Quotes from Rachel Caine

Suddenly the enormity of it crashed down on me . . .

Our children are growing up very well." Santi laughed softly. "And I said you'd never make a good father

But the guilt is nebulous, not actual, and I'm not on the run from the law. Just from the lawless.

round my place on the telephone pole too." "Did you take it down?" "'Course I did, what do you think I am?" She seems offended I'd even ask, but with Vee, honestly, I kind of had to. "I expect that guy who sent me the

For the first time in my life I have to depend

Aristotle might have walked here, he thought. Might have scratched out that first copy of On Sphere Making, sitting at a table right over there.

You let me believe all this time that I bound myself to you in exchange for getting published and being successful." Kathleen's mouth worked around the bitterness of the words. "You assumed that. And you know what they say, when you assume you make an ass out of…

You assumed that. And you know what they say, when you assume you make an ass out of…

People put together big movements on the internet. They help each other. Strangers help strangers. It isn't all bad.

Jess knew what he was looking at, because he'd felt it. Love, and the pain of knowing that love wouldn't be enough.

Do not fall for things that feel right, and sound wrong. Understand?

I hate that I see the world through eyes you crafted.

People are people. Hateful and peaceful. Content and miserable. Honest and deceitful. With all of that inside fighting for control every minute of the day, it's a wonder everybody's not banging their heads against the wall.

must not have known the difference, and it makes me sick when I realize all that I got wrong. I slow the Jeep as another big vehicle swings around a sharp curve ahead—the Johansens. They are car-proud people; the SUV's black finish glints perfection, and there isn't even a fine film of dust. So much

And a hateful little voice whispered deep inside that she'd set him to trick Wolfe, and she was doing the same thing now. Making him believe something that couldn't be true. Making him believe she cared. Doesn't matter, he told that part of him. If she doesn't end up with a collar on her neck, locked in a tower, it doesn't matter how much she lies to me. It's all that matters. She should be free, whatever the costs.

Because when your potential competition was some ancient, occasionally suave dude who dressed in velvet and still looked twenty-something, nothing could make you feel a lot better.

Run, damn you!

He leaned down and stared into the lion's savage eyes and said, Come on, then, if you're coming. Take a bite. But if you do, everybody will know it wasn't an accident.

Are you going to the dining hall? Glain smiled very briefly. It was a rare enough event, and it made her almost human. Almost pretty. Are you asking to escort me, like some girl you're romancing? Jess. Don't waste your time. I'm extremely unavailable.... Remind me never to be polite to you again, he said, and she laughed this time, came around, and draped a comrade's arm around his shoulders. Of course I will.

bodies are stupid; they just want to be loved.

You never understand how vulnerable you are in this age of social media until something breaks against you, and then . . . then it's too late. You can shut down Facebook, Twitter, Instagram; you can change your phone number and your e-mail. Move to new places. But for dedicated tormentors, that isn't a barrier.

I'm old, girl. Gonna die of something. Might as well be chocolate.

I feel a wave of pure horror, like cold honey over my skin.

I'm laughing at the thought that you only bring monsters into your bed. You deserve that.