth to his room to report when you might as well take all his objections at once and be done with it. The decisions aren’t going to change.”
― Erin Kellison, Awakened by Fire

“I’m mortal. I could die any day.” Brandon had almost killed her. Her parents had died young. Her grandfather would have died yesterday. “I’m Warrick Voclain. And you will stay by my side until the stars fall from the sky.”
― Erin Kellison, Awakened by Fire

“We may be sexually incompatible.” “How’s that?” He didn’t seem worried. “You’re supposed to take those buttons off with your teeth. I should be naked by now.”
― Erin Kellison, Awakened by Fire

“He was now in the business of hoarding pleasure.”
― Erin Kellison, Awakened by Fire

“Are you sure you feel up to this?” Warrick asked her. “It’s only been a day since your attack.” “Yes.” Thanks to dragon blood saving her again. Warrick, the hypocrite. And she was just the person to tell him so.”
― Erin Kellison, Awakened by Fire

“Are you going to eat him?" Samantha asked...
Warrick struggled for a moment, but had to tell her the truth. "Yes..."
"Can I watch? Samantha added.
Warrick laughed, and it echoed through the cavern. She kept surprising him.
"You're not eating him," his mother said, still irritated...."He's my steward," she continued. "I get to eat him.”
― Erin Kellison, Awakened by Fire

“Heat roared within him. Greedy heat. He wanted her....
She was in over her head, and it seemed... so was he.”
― Erin Kellison, Awakened by Fire

“He took a deep breath. "I'm a dragon, Samantha."
"Oh, my God."
His lips twitched. "Even when I look like a man."
"A dragon," she repeated.
"Yes.”
― Erin Kellison, Awakened by Fire

“I'm glad you turned cartwheels here."
Samantha heard the note of loneliness in his voice. "You did hear me say back tuck? Because that was my coolest move."
His arm came around her shoulders, and they started across the space again. "Back tuck. Coolest move. Got it.”
― Erin Kellison, Awakened by Fire

“Nothing can age a dragon, but you just might be the exception.”
― Erin Kellison, Awakened by Fire

“She went on tiptoe and pecked his cheek with a kiss. Daring of her, she knew.
His green eyes went dragon-gold and sharp, the bones of his forehead morphing slightly to suggest the crowned brow of the dragon inside. At least he was smiling, though it was the kind of greedy grin that would send most people running in the opposite direction.
Not her.
"Let's just get this over with," she said.
"Yes." His voice had gone rumbly. "And then on to something else.”
― Erin Kellison, Awakened by Fire

“Two human families have died out on me in the past century alone."
Warrick inclined his head. "It might help if you didn't eat members of your staff when you're displeased.”
― Erin Kellison, Awakened by Fire

“She'd survived Brandon. Just to die all over again. "Well, hell."
He smiled wanly at her. "Indeed.”
― Erin Kellison, Awakened by Fire

“The dragon in him didn't want to give her a choice. Just wrap around her and smolder smugly, daring anyone who came near to cross him. Mine.”
― Erin Kellison, Awakened by Fire

“It'll all be over soon, and you can go back to ruling the world." She slid off her stool....
He watched her go. Felt unaccountably lonely.
"When did I stop ruling the world?" he called after her.”
― Erin Kellison, Awakened by Fire

“OMG I just saw Warrick Voclain on 5th Ave! #DragonSighting #DragonInMyPants #Dragons #RuinedForAllOtherMen.”
― Erin Kellison, Awakened by Fire

“He gaped at her. "You want me to wear it?"
"Yes. That's what a chain of diamond is for....Wear it. Wear it all the time, even when you sleep. I need you to wear it. I got it for you."
"You've had it for twenty years." At least.
"I was trying it on.”
― Erin Kellison, Awakened by Fire