Quotes from Christine Feehan

I am not like Mikhail or Jacques or, it seems, you. I intend that her protection come above all else. Gregori's voice held an edge. Aidan grinned at him, laughter spilling from his golden eyes. I can only hope I have the chance to see you, Gregori, under the spell of your woman. You must promise that you will bring her to meet us one day. Not if I end up like you or Mikhail. I will not have my dangerous reputation destroyed in such a way.

Woman, you could drive a man to his knees

Jacob wasn't going to hurt me," she denied suddenly. "I would have known." "You were not touching him, little one, and it was lucky for him." "He's certainly capable of violence. It's always hard to miss violence." She flashed him her mischievous smile. "It clings to you like a second skin." He tugged at her thick braid in retaliation for her teasing.

He heard the news long before her scent reached him. Brandt Talbot shrank into the heavy vegetation, his chest tight and his body taut with sudden anticipation. She was here at long last. In his domain. Within his grasp. It had been a long hunt to find her, nearly impossible, yet he managed it. He had deliberately lured her to his lair and she had come.

I have a long way to go before I will be normal again." She burst out laughing. "No one has said you ever were normal, Jacques.

I'm fine, baby, just sit down and stop getting upset over nothing." "Pulling a knife on you is not 'nothing,' Jesse." "I pulled a gun on you. We're a violent couple." "That's not funny

He let his fist glide over the shaft just to watch her eyes change. Smolder. He loved that burn. Her chin lifted and she gestured toward his groin with it. "Do you think I want to have sex with you right now? Especially after the way you acted? I've learned what sugar and honey is, and Wyatt, I'm not feeling particularly sweet right now." He grinned at her

They had a connection, a path that lay open between them, and she felt his loneliness. She'd always been alone, and she'd accepted her path. Absinthe was different. He'd been with his family, those 17 people who still surround him and yet he was desperately lonely. Why?

The first rule for all women to know and never forget is that Carpathian males do not share their lifemates. Tour brother has much to answer for that this was not drilled into you since birth. It was is job to prepare you for my coming.

I let myself down a million times, she confessed. We all do that. It is getting back up that defines your character, Julija, and you did that.

Solidarity. She was with him. She would be with him through whatever he had to endure. He had that.

He breathed away all the anger, all emotions, cloaking himself with Grace and everything in him settled, once more allowing complete control.

Take command of your woman, Mikhail. That is the best advice I can give you." "She needs to feel free." Gregori's eyebrow shot up. "She is essential to the existence of our species. You need to keep her under tight protection." He meant under control, and disapproval tinged his tone. Mikhail burst out laughing. "I want to see you find a lifemate, Gregori, one like Raven. She will hold you in the palm of her hand.

Because you're such a dick—tator." He found himself smiling all over again.

The wolf's shape contorted, stretched, shimmered in the smoke of the fire, and soon a large, heavily muscled man was facing Jacques. His long, shaggy mane of hair was blond, his eyes golden, his body perfectly balanced. "You are Jacques, brother to Mikhail. I heard you were dead." "That is the story going around," Jacques assented warily.

Come on, Jacques"--Raven made the length of the room again, turned to face him--"don't you find this even a little bit nerve-racking?" He leaned lazily back in his chair, flashing a cocky grin. "Being caged up with a beautiful lunatic, you mean?" "Ha, ha, ha. Do all Carpathian males think they're stand-up comedians?

I'm planning on using sex. Lots and lots of sex." "Yeah, good luck with that." Jack quirked an eyebrow at him as they turned onto the road leading to the small airfield where Lily had private transportation waiting. "Am I missing something here or didn't you already have sex with her, really great sex, and her answer was to knock you out? Am I wrong? Didn't that happen?

As she'd grown, she moved through life in silence, hoping not to be noticed, afraid of drawing attention to herself.

I don't want to put you in the position of having to lie, Father. I find myself doing enough of that for Mikhail, and I'm not even certain why. Lord knows, he doesn't ask me to." There was sorrow in her voice, regret, confusion. "I wouldn't lie," he said. "Is omission the same thing as a lie, Father?

She was beautiful all riled up. His heart was going a little crazy and all at once he felt very much alive. Maybe this vacation thing wasn't going to be so bad.

You are going to turn my well-ordered world upside down, are you not?" She tunneled her fingers in his hair, enjoying the feel of its silky thickness against the bare skin of her hips and thighs. "I certainly intend to do my best. You people are in a rut. You need to move into this century.

I want to see you find a lifemate, Gregori, one like Raven. She will hold you in the palm of her hand." "If I ever find what you have, I will never allow her to risk herself. She will never go near danger, not even to feed. And she will not defy me." "You cannot keep a lifemate prisoner, Gregori." There was a hint of amusement in Mikhail's voice.

I need you just to breathe, Shea , he admitted starkly. I am sorry that terrifies you. I wish that I had more control, but I cannot be alone like that, not ever again. I try to keep my presence in you but a shadow. Perhaps with time I can let go a bit. Being with me terrifies you, but being without you terrifies me. A note of amusement crept in. We are so compatible.

He wasn't going to get caught staring at her and reveal that she had the upper hand.