Taste of the Dark Quotes

“just once, it would be nice to look someone in the eye and tell them that I could use a bit of kindness today, because it’s been a long life and kindness has been in short supply since the start of it.”
― Nicole Fox, Taste of the Dark

“The only thing hurting me right now,” he snarls”
― Nicole Fox, Taste of the Dark

“But when I make it for her, Eliana puts a spoonful of red wine sauce in her mouth, closes her eyes, and sinks back into her seat. She sighs as the flavors melt across her tongue, a soft little exhale of contentment that makes twenty years of burning my hands to shit in thankless, hot-as-hell kitchens feel like it was worth every stain and scar and drop of sweat.”
― Nicole Fox, Taste of the Dark

“I’ve never had oysters before.” In a night full of firsts, Bastian’s jaw falling open is maybe the most unexpected of them. He looks utterly dumbstruck. As if I just confessed some unspeakable sin. Murder. Arson. Never tasting oysters. All basically equivalent and equally heinous, in the eyes of God and the law, right? Well, in the eyes of Bastian Hale, they are. “Unacceptable. We’re going.” “You don’t have to⁠—” “Eliana.” The way he says my name stops me cold. Not Ms. Hunter, not Hunter. Eliana. “It wasn’t a question.” And just like that, I’m following him again.”
― Nicole Fox, Taste of the Dark

“When he growls, Get your coat, Hunter. You’re coming with me, I’m suddenly no longer an adult woman in possession of things like “common sense” or “social skills.” I’m a cavewoman. A Neanderthal. My brain has devolved approximately forty thousand years, and all I can think is, Big man say go. Me go with big man. It’s mortifying.”
― Nicole Fox, Taste of the Dark

“rain.”
― Nicole Fox, Taste of the Dark

“Fingers pressing against my throat. “Slower. Let me feel you swallow.”
― Nicole Fox, Taste of the Dark