Wild Embrace Quotes

“She touched my throat with her teeth."

"Well," Drew said quietly, "that can be extremely hot, or extremely bad if the trust isn't there first."

"I should've been able to handle it."

"Bullshit." Drew snorted. "If Hawke went for my throat, I'd freeze the fucking hell where I was and start thinking of way to convince him that whatever he though I did, I didn't do."

Felix knew Drew, knew how the other man used humor to get through people, but he couldn't laugh this time. "Hawke isn't your lover."

"That's true. He's not really my type. I mean, with that hair and everything.”
― Nalini Singh, Wild Embrace

“Would you believe Nell told me off for kissing Sienna in the corridor?"

Felix couldn't fight his own grin. "Way I heard it, you were doing more than kissing. Wasn't there a half-unbuttoned shirt involved?"

Hawke's bad-tempered grown reverberated through Felix's bones. "I can't wait to have ammunition against you. I hope Dezi pounces on you in public.”
― Nalini Singh, Wild Embrace

“What about you, pretty boy? You gonna stand there and let your girlfriend do all the work?"

"What?" Watch my seriously hot woman put you on your fat ass and look sexy while she's doing it? Oh, yeah, I'm definitely game for that.”
― Nalini Singh, Wild Embrace

“Paperwork is a creation of the modern world. Do you think they had paperwork four hundred years ago - no, all they had was love & witnesses.”
― Nalini Singh, Wild Embrace

“How do you always know about a birth?" Ruby asked with a mystified smile. "Wait a minute. Did Lorenzo call you?"

"Nope." Hawke winked, the thick fan of his silver-gold lashes coming down over an eye of a blue so pale, it was immediately clear that Hawke was a changeling, was wolf. "It's an alpha thing."
[...]
"Garnet."

Turning the screen in her direction, Garnet raised an eyebrow. "Yes?" She had a good idea of what was coming.

Wolf-blue eyes gleamed. "Where's your mate?"

Kenji shifted so he could scowl at Hawke. "Now you're just showing off.”
― Nalini Singh, Wild Embrace

“Tazia sobbed. “I thought you were angry with me.” “I was—but you are my sister.” A crushing squeeze. “I will always protect you.”
― Nalini Singh, Wild Embrace: A Psy-Changeling Collection

“Let's talk when you're ready." Hawke's grin deepened. "In the meantime, get a room.”
― Nalini Singh, Wild Embrace

“Now I'm going to have my dinner. Unless you'd like me to further kick your mangy ass.”
― Nalini Singh, Wild Embrace

“Watching Desiree's breasts rise as her lashes lowered, Felix had an epiphany. She was a dominant, yes, and pushy with it at times, but that didn't mean she had endless self-confidence. She had doubts and worries just like him, needed reassurance.”
― Nalini Singh, Wild Embrace

“I'm sorry," she whispered, "for not knowing you."

"How could you?" he said, one of his hands heavy and warm on her lower back. "I didn't let you see me. I haven't let anyone see me since childhood. Not even my Arrow brethren know me as you do." He'd told her about the squad, about how he was a shadow member of it.

Swallowing, Tazia laid her head against his shoulder. "I'm the same. I haven't let anyone truly see me either, not since I left the village. Only you know the real Tazia.”
― Nalini Singh, Wild Embrace

“This was what it should be like. Family was the bedrock of life; that was what Tazia had always been taught, still what she believed. A person could weather anything so long as she had the strength of her family at her back. To be without family was to be a ghost, lost in the wilderness.”
― Nalini Singh, Wild Embrace