He’d watched the world change around him, civilizations rise and fall, and although he could have anything, anyone, he wanted her.

Fantastic. I always like my days better with a touch of insanity,” Gabriella quipped.

Hi there. I am the Gwarda, Breccan, the good-looking, sweet one.” He winked. “The one thundering, yet, remaining aloof,” he said loudly and continued, “is Darius. He’s a savage, you know,” he said quietly, leaning...

You know you really have to beware of gypsies in these parts,” he said teasingly, dismounting from his horse…Keirah gave him a small smile that she didn’t quite feel. “Good thing I have the Gwarda...

You may run from the calling, but, you will find no real peace until you fulfill your destiny.

When God ignores you, the devil starts looking good.

God, fate was a sick, twisted bitch. Doomed. He was certainly and absolutely heading straight for the fiery pits of Hell, he realized, as he lusted for his sworn enemy, the vampire.

His appearance projected danger and reinforced the common knowledge that one did not want to piss off a demon, especially this one.

When my escort is a demon, yes.

What’s the problem?””You. All shirtless and stuff. My dragon won’t let me fight you.” Oh, God. It was so embarrassing even admitting it.

Gods, the love that saturated the room was so potent that Arabella couldn’t breathe.This was what she wanted. Someone who wouldn’t let go, someone who would love her so much he’d wait decades to be...

I think this is the part that stopped you from pushing me away,” he said, referring to my heart

He should always wear jeans because they make him look hotter than a nebula. Black suits him too. It hugs to his muscular vales and swells, turning temptation into sexy man therapy.

Inhaling, I am ignited with the first breath of freedom

Aye,” he smiles, joy igniting in his stormy gray eyes, stroking my hand possessively as if unwilling to let me go for fear I am nothing more than a hallucination about to wear off.

Dean bristled at the idea of outsiders on our turf. I completely understood his apprehension. New people tended to want to kill us. I don’t know why. We were nice people.

If I were to lock you up in a dungeon, I guarantee you would not be bored.

My romantic history since arriving on Novo has been non-existent, but I don’t know what, if anything, came before; thanks to the government’s cerebral pilfering.

Fuathan don’t come out until after dark. Sunlight kills them.’‘Like vampires?’‘Kind of. Very mean, sub-aquatic vampires who don’t need to drink your blood, but might do it anyway, just for fun.

I’ve been deflecting Calypso’s blushes all day. I don’t have the energy to deflect yours,” he said through clenched teeth. “So either block or strip.” — The Twelfth House ~ The Elementals Book I

Okay, you’re starting to talk board game. Let’s go home, babe. I’ll get you into bed.

I don’t kid about fucking.

I didn’t even have a name for her, shade or human, but I didn’t need one to know her. (Eric)

Patti told me that to truly love someone ,you must hold them in a open hand.That was how I needed to love Kai. It was necessary to uncurl my fingers and let him go

Call me crotchety, but I didn’t like being bossed around, especially before I’d injected caffeine into my system. Violet Parker

It’s a lot easier to understand things once you name them. It’s the unknown that mostly freaks me out. I don’t know the name of that fear, but I know I’ve got it, the fear...

That smell is all you. I love that smell too. I want to wear that smell on my skin and roll around in it. I want to live in that smell alone.”–Wounded(Bracken to Cory)

Thin lips trace bold lines across my skin with a single, lingering kiss.

Why fear death? It is the most beautiful adventure in life.

He wishes he could remember everything. Anything. He doesn’t sense a bone in his body that can feel compassion or worthiness. Self-pity hides away as well, the lowest form of emotion not even capable of...

Even the darkest of hearts needs a little comfort from time to time.

Did you meet your soul mate? That always happens on the first day of school, right?”Oh God, Charlie, she’s letting you read again! You went straight to the paranormal section, didn’t you?

Life was sucked from me, not any life, my life. And so it goes…..

Shit. Shit. Shit. He’d known he couldn’t save her. He’d known he was too far away. Knowing didn’t prevent the bare-knuckled punch to his heart, though.

I don’t speak just so I can be heard; I speak only when I find it absolutely necessary to do so.

He pulled out a dagger from … she wasn’t sure where. Did he have that in his loin cloth? What else does he have in there? (Amy’s thoughts, The Witching Pen)

I do care about real life. It’s just not as interesting as what’s in my books.

I freeze when I come face to face with a naked man’s chest. Why does this keep happening to me? Trying to keep my eyes averted from his very naked lower regions, I look up.

Arkadia wrapped her arms around his waist and laid her head upon the muscular cliff face he called his chest.

You want to be possessed, but not controlled. You want to be protected, but not smothered. You want to be dominated, but only in one way.

If you’re not, you will be when you poke your eye out on one of them.

Last warning. I don’t play nice.

To anyone who contemplates even nearing me while I sleep: I will garrote you with your own viscera.

I finally understand what a dickie-do is. Your gut does stick out more than your dickie do.

The cut under his eye and the split skin on his lower lip only enhanced his profile. He didn’t look defeated. He looked like a fighter. A champion.

If you die, Andrew, I’ll track you across multiple dimensions just to say I warned you,” she cautioned, voice tender.

Me? With only one woman forever and ever, blah, blah, blah. I don’t think so, brother. I am having too much fun with all the ladies in Johobin.”-Madison Thorne Grey, Sustenance (Breccan)

You’re causing the world to spin again, Keirah,” Wharick teased about her druid gift with nature. “You out of control? Do you need something to settle you down? he asked.

Your fiery spirit excites me, Keirah, like nothing I have ever felt before. Yet I have the overwhelming desire to put you over my knee when you don’t do as you are told.

All my life I thought love was supposed to be this amazing, wonderful feeling. I thought it was supposed to heal all wounds and conquer all. No one ever told me that it can leave...