Darkest Before Dawn Quotes

“Oh, you're good."

Akil narrowed his eyes. "You must have me confused with another sociopathic demon.”
― Pippa DaCosta, Darkest Before Dawn

“I am chaos eternal. I desire everything this world and the next offers. I am greed, I am hunger. Oh how I hunger... I want the pathetic mortals of this world to bow before me. I want all that they own, all they desire, every marvelous creation of theirs, but there is only one thing in this world that I need, and that, Muse, is you.”
― Pippa DaCosta, Darkest Before Dawn

“I'm just a wretched half-blood girl caught in a storm."

Akil tasted his wine and smiled. "Muse, you are the storm.”
― Pippa DaCosta, Darkest Before Dawn

“You lie through your teeth. You wouldn’t know the truth if it crawled up your ass and bit you on the balls.”
― Pippa DaCosta, Darkest Before Dawn

“They believed him out of control. What they didn’t know—what nobody but me knew—was that he’d never been more in control. He knew exactly what he was doing. He was free.”
― Pippa DaCosta, Darkest Before Dawn

“You think this is funny?” I snorted. “You would. Your sense of humor is so dark, even the lesser demons don’t get you.”
― Pippa DaCosta, Darkest Before Dawn

“When demons call you the Mother of Destruction, sh*t gets real." Muse.”
― Pippa DaCosta, Darkest Before Dawn

“What were you keeping me for, if not to use against your enemies?” His gaze softened. “Once, yes. Now I find myself in the alarming situation of fearing I may lose you again and caring.”
― Pippa DaCosta, Darkest Before Dawn

“What do you do when you’re swimming with sharks? You make sure you’re the biggest, most badass thing in the pool.”
― Pippa DaCosta, Darkest Before Dawn

“Freedom is only mourned by those who no longer have it.”
― Pippa DaCosta, Darkest Before Dawn

“I had a few glorious moments where my ignorance really was bliss, and then reality punched me in the gut. Like when you wake and think it’s a weekend, but it’s not. It’s a weekday, and you should have been at work an hour ago. Multiply that sensation by a hundred.”
― Pippa DaCosta, Darkest Before Dawn

“I need to feel you as a man does a woman. You have no idea what it costs me to say these things to you. You cannot fathom what it means. I need you. I lay the truth before you. Would you turn me away? Right here and now, Muse, I am but a man.”
― Pippa DaCosta, Darkest Before Dawn

“New titles are born. Old titles die.”
― Pippa DaCosta, Darkest Before Dawn

“I had a long list of things that were best not to dwell on. Losing control, failing Dawn, eyeing up Mammon for violent and bloody demon sex, breaking Akil’s nose, and how I wanted to rip Adam’s spine from his flesh and beat him with it.”
― Pippa DaCosta, Darkest Before Dawn

“Speaking Akil’s name around Stefan felt like throwing gasoline on a bushfire." ~ Muse”
― Pippa DaCosta, Darkest Before Dawn

“Akil’s sexy-as-sin picture could be plastered all over the tabloids. He wouldn’t like that. His halo would slip in the eyes of the Boston public. Never mind that his tarnished halo hung on devil horns.”
― Pippa DaCosta, Darkest Before Dawn

“Surely the Prince of Greed and the Mother of Destruction can kick some demon-ass back to the netherworld. It might mess up your street-cred, but I’m sure an ego the size of yours can take it. Once we’ve averted disaster, you can go back to being the slippery, back-stabbing son-of-a-bitch I know so well.”
― Pippa DaCosta, Darkest Before Dawn

“If there are princes involved, you should stay out of their way.” Jerry’s smile softened his hard-as-nails persona. “I wish I could.” I smiled my own half-hearted smile. “Maybe they should stay outta my way?” He chuckled, the sound of his laughter soft and delicious. “Maybe.”
― Pippa DaCosta, Darkest Before Dawn

“Cross my heart, and hope to die. Bake a demon in a pie.”
― Pippa DaCosta, Darkest Before Dawn

“Make a habit of inviting demons over?” “Yeah, actually. Wednesdays are movie nights. They bring the snacks.”
― Pippa DaCosta, Darkest Before Dawn

“Hell, even Akil had sent demon-nasties after me in the past, although he appeared to have resolved his homicidal tendencies since I’d literally sucked the life out of him.”
― Pippa DaCosta, Darkest Before Dawn

“I don’t like you much either, but I can’t seem to get rid of you, so how about we stop talking and start doing?”
― Pippa DaCosta, Darkest Before Dawn

“I was meant to be something better than this weak-willed woman I seemed to be, and yet I sought out means to forget what I was slowly becoming.”
― Pippa DaCosta, Darkest Before Dawn

“Sometimes, there is no right thing. Sometimes wrong wins, and that’s okay. Life can’t be distilled down to right and wrong. It’s all about that messy gray area in between and how we deal with it.”
― Pippa DaCosta, Darkest Before Dawn

“I’m just a wretched half-blood girl caught in a storm.” Akil tasted his wine and smiled. “Muse, you are the storm.”
― Pippa DaCosta, Darkest Before Dawn

“Don’t talk dirty to me, Muse.” He stepped over the threshold and into my apartment. “I just might take you up on your promises.”
― Pippa DaCosta, Darkest Before Dawn

“You wouldn’t know the truth if it crawled up your ass and bit you on the balls.” Oh yeah, I could get used to this. “You have no idea about personal space. You’re in my face the whole time. It’s wrong. People don’t do that. People respect each other’s boundaries. You stomp on boundaries. Also, you snore.”
― Pippa DaCosta, Darkest Before Dawn

“You wouldn’t know the truth if it crawled up your ass and bit you on the balls.” Oh yeah, I could get used to this. “You have no idea about”
― Pippa DaCosta, Darkest Before Dawn

“Freedom is only mourned by those who no longer have it. Those who’ve never known it don’t have that luxury.”
― Pippa DaCosta, Darkest Before Dawn

“If she was anything like you, she’d have rained hell down on them all.”
― Pippa DaCosta, Darkest Before Dawn