Lynn Viehl

“They forbade me to leave the island.” He brushed my hair back from my forehead. “ I thought it would be better if I stayed away, but I was wrong. Without you, I was lonely and miserable and empty. Every night I could think of nothing but you.”“ I know exactly what you mean” I saw one of the zookeepers peering into the bushes. “They’re coming. You should go.”“No.” he put his arms around my waist. “I’m not going to leave you again.”

“Count yourself fortunate." He made an elegant sweep of his hand toward the sun. "Daylight does not make them turn to ash, but they become bloody damn infants, whinging on about irritated eyes and sluggish limbs and so forth.”

“That was rather interesting,' Mercer said as he filled his coffee mug and passed the thermal carafe to John. 'What do you say for dinner? "Blessed be the serial killers, or else the devil would have no one to torment.”

“You're a quiet, beautiful woman in a loud, ugly place. An orchid among weeds. You define obvious.”

“And no man, not even Cyprien, could chase a girl with his pants down.”

“No battle was ever won by wholly sane men.”

“He had even read Pride and Prejudice--although he had thought that many of the heroine's problems would have been solved if someone had simply strangled her mother.”

“Thierry had no idea why they were called French doors. His native countrymen weren't stupid enough to put them in their homes.”

“There will never be another woman for me, Alexandra. You are my eternity. -Michael”

“I am going down first.Of course you're going down first, you're the guy.”

“I cannot think of a life without him in it. I cannot bury another son. This time I fear they will have to put me in the ground with him.”

“There is a god. Nothing as tragic and ridiculous as this world could have happened by random chance.”

“You have superpowers.I don't have supernerves so don't get on them.”

“He so enjoyed disconcerting a woman of conservative sensibilities, and he suspected that the detective had inhibitions atop reservations wrapped in reticense."--Lucan thinking about SamanthaDark Need by Lynn Viehl”

“She was halfway through the second yard when she heard Cyprien fall and curse.No man in the world will turn down a blow job, Alex thought as she dodged through yards and around the houses, putting as much distance between them as she could. And no man, not even Cyprien, could chase a girl with his pans down.”

“Yours is... il sent comme lavande."Is that French for 'You stink'?"It means 'lavender'."Huh." She sniffed at her wrist. "I thought I smelled more like a grape Popsicle.”

“Do you know what a tre vie is, Juliana?”

“Come with me. It's so much better than coming alone.(Lucan whispered to Lena)”