Quotes from J.R. Ward

Well, daddy?" she said over the trippy techno music. "Want to make my dream come true?" He

Her sex life was non-existent in the real world. In her imagination, however, it had flourished.

He firmly believed that people were like pieces of meat; the longer they stewed, the softer they became. The tastier, too.

Perfection was relative, not any singular characteristic, or even a group of them, but rather how the composite fit together for the person who was regarding the whole.

Real women didn't wait for their dragon slayers to come save them.

Yeah, his being your friendly neighborhood drug lord, pimp, and enforcer really fit in with the Norman Rockwell routine. Totally.

The quick and the dead are all the same. Everyone is just looking for a home.

Man, there were a lot of purgatories getting expunged tonight, he thought ruefully, both real and figurative:

Then Rhage kissed each and every scar. She

He wasn't mad. Getting angry about the truth was just stupid. It was better to spend your time adapting to it. Far more logical, even if it made tears come to your eyes.

La verdad era que... estaba enamorado de ella. Totalmente, sin fisuras ni dudas, sin posibilidad de arrepentirse. Con ella hasta la muerte. Y aunque fracasó, aunque había ofrecido en vano su corazón, eso no importaba.

I'd rather be alone." She pivoted around again. "I'm getting tired of crying in front of an audience.

After shoving his former clothes inside, Xcor found himself bowing at the waist. "Your assistance has been much appreciated." Antoine raised his palm like he was getting ready to do a clap on the shoulder again. But once more, he caught himself and smiled instead. "Knock her dead, my man." "Oh, no." Xcor shook his head. "That shan't be necessary. This one I like.

In large measure, his clientele were millennials, that generation born between 1980 and 2000. Defined by the Internet, the iPhone, and a lack of economic opportunity, at least according to the human media, they were a demographic of lost moralists, committed to saving each other, preserving the rights of everyone, and championing a false utopia of mandated liberal thinking that made McCarthyism looked nuanced.

Assail: Tell me, is your Dom reputation just talk, or are you truly that perverted? Vishous: Waste my time with gossip and I'll answer that firsthand. Assail: Kinky.

John la miró a los ojos y enseguida se sintió transportado a otro plano de la existencia. Tal vez sí que existía el paraíso, y si no, puesto que existía Xhex, ¿a quién le importaba el cielo? Lo único que John sabía era que Xhex y él estaban juntos en ese momento y que el resto del mundo había perdido interés. ¿Sería posible enamorarse dos veces de la misma persona?, se preguntó.

It was a multi-f-bomb kind of night.

Of course you're not interested in him. He's not a hot mess of self-destruction.

Insatiability was an asset when it came to having a lover in your life. And Xcor was a very, very hungry male.

Butch finished processing Billy Riddle around six A.M. The guy was offended by the class of drug dealers and thugs he'd been put into the holding cell with, so Butch was careful to make as many typographical errors as possible on his reports. And what would you know, Central Processing kept getting confused about exactly which forms needed to be filled out. And then the printers had gone on the fritz. All twenty-three of them.

Siempre he creído que el destino depara extraños compañeros de viaje.

Lies that are fundamental hurt fundamentally.

As he headed for the back, where the cloying stenches were concentrated, he wondered what the hell was going on. Lessers rarely lived in groups because they fought with one another—which was what happened when you recruited only homicidal maniacs. Hell, the men the Omega picked couldn't shut off their inner Michael Myers just because the Society felt like saving a little on rent overhead.

A moment was all it took to change the course of everything. The problem was. . .no one knew which moment was going to matter, and there were so many, so very many.