Quotes from Night Play

“I think infatuation is like a garden. If tended and cared for, it grows into love. If neglected or abused it dies. The only way to have eternal love is to never let your heart forget what it's like to live without it.
-Vane”
― Sherrilyn Kenyon, quote from Night Play

“Life is gamble, It's harsh and painful most of the time, and it's not for the timid. Spoils go to the victor, not to the one who doesn't even show up for the battle."

-Acheron”
― Sherrilyn Kenyon, quote from Night Play

“See... I knew baby Marissa was quality people, look how she's eating the head off the red-headed Artemis doll. Simi need to teach her to belch fire, then introduce her to the real heifer-Goddess herself(Simi)”
― Sherrilyn Kenyon, quote from Night Play

“I need dating advice. Fast...Julian, how did you meet your wife?"

Julian shrugged. "My brother the sex god cursed me into a book for two thousand years. Grace got drunk on her birthday and summoned me out of it."

Vane rolled his eyes. "That's useless. Kyrian? What about you?"

"I woke up handcuffed to Amanda."

Vane could work with that. "So I need to get a set of handcuffs?”
― Sherrilyn Kenyon, quote from Night Play

“I'm human," he said in a tormented tone. "And I'm not." He dropped his hand to her shoulder. "I never knew softness," he breathed. "Not until the moment you touched me in your store. My life is violent and dangerous. Its dark and twisted and no place for someone like you. I have more people wanting me dead than I can count. They will stop at nothing, and you.." He ground his teeth before he spoke again. "You'll never want again for anything in your life. I swear it on what little bit of human soul I have left.”
― Sherrilyn Kenyon, quote from Night Play

“On second thought she hoped she never met a woman that attractive.. If she did, she would be morally obligated to run her over with her car.." Bride”
― Sherrilyn Kenyon, quote from Night Play

“So what do wolves do to date?” Nick asked.
“We don’t date,” Vane said. “When a woman is in season, we fight for her and then she picks who mounts her.”
Nick gaped. “Are you kidding? You don’t have to buy her dinner? You mean you don’t even have to talk to her?” He turned to Acheron. “Dayam, Ash, make me a wolf.”
― Sherrilyn Kenyon, quote from Night Play

“Fury wagged his tail and smiled wickedly, then tried to look up Bride’s dress.
Vane caught him quickly by the neck. “Stop!” he snarled mentally to Fury. “Or I’ll rip your head off.”
Bride frowned at them. “Don’t you like my wolf?”
“Yeah,” Van said, patting him roughly on the head. “He’s my new best friend.”
“I’m your only friend, dickhead.”
Vane balled his fist in the wolf’s fur as a warning to him. “You know you have to be firm with wolves. Let them know who the alpha is.”
“Your father?”
Vane smacked Fury’s head.
“Ow!””
― Sherrilyn Kenyon, quote from Night Play

“I need dating advice. Fast.”
Ash arched a single brow at that. “I’m useless. I’ve never been on one.”
The three human men turned to gape at him.
“What?” Ash asked them defensively.
Nick started laughing. “Oh man, this is priceless. Don’t tell me the great Acheron is a virgin?”
Ash gave him a droll look. “Yeah, Nick. I’m lily-white.”
― Sherrilyn Kenyon, quote from Night Play

“There was nothing humane about humanity. At the end of the day, they were all
animals with only survival instincts.”
― Sherrilyn Kenyon, quote from Night Play

“So let me see if I got everything straight … This … means that we are somehow meant to be husband and wife. But if I refuse you, you spend the rest of your life impotent and alone? But I, on the other hand, am free to live my life however I see fit?”
He nodded.
“It really sucks to be you, doesn’t it?”
― Sherrilyn Kenyon, quote from Night Play

“It's settled, then," Grace said. She turned back to Nick. "Take the Jag to the car wash and for heaven's sake clean the McDonald's Happy Meal boxes out of it."

"Hey," Nick said, his face offended. "That's a low blow. Those boxes are collectibles.”
― Sherrilyn Kenyon, quote from Night Play

“Vane passed the mashed potatoes across Bride to Fury, who stared at them with a fierce frown "What are these?" he asked.
"Potatoes," Vane told him.
"What did they do to them?”
― Sherrilyn Kenyon, quote from Night Play

“The only way to have eternal love is to never let your heart forget what it’s like to live without it.”
― Sherrilyn Kenyon, quote from Night Play

“Just that sometimes we let other people treat us wrongly because we want to be loved and accepted so
badly that we'd do anything for it. It hurts when you know that no matter how much you try, how much
you want it, they can't love or accept you as you are. Then you hate all that time you wasted trying to
please them and wonder what about you is so awful that they couldn't at least pretend to love you." - Bride”
― Sherrilyn Kenyon, quote from Night Play

“How does someone know the difference between that and infatuation?"
He sat up between her legs, then pulled her into his lap to cuddle. "I don't think there is a difference. I
think infatuation is like a garden. If tended and cared for, it grows into love. If neglected or abused it
dies. The only way to have eternal love is to never let your heart forget what it's like to live without it.”
― Sherrilyn Kenyon, quote from Night Play

“Amanda - "Oh God, I just kissed a vampire!" Kyrian - "Oh Gods, I just kissed a human!”
― Sherrilyn Kenyon, quote from Night Play

“He beat back the Greeks and reclaimed Rome for our people. Indeed, he was the one who destroyed the Macedonian threat and who single-handedly annihilated the greatest Greek general who had ever lived. Kyrian of Thrace.” Real hatred gleamed in his eyes, but she wasn’t sure who it was meant for. His grandfather or Kyrian.
“You mean Kyrian Hunter?” she asked. “The guy with the minivan who lives a few blocks over?”
Valerius’s eyes sparked at that. “He’s driving a minivan?” There was no mistaking the humor in his tone.”
― Sherrilyn Kenyon, quote from Night Play

“No one has ever touched me like you do. You’re like a whisper. Gentle, soft. Soothing. In my world, the people only shout and scream. But you… you’re my haven. “
… “God, you’re good”
― Sherrilyn Kenyon, quote from Night Play

“What would they talk about?

Hi, my name's Vane and I howl at the moon late at night in the form of a wolf. I sleep with your daughter and don't think I could live without her. Mind if I have a beer? Oh and while we're at it, let me introduce my brothers. This one here is a deadly wolf known to kill for nothing more than looking at him cross-eyed, and the other one is comatose because some vampires sucked the life out of him after we'd both been sentenced to death by our jealous father.

Yeah, that would go over like a lead balloon.”
― Sherrilyn Kenyon, quote from Night Play

“You keep talking like that, Vane, and I might be forced to keep you.”
“You keep looking at me like that, and I just might let you.”
― Sherrilyn Kenyon, quote from Night Play

“Someone needs to take that stick out of your ass and beat you with it”
― Sherrilyn Kenyon, quote from Night Play

“If you ever threaten Vane or his brothers again, I’m going to show you just how human I am. I will don my camouflage, hunt you down, and skin you while you scream. Do you understand me?”
― Sherrilyn Kenyon, quote from Night Play

“You must be the brother.

I hope so, I'm wearing his pants.”
― Sherrilyn Kenyon, quote from Night Play

“The wolf in him demanded he kick (the door) down and claim her.
The man in him just wanted to hold her close and protect her.
He’d never been so torn. So confused.
So damned horny!”
― Sherrilyn Kenyon, quote from Night Play

“She didn’t judge him or hate him for things that weren’t his fault. She accepted him and that was the greatest miracle of all.”
― Sherrilyn Kenyon, quote from Night Play

“I don't want you skinny, Bride. I like you as you are." His breath tickled her neck as he spoke and sent heat all over her.
"My people have a saying. Meat is for the man, the bone is for the dog."
"Yeah, but you're both."
"And when given a choice between ribs and steak, I go for top choice every time.”
― Sherrilyn Kenyon, quote from Night Play

“If you’re trying to Seduce me, Vane, you’re a bit late. At his point I’m pretty much a sure thing for you.”
― Sherrilyn Kenyon, quote from Night Play

“Most of all, I like the fact that you share yourself with me. That I
don't have to prove my strength to you. I don't have to hurt or be hurt to lie with you." - Vane”
― Sherrilyn Kenyon, quote from Night Play

“In one afternoon, my entire life shattered and then all of a sudden this great guy comes along like some
mythical knight in shining armor. He's gorgeous, loaded, and says all the right things to me. He makes me
feel like I can fly, and every time he shows up, he makes everything better. I'm not used to this, okay?
And I'm not used to being with a guy who is so incredibly sexy that he makes me feel like the booby
prize." - Bride”
― Sherrilyn Kenyon, quote from Night Play

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