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Why did we think having a cub was a good idea? -- Nalini Singh
Trouble's not only my middle name, it's my first and last, too. -- Nalini Singh
It just means that when you screw up," Remi added, "you don't lose your place in the family. You might get a reaming, might be punished, but you'll always have a home where you're loved and where you feel safe. -- Nalini Singh
Let's talk when you're ready." Hawke's grin deepened. "In the meantime, get a room. -- Nalini Singh
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
She dumped me for the quarterback after she'd played my body like a banjo. So Sad."
"I bet"
"I'm serious. I was heartbroken."
"For how long?"
"A whole week." An eternity in the life of a teenage boy. -- Nalini Singh
I've never heard a man's cock described as a fang before ... "
"Fang, cock ... It's all sexual to a vampire."
"But not to an angel. My cock serves a highly specific purpose. -- Nalini Singh
I'm yours." It was his turn to stop her words. "Just stay with me," he said. "In any way you want." "You deserve better." Rough, broken words. "There's no one better than you." "I'll be the best soldier you ever have," she repeated in a shattered whisper. "I know." It would have to be enough. -- Nalini Singh
Stay with me. I'll show you things that'll make you laugh in delight, scream in passion, cry for the sheer joy of it. -- Nalini Singh
Go then, mere jaan." My life. Because that was what she was. The best part of him. "Just remember - the next ten or so lifetimes, you're spending with me. -- Nalini Singh
I will personally nail his nuts to the floor before slicing him to ribbons. -- Nalini Singh
He was strong. And his heart, it was breaking. -- Nalini Singh
It wasn't only his city that was healing, Raphael thought, his eyes catching the refracted light that betrayed Aodhan's presence in the sky; his people were, too. And it had all begun with a single, vulnerable mortal who did not accept that to be an archangel was to be always right. -- Nalini Singh
You refused to fall in love with anyone else, Dmitri." A whisper with the impact of a gun-shot. "So I had to come back for you ... husband. -- Nalini Singh
He watched her leave in a sweep of midnight and dawn, her wings unlike any other, and he knew he'd damn his own honor and take vengeance on the world should anyone dare lay a finger on her. -- Nalini Singh
I could kiss you forever," she murmured against his lips, sucking at the lower one, playing with the upper, his body weight a luscious pressure. "I love feeling you against me."
"You say such things, Elena. You will make me your slave. -- Nalini Singh
Max cuffed his brother good-naturedly on the ear as River slid in past him and bent to kiss Sophia on the cheek. "Hello, are you sure you're with the right brother?"
Sophia had never had a younger sibling. But this man with his laughing eyes and bright smile ... "Are you making me an offer? -- Nalini Singh
When you're broken," she whispered to the man who would save the world for her, "you can't see hope. We must be their hope. -- Nalini Singh
Hello," he said, on his best behavior now. "I just wanted to smell you." "Oh." Lines between her eyebrows, the tone of her voice making him want to close his eyes and just listen. "Do you sniff everyone you meet? -- Nalini Singh
His kiss held his heart. It broke hers. -- Nalini Singh
All you did was haul me into the light. I could've walked away at any point. I chose to stay. I will always choose to stay. -- Nalini Singh
If that happens to us," she whispered, unable to wrap her mind around the idea of a life so long and so full of tragedy, "if we feel ourselves, who we are together, becoming lost in time, I don't want to Sleep. I want to say good-bye when I'm still me and you're still you. -- Nalini Singh
Aden, I'm not fixed, she said, the words holding despair. You were never broken. There's nothing to fix. -- Nalini Singh
When was the last time you lost an argument?"
He pretended to think about it. Then, leaning down, he whispered in her ear, "A few hours ago when you refused to stop the car and crawl into the backseat with me. -- Nalini Singh
If he was going to be held hostage to this unwanted compulsion, then she was damn well coming along for the ride. -- Nalini Singh
I could've totally cut out your heart before you knew what was happening." "What stopped you?" "I thought Montgomery might've been pissed off at all the blood on the sheets." "Montgomery would never be something as uncouth as pissed off. Annoyed in an icily genteel manner, perhaps. -- Nalini Singh
While Dmitri, as the leader of Raphael's Seven, could not accept such a weakness, the mortal he'd once been, the one who had loved a woman with a wide mouth and eyes of slanted brown ... that man understood what it was to love so deeply it was a kind of beautiful madness. -- Nalini Singh
I look into my heart and see the abyss looking back at me.'
'I won't let you fall. -- Nalini Singh
For a hunter, her shields were surprisingly weak, as if she somehow still saw innocence in the world.
Then she will kill you. She will make you mortal.
Was it not worth the loss of a little immortality to have that strange mix of innocence and strength close to him? -- Nalini Singh
Michaela, Sara, Michaela, Sara," she murmured in a mock-thoughtful voice.
"Bitch Goddess angel versus my best friend, gee, which side do you think I'll choose? -- Nalini Singh
The bastard kissed her. She was so mad, she bit him hard enough to draw blood. Raphael pulled back, lip already beginning to swell. "We are no longer even, Elena. You're now in debt."
"You can deduct it from my slow and painful death. -- Nalini Singh
We all have to live with our past, but it doesn't have to define us. -- Nalini Singh
He'd survived, his mind strong. Others ... others were broken. The healing process was going to be a long one, but Judd had pledged himself to it
That thought in mind, he headed to his room to wash up before going to Brenna. Not seeing her wasn't an option ... -- Nalini Singh
Be brave. Charlotte had said the same back to Molly, and now her best friend was living a Technicolor life full of adventure, love, and passionate happiness. It was a future neither one of them could've predicted. Being brave had its rewards. -- Nalini Singh
Maybe she didn't know exactly how to be a consort, but she knew the members of a team functioned better with acknowledgment. And these people were all part of her team now - part of her family. -- Nalini Singh
He was me and I was him and we were whole together. Now . . . now I'm in pieces, but Persephone is whole and for her, I'll endure. Miane -- Nalini Singh
No buts, nothing. You have the ability to piss me off without even trying, but I'll fucking take a gun to my head before I lay a hand on you. You clear on that? -- Nalini Singh
Zaira had no dealings with children. Not even Arrow children. "What am I supposed to do?" she said to Aden. "Pick her up." "Like a sack of supplies?" "A bit more carefully. -- Nalini Singh
Aren't you going to get up?"
He put a hand on the curve of her hip, a possessive gesture that had already become
familiar.
"No. Let's have more sex. -- Nalini Singh
God, you're sexy when you talk Psy. -- Nalini Singh
So this book, while continuing the Psy-Changeling storyline - because nothing is ever static in this world - is also a walk through the interconnected lives of many of the characters who've become important to us over the past books and novellas. With -- Nalini Singh
You have the power to tear me to pieces, to wound me so deep and true that I'll never recover. What Rissa's death did to the boy I was? You have the ability to do a thousand times worse to the man I've become. -- Nalini Singh
The need that ravaged him was hotly specific, targeted to only one woman. -- Nalini Singh
Nothing in his touch said he considered her fractured, considered her damaged goods, and that gave her a freedom she wouldn't have believed possible. -- Nalini Singh
Raphael met Michaela's gaze. "If you could kill every single beautiful woman in the world, would you?"
Her smile never faded. "In an instant. -- Nalini Singh
You chose a warrior, remember?"
"As you chose an archangel. -- Nalini Singh
If this is death, Guild Hunter, then I will see you on the other side." He'd said that to her as she lay dying in his arms. Now, she whispered, "Wherever you go, I'll follow." She'd lost too many people she loved, survived too much death. -- Nalini Singh
Lifting her head, she joined in as the others in the group began to howl in response to Brace's triumph. The sound was ... It touched the soul, the music haunting, starkly pure and yet so very earthy. -- Nalini Singh
Some wounds should be healed, no matter how much time has passed or how much time is left. -- Nalini Singh
I'm not doing any vampire lackey stuff."
"Fine."
"I'm only drinking your blood."
That made his smile widen. "Fine."
"That means you're stuck with me." She jutted out her chin. "Try to throw me off for some bimbo and we'll see who's immortal. -- Nalini Singh
Because he was going to marry her.
"It is customary to ask," she now said as she turned to watch him button up a black shirt over that chest she'd licked and sucked and kissed not long ago.
"Why?" He shrugged. "I'm not giving you a choice. -- Nalini Singh
I've got lots and lots and lots to tell you." He sounded excited. "I have friends. Ben's a wolf and Tally brought Noor to play, too. I'm going to marry Noor one day. And Ben's gonna mate with Marlee even if she is bigger than he is. -- Nalini Singh
Down the hall, third door to your left.'
'Much obliged,' she said sarcastically, noticing that there was nothing but air beyond the railing to her right - as if the core of the house was one huge, open space. -- Nalini Singh
Are you calling me your gift?"
"Yes." She smiled. "How do you feel about that?"
"Like it's my turn to be unwrapped."
He nibbled at her mouth. "Do it slow. -- Nalini Singh
Bluebell," she said, remembering from Erotique. "Pretty name."
"I call Dmitri Dark Overlord."
"Shae," Dmitri said and the female vampire rose at once to walk quickly into the house. "Now, pretty Bluebell" - another languid stroke across her skin - "tell the Overlord what you discovered. -- Nalini Singh
Why coerce when you can contract ? -- Nalini Singh
Kaleb said. "I'm declaring peace. -- Nalini Singh
A life is not a waste of time -- Nalini Singh
I think you need something to sweeten your mood today, Ms. Baird. -- Nalini Singh
Perhaps this Beauty might just be willing to love her Beast. -- Nalini Singh
Never lose your heart, Elena. No matter if the world tells you it makes you weak. Immortals have so much power. It is good to have a weakness. -- Nalini Singh
God, I love you. She kissed his temple and for a second it felt like something in him responded. -- Nalini Singh
Do tell. It might be entertaining to see who gets to you first."
"Excuse me if entertaining you isn't at the top of my agenda. -- Nalini Singh
I've never heard of a man's cock being described as a fang before. - Rapahel -- Nalini Singh
You know I'll never say no, and Nate's so dedicated, I think he loves our alpha more than me."
"I resent that," Nate grumbled. "I might love football more than you, but definitely not Lucas's ugly mug. -- Nalini Singh
Vasic said the words on Aden's tongue. The Arrows expect mercy from no one. -- Nalini Singh
The one and only time an archangel can Make another angel is when our bodies produce a substance known as ambrosia. Ambrosia,is produced instinctively at a single point in an archangel's life. It is legend that ambrosia only rises when an archangel loves true. -- Nalini Singh
So you love her still?" She found herself asking.
"Who?"
"The vampire. Shamiya."
His hand squeezed her calf in gentle reproof."A silly question, cher. You know love cannot survive where there is no light. -- Nalini Singh
Ransom really looked at the other man for the first time, shook his head, stared again."Holy hell, your eyes are like a fucking viper's."
Venom raised an eyebrow."You have hair prettier than one of Astaad's concubines."
Ransom gave the vampire the finger.
Venom grinned. -- Nalini Singh
If he decided to pursue Sienna ... Sucking in a breath Indigo promised herself she'd warn the girl if and when the time came-because no woman should have to face that campaign unprepared. -- Nalini Singh
You ever taunt me with Tasha again," she said in a harsh whisper when they broke the kiss to gasp for air, "and I will geld you."
Raphael winced. "That would take at least a day to repair. Are you sure you want to lose my ... attributes for that long? -- Nalini Singh
My men and women are loyal and will fight to the bloody end," he said, his broad shoulders holding the weight of a staggering number of lives, "but I'm afraid I am about to lead them into certain death. -- Nalini Singh
Random sex isn't my style." "Who said anything about random?" Another teasing brush, another rush of exquisite pleasure. "I plan to have sex with you on a regular basis. -- Nalini Singh
Once, he hadn't been able to touch her without causing himself pain. Now, it only hurt when he didn't touch her. -- Nalini Singh
Mercy kicked out a leg and spun, hitting her target
her favorite tree. She called it Riley -- Nalini Singh
You are a symbol - even if I am missed, so long as people can see you in the air, they'll feel safe." Because everyone knows I would not leave my consort in a city I didn't feel was protected against all harm. "Shit," Elena muttered. "I hate it when you make sense. -- Nalini Singh
These predators loved with wild fury, but they were also darkly possessive, crossing the boundary into what humans might term obsession. -- Nalini Singh
Her voice trembled. "I'm so glad you're mine. I won't ever let you go."
This time, it was Kaleb who said, "I know," devastated at being so wanted. "You are just a little possessive. -- Nalini Singh
She grabbed her bag and strode to the front door, able to hear the murmur of the Hudson in the background. She wondered if the house had a water view, or if the trees blocked it. Probably didn't matter to a being who could fly up for a good vantage point. -- Nalini Singh
Emotion without reason lets people walk all over you; reason without emotion is a mask for cruelty. -- Nalini Singh
She stepped out of reach. "Go put on a shirt and get your mind out of bed."
"Impossible with you around."
"Pretend I'm holding a rifle. In fact, pretend I have you in the crosshairs."
Janvier sighed, rubbing at a jaw shadowed by morning stubble. "I love it when you talk dirty. -- Nalini Singh
Our memories make us ... even the darkest of them all. -- Nalini Singh
He also wanted her to grow up in a united world, not a divided one. Naya should never have to choose between the two sides of her heritage. -- Nalini Singh
Judd figured he must have done something right along the way. How else could a rebel arrow have earned the right to call this amazing woman his own? Even if it was a mistake, too damn bad. He was never giving her up. -- Nalini Singh
A man's pride was a fragile thing. A warrior's pride was his greatest weapon. A sheik's pride upheld the honor of his people. -- Nalini Singh
Love is the greatest form of loyalty, one that places happiness of the beloved over the lover. -- Nalini Singh
Tammy's eyes widened. "Oh, my God, Dorian, it's not only lust, is it? You're starting to fall for her. She matters."
Tammy was wrong, Dorian thought, looking out and into the yard again.
The truth was, he'd already fallen for her. -- Nalini Singh
No more chances, Golden Eyes. You're mine and I'll draw blood to enforce my claim. -- Nalini Singh
We are all scarred by life. And mortals die where angels recover. -- Nalini Singh
You can run," Dorian said in a neutral tone that did nothing to lessen the intensity of his
expression, "but sooner or later, you run out of places to run to. -- Nalini Singh
I really need that cake now. Startled laughter in his blood, unexpected light in the shadows, the taste of snow in her kiss. And he knew that come what may, they'd stand together. In the light and in the terrible darkness. -- Nalini Singh
Surely you're not going to practice discretion now? -- Nalini Singh
I'll send Ria to you. Save you sneaking up the wall. -- Nalini Singh
Pack is built on the bonds of family, of mating, of love. You come first. You always will. -- Nalini Singh
Say what you would about the dietary requirements, vampirism sure did do great things for the skin and body. -- Nalini Singh
Looking at her, bedraggled and beaten, some might have seen weakness. He saw strength, determination, and a will no one could crush. -- Nalini Singh
Lijuan warned Raphael I'd make him a little bit mortal.'
'You have.' Quiet equanimity. 'And you worry you've weakened him. You have.'
Elena flinched. 'Elena.'
Shaking his head, Keir waited until she met his gaze again. 'Even an archangel needs a weakness - absolute power is a corruption. -- Nalini Singh
I ain't no Psy, Ms. Aleine, but even us dumb animals know when two people start exchanging thoughts, something's going on."
She narrowed her eyes at his smug tone. "It was a coincidence."
"Baby, when I think about my body, I don't focus on my cock. -- Nalini Singh
It was you. Always. Only ever you. -- Nalini Singh
Take care of my heart won't you, Sophie? It's a little odd having it outside my body-but I'm planning to steal yours to make up for it. -- Nalini Singh
Elena.
Hush, let me talk to the crazy lady. -- Nalini Singh
I never saw her down, you know? But those last two times, it was like she was . . . fading. As if someone was stealing her spirit. -- Nalini Singh
Obviously, I need to study princesses further. -- Nalini Singh
You've now got a reputation as a scary motherfucker with no limits when it comes to your kid and your pack." The -- Nalini Singh
His Starlight should've been in bed, resting. Instead, she was here, fighting to clean up a mess of violence, fighting to save lives. Because she was Silver Fucking Mercant, and she was as tough as any bear in StoneWater. Including its alpha. -- Nalini Singh
I didn't realize," she said in a voice so polite it drew blood, "that fawning over you was part of the job requirement. -- Nalini Singh
I want to mutilate and torture every person on the planet who in any way supported Santano or Tatiana, break them until they beg and crawl. Then I want to tell them it'll never end. -- Nalini Singh
Ms. Baird," he said, using her formal title because it made her pay attention, "have I or have I not made it clear that I would like you in my bed? -- Nalini Singh
No one has ever been able to pinpoint the trigger."
"But?"
"But it is legend that ambrosia only rises when-"
She held her breath.
"- an archangel loves true. -- Nalini Singh
I need you," he said to her, this woman who'd fought for her own right to live her life free of limits, "to build me some remote detonation devices."
Amazing brown eyes shot with blue peering into his as she pressed her nose to his. "You always say the most romantic things. -- Nalini Singh
Don't tell me you don't wonder, don't th - " "I fucking don't!" He grabbed her upper arms, held her in place, the raw fury in his voice a wild thing. "I made my choice, and I chose you. Don't you do this. Don't you destroy us. -- Nalini Singh
Sascha. The only child she had ever borne. The cardinal who everyone had told Nikita was flawed, but who she'd known was a power who could not be allowed to come into her own. To do so would equal her death. So she'd crushed her child, and in so doing, saved her life and forever lost her. -- Nalini Singh
If she could've found the will power to speak, the brain cells to construct thought, she would've told Clay he was a god. It was a good thing she was too wiped out or he would never let her forget it -- Nalini Singh
It was the first time she'd consciously accepted that fact ... and the fear that came with the knowledge. Martin had hurt her, but Riaz, he could savage her. He does these things and they take my breath away, make my chest hurt. -- Nalini Singh
Contact would hurt, might be fatal, and yet she couldn't stop herself. Obsession or compulsion, she didn't know, but she did know that before this was over, she'd either end up in Dmitri's bed ... or one of them would bleed darkest red. -- Nalini Singh
I love you." Steel-gray eyes held her own. "You're my heart. -- Nalini Singh
Are you?"
"What?"
"Venomous?"
Another savage smile. He touched the tip of one fang with his tongue and when he drew it away, she saw a pearl of golden liquid. "Try me and see."
"Maybe later, after I've survived Michaela. -- Nalini Singh
If this is death, Guild Hunter,he thought to his mortal as angelfire scored through his bones and touched his heart, then I will see you on the other side. -- Nalini Singh
Fangs flashed in her face. It's so nice when lunch has the manners to present itself on the doorstep. -- Nalini Singh
If I'm hunter-born and you're hunter-born, doesn't that mean that Father must behunter-born, too?'
...
'the ability isn't active in him, like it is in me and you. Do you understand?'
A thoughtful nod ... 'Like he's asleep and we're awake. -- Nalini Singh
He has little use for scholars, but you are his sole grandchild, and as such, he is willing to overlook your failings as long as you conduct yourself as a princess of the court during your time of service. Do not disappoint him, Andromeda. Your grandfather's mercy is not endless. -- Nalini Singh
I happen to find this particular small, smart, sexy package very, very attractive. -- Nalini Singh
Only stupidity excuses ignorance. That -- Nalini Singh
I'm doing this for Toby and Marlee, not you." The defiant words were directed at Hawke.
The alpha gave her a mock-salute. "Heaven forbid you do anything because I asked you to. -- Nalini Singh
True Psy are Silent."
"Correction," he said. "Psy in the Net are Silent. Psy outside the Net are not. Both are Psy." And none of them affected him as viscerally as this woman who'd been dumped outside his home like so much garbage. -- Nalini Singh
No one will ever hurt you again," he whispered against her hair, the promise one he'd kill to keep. "You're safe. -- Nalini Singh
She wished he'd stop touching her. Not because she didn't like it but because she liked it far too much. It made her hunger for things that could never be hers. And if someone went hungry for too long, they started to starve. Started to hurt. -- Nalini Singh
Don't be afraid of me, Sahara." Bending his head, he spoke with his lips against hers, the contact igniting a thousand tiny lightning strikes in her blood. "I'd line the streets with bodies before I'd ever hurt you. -- Nalini Singh
A finely tuned spike of pain speared through his skull, signalling a detectable breach in his conditioning. He didn't want to stop his decent into chaos. What he wanted was to hurt the men who'd dared look at her. -- Nalini Singh
Illium says that perhaps I can use them to flutter someone to death.
- Aodhan to Jason, Archangel's Storm -- Nalini Singh
Children were huge, wild creatures full of promise and hope and dirt and mischief. -- Nalini Singh
Ena Mercant didn't believe in flaws or perfection. "We are who we are and we are strong" was her oft-stated motto. It was a motto that had been passed down from one head of the family to the next in an unbroken line. -- Nalini Singh
When the darkness receded, she found herself lying on the bed, still half-dressed ... and being watched by human eyes that held a very feline satisfaction. "I said slow."
He smiled. "Oops."
Charm. -- Nalini Singh
Don't get dead, Raphael, or I swear I'll hunt you down in the afterlife. -- Nalini Singh
A single act of kindness can change a life. -- Nalini Singh
I'd kiss you over and over because I love the taste of you, but I'd have to play with those pretty, pretty breasts. I'd suck and lick and maybe even bite a little. You don't mind teeth, do you, Grace? -- Nalini Singh
In our terms, you are a baby and I am robbing the cradle. -- Nalini Singh
Mercy's eyes held equal parts shock, and delight. "Riley."
He felt his lips stretch even wider. "I think we need to celebrate with some brand-new etchings."
His cat's laugh was surprised and warm and the sound of home. "It's your etchings that got us into this position. -- Nalini Singh
Why would you say I shouldn't wait for you?" It was a snarl. "If you're mine, you're mine. And I'm yours. Today, tomorrow, always. -- Nalini Singh
Love, he thought as he held her to his heart, was an agony beyond compare. -- Nalini Singh
Vasic passed on this package of data," he said, his voice rough. "It apparently originated with Judd, but Vasic's added to it, as did Stefan. -- Nalini Singh
If you take another lover, Elena" - he thrust back in, making her gasp - "what I do to him will become a nightmare etched in human memory. -- Nalini Singh
Tell her we don't bite." "I don't lie to my friends. -- Nalini Singh
But it was the dark hunger in his tone that got to her. Damn kinky vampire had actually liked the knife.
Shit. -- Nalini Singh
Even if he had to coax her kiss by slow kiss. Cats were good at coaxing. It was only a more sensual aspect of their favorite game - stalking. -- Nalini Singh
Brenna's eyes widened. Raising a hand, she brushed his hair gently off his forehead.
"Why do I keep telling you things I swore I'd take to my grave?"
The contact shot electricity through his nerves. "Because you know I'll always be your shield against the nightmares. -- Nalini Singh
The transition will not be easy, ended the decree, and it will not be without cost. But we are not cowards to hide from the powers that define us. We are Psy and we are capable of greatness.
It is time to step out of the dark. -- Nalini Singh
A flaw does not make a man worthless," Raphael had once said to Dmitri. "Else I would've been discarded long ago. -- Nalini Singh
Will you dance with me?" The charms on Sahara's bracelet clinked against one another as she lifted her arms to link them around his neck, her love for him proud and open.
Deep inside, even the part of him that was the void, merciless and dark and broken, knew happiness, knew joy. -- Nalini Singh
Dorian grunted, staring out at the forest. "Where's Sascha?"
"In the aerie."
"You left her alone?"
"As my mate would say- she's a cardinal, fully capable of protecting herself."
"So you left at least two others on watch."
"Of course I did. -- Nalini Singh
No conflicting loyalties?"
"Not yet." But if it came to that, he had already made his choice. Her name was Brenna and she was his heartbeat. -- Nalini Singh
But plants grow again," She murmured, focusing on the verdant beauty around her. "They put down new roots, create room for themselves in foreign soil. -- Nalini Singh
Rest, heal. I'll come by again soon. Maybe she was scared at what was being asked of her, but if Izak could smile through his agony, she'd damn well find the guts to be what he needed her to be. -- Nalini Singh
You said I could pet you as long as I liked."
"Didn't say I wouldn't try to fuck you in the middle of the petting."
Her eyes snapped up to meet his. "That's feline logic. You're a wolf."
"I'm learning from the best. -- Nalini Singh
Don't call her Tally in front of Clay", Dorian said, thinking of the small human female who loved Clay so desperately. "He's a little territorial."
Lucas's eyes flicked to Ashaya. "So are you."
Dorian wanted to bare his teeth, warn Lucas off against interfering. "Yeah, I am. -- Nalini Singh
For future reference, I am never, ever going to a ball again without a crossbow and a flamethrower. -- Nalini Singh
IN THE YEAR 1979, the Psy race made the decision to embrace Silence and condition all emotion out of their young; to become without hope or despair, anger or fear, sorrow or joy. -- Nalini Singh
Words weren't always easy when things mattered. -- Nalini Singh
Damn it, Honor, what do I do with an Ancient mother-in-law who thinks I'm a bug?" One that had infested the life of Caliane's beloved son. -- Nalini Singh
Some things were worth the dance with danger. -- Nalini Singh
I don't want to be your snack, your chew-toy, your fuck-buddy. Find a vampire to sink your fang into. -- Nalini Singh
You," she murmured, using both hands to undo his belt, "are the sexiest man I have ever met."
He made her think bad thoughts simply by breathing. -- Nalini Singh
I can smell arousal, Talin. You get hot every time you see me half-naked."
The erotic need that flared through her body was mortifying. Perhaps that explained the stupidity of her next words. "Maybe I get that way for every half-naked man. -- Nalini Singh
Holding Hawke's gaze in a way that not many men could, Walker said, "You will be good to her." Not a statement, but an order.
Hawke's wolf stirred. "Do you think I'd be otherwise?"
"If I did, you'd be dead. -- Nalini Singh
Llium snorted. "I look like a damned duck." His words weren't far off the mark. The feathers that had grown over the injured section were soft, white, and delicately ... fluffy. "I hope to hell these baby feathers fall off and get replaced by real ones. They will, won't they?" He sounded worried. -- Nalini Singh
Face devoid of darkness, Tanu kissed her on both cheeks. Live an extraordinary life, won't you, Ashi? Fate has promised me you'll make it. -- Nalini Singh
It was so easy to win the trust of children, but this child would never be in a position where that trust could get her killed.
Her alpha father and empath mother would never permit it.
Neither would her deadly grandmother. -- Nalini Singh
Less talk, more action, pussycat -- Nalini Singh
She tried to wash off the angel dust, with only marginal success. Her skin continued to shine but it wasn't as noticeable. And thankfully, the stuff didn't, in fact, glow in the dark. -- Nalini Singh
I think Illium can take care of himself."
"Not if he keeps flirting with you."
A fine, almost elegant tendril of heat, champagne and sunshine, decadence in the light.
"Raphael's not the sharing kind. -- Nalini Singh
People didn't always love who they should, or the ones who were good for them. -- Nalini Singh
Option 1: Attempt to back out.
Probable result: Death after painful torture.
Option 2: Do the job and hope.
Probable result: Death but probably no torture (good) -- Nalini Singh
Never before Raphael had blue meant the color of sin, of seduction. Of pain. -- Nalini Singh
Trust to a Mercant is a complicated thing. It usually requires years of acquaintance, several background checks, and a probationary period. -- Nalini Singh
Taking a sip of the hot chocolate he'd made her, she met his gaze, those eerie eyes of endless black impenetrable, unreadable.
"Max?"
"Yes?"
"Will you remember me?"
His heart broke into a thousand pieces. "Always. -- Nalini Singh
We're all a little broken." Quiet. Potent. "No one goes through life with a whole heart." His -- Nalini Singh
Elena notched a bolt into her crossbow. Let's go kill that murderous bitch. -- Nalini Singh
I have to fill the bathtub with water. -- Nalini Singh
I heard Tammy say you could be charming. I haven't seen any proof yet."
Oh, his cat like that. "I thought I was very charming when I petted you into orgasm." He shot her a look filled with sexual heat. "I plan to do more of that - right after I teach you about keeping secrets. -- Nalini Singh
Andromeda said a quick good-bye to Lailah and Cato, was startled when her mother hugged her close and whispered, Fly free, my daughter. Be what I could never be and leave the cage forever. -- Nalini Singh
He would do things for he'd do for no one else, but while he'd empty the sky for her so she could spread her wings, fly, he would not set her free. She belonged to him, would always belong to him -- Nalini Singh
She was only forty-seven according to the file his aide had put together for him, but had gone totally gray by thirty-two. That early sign of aging was a genetic family trait that hadn't been bred out, likely because it gave the possessors a regal appearance, regardless of their chronological age. -- Nalini Singh
You were cute in a tutu." Desiree scowled. "Why don't you ever forget shit?" She turned on her heel without waiting for an answer. "Should've been an elephant instead of a leopard. -- Nalini Singh
Going slow didn't come naturally to him, but Charlotte was worth it. -- Nalini Singh
Oh my God! I'm crushing an angel. Let me up! -- Nalini Singh
Why is it" - she shivered as he kissed the top of her spine, went lower - "that I always end up naked while you remain dressed?"
A husky masculine chuckle, his lips moving over her shoulder, his hands on her hips. "Because I'm a smart man. -- Nalini Singh
An intriguing mouse was Ms. Baird. Gabriel found himself interested, and he'd never before found a mouse interesting. -- Nalini Singh
Sometimes, the scars are what make us who we are. -- Nalini Singh
I didn't almost kill myself when I went 'caveman,'" he said, his kiss hard and hot and possessive, all of it spiced with molten anger. "I didn't make you watch as I did my best to cause myself mortal harm. -- Nalini Singh
There's nothing wrong with caring for the people we love; the problem only comes when it's one person giving all the time. When it goes both ways, you have love. -- Nalini Singh
Sometimes he hated that voice in his brain, the one that slapped him upside the head anytime he got too stupid. Funny, it happened a lot with Sienna. -- Nalini Singh
They weren't just his most trusted warriors - the Seven were family. -- Nalini Singh
You'd make an enemy out of me over a human?" The word "human" might as well have been "rodent. -- Nalini Singh
You trying to make me crazy?"
"Everyone needs a hobby. -- Nalini Singh
Because she was very much his lover, even if they'd never been skin to skin. The idea of being with any other woman after he met her had simply been out of the question. -- Nalini Singh
As an example of wealth, good taste, and subtle intimidation, it took first prize. -- Nalini Singh
*You helped him stay stable.*
*No, Ivy. I made sure he didn't go over the final edge, but that isn't enough.* -- Nalini Singh
But Rabbit wouldn't be soothed, as Ivy couldn't be soothed. -- Nalini Singh
Don't pull any shit because you want to show off."
"Wait a second." She looked down then back up. "Nope, I haven't grown a cock in the last few minutes. I have no need to prove whose is bigger. -- Nalini Singh
Someday," she said in a voice as serene as a high mountain lake, "I'm going to break your neck. Then I'm going to saw it off with a hacksaw so I can take my time." Venom's grin creased his cheeks.
"I knew you had it in you, kitty."
(Venom & Sorrow) -- Nalini Singh
I have so much love inside me, Jason. So much. And I have never been allowed to shower it on anyone
no one wanted it. Let me stretch the wings of my heart with you. -- Nalini Singh
No more dancing with any male but me. No more time to learn who you are before you have to hold that personality against mine. No more freedom to explore your sensuality before I own it. -- Nalini Singh
A lot of women have trouble with their mothers-in-law."
Raphael's look was priceless. "My mother is an insane archangel. -- Nalini Singh
I couldn't sleep."
"Bad dreams?"
"No dreams." It was a husky whisper. "That was the problem. -- Nalini Singh
An instant later, they were kissing. It was no light brush this time, no exploring touch. This was all tongues and teeth and wicked wetness as he kissed her like a man who had rough, sweaty, dirty sex on his mind and didn't care if she knew it. -- Nalini Singh
Ah baby, you know I do what I want." Rubbing his chin on her hair, he squeezed her hip. "Man and wolf, we both adore you. No way am I letting you go after the hell you've put me through over the years. -- Nalini Singh
That's why I need a ride, Molly," his lip ring brushing the shell of her ear. "I don't know where you live. -- Nalini Singh
You can yell at me all you want. It makes me feel like I'm useful for something. -- Nalini Singh
Sahara traced the ink with a trembling finger before she bent to press her lips to the tattoo, her touch tender, her eyes dark with emotion. "I've branded you".
"You did that a long time ago". -- Nalini Singh
No, Nathan, no." She wrapped his face in her hands. "I just need you
all of you
so much that I'm going crazy. I need your laugh. I need your company. I need you to sleep beside me and I need you to wake when I wake. I need you with everything in me. -- Nalini Singh
Oh yeah, that's the one who kept watching me as if she was waiting for me to grow fangs and try to eat her. I couldn't help it - I used my claws to scratch my nose. Her eyes almost popped out of their sockets. -- Nalini Singh
Does Vasic know you're here alone?"
"Does Sahara know she's mated to an overprotective Neanderthal?"
Kaleb's lips curved. -- Nalini Singh
The choice we make at the fork in the road can define our very existence. - Lord Deryn Mercant (Circa 1506) -- Nalini Singh
Janvier was six feet three inches of pure indulgent sex. He wasn't even trying to project that at this instant - his sexual attractiveness was innate, created by his confidence, the lithe strength of his body, the lazy smile that said he knew every sin and had invented a few new ones. -- Nalini Singh
Thought you were
'
'
Raphael said
'
'I said, no way in hell
'
'Damn straight
'
'
and Ransom was ready to come
'
'
woke up and I had wings! -- Nalini Singh
Had made her see that there was hope for many of her squadmates, hope for a life beyond the regimented existence of an Arrow. Those like Zaira could stand sentinel against the darkness so others could be free to grab at life. -- Nalini Singh
Damn, but I like making out with you Sienna. Let's do it again tomorrow. He left to the sound of a feminine snarl. It made his lips curve into a feral smile. -- Nalini Singh
I seduce you into forgiving me. -- Nalini Singh
Reason without emotion is often a mask for cruelty; emotion without reason can allow people to excuse all sorts of excesses. -- Nalini Singh
He'd kill for her, destroy for her, savage anyone who dared attempt to take her from him.
And he would never let her go ... even if she begged for her freedom. -- Nalini Singh
Sleep Red, I've got you." - Vaughn to Faith -- Nalini Singh
Don't run from me, sweetheart, he thought as he took the final steps to her. I only bite a little. -- Nalini Singh
You're the best of us." A potent statement. "The best. The strongest, the smartest, and the one with a heart stubborn enough that it resisted Silence and cared for the most damaged among us. -- Nalini Singh
I'm bigger and meaner than you." Krychek raised an eyebrow. "Bigger, yes. Meaner? Let's leave that an open question. However, -- Nalini Singh
Each hour, every hour of peace was a treasure. War boiled black and violent on the horizon, and when it came, it would engulf the world. -- Nalini Singh
You can drive."
When he raised an eyebrow, she said, "I've had enough contact with human males to realize you seem to have a congenital inability to function while a female is at the wheel, and I'd rather your full attention be on the case. -- Nalini Singh
I accepted being a damn damsel in distress for you. You can be the hunky archangel in distress for once. -- Nalini Singh
An hour of your life is worth more than a thousand people to me. -- Nalini Singh
How's Her Royal Bitchiness?"
"Alive."
"Pity. -- Nalini Singh
Fathers and mothers," she found herself saying, "leave their mark, no matter if we've known them a lifetime or only a day. -- Nalini Singh
What was that?"
"Really excellent sex."
"You were trying to sex me into submission."
"Did it work?" A lazy grin as he turned to look at her. "I was just trying to be me. -- Nalini Singh
I always knew you were tough, but you're about to try to take on the wolves, the Arrows, the Forgotten, and God knows who else, all at once. Forget brass balls. Those things are goddamn titanium! -- Nalini Singh
Finished?" "This time." He looked at Sascha. "They're calling you the Devil Incarnate." Smile wide, Sascha dusted off her hands. "My work here is done. -- Nalini Singh
Ransom thought her girly tendencies the funniest thing ever, constantly teased her over them, but the last time he'd opened his big mouth, she'd gotten her own back by pointing out that his long black hair sure did look well conditioned. -- Nalini Singh
Smart women were his catnip. -- Nalini Singh
Your father and Nikita. Man likes to live dangerously." Faith -- Nalini Singh
Illium was a stunning sight against the lightening sky, his wings sweeping through the air with a grace that made him seem a half-forgotten dream. When he landed in the courtyard, his wings flaring out for an instant, he was at once very much a man, physical and sexual, and an unattainable fantasy. -- Nalini Singh
His assurance was enough for her to hold on to the shreds of her sanity . . . because Kaleb never broke his promises. Sahara! I'll come for you! Survive! Survive for me! -- Nalini Singh
My God, Seelichka. Even though they cut into your brain, even though they rewired you, you held on to him. No wonder Mishka calls you Silver Fucking Mercant. -- Nalini Singh
Ming had no intention of losing access to Vasic's ability. Vasic, however, was loyal to the squad and to Aden. That left a single viable way for Ming to secure the teleporter's abilities. You have the Jax? -- Nalini Singh
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
The impact hit her like a physical blow. He was ... "Beautiful." Eyes of such pure undiluted blue it was as if some heavenly artist had crushed sapphires into his paints and then colored in the irises with the finest of brushes. -- Nalini Singh
I won't take advantage of you. Today, I'll be your friend."
"Fen has been my friend for decades," she said, sliding her arm into his when he offered it to her. "And he never presumed to put his mouth on mine."
"Obviously I'll be a different kind of friend. -- Nalini Singh
I will love you even when I am dust on the wind. -- Nalini Singh
You want to play? Come find me angel boy. -- Nalini Singh
Sleep, he said, and because he couldn't bear to think of her in pain: As you dream, know that you are loved. 'Course I am. I'm yours. -- Nalini Singh
Cupping his face in her hands, she looked into eyes that had seen thousands of sunrises before she was even a glimmer in the scheme of the universe. "But you have an advantage," she whispered. "You're a little bit human now. -- Nalini Singh
A court of rotting corpses to worship at the feet of the goddess of death. -- Nalini Singh
His gentleness twined another tendril around her heart, until she was so entangled in him, she knew she'd never break free. For the first time in her life, her wolf had chosen. And it had chosen this lone wolf. "You have me," she whispered. All of me. -- Nalini Singh
Shooting her as close as Aodhan ever came to a glare, he said, "Illium is a bad influence on you." "Way I hear it, he's been a bad influence on you since you were tiny tots. -- Nalini Singh
Never again, he thought, would he be alone in the dark. -- Nalini Singh
Or perhaps it was that, unbeknownst
to Elena, they were linked by a far
bleaker tie, a tie that spoke of mothers
and blood. -- Nalini Singh
The things we hold inside, the nightmares we stifle, have far more power than the things we expose to the light of day. -- Nalini Singh
His hand closed around her throat. Not a threat. Just the most possessive way a predatory changeling male had of touching a woman outside of sex. "Don't say his name." He brushed his thumb across her pulse. -- Nalini Singh
A smile that made his need to kiss her almost unbearable, his heart doing things inside his chest that he was sure weren't in the least macho. He couldn't find it in himself to care, because when Charlotte smiled that way, it destroyed him. -- Nalini Singh
I said I would kiss you. I never said where I would kiss you."
[ ... ] "A kiss between two people is, by definition, on the lips," she argued.
[ ... ] "But this isn't about two people kissing. It's me kissing you. -- Nalini Singh
So we're going to keep getting mega-hits like this?" Tomas's dark brown eyes sparkled as they landed on Sienna's down-bent head. "Not that I don't appreciate it, sugar, but it did make me 'hyper,' according to my mother. -- Nalini Singh
So you really meant what you said to me yesterday?" Her voice rose. "I should find myself a nice wolf and settle down?"
He fought off the rising incursions of dissonance, the razor blades sliding through his brain stem and traveling down his spine. "That would be rushing things. -- Nalini Singh
Be with me." Kit froze against him, a flesh and blood statue. "I can't be what you need," he whispered against the side of her head. "But be with me anyway. -- Nalini Singh
He has a heart so huge, it's kept pumping, kept going long past endurance - even though life has bruised it to a pulp. -- Nalini Singh
I'll follow you," she whispered against his lips. "No matter where you go, I'll be right beside you. -- Nalini Singh
Yeah, what the hell. We can be remedial alphas together. -- Nalini Singh
You're not a woman I'll ever want in my bed. -- Nalini Singh
He couldn't say the words, had spent too long in Silence, but he'd learned other ways to speak. Taking the paperweight she'd knocked off her desk out of his pocket, he put it in her hands. It's fixed. As long as you don't mind more than a few scars. -- Nalini Singh
Dorian?"
"Yeah?:
"I want my mummy in our web."
Dorian's heart kicked in his chest. "She will be." It was the one thing he wouldn't compromise on. And if that made him animal in his possessiveness, so be it. -- Nalini Singh
How do you control your telekinesis while intimate with your mate?"
"I broke a damn lot of furniture at the start, including two beds." A curious glance. "What are you doing?"
"Traveling around the world. -- Nalini Singh
Dev called Katya on the comm panel as soon as he was able. "How are you?"
"Fine." Her lips curved. "Connor brought me a smoothie -he said you threatened to cut his legs off at the knees if he forgot."
"Damn straight. -- Nalini Singh
I don't want the ... issues between us" - raging sexual arousal fused with the red haze of the anger that licked the air - "to bleed over into our working relationship. Let's agree to stay out of each other's way as much as possible, and be polite when it's not. -- Nalini Singh
She jumped as her cell phone rang. "It's His Carnivorousness," she muttered -- Nalini Singh
He let her nipple slide out of his mouth. She pulled him back, but he was more interested in running his gaze over the sheen of wetness on her breast, wetness he had caused. A surge of possessiveness gripped him by the throat. Yes, she was most definitely his ... -- Nalini Singh
And he held her all night long, his bear's heart tearing itself into a million pieces. -- Nalini Singh
I like everything you do to me."
"In that case"- he flipped her onto her back again, spread her thighs- "I think we should explore the concept of oral sex." Her brain hazed over. And stayed hazed. -- Nalini Singh
Ever had a woman say no to you, Dmitri?"
"Once." He turned the corner with a smile that made her want to cup his face, trace those beautiful lips with her own. "I married her. -- Nalini Singh
Drew told me to never, ever talk to him about sex. As far as he's concerned, I'll be a virgin until I'm a hundred, same as Brenna. -- Nalini Singh
You sure got a quick trigger, Sienna," he teased... -- Nalini Singh
Hawke," he said. "That's the word you need to be saying. -- Nalini Singh
It's funny how really smart people have the most unusual holes in their worldview and perception. -- Nalini Singh
Good. It's better if my DNA isn't passed on." "Why? You're smart, beautiful, powerful." "I'm also mentally unstable and may have tendencies toward criminal insanity. -- Nalini Singh
Are your eyelashes like your hair?" "Yes. They're very beautiful - want to see?" Her lips twitched. "Vanity is a sin,Bluebell." "When you have it, flaunt it, I say." -Elena and Illium -- Nalini Singh
I thought your degree was in computronics. It didn't please Judd that there was something he hadn't known about her. An emotional reaction. The sweat rolling down his spine felt like ice this time. -- Nalini Singh
You do realize she's over two thousand five hundred years old, speaks at least a hundred languages, and has such a depth of knowledge the Cadre comes to her for advice and information?"
Galen had no doubt all of that was true. "I don't intend to get into an intelligence contest with her. -- Nalini Singh
To enjoy the now. It'll be gone soon enough, and no one knows what the next hour, much less tomorrow, will bring. -- Nalini Singh
Hawke's gaze was so innocent, Andrew knew it was pure bullshit -- Nalini Singh
Did you hear how his head bounced down the steps? Thud, splat, thud, splat. -- Nalini Singh
It was too late the first day we met. You're inside me, and I 'm inside you. It's done. -- Nalini Singh
Maybe you should release me now and change back to your jaguar form."
"Why?"
"You're naked."
"They'll have brought me clothes. If not, who cares?"
"Oh. -- Nalini Singh
Jellyfish," Riaz said, after considering the other inhabitants of the sea. "Seriously, there cannnot be jellyfish changelings."
Hawke turned to look over his shoulder. "What the hell have you been smoking?"
Riaz shruged, his mood undampened. "It was green and leafy. -- Nalini Singh
We better get in the car before I back you right into your house and give in to my ungentlemanly side." Though her cheeks were red, her breath shallow, Charlotte said, "You have a gentlemanly side? -- Nalini Singh
Boyfriend?"
Her cheeks heated. "Yes."
"Funny name."
"What?" She frowned. "Ernest is a perfectly nice name."
"Oh, I thought I heard you call him Ermine. -- Nalini Singh
Heart of my heart, that's who you are, Adria Morgan. Chosen and forever." Picking her hand off his cheek, he pressed a lingering kiss to the palm before placing it over the strong, steady rhythm of that very organ. "Wolf and man, you own every part of me. -- Nalini Singh
We fall, we fall together. -- Nalini Singh
Care of my heart won't you, Sophie? It's a little odd having it outside my body - but I'm planning to steal yours to make up for it. - Handwritten note from Max to Sophia -- Nalini Singh
And perhaps, if the adults here and around the world got it right, she'd never know anything but friendship and family and hope. Not war. Not racial discord. Not anger and distrust. -- Nalini Singh
I don't know why I'm always surprised when vampires act as weird as ordinary humans. It's not like they gain the wisdom of the ages with the transformation. -- Nalini Singh
He was an alpha bear. He had balls big enough to handle rejection. -- Nalini Singh
Death comes in endless forms. Of the body. Of the soul. Of the heart. - Catriona Mercant, philosopher and warrior. (circa 1419) -- Nalini Singh
And loyalty is such a rare commodity when riches are involved. -- Nalini Singh
If the alpha tried to separate him from Brenna, he'd have a fight on his hands. A bloody one. -- Nalini Singh
Year by year, I see more and more darkness creep into their world. They're slowly going beyond cold, to a place that makes me scared for the Psy race as a whole. -- Nalini Singh
Where's the lace? -- Nalini Singh
Take her to the kitchen," came the order. "If she lies, throw her in the cauldron."
"He was jesting about the cauldron, wasn't he?
You cannot have a cauldron big enough for a person?"
Bard halted, sighed, looked at her with those wide, liquid eyes."We," he said, "have knives. -- Nalini Singh
His hands clenched. Sugar, I'm this close to tearing off your clothes and teaching you exactly how badly I take you keeping secrets from me. Your choice. Talk or get naked. -- Nalini Singh
Don't let immortality do that to you," she whispered. "Don't let it steal your soul." Moss green eyes held her own. "It is, others tell me, far easier to stay human if you split your heart in two and give one part to another to keep. -- Nalini Singh
I'm worth more," she told him, wiping the back of her hand across her mouth. "Affection, respect, tenderness, I'm worth all of that, so don't you dare come near me again until you're ready to offer it. -- Nalini Singh
I'll be gentle." Solemn words that made him want to smile. "I know you're a virgin. Psy don't have sex do they?"
"No." Intimate touch was forbidden in the PsyNet. "But I think I have the concept figured out. -- Nalini Singh
When Naasir was yet a child, Dmitri had told him he must learn as many languages as possible, so no one could keep secrets from him. This wasn't the first time that advice had held Naasir in good stead. -- Nalini Singh
Even then, Faith. Even then. If you call for me, I'll come. -- Nalini Singh
Elena: I guess a dying woman can be stupid if she wants. I'm crazy about you, Archangel. You scare the shit out of me at times, but I want to dance with you anyway. -- Nalini Singh
I love you," she whispered.
He stroked his hand down her back. "Yep, you do."
"You're supposed to say it back," she said, pretending to be offended because the silliness kept the fear/hope at bay.
"Why?" He scowled down at her. "You know you're my heartbeat. -- Nalini Singh
I can smell blood, Elena," Dmitri drawled, walking back into the room. "Are you trying to flirt? -- Nalini Singh
Max saw the stranger give him the once-over, recognised it for what it was. Women had been making him offers since before he was legal. And he'd learned to turn them down without hurting their feelings ... -- Nalini Singh
Barely four feet tall back then, at least a foot shorter than him, and yet she'd said, "I won't run anymore. I won't try to leave. I've decided to stay and protect you." "Why?" Midnight black eyes afire in a sun-browned face that was all sharp bones. "Because you don't have a monster inside you. -- Nalini Singh
Her wild storm had just told her he loved her, the piercing joy of his song branding her as indelibly his.
I'll be home soon, princess. -- Nalini Singh
In his two hundred and seventy-five years on this earth, he had walked in battle and bathed in blood, felt the hot kiss of a whip on his back, the cold thrust of a knife into his gut, but never had he been called an infant until this moment. -- Nalini Singh
You were always meant to be mine." His eyes burned, his chest so painful that it felt as if his heart had burst. "Whether it's for a year or a century, it doesn't diminish who and what we are together. -- Nalini Singh
Once, he'd used it in song, but the songs in his heart had gone silent long ago, and he knew that one day so would his voice. A man with nothing inside him eventually had nothing to say. -- Nalini Singh
But the past is not an old coat that can be discarded and forgotten. -- Nalini Singh
Heroes, I've learned, don't always wear white.
Sometimes they come from the darkness, shadows among shadows. -- Nalini Singh
Content in a way he'd rarely been before Mercy, he simply stroked her until she purred. It delighted him as it always did. "I made you purr." A lazy yawn. "I'm faking it. -- Nalini Singh
Like all power, psychic power had a flip side. Changelings could turn feral. Psy could turn murderously insane. -- Nalini Singh
Some women," Dahariel said in that same hard tone devoid of any hint of humanity, "get
under a man's skin until digging them out makes you bleed. -- Nalini Singh
If you ever find something worth singing for again", she said, a silent, fierce hope in her heart for his song, "I hope you will invite me to listen. -- Nalini Singh
You are mine, Elena. If you choose to sleep in another bed, I will simply pick you up and bring you home. -- Nalini Singh
I'm a fucking hunter, and I'm the fucking consort to the Archangel of New York. -- Nalini Singh
It seems Montgomery could not help himself when it came to this vase. I'm afraid he has a weakness for beautiful things and has been known to relocate an item if he feels it is not being accorded the proper appreciation. Once he 'relocated' an ancient sculpture from the home of another archangel. -- Nalini Singh
Tell me, she whispered.
And he, the archangel used to keeping a thousand secrets, told her. -- Nalini Singh
Leaving them alive would've been a sign of weakness, and Tatiana expects weakness from the 'emotional' races. What the bitch doesn't understand is that rage is an emotion, too. -- Nalini Singh
I might not be Silent any longer, but I still have the perfect poker face. -- Nalini Singh
Under her palm, his heart beat strong and sure. It was such a human sound, so honest, so real. -- Nalini Singh
This was war.Who the hell cared about playing fair? -- Nalini Singh
Dorian looked down at the boy and felt the trapped leopard inside him rise in a protective crouch. Then I guess he stays with us. Welcome to DarkRiver, Keenan Aleine. -- Nalini Singh
Finished playing your sex games?" she asked point-blank.
"I wasn't doing anything to your mind, Elena. Not that time."
Oh, shit. -- Nalini Singh
Holding her gaze, he closed the final distance between them and went down to his knees, that beautiful bruised face looking up at her. -- Nalini Singh
He'd been so angry at her -always pushing his buttons, that girl. But then he'd taken her into his arms, and all that anger had blazed into a darker, hotly possessive need that had urged him to bend his head, bite down on the throbbing pulse in her neck, leave a mark. -- Nalini Singh
I'm the hunter," Elena reminded him. "I should go first."
"Of course you may go first. When I am dead. -- Nalini Singh
His lips were pure temptation, soft, bitable, sensual in a way only a man's mouth could be. -- Nalini Singh
To be haunted by my heart is no threat. -- Nalini Singh
The brain was the single thing that remained sacred among the Psy. To rewire that would equal the erasure of the individual, making the PsyNet a true hive mind. -- Nalini Singh
Without you, I would be a monster. -- Nalini Singh
Tell me about him... please. -- Nalini Singh
Animals obviously ranked higher in Michaela's world view than humans. Having seen some of the things humans were capable of, Elena couldn't disagree. -- Nalini Singh
How long have you been with Raphael?" "You ask a lot of questions for a dead woman." "What can I say? I prefer to die well-informed." -Venom and Elena -- Nalini Singh
He's built to protect, to shield, and they made him a killer. -- Nalini Singh
Kaleb hadn't expected anything else - if he were on the other side, he wouldn't trust himself either. -- Nalini Singh
Honor?"
"Yes."
"I'm going to do things to you now that a good girl definitely shouldn't let a man do to her. -- Nalini Singh
I'll enter first."
"I'm the hunter", Elena reminded him. "I should go first"
"Of course you may go first. When I'm dead -- Nalini Singh
Because you are his heart, Elena. A man with his heart torn out is a broken creature. I know. -- Nalini Singh
Whatever life throws at you,know that it's the universe testing you to see how committed you are. -- Nalini Singh
You," she managed to say hoarsely," are a very bad kitty cat. -- Nalini Singh
Your love is a fierce thing, Elena, a thing with claws and teeth when it comes to protecting those you claim. -- Nalini Singh
Come on, Ms. Baird. I promised early on that I wouldn't bite." A slow smile. "Unless you make the request, of course. -- Nalini Singh
Zaira didn't know why men and women would need different cleansing supplies, but she used the female set because she liked the pale blue shade of it. -- Nalini Singh
You broke my heart when you said I didn't know about foreplay.'
Her lips twitched. 'Yes, you're terrible at sex. Terrible.' That was why she was lying here with melted bones and an inner wolf who was so dozy, she was sprawled out in complete abandon. -- Nalini Singh
Dorian's going to love this."
She glared. "I swear to God, you tell him, and I'll" - what the hell could you threaten an alpha with? - "I'll tell Hawke you want to go on daily bonding runs with him. -- Nalini Singh
A single instant of kindness, she thought again, her heart breaking. How do we save them all, Aden? One at a time. -- Nalini Singh
Leaning back into him, she let her body relax, trusting him to keep her upright. 'This is nice. Having someone to hold me when I'm tired. -- Nalini Singh
Most hunters can take care of themselves." "So can most vampires of my strength," he said with the confidence that made him so attractive. "That doesn't mean I would not be delighted if you showed a care for this Cajun's hide. -- Nalini Singh
Sascha nodded. "Want me to wait?"
"Do I want my mate to wait in a deserted forest while a dangerous Psy fugitive remains on the loose? Wait, let me think."
"Sarcasm does not suit you." She kissed him again, laughter in her eyes. -- Nalini Singh
She fucking turns me inside out."
"Women who matter have a way of doing that." Lucas scowled. "We sound like a couple of women, talking about feelings. I think Sascha's having a bad influence on me."
"You started it. -- Nalini Singh
Because he, more than anyone, knew that sometimes, love wasn't enough. Sometimes, people changed so deeply that the change broke love itself. -- Nalini Singh
She didn't give in to pity. That woman - girl, really - had survived a monster intent on destroying everything she was. She deserved a fucking medal for courage, not pity. -- Nalini Singh
You're calling Illium a pretty boy?" Elena snorted, glad to focus on something other than the heavy cloud of death that hung over the city. "Have you looked in a mirror lately?"
"I have scars, like any respectable male. -- Nalini Singh
Stop that," she ordered the gorgeous adult panther on the floor while a gorgeous baby panther tried to bite at his arm with tiny panther teeth. "I can't have you being all sexy while Naya's being all adorable. -- Nalini Singh
The sole thing that had kept him from going on and hunting her down had been an enraged defiance against a sexual pull that had begun to turn into an obsession. -- Nalini Singh
So she satisfied her urge to kick at him by leaning back, palms down on the table. It was a good thing they weren't near the food, otherwise, her hair would've been in the coffee. -- Nalini Singh
Pissed at the arrogance of angels, at the rain, at the whole fucking universe, she strode out without a backward look. Venom was at the gate. Damn man looked good wet. -- Nalini Singh
Skin chilling, she realized he had no more in him. -- Nalini Singh
You do realize this makes your wings even more unique."
"Are you saying you shot me as a cosmetic procedure? -- Nalini Singh
Riley : "Do you want to claw at me, kitty-cat? Come on."
Mercy: "Sorry, I don't beat defenseless puppies. -- Nalini Singh
Our people would rather go honorably in a fight against evil than cower under its hand." Raphael took a long, deep breath, his shoulders straightening and his head rising. "No one," he vowed, "will ever subjugate those who are our own. Never will we surrender. -- Nalini Singh
After they were both done, the pile of knives and guns on the coffee table looked like they'd cleaned out an armory. I think we have a problem, Dmitri. -- Nalini Singh
Hope is the greatest gift and the greatest evil...Hope saved us and hope might yet kill us. -- Nalini Singh
Laughter filled the line, the sound big and warm and primal. "We are family now, Bowen Knight! -- Nalini Singh
Aden had only ever had one true friend, someone he knew would fight for him and with him regardless of whether he held any power or not. The others in the squad he trusted, but Vasic occupied an entirely different place in his life, until it was as if their blood was the same. -- Nalini Singh
She was his and he was hers. They had under-the-skin privileges. -- Nalini Singh
Most of those men don't want to sleep with you," he said in blunt rebuttal. "I reserve the right to introduce my fist to the faces of the ones who do. -- Nalini Singh
Sometimes, it was better to extend the hand of friendship than to force compliance by fear. -- Nalini Singh
You almost died."
"But you brought me back."
She cupped his face in her hands. "I always knew you were there. Death didn't have a chance against the Wall. -- Nalini Singh
The man she'd glimpsed that morning, and the one who'd cared enough to put his arms around a packmate who was hurting, he was dangerous, someone who spoke to her soul beyond the primitive tug of sex. -- Nalini Singh
The Arrow Squad had to die. For some inexplicable reason, this midlevel telepath and field medic was its nucleus; cut him out and the resulting fractures would mean the rest would be far easier to eliminate. -- Nalini Singh
But the one thing she no longer had any question about was that they were an impregnable unit. The world might attempt to tear them apart, but the only way it would ever succeed would be through death. -- Nalini Singh
You have no life, Drew."
"Then you won't mind if I stick my nose into yours. -- Nalini Singh
I know when a man's hungry. And if you'd use your woman parts more often, you'd know, too! -- Nalini Singh
The arrows expect no mercy from no one -- Nalini Singh
She had known that being with Clay would be good, that it would eclipse the other times into nothingness, but this was beyond good, beyond anything. All she could think was - no wonder women liked sex. But of course, this was nothing so simple as sex. This was ... Oh, man. -- Nalini Singh
Live your life, Sahara. Live it as big and with as much color as you can stand to bear. Don't let anyone or anything - the family, Silence, the wight of your ability, even my need to keep you close - confine you again. -- Nalini Singh
Would you give me anything I asked?" in a tone laced with power.
White lines bracketed his lips. "I'll be no one's slave. -- Nalini Singh
After this is over, I want a shower in a really big bathroom."
"I'll get us the penthouse."
"What makes you think you'll be sharing it with me?"
"I live in hope. -- Nalini Singh
He hugged her again, before she could put some distance between them. Then the most sneaky wolf in the den lowered his voice and whispered, But you've got an advantage, sweetheart. You're already in his head. And you know how to mess with it. -- Nalini Singh
I've always loved the hopeful nature of the romance genre. We can go to terrible places, dark places with our hero and heroine, explore wounds painful and old, because we know that there is hope even in the darkness.
(Interview with Read-A-Romance Month, 2013) -- Nalini Singh
Death holds no allure for me, Elena." The power of him cut against his skin, a cold white fire. "Not when I have yet to sate my hunger for you. -- Nalini Singh
The idea of ever again being caught unarmed and vulnerable was her worst nightmare. -- Nalini Singh
What can I say? I prefer to die well informed. -- Nalini Singh
There is one - how would you put it - loophole."
"Loophole? More like a giant cavern if I have wings. -- Nalini Singh
There was just one problem - he didn't want any other woman. He wanted the violet-eyed soldier who had, completely justifiably, told him to fuck off. -- Nalini Singh
She wouldn't have let him," Lucas said, touching Ashaya's face with his palm. It was a gesture of acceptance, as well as an alpha's offer of protection. "Dorian's mate is a strong woman. -- Nalini Singh
Am I too early?" "No. He's waiting for you." The smile faded, to be replaced by a slightly disappointed expression. "I thought you'd be ... scarier. -- Nalini Singh
His eyes fixed on hers, the gold flecks darkening to amber. An assassin who looks after his own skin? That's exactly what I am, Brenna. I would rather die than harm you, but anyone else? I could kill them without blinking. It's what I was born to do. -- Nalini Singh
Ms. Baird, no one is good or bad at sex by themselves," he drawled. "It's a team effort, and you know I'm a team player. -- Nalini Singh
I mean, who passes out from an orgasm? -- Nalini Singh
My mother does not consider you my pet, Elena. She is very kind to pets. -- Nalini Singh
Her body didn't seem to have received the memo that she wasn't interested in sex with a T-Rex. Probably because she kept fantasizing about all kinds of things that could lead to nakedness with said T-Rex. -- Nalini Singh
Aodhan was the one who answered, voice quiet but words potent. If Raphael were to perish, the Seven divided, would we not come together should we have a chance to avenge his death? -- Nalini Singh
Go on," he said in a low tone that was a dare. "Keep on poking the hungry wolf, see how naked it gets you. -- Nalini Singh
We all know Her Creepiness isn't dead." Elena's -- Nalini Singh
I've had reports of this one being in the city, but no close-up pictures till now. He's some kind of pretty. I could just take a bite out of that firm - -- Nalini Singh
Janvier watched Ashwini stride away, her hips moving provocatively beneath the snug fit of her jeans. "Take care of her," he said quietly to his friend. "She is my eternity, Louis. -- Nalini Singh
Understood who she was, understood that a small surrender didn't equal a larger one. -- Nalini Singh
the way the dew sparkled as if a careless hand had spilled a thousand translucent gemstones on the lush green blades -- Nalini Singh
Sentinel meeting tonight," Ria told her. "At Lucas's place."
"Time?"
...
"Seven. Sascha's doing dinner."
"God save us all." Sascha had decided she liked cooking. Unfortunately, cooking didn't like her back. -- Nalini Singh
Elena wondered if Michaela was waiting to be served. Snorting inwardly at the idea, she poured her own coffee - and, because she was feeling generous, and okay, maybe because she wanted to irritate Michaela - Raphael's as well. Then she put down the carafe. -- Nalini Singh
This," Mercy said, her tone that of a wise teacher, "is celebratory drunkenness. Witnessed at times when men rejoice in their own prowess."
Riley glanced over his shoulder to grin
actually grin
at Mercy. "I gave you multiple pupcubs. I have prowess. -- Nalini Singh
If you die, Lily ... I'll steal your soul and take you to the Abyss, where I will keep you in my magical dungeon so you can never escape. -- Nalini Singh
At that moment, she saw not the man but the leopard within. And she realized the truth far too late - he wasn't human, wasn't Psy, was *changeling*. The leopard lived in every aspect of him, from his strength to his anger to his rage. -- Nalini Singh
Love is no rose. It's a goddam weed that digs its roots in deep, there's no hope of getting it out. - Nina Valance, human novelist married to a telekinetic (circa 1977) -- Nalini Singh
The M-Psy assured him the injury could be repaired, filled in, but Ming had no intention of taking her up on it. Not at least, until Sienna Lauren was dead. The girl had just proven she was too dangerous to keep alive, even on a leash. -- Nalini Singh
It's like she's encased in a shell, more so than other Psy. Everything's -- Nalini Singh
The Psy race's greatest advantage was the mind; the changelings', the body. -- Nalini Singh
Where did you learn your charm - the gulag? -- Nalini Singh
There's not much left inside me, Max Sometimes, all she heard were echoes. -- Nalini Singh
The first time I walked into the room and saw Naya asleep on Lucas's chest while he slept, too, his hand over her naked baby butt ... " Sascha sighed, rubbing a fist over her heart. "I don't think I've recovered. -- Nalini Singh
Life isn't static, and sometimes, we don't realize the value of knowledge or even of people, until farther down the track, when we're mature enough to truly understand. -- Nalini Singh
He didn't know what else to do, how to comfort her, so he simply held her, held the only person in the world who had ever cried for him -- Nalini Singh
And when it was over, he'd have destroyed the most beautiful thing he'd encountered, that he'd felt, in all eternity. -- Nalini Singh
Remember that," he groaned. "And tell everyone you know. -- Nalini Singh
This was the kind of job that made legends out of hunters. Of course, to be a legend, you generally had to be dead. -- Nalini Singh
she'd been shaped by the winds of another life. Now -- Nalini Singh
Done and done. You're mine now, Ms. Baird. And I'm yours. Always. -- Nalini Singh
Don't even try to stop me from seeing her, Krychek," he said to the cardinal, who still hadn't spilled Silver 's location. "I'm bigger and meaner than you."
Krychek raised an eyebrow. "Bigger, yes. Meaner? Let's leave that an open question. -- Nalini Singh
Love gives far more than it ever takes. And love makes us want to give. -- Nalini Singh
Venom's pupils contracted the instant before he slid his sunglasses back on.
She couldn't help it. "Why isn't your tongue forked?"
"Why can't you fly?" A smirk. "Those things on your back aren't accessories you know. -- Nalini Singh
Your behavior isn't conforming to your known psychological profile. -- Nalini Singh
That day, two dangerous men sat, had a beer, and discussed the latest football scores. -- Nalini Singh
I'm sorry. I never meant to hurt you."
"Then why were you carrying a gun? -- Nalini Singh
Evil is predictable.' A lie. Because sometimes evil was an insidious thief that crept in and stole what you most treasured, leaving only echoes against a wall.
A thin shadow, swinging almost gently. Like on a swing. -- Nalini Singh
No," he responded, reaching out to trace the shell of her ear. "They grew back even more beautiful. Blue edged with silver."
Elena laughed at the scowl in his voice. -- Nalini Singh
As Zie Zen's ashes flew on the wind, so did the time of those who had been born in freedom, caged in Silence, only to see it fall. Now . . . now it was the time of those who had been born in Silence, fought for freedom. -- Nalini Singh
All changelings knew that, sometimes, touch could heal what words never could. -- Nalini Singh
Dropping her hand, she turned in his arms. Then, rising up on tiptoe, she cupped his face in her palms and drew him down. Her kiss was innocent, vulnerable, a caress so gentle that it made him her slave between one breath and the next. -- Nalini Singh
But you, you've always been the rain, the wind, inside my mind. I taste you when I sleep, when I wake, when I breathe. -- Nalini Singh
Zach. You can only call me Mr. Quinn when you're angry. -- Nalini Singh
As long as I can throw you on the bed like a caveman and pummel you to orgasm with my love-club, I'm good. -- Nalini Singh
Bluebell, you couldn't take me if I was blindfolded and had both hands tied behind my back."
"Bluebell?" Illium narrowed his eyes. "That's it, Barbarian. -- Nalini Singh
White marble bridges with dragons sleeping on the end-posts; paved courtyards replete with trees, each strung with twinkling silk lanterns in lieu of fruit; courtiers clothed in a myriad of jewel tones. -- Nalini Singh
Truth was a tool. It should never simply be said. No, it had to be bent, twisted, colored, until it became a weapon. -- Nalini Singh
I saw wild, dangerous beauty. I saw devotion. I saw you. -- Nalini Singh
Those who say vengeance eats you up are wrong - it doesn't, not if you do it right. -- Nalini Singh
Be gentle with him, Mercy. He's got a heart as big as Texas - he'll die for you without blinking. But he doesn't expect anyone to do the same for him. -- Nalini Singh
Hey, Frenchie!" Sage poked his head out the door, the sun hitting the brown of his hair to reveal hidden strands of red. "Did you bring any baguettes?"
"Why don't you go season something, Herb? -- Nalini Singh
I've changed my mind," through harsh, whistling breaths. "I think I'll make her into my pet in your stead." "Sahara!" A rage of sound. "I'll come for you! Survive! Survive for me!" They were the last words she heard before her mind went black. -- Nalini Singh
Dearest Matthew,
We buried your father today. Do you know what his last words were to me? Damn stubborn woman. -- Nalini Singh
It was a white-collar crime."
Illium gave her an odd look. "In the human world, such crimes are lightly punished, though they harm hundreds, leading some to choose death out of despair, while the man who beats a single person is considered the worse criminal. -- Nalini Singh
Where did you come from? I wasn't looking for you. -- Nalini Singh
Can I bite you here, too? -- Nalini Singh
Pups think rules are suggestions. -- Nalini Singh
Panic threatened but was beaten into submission by her will to live. Elena P. Deveraux had never given up yet. Gritting -- Nalini Singh
You know how spooky Ashwini is. She called an hour ago to tell me she has a secret stash of handheld grenade launchers she thought I might want to know about. My response was, 'What the fuck? -- Nalini Singh
The crowd thundered and screamed as the rock star who'd been meant to be Molly's one-night stand pressed his forehead to her own and whispered, I'm yours. -- Nalini Singh
I'm not going to turn on you because you are who you are." She'd known exactly who it was she'd invited into her bed and that his sexual experience far outweighed hers. "Especially," she added, fingers curling into the sheet, "when I'm the beneficiary of all that practice. -- Nalini Singh
The logical connection was irrefutable. Her vision channels were being forced to encompass more than the narrow field of commerce, thereby becoming wider. The subject matter or palatability of the new visions was irrelevant. That they -- Nalini Singh
Noah St. John, bad buy of rock and concerned father of imaginary daughters. Hell hath frozen over and become an ice ring. -- Nalini Singh
Love has many guises, Thea. Sometimes it's a stroke of lightning as it was for your father, other times a slow building storm as it was for me, but the one thing that never changes is that it must be nurtured. You can't kick a heart and expect it not to flinch. This, -- Nalini Singh
I almost let the best thing that ever happened to me slip away because I was hung up on ideas of what I 'should' want. Sometimes there is no 'should,' there's only a single chance to grab on to happiness. -- Nalini Singh
Surely," he said, "you don't doubt Samuel Rain's genius. Are you a monkey? -- Nalini Singh
He leaned down until his lips brushed her ear. "I told you to stop flinching." And then he bit her. A slow, painless nip but there were definitely teeth involved. -- Nalini Singh
I am only a man." It was a rumbling murmur, his eyes on her mouth. "If you continue to play with me thus, I'll forget I came to apologize for my behavior, and act in a fashion that'll have you angry with me all over again. -- Nalini Singh
I don't want any more murdered women in my family, Raphael." It came out a painful rasp. "I've had enough. -- Nalini Singh
A dark god. And she knew that thought was her own. Because the very thing that repelled her about Raphael also attracted her. Power. -- Nalini Singh
They had no idea her Valyusha wasn't the real threat. Silver would annihilate anyone who dared hurt him again. -- Nalini Singh
None of these doe-eyed beauties, she reminded herself, would last an hour with him in his real skin. He was too wild, too strong, too demanding, and too aggravating. He was perfect. -- Nalini Singh
Can you two keep from tearing each other's throats out during however long it takes to find Nash?" Lucas's dry tone did nothing to hide the feline amusement in his eyes as he broke into her line of sight. "Or maybe I should be worrying about clothes instead? -- Nalini Singh
Yet instead of drowning in the darkness that had threatened to suck her under, Brenna had said "fuck you" to the monster who'd hurt her, and she'd chosen to live. She'd not only wrenched back control of her own life, she'd taken on an Arrow and claimed him as her mate. -- Nalini Singh
A faint smile that made every tiny hair on her body rise in quivering attention. "How fast can you run?" A wolf's question. -- Nalini Singh
No one will take my Elena from me. I'll destroy the world before I allow that to happen -- Nalini Singh
Furious defiance burned under his skin. -- Nalini Singh
You kiss my scars and I kiss yours. Fair? -- Nalini Singh
As beautiful and dangerous and lonely as you, -- Nalini Singh
If I were to splay you out on my desk and thrust my fingers into you right now, I think I'd find different. -- Nalini Singh
On the day that Raphael crossed the border, the seas had turned a violent impossible blue, as had every river and every lake across the world. Even the rain that fell from the sky was a glorious blue, and when it shattered, it left behind a sparkling residue, faceted diamond dust in the palm -- Nalini Singh
Because somewhere along the way, a poison had infiltrated their relationship. Quiet and stealthy, it had eaten into the fabric of emotion that bound them until that fabric was threadbare ... and her wolf had withdrawn totally from the relationship. -- Nalini Singh
We're getting married in an hour. I already spoke to Nicolai -- Nalini Singh
Your name is written on my heart, Lily -- Nalini Singh
Bitch wants to play games, let's play games. -- Nalini Singh
I've heard the women in the Refuge talk about how sensual it is when you feed from them."
Naasir shrugged. "Cooperative food is better than noncooperative food"
[ ... ]
"But the Refuge food is too cooperative," he grumbled. "How much blood do they think I can drink? -- Nalini Singh
Charlie-mouse was not about to play with a predator who could eat her alive and not even notice the bones. -- Nalini Singh
None had had a chance to experience love in this way, to walk hand in hand with a man who would lay down his life for her. A day, a week, a month, a year - no matter how long she lived as a whole person, she would do it with an open heart and an unfettered spirit. -- Nalini Singh
You're not useless. You're a hunky bite of sex and I'm not sure if Dmitri swings both ways. -- Nalini Singh
I am the alpha. You follow." His extraordinary eyes held Andromeda's. "Not for always. For this."
Andromeda was oddly pleased that he'd clarified his statement. "Until we escape," she agreed -- Nalini Singh
Thick lashes lifted, a moment of pure clarity in the dark gray as Noah wrapped his arm around her waist. "Meant to ask you to marry me, put the ring in the plant soil, but gardener made me drunk. He's so small. What happened?" -- Nalini Singh
Cradling her face with one hand, he said, "I won't ever clip your wings, baby." Regardless of how much he hated the fact that she was in danger - because to do so would be to put her back in that cage, and his mate had spent more than enough time locked in the dark. -- Nalini Singh
Judd gave the others hope," Aden said quietly. "You make them believe in that hope. -- Nalini Singh
And she knew this silent dance between them would be decided tonight, one way or the other. Either she tore down every one of her defenses and accepted his claim to the soul, or she walked away. Except she didn't think the latter was an option. -- Nalini Singh
-I'm not ready to leave your seven Sire.-Illium said from the bed.
-I'm not ready for you to leave either.- Raphael answered -- Nalini Singh
Life might hurt, might bruise, might forever scar, but it was for living. -- Nalini Singh
Why would I want to share anything with a man who yells at me twenty-three hours of every day, then kisses me? -- Nalini Singh
When she was like this, the wildness of her barely contained, it was hard to believe she'd come into his pack Silent, her emotions blockaded behind so much ice, it had infuriated his wolf. -- Nalini Singh
God you're obstinate." It was a snarl. "Must make me a masochist that I like that about you." Her wolf bared its canines, charmed but trying not to allow it to matter. "I only get worse the more you know me. Consider it a lucky escape. -- Nalini Singh
Do you scent the same things I do?"
Ransom made a face when she described what she'd picked up from the passing vamp. "Yeah, except I don't say shit like 'cinnamon spice with a hint of burnt oak.' I say 'dude smells like an electrified tree with a side of doughnut topping. -- Nalini Singh
A smile with just enough arrogance to be irresistible. -- Nalini Singh
But sometimes, that depth of need - to save, to protect - can become a blinding fervor, one that destroys the very thing it thinks to safeguard. -- Nalini Singh
Elena dared link her fingers to his for a second, felt her heart squeeze when he curled his own around hers. "We lucked out with the people who love us, didn't we, Aodhan?" His answer was a smile that lit up even the secret-shadowed hallways of Lumia. -- Nalini Singh
What she didn't realize was that he'd go with her, making a clean, sharp cut of his own. He'd lived more than two hundred years already, and the best of them, the best of them, had been the four since she'd entered his life. -- Nalini Singh
To rise, he felt his wings begin to glow. "You carry no babe." Silence, her shock morphing rapidly into fury. "An accusation of deliberate falsehood! You incite a war! -- Nalini Singh
I would fly our child wherever she needed to go. -- Nalini Singh
Excuse me. I think you must've accidentally used the wrong pronoun."
The growl that rumbled up out of his chest was loud enough to rattle the water glass on the bedside table.
"Fine, you can stand in the corner and cheer while I kill him. -- Nalini Singh
Now a small woman, with dangerous curves. I could bite into her. -- Nalini Singh
Vaughn raised an eyebrow at their guarded expressions. "What, do I smell like wolf now?" He sniffed at his arm. "Nope. I smell like my gorgeous Red." A slow smile as he mentioned his mate and walked in. -- Nalini Singh
Then there was Lijuan. The Archangel of China had a nasty habit of coming back from the dead. -- Nalini Singh
Heart was tender. She probably felt shame for a transgression others would've long forgotten. -- Nalini Singh
He understands evil better than any other person I've ever known. We disagree in how to eliminate it, but we do not disagree that it exists. -- Nalini Singh
Deciding she couldn't really be bothered searching for the illusive closures, she was sitting quietly in bed when he returned.
He halted for a second. "I'm surprised to find that you obeyed an order."
"I'm not unreasonable ... so long as the order is reasonable. -- Nalini Singh
Two broken pieces making a whole. -- Nalini Singh
To everyone who has ever dreamed of flying and to all of you who have flown with me. -- Nalini Singh
Push me and I will. I'll get punished, but you'll still be dead. -- Nalini Singh
A tear streaked down her face. I love you.
You're mine.
She laughed at the possessive tone. I've always been yours ... -- Nalini Singh
Life changes us. To wish otherwise is pointless. -- Nalini Singh
Only ignorance excuses stupidity -- Nalini Singh
The Council turned an elite squad into a mockery," Marjorie had said to Zaira more than once. "They used us as a whip on the backs of those who would oppose their rule, while allowing the true threats to roam free. -- Nalini Singh
I guess the enemy of my enemy is my friend. -- Nalini Singh
You", he said, "are the single exception that rule". The oldest, deepest, most beautiful flaw in his Silence."Without you, I would be a monster. -- Nalini Singh
Well, Kaleb's voice whispered in Nikita's mind, it seems this will make strange bedfellows out of us all. -- Nalini Singh
Sophia got up, taking one last look at the extraordinary daughter Councilor Nikita Duncan had borne. -- Nalini Singh
Thank you," she said, running her foot over his shin, "for loving me enough to let me fight my own battles. -- Nalini Singh
Why are you sad, Dorian?"
He couldn't lie to her. "The leopard wants you to see it. -- Nalini Singh
So the big, bad, and able-to-mind-control angel thinks you're his. As
in 'I don't share my woman. -- Nalini Singh
He was the monster that stalked nightmare and they both knew it -- Nalini Singh
You look so pretty, Molly. Like sunshine. -- Nalini Singh
Illium grinned, unrepentant. "Want to try again? I'll move extra slow - you are both so much older, after all." The last words were a conspiratorial whisper.
Galen glanced at Raphael. "How has he survived this long?"
"No one can catch him. -- Nalini Singh
This time, his bear stayed quiet, finally getting with the "sneaky like a cat" program. Today -- Nalini Singh
I love you. I will always love you. -- Nalini Singh
Look," she said, making the conscious decision to wrench herself back before her frustrated wolf took control and she found herself feasting on male lips currently thin with anger, "it's nothing personal. I'm generally a bitch. -- Nalini Singh
Me, I like my woman so tough grown men whimper and hide when they see her coming their way. -- Nalini Singh
If blood alone is what defines us, no child born is born in freedom. -- Nalini Singh
Anyone who gives gifts locked by blood isn't ever going to give you a bath set. -- Nalini Singh
Oh my God, I can't believe I actually said that out aloud.
Neither could he. The fact that she saw him as so sexually appealing was enough of a surprise to render him speechless. He was numb. Even the dissonance cut off - likely reading his reaction as one of complete unemotionality. -- Nalini Singh
Butterflies in her stomach. Because she understood his words from last night now, knew that he'd been on his very, very best behavior. Tonight . . . tonight she'd be tangling with the dominant, wild heart of him. -- Nalini Singh
Maybe, just maybe, two broken people could manage to create something whole. -- Nalini Singh
My mother," he said, "has invited us to a ball."
Elena pulled a blade from one of the butter-soft forearm sheaths that had been a gift from Raphael. "Excuse me while I stab myself in the eyes-and disembowel myself while I'm at it. -- Nalini Singh
The scope of it might have driven another man mad; it was to Kaleb's advantage that he'd had his brush with madness as a child and survived. Whether or not he was sane was another question. -- Nalini Singh
A vow of celibacy was easy to hold when there was no temptation. -- Nalini Singh
God hates me," she heard him mutter. "Now there are two of them. -- Nalini Singh
The E designation. We heal the mind and the heart. Sorrow, fear, pain, we help people navigate their way out of darkness. -- Nalini Singh
Love was an agony beyond compare -- Nalini Singh
Bullies never did well when they no longer had the upper hand -- Nalini Singh
We never finished our dance."
"We never will. This dance we're in, it's forever. -- Nalini Singh
You are so perfect for me" - hot words against her lips - "I'd steal you if you weren't already mine. -- Nalini Singh
Blood for life. Life for life. Changeling justice. -- Nalini Singh
When did you get so bossy, Ms. Baird?" "Self-defense against a certain T-Rex. -- Nalini Singh
In all his centuries of existence, he'd never before taken a lover he considered his on every level. He'd kill for her, destroy for her, savage anyone who dared attempt to take her from him.
And he would never let her go. -- Nalini Singh
Look after my friends, won't you, Kaleb?"
"Stop making so many."
"I love you, too. -- Nalini Singh
Attracted to one of the Silent?
His mouth set in a grim line. He'd cut off his own balls before he accepted that. -- Nalini Singh
Riley knelt down, clasping the fur at the back of her neck. "You're fucking bruised all down your back. Why the hell didn't you tell me it hurt?"
Because it didn't at the time, genius. -- Nalini Singh
Don't be so cynical. You know you believe in love."
"I believe in loving you."
"I love you back more."
"Impossible. -- Nalini Singh
I know." He leaned forward, pressed his forehead against hers. "Just . . . give me a little time. I've never had someone who was mine before. -- Nalini Singh
And he realized ... that fragile, mortal life wasn't just important to him. It was more important than his own. -- Nalini Singh
He knew what he was. He knew what he was capable of. He also knew that if he broke her, he'd despise himself for all eternity. -- Nalini Singh
The story of how these three disparate men - cardinal telekinetic, assassin, priest - had come together, -- Nalini Singh
Sara had named her daughter Zoe Elena. Damn if Elena hadn't sniffled like a baby herself when she found out. -- Nalini Singh
That works fine for me . . . Sienna Lauren Snow. -- Nalini Singh