Beyond the Veil Quotes

“I could never run from the half of me that danced in the dark.”
― Pippa DaCosta, Beyond the Veil

“You are capable of great things,” he said with conviction. If by great things, he meant complete destruction, then yes, it would seem so.”
― Pippa DaCosta, Beyond the Veil

“I sat across the table from him and watched as he popped open the lid. “I gather you like ice cream?” An eyebrow twitched comically. “Snow demon.” He shrugged.”
― Pippa DaCosta, Beyond the Veil

“I shook my head. Akil was right about one thing. Stefan would never understand. He spent his life killing demons. He had it simple. I’d spent my life among them. I might despise the majority of them, but I knew them. They were family. Twisted, bitter, dangerous, slippery, back-stabbing, but family all the same.”
― Pippa DaCosta, Beyond the Veil

“You’re the half-sister of the full-blood demon, Valenti. The illegitimate child of Asmodeus—one of the Seven Princes of Hell. You were sold at birth as a plaything for lesser demons.”
“A half-blood abomination,” he snarled. “An embarrassment to demons everywhere. By all rights, you should be dead.”
― Pippa DaCosta, Beyond the Veil

“You were a crushed and broken thing, like a butterfly crumpled in the hand of a child.”
― Pippa DaCosta, Beyond the Veil

“Some had yet to be touched, and I had to fight the urge to upset the precise design just for fun.”
― Pippa DaCosta, Beyond the Veil

“You’d best teach me how to raise hell because we’re going to need it.”
― Pippa DaCosta, Beyond the Veil

“This where you bring all your girls before you bury them in the woods?”
― Pippa DaCosta, Beyond the Veil

“It was the sort of kiss that defines moments, seals destinies. The kiss you remember forever. Whether he knew it or not, I’d fallen for him.”
― Pippa DaCosta, Beyond the Veil

“Many myths were forged on truth. Christianity attempted to reveal the veil, but they mixed the message up with too much of the divine. There is no divine entity, no good versus evil, no heaven or hell. It’s all part of the netherworld, hidden just out of sight in the corners of your vision. That flicker of movement at the end of a poorly lit street, the tingling across your flesh as you sense you’re being watched. The demons are right there, with us, and yet just out of reach. Some tinker on this side of the veil, some prefer the netherworld.”
― Pippa DaCosta, Beyond the Veil

“They were family. Twisted, bitter, dangerous, slippery, backstabbing, but family all the same.”
― Pippa DaCosta, Beyond the Veil

“Those eyes were compelling to the point of distraction.”
― Pippa DaCosta, Beyond the Veil

“He loves you, Muse, and that’s more powerful than anything else in this mockery of reality.”
― Pippa DaCosta, Beyond the Veil

“The demon inside his male exterior burned with primal needs. It devoured, it stole, it consumed. He was all greed and desire, always hungry, and I knew his real name. Mammon, Prince of Greed.”
― Pippa DaCosta, Beyond the Veil

“You’re the half-sister of the full -blood demon Valenti. The illegitimate child of Asmodeus— one of the Seven Princes of Hell. You were sold at birth as a plaything for lesser demons.”
― Pippa DaCosta, Beyond the Veil

“They do that to you, demons. They know your intentions, your needs, your desires, and they play them like musicians play their instruments.”
― Pippa DaCosta, Beyond the Veil

“Akil was one of the Seven Princes of Hell— demon catnip to the likes of me.”
― Pippa DaCosta, Beyond the Veil