“He'd swiftly collected those monsters' heads, tying them together with a piece of the rope she'd hoped never to see again, then strung them over his shoulder. Periodically, he offered his catch to her.
"No, no, I have a pair just like them at home," she'd said. "I would just regift them.”
― Kresley Cole, quote from Demon from the Dark
“Look, it's not you. It's me, and my inability to dig dirty dudes.”
― Kresley Cole, quote from Demon from the Dark
“Two things that can never be contained? Velociraptors and zombies. ~Carrow Graie”
― Kresley Cole, quote from Demon from the Dark
“I think I just fell into like with him.”
― Kresley Cole, quote from Demon from the Dark
“Ara?"
She jerked her face up. "Huh? Where were we?"
But his expression had grown serious, the lesson forgotten. He interlaced his fingers and said, "We are bound."
"Bound?"
He collected a piece of rope, knotting it.
"Oh, you mean bound?"
He gave a nod, then drew in the sand.
An infinity symbol? "Clever demon, how did you know that...?"
He was gazing at her with a question in his eyes.
"Bound forever?" And somehow she met his gaze and lied, "Yes, demon. Bound forever."
As if to make her feel guiltier, he gathered her into his arms, cupping her face against his broad chest. His voice a deep rumble, he said, "Carrow is Malkom's."
She wanted to sob.
"Yes?"
"Yes," she answered, wishing that it could be so simple between them. Demon meets girl. Girl might be falling for demon.”
― Kresley Cole, quote from Demon from the Dark
“She'd never seen a monster like that before, had never heard of one in all the Lore. When she grappled with the question of what it was, her sharply honed scientifical mind deduced one answer: manbearpig.”
― Kresley Cole, quote from Demon from the Dark
“Last night, Dixon had suggested combat boots in place of Carrow’s own—her two-thousand-dollar, gathered-leather, over-the-knee boots. “Do you want me to go in as an enchantress or a warrior?” Carrow had asked testily. “Pick a caste, any caste, mortal. I myself think I have the best chance as an enchantress. And fuck-me boots are standard-issue.”
― Kresley Cole, quote from Demon from the Dark
“This was full when I left. Demon, did you eat some of my toothpaste?”
― Kresley Cole, quote from Demon from the Dark
“Why don't you just buy me a minivan, zip me into mom jeans, and shoot me in the face" - Melanthe the potential Queen of Persuasions:”
― Kresley Cole, quote from Demon from the Dark
“I'm on a man-fast. Why bother with them? the good ones are always taken. Or they're weirdly uminterested in a capricious wild child with continuous legal problems~ Carrow the Incarcerated”
― Kresley Cole, quote from Demon from the Dark
“Hey! When he dug into it, rifling through her things, she snapped, "Go Yoda someone else's supplies, asshole.”
― Kresley Cole, quote from Demon from the Dark
“You're not leaving me behind. Or I'll do a spell to make you smell like ass. Forever.”
― Kresley Cole, quote from Demon from the Dark
“Those who betray me do it only once.”
― Kresley Cole, quote from Demon from the Dark
“Like the vampire Lothaire, the Enemy of Old, with his white-blond hair and eerily sinister hotness.”
― Kresley Cole, quote from Demon from the Dark
“Carrowicus much drunkicus or Hot-assicus in my greedy handsicus.”
― Kresley Cole, quote from Demon from the Dark
“The demon was turning out to be an unpredictable, feral, bone-and-head-collecting, sexually ravenous happiness battery. She swallowed. All I have to do is plug him in.”
― Kresley Cole, quote from Demon from the Dark
“What would Ripley do? When in a jam, Carrow often thought of how Ellen Ripley, the legendary badasstress of the Alien quadrilogy, would figure her way out.”
― Kresley Cole, quote from Demon from the Dark
“So help her, if Pig-Pen was a blond . . .”
― Kresley Cole, quote from Demon from the Dark
“Crow, are you awake?” “Why do kids ask that when they know you’re not?” She cracked open her bleary eyes. “No. Really.”
― Kresley Cole, quote from Demon from the Dark
“He’d had no family. Hers didn’t deserve her. Then we will be family. Never will I be separated from her.”
― Kresley Cole, quote from Demon from the Dark
“What do they want?” “They want all the freaks dead. Funny. I don’t”
― Kresley Cole, quote from Demon from the Dark
“feel like a freak. Unless le freak, c’est chic?” She shrugged. “To be fair, they only rise up whenever immortals do.”
― Kresley Cole, quote from Demon from the Dark
“Dreams to come, dreams to come true.”
― Kresley Cole, quote from Demon from the Dark
“His female didn’t belong in this foul place. And since he belonged with her, then neither did he. He didn’t care what he had to do, he’d find a way to get her home.”
― Kresley Cole, quote from Demon from the Dark
“If a demon and a vampire mated, their offspring would be unique but in harmony, like a Labrador retriever crossed with a poodle. Voila, labradoodle!
But a vemon was a made creature, as if one took the front half of the Lab and jammed it onto the back half of thr poodle. In other words, wrong.”
― Kresley Cole, quote from Demon from the Dark
“If a demon and a vampire mated, their offspring would be unique but in harmony, like a Labrador retriever crossed with a poodle. Voila, labradoodle!
But a vemon was a made creature, as if one took the front half of the Lab and jammed it onto the back half of the poodle. In other words, wrong”
― Kresley Cole, quote from Demon from the Dark
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“Disappeared' is the only way to describe it-it was as if he dissolved into thin air without so much as a whimper. I wouldn't have believed that a human being with a brain, a heart, with arms and legs and the power of speech could have simple vanished like that. There was nothing about him that suggested he would disappear.”
― Yōko Ogawa, quote from The Diving Pool: Three Novellas
“He stood looking down at her for a moment, then walked to the window and raised it. "Let's let the storm in," he said, and then it was with them, filling the half-dark room with sound and vibration. The rain-chilled air washed over her, cool and fresh on her heated skin. She sighed, the small sound drowned out by the din of thunder and rain.
There by the window, with the dim grey light outlining the bulge and plane of powerful muscle, Wolf removed his wet clothing.”
― Linda Howard, quote from Mackenzie's Mountain
“If you ask me, when something extraordinary shows up in your life in the middle of the night, you give it a name and make it the best home you can.”
― Barbara Kingsolver, quote from High Tide in Tucson
“She let her body go limp, moaned, and combed her fingers through his hair, ran them over his shoulders. "Your jacket," she murmured and tugged at it. When he shifted to shrug free, she had him.
It was a basic tenet of hand-to-hand. Never lower your guard. She scissored, shoved, and pinned him with a knee to the crotch and an elbow to the throat.
"You're tricky." He calculated he could dislodge the elbow, but the knee... There were some things a man didn't care to risk. He kept his eyes on hers and slowly, carefully skimmed his fingertips up her bare torso, circled her breast. "I admire that in a woman."
"You're easy." His thumb brushed lightly over her nipple, quickening her breath. "I admire that in a man."
"Well, you've got me now." He unsnapped her waistband, teased her stomach muscles to quiver. "Be kind."
She grinned, levered her elbow away to brace her hands on either side of his head. "I don't think so." Lowering her head, she caught his mouth with hers.”
― J.D. Robb, quote from Ceremony in Death
“There cannot be any hard and fast rules. But there can be suggestions and useful analogies. The most useful, to my mind, is that of the difference between the English and French judicial systems. In England (and America), the task of the court in criminal cases, which it devolves upon a jury, is to arrive at a verdict of ‘guilty’ or ‘not guilty’ on the evidence presented by prosecuting and defending counsel in turns. Trials are conflicts and verdicts are decisions; the two sides ‘win’ or ‘lose’. In France, and other countries which observe Roman Law, the task of the court in a criminal case is to arrive at the truth, as far as it can be perceived by human eyes, and the business of establishing the outlines of the truth falls not on a jury, which is strictly asked to enter a judgement, but upon a juge d’instruction. This officer of the court, unknown to English law, is accorded very wide powers of interrogation–of the suspect, his family, his associates–and of investigation–of the circumstances and scene of the crime–at which the suspect is often required to participate in a reconstruction. Only when the juge is satisfied that a crime has indeed occurred and that the suspect is responsible will he allow the case to go forward for prosecution. The character of these two different legal approaches is usually defined as ‘accusatorial’ (English) and ‘inquisitorial’ (French) respectively.”
― John Keegan, quote from The Face Of Battle: A Study Of Agincourt, Waterloo And The Somme
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