There ought to be a law that allows eavesdroppers to sue.

These violators responded only as cowards could. They ran.

The calm serenity of the breeze as it blows across the ocean releases the tangled web within my mind.

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Shadow and dust shall be reclaimed, earth sealing the tomb from which you came. Dust to dust, ashes to ashes, warrior return, breathe your last. Air, earth, fire, water, hear my voice, obey my order,...

I look for you in every life, but I don’t always find you. And sometimes I find you too late.

You need me, Kane. Maybe even more than I need you.

The images start to darken and she feels another hunger well up in her, this one having to do with another kind of desire. The desire to feed, to possess, and the aggressive thrill of...

He felt like home.

Look, we’re in the boonies. I am sure shoes are optional, as are a full set of teeth.

Yeah, and shit floats.” Lesa took her seat, yanking out last night’s English homework.

Anyone who isn’t scared of you is insane.

Your eyes betray a sadness that only a worthy man can conjure, but never solve

The last declaration he’d made to me hung between us. The L word. The one that had nothing to do with like.

All of the signs we invented growing up and we never invented one for ‘he’s standing right behind you’?

All I see is my father’s tax money being wasted on shooting satellite pictures of South America like you guys work for the Travel Channel.– Todd Dooley (BLACK MARIAH – A Calling)

my unexpected trip to the light may have been cancelled, but here I was, still paying the cost of the return ticket

We angels are misconceived in the human world. People perceive us as kindly and bountiful; when, in truth, we are about as fluffy, as gentle, as yielding, as rattlesnakes.

Here’s the thing,” I said. “I’m not going to be the government’s bitch.

When you give yourself to me, completely, I will bite you. Until then, my love, I will only nibble on you.”~Cole

La vida de Henry era tan frágil como la de Xander o la de mi madre, y sentí que empezaba a resquebrajarme. Me abrumaba tener que luchar sola por él. Henry se había quedado en...

All I need are some fava beans and a nice Chianti!” he said as he slurped.

Love, really? We’re vampires, not teenagers. Lust is for the weak.

We were arrogant and naive, thinking we knew what we felt then was love. Love can be a cheap emotion, lightly given, thought it didn´t seem so to me at the time. Looking back, I...

Ella squeezed, wringing a groan from his throat that echoed the torments of the damned. Usually, though, the damned didn’t lean into the torment in a silent entreaty for more. Or so she assumed. She...

Walking out into the night with a water fey was all kinds of stupid. Heck, Kelpies eat people. They may not play with their food as creatively as the Each Uisge, but dead is dead.

Jessica’s hand flew to her mouth. If she had any doubt, the next entry settled it.She read on, cool beads of sweat trickling down the back of her neck, hardly daring to breathe as the...

I’m mad you left the way you did.

Be careful,” Aidan called from the bed. “You don’t know what he might do.” “We all know what you’d do,though, don’t we?”-Gavriel, Tana, and Aidan-page 22-chapter 3

There was nothing to see in the room, but his brain pulled multiple vivid memories to the forefront of his mind. Entering the house as husband and wife, with Angela holding onto his arm. The...

He used to call vampires “the breathing ghosts”- for, as he put it, we existed in a kind of limbo-land between the living and the dead. We breathed, but we were not alive. We flitted...

When we kissed, the skies had never appeared more heavenly, nor the seas a more brilliant shade of sapphire blue.

She woke to Terak’s claws raking through her hair and her body deliciously sore, well-used in the best sense.

I expected you to look… content, happy even, after your alone time with Sammi, not all mopey and depressed. You didn’t screw up, did you? Don’t all Kings make love perfectly?

He’d pushed and pushed and pushed until she had nowhere else to go but away from him. He’d been young back then himself. Inexperienced. Stupid. A little patience accomplished a lot more. Hard lesson to...

And you are not to be underestimated.

Do you want to risk it?

Life’s nycer when it’s Naughtie!

Why is everything always my decision?” I asked.Because you will not tolerate anything else.”Oh, I remembered now. “Great”, I whispered.- Anita to Jean-Claude

While he attends to his rats, Persinger gives me the lowdown on the haunt theory. Why would a certain type of electromagnetic field make one hear things or sense a presence? What’s the mechanism? The...

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...

Dying a thousand deaths in my head to protect you is better than losing you one time in the flesh.”~ Gustaf Ræliksen

The little weasel ripped all the buttons off my couch.Ivan Petrovsky, pg 350

So in the sweltering heat of a July night, I sang a Christmas carol to a room full of fae, who had been driven out of their homelands by Christians and their cold-iron swords.

What was the point of spying if you couldn’t keep it a secret?

He may be stronger, but I’m not defenseless. He knows that, of coarse. That’s why he’s here. He wants me for what I can do after all.

She had fire dancing in her eyes as she assaulted him with her serpent’s tongue. Tonight she was not his wife but his little sister.

Now when you say staring, are you including yourself in this assessment? I recall you taking in the view on several occasions.””For the last time, I was not staring at you.” I was a terrible...

Thane – She grasped my face in her hands and pulled me to her, pressing soft kisses on my lips. My arm slid around her waist, and my hand pressed against the small of her...