Prisoner of Night Quotes

“Sometimes the worst part about trauma was not going through it. It was the aftermath, when you were free. And you obsessed about what would have happened if you hadn't gotten out.”
― J.R. Ward, Prisoner of Night

“Why did people always learn things about themselves too late, he thought.”
― J.R. Ward, Prisoner of Night

“I tried to tell them. Before I left, I tried to tell them it was all going to come to a bad end. But you cannot feed the truth to people. They have to see it themselves if they’re going to.”
― J.R. Ward, Prisoner of Night

“Not now, she told her damn libido. After three years of not noticing anything of the opposite sex, now was absolutely, positively not the time to get back on that train. And he was not the right male, at any rate. And goddamn it, she was not that kind of a female— The male had an ass that went on for days. Daaaaaaaaaaaaaaaays.”
― J.R. Ward, Prisoner of Night

“a massive, battle-scarred animal with long waves of wet, dark hair falling past his heavy pectorals, his arms corded with muscle, his legs long and bulging with power. Through the bars that separated them, his blue eyes glowed with menace and his mouth parted as if it were just a matter of seconds before her blood was on his tongue. And he was naked. Dear God, the only thing on him was a blinking collar around his thick throat— As a scent of dark spices reached her nose, it was a shock to like the way he smelled. Given all that menace, stale sweat and the fresh flesh of his victims seemed more up his alley, yet instead, she found herself breathing deep, her body kindling in a way she couldn’t understand.”
― J.R. Ward, Prisoner of Night

“Beneath a cockeyed crown that was missing its head stone in the front, the contorted and pockmarked corpse slouched on the hardwood was in the final stages of dying. Vampires were not like humans when it came to the aging process. Rather than a slow descent into an elderly state, the species went through the transition to maturity at around twenty-five, and following that, their bodies stayed in a state of prime physical condition until the very end of their lives. At that point, a rapid degeneration took place, faculties failing in a tumble that led quickly into the grave.”
― J.R. Ward, Prisoner of Night

“Just do it,'' she prompted him. Then she rolled her eyes. ''God, you've turned me intro a Nike commercial.”
― J.R. Ward, Prisoner of Night”
― J.R. Ward, Prisoner of Night

“Still, she felt as though she mattered, and not just in some ephemeral emotional sense, but in a nuts-and-bolts, chassis, gas-tank kind of way.”
― J.R. Ward, Prisoner of Night