“When would he learn that women never stayed where you put them?”
― Maya Banks, quote from Hidden Away
“I'm getting the impression that women, in any form, scare you."
He shrugged. "They're the more violent species. And unpredictable. I'd rather take on a wild boar. You can't shoot women.”
― Maya Banks, quote from Hidden Away
“I'm so exhausted and yet I feel like I'll never sleep again.”
― Maya Banks, quote from Hidden Away
“My attitude is born out of necessity. I've made mistakes. I've made decisions I regretted. I know what it's like to live with regret. I live with it everyday. But if I let it take over, I'd never get out of bed in the morning.”
― Maya Banks, quote from Hidden Away
“I've always considered myself a good person. I've never done anything to purposely hurt anyone. I was in shock that this happened to me, and because it did, I turned into this vengeful person. I've never truly hated anyone, but I was glad when I saw him lying there on the floor.”
― Maya Banks, quote from Hidden Away
“He drew away and stared down at her, stroking her cheek. "I hope to hell this isn't one of those situations where you go a little crazy because we're in a bad situation and you don't think we're going to get out so you do stuff you'd never dream of otherwise. Because baby, when we get out of here, I'm going to spend two days doing nothing but make love to you. And it won't have a damn thing to do with anything but the fact that I want to be inside of you more than I want to breathe.”
― Maya Banks, quote from Hidden Away
“When I wake up, I'm going to kick your ass.”
― Maya Banks, quote from Hidden Away
“As what-the-fuck moments went, this one was one of the bigger ones.”
― Maya Banks, quote from Hidden Away
“Okay, be serious. Aren't you ever afraid of anything?"
"Plenty of time," he said softly.
"Even when what you're afraid of defies all logic?"
"Especially then. It's been my experience that fear doesn't have a set of parameters. We can't turn it off just by realizing we shouldn't be afraid.”
― Maya Banks, quote from Hidden Away
“I'd be a dumbass if I didn't plan for every contingency.”
― Maya Banks, quote from Hidden Away
“Now wasn't the time for emotional outbursts, but when they were safe--and they would be because she believed him without reservation--then she'd tell him what she thought about the man he was. The man she wanted.
And if he walked away, she'd never have any regrets. Love was a gift, but it was up to the recipient to accept and cherish or to reject the offering. All she could do was give unreservedly. And for the first time since her assault, she realized that she could give something she'd never thought to give again. Her trust and her love.”
― Maya Banks, quote from Hidden Away
“That had always been the power of media in the hands of a good leader. To get individuals to feel as if the leader was speaking directly to them, Churchill in 1940, Jack Kennedy in 1962, and Reagan in the 1980s.”
― William R. Forstchen, quote from One Second After
“It somehow seemed right that he’d never loved before her. That she simply was the emotion for him, the two equaling each other.”
― Kresley Cole, quote from Dark Needs at Night's Edge
“Keeping low to avoid the branches that blocked their paths, they scurried through the dark. Dante with his usual elegant silence and Abby crashing behind him like a bull elephant with a tranquilizer stuck in its butt.”
― Alexandra Ivy, quote from When Darkness Comes
“Shakespeare put no children in his plays for a reason," Sir Godfrey muttered, glaring at Alf and Binnie.
"You're forgetting the Little Prince," Polly reminded him.
"Who he had the good sense to kill off in the second act," snapped Sir Godfrey.”
― Connie Willis, quote from All Clear
“Quentin had an obsolete sailing ship that had been raised from the dead. He had psychotically effective swordsman and an enigmatic witch-queen. It wasn't the Fellowship of the Ring, but then again he wasn't trying to save the world from Sauron, he was trying to perform a tax audit on a bunch of hick islanders…”
― Lev Grossman, quote from The Magician King
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