Quotes from Nalini Singh

I'm the hunter," Elena reminded him. "I should go first." "Of course you may go first. When I am dead.

No one has ever been able to pinpoint the trigger." "But?" "But it is legend that ambrosia only rises when-" She held her breath. "- an archangel loves true.

Be gentle with him, Mercy. He's got a heart as big as Texas— he'll die for you without blinking. But he doesn't expect anyone to do the same for him.

There was a very slight chance she might actually kill him that way, and if she did, she'd be brought up on charges. Unless, of course, she could prove harmful intent. She could see it now. See, Your Honor, he was going to f*ck me silly, make me like it.

I don't want to lose my memories. Don't make me forget. I would rather die as Elena, than live as a shadow.

You trying to make me crazy?" "Everyone needs a hobby.

A lot of women have trouble with their mothers-in-law." Raphael's look was priceless. "My mother is an insane archangel.

Elena: "I guess a dying woman can be stupid if she wants. I'm crazy about you, Archangel. You scare the shit out of me at times, but I want to dance with you anyway.

Are your eyelashes like your hair?" "Yes. They're very beautiful—want to see?" Her lips twitched. "Vanity is a sin,Bluebell." "When you have it, flaunt it, I say." -Elena and Illium

Ransom really looked at the other man for the first time, shook his head, stared again. "Holy hell, your eyes are like a fucking viper's." Venom raised an eyebrow. "You have hair prettier than one of Astaad's concubines." Ransom gave the vampire the finger. Venom grinned.

Only ignorance excuses stupidity

Some things were worth the dance with danger.

You should sit," Lucas said, and he wasn't talking to Mercy. Sascha stared at him. "I didn't realize pregnancy of four weeks' duration made me incapable of standing upright." "It makes me incapable of reason.

We fit, you and I," he whispered looking into that haunting gaze. "Two broken pieces making a whole.

He closed his eyes, dropping his forehead against hers. "You'll be the death of me, Elena." She smiled. "You need a little excitement in that boring old life of yours.

Love, he thought as he held her to his heart, was an agony beyond compare.

So we literally made the earth move? A slight pause, before Kaleb said, I suggest we don't engage in sex in populated areas.

Elena. Hush, let me talk to the crazy lady.

How can I be angry with the other half of my soul?" he asked, his tone so tender it tore little pieces out of her heart. "I have a temper, baby, and I know I fucking brood. But even if I act pissed, even if I snarl, it doesn't mean I love you any less. Your soul shines, Tally, and I'm so damn glad it shines for me.

She was his and he was hers. They had under-the-skin privileges.

He couldn't say the words, had spent too long in Silence, but he'd learned other ways to speak. Taking the paperweight she'd knocked off her desk out of his pocket, he put it in her hands. "It's fixed. As long as you don't mind more than a few scars.

No more dancing with any male but me. No more time to learn who you are before you have to hold that personality against mine. No more freedom to explore your sensuality before I own it.

But it was the dark hunger in his tone that got to her. Damn kinky vampire had actually liked the knife. Shit .

Raphael, in case you're getting ideas - I won't be this civilized if you decide you need a concubine. In fact, it's a good bet I'll turn homicidal. He didn't look up from his conversation with Astaad as he said, A pity, in that cool "Archangel" tone of his. I will now have to ask the pilot to empty the hold of my chosen females. We're going to have to talk about this new sense of humor of yours.