Alpha Night Quotes

“I think, to be missed is a gift. To be remembered an even bigger one.”
― Nalini Singh, Alpha Night

“Don’t worry. There’s a manual—it began with information about intimate physical interaction, but now has a growing section on emotional connection and how to nurture it.”
― Nalini Singh, Alpha Night

“Damage meant nothing except that the person had lived life and taken a few knocks along the way.”
― Nalini Singh, Alpha Night

“Have you met Mr. Tall, Dangerous, and Smoldering before?" Margo put a hand on Selenka's shoulder, the contact instinctive between packmates. "It's a serious breach of the girlfriend code to hide snacks like that.”
― Nalini Singh, Alpha Night

“Our mating,” she said, “was a thing of instinct. But it’s become so much more. We’ve become who mates should be to one another—lovers, friends, swords, and shields.” She held up the ring. “I want you to wear this so you never doubt who you are to me. My mate, my love, and my Ethan.”
― Nalini Singh, Alpha Night

“After seeing what you did to that car, I don't think any of these punks are going to be playing chicken with you." Grin feral, the other man slapped him on the shoulder, his strength reverberating through Ethan. "Trust Selya to find herself a mate who can cut people in half.”
― Nalini Singh, Alpha Night

“Such a mistake would’ve crushed me had I thought myself perfect and held myself up to some great standard of alphahood. Instead, I accepted that I can’t see into the heart of every wolf, and I did all I could to fix the resulting damage.”
― Nalini Singh, Alpha Night

“Changeling justice is brutal in its honesty. We humans love to call it barbaric, but is it not more barbaric for a proven murderer to walk free because of a legal loophole?

—Editorial by Oceane Vargas for The San Francisco Gazette (January 2082)”
― Nalini Singh, Alpha Night

“Zolotse moyo,” he said. “You are my light, the star I can always follow to find my way home.”
― Nalini Singh, Alpha Night

“Touch is our cornerstone

Cure for the heart

Medicine for the soul

—Anonymous changeling poet”
― Nalini Singh, Alpha Night

“Vengeance served hot is vengeance wasted.

—Unknown philosopher”
― Nalini Singh, Alpha Night

“Then show me your jagged edges and your fractured pieces, your obsession and your need. Show me you.”
― Nalini Singh, Alpha Night

“I see a broken Arrow and I feel him slipping away from the family we’re trying to build. Ethan is alone in a way I can’t comprehend.

—Conversation between Vasic Zen and Aden Kai (three months ago)”
― Nalini Singh, Alpha Night

“He was a monster, trained and raised. But he was now Selenka’s monster.”
― Nalini Singh, Alpha Night

“Deadly wolf gold was now the color of his existence.”
― Nalini Singh, Alpha Night

“Being alpha is more than a position. It is more than a responsibility. It is a joy and a weight and it is who you are.”
― Nalini Singh, Alpha Night

“The primal heart of her reached out for the shattered heart of him and a cold, brilliant, paradoxically light-fractured darkness exploded into her mind.”
― Nalini Singh, Alpha Night

“The teenager grabbed his arm. “I can see you, but I can’t see you . . . No, wait.” A deep frown. “You’re not gone. You’re . . . lost. Don’t fade. Don’t throw away the broken shards. You just need glue.”
― Nalini Singh, Alpha Night

“We’re all damaged in one way or another, Selenushka.”
― Nalini Singh, Alpha Night

“Mates were equals always. “You’re my knight only in the sense that you’re my permanent and forever backup.”
― Nalini Singh, Alpha Night

“He watched her with unyielding focus even as shards of white-hot agony thrust into his brain. Ethan had chosen.”
― Nalini Singh, Alpha Night