Serpent's Kiss Quotes

“I love you. I didn't want to. I fought it. I put up barriers, and they all came crashing down one by one. It wasn't just one thing. It was everything you did, both here in the present and back in the past. It's everything you were, and everything you are. So I just fucking love you, and you are going to have to fucking deal with it. You got that?”
― Thea Harrison, Serpent's Kiss

“If you die, I will find you.
I will never leave you.
I will never let you go.
I will not let you fall, or fail.
I will always come for you if you leave, always find you if you're lost.

Always.”
― Thea Harrison, Serpent's Kiss

“If you fail somehow--if you die--I will search for a way to walk through time to find you. No matter where you are. No matter when. I swear it.'
[Rune to Carling]”
― Thea Harrison, Serpent's Kiss

“I take it back," Rune said. "You're not an utter heroine. You're a drama queen.”
― Thea Harrison, Serpent's Kiss

“I gave them their chance,” she said. “And my give-a-shit button’s broken, baby.”
― Thea Harrison, Serpent's Kiss

“Just wait until you see what I can do with the fancy stuff, like a bed.”
― Thea Harrison, Serpent's Kiss

“You totally love him. He's your widdle snookums.”
― Thea Harrison, Serpent's Kiss

“And we will both sit on the children to make sure they remain safe.”
― Thea Harrison, Serpent's Kiss

“He poisoned her with affection and compassion, and he taught her what it meant to play again. He gave her hope and tore down her past, all with a fierce laugh in those remarkable eyes. He had already taken her soul on an impossible moonlit flight. She might as well give him her shredded, useless heart too, since she hadn’t been using it all these years.”
― Thea Harrison, Serpent's Kiss

“His massive head tilted. He regarded her with a gaze made tranquil by the bright sun and the limitless sky.

She said in wonder, "You are the riddle."

"Of course I am," said the gryphon.”
― Thea Harrison, Serpent's Kiss

“How like a male. Pull out some tools and start banging on something, and they flocked in from miles around. She pushed her hair out of her face with the back of one hand and scowled at him. "I am perfectly capable of breaking it down myself."
"Of course you are," he told her smiling. "That's not what I said. I said may I help?”
― Thea Harrison, Serpent's Kiss

“Oh, fuck Zen,” she muttered. “I’ll get enlightened when I die.”
― Thea Harrison, Serpent's Kiss

“Are you purring at me?"

"I might be," Rune said. His deep voice was rougher, and lazy with intimacy. "Unless you've done something wrong. Then I'm growling at you again.”
― Thea Harrison, Serpent's Kiss

“He said, “What’s in the wardrobe?”

She glanced at him. “Books that don’t behave.”

Misbehaving books? Not bothering to hide his skepticism, he said, “Uh-huh.”
― Thea Harrison, Serpent's Kiss

“Politics, n. For the Elder Races, this generally involves bloodshed of some sort and a spate of funerals.”
― Thea Harrison, Serpent's Kiss

“She had to admit, she was impressed.

Not that she was going to commence praising on cue. The eagle in him was perfectly capable of preening his own feathers.”
― Thea Harrison, Serpent's Kiss

“She walks in beauty, like the night Of cloudless climes and starry skies, And all that’s best of dark and bright Meets in her aspect and her eyes.’ Darling, you have always been gorgeous but now you are now officially the shit.”
― Thea Harrison, Serpent's Kiss

“She shook her head. “I don’t know who the hell you are,” she told the woman in the mirror. “But you look mighty cute.”
― Thea Harrison, Serpent's Kiss

“I do not know why we are indulging in a fit of psychosis right now, but so help me, I will throw your crackbrained ass out the window if you don’t stop right there.”
― Thea Harrison, Serpent's Kiss

“You could try to surrender to the experience and let change happen.""Change or die?" she said."Yes. Change or die.""You might have noticed, I don't do surrender very well,”
― Thea Harrison, Serpent's Kiss

“What had he called himself? A stupid, crazy, illogical, senseless, rampantly jealous ass. Damn right, he was a stupid ass. . . .

Wait, that wasn’t the relevant part she should remember.”
― Thea Harrison, Serpent's Kiss

“The low, rough sound he emitted at that was infuriating, fascinating. Wait. Was he still growling? Or was he purring? His eyes drifted half closed. He gave her a heavy-lidded, sleepy, sensual, entirely disingenuous look.”
― Thea Harrison, Serpent's Kiss

“I will always come for you, always hold on to you. I swear it. I will never let go of you, never fail you, I will hold steady, no matter what.”
― Thea Harrison, Serpent's Kiss

“I could have sat on the children.”
― Thea Harrison, Serpent's Kiss

“But it was kind of a major clue when a lady ran away from a bloke.

That said something, it did. That was a signpost that read: approach with caution. Falling rock up ahead. Handle with care. You’ve come so far with her, much further than you ever thought you’d get. Don’t fucking blow it now, son.

That signpost was one of the busiest he had ever laid eyes on. It had a hell of a lot of text. He figured pausing to read all of that was a good thing.”
― Thea Harrison, Serpent's Kiss

“Don’t sulk,” he told her. “It doesn’t become someone of your age.”

She rolled her eyes even as, he was delighted to note, she kissed him back. “Oh, the age thing? You just had to go there, didn’t you?”
― Thea Harrison, Serpent's Kiss

“She shouted at Rune, “You did not just do that!”

His deep voice sounded overhead. “How is that disbelief working out for you?”
― Thea Harrison, Serpent's Kiss

“I will never leave you. I will never let you go. I will not let you fall, or fail. I will always come for you if you leave, always find you if you're lost. Always. ---- Rune speaking to Carling”
― Thea Harrison, Serpent's Kiss

“Goddamn, he thought, I don’t love you a little. I might actually love you a lot.”
― Thea Harrison, Serpent's Kiss

“Were you her lover? Did she cheat on you?” He paused. Rhoswen glared at him but remained silent. He said, “I’m gonna take a wild guess and say that’s a no. Did she really have to get rid of her servant just because I came along? Wait, here it comes again: no.”
― Thea Harrison, Serpent's Kiss