Top quotes by Karen Marie Moning

Last night you said you wanted to know what to expect so you could better select your attire. I told you we were going to visit a vampire in a Goth-den tonight. Why, then, Ms. Lane, do you look like a perky rainbow? Votes: 26

I was in Cancun, Mexico, sitting in a disappearing-edge swimming pool, on a bar stool that was actually under the water, watching palm trees sway in a sultry breeze against the unmistakable aqua splendor of the Caribbean Sea; drinking coconut, lime, and tequila from a scooped-out pineapple, with salt spray of breaking surf and sun kissing my skin. Translation: I'd died and gone to heaven. Votes: 14

Oh, for heaven's sake, she thought with droll exasperation, this certainly explains a lot. It's no wonder I haven't been able to keep my hands off the blasted man since the day I met him. He's an artifact! A Celtic one at that! Votes: 13

Gwen smiled. "Hardly. Bedraggled is being in the full throes of nicotine withdrawal, and after a week on a bus with a group of senior citizens, falling into a cave, and landing on a body." "And then getting tossed back a few centuries, with no idea of what's going on," Chloe agreed. "Naked, too, weren't you?" Gwen nodded wryly. Gabby blinked. "I gave you my plaid," Drustan protested indignantly. Votes: 13

If I entered a tropical beach, would I end up in Nazi Germany with my highly inconvenient black hair? Votes: 11

I can see you are a fine lady, but this boy is randy as a goat around you and it's plain to see. If he seeks the joys of wedded bliss, he can wed you. Without a weddin' he'll be havin' no bliss. Votes: 10

And then what? Said, 'Oh, I'm so sorry, Ms. Lane, I didn't mean to wrinkle your lovely blouse. May I press that for you?' Or perhaps you gouged it with one of your pretty pink nails?" I was really beginning to wonder what his hang-up with pink was, but I didn't resent the sarcasm in his voice. Votes: 9

His heavy-lidded gaze reflected a languor that had nothing to do with having just awakened, and there was no doubt what was on his mind. But this is no safe cherry picker, Gwen thought, growing more concerned by the moment. This man looks like a cherry tree chopper-downer. Votes: 9

Basque and Celt. Criminals and barbarians. I didn't think there could be a more primitive pairing of genes. Votes: 8

I've tried to move [the sidhe-seers] during times of peace and quiet and had the luck of a broken mirror nailed beneath an upside-down horseshoe with a ladder nearby that a black cat just walked under. Votes: 8

If he'd been any other man and i'd been any other girl, I'd have called the narrowing of his heavy-lidded dark eyes lust. But he was Barrons and I was Mac, and a blossoming of lust was about as likely as orchids blooming in Antarctica Votes: 7

Barrons breaks heads. Ryodan turns them inside out. Barrons fucks you up. Ryodan makes you fuck yourself up. He pushes buttons and rearranges things according to his own private, coolly sociopathic plan. Votes: 7

Sighing dismally, she acknowledged that some things just weren't humanly possible - not even Martha Stewart could fold fitted sheets." Votes: 7

I know part of what turns me on so hard, makes me so violent with lust, is that he's dangerous. I fell for the bad guy. I'm crazy about the one who's trouble. The alpha that doesn't play well with others and doesn't take orders from anyone. Votes: 7

Dying is overrated. Human sentimentality has twisted it into the ultimate act of love. Biggest load of bullshit in the world. Dying for someone isn't the hard thing. The man that dies escapes. Plain and simple. Game over. End of pain...Try living for someone. Through it all-good, bad, thick, thin, joy, suffering. That's the hard thing. Votes: 6

Almost only counts in hand grenades and horseshoes. Votes: 6

Unbelievable," I heard Christian mutter behind me. "She toops them both?" I head Drustan ask. "And they permit it?" Dageus sounded baffled. I looked between V'lane and Barrons. "This isn't even about me." "You're wrong about that." Barrons reached into his pocket and pulled out a cell phone. "You know how to find me if you want me." He was walking away. "More nifty acronyms?" He was gone. Votes: 6

I'm not the hero, Mac. Never have been. Never will be. Let us be perfectly clear: I'm not the antihero, either, so quit waiting to discover my hidden potential. There's nothing to redeem me. Votes: 6

I must be dreaming. Bring that sweet ass over here and I'll show you what God made women and well-hung Scotsmen for. Votes: 4

He gives me a look. I'm not even looking at him and I can feel it. Votes: 4

Lust is a thing of the blood. Doesn't need head or heart. Votes: 4

Unbelievable," I heard Christian mutter behind me"She toops them both?" I head Drustan ask"And they permit it?" Dageus sounded baffled. I looked between V'lane and Barrons"This isn't even about me." "You're wrong about that." Barrons reached into his pocket and pulled out a cell phone"You know how to find me if you want me." He was walking away"More nifty acronyms?" He was gone. Votes: 4

Basque and Celt. Criminals and barbarians. I didn't think there could be a more primitive pairing of genes." Votes: 4

Holy borrowing bibliophile, let's book! Votes: 3

The entire time I'm burning in Hell, I'll regret each tear I made you weep. But if Hell were the price for twenty days with you, I'd condemn myself again and again. - Cian MacKeltar Votes: 3

His coworker was velvety-skinned, a sexy boy-on-the-cusp-of man. Votes: 1

A fecking flamethrower! Why didn't I think of that? Best I came up with was a measly hair dryer. Votes: 1

And now she was just Gabby, currently staying in a dreamy, magnificent castle in Scotland with a Fae prince who did all kinds of non-nasty, non-inhuman things like tearing up lists of names, and returning tadpoles to lakes, and saving people's lives. Not to mention kissing with all the otherwordly splendor of a horny angel." Votes: 1

He'd made her feel what Barrons made me feel. Bigger than I could possibly be, larger than life, on fire with possibilities, ecstatic to be breathing, impatient for the next moment together. She'd been happy in those last months, so alive and happy." Votes: 1

Burns from dropped matches, Ms. Lane? Matches one might have dropped while flirting with a perniciousFae, Ms. Lane? Have you any idea the value of this rug?"I didn't think his nostrils could flare any wider. His eyes were black flamePernicious? Good grief, is Englishyour second language? Third?" Only someone who'd learned English from a dictionary would use such a word."Fifth," he snarledAnswer me." Votes: 1

Sit," Chloe said, dashing after him and tugging firmly at his sleeve. "Let's hear the rest of it. You can kill him later." ~Chloe to Dageus. Votes: 0

She's too young. Too innocent. Too human. For what I'm becoming. Votes: 0

I think dating courtesies are common courtesies that should be practiced in most all civilized encounters. I pine for the days of good, old-fashioned manners. Votes: 0

We are not perfect. What god is Examine yours. According to your mythos he was so disappointed with his initial efforts creating your race that he tried again. At least we imprisoned our mistakes. Your god permits his to roam free. At a mere few thousand years old your creation myths are far more absurd than ours. Votes: 0

Nobody looks good in their darkest hours. But it's those hours that make us what we are. Votes: 0

Born in a generation that thinks cynical and disenchanted is cool, sometimes I'm a little off the beaten track. Votes: 0

I can smell you, Ms. Lane," he said, even more softly. "The only blood on you is from your veins, not your womb." My head whipped to the left and I stared at him. Ok, that was one of the more disturbing things he'd ever said to me. Votes: 0

It's just that in the Deep South, women learn at a young age that when the world is falling apart around you, it's time to take down the drapes and make a new dress. Votes: 0

Think you two puny Druids can hold this keep for a single night? Votes: 0

Superglue after duct tape a girl's best friend. Votes: 0

Valhalla on the right. Paradise regained on the left. Stuck between a Godiva truffle and a chocolate eclair. Between a rock and a very hard place. Two very hard places from the looks of it. Votes: 0

Barrons has something the rest of us don't have. I don't know what it is, but I feel it all the time, especially when we're standing close. Beneath the expensive clothes, unplaceable accent, and cultured veneer, there's something that never crawled all the way out of the swamp. It didn't want to. It likes it there. Votes: 0

Tuatha De do not walk the human realm alone. Actually, they don't walk alone much anywhere. Only the occasional rogue Fae will do so." "Like yourself?" "Yes Most of my kind have no fondness for solitude. Those who walk alone are not to be trusted." "Really," she said dryly. "Except for me," he amended, with a faint, insouciant grin. Votes: 0

And now she was just Gabby, currently staying in a dreamy, magnificent castle in Scotland with a Fae prince who did all kinds of non-nasty, non-inhuman things like tearing up lists of names, and returning tadpoles to lakes, and saving people's lives. Not to mention kissing with all the otherwordly splendor of a horny angel. Votes: 0

I always thought fainting showed an inherent weakness of character, but I understood it now. It was an act of self-preservation. Confronted by emotion too extreme to handle, the body shuts down to keep from running around like a chicken with its head cut off, potentially injuring itself. Votes: 0

He pulls me around and kisses me. "You're Mac," he says. "And I'm Jericho. And nothing else matters. Never will. You exist in a place that is beyond all rules for me. Do you understand that?" I do. Jericho Barrons just told me he loves me. Votes: 0

Jericho Barrons was my poison now. Votes: 0

Unpredictable as a hungry lion, he might be feared by everyone else, but he never ripped out my throat, only licked me, and, if his tongue was a little rough sometimes, it was worth it to walk beside the king of the jungle. Votes: 0

I wondered what one wore to visit a vampire. The chic red sweater set didn't go so well with my darker hair, and I was afraid it might be construed as a flirtatious invitation to color me bloodier. Votes: 0

Don't accuse me of being morbid when I'm merely the product of a culture that buries the bones of the ones they love in pretty, manicured flower gardens so they can keep them nearby and go talk to them whenever they feel troubled or depressed. That's morbid. Not to mention bizarre. Dogs bury bones, too. Votes: 0

Dubh is do?" I was incredulous. It was no wonder I hadn't been able to find the stupid word. "Should I be calling pubs poos?" "Dubh is Gaelic, Ms. Lane. Pub is not. Votes: 0

I began to cry. Barrons looked horrified. "Stop that immediately, Ms. Lane." "I can't." I sniffeled into my cup pf cocoa so he couldn't see my face. "Try harder!" I gave a great sniff and shudder, and turned it off. "I have not been her lover for...some time," he offered, watching me carefully. "Oh, get over yourself! Votes: 0

You want to believe in black and white, good and evil, heroes that are truly heroic, villains that are just plain bad, but I've learned in the past year that things are rarely so simple. The good guys can do some truly awful things, and the bad guys can sometimes surprise the heck out of you. Votes: 0

Barrons laughed again. "And there, my dear Fio, you make one of Womankind's greatest mistakes: Falling in love with a man's potential. We so rarely share the same view of it, and even more rarely care to achieve it. Stop pining for the man you think I could be -- and take a good, long, hard look at the one I am. Votes: 0

As his other hand began to slip around her waist, his body brushed against hers, and there was no mistaking the thick, hard ridge grazing her jean-clad bottom. Heavens, did that thing never subside? The rest of him might be mortal, but his immortal erection certainly didn't scan to have gotten the memo. Votes: 0

Just one time before I turn into the villain of this piece, just one time before I become the fourth and final Unseelie prince, I want to be her Highlander. And her hero. Votes: 0

He had a come-and-get-me-baby-I'm-pure-trouble-and-you're-gonna-love-it kind of attitude. Votes: 0

You're not falling for me, are you, Irish?" -Adam to Gabrielle Votes: 0

How dare the embodiment of her worst nightmare come packaged as her hottest fantasy? Votes: 0

There should be a vaccine against Adam Black. And all women should be given it at birth. Votes: 0

That part of his body was simply uncontrollable, apparently functioning in accordance to a single law of nature: She existed--he got a hard-on. Votes: 0

Hope strengthens. Fear kills[...] That simple adage is master of every situation, every choice. Each morning we wake up, we get to choose between hope and fear and apply one of those emotions to everything we do. Do we greet things that come our way with joy? Or suspicion? Votes: 0

I'm sorry your pretty little world got all screwed up, but everybody's does, and you go on. It's how you go on that defines you. Votes: 0

Abruptly, she knew that after this night she was never going to be the same again. Nothing was ever going to be the same. Oh, yes, the man could define himself as the dawning of an epoch if he wanted to. There was, quite simply, before Adam and after Adam. Votes: 0

Time heals. No, it doesn't. At best, time is the great leveler, sweeping us all into coffins. We find ways to distract ourselves from the pain. Time is neither scalpel nor bandage. It is indifferent. Scar tissue is not a good thing. It is merely the wound's other face. Votes: 0

Jericho Barrons just told me he loves me. Votes: 0

You're Mac, and I'm Jericho. And nothing else matters. Votes: 0

Barrons, Jericho: I haven't the faintest fecking clue. He keeps saving my life. I suppose that's something. Votes: 0

Jericho." "Mac." "Thank you for saving my life. Again. Votes: 0

Four: If you try to force yourself into my head, I will force myself into your pants. Votes: 0

We're translating the Kama Sutra," Barrons said, with interactive aids. Votes: 0

... You have me in your mouth, you don't get anybody else. Or you don't get me." - Jericho Barrons Votes: 0

-I'm going to kill the kid. - Barrons says faintly. Ryodan makes a burbling sound like a bodly laught. -Get in line Votes: 0

Nobody home but She for Whom I Am the World. Can't go on like this, can't keep doing it.- Jericho Barrons Votes: 0

Since the moment I laid eyes on Jericho Barrons, I wanted him. I wanted him to do things to me that pink and clueless MacKayla Lane was shocked and appalled and ... okay, yeah, well, utterly fascinated to find herself thinking about. Votes: 0

Sometimes, Ms. Lane," he said, "one must break with one's past to embrace one's future. It is never an easy thing to do. It is one of the distinguishing characteristics between survivors and victims. Letting go of what was, to survive what is. Votes: 0

My heart has jet lag. Votes: 0

Safety is a fence, and fences are for sheep. I would rather die at twenty-two, knowing the truth, then live in a cage of lies for a hundred years. Votes: 0

You're leaving me, Rainbow Girl. Votes: 0

He closes his hand around mine and I hold on. I like his hand. It's big and holds easy but sure. It's the kind of hold that says, I got you if you want me, but I'll let you go if you feel like running for a while. Votes: 0

His face was in my neck and he was breathing hard. Was he grieving me? Already? Would he miss me? Had I, in some tiny way, come to matter to this enigmatic, hard, brilliant, obsessed man? I realised he'd come to matter to me. Good or evil, right or wrong, he mattered to me... Votes: 0

I have studied humans for a small eternity. Intent infuses their every movement. Road maps to their inner navigation, plastered all over their skin. Born to be slaves. Votes: 0

Yes, I have loved, Ms. Lane, and although it's none of your business, I have lost. Many things. Votes: 0

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Churches crack me up. They're like money, a conspiracy of faith. Like everyone agreed to believe that not only is there a God, but he comes down and checks on folks, so long as they hang in certain places, put up alters, burn lots of candles and incense, and perform sit-stand-kneel and other wacky rituals that'd make a coven of witches not look OCD. Votes: 0

He goes for stark versus accessorized, dark over bright, jewel tone instead of pastel, carnal over flirty. Votes: 0

No matter how people try to dispute it, perception is reality. Its what you choose to believe that makes you the person you are. Votes: 0

You and I more than anyone else in the universe are perfect for each other. Votes: 0

Mom raised us to believe that every lie puts something out there in the world that's inevitably going to come back and bite you in the petunia. Votes: 0

If he were any other man, I might have suspected him of substance abuse, of being coked up or something. But Barrons was too much a purist for that; his drugs were money, power, and control Votes: 0

The power of thought is far greater than most people ever realize. Votes: 0

Some people fall apart when they get hurt. Puddle into apathy and despair and never recover. They wait all their lives for someone to come along and rescue them. Votes: 0

She's my baby girl, Quinn. I want love for her. Real love. The kind that makes a man crazy inside. -Gibraltar to Quinn Votes: 0

He kissed like no man she'd ever known. There was something about him, a rawness, an earthy sensuality that bordered on barbaric, something she'd never be able to explain to someone else. A woman had to be kissed by Dageus MacKeltar to fully understand how devastating it was. How it could bring a woman to her knees. Votes: 0

Life's not linear at all. It happens in lighting flashes. So fast you don't see those lay-you-out cold moments coming at you until you're Wile E. Coyote, steamrolled flat as a pancake by the Road Runner, victim of your own elaborate schemes. Votes: 0

He looked as if he'd stepped straight off the cover of one of those romance novels she ordered from Amazon.com so she didn't have to be embarassed by some supercilious male clerk in the bookstore. Votes: 0

Turn it off," Ryodan says without even looking at me. "You're distressing Dani. No one distresses Dani but me. Votes: 0

You'll never be just anything. A tsunami can never be just a wave (...) Waves are banal. Tsunamis reshape the Earth Votes: 0

The wound you refuse to dress is one that will never heal. You gush lifeblood and never even know why. It will make you weak at a critical moment when you need to be strong. Votes: 0

Some of us are born more than once. Some of us recreate ourselves many times. Ryodan says adaptability is survivability. Ryodan says a lot of stuff. Sometimes I listen, All I know is, every time I open my eyes, my brian kicks on. Something wakes up deep in my belly, and I know I'll do anything it takes... To. Just. Keep. Breathing. Votes: 0

I hammered him with my fists. He just stood and took it. He didn't suffer graciously, he looked pissed off to no end. But he let me hit him. And he didn't hit me back. Votes: 0

When he'd pushed inside me and I'd feel him begin to penetrate, it had turned me into a wild thing-hot, wet, and desperate for more of him. With every kiss, every caress, every thrust, I'd just needed more. He'd touched me, I went nuts. The world dwindled down to one thing: him. Votes: 0

I go inside my head and become that other me, the one I don't tell anybody about.The observer...I live in terror that one day I won't get to be Dani again. Votes: 0

It's our actions that define us. What we choose. What we resist. What we're willing to die for. Votes: 0

Oh, please," I rolled my eyes, "You're a leftie, Barrons.""Touche, Ms. Lane," he murmured. Votes: 0

Keeping vigil over her are two monsters of very different breeds but monster just the same.Death on her left.Devil on her right. Votes: 0

there are three kinds of people in the world: those who don't know and don't know they don't know; those who don't know and do know they don't know; and those who know and know how much they still don't know. Votes: 0

It's not enough to listen to their words. You have to mine their silences for buried ore. It's often only in the lies that we refuse to speak that truth can be heard at all. Votes: 0

It's funny how, when things seem the darkest, moments of beauty present themselves in the most unexpected places. Votes: 0

And there, my dear Fio, you make one of Womankind's greatest mistakes: falling in love with a man's potential. We so rarely share the same view of it, and even more rarely care to achieve it. Votes: 0

One day you do meet a man who kisses you and you can't breathe around it and you realize you don't need air. Votes: 0

He is my vulnerability Votes: 0

He was sexual in a way that made women think of deeply repressed fantasies therapists and feminists alike would cringe to hear tell of. Votes: 0

I am going to love you now, slow and sweet, but when you come, I'm going to f*** you the way I need to. The way I've been dreaming about since the moment I saw you. Votes: 0

Finally, Dageus finished, and she heard Gwen and Chloe say simultaneously, breathlessly, "Oh, my God."Gabby opened her eyes. Drustan had risen to his feet and was scowling, an expression mirrored by his twin. Both were glaring at Adam--whom they obviously could now see. Then at their wives, then back at Adam. Votes: 0

It's often only in the lies we refuse to speak that any truth can be heard at all. Votes: 0

One day you will kiss a man you can't breathe without, and find that breath is of little consequence. Votes: 0

Keep hoping to see the light in her eyes. Even knowing it'll mean she's saying good-bye. Votes: 0

You've mistaken me for someone else. Do not wait on me, Ms. Lane. Do not construct your world around mine. I'm not that man." "Screw you, Barrons." "I'm not that man, either. Votes: 0

Evil is a completely different creature, Mac. Evil is bad that believes it's good. Votes: 0

Chloe-lass: If I'm not here with you now, I'm beyond this life, for 'tis the only way I'll ever let you go. ... I hoped I loved you well, sweet, for I know even now that you are my brightest shining star. I knew it the moment I saw you. Ah, lass, you so adore your artifacts. This thief covets but one priceless treasure: You. Dageus -In a letter Votes: 0

What is trust, sidhe-seer, but expectation that another will behave in a certain fashion, consistent with prior actions? Votes: 0

Mac: "It's not the sidhe-seers." He stopped and went very still. JZB: "Who is it?" Mac: "The MacKeltars." He was silent a long moment. Then he began to laugh, softly. JZB: "Well played, Ms. Lane." Mac: "I had a good teacher." JZB: "The best. Hop on one foot, Ms. Lane." Mac and Barrons Votes: 0

Like sheep, sidhe-seers herd by nature, until you *want* them to go somewhere. Then they're all fluffy bottoms and broken. Votes: 0

I wasn't prepared for death. Nobody is. You lose someone you love more than you love yourself, and you get a crash course in mortality. You lie awake night after night, wondering if you really believe in heaven and hell and finding all kinds of reasons to cling to faith, because you can't bear to believe they aren't out there somewhere, a few whispered words of a prayer away. Votes: 0

Nobody looks good in their darkest hour. But it's those hours that make us what we are. We stand strong, or we cower. We emerge victorious, tempered by our trails, or fracture by a permanent, damning fault line. Votes: 0

One of the primary tenets of the course was that highly successful leaders kept journals, morning and night, in order to stay tightly focused on their goals. Votes: 0

There was pain, but there was also joy. It was in the tension between the two that life happened. Imperfect as it was, this world was real. Illusion was no substitute. I'd rather live a hard life of fact than a sweet life of lies. Votes: 0

I'd rather live a hard life of fact than a sweet life of lies. Votes: 0

Sometimes my dreams feel so real it's hard to believe they're just the subconscious's stroll across a whimsical map that has no true north. Votes: 0

Truth hurts. But lies can kill. Votes: 0

I'd turn and run but I'm anchored by two dudes that could hold the Titanic during a tsunami. Votes: 0

Driving a hot car is a lot like sex to me, or a lot like I keep thinking sex should be: A total body experience, overwhelming, to all the senses, taking you places you've never been, packing a punch that leaves you breathless and touches your soul. The Viper was way more satisfying then my last boyfriend. Votes: 0

I wake up wating you. I fall asleep wanting you. I watch a magnificent sunrise and can think only of sharing it with you. I glimpse a piece of amver and see your eyes. Jillian, I've caught a disease, and the fever abates only when I'm near you. Votes: 0

Werewolves? Oh please, just plain stupid. Who wants to get it on with a man ruled by his inner dog? Votes: 0

Flirtation doesn't have to go somewhere; it certainly doesn't need to end up in bed. I like to think of it as a little friendlier than a handshake, a little less intimate than a kiss. It's a way of saying hi, you look great, have a wonderful day. A tasteful flirtation, played out people who understand the rules, leave everyone feeling good and can perk up the bluest mood. Votes: 0

Love knows no right or wrong. Love is. Only is. Votes: 0

Then you will simply have to see for yourself. Touch me, lass. Feel my ...sock." His silver gaze sizzled with challenge, as he unzipped his zipper. Uh-uh." She shook her head for added emphasis. Then find me a pair of trews that doona threaten to sever my manparts. Votes: 0

...When a man first awakens, it sometimes takes several moments before he starts thinking clearly." "And here I thought it took several years, perhaps a lifetime for the average man's intellect to kick in. Votes: 0

A comfort zone can be a mental state:Belief in God is a lot of peoples's comfort zone. Dont get me wrong, I'm not knocking faith; I just dont think you should have it because it makes you feel safe. I think you should have it because you do. Because somewhere deep inside you, you know beyond equivocating that something greater, wiser and infinitely more loving than we're capable of understanding has a vested interested in the universe, in the way things turn out. Because you can feel that, as much as the forces of darkness might try to gain the upper hand, there is an Upper Hand. Votes: 0

A lamb in a city of wolves. Votes: 0

A little blood never bothers me. Votes: 0

A wing or a thigh? Ah, I'm afraid we don't have any thighs left. Votes: 0

A woman whoâs lived in a cage all her life. And hates it. Bored in there, arenât you. Waiting for life to happen. And when it finally does, it steals from you what you loved most. So take back. Explode. Lash out. Blow up Votes: 0

Air ye deaf, lass?" I think. He might have called me a hairy jackass Votes: 0

All I need is a badly mangled, irate sentence stalking me. Votes: 0

All my life, up until that moment, I'd had a warm, protective blanket wrapped around me, knitted of aunts and uncles, purled of first and second and third cousins, knot-tied with grandmas and grandpas and greats. That blanket had just dropped from my shoulders. I felt cold, lost and alone. Votes: 0

All those 'bloodys' was a veritable cornucopia of emotion for Barrons. Votes: 0

Although it may not seem like it, this isnât a story about darkness. Itâs about light. Kahlil Gibran says Your joy can fill you only as deeply your sorrow has carved you. If youâve never tasted bitterness, sweet is just another pleasant flavor on your tongue. One day Iâm going to hold a lot of joy. Votes: 0

Although love could grow in times of peace, it tempered in battle. Daddy told me once - when I'd said something about how perfect his relationship with Mom was - that I should have seen the first five years of their marriage, that they'd fought like hellions, crashed into each other like two giant stones. That eventually they'd eroded each other into the perfect fit, become a single wall, nestled into each other's curves and hollows, her strengths chinking his weaknesses, her weaknesses reinforced by his strengths. Votes: 0

An ait a bhfuil do chroi is ann a thabharfas do chosa thu.(your feet will bring you to where your heart is.) Votes: 0

Ancient eyes had stared at me, filled with ancient grief. And something more. Something so alien and unexpected that I'd almost burst into tears. I'd seen many things in his eyes in the time that I'd known him: lust, amusement, sympathy, mockery, caution, fury. But I had never seen this. Hope. Jericho Barrons had hope, and I was the reason for it. I would never forget his smile. It had illuminated him from the inside out. Votes: 0

And after I act as your intermediary and he takes you back to Faery, then what?" "Then all will be made right, and I'll be invincible again." She rolled her eyes. "I meant, what happens to me? While you may be the most important thing to your egotistical little self in your narcissistic little world, guess whatâ so am I in mine. Votes: 0

-and nobodyâs getting laid!â I practically shouted. âYou think I donât know that?â He shifted his body beneath me, making me painfully aware of something. Two somethings, in fact, one of which was how far up my short skirt was. The other wasnâ Votes: 0

And there you have it...if I knew that I could only have a few nights in that man's arms or nothing, I would take those magic nights and use them to keep me warm for the rest of my life. Votes: 0

And when he did that, my hands curled into fists because I thought about touching his face like maybe I could catch joy in my hands and hold it. Votes: 0

Anyone worth knowing breaks once. Once. No shame, no foul if you survive it. You did. Votes: 0

Are we, like, having a conversation?" "Did you just, like, ask me for advice and listen with an open mind? If so, then yes, I would call this a conversation Votes: 0

Are you decent?" a woman's voice called, pushing the door cautiously ajar. "Nay, but we're clothed," Cian purred. Votes: 0

As he closed the door he said over his shoulder, "Because you're a good lass." A heavy sigh. "And I'm no' a good man. Votes: 0

As I moved deeper into the room, his gaze dropped to my feet, and worked its way back to my face. I was wearing faded jeans, boots, and a snug pink Juicy T-shirt I got on sale at TJ Maxx last summer that said Iâm a Juicy girl. âI bet you are,â he murmured. Votes: 0

As she lifted the glittering strand of diamonds from the box, a small slip of paper fell out. She caught it as it wafted toward the floor. Four words in ancient script, an arrogantly slanted scrawl. Accept these, accept me. Well, she thought, blinking, that was certainly direct and to the point. -Adam's note to Gabrielle Votes: 0

Assume' makes an 'ass' out of 'u' and 'me'. Votes: 0

At the very last moment, just before its lips claimed hers, its grip on her face relaxed slightly and she did the only thing she could think of: She head-butted it. Snapped her head back, then forward again, and bashed it square in the face as hard as she could. So hard, in fact, that it made her woozy and gave her an instant migraine, making her wonder how Jean-Claude Van Damme always managed to coolly continue fighting after such a stunt. Obviously, movies lied. Votes: 0

Barrons had just given me the most carnal, sexually charged hungry look I'd ever seen in my life, and I was pretty sure he didn't even know he had done it. Votes: 0

Barrons knows virtually everything about me. I wouldnât be surprised if somewhere he has a little file that encompasses my entire life to date, with neatly mounted, acerbically captioned photosâsee Mac sunbathe, see Mac paint her nails, see Mac almost die. Votes: 0

Barrons was powerful, broodingly good-looking, insanely wealthy, frighteningly intelligent, and had exquisite taste, not to mention a hard body that emitted some kind of constant low-level charge. Bottom line: He was the stuff of heroes. And psychotic killers. Votes: 0

Barrons: "He got upset it wouldn't shut up and tore its head off." Mac: "The child?" I gasped Votes: 0

Barronsâ lips twitched. Iâd almost made him smile. Barrons smiles about as often as the sun comes out in Dublin, and it has the same effect on me; makes me feel warm and stupid. Votes: 0

Beautiful women rarely possess sufficient depth of character to survive without their pretty feathers. Votes: 0

Bedevil the devil and devil be dammed. I fear no devil and bow to no man. - Adam Black Votes: 0

Being nearly naked around Barrons felt a lot like going to a shark convention lightly basted in blood. Votes: 0

Being threatened seems to being out the worst in me. Votes: 0

Bring it on, Tinker Bell. Votes: 0

Burns from dropped matches, Ms. Lane? Matches one might have dropped while flirting with a pernicious Fae, Ms. Lane? Have you any idea the value of this rug?â I didnât think his nostrils could flare any wider. His eyes were black flame. âPernicious? Good grief, is English your second language? Third?â Only someone whoâd learned English from a dictionary would use such a word. âFifth,â he snarled. âAnswer me. Votes: 0

But he didn't need to seek visual confirmation of what he'd just heard to know she had. And the truth was, he couldn't blame her. He'd not have let her die, either. He'd have moved mountains. He'd have battled God or Devil for his wife's life. She'd betrayed him. He smiled faintly. Votes: 0

But it seems Ive got this set of scales inside me that I never used to have, or at least I wasnt aware of, and I cant shake the feeling that if I dont try to keep them balanced, Ill lose something I wont be able to get back. Votes: 0

But then we so rarely understand the value of what we possess until it's gone. Votes: 0

Caring is love. And love fights! Love doesn't look for the path of least resistance. Votes: 0

Cat got your tongue? And what a lovely tongue it is. I know. It licked every inch of me. Repeatedly. For months," He purred but with steel in the velvet Votes: 0

Could words and symbols wield such power? Could mere scribblings on parchment unmake a person's moral fiber? Weren't we made of sterner stuff? Votes: 0

Daddy looked at her hard, and right before my eyes, he changed. I watched him inflate again, shake off his own emotions and puff himself up for her. Become her man. Her rock. I smiled. I loved him so much. He'd dragged mom kicking and screaming from grief once before and I knew I could rest easy that he would never let grief steal her from him again. No matter what happened to me. Votes: 0

Dani, Dani, Dani." I flinch. I've never heard anyone say my name so gently. It creeps me all kinds of out. He's towering over me, arms crossed over his chest, scarred forearms dark against the rolled-up sleeves of a crisp white shirt. Heavy silver cuffs glint at both wrists. The light is smack behind his head, as usual. "You didn't really think I'd let you get away with it," Ryodan says. Votes: 0

Dishonesty increases disorder exponentially. It's hard enough to communicate when you're telling the truth. Votes: 0

Distinguish yourself [...] in an age where girls often make themselves too available to boys, by making him work a little for your attention. He'll think he's won a prize when he gets it, and he'll work that much harder to keep it. Boys turn into men and men put a premium on what's hard to get. Votes: 0

Do you think a woman can give a man everything while still withholding her heart? We are not made that way! - Fiona Votes: 0

Do your thing, Ms. Lane. you might be criminally young, but the night is not. Votes: 0

Don't bother trying to guilt me. Ask my other. It doesn't work. Votes: 0

Don't celebrate yet, Ms. Lane. Don't believe anything is dead until you've burned it, poked around in its ashes, and then waited a day or two to see if anything rises from them. Votes: 0

Don't leave me, Rainbow Girl." Rainbow Girl. Was that who I was? It seemed so long ago. I smiled faintly. "Remember the skirt I wore to MallucÃ©'s the night you told me to dress Goth?" "It's upstairs in your closet. Never throw it away. It looked like a wet dream on you. Votes: 0

Don't lose yourself to anger. It's gasoline. You can burn it as fuel, or you can use it to torch everything you care about and end up standing on a scorched battlefield, with everybody dead, even you-only your body doesn't have the good grace to quit breathing Votes: 0

Dude, got eyes? I'm collecting evidence." [...] "In Ziploc bags." "I think they're Glad." "They look impartial to me. Votes: 0

Dude, the bush is ready. Why you still beating around it?â âIâve lived a long time, kid, and Iâve never heard anyone mutilate the English language quite like you. Votes: 0

Dude. Post-apocalyptic world. Who does job applications anymore?â âI do.â I squint at it, then him. âWhat are you paying me?â I angle. âDude. Post-apocalyptic world. Who does money anymore.â I snicker. First sign of any sense of humor heâs shown. Then I remember where I am and why. I wad it up and throw it at him. It bounces off his chest. Votes: 0

Either I can stay up here and freeze my ladycrackers off trying to find a falling star, or you can do something about it yourself. Iâ and my freezing nether regionsâ would thank you most assuredly. As would all of Dalkeith. Do something, man.â - Grimm Votes: 0

Even I don't know what you're doing, and I know everything. Votes: 0

Even now, my back was still arched with sensual invitation, my bottom was questing up like a cat in heat, and my every move was supple, sinuous. I was one great big come-hither. Votes: 0

Every time I think Iâm getting smarter I realize that Iâve just done something stupid. Dad says there are three kinds of people in the world: those who donât know, and donât know they donât know; those who donât know and do know they donât know; and those who know and know how much they still donât know. Heavy stuff, I know. I think Iâve finally graduated from the donât-knows that donât know to the donât-knows that do. Votes: 0

Every time I think Iâm getting wiser, more in control of my actions, I go slamming into a situation that makes me excruciatingly aware that all Iâve succeeded in doing is swapping one set of delusions for a more elaborate, attractive set of delusions Votes: 0

Feelings, emotions - they are neither right nor wrong. They cannot be assigned a value. Feelings *are*. By labeling a feeling wrong, you force yourself to ignore that feeling. And what you most need is to feel it, let it burn through you, then get on with life. Votes: 0

Finally, he knew the kind of loving that made two one and understood Jane was his world. His ocean, his country, his sun, his rain, his very heart. Votes: 0

Fire isnât good or bad. It just burns. Votes: 0

Fire to my ice. Ice to my fever. Votes: 0

For the past few years, I've been on a quest for a good old-fashioned date, the kind where the guy calls, makes the plans, picks you up in a car that's not his dad's or his other girlfriend's, and takes you somewhere that shows he put thought into what you might like, not what he might get off on like the latest how-many-naked-boobs-can-we-cram-into-this-movie-to-disguise-the-complete-lack-of-plot movie. I'm looking for the kind of date that starts with good conversation , has a sweet and satisfying middle, and ends with long, slow kisses and the dreamy feeling that you're walking on clouds. Votes: 0

For the record, Irish," he informed her tightly, just in case she got the wrong idea, "I kneel to no one. Votes: 0

For what other reason would you have me save you? Because I like you? Better to be useful than liked. Votes: 0

Friends donât build cages for each other. Votes: 0

Gah, some chicks should be shot. Put out of everyone else's reproduction pool. Votes: 0

Gazelles didn't lie down with lions, at least not unbloodied and alive. Votes: 0

Get back on the bike and tell me where to go." "I'll tell you where to go," I muttered sourly, and he laughed. Votes: 0

God Said: Let there be light! I said: Say please. Votes: 0

Good and evil are merely opposite sides of a coin. Get tossed in the air enough, it's easy to come down on the wrong side. Votes: 0

Goor or evil, right or wrong, he mattered to me. Votes: 0

Got to love a dude that says things like "kinetic" and "detritus. Votes: 0

Grief shared was grief lessened. Votes: 0

Hard. Fast. Deep. When I'm done you'll know you're mine. Votes: 0

Have you ever had one of those moments when time just freezes? You know, when the world suddenly goes deathly still, and you could hear a pin drop, and the squishing sound your heart makes is so loud in your ears you feel like youre drowning in blood, and you stand there in that suspended moment and die a thousand deaths, but not really, and the moment passes and dumps you out on the other side of it, with your mouth hanging open, and an erased blackboard where your mind used to be? Votes: 0

He didn't just kiss, he claimed ownership. Took her mouth with urgency, as if his life depended on his kissing her. Votes: 0

He doesnât beat me,â I said irritably. âIâd kill him if he did.â âShe would. She has a temper. Stubborn, too. But weâre working on that, arenât we, Ms. Lane? Votes: 0

He gives me a look that says, âDude, if I knew that do you think Iâd have enlisted your puny help?â I snicker. âSomething funny here.â âYou. All prickly and pissed âcause thereâs something you donât know. Got to call on the megaservices of the Mega.â âEver occur to you Iâm using you for reasons your inferior human brain canât begin to understand. Votes: 0

He is in my soul and i am in his, and we are in bed but we are in a desert, and i do not know where he begins and i end - Mac Votes: 0

He just didn't look like the kind of creep that would messily murder a woman in her hotel room; he looked like the kind of creep that could line her up in the sights of an assassins rifle without a shred of emotion. Votes: 0

He knows what I'm thinking. Always. We're connected. The atoms between us ferry messages back and forth. Votes: 0

He lives. I breathe. I want. Him. Always. Fire to my ice. Ice to my fever. -Mac Votes: 0

He looked blank. âHeâs the one whoâs been doing the magic against us?â âDuh,â I said. âDoona be âduhâing me, lass,â he growled, his burr thickening. Votes: 0

He made a lousy passenger, barking instructions I ignored Votes: 0

He stepped into the morning feeling more alive than he'd felt in months. Hold fast and believe in me, love, he whispered across the centuries. Because love and belief were serious magic in and of themselves. Votes: 0

He strips his shirt over his head and I catch my breath, watching those long hard muscles ripple. I know how his shoulders look, bunched, when he's on top of me, how his face gets tight with lust, as he eases inside me. "Who am I?" "Jericho" "Who are you?" He kicks off his boots, steps out of his pants. He's commando tonight. My breath whooshes out of me in a run-on word: "Whogivesafuck? Votes: 0

He was on me before my brain processed the fact that he was coming for me. Votes: 0

He was still frowning at the cake, looking at it as if he expected it to sprout dozens of legs and begin scuttling toward him, thin-lipped, teeth bared. Votes: 0

He wasn't handsome. That was too calm a word. He was intensely masculine. He was sexual. He attracted. Votes: 0

He wasn't just masculine and sexual, he was carnal in a set-your-teeth-on-edge kind of way; he was almost frightning. Votes: 0

Heâs so beautiful,â she said wistfully. âHeâs like an angel.â âYep,â I agreed flatly. âThe one that fell. Votes: 0

He'd made her feel what Barrons made me feel. Bigger than I could possibly be, larger than life, on fire with possibilities, ecstatic to be breathing, impatient for the next moment together. She'd been happy in those last months, so alive and happy. Votes: 0

He'd surely been spawned by some cataclysmic event of nature, not born. Votes: 0

Her absence in my life was so painful that it was a presence. Votes: 0

He's treating her like she's fourteen and he's a normal adult, acting like he's taken her under his wing. Like he needs her detecting skills, same as Barrons did to Mac, and she's falling for it, same as Mac. He's lining up his dominoes, so they fall more easily when he feels like pushing them over, conserving energy so he doesn't have to hunt her when he's ready to kill her. Votes: 0

He's trying not to laugh. I tell him I would have doomed mankind for him, and he's trying not to laugh. Votes: 0

Holy water at my wrists and behind my ears; my version of Eau de Don'tbiteme Votes: 0

Home, Ms. Lane?â His deep voice was gently amused. âI have to call it something,â I said morosely. âThey say home is where the heart is. I think mineâs satin-lined and six feet under. Votes: 0

Hope is a critical thing. Whithout it, we are nothing. Hope shapes will. The will shapes the world. Votes: 0

Hours later, Adam propped himself up on an elbow and stared down at Gabrielle, pondering what made beauty. He thought he was beginning to understand. It wasn't symmetry of features; it wasn't perfection. It was uniqueness. That which one person had that no other possessed. That which was only their own. Votes: 0

How could they let me grow up like thatâhappy and pink and stupid? Votes: 0

How do you kill a vampire?"-Mac "Hope hes not"-Barrons Votes: 0

How does it feel, MacKayla? You have a piece of me in your mouth. Would you like another? Votes: 0

How will we get back up?" I worried. "I have a different route in mind for our return trip." "Does it involve stairs?" I asked hopefully. "No." "Of course not. How silly of me. And for our return adventure we will be scaling the side of Mount Everest, hiking boots to be provided by our trusty sponsor, Barrons Books and Baubles. Votes: 0

I am a kite in a tornado, but I have a long string. Votes: 0

I am going to love you now, slow and sweet... Votes: 0

I am so lonely without you, Aedan," Jane said simply. "You truly want me?" "More than anything. I'm only half without you." "Then you are my woman." His words were finality, a bond he would not permit broken. She had given herself to his keeping. He would never let her go. "And you'll never leave me?" she pressed. "I'll stay with you for all of ever, lass." Jane's eyes flared, and she looked at him strangely. "And then yet another day?" she asked breathlessly. "Oh, aye. Votes: 0

I am the man you've needed all you life. I can give you whatever you wish before you even realize you are wishing for it. I can fill your every longing , heal your every wound, right your every wrong. You have enemies? Not with me at your side. You have hunger? I will find the most succulent, ripe morsel and feed you with my bare hands. You have pain? I will ease it. Bad dreams? I will chase them asunder. Regrets? I will go back and undo them. Command me, Beauty, and I am yours. -Adam Black Votes: 0

I began peering into the corners of the room, making sure all the shadows were cast by objects and obeying known laws of physics. Votes: 0

I can't help but see myself in them. The Seelie are who I was before my sister died. Pink, pretty, frivolous Mac. The Unseelie are who I've become, carved by loss and despair. Black, grungy, driven Mac. Votes: 0

I contemplate the notion that maybe regrets are a process of accumulation of time, as unavoidable as a closet full of clothes and more bags of them in the attic. Is accumulated baggage what makes people get old? If so, they need to clean out their fecking attics, send the stuff to consignment shops and remember how to walk around naked like kids, little bellies sticking out, always ready for a good laugh. Votes: 0

I couldnât move. Itâs something Iâm still ashamed of. You always wonder how youâll handle a moment of crisis; if youâve got what it takes to fight or if youâve just been deluding yourself all along that somewhere deep inside you thereâs steel beneath the magnolia. Now I knew the truth. There wasnât. I was all petals and pollen. Good for attracting the procreators who could ensure the survival of our species, but not a survivor myself. I was Barbie after all. Votes: 0

I didnât say, You are such a stuffy asshole. And he didnât say, If you ever burn one of my quarter-of-a-million dollar rugs again Iâll take it out of your hide, and I didnât say, Oh, honey, wouldnât you like to? And he didnât say Grow up, Ms. Lane, I donât take little girls to my bed, and I didnât say I wouldnât go there if it was the only safe place from the Lord Master in all of Dublin. Votes: 0

I don't believe Barrons is out to destroy mankind. I don't think he particularly cares much for mankind, but I don't think he has any deep-seated desire to see us all wiped out. Votes: 0

I don't know about you, but I call impromptu vomiting harm. Votes: 0

I don't make sonic booms. I want a whip. I like the idea of walking around making sonic booms everywhere. Votes: 0

I felt the electricity of his body behind me as he reached around me and took the card from my hand. He didn't move away, and I battled the urge to lean back into him, seeking the comfort of his strength. Would he wrap his arms around me? Make me feel safe, if only for a moment, and if only a delusion? Votes: 0

I figure if there is a God, he or she isnât paying attention to what we build or if we follow some elaborate rules, but copping a ride on our shoulders, watching what we do ever day. Seeing if we took this great big adventure called life and did something interesting with it. Votes: 0

I flash him number seventeen of my thirty-five Looks of Death. Votes: 0

I gained everything. Or at least I'll think so," he growled, suddenly impatient, anxious, "when you give me a bloody answer to my bloody question. How many times are you going to make me ask you? Will you marry me, Gabrielle O'Callaghan? Yes or yes? And in case you're still managing to miss the point, the correct answer is 'yes.' And, by the way, anytime you'd like to tell me you love me, I wouldn't mind hearing it. Votes: 0

I get off on a man with strong moral fiber. The closest Barrons ever gets to fiber is walking down the cereal aisle at the grocery store. Votes: 0

I have a black sense of humor. You try living my life, see what color yours turns. Votes: 0

I have a box inside me now that never used to exist. I never needed it before. It's down in my deepest, darkest corner, and it's airtight, soundproofed and padlocked. It's where I keep the thoughts I don't know what to do with, that could get me into trouble. Eating Unseelie hammers on the inside of that lid incessantly. I try to keep kissing Barrons in that box, too, but it gets out sometimes. Votes: 0

I have found there to be little distance between the unlatching of a chain and the spreading of a womanâs legs. As if they can never unbar only a single entrance. Itâs a disease called hope. Women suffer from it greatly. Votes: 0

I have your word?â âYou trust my word?â âYouâre an idealistic fool. Of course. Votes: 0

I heard there are no male sidhe-seers." Where did you hear that?" Around." And which one of those are you in doubt about Ms. Lane?" Which one of what?" Whether I see the Fae, or whether I'm a man. I believe I've laid your mind to rest on the former; shall I relieve it on the latter?" He reached for his belt. Oh, please." I rolled my eyes. "You're a leftie, Barrons." Touche, Ms. Lane," he murmered. Votes: 0

I hope they change my drugs soon. Whatever I'm on isn't working. Votes: 0

I hope when I'm ninety-five the only things I want are free: love, family, a good home-cooked meal. Votes: 0

I kept it to remind me that although there is evil, there is sometimes beauty and light. You, Jillian. You were always my light. Votes: 0

I lay my head on his chest and listen to his heart beating, solid and sure.....he reads me so well. He's known about my emotional empathy since we were children. Nothing disturbs him...Few can lie to me... I don't know the truth, only that there is a lie. It takes a scrupulously honest man to love me. That's my Sean. We learned to trust each other completely before we were old enough to have learned suspicion. Votes: 0

I like sex for breakfast, kid. I eat early and often. Votes: 0

I lock eyes with my reflection and donât look away. The day you look away you start to lose yourself. Iâm never going to lose myself. You are what you are. Deal with it or change. Votes: 0

I looked from one to the other, and realized that Barrons and my dad were having one of those wordless conversations he and I have from time to time. Though the language was, by nature, foreign to me, I grew up in the Deep South where a manâs ego is roughly the size of his pickup truck, and women get an early and interesting education in the not-so-subtle roar of testosterone. Votes: 0

I love books, by the way, way more than movies. Movies tell you what to think. A good book lets you choose a few thoughts for yourself. Votes: 0

I love books, by the way, way more than movies. Movies tell you what to think. A good book lets you choose a few thoughts for yourself. Movies show you the pink house. A good book tells you there's a pink house and lets you paint some of the finishing touches, maybe choose the roof style,park your own car out front. My imagination has always topped anything a movie could come up with. Case in point, those darned Harry Potter movies. That was so not what that part-Veela-chick, Fleur Delacour, looked like. Votes: 0

I love books, they're in my blood. Votes: 0

I love music because it's so fecking brilliant. Music is math, and math is the structure of everything and pretty much perfect. Votes: 0

I love re-creating myself. Change means you get to choose again. Become something new. -Dani Votes: 0

I make a new discovery that totally blows; dying is the easy part. It's coming back to life that sucks. Votes: 0

I miss her. I don't know how to live without her. There is a hole inside me that nothing fills. If you don't find something to fill that hole, someone else will. And if someone else fills it, they own you. Forever. You'll never get yourself back. Votes: 0

I mock everything. Don't take it so personally." Adam Black Votes: 0

I moistened my lips. His gaze fixed on them. I think I stopped breathing. He jerked so sharply away that his long dark coat sliced air, and turned his back to me. âWas that an invitation, Ms.Lane?â âIf it was?â I asked, astonishing myself. What did I think I was doing? âI donât do hypotheticals. Little girl. Votes: 0

I never thought there might be one like you out there. Unaware, untrained. Unbelievable. You have no idea what you are, do you?â âCrazy? Votes: 0

I realized early in my career that precisely what one reader doesn't like is what another reader loves. Collectively, any writer's audience presents a mishmash of expectations that can never all be met. What one-tenth of my readership may not be crazy about the other nine-tenths savors. The moment you start altering a book or a painting or any type of art as if it's a public collaborative, you crucify its soul. I'd rather irritate a few people and delight a lot than touch no one." ~ Karen Marie Moning Votes: 0

I said breathe. Not do a fish-out of-water imitation. Votes: 0

I see God in a sunrise, not in repetitious ritual. Votes: 0

I turned around slowly, and looked up at him. He stiffened and sucked in a shallow breath. After a moment, he touched my cheek. "Such naked pain," he whispered. I turned my face into his palm and closed my eyes. His fingers threaded into my hair, cupped my head, and brushed the brand. It heated at his touch. His hand tightened at the base of my skull and squeezed, and he raised me slowly to my tiptoes. I opened my eyes and it was my turn to inhale sharply. Not human. Oh, no, not this man. "Never show it to me again." His face was cold, hard, his voice colder. Votes: 0

I want purple trews, lass," Drustan called over the door. "No," she said irritably. "And a purple shirt. Votes: 0

I want us to be... what is your word? Friends." "Psychotic rapists don't have friends." "I was unaware you were a psychotic rapists or I would not have offered." (Mac & V'lane) Votes: 0

I was a twenty-two-year-old single white female alone in a strange country where my sister had been killed. Votes: 0

I was about to look away when he reached across the seat, touched my jaw with his long, strong, beautiful fingers, and caressed my face. Being touched by Jericho Barrons with kindness makes you feel like you must be the most special person in the world. Itâs like walking up to the biggest, most savage lion in the jungle, lying down, placing your head it its mouth and, rather than taking your life, it licks you and purrs. Votes: 0

I was adrift in a sea of questions and if answers were lifeboats, I was in imminent danger of drowning. Votes: 0

I was stunned to see that he looked stunned himself, which was an exorbitant display of emotion for Barrons. Votes: 0

I wasnâtâ" I began. I didnâtâ" He began. How charming," Vâlane cut us off. His voice arrived before he did. "The very portrait of human domestic bliss. Sheâs on the floor, youâre towering over her. Did he strike you, MacKayla? Say the word and Iâll kill him. Votes: 0

I would wear pink because I knew my future was anything but rosy. I would accessorize myself to the hilt, and I would wear flirty shoes because my world needed more beauty to counter all the ugliness in it. I would wear pink because I hated gray, I didnât deserve white, and I was sick of black. Votes: 0

Iâm asking the questions tonight.â One day I was going to write a book: How to Dictate to a Dictator and Evade an Evader, subtitled How to Handle Jericho Barrons. Votes: 0

Iâm Pri-ya again. I always will be with this man. Votes: 0

I'd gazed into the abyss and the abyss had gazed back, just like Daddy always said it would: You want to know about life, Mac? It's simple. Keep watching rainbows, baby. Keep looking at the sky. You find what you look for. If you go hunting good in the world, you'll find it. If you go hunting evil . . . well, don't. Votes: 0

I'd learned a thing or two. Hope strengthens. Fear kills. Votes: 0

I'd never been turned on by the Ken dollâeven before I looked down his pants and saw what was missing. Votes: 0

I'd teach them to read and to dream and to look at the stars and wonder. I'd teach them the value of imagination. I'd teach them to play every bit as hard as they worked. And I'd teach them that all the brains in the world can't compensate for love. Votes: 0

I'd vowed years ago to go to the grave the same way I'd been born, just a lot more wrinkly. Votes: 0

If aught must be lost, âtwill be my honor for yours. If one must be forsaken, âtwill be my soul for yours. Should death come anon, âtwill be my life for yours. I am Given. Votes: 0

If he was winter, I was summer. If I was sunshine, he was night. A dark and stormy one. Votes: 0

If heâd been any other man and i'd been any other girl, Iâd have called the narrowing of his heavy-lidded dark eyes lust. But he was Barrons and I was Mac, and a blossoming of lust was about as likely as orchids blooming in Antarctica Votes: 0

If I'm a little girl, then that makes you a serious pervert. Votes: 0

If Vâlane were a signpost, it would read Abandon All Personal Will, Ye Who Tread Here. Votes: 0

If you already know the answer, Ms. Lane, donât waste my time. You just wasted a month of it.â -Barrons Votes: 0

If you are not with me, you are against me. I have no mercy for my enemies. Votes: 0

If you weaken, I'll be strong. If you get lost, I'll be your way home. If you despair, I'll bring you joy. I will love you until the end of time. Votes: 0

If you're trying to force the story to be a straight up romance, it's going to be weird for you. Votes: 0

I'll never get laid trying to keep you safe. You're a train wreck on steroids. Votes: 0

I'm a bartender. I like recipes. They're concretes. Was the drink recipe for seduction one shot charm and two shots self-deception, shaken, not stirred? Votes: 0

I'm here. You're safe now. It's okay to remember. They can never hurt you again. Votes: 0

I'm his locomotive and he's my shield. Votes: 0

I'm not good, Mac. Never have been.' What-true confession time? my eyes tease. Don't need it. 'I want what I want and I take it.' Is he warning me? What could he possibly threaten me with now? 'There's nothing I can't live with. Only things I won't live without. Votes: 0

In my experience, anybody besides your mom that feeds you is going to want something in exchange for it. Votes: 0

In that you're wrong. I choose, I adhere, I pursue, I commit, I attain. That - that, my errant friend - is an absolute." - Hawk Votes: 0

Irony, perfect definition: that for which I want to possess it, I would no longer want once I possessed it. Votes: 0

Is anyone who's supposed to be dead actually dead? Votes: 0

It began as most thing begin. Not on a dark and stormy night. Not foreshadowed by ominous here comes the villain music, dire warning at the bottom of a teacup, or dread portents in the sky. It began small and innocuously, as most catastrophes do. A butterfly flaps its wings somewhere and the wind changes, and a warm front hits a cold front off the coast of western Africa and before you know it youâve got an hurricane closing in. By the time anyone figured out the storm was coming, it was too late to do anything but batten down the hatches and exercise damage control. Votes: 0

It leaned forward, elbows on its knees, all amusement vanishing from its features, leaving its chiseled visage quietly regal, dignified. "I give you my word, Gabrielle O'Callaghan," it said softly. "I will protect you." "Right. The word of the blackest fairy, the legendary liar, the great deceiver," she mocked. How dare it offer its word like it might actually mean something? A muscle leapt in its jaw. "That is not all I have been, Gabrielle. I have been, and am, many things." "Oh, of course, silly me, I left out consummate seducer and ravager of innocence. Votes: 0

It seemed Barrons had finally gotten his cake and eaten it too. Votes: 0

It was a land of shadows and ice. Of gray. And grayer. And black. -The Unseelie prison of Aedan Votes: 0

It's a sponge and I'm a sponge and for a second there all our sponge parts are one and I don't just have square pants, everything about me is squarish because I'm part of a wall. Votes: 0

It's a strange new world out there and the rules have changed: It's every princess for herself. Votes: 0

It's hard to say what makes the mind piece things together in a sudden lightning flash. I've come to hold the human spirit in the highest regard. Like the body, it struggles to repair itself. As cells fight off infection and conquer illness, the spirit, too, has remarkable resilience. It knows when it is harmed, and it knows she the harm is too much to bear. If it deems the injury too great, the spirit cocoons the wound, in the same fashion that the body forms a cyst around infection, until the time comes that it can deal with it. Votes: 0

It's just another of Robin's sayings. Like, 'Holy strawberries, Batman, we're in a jam! Or, Holy Kleenex, Batman, it was right under our nose and we blew it! Votes: 0

It's not my fault who I am. The only think that's my fault is what I choose to do Votes: 0

Its our actions that define us. What we choose. What we resist. What we're willing to die for. Votes: 0

It's why I laugh so much. If my face is going to stick, I'm going to like looking at it. Votes: 0

I've learned a thing or two from Barrons: Power is sexy. It shapes my spine, infuses my beckoning hand. I have not been devastated by Barrons' death. The alchemy of grief has forged a new metal. I have been transformed. There's only one way I can make his death okay. Undo it. Votes: 0

I've spent enough time behind a bar that I've formed a few opinions about what people wear and what it says about them. Guys who wear black from head to toe fall into two categories: they want to be trouble, or they are trouble. Votes: 0

Just saying, things ain't always bad just 'cause you don't understand 'em or ain't like 'em. That's like thinking anybody who's smarter or faster is dangerous just 'cause they got more brains or quicker feet. Ain't fair. Peeps can't help how they're born. Votes: 0

Kid, you might just annoy me into killing you. Votes: 0

Let's get something straight, MacKeltar. I am not going home with you. I am not going to bed with you, and I am not wasting one more moment arguing with you." "I promise not to mock you when you change your mind, lass. Votes: 0

Lies are horny little buggers, they breed like rabbits and bound around just as insanely and then you have to try to keep track of them. Votes: 0

Life equaled love plus passion squared. Loving and being passionate about what one did was what made life so precious. Votes: 0

Life is not black and white. The closes we ever get to either of those colors is wearing them. Votes: 0

Life is too hard, too much to handle. Nobody told me thereâd be days like these. How could nobody tell me thereâd be days like these? How could they let me grow up like thatâhappy and pink and stupid? Votes: 0

Life isn't always fair, lass, but that doesn't mean it can't still be sweet."- Dageus Votes: 0

Life's a choice: you can live in black and white, or you can live in colour. I'll take every shade of the rainbow and the gazillion in between! Votes: 0

Like a horse, honey, somebody's gonna break you.' 'Never. Going. To. Happen. Votes: 0

Like is an emotion. Emotionsââhe raised a hand, made a fist, clenched it tightlyââare like holding water. You open your hand, thereâs nothing there. Better to be a weapon than a woman. Votes: 0

Lose the pessimism, Ms. Lane. It's a self-fulfilling prophecy. Votes: 0

Love can grown among the rocks and thorns of life. Votes: 0

Mac." He said my name and laughed. "What a name for something like you. Mac. Votes: 0

Moth to a flame I follow. Votes: 0

My breathing was shallow and my hands were fists. 'Oh, yes, I'm going to have to kill you Barrons.' I said coolly, Partly because, for the most miniscule sliver of an instant, while looking at those handcuffs, I'd imagined myself climbing back into bed and pretending I wasn't cured yet. Votes: 0

My city. I pondered that phrase, wondered why Barrons felt that way. He never said âour world.â He always said âyour world.â But he called Dublin his city. Merely because heâd been in it so long? Or had Barrons, like me, been beguiled by her tawdry grace, fallen for her charm and colorful dualities? I looked around âmyâ bookstore. That was what I called it. Did we call the things of our heart our own, whether they were or not? Votes: 0

My philosophy is pretty simple â any day nobodyâs trying to kill me is a good day in my book. Votes: 0

My world we humans weâre just pawns on an immortal chessboard. Votes: 0

Naught will be done to you that you doona wish done. Dageus MacKeltar Votes: 0

Never underestimate a well-dressed bimbo. Votes: 0

Nightfall. âWhat a strange word. âNightâ I get. But âfallâ is a gentle word. Autumn leaves fall, swirling with languid grace To carpet the earth with their dying blaze. Tears fall, like liquid diamonds Shimmering softly, before they melt away. Night doesnât fall here. It comes slamming down. Votes: 0

No way. I'm not going in there. I draw the line at grave-robbing, Barrons. It's not your pen. Votes: 0

Now you know how I justify my addictionsâif I can pay less for it than I would at Wal-Mart, I get to have it. Votes: 0

Nuns? They'd take one look at Barrons and decide the devil himself had come knockng. He not only looked dangerous, he emanated something that made even me feel like crossing myself sometimes, and I'm not religious. Votes: 0

Observations,â he says. âFour imperial Unseelie guards were the only commonality I was able to isolate endemic to both scenes.â Theyâd been standing, armed, at the dock doors, overseeing the delivery. He gives me a sidewise look. âWow. That was, like, a whole sentence. With nouns and verbs and connective tissue. Endemic. Fancy word. Votes: 0

Och, Dani my darling, you're not giving me a single reason to wait for you to grow up. You're giving me a thousand reasons not to." It's Christian! I'm so glad it's him, not one of the other princes! I turn around in his arms and tip my head back. "Hi, Christian!" I beam at him. He's hotter than the other princes. I'm glad I got him. I'll take the others, too, but I want him first. "I want to grow up. Now. Hurry. Votes: 0

Oh ye of little faith. Not for IYD... But you didn't even try. Votes: 0

Oh, drop the act, Tinkerbell, and get rid of my problem. Then weâll talk. Votes: 0

Okay, Barrons, it's time." "I am not helping you shave your legs." he said instantly. "Oh please. As if I'd let you. Votes: 0

Omnipotent not omniscient. We are frequently blinded by how much we see. Votes: 0

On the lips of my enemy, my sisterâs lover, my loverâs killer, I taste the punishment I deserve. I taste oblivion. Votes: 0

Once, long ago in her world, a sunny day in spring was her favorite, but now a sunny day in winter delights her more. It is the perfect metaphor for their love. Sunshine on ice. She warms his frost. He cools her fever. Votes: 0

One day you do meet a man who kisses you and you canât breathe around it and you realize you donât need air. Oxygen is trivial. Desire makes life happen. Makes it matter. Makes everything worth it. Desire is life. Hunger to see the next sunrise or sunset. To touch the one you love. To try again. Votes: 0

Oooh! Stop that. When you smile at me I want all of it." "What?" He looked confused Votes: 0

People treat you as badly as you let them treat you. Key word there: let. Votes: 0

people were just out of control! . . . They've all got cell phones stuck to their ears and yet I've never seen such distance between people trying so hard to be close. Votes: 0

Please tell me we don't grow up and turn into the adults that drive us crazy. Votes: 0

Pretty girl and all. Asking. Gotta love that. Stuff of heroes. Don't get the role too often. Votes: 0

Pretty girls don't have ugly mouths. Votes: 0

Procrastinating is number three on my Stupid List. You still end up exactly where you didn't want to be, doing exactly what you didn't want to do, withe the only difference being that you lost all that time in between, during which you could have been doing something fun. Even worse, you probably stayed in a stressed-out, crappy mood the whole time you were avoiding it. If you know something is inevitable, do it and get it over with. Move on. Life is short. Votes: 0

Propping the mirror against the wall near the door, he waved a hand at it and clipped, "Drustan: Cian MacKeltar. Cian: Drustan MacKeltar." "Dageus," Drustan's voice was soft as velvet, never a good sign, "why are you introducing me to a mirror? Votes: 0

Punch me." "Don't be absurd." "Come on, punch me, Barrons." "I'm not punching you." "I said, punch--OW!" He decked me. Votes: 0

Question: When youâre one of the few people who can do something to fix a problem, just how responsible does that make you for it? Answer: Itâs how you choose to answer that question that defines you. Votes: 0

raking a hand through his hair, he forced his attention to the text she'd left on the coffee table, refusing to dwell on the disconcerting fact that a part of him had taken one look at the lass in such proximity to his bed and said simply: Mine Votes: 0

Regardless of how many people I surrounded myself with, no matter how many friends and family I loved and was loved by in return, I was alone at the moment of being born and at the moment of dying. Nobody came with you and nobody went with you. It was a journey of one. Votes: 0

Revenge. They took too much. You give up and die, or learn how to take back. Votes: 0

Safety is a fence, and fences are for sheep. Votes: 0

Samhain had its origins, like many modern holidays or celebrations, in pagan times. As the sidhe-seers had been inclined to erect churches and abbeys on their sacred sites, the Vatican had been wont to âChristianizeâ ancient, pagan celebrations in an if-you-canât-beat-them-and-donât-wantto- join-them-rename-it-and-pretend-it-was-yours-all-along campaign. Votes: 0

See me when you look at me. Votes: 0

She glanced rapidly between them, blinking and hoping her double vision would go away. They were glaring at each other. Would they fight? If she saw her own double she probably be tempted to punch it once or twice. Especially today. For being so stupid. Votes: 0

She understood now why her friend Elizabeth, with her near-genius, analytical mind gave wide berth to murder mysteries, psychological thrillers, and horror stories, and read only romance novels. Because, by God, when a woman picked up one of those steamy books, she had a firm guarantee that there would be a Happily-Ever-After. That though the world outside those covers could bring such sorrow and disappointment and loneliness, between those covers, the world was a splendid place to be. Votes: 0

Sheep are always looking for a new shepherd when the terrain gets rocky. Votes: 0

She's thirteen. Time will remedy that. Votes: 0

Sighing dismally, she acknowledged that some things just weren't humanly possible - not even Martha Stewart could fold fitted sheets. Votes: 0

Silence isn't golden, it's deadly. It's a vacuum that fills up with ghosts. Votes: 0

Since Iâve been on my own, Iâve been eating a lot of popcorn, cereal, instant noodles, and snack bars. I have a hot plate in my bedroom, a microwave, and a small fridge. Thatâs the kind of kitchen I know how to get around in. Votes: 0

So how did he look at me?" "Like it was his birthday and you were the cake. Votes: 0

Some people bring out the worst in you, others bring out the best, and then there are those remarkably rare, addictive ones who just bring out the most. Of everything. Votes: 0

Some things are sacred. Until you act like they're not. Then you lose them Votes: 0

Sometimes I worry that thereâs not enough room in my brain for both my dreams and reality that Iâm a hard drive with limited gigabytes and one day I wonât be able to maintain the firewall between them. I wonder if thatâs what senility is. Votes: 0

Sometimes the small pleasures in life are the sweetest. Votes: 0

Strength wasnât about being able to do everything alone. Strength was knowing when to ask for help and not being too proud to do it. Votes: 0

Suddenly so many things she'd overheard her brothers and Quinn saying when Grimm had been in residence made sense, and upon reflection she suspected a part of her had always known. Her love was a legendary warrior who had grown to despise himself, cut off from his roots. But now that he was home and given the time to explore those roots, he might be able to make peace with himself at long last. Votes: 0

Temptation isn't a sin that you triumph over once, completely and then you're free. Temptation slips into bed with you each night and helps you say your prayers. It wakes you in the morning with a friendly cup of coffee, and knows exactly how you take it. Votes: 0

That's impossible," Gwen gasped. "The fastest I've ever run on a treadmill was ten and a half minutes and I nearly died. And it was only one mile. I had to rest for hours and eat chocolate to revive myself. Votes: 0

The battle had been invisible to the naked eye, but the hardest ones are. Votes: 0

The illusions it had woven for me had taken place only in my head. The battle had been invisible to the naked eye, but the hard ones are. Votes: 0

The inspector ate only two of my tiny sandwiches: the first because he hadnt expected it to taste so awful; the second, I think, because hed thought surely the first must have been a mistake. Votes: 0

The kind of person that thanks another person never survives. Have you learned nothing? Votes: 0

The kiss....was not meant to seduce, it was meant to mark a woman's soul. Chloe Votes: 0

The most confused we ever get is when we're trying to convince our heads of something our heart knows is a lie. Votes: 0

The nerve. Threatening you and not being precise about it. Votes: 0

The only reality you can control is the one you're willing to face. Votes: 0

The other day upon the stair, I saw a man who wasn't there. He wasn't there again today; how I wish he'd go away!" ~Gabrielle O'Callaghan towards Adam Black Votes: 0

The paranoid one's wards are still active. They keep me several feet from the building." "But not his car," I said, a smile tugging at my lips. Barrons would go nuts if he knew that V'lane had touched his Viper. And stretched out on it nude? He'd have an aneurysm. Votes: 0

The running pants were tolerable, Drustan decided, relieved. The blue trews had clearly been a torture device and would have strangled a man's seed. Mayhap men were fashioned differently in her time. He hadn't seen one other bulge out there on the street; mayhap they all had wee carrots in their trews. Votes: 0

The single greatest advantage anyone can take into any battle is hope. Votes: 0

The sun's nearly level with the horizon, right behind his head, making this weird halo effect around his faceâas if! I'm surprised he doesn't smell like brimstone. He probably has a red pitchfork and hides horns under his hair. Votes: 0

The two of you are getting downright chatty, aren't you, Ms. Lane? When did you last see him? what else did he tell you? I'm asking the questions tonight. If an illusion of control comforts you, Ms. Lane, by all means, cling to it. Votes: 0

The White Mansion isn't boring, lass. Never boring. It's the grand demesne the Unseelie King built for his concubine. It's a living, breathing love story, testament to the brightest passion that ever burned between our races. You can follow the scenes through if you've time enough and are willing to risk getting lost for a few centuries. Votes: 0

The wisest man is the silent one. Examine his actions. Judge him by them. Votes: 0

Then her eyes narrowed. The sun was spilling in the window behind her and Dageus's eyes were golden, dappled with darker flecks. Smoky and sensual, fringed by thick dark lashes, but gold nonetheless. "What is with your eyes?" she exclaimed. "Is it part of being a Druid?" "What color are they?" he asked warily. "Gold." He flashed her another unguarded smile. It was like basking in the sun, she thought, tracing her fingers over his beard-shadowed jaw, smiling helplessly back. Votes: 0

Then why was his tongue in your mouth? Was he conducting a clinical test of your gag reflex?" He smiled, but not nicely. "How is your gag reflex, Ms. Lane? Are you a hair trigger?" Barrons likes to use sexual innuendo to try to shut me up. I think he expects the well-raised southern belle in me will think eew and back off. Sometimes, I do think eew, but I don't back off. "I'm a spitter, if that's what you're asking." I flashed him a too-sweet smile. "Didn't look that way to me. I think you're a swallower. His tongue was halfway to China and you were still taking it." "Jealous? Votes: 0

There are a few absolute no-brainer rules in my world. Real close to the top of this list is: if an Unseelie prince runs from it, I'm going to run from it, too. [said Dani] Votes: 0

There are men you build a future with, Dani. And then there are men that you know, going in, that you're only making a memory with. I know the difference ..Some memories are worth the price. I'll deal with it. Votes: 0

There are moments in my life when I feel like Iâm exactly where Iâm supposed to be, doing exactly what Iâm supposed to do. I pay attention to them. Theyâre my cosmic landmarks, letting me know Iâm on the right path. Now that Iâm older and can look back and see where I missed a turn here and there, and know the price I paid for those oversights, I try to look sharper at the present. Votes: 0

There are only shades of gray. Black and white are nothing more than lofty ideals in our minds, the standards by which we try to judge things, and map out our place in the world in relevance to them. Votes: 0

There are only shades of gray. Black and white are nothing more than lofty ideals in our minds, the standards by which we try to judge things, and map out our place in the world in relevance to them. Good and evil, in their purest form, are as intangible and forever beyond our ability to hold in our hand as any Fae illusion. We can only aim at them, aspire to them, and hope not to get so lost in the shadows that we can no longer aim for the light. Votes: 0

There are really only two positions one can take toward anything in life: hope or fear. Hope strengthens, fear kills. Votes: 0

There are three floors beneath the garage? Why on earth?" -Mac Votes: 0

There are two kinds of people in the world Ms. Lane: those who survive no matter the cost and those who are walking victims. Votes: 0

There aren't many sins in my bible. Giving up is the greatest one of all. Votes: 0

There was no lifeboat here in these deep, killing waters, not even a lighthouse, marking the way back to shore with its soft amber promise. There was only the storm of Barrons and the one I seemed to be, and if there were dark shapes moving in the waters beneath my feet that I should probably take a good hard look at and possibly reconsider trying to swim here, I didnât care. Votes: 0

Thereâs no point in fighting the tide. It ebbs. It flows. You ride it. Votes: 0

Thereâs only one question that matters, Ms. Lane, and itâs the one you never get around to asking. People are capable of varying degrees of truth. The majority spend their entire lives fabricating an elaborate skein of lies, immersing themselves in the faith of bad faith, doing whatever it takes to feel safe. The person who truly lives has precious few moments of safety, learns to thrive in any kind of storm. Itâs the truth you can stare down stone-cold that makes you what you are. Weak or strong. Live or die. Prove yourself. How much truth can you take, Ms. Lane? Votes: 0

There's nothing I can't live with. Only things I won't live without. Votes: 0

They had each other and there was a love between them that would withstand anything. Alina and I had always intuited, with no small wry pique, that, although our parents adored us and would do anything for us, they loved each other more. As far as I was concerned, that was the way it should be. Kids grow up, move on and find a love of their own. The empty nest shouldn't leave parents grieving. It should leave them ready and excited to get on with living their own adventure, which would, of course, include many visits to children and grandchildren. Votes: 0

They loved so intensely that moments of their life have been etched into the very fabric of the mansion. Some say the king designed it that way, so if one day he lost her he could come live with her residue. Votes: 0

This isn't what I wanted. This isn't what I would have chosen. You must know that. It's important you know that. Votes: 0

Those who were so long imprisoned in ice and darkness seem to find the sunlight jarring, painful. The longer I walk around with this grief inside me, the more I understand that. Itâs as if sunshine is a slap in the face that says, Look, the worldâs all bright and shiny! Too bad youâre not. Votes: 0

Try a rocket launcher. Think maybe you could manage to hit me with that? Votes: 0

Using your own time to make someone elseâs life better is, like, the nicest thing you can do for anybody. Votes: 0

Velvet looks horrified. âIf you are fool enough to address King Râjan, you will do it thus and in no other manner! âMy King, Liege, Lord, and Master, your servant begs you grant it leave to speak.ââ âWow. Totally delusionary there.â âGood luck with that,â Ryodan says. âShe doesn't beg to speak, or do anything else. You can lock her up, down, and sideways and itâs never going to happen.â I beam at him. I had no idea he thought so highly of me. Votes: 0

Was he a good kisser, Ms. Lane?â Barrons asked, watching me carefully. I wiped my mouth with the back of my hand at the memory. âIt was like being owned.â Some women like that.â Not me.â Perhaps it depends on the man doing the owning.â I doubt it. I couldnât breathe with him kissing me.â One day you may kiss a man you canât breathe without, and find breath is of little consequence.â Right, and one day my prince might come.â I doubt heâll be a prince, Ms. Lane. Men rarely are. Votes: 0

We have to save the world," I reminded him. He reached for me. "The world can wait. I can't. Votes: 0

We see ourselves in other peopleâs eyes. Itâs the nature of the human race; we are a species of reflection, hungry for it in every facet of our existence. Maybe thatâs why vampires seem so monstrous to usâthey cast no reflection. Parents, if theyâre good ones, reflect the wonder of our existence and the success we can become. Friends, well chosen, show us pretty pictures of ourselves, and encourage us to grow into them. The Beast shows us the very worst in ourselves and makes us know itâs true . Votes: 0

We were watching Barrons. Why were you watching Barrons? Barrons needs watching. Votes: 0

We will KâVruck the world. Votes: 0

Were not there you, I'd be not too. Votes: 0

We're taking back the night Votes: 0

What are you Barrons?â âThe one who will never let you die, and thatâs more, Ms Lane, than anyone in your life has been able to say to you. More than anyone else can do Votes: 0

What are you" -Mac "I don't follow" -Jericho "You dropped 30 feet in that warehouse. You should have broken something. What are you?" -Mac "A man with a rope." -Jericho Votes: 0

What are you? "A man with a rope?" "Ha-ha. Votes: 0

What are you?â I said irritably. âIn the Serengeti, Ms. Lane, I would be the cheetah. Iâm stronger, smarter, faster, and hungrier than everything else out there. And I donât apologize to the gazelle when I take it down. Votes: 0

What have you stuffed in your pants, MacKeltar?" she demanded. "Nothing that wasn't God-given," he replied stiffly. Gwen stared. "There's no way that's part of you. You must have gotten a sock or something stuck. Oh, my." She pried her gaze from his groin. Votes: 0

What is the greater good but tyrannyâs chameleon? Votes: 0

When Barrons looks at me like that, it rattles me. Lust, in those ancient, obsidian eyes, offers no trace of humanity. Doesnât even bother trying. Savage Mac wants to invite it to come out and play. I think sheâs nuts. Nuts, I tell you. Votes: 0

When Christian pushes into the brick wall of the building catty-corner to the rear of BB&Bâfirst left on the Dark Zone sideâand disappears, I melt down in a fit of the giggles. I toss a rock at the spot where he vanished. It bounces off the brick and clatters to the cobblestone. I'm feeling twenty shades of Harry Potter's train station, especially when he pokes his head out of the wall and says impatiently, "Come on, lass. This is hardly my favorite place to be. Votes: 0

When Darroc returns, I know by the look in his eyes that I've chosen well. He thinks I picked black and red for him, the colors of his guard, the colors he has told me he selected for his future court. I chose black and red for the tattoos on Barrons' body. Tonight I wear my promise to him that I will make things right. Votes: 0

When did having a life become an event you had to schedule? Votes: 0

When do these three days expire?" "That's what pisses me off. I don't know. He was annoyingly vague." "The nerve. Threatening you and not being precise about it. Votes: 0

When Drustan reached the bottom step, she flung herself into his arms. He swung her up into his embrace and kissed her hungrily. By the time he'd finished, she was gasping for air and laughing. "My turn?" Dageus teased. Votes: 0

When he comes, he makes a noise deep in his throat that is so raw and animal and sexual that I think if he merely looked at me and made that noise, I might explode in an orgasm. Votes: 0

When he kisses me again, the last part of me that could stand myself dies. Votes: 0

When I thought I'd killed him, I felt more alone than I've felt in a long time. Like I couldn't stand walking through this city knowing he wasn't in it. Like somehow, as long as he was out there somewhere, if I was ever really in trouble, I knew where I could go and while maybe he wouldn't do exactly what I wanted him to do, he'd keep me alive. He'd get me through whatever it was to live another day. Votes: 0

When insane things start to arrange themselves in sane patterns around you, you know you got problems. Votes: 0

When my faith is getting weak And I feel like giving in You breathe into me againâ¦ Votes: 0

When you know who I am. Let me be your man. Votes: 0

When you were too young and naÃ¯ve to see the risks, I incurred your wrath to protect you. Scream at me for it if you must. Thank me for it when you finally grow up. Votes: 0

Who and what we surround ourselves with is who and what we become. In the midst of good people, it is easy to be good. in the midst of bad people, it is easy to be bad. Votes: 0

Who would ever understand me? Votes: 0

Will an hour be enough?â An hour implied that I needed a lot of help. âIâll see what I can do,â I said coolly. I was ready in twenty minutes. Votes: 0

Woman, you are a thousand kinds of fool. Votes: 0

Women have been repeating the same mistake since time began: falling for a manâs potential. We rarely see it the same way, and even more rarely care to achieve it. Votes: 0

Words are easy; lies as simple as parting your lips and breathing. Votes: 0

Words can be twisted into any shape. Promises can be made to lull the heart and seduce the soul. In the final analysis, words mean nothing. They are labels we give things in an effort to wrap our puny little brains around their underlying natures, when ninety-nine percent of the time the totality of the reality is an entirely different beast. The wisest man is the silent one. Examine his actions. Judge him by them. Votes: 0

Yesterday is skin on snake, to be shed many times. Votes: 0

Yesterday was a memory. Today was a hope. Votes: 0

Yesterday was a memory. Tomorrow was a hope. Today was another day to live and do one's best to love Votes: 0

You & I are here but the wind is everywhere. Cast no words upon it you donât wish followed back to you. Votes: 0

You are what you are. Deal with it or change. Votes: 0

You are what you are. Find a way to live with it. Votes: 0

You believe in God? Dude. Only God could have created physics. Votes: 0

You canât give somebody faith. They either got it or they donât. Votes: 0

You canât look at someone with your eyes and take their measure. You have to look with the heart. Votes: 0

You can't go forward if you're looking backward. You run into walls that way. Votes: 0

You can't save people from themselves. You can only try to wake them up. Votes: 0

You could ask me to teach you.â âHuh?â This night is getting weird in a hurry. âTeach me like youâre teaching a class or something? What are you going to call it: âYou Too Can Be a Sociopath 101â?â âIt would be more like a graduate-level class.â I start to snicker. His sense of humour sneaks up on you. Then I remember whoâs talking and bite it off. Votes: 0

You hated my rainbows, now you don't like my leather. Is there anything you like on me? Votes: 0

You have splendid breasts, lass," he purred, cupping the plump mounds. "Splendid," he repeated stupidly, and she almost laughed. Men loved breasts any shape or form, they just loved them. -Drustan to Gwen Votes: 0

You mean you have to be epic already, for it to make you more epic? Votes: 0

You might be able to thrash your way out of a spiderweb, but thrashing in quicksand doesnât work. The harder you fight, the more ground you lose. Struggling merely expedites your inevitable defeat. Votes: 0

You need me as much as I need you. That makes us equal partners in my book. Well, your book is just wrong. Votes: 0

You never knew what you could get away with until you tried. Votes: 0

You were firing questions at me today, trying to get inside my head. You asked if I believe in God. I told you of course I do - I've always had a strong sense of self Votes: 0

You were firing questions at me today, trying to get inside my head. You asked if I believed in God. I told you of course I do- I've always had a strong sense of self. Your house is quiet now, you're sleeping upstairs and I'm alone with this blasted, idiotic book that purports to tally the sum of my life, and fact is, maybe I do. But maybe, ka-lyrra, your God doesn't believe in me. -- From The (Greatly Revised) Black Edition Of The O'Callaghan Book of the Sin Siriche Du Votes: 0

You, Ms. Lane, are a menace to others! A walking, talking catastrophe in pink! Votes: 0

Youâre early.â I give him a mutinous look. Of course he thinks my being early is about him. Itâs not. Mac was at Chesterâs last night at eight. I think sheâs hunting me. Since I canât be late to avoid her, I have to be early. âWatch broke. Thought I was on time.â âYou donât wear a watch.â âSee? I knew I had a problem. Iâll just dash out and get one. Be back tomorrow. On time. Votes: 0

Your feet will bring you to where your heart is. Votes: 0

Your race devotes itself to justifying its errors, not correcting them Votes: 0

You're grumpy and broody and secretive all the time. You're no joy to live with, I can tell you that!""I smile sometimes. I even laughed about your . . . hat.""MacHalo," I corrected tightly. "It's a brilliant invention, and it means I don't need you or V'lane to keep my safe from Shades, and that, Jericho Barrons, is worth its weight in gold: not needing either of you for something! Votes: 0

You've been doing something bad since the moment you met me, lass. Votes: 0

I am a kite in a tornado but I have a long string. There is tension in my line. Somewhere, someone is holding onto the other end and, although it cannot spare me this storm, it will not let me be lost while I regain my strength. It is enough. Votes: 0

I didnât ask. Some things are better left unsaid. He looked at me and I shivered. I never get enough of him. Never will. He lives. I breathe. I want. Him. Always. Fire to my ice. Ice to my fever. Later we would go to bed, and when he rose over me, dark and vast and eternal, Iâd know joy. Votes: 0

Fear and doubt are major stampeders. Votes: 0

Do you think love just goes away? Pops out of existence when it becomes too painful or inconvenient, as if you never felt it? Votes: 0

Itâs funny how, when things seem the darkest, moments of beauty present themselves in the most unexpected places. Votes: 0

He didn't just occupy space; he saturated it. The room had been full of books before, now it was full of him. Votes: 0

Liminal sucks. You can't grasp it with your hands and shape it. You can't make midnight come faster, or grow up sooner, or avoid the in-betweens. You can only hang in there, and get through them. Votes: 0

Gwen Cassidy needed a man. Desperately. Failing that, she'd settle for a cigarette. Votes: 0

I want you to go to the Ancient Languages Department at Trinity College tomorrow morning, Ms.Lane. Votes: 0

V'lane: Are you busy tomorrow MacKayla ? Barrons: She's working on old texts with me. V'lane: Ah. Old texts. A banner day at the bookstore. Barrons: We're translating Kama Sutra...with interactive aids. Votes: 0

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