“Because he, more than anyone, knew that sometimes, love wasn’t enough. Sometimes, people changed so deeply that the change broke love itself.”
― Nalini Singh, quote from Silver Silence
“Don’t even try to stop me from seeing her, Krychek,” he said to the cardinal, who still hadn’t spilled Silver ’s location. “I’m bigger and meaner than you.”
Krychek raised an eyebrow. “Bigger, yes. Meaner? Let’s leave that an open question.”
― Nalini Singh, quote from Silver Silence
“Raw pain scored his insides, but the bear was in agreement with the man: as long as Silver lived, he could take the pain, take the loss that would haunt him always. He had this big body for a reason. It could take a lot of punishment. As long as she breathed, he’d survive. He’d watch over her from afar, and he’d survive because his mate was alive.”
― Nalini Singh, quote from Silver Silence
“This time, his bear stayed quiet, finally getting with the “sneaky like a cat” program. Today”
― Nalini Singh, quote from Silver Silence
“My God, Seelichka. Even though they cut into your brain, even though they rewired you, you held on to him. No wonder Mishka calls you Silver Fucking Mercant.”
― Nalini Singh, quote from Silver Silence
“Hope is the greatest gift and the greatest evil...Hope saved us and hope might yet kill us.”
― Nalini Singh, quote from Silver Silence
“They had no idea her Valyusha wasn’t the real threat. Silver would annihilate anyone who dared hurt him again.”
― Nalini Singh, quote from Silver Silence
“Did you know the bear idea of courtship is to kidnap their mates off the streets? Surely not. Surely yes.”
― Nalini Singh, quote from Silver Silence
“Love is no rose. It's a goddam weed that digs its roots in deep, there's no hope of getting it out. - Nina Valance, human novelist married to a telekinetic (circa 1977)”
― Nalini Singh, quote from Silver Silence
“My love, sun of my heart.”
― Nalini Singh, quote from Silver Silence
“Ena Mercant didn’t believe in flaws or perfection. “We are who we are and we are strong” was her oft-stated motto. It was a motto that had been passed down from one head of the family to the next in an unbroken line.”
― Nalini Singh, quote from Silver Silence
“I’d take any pain for you.”
― Nalini Singh, quote from Silver Silence
“His Starlight should’ve been in bed, resting. Instead, she was here, fighting to clean up a mess of violence, fighting to save lives. Because she was Silver Fucking Mercant, and she was as tough as any bear in StoneWater. Including its alpha.”
― Nalini Singh, quote from Silver Silence
“Trust to a Mercant is a complicated thing. It usually requires years of acquaintance, several background checks, and a probationary period.”
― Nalini Singh, quote from Silver Silence
“Laughter filled the line, the sound big and warm and primal. “We are family now, Bowen Knight!”
― Nalini Singh, quote from Silver Silence
“Children were huge, wild creatures full of promise and hope and dirt and mischief.”
― Nalini Singh, quote from Silver Silence
“I had a five-year plan once. It was a good one, too. Then life happened. —Unknown street philosopher”
― Nalini Singh, quote from Silver Silence
“But the past is not an old coat that can be discarded and forgotten.”
― Nalini Singh, quote from Silver Silence
“Love is no rose. It’s a goddamn weed that digs its roots in so deep, there’s no hope of getting it out.”
― Nalini Singh, quote from Silver Silence
“I’m bigger and meaner than you.” Krychek raised an eyebrow. “Bigger, yes. Meaner? Let’s leave that an open question. However,”
― Nalini Singh, quote from Silver Silence
“Pfft,” a male said. “I can kiss on a single breath for at least three minutes.” “Yeah? How about you show us?” “Or are you all words and no action?” The heavily built bear spread his arms. “Which lovely lady wants to volunteer to be the object of my lusty affections?” His gaze landed on Silver. “Ms. Mercant? I could show you— Never mind, I like my head on my neck.”
― Nalini Singh, quote from Silver Silence
“In a world of those who follow the rules without deviation those who innovate even in the shadows, will rule. Never be a carbon copy." -Ena”
― Nalini Singh, quote from Silver Silence
“The choice we make at the fork in the road can define our very existence. - Lord Deryn Mercant (Circa 1506)”
― Nalini Singh, quote from Silver Silence
“And he held her all night long, his bear’s heart tearing itself into a million pieces.”
― Nalini Singh, quote from Silver Silence
“He was an alpha bear. He had balls big enough to handle rejection.”
― Nalini Singh, quote from Silver Silence
“The peacemaker must have the strongest heart and the toughest will in the room.”
― Nalini Singh, quote from Silver Silence
“I want to be alone . . . said no bear ever. —The Traveler’s Guide to Changelings (Revised Edition: 1897)”
― Nalini Singh, quote from Silver Silence
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“The mind forgets pain, the physical sensation of pain. It doesn’t forget terror.”
― Kate Griffin, quote from The Midnight Mayor
“From dawn each day the boats traveled, until their shadows grew so long that they joined each vessel with the one behind so that, instead of resembling a procession of dark swans in the distance, they seemed to turn into snakes, inching forward on waters turned to fire by the western sunset ahead. While on the bank, the last red light from the huge sky eerily caught the stands of bare larch and birch so that it appeared as if whole armies with massed lances were waiting by the riverbank to greet them.”
― Edward Rutherfurd, quote from Russka: the Novel of Russia
“Why, once Jakes went out to cover a revolution in one of the Balkan capitals. He overslept in his carriage, woke up at the wrong station, didn't know any different, got out, went straight to a hotel, and cabled off a thousand-word story about barricades in the streets, flaming churches, machine guns answering the rattle of his typewriter as he wrote.
Well they were pretty surprised at his office, getting a story like that from the wrong country, but they trusted Jakes and splashed it in six national newspapers. That day every special in Europe got orders to rush to the new revolution. Everything seemed quiet enough, but it was as much their jobs were worth to say so, with Jakes filing a thousand words of blood and thunder a day. So they chimed in too. Government stocks dropped, financial panic, state of emergency declared, army mobilized, famine, mutiny — and in less than a week there was an honest to god revolution under way, just as jakes had said. There's the power of the press for you.”
― Evelyn Waugh, quote from Scoop
“The immediate future is not in the hands of our first Negro President. It is in our hands, for better or for worse.”
― Irving Wallace, quote from The Man
“Keep the reader guessing about where events are happening, what historical period the characters live in, and whether at any given moment they are jogging, taking a steam bath, or dangling from a precipice. Try to create an absolute nothingness in which, from time to time, a phone receiver or a pair of pert breasts materializes as the protagonist forms the intention to use them.”
― Howard Mittelmark, quote from How Not to Write a Novel: 200 Classic Mistakes and How to Avoid Them—A Misstep-by-Misstep Guide
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