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“I wanted to feel it for myself. To know you. To know why I’ve been so drawn to you. And now I know. The darkness in me calls to the darkness in you.”
― Karina Halle, Blood Orange

“I didn’t remember how long we talked, but somewhere amidst her laughter and smiles, I decided I would rip the world apart for her.”
― Amber V. Nicole, The Book of Azrael

“You get to believe anything you want. Why would you choose to believe you will fail?”
― Stacia Stark, A Court This Cruel & Lovely

“How do you control a population? You keep the people poor and uneducated. Tell them the same lie for centuries, and tie that lie to religion. Those people will believe you even when the truth is dancing naked in front of them. Because to believe otherwise would mean their entire world has always been a lie. And that realization is too difficult for most people to take.”
― Stacia Stark, A Court This Cruel & Lovely

“I don’t care what anyone says. Follow your heart. You have to. The world doesn’t need more of them. It needs more of you. I heard what your father said, what he told you. He wanted you to be better—better than them. That means giving a damn, Liam.”
― Amber V. Nicole, The Book of Azrael

“All I’m saying is that anyone would be lucky to be cared for by my sister. I never gave up on her, and if you guys are going to be partners in this whole mission, maybe don’t give up on each other.”
― Amber V. Nicole, The Throne of Broken Gods

“She makes me feral and possessive, but not in the way your master is. I would never hurt her, and I cannot allow her to keep hurting herself.”
― Amber V. Nicole, The Throne of Broken Gods

“For the ones who lost themselves trying to please everyone. You can still be anything you want to be.”
― Alexis L. Menard, House of Bane and Blood

“I’d been certain that love was being willing to give someone up if that was what was best for them. But I was wrong. Love was being willing to fight. It was being willing to stand up and say, It’s you and me, we’re in this together, and gods help anyone who attempts to tear us apart.”
― Stacia Stark, A Crown This Cold and Heavy

“You smell like home.”
― Stacia Stark, A Crown This Cold and Heavy

“You really are a brutal little thing, Nightmare, but next time you hold back, I will find a way to coax that lethal demon from you and force her to come play with me.”
― Miranda Lyn, Till Death

“I am not enough. You are the stars and the storm, Wife. Somehow, you’re both peace and destruction. Nightmare and a daydream. You’re hell and home. Fear and solace. Slumber and panic. Kindness and rage. Light is easy to love, but I’ve seen your darkness, and I want that, too. I crave it. I want to fucking drown it in. But how does any man live up to that? Deserve that?”
― Miranda Lyn, Till Death

“Can you forgive me?” “Don’t be greedy, Husband.”
― Miranda Lyn, Till Death

“I have to save you tonight, like you saved me because I love you.”
― Miranda Lyn, Till Death

“I never had a daughter, but if I did, I can’t imagine anyone I’d rather have her be more like.”
― Miranda Lyn, Till Death

“Every part of my body froze. I couldn’t move. Or breathe. Nor think beyond the old man standing there, his kind eyes and simple smile a balm to a racing heart. “Hello, Little Dove.”
― Miranda Lyn, Till Death

“I don’t fear the dark, Orin. I need it. And you need my light. We are bound because of it. Touch me. Use me. Take whatever you want from me because I am yours.”
― Miranda Lyn, Till Death

“Death is what happens when you stand still,” I said. “Don’t stand still. Not for anything.”
― Carissa Broadbent, Slaying the Vampire Conqueror

“The queen is the most valuable player,” I told her, “but to win, she’s not the last one standing. Her job”—I paused, arching an eyebrow—“is to protect the king.”
― Penelope Douglas, Kill Switch

“When we’re in bed—or the pool—it never feels like we left high school. We’re perpetually two horny teenagers, and I feel alive in my life every day.”
― Penelope Douglas, Conclave

“I can’t follow the rules,” he says, “and with you, I don’t have to. I’m not alone. I can’t go back to being alone.” He hovers over my lips, our mouths open and hungry. “I can’t fucking breathe without my little monster.”
― Penelope Douglas, Conclave

“Don’t you know that you can have anything you want?” His eyes searched mine. “I’ll hurt anyone for you.”
― Penelope Douglas, Nightfall

“And when you’re done with me,” he breathed out over my mouth, “you’ll get to be the first to walk away from something that was never going to happen anyway. You can do that with me. Don’t play with his heart. Use me, instead.”
― Penelope Douglas, Nightfall

“When you’re ready for me to finish that,” I said. “You come to me.”
― Penelope Douglas, Nightfall

“And just like that again, I couldn’t remember why she was bad for me, and I just wanted her where she was supposed to be. With me.”
― Penelope Douglas, Nightfall

“Here I am, covered in bruises again. Maybe your world is just as bad as mine.”
― Penelope Douglas, Nightfall

“The diseased mind only sees its own intentions, and everything they did and everything we did justified the end.”
― Penelope Douglas, Nightfall

“This isn’t young love anymore,” I told her, pressing her tits into the shower wall. “It’s not a crush. This is a man who’s long overdue in showing you what he can do.”
― Penelope Douglas, Nightfall

“I hit him again, hitting and hitting until long after he’d stopped laughing and my knuckles ached like they were on fire.”
― Penelope Douglas, Nightfall

“This was Will.”
― Penelope Douglas, Nightfall