“To fight evil, you have to understand the dark.”
― Nalini Singh, quote from Heart of Obsidian
“So we literally made the earth move? A slight pause, before Kaleb said, I suggest we don’t engage in sex in populated areas.”
― Nalini Singh, quote from Heart of Obsidian
“You’ll have to be my conscience.” He knew his flaws, and he knew the parts of him that were irrevocably broken. “Mine isn’t going to grow back.”
― Nalini Singh, quote from Heart of Obsidian
“You", he said, "are the single exception that rule". The oldest, deepest, most beautiful flaw in his Silence."Without you, I would be a monster.”
― Nalini Singh, quote from Heart of Obsidian
“I will fight you endlessly if I think you're wrong but I will never judge you.”
― Nalini Singh, quote from Heart of Obsidian
“Sahara dug her fingers into his arms. “You do not do this,” she said, and it was an order. “You do not let that monster destroy the life we are going to have together. You are mine, not his. You have always been mine.”
The claiming was so absolute, it dared him to fight. Kaleb had no intention of doing so. Shuddering, he crushed her to him. “Yes,” he said, battling the rage because if he gave in to it, he would lose Sahara. “I’m yours. I will always be yours.”
― Nalini Singh, quote from Heart of Obsidian
“I saw wild, dangerous beauty. I saw devotion. I saw you.”
― Nalini Singh, quote from Heart of Obsidian
“Some things need to be broken to become stronger.”
― Nalini Singh, quote from Heart of Obsidian
“Love is the greatest form of loyalty, one that places happiness of the beloved over the lover.”
― Nalini Singh, quote from Heart of Obsidian
“He didn't know what else to do, how to comfort her, so he simply held her, held the only person in the world who had ever cried for him”
― Nalini Singh, quote from Heart of Obsidian
“Her voice trembled. “I’m so glad you’re mine. I won’t ever let you go.”
This time, it was Kaleb who said, “I know,” devastated at being so wanted. “You are just a little possessive.”
― Nalini Singh, quote from Heart of Obsidian
“He would do things for he'd do for no one else, but while he'd empty the sky for her so she could spread her wings, fly, he would not set her free. She belonged to him, would always belong to him”
― Nalini Singh, quote from Heart of Obsidian
“If you don’t need my backsight,” she said to Kaleb, “then why am I here?”
He rose to his feet and, placing his hands on the table, leaned toward her until she could’ve reached out and run her fingers along his freshly shaven jaw. “You are here,” he said in a tone that made her heart thump wildly against her ribs, “because you belong to me.”
― Nalini Singh, quote from Heart of Obsidian
“Sahara knew she should be worried about the fact that she’d been in bed with a man who’d caused that kind of damage with a momentary and, according to him, minor loss of telekinetic control during intimacy, but she felt her lips kick up at the corners. So we literally made the earth move?
A slight pause, before Kaleb said, I suggest we don’t engage in sex in populated areas.
The cool comment made her burst into laughter.”
― Nalini Singh, quote from Heart of Obsidian
“All right." Shimmering droplets on her eyelashes, stars caught in transition. "But will you replace it with something for me?"
"Anything." His body was hers.
Brushing her fingers over his lips, she said, "You gave me an eagle. I want to give you one, too." A tender kiss pressed to the scar. "I want us to fly together.”
― Nalini Singh, quote from Heart of Obsidian
“He understands evil better than any other person I’ve ever known. We disagree in how to eliminate it, but we do not disagree that it exists.”
― Nalini Singh, quote from Heart of Obsidian
“Live your life, Sahara. Live it as big and with as much color as you can stand to bear. Don't let anyone or anything - the family, Silence, the wight of your ability, even my need to keep you close - confine you again.”
― Nalini Singh, quote from Heart of Obsidian
“I love you. I will always love you.”
― Nalini Singh, quote from Heart of Obsidian
“he was the monster that stalked nightmare and they both knew it”
― Nalini Singh, quote from Heart of Obsidian
“Don't be afraid of me, Sahara." Bending his head, he spoke with his lips against hers, the contact igniting a thousand tiny lightning strikes in her blood. "I'd line the streets with bodies before I'd ever hurt you.”
― Nalini Singh, quote from Heart of Obsidian
“Kaleb had no family, hadn't understood the concept of loyalty the first time he'd read about it - but after researching it, he'd realised it meant being connected to someone who would care if he lived or died, someone who would fight for and with him, someone who didn't want to hurt him.
He had never experienced any of those things.”
― Nalini Singh, quote from Heart of Obsidian
“I researched sexual intimacy the same way I research everything else. Methodically and in intricate detail.”
― Nalini Singh, quote from Heart of Obsidian
“The arrows expect no mercy from no one”
― Nalini Singh, quote from Heart of Obsidian
“Sahara dug her fingers into his arms. “You do not do this,” she said, and it was an order. “You do not let that monster destroy the life we are going to have together. You are mine, not his. You have always been mine.” The claiming was so absolute, it dared him to fight. Kaleb had no intention of doing so. Shuddering, he crushed her to him. “Yes,” he said, battling the rage because if he gave in to it, he would lose Sahara. “I’m yours. I will always be yours.” Her lips on his jaw, on his cheek, her love fierce. “Remember that. Each action, every action you take, it has my name on it.”
― Nalini Singh, quote from Heart of Obsidian
“He hooked the charm into place. “Only this star matters.” His thumb brushing over her inner wrist. “Should it be erased, no other has the right to live.”
― Nalini Singh, quote from Heart of Obsidian
“This man, he could make her his slave, her body his command. -Sahara”
― Nalini Singh, quote from Heart of Obsidian
“Bullies never did well when they no longer had the upper hand”
― Nalini Singh, quote from Heart of Obsidian
“His assurance was enough for her to hold on to the shreds of her sanity . . . because Kaleb never broke his promises. “Sahara! I’ll come for you! Survive! Survive for me!”
― Nalini Singh, quote from Heart of Obsidian
“Without you, I would be a monster.”
― Nalini Singh, quote from Heart of Obsidian
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“I am not worthy of my suffering. A great sentence. It suggests not only that suffering is the basis of the self, its sole indubitable ontological proof, but also that it is the one feeling most worthy of respect; the value of all values.”
― Milan Kundera, quote from Immortality
“Sometimes we misjudge what is possible and what is not.”
― Aimee Carter, quote from The Goddess Test
“My father worked behind closed doors inside the house, had a huge ancient Latin dictionary on a wrought-iron stand, spoke Spanish on the phone, and drank sherry and ate raw meat, in the form of chorizo, at five o'clock. Until the day in the yard with my playmate I thought this was what fathers did. Then I began to catalog and notice. They mowed lawns. They drank beer. They played in the yard with their kids, walked around the block with their wives, piled into campers, and, when they went out, wore joke ties or polo shirts, not Phi Beta Kappa keys and tailored vests.”
― Alice Sebold, quote from Lucky
“I look upon the vulgar observation, 'That the devil often deserts his friends, and leaves them in the lurch,' to be a great abuse on that gentleman's character. Perhaps he may sometimes desert those who are only his cup acquaintance; or who, at most, are but half his; but he generally stands by those who are thoroughly his servants, and helps them off in all extremities, till their bargain expires.”
― Henry Fielding, quote from The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling
“As long as what you are afraid of is something evil, you may still hope that the good may come to your rescue. But suppose you struggle through to the good and find that it is also dreadful? How if food itself turns out to be the very thing you can’t eat and home the very place you can’t live, and your very comforter the person who makes you uncomfortable. Then, indeed, there is no rescue possible: the last card has been played.”
― C.S. Lewis, quote from Perelandra
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