Sky and sea, keep harm from me. Earth and fire, bring my desire.
I like strong female characters. I try to write them as role models for young girls.
She had never been so close to anybody. It was as if they were one being, together, not predator and prey, but partners in a dance.
You only want everything you don’t have.
There’s nothing frightening in the dark if you just face it.
The Night World isn’t a place. It’s all around us. The creatures of Night World are beautiful and deadly and irresitable to humans. Your best friend could be one-so could your crush.
Right now everything looks so strange to me, as if I don’t belong here. It’s me that’s out of place. And the worst thing is that I feel there’s somewhere I do belong, but I just can’t find it.
The Blood She Betrayed is unique, and Shahkara, the character, is one of the most engaging strong female role models I’ve seen in a long time. This girl can handle herself! The plot is full of ingenious twists, turns and surprises, and I look forward to reading the next book in the series.
Each scar’s a cipher rimmed with old barbs and landmines, protecting its truth.
I love you,” she said. “You made me fall in love with you. I don’t care how tall you are or what color your hair is-I care about you. You make me laugh. You’re smart. You’re gentle. And you’re real, you’re a real person, not some jock with a facade that’s going to fall apart when I get to know him. I know you already, and I love you, you idiot. I don’t care what you do with toilet paper.
Well, the name is Salvatore. As in Savior – Damon Salvatore.
I don’t trust easily, so when I tell you I trust you, don’t make me regret it.
I’ve been in love. It’s painful, pointless and overrated. – Damon Salvatore.
All her violence had drained away, replaced by a fear older and deeper than anything she’d ever experienced. An old, old recognition. Something inside her knew him from a time when girls took skin bags to the river to get water, a time when panthers walked in the darkness outside mud huts. From a time before electric lights, before candles, when darkness was fended off with stone lamps. When darkness was the greatest danger of all.
When people see good, they expect good. I don’t want to have to live up to anyone’s expectations.
I would have understood if they had killed him.
Perhaps she’ll find that real darkness is more to her taste than feeble twilight.
He was the smell of winter rain and the sound of his predator’s heartbeat.
Honesty is occasionally the best policy,” she said yawning. And then she added, “By the Black Staff of Beldar, I am tired. If I can find a usable bed in what’s left of my house I intend to collapse on it. And Elwyn, if you disturb me before dawn, I promise, I will turn you into a train of thought, and lose you.
There would never be a place where he could belong completely, where he could truly be himself. Unless he chose to belong to the shadows.