Quotes About Sacrifice

He was on his knees before this female, and he'd gladly stay there for the rest of his life.

I have to go to her, Lucan. For my own sanity, if nothing else. If I stay here, I'm not sure what good I'd be, to tell you the truth. She's the only thing that's held me together in a very long time. I'm a wreck for this woman, my friend. She owns me now.

You would quit the Order for her? Niko asked, the youngest only behind Dante, and a warrior who relished his duty perhaps even more than Dante had himself. I would quit breathing for her, if she asked it of me.

If you were mine," he murmured low under his breath, "I would walk through the fires of hell itself to keep you away from a man like me.

Would I be healed now if you gave me your blood, Nikolai?" "Are you asking me for it?" "If I were, would you give it to me?

Leaving you was the last thing I ever wanted to do." He scowled, his grip holding her tighter, moving her farther into the heated wall of his body. "It was the hardest goddamn thing I've ever done. Ever, Claire.

I'm bonded to her, Lucan. I love her. If you want to keep me out of this, you're going to have to kill me right here and now.

As a girl, Mira had held his hand and led him out of a dark place. As a woman, she'd held his heart, despite his efforts to prove himself from caring for someone he could never bear to lose. Now he only hoped he'd find the strength to push Mira away, when all he wanted was to pull her close and never let her go.

Name your price and it's yours. She need never know." Nathan's answering curse was ripe outrage. Dark with fury. "There isn't enough goddamn money in the world. If you really love Jordana as much as I do, you'd know that.

the quest for truth by someone who isn't afraid to pursue it, no matter the cost.

You are a complication to be sure, Chiara Genova." He lifted her chin on the edge of his hand. His black irises swallowed her up, flecks of glowing embers mesmerizing her with their kindling heat. "You are also the most extraordinary woman I've ever met. And I would do anything – sacrifice any part of me, including my last breath – to keep you safe.

In spite of everything we've been through, there is still this. There will always be this. I know it as surely as I see the same truth reflected in his stormy blue eyes. We will be drawn together like this always, even if it hurts. Even if it destroys us.

I should let her go. I never should have brought her into any of this in the first place. But it's too late for that. Too late for either one of us. There's no undoing the connection that's been smoldering between us since our eyes locked for the first time. Now, those flames are on the verge of exploding into something neither of us can control.

Harvester's heart soared. Reaver had offered to castrate an archangel for her. How sweet was that?

You really believe that? He took a step toward her.' I'm risking Sin's life by putting off what I have to do to Kynan. I'm doing that for you. Not for Kynan or my brothers. I took a knife for you. I've kissed you over and over when I never kiss anyone. So why the hell would I want to see you suffer?

I will bear this pain for you," he swore. "If one of us has to bleed, it will be me. It'll always be me.

Give up the human, and I'll call them off," Reseph called out. "Fuck you." "Incest, brother?" He shrugged. "Well, hell, I've tried everything else since my Seal broke…

Either one of you kill him, or I will." Shade, Wraith and Kynan raised their hands to volunteer. How special. Brotherly love ran like syrup in the room.

All she'd ever wanted was to be good, so it was ironic that in order to do good, she'd had to become bad. She'd had to make everyone she cared about hate her. She'd had to lose everything, from her self-respect to her wings to her dreams of having friends and a family with Yenrieth, the only person she'd ever loved.

even though I knew I had a snowball's chance in Hades with you." She sniffed and wiped a tear with the back of her hand. "I just … I just wanted to give you something pure. It's all I have. Had. Everything else about me is tainted by demon blood. But I had that. And it's always been yours." -Gem to Kynan Excerpt From: Larissa Ione. "Desire Unchained." iBooks.

Was this what it felt like to do something unselfish? The sensation was weird. Uncomfortable, yet… not awful. Like liquor that tasted like shit but went down smooth.

This is Declan." Declan nodded. "Mr…Reaper." Azagoth grunted. "So you're the human who stole my daughter from me." "I didn't steal her from you, sir." Declan wrapped his arm around her shoulder and held her tight against his big chest. "She'll always be your daughter. I'm just here to worship her.

I love you, Cat," he whispered. "I don't know what I did to deserve you, but I hope you know that I'd do it all over again to be with you. Thousands of years of loneliness was worth every second you've been in my life.

I'm not leaving you." Her hot breath whispered across his ear, and his groin tightened. "I'd rather die with you than die alone.