Devil May Care Quotes

“Sometimes, when you sleep with the enemy, waking up is the hardest part." ~ Muse”
― Pippa DaCosta, Devil May Care

“I was the proverbial child raised by wolves, only my wolves were demons. Wolves would have been kinder.”
― Pippa DaCosta, Devil May Care

“Get off that damn chair and pull yourself together. You're supposed to be an ageless creature of chaos and all I'm getting right now is sulking city boy.”
― Pippa DaCosta, Devil May Care

“I pity any man, demon or otherwise, foolish enough to believe he owns you.”
― Pippa DaCosta, Devil May Care

“How do you stop yourself from loving someone even when you know they’re incapable of loving you back?”
― Pippa DaCosta, Devil May Care

“Oh to let go of it all... The pain, the anguish, the shame and disgust... Just let it all go. Embrace chaos.”
― Pippa DaCosta, Devil May Care

“But if you cross me again Akil, so-help-me, I’ll find a way to kill you this time.”

His eyes lit up at the prospect, as though he’d accepted a challenge I didn’t even know I’d laid down. “I’d expect nothing less.”

Demons; only they can get a cheap thrill from a death threat.”
― Pippa DaCosta, Devil May Care

“Fighting demons is what I do; real, and those in my head.”
― Pippa DaCosta, Devil May Care

“Better to move on than harbor hate. Once I’d realized that, life wasn’t so bad.”
― Pippa DaCosta, Devil May Care

“Imagine the ability to let go of everything. To step back from the expectations of life, let it all slip through your fingers as though none of it mattered. Your doubts, your fears, your weaknesses, all of them falling like grains of sand into the wind. It feels like freedom, but it’s an illusion.”
― Pippa DaCosta, Devil May Care

“Beat me, hurt me, fight me and I’ll bounce back, but be nice to me? I folded quicker than a banker in a high-stakes poker game.”
― Pippa DaCosta, Devil May Care

“So fuck off, netherworld. The demons can’t have me. Akil can’t have me. Nobody gets to tie me up and chain me down. Not anymore.”
― Pippa DaCosta, Devil May Care

“What kind of fairytale ends with the Prince trying to flay the Princess?” “Is that what you are? A Princess?” Laughter danced with the light in his eyes. “Go to hell.” He pursed his lips then worked them together as though fighting his own words. “I wasn’t aware the fairytale was over.” He snorted a laugh. I crossed my arms and shot him a look. “You’re in denial.” “Denial? I’m the Prince of Greed. I don’t recognize denial.” “I noticed.”
― Pippa DaCosta, Devil May Care

“He had no right to look so accommodating when I knew the sort of man he really was; the sort who sacrificed his own son in the name of science, the sort who used his daughter to entrap a Prince of Hell. I’d known demons more human than Adam Harper.”
― Pippa DaCosta, Devil May Care

“It felt good. It felt right, like a step in the right direction when lately, all I’d been doing was stumbling further and further toward chaos.”
― Pippa DaCosta, Devil May Care

“Touch me, and just you wait and see who has the power here.”
― Pippa DaCosta, Devil May Care

“Nobody gets to tie me up and chain me down. Not anymore.”
― Pippa DaCosta, Devil May Care

“We were two sides of the same coin, destined never to meet and yet so close.”
― Pippa DaCosta, Devil May Care

“fire is nothing without the air it breathes.”
― Pippa DaCosta, Devil May Care

“Light swirled beneath her skin like a genie in a bottle. Four-pronged gossamer wings unfurled behind her. They briefly beat the air too quickly for me to see each stroke.”
― Pippa DaCosta, Devil May Care

“Fifteen years to make Muse the woman. A few hours with Damien to unmake me.”
― Pippa DaCosta, Devil May Care

“Muse. Holy-hell. You’re the half-blood who ruined the Prince of Greed.”
― Pippa DaCosta, Devil May Care

“They say time heals . It doesn’t. It masks. I wore a mask of confidence— a mask of determination— because it was all I had left. Inside, I was a wreck”
― Pippa DaCosta, Devil May Care

“Sometimes, when you sleep with the enemy, waking up is the hardest part.”
― Pippa DaCosta, Devil May Care

“I may not have been a good woman, but I wasn’t a coward. I wouldn’t run.”
― Pippa DaCosta, Devil May Care

“If I ever have to get that close to the Prince of Greed again, it’ll be too fuckin’ soon. And I ain’t ever doin’ that Star-Trek teleportation crap again, yah hear? I feel dirty .”
― Pippa DaCosta, Devil May Care

“Muse is not to be so easily dismissed. She is quite capable of turning your insides to ash before you can draw breath to apologize.”
― Pippa DaCosta, Devil May Care

“The air I dragged through my teeth strummed with frequencies beyond human interpretation. Power. Chaos. Home.”
― Pippa DaCosta, Devil May Care

“Well, it beat being tied to a bed and drugged up to the eyeballs.”
― Pippa DaCosta, Devil May Care

“You realize, half-bloods are impossible. A human body shouldn’t be able to contain an elemental demon. It’s physically and mentally impossible. Something about how you and your demon are tied together goes beyond scientific explanation. You shouldn’t exist. It’s a wonder you’re not a jabbering lunatic.”
― Pippa DaCosta, Devil May Care