The Veil Series Quotes

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

Pippa DaCosta

#2. I curled my lip at the sight of sizzling human hair and skin clinging to my demon flesh. Damn, I'd have given anything to be back in Boston, sipping chai tea latte." ~ Muse, Ties That Bind, #5 The Veil Series.

Pippa DaCosta

#3. I've hated you for the longest time, but I've loved you for longer." ~ Stefan #5 The Veil Series, Ties That Bind,

Pippa DaCosta

#4. Only a few hairline fractures around his eyes and lips spoke of the torment he'd been through. I wanted to smooth those lines away, and wished it was that easy to erase the scars of our past." ~ Muse, Drowning In The Dark #4 The Veil Series.

Pippa DaCosta

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

Pippa DaCosta

#6. 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

#7. She's gone from Disney Channel Miley Cyrus to Full-on Twerk Mode Miley, and it's officially time for me to put a stop to it before she moves straight to Let's Make a Sex Tape Miley. Wait - has Miley ever made a sex tape? Fuck, who am I kidding? Of course she has.

Anonymous

#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. No hardy perennial has the enduring quality of hope. Cut it to the roots, stamp it underfoot, let frost and fire work their will, and still some valiant shoot will push, to grow again on such scanty fare as it can find. Only time and the cruel quicklime of fact can destroy that stubborn urgency.

Rachel Field

#10. Sometimes, when you sleep with the enemy, waking up is the hardest part." ~ Muse

Pippa DaCosta

#11. God is well able to turn your tragedies into triumphs.

Jim George

#12. The lust for chaos wrenched reason from my mind. She wanted the power I'd called before. She wanted to burn it all; to slice open the veil and summon the fires of hell to dance for her. She burned for it, and so did I." ~ Muse

Pippa DaCosta

#13. Sence and Sensibility, for instance, came out in three separate volumes, as did Pride and Prejudice (so the next time you read one of the ubiquitous time-travel Austen adaptations and somebody picks up a single-volume first edition, you can hit your nerd buzzer and say "wrong!").

Amy Smith

#14. When demons call you the Mother of Destruction, sh*t gets real. Muse.

Pippa DaCosta

#15. I traced lazy shapes along her hip and waist. The figure eight made her shiver and wiggle closer, so it was my favorite.

Jennifer L. Armentrout

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

Pippa DaCosta

#17. What you see and hear is a situation in which languages are less like apples - neat and discrete - and more like oatmeal. It's always been oatmeal in India, and all the varieties of oatmeal continue to merge, despite political pressures to name them as if they were marbles.

Michael Erard

#18. A part of me sought the light in all the people I knew, but with the Shadows, it was like bringing them back from a subterfuge comma. Literally tearing the veil of blackness down and showing them the luminescence of light.

Laura Kreitzer

#19. I have not lived for millennia to be bested by a half-blood whore and her puppet prince." ~ Valenti

Pippa DaCosta

#20. Did we come all the way here for a book, Baba?"
"Just one, my child. Just one."
"It must be a special book."
"All books are special, dear.

Renee Ahdieh

#21. We respect revolutionaries, not because they always do the right things but because of their power to destroy and courage to rebuild.

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#22. If you hurt Muse, I will hunt you down, use every rusted weapon I own, cut off your precious parts and feed them to the hellhounds. Ryder

Pippa DaCosta

#23. 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

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

Pippa DaCosta

#25. I was trying so hard to be what everyone wanted me to be, and yet every time I looked around, I was failing.

Kay Cassidy

#26. She pressed the veil against her cheeks, letting it drink up her tears.

Maggie L. Wood

#27. 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

#28. 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

#29. Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.

Albert Einstein

#30. Fighting demons is what I do; real, and those in my head.

Pippa DaCosta

#31. Intelligence is not found when you have a plan, rather it's measured when you have no clue what you're doing.

Charlie 'Gale'