Cheeses crusty, got all musty, got damp on the stone of a peach.
Someday, I’m going to meet some supernatural creature who tells me everything I should know up front and in a forthright manner – but I’m not going to hold my breath.
It is the way of mortals. They fling themselves at life and emerge broken.
There isn’t a person in this city more dangerous than a wolf whose mate is in danger.
If she kept wondering about how much of her life Bran engineered, she’d end up on a funny farm knitting caps for ducks.
It was complicated. I understood it, mostly, but I had to think a little sideways to do it.
Trouble seems to follow me around, waiting to club me with a tire iron.
When a man is on the verge of passing out from pain, it seemed wrong to notice how beautiful he was.
The Elders were closer to the Maker of All Things and should be deferred to whenever they made their will known.
Over the years, she’d learned not to question him to closely – mostly because he wouldn’t answer her.
This was not a man who wanted to give up his mate. This was a man trying to do the honorable thing – and give her a choice, no matter hiw much it cost him.
I was too busy fighting the river to worry about adjusting my beliefs in accordance to reality.
It was unsettling to be in love with someone who looked like the face in her nightmares.
Taking out werewolves, I gather and surmise, is akin to taking out a SEAL team.
I like to have a hero a little underpowered. I mean, Spiderman is far cooler than Superman. How do you challenge Superman?
Vampire politics make the very complicated dance of manners that is werewolf protocol look like the Hokey Pokey.
I thought you were dead. Stupid. As if I’d die without taking you with me.
Don’t fuss. I love you just as you are, Mercy. I don’t need to swallow you whole, I don’t need to be in your head at all times. I just need to know that you’re there.
There are big bad wolves all over the world who tremble at the sound of his name, yet a little puny coyote girl peanut-buttered the seat of Bran Cornick’s car because he told her that she should wear a dress to perform for the pack.
I was going to have to come up with a rank for myself besides Alpha’s mate. In the pack, I was just Mercy- but if ten more people called me the Alpha’s mate, I was going to hit someone. It sounded like a chess move.