“They didn't understand that she held his heart, held it so utterly that there was nothing he wouldn't do, no line he wouldn't cross to keep her safe.”
― Nalini Singh, quote from Archangel's Kiss
“He wanted to give me a blade? What's wrong with that?”
“Blades,” he whispered, “and sheaths go together. And your sheath will only ever hold my blade.”
― Nalini Singh, quote from Archangel's Kiss
“Emotion without reason lets people walk all over you; reason without emotion is a mask for cruelty.”
― Nalini Singh, quote from Archangel's Kiss
“Tell me something, Raphael?"
He was already turning, heading to the door. "What is it you'd like to know, Guild Hunter?"
She hid her smile at his slip. "What do I call you? Husband? Mate? Boyfriend?"
Stopping with his hand on the doorknob, he shot her an inscrutable look. "You can call me 'Master'.”
― Nalini Singh, quote from Archangel's Kiss
“We die...... We die together. That's the deal.”
― Nalini Singh, quote from Archangel's Kiss
“Are your eyelashes like your hair?”
“Yes. They’re very beautiful—want to see?”
Her lips twitched. “Vanity is a sin,Bluebell.”
“When you have it, flaunt it, I say.”
-Elena and Illium”
― Nalini Singh, quote from Archangel's Kiss
“We'll build our own home."
The promise curled around her heart, a vivid ray of sunlight. "In Manhattan?"
"Of course." A slow, slow smile. "What kind of mansion would you like?"
Damn, but the archangel was playing with her again. The sunshine grew, filled her veins.
"Actually, I kind of like yours." She slid her arms around his neck. "Can I have it? Oh, and can I have Jeeves, too? I've always wanted a butler."
"Yes."
She blinked. "Just like that?"
"It's only a place."
"We'll make it more," she promised, her mouth to his. "We'll make it ours.”
― Nalini Singh, quote from Archangel's Kiss
“Love, he thought as he held her to his heart, was an agony beyond compare.”
― Nalini Singh, quote from Archangel's Kiss
“Venom’s pupils contracted the instant before he slid his sunglasses back on.
She couldn’t help it. “Why isn’t your tongue forked?”
“Why can’t you fly?” A smirk. “Those things on your back aren’t accessories you know.”
― Nalini Singh, quote from Archangel's Kiss
“A queen keeps a court that is spoken about. A goddess keeps a court that is never forgotten.”
― Nalini Singh, quote from Archangel's Kiss
“But you, you’ve always been the rain, the wind, inside my mind. I taste you when I sleep, when I wake, when I breathe.”
― Nalini Singh, quote from Archangel's Kiss
“The longer you live, the more mistakes you make. And the more sorrows you carry.”
― Nalini Singh, quote from Archangel's Kiss
“I look into my heart and see the abyss looking back at me.'
'I won't let you fall.”
― Nalini Singh, quote from Archangel's Kiss
“And if she fell, he'd fall with her.”
― Nalini Singh, quote from Archangel's Kiss
“The scent of the sea, a wild turbulent storm, crashing into her mind.
Elena, why is Dmitri naked?”
― Nalini Singh, quote from Archangel's Kiss
“Voles-tu, mon petit papillon.” Illium laughed at Galen’s instruction to “fly, little butterfly”
― Nalini Singh, quote from Archangel's Kiss
“Reason without emotion is often a mask for cruelty; emotion without reason can allow people to excuse all sorts of excesses.”
― Nalini Singh, quote from Archangel's Kiss
“I think Illium can take care of himself.”
“Not if he keeps flirting with you.”
A fine, almost elegant tendril of heat, champagne and sunshine, decadence in the light.
“Raphael’s not the sharing kind.”
― Nalini Singh, quote from Archangel's Kiss
“There is a dark music in the screams of your enemies.” (Raphael)”
― Nalini Singh, quote from Archangel's Kiss
“You chose a warrior, remember?”
“As you chose an archangel.”
― Nalini Singh, quote from Archangel's Kiss
“Under her palm, his heart beat strong and sure. It was such a human sound, so honest, so real.”
― Nalini Singh, quote from Archangel's Kiss
“Do you think you have the right to give me orders now?"
The Archangel of New York, a creature so lethal that part of her feared him even now, lifted the hair off her nape, brushed his lips across her skin. "Of course. You are mine." No hint of humor, nothing but stark possession.
"I don't think you've quite got the hang of this true love thing.”
― Nalini Singh, quote from Archangel's Kiss
“Nothing's ever gone. We fool ourselves that things fade, but they never do.”
― Nalini Singh, quote from Archangel's Kiss
“He'd kill for her, destroy for her, savage anyone who dared attempt to take her from him.
And he would never let her go...even if she begged for her freedom.”
― Nalini Singh, quote from Archangel's Kiss
“Do I look like I want to be eaten alive after sex?”
― Nalini Singh, quote from Archangel's Kiss
“Love was an agony beyond compare”
― Nalini Singh, quote from Archangel's Kiss
“Fathers and mothers,” she found herself saying, “leave their mark, no matter if we’ve known them a lifetime or only a day.”
― Nalini Singh, quote from Archangel's Kiss
“I have every confidence that you’ll find a way to end my life before I stain the world with evil.”
Rebellion in those eyes. “We die,” she said, “we die together. That’s the deal.”
He thought about his final thoughts as he’d fallen with her in New York, her body broken in his arms, her voice less than a whisper in his mind. He hadn’t considered holding onto his eternity for a second, had chosen to die with her, with his hunter. That she would choose to do the same . . . His hands clenched. “We die,” he repeated, “we die
together.”
A moment of utter silence, the sense of something being locked into place.”
― Nalini Singh, quote from Archangel's Kiss
“Michaela, Sara, Michaela, Sara,” she murmured in a mock-thoughtful voice.
“Bitch Goddess angel versus my best friend, gee, which side do you think I’ll choose?”
― Nalini Singh, quote from Archangel's Kiss
“He knew what he was. He knew what he was capable of. He also knew that if he broke her, he'd despise himself for all eternity.”
― Nalini Singh, quote from Archangel's Kiss
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“There is not really any courage at all in attacking hoary or antiquated things, any more than in offering to fight one’s grandmother. The really courageous man is he who defies tyrannies young as the morning and superstitions fresh as the first flowers. The only true free-thinker is he whose intellect is as much free from the future as from the past.”
― G.K. Chesterton, quote from What's Wrong with the World
“The whiles some one did chaunt this louely lay;
Ah see, who so faire thing doest faine to see,
In springing flowre the image of thy day;
Ah see the Virgin Rose, how sweetly shee
Doth first peepe forth with bashfull modestee,
That fairer seemes, the lesse ye see her may;
Lo see soone after, how more bold and free
Her bared bosome she doth broad display;
Loe see soone after, how she fades, and falles away.
So passeth, in the passing of a day,
Of mortall life the leafe, the bud, the flowre,
Ne more doth flourish after first decay,
That earst was sought to decke both bed and bowre,
Of many a Ladie, and many a Paramowre:
Gather therefore the Rose, whilest yet is prime,
For soone comes age, that will her pride deflowre:
Gather the Rose of love, whilest yet is time,
Whilest louing thou mayst loued be with equall crime.”
― Edmund Spenser, quote from The Faerie Queene
“For a long while we just stood there, looking down at the profound and fleshless grin. The body had apparently once lain in the attitude of an embrace, but now the long sleep that outlasts love, that conquers even the
grimace of love, had cuckolded him. What was left of him, rotted beneath what was left of the nightshirt, had become inextricable from the bed in which he lay; and upon him and upon the pillow beside him lay that even coating of the patient and biding dust.
Then we noticed that in the second pillow was the indentation of a head. One of us lifted something from it, and leaning forward, that faint and invisible dust dry and acrid in the nostrils, we saw a long strand of iron-grey hair.”
― William Faulkner, quote from A Rose for Emily and Other Stories
“Lately, I have been wondering if there is time left for daydreaming in this 21st-century world of constant communication.”
― James Thurber, quote from The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
“He explained that the leaf had fallen over and over from that same tree so I would stop trying to understand.”
― Carlos Castaneda, quote from A Separate Reality
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