Vampires aren’t as cool as I expected them to be. In romance novels, vampires are all dark and broody and sexy. In real life, you talk an awful lot about stocks.

As nice an offer as that was, I’m afraid I’m not interested.””I see the job as your only chance for survival.

What was life has crumbled. What was form, now falls away. Mortal chains unbind and the soul s free. May you find your way to the ancestors. May you find your path to the gods....

One moment of true happiness was worth all the moments of pain. (Jessica)

Leave it to her to want to pet a monster.

At dusk in the Corcovado National Park in Costa Rica, Melissa Overton barely heard the constant sound of crickets chirping all around them. Prowling through the dense, tropical rainforest as a jaguar, she listened for...

It’s okay, Jasper. I, above all, know what you are feeling now. But this will be different. We’re stronger now. We will find her.” Adam gave him a rough hug before he left the shop....

I am a guardian of sorts.”- Liam (Marked Book #1) page 171

Te amo, Querida,” he whispered, stroking her hair. “Tu eres mi luz en la oscuridad.” I love you. You are my light in the darkness.

Why was it that boys said girls were so hard to understand when she hadn’t known a single guy who hadn’t confused her to the point of screaming?

You said you like it on top. I spent all day imagining it.

I’d chase you anyway. I’ll chase you forever.

What do you mean?”You don’t ask me to go inside because it’s cold. You just want to make it easier for me to be where I want to stand.

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...

You,” he purred, “are a HILF.””A what?””A Horseman I’d like to fuck.

His laughter echoed through my mind. I have a beautiful woman in my arms, and am taking her back to my home, where she and I will be alone and able to indulge whatever fantasies...

He moved to her other breast, then lower, lower…She rolled her hips insistently when he settled between her open legs, crouched like a predator about to devour his prey.

Want to grab a beer at Howler’s?”Drake blinked, unsure he’d heard him right. After just battering each other to a pulp, Gabriel wanted to geta drink with him?…”Why are you asking me?”Gabriel shrugged, then winced.”Because...

Two must rule together, one for the night and one for the day. this is the way it has always been done.

The woman trembled, eyes wide as she stared at the bluff. Her teeth pressed against her lower lip hard enough he wouldn’t have been surprised to see blood. Devyn recognized the building hysteria. His chest...

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