Quotes About Akil

#1. But if you cross me again Akil, so-help-me, I'll find a way to kill you this time."
His eyes lit up at the prospect, as though he'd accepted a challenge I didn't even know I'd laid down. "I'd expect nothing less."
Demons; only they can get a cheap thrill from a death threat.

Pippa DaCosta

#2. We are not so different, and yet we are worlds apart. Ahkeel/Akil, The Veil Series prequel.

Pippa DaCosta

#3. Hell, even Akil had sent demon-nasties after me in the past, although he appeared to have resolved his homicidal tendencies since I'd literally sucked the life out of him.

Pippa DaCosta

#4. I'm just a wretched half-blood girl caught in a storm."
Akil tasted his wine and smiled. "Muse, you are the storm.

Pippa DaCosta

#5. I'd never really done Christmas. The years I'd spent with Akil didn't count. The only religion he got behind was the worship of his own ego.

Pippa DaCosta

#6. Oh, you're good."
Akil narrowed his eyes. "You must have me confused with another sociopathic demon.

Pippa DaCosta

#7. Akil's sexy-as-sin picture could be plastered all over the tabloids. He wouldn't like that. His halo would slip in the eyes of the Boston public. Never mind that his tarnished halo hung on devil horns.

Pippa DaCosta

#8. You're impossible. You're a murdering son-of-a-bitch. You get off on pain and control and fucking up peoples' lives. You lie through your teeth. You wouldn't know the truth if it crawled up your ass and bit you on the balls." ~ Muse to Akil

Pippa DaCosta

#9. I'm beginning to appreciate getting answers out of Akil is like pushing water up hill. The second you think you have him, he slips around behind you, and the answers become questions all over again.

Pippa DaCosta

#10. I had a long list of things that were best not to dwell on. Losing control, failing Dawn, eyeing up Mammon for violent and bloody demon sex, breaking Akil's nose, and how I wanted to rip Adam's spine from his flesh and beat him with it.

Pippa DaCosta

#11. Speaking Akil's name around Stefan felt like throwing gasoline on a bushfire." ~ Muse

Pippa DaCosta

#12. So fuck off, netherworld. The demons can't have me. Akil can't have me. Nobody gets to tie me up and chain me down. Not anymore.

Pippa DaCosta

#13. Akil, humans have these wonderful little things we like to cling onto, called souls. The jury's still out as to whether demons have them, I sincerely doubt you do." ~ Muse.

Pippa DaCosta

#14. We still have a lot of work to do in American culture. More open-mindedness is happening - in some cases rapidly, in some, slowly.

Mara Brock Akil

#15. I think pregnancy, like life, is what you make it. I received a good hand. I'm thankful and blessed and so peaceful and can't wait to welcome my son.

Mara Brock Akil

#16. Being black, Latino, or Asian is not a genre. Romantic comedies, thrillers, action - those are genres. I think there's a lot of people who want to have the conversation. I don't think people are afraid of it, I just think it's the time to have that conversation. Race is not a genre.

Mara Brock Akil

#17. You were a crushed and broken thing, like a butterfly crumpled in the hand of a child.

Pippa DaCosta

#18. I'm trying to talk about challenging subjects people might not like and trying to find relief as we discuss it.

Mara Brock Akil

#19. Muse is not to be so easily dismissed. She is quite capable of turning your insides to ash before you can draw breath to apologize.

Pippa DaCosta

#20. Being human was a lot more difficult than it looked. Demon was easy. Demon was simple. Human was ... terrifying. Muse

Pippa DaCosta

#21. If I ever have to get that close to the Prince of Greed again, it'll be too fuckin' soon. And I ain't ever doin' that Star-Trek teleportation crap again, yah hear? I feel dirty .

Pippa DaCosta

#22. I'm not afraid of stereotypes. There are some truths to it - but the problem is that people keep sort of owning that one thing to be the truth.

Mara Brock Akil

#23. A staple of my personality is that I want what I want - and I'm willing to do without until I get it.

Mara Brock Akil

#24. I need to feel you as a man does a woman. You have no idea what it costs me to say these things to you. You cannot fathom what it means. I need you. I lay the truth before you. Would you turn me away? Right here and now, Muse, I am but a man.

Pippa DaCosta

#25. Get off that damn chair and pull yourself together. You're supposed to be an ageless creature of chaos and all I'm getting right now is sulking city boy.

Pippa DaCosta

#26. Thank you for seeing me on the days when I couldn't see myself.

Mara Brock Akil

#27. If you want something, work hard for it, go after it. I can't worry about all the 'no's, because I believe there's a yes, and I've been very fortunate to find those in my career and made the most of those opportunities.

Mara Brock Akil

#28. I often attribute my screenwriting to journalism because they drill in the who, what, when, where and why - but we really need to land on that why. That's what I've been exploring in my writing for many years and trying to get better at.

Mara Brock Akil

#29. I love writing about black women, but if you go beyond that, we're human beings - and because we're human beings, it's universal for everybody.

Mara Brock Akil

#30. History repeats.

Pippa DaCosta

#31. Any form of media is an opportunity to be a mirror and reflection of what we are experiencing more in the details of our life. What makes it fun and unique in a lot of ways is how that journey is changing just by the mere fact of the current time.

Mara Brock Akil

#32. You think this is funny?" I snorted. "You would. Your sense of humor is so dark, even the lesser demons don't get you.

Pippa DaCosta