“Words are just words. The evidence is in how you act, how you react.”
― Maya Banks, quote from Fever
“You have more power, more control than you could possibly imagine. My heart is in your hands. That's not bullshit. I'm not saying stuff I think you want to hear in order to manipulate you. I can't be any more honest than this. I'm yours, baby. I'm putting it out there. My heart, my soul, it all belongs to you.”
― Maya Banks, quote from Fever
“No amount of saying ‘I love you’ and ‘I trust you’ makes it true when it isn’t.”
― Maya Banks, quote from Fever
“Most of all, I want you to know without a doubt that I've got your back. And your front. And your sides. I've got all of you and I'm not letting go.”
― Maya Banks, quote from Fever
“He did and said all the right things. Things that went straight to her heart, and worse, they inspired the one thing that she'd given up along time ago. Hope.”
― Maya Banks, quote from Fever
“Never run out on me again. No matter what happens, you stay and fight. Yell at me, argue, throw something at me, whatever you want to do, but never walk away from me. Promise me that.”
― Maya Banks, quote from Fever
“God, you have a beautiful laugh, and your smile. Jesus, it knocks the breath out of me."
"You can't talk to me like that, nobody says things like that to a woman he just met. It's insane."
"I just did. And I plan to keep saying them until you believe every word.”
― Maya Banks, quote from Fever
“Seeing you happy is the best gift I could ever ask for.”
― Maya Banks, quote from Fever
“Holy shit,' Ash murmured.
'Oh, it gets worse.'
Ash lifted an eyebrow.
'Yeah, apparently when I decide to be an asshole, I go all the way.”
― Maya Banks, quote from Fever
“You hold your head up. You submitting to me doesn't mean you're anything less...the very last thing I want is for you to be some mindless puppet.”
― Maya Banks, quote from Fever
“But if I lost you, it would devastate me as nothing else has or ever could. You have so much power over me and that’s frightening.”
― Maya Banks, quote from Fever
“And you look beautiful without it, but I want you to feel just as beautiful as I see you.”
― Maya Banks, quote from Fever
“Life was sweet. Even when it was bad, there was always the hope of better...the future.”
― Maya Banks, quote from Fever
“She was too well acquainted with the way things work in real life. Real life sucked. But it was real. It was unapologetic. It made no excuses. It just was.”
― Maya Banks, quote from Fever
“Gabe thinks I look sexy,' she announced when Jace stopped in front of them. 'And he totally said you'd fuck me in these shoes.' She stopped and frowned, her thoughts suddenly muddled. 'Or maybe it was Mia who said you'd fuck me. Either way, I wanna be fucked in these shoes.”
― Maya Banks, quote from Fever
“God, you have a beautiful laugh, and your smile. Jesus, it knocks the breath out of me.”
― Maya Banks, quote from Fever
“I don’t want to disappoint you. I don’t want to let you down. And I don’t want to embarrass you in front of the people you love.”
― Maya Banks, quote from Fever
“I’m not going to hurt you, damn it.”
― Maya Banks, quote from Fever
“My heart is in your hands.”
― Maya Banks, quote from Fever
“Don’t let me go Jace. I’m lost without you.”
― Maya Banks, quote from Fever
“I know I’m asking a lot, but I need for you to be able to ignore me when I’m pissed and saying shit that hurts you. I’ll try like hell not to do it, but I know me.”
― Maya Banks, quote from Fever
“Jace groaned. 'Baby, you have to stop. I'm more than happy to fuck you any way you want but can we please leave Gabe and Mia out of this?'
She nodded. 'Or maybe I'll fuck you.' She brightened at that idea and then her eyes narrowed fuzzily on Jace. 'Can I do that?”
― Maya Banks, quote from Fever
“You know what? Fuck you man. Cant believe you’d come in here like this, especially after all we had to say in the office today.”
― Maya Banks, quote from Fever
“I want to go to school. College. Get a degree. I want to make a difference.”
― Maya Banks, quote from Fever
“Life works however the hell you make it work.”
― Maya Banks, quote from Fever
“I'm not saying this is going toe easy. I'll make mistakes. You'll make mistakes, mostly about trying to draw attention to the differences between us. I realize it'll take time for you to get over this mind-set that you're somehow not good enough for me. It pisses me off, but I get that you can't change a lifetime of seeing yourself the way you do overnight. But I'm going to work on it and wear you down.”
― Maya Banks, quote from Fever
“Nothing worth having is ever easy. And you don't get things without fighting for them.”
― Maya Banks, quote from Fever
“Care? He didn't care. He loved her.”
― Maya Banks, quote from Fever
“She wanted to touch him, to throw her arms around him — but something held her back. Maybe it was the fear that her arms would pass right through him, that she would have come all this way only to find a ghost after all.
As though he’d been able to read her thoughts, he slowly angled toward her. He raised his hands and held his palms out to her. Isobel lifted her own hands to mirror his. He pressed their palms together, his fingers folding down to lace through hers. She felt a rush of warmth course through her, a relief as pure and sweet as spring rain.
He was real. This was real. She had found him. She could touch him. She could feel him. Finally they were together. Finally, finally, they could forget this wasted world and go home.
"I knew it wasn’t true," she whispered. "I knew you wouldn’t stop believing." He drew her close.
Leaning into him, she felt him press his lips to her forehead in a kiss. As he spoke, the cool metal of his lip ring grazed her skin, causing a shudder to ripple through her.
"You..." His voice, low and breathy, reverberated through her, down to the thin soles of her slippers. "You think you’re different," he said. She felt his hands tighten around hers, gripping hard, too hard.
A streak of violet lightning split the sky, striking close behind them.
The house, Isobel thought. It had been struck. She could hear it cracking apart. She looked for only a brief moment, long enough to watch it split open.
"But you’re not," Varen said, calling her attention back to him. Isobel winced, her own hands surrendering under the suddenly crushing pressure of his hold. A face she did not recognize stared down at her, one twisted with anger — with hate.
"You," he scarcely more than breathed, "are just like every. Body. Else."
He moved so fast. Before she could register his words or the fact that she had once spoken them to him herself, he jerked her to one side. Isobel felt her feet part from the rocks. Weightlessness took hold of her as she swung out and over the ledge of the cliff.
As he let her go.
The wind whistled its high and lonely song in her ears. She fell away into the oblivion of the storm until she could no longer see the cliff — could no longer see him.
Only the slip of the pink ribbon as it unraveled from her wrist, floating up and away from her and out of sight forever.”
― Kelly Creagh, quote from Enshadowed
“I cared what everybody thought more than what I thought. Or more than my heart thought. And that makes me an idiot.”
― Andrea Portes, quote from Anatomy of a Misfit
“You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true.”
― Richard Bach, quote from The Bridge Across Forever: A True Love Story
“Sex, whatever else it is, is an athletic skill. The more you practice, the more you can, the more you want to, the more you enjoy it, the less it tires you.”
― Robert A. Heinlein, quote from The Cat Who Walks Through Walls
“Genius has as many components as the mind itself.”
― Stephen Jay Gould, quote from Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History
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