Quotes from Maya Banks

His words put an ache in her heart. She wanted happily ever after more than he could possibly know. She wanted forever. Problem was, she just wasn't sure she believed in it anymore. It was why she clung to her fiction so much. She immersed herself in books because there she could be anyone and it was easy to believe in love and happily ever after.

How do you know what I want? You've never asked.

She won't be alone. I'm not leaving her.

Guilt is bullshit. I don't want it. Don't need it.

I can't apologize for reacting the way I did, but I can guarantee you it will happen again. You seem to have the knack for getting under my skin like no one else.

I don't want to ever give someone that kind of power to destroy me.

At what point in her life had she decided she didn't deserve better than this? It was a startling discovery. The blinders had come off. Why was she putting up with this?

He didn't show you affection. He didn't do things for you because he knew you'd love them. And, baby, that's wrong. Your relationship with him was all about him. Not about you. It was about what he could take from you without having to give back. And that's ten sorts of fucked up. It's no way for a man to treat a woman he's supposed to cherish and protect.

Don't love me, Angel.

I need your dominance, your strength. Your control. I need that structure. It centers me. It reminds me that I have a place in this world. With you.

I'm going to take a shower, I want you naked and in bed when I get back.

She'll be just like me and drive her daddy crazy.

There was a multitude of sexual scenarios, from a simple one-on-one couple fucking like bunnies to an outright orgy with no less than eight people joined like LEGOs.

Ask me again. Please.

Tell me again. Tell me you'll marry me.

You're afraid that I'm different from everyone else.

Jesus," he muttered. "The world's most beautiful woman thinks I'm beautiful and I'm telling her we can't get involved. I either need my head examined or need to make sure my balls are still attached.

I won't hurt you, Lyric. I don't want you to be afraid. I want you to know what it feels like to have someone love you.

That shit stops now.

I'm the man who loves you more than anyone else will ever love you. I'm the man who wants to be with you and will do everything I can to keep you from every being hurt.

I don't want you to leave me.

Sometimes second chances are the very best chances," she whispered. "Because this time we'll get it right.

You want me?

Be with me.