The Vampire Queen's Servant Quotes

“A man who doesn't test the mettle of his soul isn't much of a man...”
― Joey W. Hill, The Vampire Queen's Servant

“I want to feel the pain as well as the pleasure of belonging to you.”
― Joey W. Hill, The Vampire Queen's Servant

“The sheer life of it washed over Lyssa. A moment like this had the nourishing strength of blood. A magic springing from the source of all magic, like life from a womb. Such a memory was strong enough to last a decade, making everything horrible seem not so terrible. Not against the power of this.”
― Joey W. Hill, The Vampire Queen's Servant

“All he could offer her was his honesty. He pressed closer. “I’m hard as a rock, my lady, and my heart is fair bursting with the heat of your smile. I’d worship every inch of you in whatever manner you wish if you’d give me the privilege.”
― Joey W. Hill, The Vampire Queen's Servant

“The wise man knew when to let go of pride to grab hold of wisdom.”
― Joey W. Hill, The Vampire Queen's Servant

“He wasn’t certain if he was cut out to be a human servant. What he knew for certain was he was meant to serve her. What the hell that meant, he didn’t know. Did he need to step out of the way to let someone more suitable take care of her?”
― Joey W. Hill, The Vampire Queen's Servant

“It was curious to me that you didn’t know about the soft-shoe, my lady. I guess I expect you to know everything.” She rubbed her face against his chest. “Weren’t you listening the other night, Sir Vagabond? Just because I’m as old as I am doesn’t mean I’ve reached this state of all-encompassing wisdom where I just sit on the top of a mountain soaked in enlightenment.”
― Joey W. Hill, The Vampire Queen's Servant

“If I ask you to make a choice, there is a strong and urgent need for it. Not because I just enjoy taunting you and breaking your soul into pieces, bit by bit. I swear it.”
― Joey W. Hill, The Vampire Queen's Servant

“A man’s integrity, his morality, his sense of right and wrong and the choices they compel him to make, that’s his connection to God.”
― Joey W. Hill, The Vampire Queen's Servant

“He wasn’t a natural sexual submissive by a long shot, but by pledging his heart, mind and soul to serve her, whether it be her pleasure or need for companionship, or as her protector, he’d opened up the path in himself. He was learning what pleasured her soul could create pleasure in his own, taking him places he’d never considered arousing before. For her and her alone he would submit, and that made his submission all the more potent.”
― Joey W. Hill, The Vampire Queen's Servant

“Perhaps the right man could make a woman of any age act like an insecure schoolgirl. Except she’d never acted or felt that way with any man. Ever. At any age.”
― Joey W. Hill, The Vampire Queen's Servant

“He reflected there was nothing linear about their relationship. They didn’t even have the upward consistency of a spiral. He was beginning to sense this was the way she loved, as mercurial as a fairy in truth, choosing by some random path of her own which thought or action she would pursue next. He might as well predict the direction to chase a butterfly through a meadow of wildflowers, so colorful he could barely distinguish between the creature he chased and the nodding blooms.”
― Joey W. Hill, The Vampire Queen's Servant

“You can love someone whose cruelty you could not bear otherwise,” she murmured. “Every time you leave, you think you won’t want back into hell, yet there’s something about those fires you miss. As if there was a secret to them you never truly understood. But you wanted to understand it, enough to burn for the comprehension.”
― Joey W. Hill, The Vampire Queen's Servant

“Their guests left at a courteous time for vampires, half past three in the morning.”
― Joey W. Hill, The Vampire Queen's Servant

“Gentle and rough. Tenderness and cruelty. Two sides of the coin, pleasures as light and dark as the women’s contrasting skin, and with permutations of all the shades between. He couldn’t deny the allure of it. Within him, as he suspected it was for most men, were the gentle lover and the demanding, primal animal. Here he was allowed to indulge and unleash both.”
― Joey W. Hill, The Vampire Queen's Servant

“Lyssa, I think your man is proving that men can indeed multitask,” Tara commented,”
― Joey W. Hill, The Vampire Queen's Servant

“Obey me, Jacob. Nothing pleases me more than your obedience.” It nourishes me like blood.”
― Joey W. Hill, The Vampire Queen's Servant

“Another advantage of immortality. To the intelligent, open-minded vampire, there was usually time to change.”
― Joey W. Hill, The Vampire Queen's Servant

“but that was simply the nature of vampires. A driving, primal lust to exercise their power, to enjoy its many fruits, sensual or painful.”
― Joey W. Hill, The Vampire Queen's Servant

“There was a long silence, where he sensed things he didn’t understand affecting her above and beyond his words. “You are a pain in my ass,” she said. “It doesn’t seem to have affected it adversely, my lady. I’m quite fond of looking at it.”
― Joey W. Hill, The Vampire Queen's Servant

“I’ve seen things, Jacob. I’ve met Chinese dragons whose whiskers feel like feathers when they brush them across your face. I’ve seen wars begin and end. Seen people do so many things I didn’t expect, and many things I did expect, and dreaded. That is why the Ennui does not affect me. Terrible things always outnumber the good, but the overall power of a single good thing is so much greater.”
― Joey W. Hill, The Vampire Queen's Servant

“Gideon had once told him the wise man knew when to let go of pride to grab hold of wisdom. Raised in a society that held an individual’s worth and uniqueness as right, and submission to the will of another as wrong, he’d been fighting the very oath he’d taken from the beginning, putting conditions on it.”
― Joey W. Hill, The Vampire Queen's Servant

“As long as you got your breathing, you got the chance to be anything. Without the breathing, it’s pretty much over.”
― Joey W. Hill, The Vampire Queen's Servant

“One of the unfortunate things you learn when you live a long time, Sir Vagabond, is that love can erode. Once it begins to do that, it can be sculpted by the right forces into any manner of vile and evil thing.”
― Joey W. Hill, The Vampire Queen's Servant

“Violence, cruelty and lust for power are drugs of choice for the powerful and purposeless. Quick rushes that don’t last, and like drugs, you need more and more fixes. More and more excess, as you rail against the fate that you feel has you in thrall.”
― Joey W. Hill, The Vampire Queen's Servant

“A goddess had the full picture of the journey, its goals and obstacles, in a way a mortal did not. Faith was required to follow her lead.”
― Joey W. Hill, The Vampire Queen's Servant

“It was the soul of the woman beneath all that he heard calling to him, making it impossible to walk away. He’d stand by her, no matter what she did to him. But even as he had the thought, he remembered what Gideon used to tell him. Fate didn’t like being dared.”
― Joey W. Hill, The Vampire Queen's Servant

“Damn it, remembering she could read his mind was a pain in the ass. But for all its drawbacks, the link could introduce an intimacy to their relationship that couldn’t be duplicated in mortal interactions. He didn’t have to guard words with her, he didn’t have to do anything but be exactly who he was. There was a freedom to that.”
― Joey W. Hill, The Vampire Queen's Servant

“This is a new look for you, Lyssa.” The male vampire’s voice was smooth, well-pitched. A cross between a radio personality and a torturer for the Inquisition.”
― Joey W. Hill, The Vampire Queen's Servant

“A gold digger. My rose garden is fertilized by the bodies of men after my money.” “And beautiful roses they are.”
― Joey W. Hill, The Vampire Queen's Servant