Kellison Quotes

#1. He was huge, no missing that, but she was determined to have him regardless.

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#2. Her was interested in the shadow herself - how her mind worked, what motivated her, her essence, how she came to be. It was a fascinating phenomenon.

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#3. You see?" Thane waved at the photo. "Everything about her is nonsensical. A dragon who lies with a wolf? I suppose pigs fly and the moon is blue, too.

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#4. Fucking unicorns wouldn't be hard to chase, as they'd probably stay in roughly the same spot while they, you know, fuck.

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#5. True fear has nothing to do with what might happen to you, however painful or vile that might be. True fear is all about what might happen to someone you love.

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#6. Mother would tell me not to start my new life in a puddle of blood.

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#7. Never had she come so hard that she'd been left a noodle. Al dente, she thought.

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#8. I'm mortal. I could die any day." Brandon had almost killed her. Her parents had died young. Her grandfather would have died yesterday. "I'm Warrick Voclain. And you will stay by my side until the stars fall from the sky.

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#9. Tonight was about fathers. Vince was going to kill hers for murdering his.

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#10. The page contained a single, unfamiliar symbol. It looked like a backward S with the diagonals of an open triangle cutting through it. A straight line bisected both shapes. Could be creepy. Could be nothing.

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#11. Hakan ducked his head inside. "You decent?"
Pilar couldn't contain her smile. "Give me a second and I won't be.

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#12. Maisie was willing to bet there'd be a third living room within. Because what else would they do with all this space but buy sofas to fill it?

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#13. Humankind has always had access to Shadow
dreams, nightmares, legends, inspiration, Humanity taps into Shadow every day. And when we die, we pass into Twilight.

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#14. The texture of her skin was phantom silk, not human., not blood-warm, but dizzyingly hot anyway.

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#15. People would have to learn to deal with old monsters again. Stay in their houses. Shutter their windows.

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#16. Vampires aren't noble?"
"No. We serve or we prey."
"Like monks?"
He frowned, confused, and then gave a soft chuckle. "Prey, as in hunt. No God would hear our prayers.

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#17. Maybe the Indirect Surveillance thing cost him brain cells. Good thing he was so pretty.

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#18. He was just Thane. Timeless. Ageless. Magic. The world turned around him.

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#19. Why do you even have jewelry?" she asked. "You don't wear any."
"It seems I acquired it for you.

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#20. The Sandman is rising.
It'd been the only thing Coll had said before delirium had taken him again.
The Sandman. Rising.

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#21. The sooner it's over, the sooner we can go back to bed. Everything good happens in bed.

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#22. The dragon in him didn't want to give her a choice. Just wrap around her and smolder smugly, daring anyone who came near to cross him. Mine.

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#23. Now the whole fucking world is different."
"It's about to get worse," Steve said.
"Then I'll call for food," Vincent said. "Mirren, this might be our last meal. Any preferences?

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#24. Maisie stepped out and moved as if there were gravity. "Are you coming or what?"
Rook nodded and hefted Steve with him. "You should consider counseling."
"For what?"
"Your God complex.

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#25. The shadow acts on instinct, not reason.

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#26. Apparently, she was going to visit an evil witch with a scary poet vampire.

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#27. Mica didn't just glitter; she burned, and he was on fire.

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#28. He gaped at her. "You want me to wear it?"
"Yes. That's what a chain of diamond is for ... Wear it. Wear it all the time, even when you sleep. I need you to wear it. I got it for you."
"You've had it for twenty years." At least.
"I was trying it on.

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#29. Sleep," he commanded.
"You need to rest after being jumped."
"You could jump me.

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#30. Whatever was going on with Rook and Coll officially didn't matter anymore. They'd just have to rot in prison by themselves. He'd join them next time.

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#31. If she couldn't be with Harlen in Washington, DC, this was the place to be.
Sera's mobile screen lit, and she glanced down to find a text from him: I have to pee.

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#32. There are worse things than death.

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#33. The man was married to a half-fae, half-human woman, a banshee, who'd' just delivered twins. It was a wonder his hair wasn't completely prematurely white.

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#34. I could use some seducing," he said. "I've had a bad couple of days."
A flash of irritation. "You drugged me and threw me on a bird for Sol."
"Good point." Hakan drew her closer. "I'll do the seducing.

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#35. Do you hear yourself? You're a hundred and forty. A member of the Bloodkin Triad. Not a ... a ... boy. His mother was having trouble forming words. She was stuck between human and dragon. She wanted fire, but if she shifted, she'd lose her ability to argue with him. How terrible for her.

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#36. She gave herself up to the waves of the storm. If they drowned, it would be together, a shattered vessel on the sea, a collision of longing and desire.

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#37. Rook cocked his head. "Harlen would want me to give you more time."
"I could punch you again, even while being proxied," she offered. "Would that satisfy you?"
"And into the Scrape we go," he said.

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#38. The Tempus, a young woman, fair with light brown hair, bowed her head to him. So she knew to acknowledge a dragon lord, though that wasn't the role he played in his life these days. A respectful spy. How quaint.

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#39. The Segue Institute was the preeminent research organization for all things paranormal and it was housed in a haunted, renovated turn of-the-century hotel. The place was supposedly loaded with what the scientists there called Shadow, capital S, a scary word for magic. Dark magic.

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#40. Thane Ealdian prowls the earth once more. Shutter your houses. Bar your doors. Offer him gold and women to satisfy his cravings. A black dragon is like the very devil himself.

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#41. A smile twitched at Pilar's lips. See? Her husband was getting to know her. Nothing like a little life-and-death situation to accelerate the process.

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#42. So either I help you or I'm on my own?" With no way to get to Lambert. No way to stop the rage inside. No way to feel remotely normal again.
"That's the choice," she said.

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#43. The Agora had fallen, too.
Vince turned the radio off, dismissing what they'd just heard, and merged onto I-87. A little shriek of madness sounded in the back of his brain, but he said, with admirable calm considering, Seriously, love, I think we've got this.

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#44. There is absolutely nothing that can harm the shadow. Nothing. I advise you strongly not try.

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#45. He was a match; she was flint. And between them both ... fire.

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#46. Banshee. Beauty. And, well, badass. He always knew she had it in her.

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#47. Everyone knew the Hans Christian Andersen fairytale about the Sandman and how he brought sweet dreams to sleepers. An early, now-defunct Reve company had even used him as their mascot. But that's all the Sandman had been - a mascot. A little grinning elf holding an hourglass.

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#48. It'll all be over soon, and you can go back to ruling the world." She slid off her stool ...
He watched her go. Felt unaccountably lonely.
"When did I stop ruling the world?" he called after her.

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#49. There is no reason for beauty. It just is.

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#50. Voclain needs an heir." "As she lacks the anatomical structures to lay an egg, my human issue will have to inherit." "Voclain is a Bloodkin legacy, one of the oldest - " "Then, mother, I suggest you get cracking and give me a brother. He can have Voclain. I'm going to be happy.

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#51. OMG I just saw Warrick Voclain on 5th Ave! #DragonSighting #DragonInMyPants #Dragons #RuinedForAllOtherMen.

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#52. King shrugged and looked back at Harlen. Please tell me you have a plan. Because my baby girl really likes to color with me.

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#53. I thought you would never arrive." "Traffic." Warrick smiled at Samantha. She felt herself blush. She loved traffic. She hoped there was more on the way back to his penthouse.

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#54. Has anyone else here seen or fought a nightmare?"
Marshal Spence Neumann lifted his head. "Seen one. Swear to God it looked like my ex-wife for a second."
A chuckle rumbled within the group. Someone mumbled, "She was a nightmare.

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#55. dragon took what it wanted. Took and kept.

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#56. He was now in the business of hoarding pleasure.

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#57. This was the stuff of novels with
yeah
men like him on the cover.

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#58. You can't bluff your way past everyone."
"You mean about filleting that guy?" Sera returned.
"Who said I was bluffing?

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#59. He knew he was an interloper in her world, and that world would seek to eject him.

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#60. She pushed Adam firmly back, once and for all, and turned to face the demon, the crescent moon of the scythe's blade circling over her head as a vane signals a change in the weather.
The wind was finally blowing her way.

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#61. Wife," he murmured.
"Damn. The bastard fought dirty. Wife was her favorite word.

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#62. Is she okay?" Harlen's throat was clogged with stones of fear. "She has to be okay.

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#63. I want to know
or understand something. I've been sick my whole life. What is the point of being alive if I never get to live?

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#64. You're not alone."
Ellie snorted through her tears. "I'm never alone.

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#65. If anyone comes, shoot first, ask questions later.

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#66. He kissed it better," she told them.

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#67. There was very little man left within his eyes - she knew a beast when she saw one, knew short, simple words worked best, most often to tame or quiet an impending attack. But in this case
"More," she breathed.

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#68. There is no reason for any of this if we don't survive."
Vince reached out and ran a hand through her long hair. "Ah, love. That's where you're wrong. As long as we do what we're meant to do, it doesn't really matter if we survive or not.

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#69. Please," her shadow begged.
Laughingstock for sure.
"I can't give you what you want," Cam said. "You know that." She had to know that.

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#70. Nothing can age a dragon, but you just might be the exception.

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#71. Heat roared within him. Greedy heat. He wanted her ...
She was in over her head, and it seemed ... so was he.

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#72. Angel," Adam said.
"I think not," Philip answered. He huddled at the wall, crossing himself. "Banshee, the herald of Death.

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#73. Shadow is on the move," a soldier said suddenly ...
"We spotted her in the West atrium, then she vanished into the unfinished apartments. Scared the shit out of Dr. Marea on four, then ended up in the kitchen ogling a cheesecake.

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#74. How very ... underhanded of him to hide these chiseled abs and dizzying obliques with suits. Steve-o had been holding out on her.

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#75. He'd pushed and pushed and pushed until she had nowhere else to go but away from him. He'd been young back then himself. Inexperienced. Stupid. A little patience accomplished a lot more. Hard lesson to learn. Worst way to learn it.

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#76. She'd expect an attack from rebels, rival business concerns, alien intelligence ... but family?

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#77. He's a nightmare," she said.
"I can be, too." Rook answered, his red eyes glowing. "Just try me.

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#78. You mean I shot her for no good reason?

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#79. I'm glad you turned cartwheels here."
Samantha heard the note of loneliness in his voice. "You did hear me say back tuck? Because that was my coolest move."
His arm came around her shoulders, and they started across the space again. "Back tuck. Coolest move. Got it.

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#80. Fire is fire," Matthew said. "It burns.

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#81. We may be sexually incompatible." "How's that?" He didn't seem worried. "You're supposed to take those buttons off with your teeth. I should be naked by now.

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#82. You okay?" Cam said into his headset microphone.
She nodded, then made a face. "No one else has to work this hard to get married.

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#83. I want to wake up! a young woman shouted to the classroom ceiling. With her wide-set eyes and freckles, she looked like a nice person. Then a knobby-boned creature advanced on her. But she couldn't wake. And she likely wouldn't ever again.

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#84. Send the mediator to me when he comes."
"What are you going to do?"
Matthew knew him so well. Thane would handle this the old way. "I'm going to eat him.

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#85. Even dead he won't let me go!"
"Third time's the charm.

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#86. They moved as a unit, a first for her. The madman and the nightmare.

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#87. We have some decisions to make. You'd just be going back and forth to his room to report when you might as well take all his objections at once and be done with it. The decisions aren't going to change.

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#88. Are you sure you feel up to this?" Warrick asked her. "It's only been a day since your attack." "Yes." Thanks to dragon blood saving her again. Warrick, the hypocrite. And she was just the person to tell him so.

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#89. He took a deep breath. "I'm a dragon, Samantha."
"Oh, my God."
His lips twitched. "Even when I look like a man."
"A dragon," she repeated.
"Yes.

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#90. Cam himself, was faetouched. And the love of Cam's life, Ellie? She was all human, just in two parts - body and shadow.

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#91. One night. May the best witch win.

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#92. Two human families have died out on me in the past century alone."
Warrick inclined his head. "It might help if you didn't eat members of your staff when you're displeased.

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#93. She'd survived Brandon. Just to die all over again. "Well, hell."
He smiled wanly at her. "Indeed.

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#94. He'd captured her a couple of days ago. It was fitting that she capture him right back.

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#95. Matthew makes an excellent cheesecake." He didn't, but he would learn. Immediately. Her gaze finally met his and held. "So he's okay?" "Yes. He's fine. Up and walking about, doing Matthew things." Like cleaning up another dead body.

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#96. Laughter gurgled up from inside her. She'd just mugged a mugger. Look out, world.

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#97. The wind stilled a bit and he blinked the sand out of his eyes. Before him stood nothing less than the god of the Scrape. It had to be a god. He was huge, muscled, hung like an elephant, and sandy gold, just like his domain.

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#98. She glanced again toward Vincent. "And who is he again?"
Vincent grinned. "I'm Vincent Blackman of the SpiderSly Company. Mirren and I are going to sleep together; we just have to get through this bullshit of her father's first.

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