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

I can’t find a man I want, and I’m beginning to think the problem is me. Maybe I expect too much. Maybe I’m holding out for something that doesn’t even exist.” She’d voiced her secret...

A lamb in a city of wolves.

Friends don’t build cages for each other.

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...

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

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.

He calls me his Queen of the Night. He shows me the wonders in this incredible city. He encourages me to find my own way, and to choose what I think is right or wrong.And...

Most people are good and occasionally do something they know is bad. Some people are bad and struggle every day to keep it under control. Others are corrupt to the core and don’t give a...

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...

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...

…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.

When anything is possible, how do you choose?

Fear and doubt are major stampeders.

I see how he feels about his world and I want to be one of the parts he prizes. I want to be worth fighting for. Worth the same kind of effort he puts into...

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...

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

Lust is a thing of the blood. Doesn’t need head or heart.

I’m the one who will always watch over you. Always be there to fuck you back to your senses when you need it, the one who will never let you die. I pull my shirt...

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

Is anyone who’s supposed to be dead actually dead?

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,...

Love hath no pride.

I don’t know where dreams come from. Sometimes I wonder if they’re genetic memories, or messages from something divine. Warnings perhaps. Maybe we do come with an instruction booklet but we’re too dense to read...

Missing Alina was worse than a terminal illness. At least when you were terminal you knew the pain was going to end eventually. But there was no light at the end of my tunnel. Grief...

He is my vulnerability

The more excited I get, the more I vibrate.””Now there’s a thought,” Lor says.”If you mean what I think you mean, you want to shut the fuck up and never think it again,” Ryodan says.

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

Ah, ka-lyrra, I look at you and you make me want to live a man’s life with you. To wake with you and sleep with you, argue with you and make love with you, to...

She was tipping her head back to inquire, when two men entered the great hall and the question flew right out of her head. They were simply two of the most gorgeous men she’d ever...

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.

Men. Do they all evade as first line of defense?

I doubt he’ll be a prince, Ms. Lane. Men rarely are.

It’s our actions that define us. What we choose. What we resist. What we’re willing to die for.

Grief shared was grief lessened.

I’m unhappy because ‘X’ happened to me yesterday, or I’ll be happy again when ‘Y’ happens to me tomorrow.” He says time is the ultimate villain.

And Mega has a crush on Chester.””I do not!””Do too, Mega.””He’s like, old!””How old, Christian says.””Like at least thirty or something.”Lor laughs. ” Fucking ancient, ain’t it, kid?””Dude,” I agree. I like Lor.

There are moments in my life when I feel like I’m exactly where I’m supposed to be, doing exactly what I’m supposed to do. I pay attention to them. They’re my cosmic landmarks, letting me...

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.

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...

I have found there to be little distance between the unlatching of a chain and the spreading of a woman’s legs. As if they can never unbar only a single entrance. It’s a disease called...

It’s what you choose to believe that makes you the person you are.

Now it’s not just my lip you’ll be needing to kiss if you’re wishing to make amends with me, Irish.

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

Aw, kiss him, Gwen, clamored a hundred perky eggs. Shut up, she rebuked. We don’t even know him, and until moments ago we thought he was dead. That’s no way to start a relationship.

I’d never understood why anyone would want to live forever. It had always seemed to me that death lent life a certain poignancy, a necessary tension.

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!

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

Don’t lose yourself in anger, Mac. 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...

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...