E.F. > E.F.'s Quotes

“Life is such a glorious trauma, is it not?”
― J.R. Ward, Lover Avenged

“All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.”
― Edgar Allan Poe

“Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.”
― Edgar Allan Poe, Eleonora

“There is no exquisite beauty… without some strangeness in the proportion.”
― Edgar Allan Poe

“Welcome to the wonderful world of jealousy, he thought. For the price of admission, you get a splitting headache, a nearly irresistable urge to commit murder, and an inferiority complex. Yippee.”
― J.R. Ward, Dark Lover

“When I want you to beg, I'll tell you.”
― J.R. Ward, Lover Unbound

“I was dead until you found me, though I breathed. I was sightless, though I could see. And then you came...and I was awakened.”
― J.R. Ward, Lover Awakened

“Evil is always possible. And goodness is eternally difficult.”
― Anne Rice, Interview with the Vampire

“None of us really changes over time. We only become more fully what we are.”
― Anne Rice, The Vampire Lestat

“The scariest moment is always just before you start.”
― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

“As long as I have laughter, I am not without hope”
― Dean Koontz

“The future is a devious thing.”
― Brian Lumley

“Before I knew you, I thought brave was not being afraid. You've taught me that bravery is being terrified and doing it anyway.”
― Laurell K. Hamilton, Blood Noir

“I am yours. She said I was.”
― Krystal Shannan, Waking Sarah

“Okay, so, Tara is in the lead, two to zero. Next question, Tara. We asked Lucian what he wanted to be when he grew up. What do you think he said?" "Ummm. I don't guess Dom was yet part of his childhood vocabulary until much later, soooo, I'll go with… Proctologist.”
― Lucian Bane, Dom Wars: Round Two

“desire through my bones and flooded me with reckless needs to tear into her body, mark her so hard and deep that she had to be mine.”
― Lucian Bane, Dom Wars: Round One

“The difference between a self-induced orgasm and an orgasm given by a man is like comparing a rainy day and a rainstorm. Rain was a sure thing, you knew exactly what you were going to get: a clean and crisp, both sweet and refreshing experience. But rainstorms were unpredictable, they were riddled with surprises, messy and wet; they were something you had no control over.
Rainstorms brought you to your knees, soaking you in uncontrollable need, lightning flashing before your eyes while you dug your fingers deep into the earth, trying to hold on; unable to tell which was louder...the thunder roaring in your ears or the pounding of your heart.”
― Madeline Sheehan, Unbeautifully

“Having you around is like having a piece of the North star break off and drop to earth.”
― Tess Oliver, Rett

“I could conquer the world with just one hand as long as you were holding the other.”
― Kira Johns, Deserved

“down these mean streets a man must go who is not himself mean, who is neither tarnished nor afraid. He is the hero; he is everything. He must be a complete man and a common man and yet an unusual man. He must be, to use a rather weathered phrase, a man of honor—by instinct, by inevitability, without thought of it, and certainly without saying it. He must be the best man in his world and a good enough man for any world.

“He will take no man’s money dishonestly and no man’s insolence without a due and dispassionate revenge. He is a lonely man and his pride is that you will treat him as a proud man or be very sorry you ever saw him.

“The story is this man’s adventure in search of a hidden truth, and it would be no adventure if it did not happen to a man fit for adventure. If there were enough like him, the world would be a very safe place to live in, without becoming too dull to be worth living in.”
― Raymond Chandler