54 Quotes About Damen

It was with a shock that he felt the touch of Laurent's fingers against the back of his wrist. [...] Laurent was shifting the fabric of his sleeve, sliding it back slightly to reveal the gold underneath, until the wrist cuff he had asked the blacksmith to leave on was exposed between them. 'Sentiment?' said Laurent.'Something like that.'Their eyes met and he could feel each beat of his heart. A few seconds of silence, a space that lengthened, until Laurent spoke.'You should give me the other.

He's the captive Kastor sent you to train?' said Torveld, curiously. 'He's--safe?''He looks combative, but he's really very docile and adoring,' said Laurent, 'like a puppy.''A puppy,' said Torveld.To demonstrate, Laurent picked up a confection of crushed nuts and honey and held it out to Damen as he had at the ring, between thumb and forefinger.'Sweetmeat?' said Laurent.In the stretched-out moment that followed, Damen thought explicitly about killing him.

She was intelligent, accomplished, beautiful. She was everything I could have asked for in a woman. But she was a king maker. She wanted power. She must have thought her only path to the throne was through Kastor.' 'My honourable barbarian. I wouldn't have picked that as your type.' 'Type?' 'A pretty face, a devious mind and a ruthless nature.

Don't think, he'd said, because it was easier than saying, Take me for who I am.He couldn't bear that suddenly. He wanted it without pretences, without excuses, his fingers curling hard into Laurent's hair.'It's me,' said Damen. 'It's me, here with you. Say my name.''Damianos.

Laurent stopped. Damen could see the moment when Laurent decided to continue. It was deliberate, his eyes meeting Damen's, his tone subtly changed. 'Damianos of Akielos was commanding troops at seventeen. At nineteen, he rode onto the field, cut a path through our finest men, and took my brother's life. They say--they said--he was the best fighter in Akielos. I thought, if I was going to kill someone like that, I would have to be very, very good.

You seem to vacillate between assistance and assault. Which is it?''I'm not surprised you've driven three men to try and kill you, I'm only surprised there weren't more,' said Damen, bluntly.'There were,' said Laurent, 'more.

What makes you think Kastor is the weaker man? you don't know him.' 'But I'm coming to know you,' said Laurent.

Damen said, 'Men, sometimes.''In the absence of women?''When I want them.''If I'd known that, I might have felt a frisson of danger, lying next to you.''You did know that,' said Damen

Friends,' said Laurent, 'Is that what we are?'[...]Damen said, with helpless honesty, 'Laurent, I am your slave.