I want to be both for you, Octavian,” she whispered, letting her lips brush the curve of his shoulder.

Nice shack

A year ago,’ I said, ‘you wouldn’t have asked this of me.”A year ago,’ he answered, ‘you wouldn’t have hesitated to drink.’ I crossed to the desk and tossed it down.

The frame of the mirror was a deep mahogany and carved with an intricate design of what appeared in the dim light to be leaves and vines. The mirror’s surface was clouded with dust and...

Taking a deep breath that smelled of rain, she was poised to move when a hand clasped her elbow. Memories of another hand grabbing her sent panic shooting through her veins.She swung around.”Whoa. You okay?”...

My heart, always so strong in the past, was like the fishnet stockings that clung to my legs—torn, shredded, and full of gaping holes.

My body slid from human to wolf in a crack! of black smoke. Wolf was panting and I watched frost dissipate on my hot tongue, sending tiny rivulets of steam into the air. The world...

My first thought was that a tornado had somehow picked me up and carried me off, like in the Wizard of Oz. No old witches pedaled by, and I didn’t see any flying farm animals...

Behind Tana there was the sounds of splintering wood, as though something very large had hot the door. “No,” she said softly, “Oh no. No.” “Leave me,” said Gavriel. …..”Shut up or I might,” she...

normal” by what you define it, but normal is what you make it. You could spend a lifetime in the house you grew up in and never once feel normal.

Some minutes or hours or days later, when I lay boneless and well satisfied, Ethan raised his gaze to mine again. His eyes were silver, his fangs descended. “There is no going back,” he said,...

Do good. That’s all any of us can do.

If the town were a black hole, I was the helpless star being sucked into oblivion. It was an oblivion I craved.

You’re a Scott,” the Dark said, his lips peeled back in displeasure, as if just saying the word was revolting.”And you’re Irish. I’m so glad we got that settled.

Mercy is for the weak… let me show you how much of an Unseelie I still am.

Let me get this straight. you want me to go stomping through a graveyard brandishing a bottle of booze to rouse an unrestful spirit so that I can interrogate him?” – Cat to Bones

You’ve maddened me for you…have changed everything. So, I’m going to f*ck you long and hard, beauty, because if I’m to be enslaved by you-I want to be your master as well.

It took a pair of ghosts to open my eyes.

No.”Of course not. Because it would totally ruin his whole mysterious vibe. Can’t have that.

Nikolai had expected to have to fight the urge to torture the progeny of his father’s murderer, but he had never anticipated fighting the urge to fuck her.

…you don’t fight fair against the devil, now do you?

We’re supposed to love flowers, yet we rip them from their homes, and give them to people who don’t love us.”-Toril Withers (Dark Winter).

I can smell your blood now. I can smell it in every room of the house.

The visions scared me. And I was scared to tell anyone about them. I didn’t want them to think I was a freak. Maybe I was. That scared me, too.

…he didn’t know when he was going to get the chance to play WoW again. And it was damn important to do his bit to save all life on Azeroth while he could.

She did not want to know what charmhe had used to make her love him so deeply. She did not want to know it wasn’t real.

Is this how humanity waves good-bye?Hell no.

Sleep, Maya,” he murmured softly. “Sleep, my love, and I promise that I will come looking for you.

But soon the poltergeist ran out of ideas in connection with Aunt Maud and became, as it were, more eclectic. All the banal motions that objects are limited to in such cases, were gone through...

Quiero protegerte de todo aunque no pueda defenderte de lo que soy.

Yin and yang. Male and female. Life and death. The dualities that make us human. As though our lives play out on an immense balance scale—move one way, the scale tips to the left, but...

All because I fell in love with a madman.

The spirits of the dead are not among us to entertain us… Assuming the revenants you encounter have simply signed up to play haunted house for the amusement of the living is just plain ignorant.

Ray is going to fly you out and the plan is to meet up in two hours.”She sighed. “I despise Vamp Air, but I guess it can’t be helped. I can’t even think about the...

The only wand you’ll ever need is a better-feeling thought.

Fine. Fine. Let’s try. You asked why bad things happen to good people. Well, the simple answer is, there are no bad things and there are no good people. Nothing bad ever happens to anyone...

Lei frugò tra le lenzuola, quindi serrò le dita intorno al legno levigato.«Ti amerò per sempre, Phillip». E lo pugnalò.

Do you know the story?No, Finn, but I have a feeling you’re going to tell me.

Bad wolf. Stop baiting the human.

The expression ‘three is a crowd’ holds true for both romance and politics. A three-way race is a disaster, because it splits the ballots, making it almost impossible to gain a majority of the votes....

There is a unique bond between the land and the people in the Crescent City. Everyone here came from somewhere else, the muddy brown current of life prying them loose from their homeland and sweeping...

How could I let this happen? How could I let it get this far? I never thought Malyn would have the same feelin’s for me as I did for her. I’m dead, for goodness sakes....

…three particular T-shirts with vulgar slang written on them that made the vein in his forehead poke out. It was a cute little vein and I grew fond of seeing it’s public appearance while I...

Everyone knew the Hans Christian Andersen fairytale about the Sandman and how he brought sweet dreams to sleepers. An early, now-defunct Reve company had even used him as their mascot. But that’s all the Sandman...

There will never be another woman for me, Alexandra. You are my eternity. -Michael

She exhaled curtly. ‘I’m a serryn. That’s all you see. I’m just something to be tortured, slain or sold off as a commodity. That’s hardly the most appealing of traits.’ ‘Tell your eyes that. Because...

And I want to kiss you every day, but not just because I’m saying goodbye.

It took me several minutes to persuade myself to watch the news. During which time I gave myself a stern talking to. That turned into me considering a local pub that would be the perfect...

Victor, back there in that basement, when the zombies were… were… moving around on those tables…. Twitching? And dead? You didn’t even blink.This is nothing like those zombies.No shit. Because this time, you’re scared—beyond scared....

You should open these doors with care and caution-but, first, you must know how to close them. And above all, you must know which doors should be left unopened…