With Fangs and Claws Quotes

“Quite the opposite,” Nordred continued. “Your mind is on what happened, what will happen and not on what is happening. Thinking ahead has its place, but it’s a tool we are all too willing to use. Don’t focus on the threats that might be there. Focus on what’s happening right now, because those threats may never eventuate.”
― Sam Hall, With Fangs and Claws

“You think that it's your superior skill and strength that allows you to rule the world,” I said, “but instead it’s this. When a woman is born into a world where men own everything, all she can do is go cap in hand and beg for a piece of it. Her skills, her power, they don’t matter, just what she has to trade that they deem is worth something to them.”
― Sam Hall, With Fangs and Claws

“Other people, those who don’t have to bear the weight of an abuser’s actions, they live in a state of blissful ignorance. They’ve been spared from seeing the truly dark side of people and that gives them an unacknowledged gift to carry them through life.”
― Sam Hall, With Fangs and Claws

“That’s what your father doesn’t seem to understand. I just want to see you smile.”
― Sam Hall, With Fangs and Claws

“We’ll never ask that of you, Darcy,” Dane said in a much gentler tone. “A warg is not an undemanding mate. We will want everything you have to give and more, but…” His fingers teased the small hairs at the back of my neck, until I tossed his hand off with a shake of my head, resulting in the others laughing. “In our world, it must be freely given. A warg must earn his mate’s love, devotion and surrender, and he does that by giving her the same.”
― Sam Hall, With Fangs and Claws

“Keep your weapons close, little huntress,” he told me. “My brothers will be ecstatic when I tell them what kind of queen we have discovered. But until we can get you safely back onto our land, you need to protect yourself. Then we’ll take over. Rest now, because the others will be plaguing your father for time with you, now that I’ve had mine.”
― Sam Hall, With Fangs and Claws

“You fancy some other silly boy as your mate. One that stinks of iron and ambition.” I let out a little gasp then, utterly betraying the truth. “But you’ll learn just how wrong he’d be for you. I’ll make sure of it.”
― Sam Hall, With Fangs and Claws

“no one ever got better at anything without being willing to accept they might be bloody terrible, at first. Terrible is our natural state, skill comes from an act of will to push past that and reach for something else.”
― Sam Hall, With Fangs and Claws