Quotes from Christine Feehan

Darkness does not describe the hell we live in waiting for our lifemates. The world is bleak, and we have only our honor to keep us from turning to the wrong path. Vampires are Carpathians who choose to give up their souls for the chance to feel a rush when they kill. That is how desperate it becomes, living in that raw, ugly world.

Trap dictates," Cayenne said. She shrugged. "I don't mind at all. I decide whether or not I'm going to do what he says. If it matters more to him, I do it, if it matters more to me, I don't. It all works out." "Cayenne, marriage isn't a dictatorship," Bellisia said. "Tell Trap that." A ghost of a smile appeared on her face

Gregori is a great healer. I know you think he could be the vampire--it's there in your face when you look at him--but he would give his life for you, for me, for Mikhail. He's a great man. He could help you so much if you'd let him." "He's the scariest man I've ever met," Shea admitted. "If I had a child, a daughter, I would not want that man to be her husband.

You have the most fascinating mouth I have ever seen. What's so fascinating? It's a mouth just like any other. I think it is your pouty lower lip. Now I know you're crazy. I never pout and neither does my lip.

I vowed if I found my lifemate, I would not do as Mikhail and bow to her wishes. Yet now, I cannot stand to see sorrow in Alexandria's eyes. I feel sick when she is hurt or upset with me. A grin spread across Stefan's face. You're in love, my old friend, and that is the downfall of all good men.

I'm sorry; it bothers me to touch people after I follow a demented mind. Please understand." Margaret nodded. "Of course, although I noticed your young man thought nothing of touching you." Raven smiled, shrugging as casually as possible, eyeing the sky for the lightning that might strike her for lying so much.

We have to get them into your boat quickly. Is there a dark room, a cave, anywhere dark we can take them?" Gary asked. He was already lifting Savannah into his arms. LaRue watched him carry her to his boat. "A hospital would be good." He made the suggestion in a soft, reasonable tone, as if he feared Gary had lost his mind.

You're in love, my old friend, and that is the downfall of all good men." Even Gregori, the dark one, allowed his lifemate her freedom because of her fear of him. How does one strike a balance between keeping a woman happy and protecting her? Aidan mused aloud. Stefan shrugged. You're in the modern world now, Aidan. Women rule their own lives. They make their own decisions and generally drive us all crazy. Welcome to the twenty-first century.

He realized that as much as he wanted his Leopard to settle and feel contentment, claiming Ania Dover was really for himself. For him. He needed her. He was already addicted to her smile. To her brightness. But it was the way she brought peace to him that he needed. Once he felt that. He knew he couldn't live without it.

Vittorio Ferraro stood in the shadows, his skin crawling with the need to move. Something was wrong. Not just wrong. Whatever his churning gut was about, he'd never quite felt the urgency of finding the source of the trouble as he did right then.

meet his gaze. "I choose to believe you, Ricco. That you love me and that you're certain I am the one for you. I choose to believe you will always feel that way. Love doesn't seem to work out for so many people, and I'm scared. I'm not going to pretend I'm not, but I don't know what's good or bad in a relationship. I'm going on faith and you're the person I choose to have faith in.

I promised myself I'd wait until you turned twenty-one and that's in a few more weeks. I already know that's too damned far away.

He's the scariest man I've ever met," Shea admitted. "If I had a child, a daughter, I would not want that man to be her husband." "But then, you don't know that much about lifemates. If my daughter is his lifemate and chooses him--and it will be her choice, despite what my husband and Gregori think--she'd be the safest woman in the world. And once she learned to manage him, the happiest.

Don't look at me as if you fear me. I would give my life for you.

What do you mean, one of ours?" Why had she agreed to stay and protect Raven? Something evil was watching them, and she couldn't ferret it out. Jacques, where are you? "The lightning and thunder," Raven replied easily. "One of our males is upset." "Great. Tantrums, that's all we need," Shea said moodily.

The paparazzi always swarmed around them, giving them better alibis for their work then anything else ever could.

I am your other half. We belong together.

Then she became aware of a deep sadness in Emmanuelle and she found herself growing protective of Taviano's sister for no reason she really understood other than she seemed very sad at times.

The lightning and thunder," Raven replied easily. "One of our males is upset." "Great. Tantrums, that's all we need," Shea said moodily. Jacques hadn't answered her. Where was he? Couldn't he feel her need? Raven laughed. "They are great for that, aren't they?

He poured his feelings into the kiss, fire and ice, love and regret, joy and bitterness. Everything he had to give her.

Nonny to all the women - You don't worry what you are getting from him. Worry about what he is getting from you. .....Don't think he's going to anticipate or know what you need. Communicate it to him.......Laugh every chance you get with him.....It's the little things that make or break a relationship....Put him first and hope he puts you first

He wanted her loyalty. Her faithfulness. Her love. That was the bottom line. He wanted Ania to fall so deeply in love with him, she would never consider leaving him.

I can't believe I started this early. She's barely two, Gregori said. I was your friend, you maniac, Mikhail told him. We got in so much trouble together, and you were always the instigator. Even at two. Don't believe him, Gregori said.

I'll never leave you, he whispered aloud, We'll make this work.