Archangel's Enigma Quotes

“Seven months Naasir had been hunting. Seven months since he'd told Ashwini he was ready to find a mate. Seven months and still his mate hadn't made herself known to him. Didn't she know he was looking for her?”
― Nalini Singh, Archangel's Enigma

“Why would you say I shouldn’t wait for you?” It was a snarl. “If you’re mine, you’re mine. And I’m yours. Today, tomorrow, always.”
― Nalini Singh, Archangel's Enigma

“His voice had fallen into the guttural range. “She is not you. No one will ever be what you are to me.” Her heart broke. Into a million tiny pieces.”
― Nalini Singh, Archangel's Enigma

“When he'd been younger and first starting to feel the urge to rut with females - and before he'd grown up to the point where many of the opposite sex found him irresistible - he'd tried to court girls by bringing them meat and shiny things. It turned out he'd scared them.

"Most women and girls," Dmitri had told him, "don't know what to do when a man drops a hunk of raw meat in their hands.”
― Nalini Singh, Archangel's Enigma

“I am the alpha. You follow." His extraordinary eyes held Andromeda's. "Not for always. For this."

Andromeda was oddly pleased that he'd clarified his statement. "Until we escape," she agreed.”
― Nalini Singh, Archangel's Enigma

“How did you notice that?”

“Because I notice you.”
― Nalini Singh, Archangel's Enigma

“Together, hbeebti.”

“Always, Archangel.”
― Nalini Singh, Archangel's Enigma

“I'm not ready to leave your Seven."

Grabbing him by the side of his neck as he had earlier, Raphael hauled him into his arms. "I'm not ready for you to go.”
― Nalini Singh, Archangel's Enigma

“A woman who knows me, understands what I am, and who wants to have secret rules with me.”
― Nalini Singh, Archangel's Enigma

“I’ve heard the women in the Refuge talk about how sensual it is when you feed from them.”

Naasir shrugged. "Cooperative food is better than noncooperative food."

[...]

“But the Refuge food is too cooperative,” he grumbled. “How much blood do they think I can drink?”
― Nalini Singh, Archangel's Enigma

“None of these doe-eyed beauties, she reminded herself, would last an hour with him in his real skin. He was too wild, too strong, too demanding, and too aggravating.

He was perfect.”
― Nalini Singh, Archangel's Enigma

“You are a symbol—even if I am missed, so long as people can see you in the air, they’ll feel safe.” Because everyone knows I would not leave my consort in a city I didn’t feel was protected against all harm.

“Shit,” Elena muttered. “I hate it when you make sense.”
― Nalini Singh, Archangel's Enigma

“If blood alone is what defines us, no child born is born in freedom.”
― Nalini Singh, Archangel's Enigma

“...while she respected all of the Seven, her relationship with Illium was different.

He’d been the first one she’d truly come to know, his humor and wit critical in helping her adjust to this new life. Even among the Seven, he seemed to hold a special place: no one was ever angry at Bluebell. The idea that power might change him, chill that joyous heart was even worse than the thought of losing him to it.”
― Nalini Singh, Archangel's Enigma

“Not according to your definition. It appears Andromeda has taken a vow of celibacy.”

Naasir groaned. “I think I should jump off into traffic. It’d be less painful than such torture.”
― Nalini Singh, Archangel's Enigma

“You’ll take her with you.”

Naasir looked up at Raphael.

Blinked.

Then snarled. “I can’t be dragging around a historian. They break.”
― Nalini Singh, Archangel's Enigma

“Andromeda said a quick good-bye to Lailah and Cato, was startled when her mother hugged her close and whispered, “Fly free, my daughter. Be what I could never be and leave the cage forever.”
― Nalini Singh, Archangel's Enigma

“I’ll follow you,” she whispered against his lips. “No matter where you go, I’ll be right beside you.”
― Nalini Singh, Archangel's Enigma

“When Naasir was yet a child, Dmitri had told him he must learn as many languages as possible, so no one could keep secrets from him. This wasn’t the first time that advice had held Naasir in good stead.”
― Nalini Singh, Archangel's Enigma

“Naasir was strong and fast and highly intelligent, but he was currently trapped in the heart of enemy territory, and that enemy did not fight according to any known rules of war.”
― Nalini Singh, Archangel's Enigma

“A vow of celibacy was easy to hold when there was no temptation.”
― Nalini Singh, Archangel's Enigma

“Then there was Lijuan. The Archangel of China had a nasty habit of coming back from the dead.”
― Nalini Singh, Archangel's Enigma

“Fly free, my daughter. Be what I could never be and leave the cage forever.”
― Nalini Singh, Archangel's Enigma

“Do not steal what only has value if freely given.”
― Nalini Singh, Archangel's Enigma

“Focus on the squadron, Naasir. I will take care of Lijuan.”
― Nalini Singh, Archangel's Enigma

“Your father will wake at reckless speed to avenge you.”
― Nalini Singh, Archangel's Enigma

“Perhaps the storm will do the world a favor and burn Lijuan from existence.”
― Nalini Singh, Archangel's Enigma

“How did you notice that?” “Because I notice you.”
― Nalini Singh, Archangel's Enigma

“Naasir wasn’t dark inside . . . but he was alone. The only one of his kind in the entire world. He had friends, had family, but he had no one who was like him. Mating wouldn’t change that, but it would give him a person who belonged to him just as much as he belonged to her. And maybe one day, they’d have a cub and there would be another like him in the world.”
― Nalini Singh, Archangel's Enigma

“I was seduced by her beauty, my Lady. I was weak and she took advantage."

"You are a fool.”
― Nalini Singh, Archangel's Enigma