Because I loved you!” she shouted. “Because I didn’t want to let you go! Because I didn’t want to lose you!” She hadn’t realized she was crying until her voice hitched and she felt the...

Even though I began my career as an alchemist, I soon turned away from that practice and forged my own path. I uncovered my own secrets and kept them secret. That’s how I was able...

I didn’t know what to think about first: me seeing Claude naked, Claude seeing me naked, or the whole fact that we were related and naked in the same room.(Sookie Stackhouse, Dead in the Family)

Yeah, well, maybe it’s time to let another man have it, you think?” he teased. ~ “The Mirror

You are no longer a weak, susceptible human. You are Shaede, deadly and cunning. Never bow to that mortal weakness again.

I’d been called a freak, and worse, all through school. Now that I’d finally graduated, I was sick of it. I’d hoped that no one would ever call me names again. Oh well, if wishes...

It was one thing to talk about ghosts, quite another to have them messing around with things in the physical world.

We are all connected. The living to the nonliving, as the nonliving to the living. All things in all directions in all times. It is only in the physical dimension that we have limitations. (The...

I’m sorry,’ she said to each of the dead as she unzipped and unfastened their things, ‘I’m sorry Courtney.I’m sorry Marcus. I’m sorry Rachel.I’m sorry Jon. I’m sorry I’m alive and you’re dead. I’m sorry...

I never quite understood the question that says, is the glass half empty or half full? What’s the difference? Eventually it’ll end up empty and in the trash.

Maybe he’s not coming,’ I whispered to Damar. ‘He’s crazy after all. Maybe something shiny caught his attention and he forgot about me.

There are two types of visions. Those that will happen no matter what, and those that can be stopped. Now more than ever, I wish I could tell them apart.

I have a meeting with McConnell and Baroja tomorrow at ten A.M. to review some procedures,” he said. Now, that was the J.B. I knew. Never mind the demon attack; procedures needed reviewing.

She drank in the sight of him, the power, the virility, the sheer sexiness. She knew just how well those lips of his kissed, how gentle and coaxing his hands could be, and how mouth-watering...

Help for the Haunted

Usually my form of turning someone down was shoving a stake through his heart while smirking, Gotcha!

My name is Markowski. I carry a badge. Also a crucifix, some wooden stakes, a big vial of holy water, and a 9mm Beretta loaded with silver bullets.I was never a Boy Scout but “Be...

This was sharing office space with wacko and bordering on ludicrous.

Liam recoiled as if I’d hoofed him in the danglies.

He was gorgeous. Every feature on his face perfect, dark and inviting. The boy could be his own photo shoot.” Kasey Reese – Men of the Cave

Well of course, you’ve had that bloody uniform on all day. I was half ready to tell you how much I liked you.

You are most definitely my catnip.

…. does a fair trial necessarily amount to a fair outcome?

Six years of dreams would end in eternal love, or an eternity of loss.

Life is a book waiting to happen.

I guess I should thank you for totally making my morning. It’s not every day a stranger notices my perspiration level.- Dr. Jeri Asher (BLACK MARIAH – A Calling)

I can’t change my past, nobody can, I can make my future better

I am waiting for you in the living room… the very pink living room. I do hope that when we acquire a home of our own, after this nonsense has passed, you will not insist...

Those who die never truly leave us. They are forever there beyond the shimmering of light at the edge of sight.

He meant to go lightly, cautiously, sweetly. First kiss, first date. But she curled her fingers in his hair, pressed her hot little body against his, and kissed him back as if they had been...

The glove suddenly feels much heavier, now, more dense. The rush of power didn’t come through me, but wrapped around me; invisible and strangely empty, like a purely mechanical force. It wasn’t like I just...

I mean, that was the code, wasn’t it? Single girls and taken guys weren’t allowed to be friends. The leash always got in the way.

Love when you can, and fight when you must, but stand together and never give up, not to the enemy, and not on each other.

Why did a demon who possessed the savage strength of a werewolf also need such compelling beauty?It was one of those philosophical questions that had no answer.Like why Firefly had been canceled after just one...

When the mind is free, magic happens.

People who buy the little jars and boxes aren’t staying. They only want enough to last them while they’re here.”–Ginger the Checkout girl from The Great Northern Coven

normal” until adults squeeze it out them.

I smile, she blushes.I smirk, she slaps me on the arm, softly.I breathe, because it’s easy around her.

Fear and bigotry don’t need explaining. They simply are, like traffic jams and taxes.

It’s common knowledge in the industry that people often lie, or minimize things, when they participate in surveys, No one wants to tell a stranger they drink four cocktails a night, or eat junk food...

Every town has ‘THAT house’: the one that once held dark secrets. You know the house… the one no one will purchase? The one whose walls have seen blood? The one that even birds avoid,...

And when whatever happened in that barn happened, it was a moment I’ll never forget. Like a missing key slid into a dusty old lock. Click. My world opened.

As it so happens, I like your mouth.””It doesn’t — “”Challenge me?” He set the bottle down and moved to the end of the bed. “An outspoken woman makes the world a livable place. You...

If she couldn’t be with Harlen in Washington, DC, this was the place to be.Sera’s mobile screen lit, and she glanced down to find a text from him: I have to pee.

Merkabah is translated as either meaning the throne of god or chariot. Both definitions imply a means of spiritual ascension, not a physical one. They only have it partly right.

I will not be threatened. Do you understand me?’ He leaned closer again, his lips less than a couple of inches from hers. ‘Now try saying it without trembling.

Writing is my dream. From romance to dragons; fairies to fantasy worlds, this is where I live and play. Thanks be to God!

And I want J.K. Rowling to keep writing in the Potterverse, but I know that’s never going to happen,” I said blithely.

My brain was about two eggs past fried.

I had always been content to know that there was more in the living world than we could hope to understand.