“Show of hands," Devon said, breaking the silence. "Who thinks we're screwed?”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, quote from Trial by Fire
“I’d take a physical fight over Touchy-Feely Share Time, hands down”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, quote from Trial by Fire
“So," I said climbing to my feet and changing the subject ASAP, "I had a dream last night someone tried to burn me alive, and I'm not entirely sure it was a dream."
Devon stiffened. Chase's pupils pulsed.
Subject successfully changed.
"Now who's ready to eat?”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, quote from Trial by Fire
“In the end,” Callum said, his voice soft, gentle, “it all comes back to you. You protect them [your pack], you love them, you live for them, and someday, you die. That’s what it means, Bryn-girl, to be what we are [to be Alpha]. It’s lonely. It’s impossible. It’s all-consuming.” It is what it is.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, quote from Trial by Fire
“Being raised by a psychopath will do that to you.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, quote from Trial by Fire
“She'd been taught all her life not to attack humans, but knocking them unconscious with tranquilizer guns was more of a gray area.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, quote from Trial by Fire
“I wasn't entirely sure how to reply. Blow me and Screw you both seemed like strong contenders, but the peanut gallery in my head appeared to be favoring castration.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, quote from Trial by Fire
“Did you follow me here?" I asked.
Lake shrugged. "The word follow seems to suggest you got here first.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, quote from Trial by Fire
“Hierarchy was like breathing: the only time you thought about it was when something went wrong.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, quote from Trial by Fire
“The werewolf Senate hadn't been happy with the idea of a human alpha, and there wasn't a day that went by that I didn't think about the fact that I had something most male Weres wanted very, very badly...Maddy. Lake. Lily, Katie, Sloane, Avie, Sophie...”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, quote from Trial by Fire
“This however, wasn't an ideal world, and no matter how hard I tried to think of an answer, I had nothing.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, quote from Trial by Fire
“You only get married the first time once.” There was the philosophy of a generation wrapped up in a tidy little sentence”
― Carrie Vaughn, quote from Kitty and the Dead Man's Hand
“Guthrie said, ‘You are destroying yourself. You are destroying all that makes common cause with your fellows.’
‘Some of it,’ said Lymond calmly. ‘It is my parting gift to you all. You are free, and so am I. There are no bonds between us, except those of the intellect.’
‘And the intellect,’ said Alec Guthrie, ‘will bring you back to us?’
‘Self-interest,’ Lymond said, ‘will bring me back to you. And intellect, I trust, will maintain me.”
― Dorothy Dunnett, quote from The Ringed Castle
“How could one doubt that the order in which one was picked for the softball team was anything but concurrent with the order in which Life would be handing out favors?”
― Lucy Grealy, quote from Autobiography of a Face
“I didn’t know what to say to that. I just stared at him. He was right, of course he was right, but… “I can’t do my job like this.”
“No,” he said, “you can’t.”
Then suddenly I felt the first tear slide down my face.
“No crying,” he said.
Another tear joined the first. I fought not to wipe at them.
His hand dropped to his side and he took a deep breath. “That’s not fair. Don’t cry.”
“I’m sorry, I don’t mean to, but you’re right, I think. I’m pregnant, damn it, not crippled.”
― Laurell K. Hamilton, quote from Divine Misdemeanors
“Will you allow this, Keir of the Cat?"
Keir's face was bland, but I could see the storm in his eyes. After a long moment, he turned to me. "Lara?"
"My oaths require that I treat any that ask it of me," I responded. "You are my Warlord, Keir of the Cat. I respect that you are concerned for my safety. Please respect my oaths in return. Besides," I smiled at him, "it's a tent. If I so much as breathe hard, you will slash your way to my side."
He gave me a look then, an unhappy look, to be sure. But I raised my eyebrows at him, and the corners of his eyes crinkled. "Very well. As my Warprize requests."
Essa struggled to his feet. "Please refrain from slashing your way through my tent, Warlord." He walked toward what must be his sleeping area. "This way, Warprize.”
― Elizabeth Vaughan, quote from Warlord
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