Quotes from Karen Chance

Have you lost your mind?" "No. It got scared and ran away.

I was hoping that the first time you expressed affection for me, it would not be in a room full of strangers. And that you would not have just said it to a sniveling creature like that Raymond!" "I expressed affection for Ray?" "Yes!" "Man, I really must be drunk." Louis-Cesare just looked at me. I blinked politely back, until I realized that he expected a response.

Believe me, dulcea??, the advent of the mini is forever emblazoned on my mind.

We were obviously going to have to have a talk about the difference between "maintaining security" and "being a dick.

It never ceases to amaze me how many people think I kill for fun." "Don't you?" "Well, not just for fun.

I rotated my eyeball—and, goddamnit, even that hurt—to see the leader of my bodyguards peering at me.

I tossed it on a pile with the coat, my stiff-with-cold jeans and the expensive scrap of silk that had been wedged up my ass for the past half hour.

Alejandro, who thought he was a wit. And he was, if you put a "nit" in front of it

I'm like the master. I like to walk on the wild side." It took me a moment to realize what he meant. "I am not the wild side," I told him flatly. "I'm about as far from the wild side as it's possible to get.

Dory mentally added another grand to the tally sheet for this job as a heat tax. And then another for the mosquitoes. And what the hell, a third for the freaking smell

every predator loves easy prey. Her lip curled, baring fangs that there was no one there to see. Because she wasn't prey. In the vamp world, she was pretty much the apex predator, the mongoose to his snake. And she was about to Rikki Tikki Tavi his ass. Dory

You can take him!" Ray whispered in my ear. "Damn straight." The next thing I remember, Ray was fishing me out from under the table. Or, at least, he was trying to, but Scarface's foot was in the way. "On. Her. Ass," Scarface said proudly. "She just slipped," Ray said, sounding frantic. "Anybody could slip. She's fine!

Nunquam reliquiae redire: carpe omniem impremis (Never go back for seconds: take it all the first time)

There are a thousand ways to die," he told me quietly. "There are so few really to live. I would gladly risk the former for the latter, and it is my choice, is it not? To risk whatever I must, my heart, my body, my soul, in order to be with you. Is that not what love is? – Louis-Cesare

Dory stared at it. Twenty feet of muscle. Twenty feet of terror. Twenty feet of prehistoric hate with a maw of what-the-fuck and claws they didn't make anymore because even nature had looked at those things and thought, you know what?

It was the first time he'd persuaded a girl into bed by mentioning the possibility of fleas.

That wasn't so bad," I decided, after downing the shot. Maybe I was getting my rhythm. "Because you threw it over your shoulder," Scarface told me, looking smug. "Did not." I looked behind me, only to see an outraged vamp with fey wine dripping down his face. "Oops." "It was for luck," Ray said defensively, wrapping both my hands around a glass. "Drink!" I drank.

Why has Emrys not killed you? Why has everyone not killed you?" "They've tried." "Not hard enough!

Then he suddenly looked back at me. "I see you." You always did, I thought, watching sparks dance in his eyes.

Do you always get in this much trouble?" Pritkin asked from behind me. "Mostly," I breathed. "You know, I've noticed that about you," he told me. And then he kissed me.

I . . . I think I wet myself," he whispered.

the idea of facing down the god of war made me feel incontinent

But . . . you still know the truth. You know you're faking it." "Yes, but eventually you realize something: the other side is, too. At least as often as not. Learn what you can; do what you can; get others to do for you what you can't. And fake it for all you're worth in the meantime." He

A brief exploration of the bar's fridge turned up three tiny bottles of vodka and he used hem all. They were too cold and there was no lime, but today was obviously about hardships.