“It’s hard to feel desire when you don’t feel desirable”
― Christine Feehan, quote from Safe Harbor
“I have to figure out why I worked at a job I hated for years. I have to find out why I can’t see what everyone else sees in me. I don’t feel beautiful. When I look in the mirror, I never saw beautiful. For this to happen to someone like me, it’s devastating, Jonas. I don’t want you to think it’s vanity, it isn’t. I can’t see me and I need to be able to do that. I need to find out what I’m like and what I want. I have to be comfortable in my own skin before I can be in a relationship the way you want.”
― Christine Feehan, quote from Safe Harbor
“He was demanding. He always would be. But sometimes, he was so vulnerable and she realized she had power in the relationship as well. She hadn’t expected that. He was as vulnerable to her as she was to him. He just acted arrogant and bossy, but deep down, where it counted, he didn’t want to lose her either.”
― Christine Feehan, quote from Safe Harbor
“Just remember who you belong to, Hannah. I wouldn't want to have to shoot anyone - or strangle you."
She leaned over to kiss his shoulder. "Why am I the one to be strangled?"
"It's a much more personal death.”
― Christine Feehan, quote from Safe Harbor
“He worked at stealing her heart to replace the one she'd taken from him.”
― Christine Feehan, quote from Safe Harbor
“I'm not going to say I can at least collect DNA samples," he muttered, "because every time I open my mouth, the evidence disappears."
With a little sigh, he watched te droplets of blood absorb into the wood and the window reform. "I have to tell you, I've seen some freaky shit around you girls, but nothing like this. I have just one question. Have you told your fiancées about this? Because quiet frankly it scares the hell out of me."
"You never have to be afraid, Jonas," Hannah assured. "The house judges intent."
"Hannah. Honey. Half the time my intent is to strangle you. And I don't doubt whoever ends up with Joley or Elle will want to do worse than that.”
― Christine Feehan, quote from Safe Harbor
“When Jackson used that particular tone of voice, men died, pure and simple.”
― Christine Feehan, quote from Safe Harbor
“The house is made up of the spirits of our ancestors. Did you think they would lie idly by while we were under attack?"
'Cuz, yeah, didn't everybody's ancestors rise up and destroy enemies.”
― Christine Feehan, quote from Safe Harbor
“Today's my wedding day, Mom," he said softly aloud. "I'm marrying the woman I always told you I would someday.”
― Christine Feehan, quote from Safe Harbor
“Joley likes to be scared, and she can't watch them alone."
"I don't know how you can make that sound perfectly logical.”
― Christine Feehan, quote from Safe Harbor
“Do you have a camera?" Jackson asked. "We could get some pictures and may be take a print or two if we're lucky."
Jonas shook his head. "We'd probably get a bunch of ghosts and that would just freak me out.”
― Christine Feehan, quote from Safe Harbor
“Son of a bitch, you're scary," he informed Jackson. "Where the hell did you get that look? Practicing in the mirror every day?”
― Christine Feehan, quote from Safe Harbor
“He rarely smoked, but once in a while, like now, when his world had been shaken, his woman nearly killed in front of his eyes, and he’d watched a house consume a man and spit him out, he figured a drag or two were appropriate.”
― Christine Feehan, quote from Safe Harbor
“She was temptation wrapped in casual elegance.”
― Christine Feehan, quote from Safe Harbor
“Do you suppose we can take that as evidence? We could cut out the sections."
Jonas snorted, "You can try taking a saw to that house, but personally, I'm not about to get anywhere near it with anything resembling a weapon.”
― Christine Feehan, quote from Safe Harbor
“Jonas. Their rock. Shattered into so many shards. Holding himself together through the sheer force of will.”
― Christine Feehan, quote from Safe Harbor
“It happened. It was frightening and horrible and we both wish it hadn't happened, but it did.”
― Christine Feehan, quote from Safe Harbor
“Sarah looked at Jonas. Instinctively she knew, if anyone was going to get Hannah through this, it would be Jonas - but who was going to get him through it?”
― Christine Feehan, quote from Safe Harbor
“All around him the chanting swelled, Harm no one, harm no one. What the hell did that mean? He was going to have to shoot the poor son of a bitch, but maybe that was a far better way to go than what the house of horrors had planned. This was a hell of a way for men to die, even if they deserved it.”
― Christine Feehan, quote from Safe Harbor
“But life in the fast lane took a toll on men who cared and it was eating Jonas one small piece at a time.”
― Christine Feehan, quote from Safe Harbor
“Perhaps it is as simple as Hannah's sister is marrying one of the few men in the world I call friend." His gaze strayed to where Joley stood rigid against the wall. "Or perhaps I wanted to see, one more time, whether the reason I can no longer sleep at night is worth it.”
― Christine Feehan, quote from Safe Harbor
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“Shame was an emotion he had abandoned years earlier. Addicts know no shame. You disgrace yourself so many times you become immune to it.”
― John Grisham, quote from The Testament
“It feels so separate, like I’ve touched something that’s taken the color out of me. Or maybe I’m in color now and they’re in black and white.”
― Kendare Blake, quote from Anna Dressed in Blood
“He lifted her up onto the table so that her face was level with his, and as they kissed it seemed that words were hiding in the air around them, that they were invisible creatures that feathered against her and Arin, then nudged, and buzzed, and tugged.
Speak, they said.
Speak, the kiss answered.”
― Marie Rutkoski, quote from The Winner's Curse
“As soon as the guards where gone, I lay down on my stone bench and dumped the king and his threats out of my head without ceremony. They were too unpleasant to worry over anyway.”
― Megan Whalen Turner, quote from The Thief
“Survival my only hope. Success my only revenge”
― Patricia Cornwell, quote from Postmortem
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