“You can't truly hate someone you've loved. You can only hurt.”
― Larissa Ione, quote from Desire Unchained
“The problem with having evil minions is that minions are stupid.”
― Larissa Ione, quote from Desire Unchained
“Okay, listen. From what Shade said, Roag got toasted like a burnt marshmallow. He would have been nearly destroyed, right down to his junk." Wraith grinned. “Which is really fucking funny.”
― Larissa Ione, quote from Desire Unchained
“This is'nt like , vampire gay, is it?
~Kynan”
― Larissa Ione, quote from Desire Unchained
“Forgive me-he mumbled against her lips. Please. Forgive me for what I'm going to do to you.
~Shade”
― Larissa Ione, quote from Desire Unchained
“I'm giving you a free shot at my blood and you're playing hard to get? What kind of vampire are you?" When Wraith just stood there, Kynan rolled his eyes. "Oh, come on. My blood's eighty proof. You want it. You know you do.”
― Larissa Ione, quote from Desire Unchained
“Wraith snorted. "Cowards. Seriously. Who brings a gun to a knife fight? That's cheating."
"You don't have a gun?" Kynan asked.
Wraith made a face of digust. "It's not very sporting to shoot people."
"So you're saying that you didn't shoot the people who shot you?"
"Hell, yeah, I shot them.”
― Larissa Ione, quote from Desire Unchained
“He'd always thought Roag was one rat short of a plague.”
― Larissa Ione, quote from Desire Unchained
“You volunteering to play Big Gulp?
~Wraith”
― Larissa Ione, quote from Desire Unchained
“They wanted it because they've got some sort of darkness in them. And maybe because they like pain. Because pain turns them on. Well, maybe it turns me on, too," she said quietly. "In fact, I know it does, because loving you hurts. And yet, I still come back for more.”
― Larissa Ione, quote from Desire Unchained
“And your skin, it tastes like me. I want to taste you everywhere.”
― Larissa Ione, quote from Desire Unchained
“I will bear this pain for you,” he swore. “If one of us has to bleed, it will be me. It’ll always be me.”
― Larissa Ione, quote from Desire Unchained
“I could say I think coulds are pretty, and you'd say they're only pretty to demons.”
― Larissa Ione, quote from Desire Unchained
“I’m over a thousand years old. I’ve seen it all. You, sweetcheeks, are nothing new.” At what must have been an outraged expression on her face, he laughed again. “Come on. Surely you can’t think you are the only female out there who’s had a rough life, had her heart walked on, been kept in a dungeon for three centuries, blah, blah, pick your trauma, and are now stomping around with all this pent-up anger you spill like acid on everyone who gets to know you.” He narrowed his gaze at her. “How close am I?”
Sin’s mouth worked, but nothing came out. She finally snapped it shut to avoid looking like a fish gasping on the bank of a river.
“That’s what I thought.” He made a shooing gesture with his hand. “No, run along and go be caustic with someone who cares. Oh, wait, no one cares, do they? Because you won’t let them--”
― Larissa Ione, quote from Desire Unchained
“even though I knew I had a snowball’s chance in Hades with you.” She sniffed and wiped a tear with the back of her hand. “I just … I just wanted to give you something pure. It’s all I have. Had. Everything else about me is tainted by demon blood. But I had that. And it’s always been yours.”
-Gem to Kynan
Excerpt From: Larissa Ione. “Desire Unchained.” iBooks.”
― Larissa Ione, quote from Desire Unchained
“When walking through the “valley of shadows,” remember, a shadow is cast by a Light. —Austin O’Malley”
― Larissa Ione, quote from Desire Unchained
“Hell’s bells, he’d been cast in a cheesy horror movie.”
― Larissa Ione, quote from Desire Unchained
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“Mrs Grayshott was no tattle-monger; and since she had a great deal of reserve Abby knew that only a stringent sense of duty could have forced her to overcome her distaste of talebearing. What she knew, either from her own observation, or from the innocent disclosures of her daughter, she plainly thought to be too serious to be withheld from Fanny's aunt. At the same time, thought Abigail, dispassionately considering her, the well-bred calm of her manners concealed an over-anxious disposition, which led her to magnify possible dangers.”
― Georgette Heyer, quote from Black Sheep
“All I know about this fine, sweaty life, my own or anyone else’s, is that in a little while I’ll rise up and leave this astonishing place that gives shelter to dead people. This graveyard. And go. Walking first on one rail and then the other.”
― Raymond Carver, quote from All of Us: The Collected Poems
“Under the seeming disorder of the old city, wherever the old city is working successfully, is a marvelous order for maintaining the safety of the streets and the freedom of the city. It is a complex order. Its essence is intricacy of sidewalk use, bringing with it a constant succession of eyes. This order is all composed of movement and change, and although it is life, not art, we may fancifully call it the art form of the city and liken it to the dance — not to a simple-minded precision dance with everyone kicking up at the same time, twirling in unison and bowing off en masse, but to an intricate ballet in which the individual dancers and ensembles all have distinctive parts which miraculously reinforce each other and compose an orderly whole. The ballet of the good city sidewalk never repeats itself from place to place, and in any once place is always replete with new improvisations.”
― Jane Jacobs, quote from The Death and Life of Great American Cities
“The featureless trundle of my existence began to change. At the time, I didn't have the insight to wonder at the transient nature of despair, but now that I'm older I've seen how little it takes to turn a person's life around for better or worse. An event will do, or an idea. Another person. An idea of a person ”
― Meg Rosoff, quote from What I Was
“Why didn’t you tell me? It’s all such a complicated mess.” “Most lives are if you live long enough, my darling.” “I’ve”
― Mary Alice Monroe, quote from The Beach House
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