A Kingdom of Flesh and Fire Quotes

“Your heart, Poppy? It is a gift I do not deserve.” He placed his hands on his knees as he lifted his gaze to mine. “But it is one I will protect until my dying breath.”
― Jennifer L. Armentrout, A Kingdom of Flesh and Fire

“I don’t want to pretend,” I whispered. “I’m Poppy and you’re Casteel, and this is real.”
― Jennifer L. Armentrout, A Kingdom of Flesh and Fire

“He was the first thing I’d ever truly chosen for myself.”
― Jennifer L. Armentrout, A Kingdom of Flesh and Fire

“Let’s make a deal that we don’t borrow tomorrow’s problems today.”
― Jennifer L. Armentrout, A Kingdom of Flesh and Fire

“Always,” he whispered in the breath we shared. “Your heart was always safe with me. It always will be. There is nothing I will protect more fiercely or with more devotion, Poppy. Trust in that—in what you feel from me.”
― Jennifer L. Armentrout, A Kingdom of Flesh and Fire

“You can’t spell dysfunctional without fun, now can you?”
― Jennifer L. Armentrout, A Kingdom of Flesh and Fire

“I fell for you when you were Hawke, and I kept falling for you when you became Casteel.”
― Jennifer L. Armentrout, A Kingdom of Flesh and Fire

“But even so, sometimes, the heartbreak that comes with loving someone is worth it, even if loving that person means eventually saying goodbye to them.”
― Jennifer L. Armentrout, A Kingdom of Flesh and Fire

“Make me feel incompetent and kill more than me, Princess.”
― Jennifer L. Armentrout, A Kingdom of Flesh and Fire

“He was both the villain and the hero, the monster and the monster-slayer.”
― Jennifer L. Armentrout, A Kingdom of Flesh and Fire

“He may hate being called the Dark One, but he has earned that name.” Kieran’s pale eyes met mine as a shiver curled its way down my spine. “But he’s the one thing in all the kingdoms that you, and only you, never have to fear.”
― Jennifer L. Armentrout, A Kingdom of Flesh and Fire

“Just so you know, Penellaphe doesn’t need protection. She is more than capable of handling things herself. But that is my future you are walking away with. Guard her well. Your life depends on it.”
― Jennifer L. Armentrout, A Kingdom of Flesh and Fire

“You’re beautiful when you’re quiet and somber, but when you laugh? You rival the sunrise over the Skotos Mountains.”
― Jennifer L. Armentrout, A Kingdom of Flesh and Fire

“I need to feel your lips on mine." He planted his hands on the carriage wall, caging me in. "I need to feel your breath in my lungs. I need to feel your life inside me. I just need you. It's an ache. This need. Can I have you? All of you?”
― Jennifer L. Armentrout, A Kingdom of Flesh and Fire

“The world, no matter how big, is often smaller than we realize.”
― Jennifer L. Armentrout, A Kingdom of Flesh and Fire

“You’re an absolutely stunning, murderous little creature,” he murmured.”
― Jennifer L. Armentrout, A Kingdom of Flesh and Fire

“Dear gods, you have her on her own horse? Soon, she’ll be running one of us over instead of stabbing us.”
― Jennifer L. Armentrout, A Kingdom of Flesh and Fire

“He had my whole heart, and he had from the moment he allowed me to protect myself, from the moment he stood beside me instead of in front of me.”
― Jennifer L. Armentrout, A Kingdom of Flesh and Fire

“You don’t deserve everything that I’ve laid at your feet, and you sure as hell don’t deserve the fact that I’m still trying to hold onto you. That when it comes time for you to leave, I’m still going to want you. Even when you inevitably do leave, I’ll still want you.”
― Jennifer L. Armentrout, A Kingdom of Flesh and Fire

“There is no side of you that is not as beautiful as the other half. Not a single inch isn’t stunning.” His lashes lifted, and the intensity in his stare held me captive. “That was true the first time I said it to you, and it is still the truth today and tomorrow.”
― Jennifer L. Armentrout, A Kingdom of Flesh and Fire

“I reacted without thought, slamming my elbow into his stomach. Casteel grunted out a curse.
“Please don’t fight atop the horse,” Delano called out from somewhere behind us. “None of us wish to watch Setti trample either of you.”
“Speak for yourself,” came Kieran’s droll voice.
Casteel straightened behind me. “Don’t worry. Neither of us will fall. It was just a love tap.”
“That did not look like a love tap,” Naill commented.
“That’s because it was a very passionate one,” Casteel replied.
“You’re about to get a love tap to your face,” I muttered under my breath. Casteel curled his arm more firmly around my waist as he laughed.”
― Jennifer L. Armentrout, A Kingdom of Flesh and Fire

“He smiled up at me, his eyes twin golden flames. “I do so prefer hand-to-hand combat with you,” he said, catching my other wrist when I swung my fist down. “I like how close it brings us, Princess.”
I shrieked my frustration – my irritation – at him. At myself. “There is something so wrong with you!”
“Probably, but you know what?” He lifted his head off the ground. “That’s the part you like the most.”
― Jennifer L. Armentrout, A Kingdom of Flesh and Fire

“His fingers slipped under it as his hand curved on my shoulder. "You lie so sweetly".
I ignored that. "Casteel---"
"But not as sweet as you say my name".
I let out a little growl. "You are..."
"Marvelous? Charming? Undeniable?"
"Increasingly annoying”
― Jennifer L. Armentrout, A Kingdom of Flesh and Fire

“A cell is a cell, no matter how comfortable it is.”
― Jennifer L. Armentrout, A Kingdom of Flesh and Fire

“I am Hawke,” he said after a moment. “And I am Casteel. I’m not two separate people, no matter how badly you want to believe that.”
― Jennifer L. Armentrout, A Kingdom of Flesh and Fire

“Feelings were not stagnant. Neither were opinions or beliefs, and if we stopped believing people were capable of change, then the world might as well be left to burn.”
― Jennifer L. Armentrout, A Kingdom of Flesh and Fire

“I lost myself to the freedom of being able to read any book I wanted.”
― Jennifer L. Armentrout, A Kingdom of Flesh and Fire

“Told him that if a woman fights with that kind of passion and makes you work that hard to earn even a smile, then that’s the kind of woman you want by your side in and out of the bedchamber.”
― Jennifer L. Armentrout, A Kingdom of Flesh and Fire

“Apparently, she already stabbed him once,” Jasper informed the Guardian. “In the heart.” Nova looked at me. “And she cut me earlier tonight. Threw a knife right at my face another time,” Casteel ticked off his fingers. “Then this one time, in the woods, she—” “No one wants to hear about how many times I’ve made you bleed,” I snapped. “I do,” Jasper remarked. Emil raised his hand. “So do I.”
― Jennifer L. Armentrout, A Kingdom of Flesh and Fire

“Oh, man,” Delano murmured under his breath as the rest of the room went dead silent. “Someone is getting stabbed again.”
― Jennifer L. Armentrout, A Kingdom of Flesh and Fire