The Gargoyle Gets His Girl Quotes

“Colluded”
― Kristen Painter, The Gargoyle Gets His Girl

“It’s the Fourth of July, and I’m a veteran. Making out with me is your patriotic duty.”
― Kristen Painter, The Gargoyle Gets His Girl

“Gargoyles are designed to protect, so when someone makes a request of us and seals that request with an offering of stone, we are bound to that person until the request is fulfilled.”
― Kristen Painter, The Gargoyle Gets His Girl

“He bent his head, closing the gap between them and capturing her mouth with his. The kiss was sweet and hot and broke the last bit of tension between them. She clung to him, kissing him back with the kind of enthusiasm that confirmed she was feeling the same things he was.”
― Kristen Painter, The Gargoyle Gets His Girl

“They say if you make your passion your work, you never really work a day in your life.”
― Kristen Painter, The Gargoyle Gets His Girl

“There was something unspeakably sexy about a woman who ate like a long-haul trucker. “Then I have serious respect for you.”
― Kristen Painter, The Gargoyle Gets His Girl

“A gargoyle’s purpose was to protect. Plain and simple. And whether or not her actions had been purposeful, he had no choice but to obey. She’d made a plea to him and sealed it with an offering of stone. It was a ritual as old as both their bloodlines.”
― Kristen Painter, The Gargoyle Gets His Girl

“Once upon a time, lapidus fae had enslaved his kind and used them as beasts of war, riding them into battle like medieval destriers. Those of his kind who could fly had taken archers aloft. And those of the leviathan class who were also winged had taken small cannons into the skies. All in the name of claiming more land and expanding kingdoms. Fae kingdoms. The gargoyles had never been a race to lay claim to a homeland, and so the fae had put them to use forcibly. Granted, that was centuries ago, and the exact details had been lost, but some wounds stayed sore even after they healed. He knew enough to know she had the potential to be dangerous.”
― Kristen Painter, The Gargoyle Gets His Girl

“She could clean the apartment, but vacuuming at midnight seemed slightly mad. She had a couple of other jobs she could work on, but just thinking about doing them made her realize her concentration for that kind of work was in the toilet with this Burnside nonsense.”
― Kristen Painter, The Gargoyle Gets His Girl

“A curious expression bent Julian’s mouth, and his eyes narrowed even as his gaze skipped over the horns protruding from Nick’s shoulders and forehead. “How many classes are there?” “Five. Leviathan is the largest.” Nick frowned. It was possible he was too big for the job. Or too ugly. Maybe Julian thought he’d scare people. Julian”
― Kristen Painter, The Gargoyle Gets His Girl

“I’m one of the rarer leviathan-class gargoyles.” He flexed his stone wings for good measure. “Too much or okay?”
― Kristen Painter, The Gargoyle Gets His Girl

“Didn’t garnet seem warm and happy to all fae? Didn’t most know that turquoise helped you heal? That peridot could ease stress?”
― Kristen Painter, The Gargoyle Gets His Girl