Quotes from J.R. Ward

How do you like your eggs? she said. Hard or soft? Hard, he bit out. Why am I not surprised.

Please," Eddie implored. "Not Lassiter. Anybody but Lassiter—he could be anywhere on the planet, doing anything.

collisions were collisions and couldn't be planned...

We don't get to pick who we fall for…you were not wrong in loving him, true? That part, no one can blame you for…and you've suffered enough. He

It makes me crazy, your voice. Every day, after we'd hang up the phone, I would sleep with the fucking thing on my chest. Like maybe part of your voice, part of you was still in it.

You hurt,too? When the female nodded, Marissa was stunned. Then a little relieved. It wasn't all painful. I mean, what led up to it was ... is amazing. Butch makes me... he's just so... the way he touches me, I get... Oh, God, I can't believe I'm talking like this. And I can't explain what it's like with him. Beth chuckled. That's all right. I know what you mean. Really? Oh, yeah. The queen's dark blue eyes glowed. I know exactly what you mean.

God, everything about him radiated sex, from the strength in his body to the way he moved to the smell of his skin.

Every part of him wanted to stay with Jo. Make sure she was okay. Attend to her every need, bringing her the choicest food and cleanest drink, securing her a warm and dry shelter, along with clothes that were of fabrics and colors of her preference. He wanted to sleep with her up against his body, skin to skin, a dagger in his right hand, a gun under his pillow, a length of chain beneath the bed, to ensure her protection against anything and everybody that would hurt her.

Sometimes the changes in life came at you so fast, and with such fury, there was no way to keep up with reality. It took time for things to sink in, the new equilibrium establishing itself only after some period of your brain sloshing back and forth against the walls of your head. He was still in the slosh zone.

Excuse me," she cut in. "Is that a grenade?" Ehric looked at the compact, palm-sized bomb in his hand. "Why, yes. It is.

An overwhelming, possessive instinct flashed through him. With dread, he realized he wanted to mark her. Mark her as his. He wanted that special scent all over her so no other male would come near her. So that they would know whom she belonged to. So that they would fear the repercussions of wanting to possess her for themselves. Except

It would be a duty that I would seek to fulfill all the nights I am upon this earth." Mary

The Maker was a genius, he thought. Infinity resulted in insolence. But transience was the way one treasured what one had been given.

Lassiter," Ad and Colin said together. At the sound of the name, even Devina rolled her eyes. "Oh, Christ. Him again.

Thou Shalt Not Mack on Your Patients

You couldn't soar if you didn't leap.

A couple of inches up and right and he would have been a soprano.

Hell yeah, you can pay. This was your idea and I'm not blowing part of my rent money this month just to prove I'm a feminist. I can do that for free by demanding respect and getting it.

Time was way too finite: no matter how much of it you had with someone you loved, when the end came, it wasn't nearly enough.

My twin's not broken; he's ruined Do you understand the difference? With Broken maybe you can fix things; Ruined all you can do is wait to bury him -Phury to Bella

Rarity went hand in hand with reverence.

It appeared, after decades of being without a tribe, that he and his brother had found theirs.

Just because you moved on didn't mean you shed your personal history like a suit of clothes. Your past was the same as your skin: with you for life, both the proverbial beauty marks . . . and the scars.

Isaac Rothe, Matthias