Rogue Rider Quotes

“You named your son’s pet after a rabid monster dog?”

“No,” Thanatos growled. “Wraith did. Bastard taught the pup to respond to Cujo, and we couldn’t get him to respond to anything else after that.”
― Larissa Ione, Rogue Rider

“Oompa-Loompa Land?” He shook his head. “No way. Orange people give me the creeps. I don’t even like fake tans. I’d never be their king.”
― Larissa Ione, Rogue Rider

“I’ll park somewhere dark.” She fisted his T-shirt, not even ashamed of her desperation. “Out of the way—“
”Tempting…so…fucking…tempting.”
He gently peeled her hand away, slammed the door, and got in the driver’s side. Then he turned to her, the harsh planes of his face in the shadows creating a savage expression the stuck her tongue to the roof of her mouth.
”I need you in a bed tonight, Jillian. I need more than a fuck. I need to make love to you until neither one of us can move, because after tonight, I don’t want there to be even the slightest doubt that you’re mine.”
― Larissa Ione, Rogue Rider

“Have you had a chance to talk with your colleagues?

Talk? We don't talk. They dictate. I tell them to fuck off.”
― Larissa Ione, Rogue Rider

“I feel like I’m finally whole. I’m five thousand years old,” he rasped. “But the day you found me in the woods, that’s when my life started.”
― Larissa Ione, Rogue Rider

“Oh, hell, no. I saw you with the rifle.” He glanced over at her, and his voice went a notch deeper. “It was fucking hot. I love a badass female.”
― Larissa Ione, Rogue Rider

“I’m Trey. And you are…?”
“Intolerant of jackasses who fuck with my female.”
― Larissa Ione, Rogue Rider

“I love you, Jillian. I love you, and I want this to be the start of something new.”
…
“I love this life, I love you, and I want to start our lives together now.”
“You’re… serious?”
“Can you handle not knowing who I was? … Can you deal with the man I am now?”
“Yes,” she whispered in a husky rasp. “Oh, yes.”
“Good,” he said, lowering his mouth to her throat. “Because the man I am now is who I want to be. Forever.”
― Larissa Ione, Rogue Rider

“Why a bird?"
Another shrug. "They're free you know? They can go anywhere they want, whenever they want. They can just spread their wings and go.”
― Larissa Ione, Rogue Rider

“If I were any of those things, I think the last place I’d be is in the middle of nowhere. I’m guessing you don’t have a huge drug or slave problem in your one-stoplight town.”

“Two,” she snapped. “There are two stoplights.”

“Oh, well, then, I’ll see if I can get the slave trade going in your thriving metropolis.”
― Larissa Ione, Rogue Rider

“I’m on the very edge right now.” His voice throbbed with raw lust. “I want you under me. I want to claim you, get myself all over you. And as much as I’d love to mount you right here in public, right now—and I think in my past, I would have—I never want anyone to see you like that but me.”
― Larissa Ione, Rogue Rider

“know I like sex. I know how to use a computer. But I don’t know what to do with a dishwasher.” Her hand came down on his as he held onto his bowl in the sink, and he changed his mind about not wanting to be touched, because her hand soothed him as quickly as a shot of fine tequila. Which was another thing he knew he liked. “I’ll do this,” she said gently. “Why don’t you”
― Larissa Ione, Rogue Rider

“Somewhere overhead, an owl hooted, and a few minutes later, a wolf howled into the growing darkness. Reseph took comfort in the sounds, because they meant he wasn’t alone. Sure, the owl might fly over and shit on him, and the wolf might eat him alive, but at least he’d have company for a little while.”
― Larissa Ione, Rogue Rider