Shades of Wicked Quotes

“Even if we both survive, I won't enforce my claim on you," I said desperately. "In fact, the first thing I'll do is drop you back at that bordello in Poland and order you a new carnival orgy, promise!" Then I threw up, spraying a stream of crimson all over him as I lost my fight against the nausea.

"See?" I managed when I finished puking. Vow sealed with a blood oath."

He looked down at himself in disgust. "This is everything I knew marriage would be.”
― Jeaniene Frost, Shades of Wicked

“Ian grinned before leaning down to lick the blood off my lip. "I know, it's a lot to take in. Never thought you'd be this happy, did you? Or this lucky. Blimey, go ahead and envy yourself. Countless other people will, I assure you.”
― Jeaniene Frost, Shades of Wicked

“I saw you then and felt nothing. Saw you months later during the ghoul uprising and felt nothing then, too ... until I watched you tear through a group of ghouls 'til they were no more than blood in the wind. Made me so hard, I almost tripped over my cock on my way to kill the ghoul in front of me."

"Romantic," I said in an acerbic tone, but a fluttering had started inside that I was having a difficult time controlling.

A quick grin. "Indeed. Felt nothing when you rudely interrupted my orgy, either, except rage when I recognized you as the Guardian who'd been at Katie's supposed execution. Then we fought ... and I felt the same thing I'd felt when I watched you tear through those ghouls years before."

"Something long and hard?" I supplied, adding, "I remember it hitting my foot when I was trying to hold you down."

"Not that, though that, too," he said with another unrepentant grin. Then it faded as he said, "I felt that you were mine.”
― Jeaniene Frost, Shades of Wicked

“The worst part was knowing no one cared enough to save you. That’s what you remember forever. Not the physical pain or the never-ending fear, but the despair of being utterly alone and knowing you’ll die that way. Ever been lost like that?”
― Jeaniene Frost, Shades of Wicked

“Know the best thing about being dismissed as an insatiable whore? People don't mind their tongues around you. I've learned more information eavesdropping while I was mid-orgy than I have from spying on G7 summits, but that's off topic.”
― Jeaniene Frost, Shades of Wicked

“It’s Ian’s Little Poppet now, remember?” I said snippily. His eyes were blazing with green. “Oh, it is indeed, and more than you realize.”
― Jeaniene Frost, Shades of Wicked

“Ian tended to take a death threat as a challenge, a joke, or an aphrodisiac.”
― Jeaniene Frost, Shades of Wicked

“Actions, not existence, define character.”
― Jeaniene Frost, Shades of Wicked

“When time is short, anything less than honesty feels like a waste of effort.”
― Jeaniene Frost, Shades of Wicked

“Just because Katie was born different doesn't mean she was born wrong. Actions, not existence, define character.”
― Jeaniene Frost, Shades of Wicked

“I know, it’s a lotto take in. Never thought you’d be this happy, did you? Or this lucky. Blimey, go ahead and envy yourself. Countless other people will, I assure you.”
A laugh escaped me even as my eyes became so shiny, his image started to blur. “You might be the most conceited man I’ve ever met, and I’ve met millions of them.”
His low, seductive laugh coincided with his hands settling on my hips. “Then I deserve a spanking, don’t I? Here, I’ll start things off.”
- Ian and Veritas”
― Jeaniene Frost, Shades of Wicked

“Why do you care who or what I have sex with? You’re not tempting enough for it to ever be you, so how is the rest of it your concern?”
As soon as I said it, I regretted it. It was a blatant dare—and Ian loved dares...
“What if I told you I had every intention of changing your mind about taking me for a lover?”
― Jeaniene Frost, Shades of Wicked

“Some things you never want to forget lest you lose the lesson learned with them. My lesson was realizing who I was. Thought I knew when times were easy, but it's who you are when things are at their worst that's the real truth.”
― Jeaniene Frost, Shades of Wicked

“Outrage had me sputtering. “I can kill ’em all!” “Of course.” Was he stifling a laugh? “You’re beauty, you’re grace, you’ll shoot them in the face.” I smiled. “That’s pretty.”
― Jeaniene Frost, Shades of Wicked

“Which act would you prefer for tonight?”
His questions broke through my musings. I was all too glad for the interruption. “What do you mean?”
He shrugged. “There’s the new lovers act, the friends-who-fuck act, the swingers act, the gold-digger and sugar-daddy act, the fighting couple act—”
“What about a platonic friendship act?” I interrupted.
He looked at me as if I’d finally spoken a language he couldn’t understand. “Is that a joke?”

...

“Then come.” Ian extended his arm with a hint of a grin. “I’ve decided our act tonight will be the fighting couple. Shouldn’t present too much of a challenge, should it?”
I felt a wry smile tug at my mouth. “I think we’ll manage.”
― Jeaniene Frost, Shades of Wicked

“Vanilla or no, I intend tospend all my energy on you, so neither of us will have anything left for anyone else. - Ian to Veritas”
― Jeaniene Frost, Shades of Wicked

“Lucifer’s hammering hard-on, now that was a real shag.”
― Jeaniene Frost, Shades of Wicked