Quotes from Nalini Singh

I always knew you were tough, but you're about to try to take on the wolves, the Arrows, the Forgotten, and God knows who else, all at once. Forget brass balls. Those things are goddamn titanium!

Wetting her throat, she managed to say, "Did you bring protection?" Sailor froze. A second later, he groaned and dropped his head. "I hate myself right now," he said. "My cock hates me even more.

I don't have empathy, Sahara. I can't feel for those who are going to die. It would be akin to asking a falcon to take flight when his wings had long been hacked off.

Paperwork is a creation of the modern world. Do you think they had paperwork four hundred years ago - no, all they had was love & witnesses.

wanting her mind off the one subject that held the potential to destroy the bond between them. If she ran, he hoped she would do as he'd asked and make sure she didn't leave him alive. Because without Sahara, the world would learn what a child became when his trainer wove nightmares into his mind—of knives slicing into flesh, of women begging for their lives—then put the blade into his hand.

I didn't almost kill myself when I went 'caveman,'" he said, his kiss hard and hot and possessive, all of it spiced with molten anger. "I didn't make you watch as I did my best to cause myself mortal harm.

Sahara traced the ink with a trembling finger before she bent to press her lips to the tattoo, her touch tender, her eyes dark with emotion. "I've branded you". "You did that a long time ago".

Life changes us. To wish otherwise is pointless.—Nimra, Angel of New Orleans

I will always be your father . . . and I wish to God I wasn't.

But the past is not an old coat that can be discarded and forgotten.

Hands off." Sailor pointed a finger at his troublemaking brother. "I may not be able to take you down in a fair fight, but I can spike your beer with laxatives.

Sarah loved Abe with a devotion that terrified her. She knew he didn't love her back.

Fly free, my daughter. Be what I could never be and leave the cage forever.

Life isn't static, and sometimes, we don't realize the value of knowledge or even of people, until farther down the track, when we're mature enough to truly understand.

Life had been hard on him, but he was still moving, and he was still working, and he was still fighting for those who couldn't fight for themselves.

Perhaps the storm will do the world a favor and burn Lijuan from existence.

When she came in a week later wearing an elegant black jersey dress that caressed her body, he'd said only, "Nice dress, Ms. Baird," and left it at that. Even though that dress made him want to stroke her all over, then push her up against a wall and do things that would make her realize once and for all that he was completely uncivilized under the suits.

The logical connection was irrefutable. Her vision channels were being forced to encompass more than the narrow field of commerce, thereby becoming wider. The subject matter or palatability of the new visions was irrelevant. That they

You were cute in a tutu." Desiree scowled. "Why don't you ever forget shit?" She turned on her heel without waiting for an answer. "Should've been an elephant instead of a leopard.

The Psy race's greatest advantage was the mind; the changelings', the body.

I was not…formed correctly. Part of me is damaged and may one day shatter. When it does, I ask that you execute me cleanly rather than allow me to erode from the inside out

I've always loved the hopeful nature of the romance genre. We can go to terrible places, dark places with our hero and heroine, explore wounds painful and old, because we know that there is hope even in the darkness. (Interview with Read-A-Romance Month, 2013)

The way it had been displayed, the way it had been discarded, that was a thing too many men had done to too many women across time.

A smile with just enough arrogance to be irresistible.