Sherrilyn Kenyon

“Lydia: Strange how you always seem to remember the pain someone gave you, but seldom the hurt you caused them.”

“His mother hesitated before she continued grilling him. “Ishe a good boy?”“No, Mom, he’s Satan incarnate. In fact, once it’s over, we’re going to get liquored up and tattooed, then find some cheap hos and have a good time with his trust fund.”Caleb laughed.”

“thehardest ones to love are always the ones who need it most." -Cherise”

“Good. Now the first thing you do is press in the clutch and slide the gear into reverse."She placed his hand on the gear shift in the center of her car, and showed him how to move it up and down."You know, you really shouldn't fondle that in front of me, Grace. It's cruel.""Julian! Do you mind? I'm only trying to show you how to shift my gears."He snorted. "I wish you'd shift my gears like that.”

“He didn't want the respect of people who weren’t worth wiping his nose on—people who weren't worth the spatout gum attached to the bottom of his worn-out shoes. The only respect he wanted was from himself and the people who really mattered in his life. The people who really loved and cared about him.”

“There was nothing humane about humanity. At the end of the day, they were allanimals with only survival instincts.”

“It seemed his demon couldn't tell the physical difference between when he was in danger and when he was "in" Danger.”

“Everything that happens to us, good and bad, leaves a lasting impression in our souls. You take one part of that out, and you can completely rewrite something crucial about us. By and large, we're not shaped by the big things. It's the little, day-to-day moments that make us who we are. Who we're going to be. (Nekoda to Nick)”

“You are incredibly wise."He laughed. "Only when it comes to other people. It's easy to see how to fix their lives. It's much harder to see the cracks in your own house.”

“My brother betrayed me and our people. If I were as cold as I'd like to be, his hide would be on the floor so everyone could walk on him. Unfortunately, my other brothers were a little disturbed by that so we compromised with the wall.""Understood," Ash said. "Where's the rest of the pack?""In the back.We're staying out of it. We don't like to kill our own."Zarek snorted at that."Unless it's your brother."Dante approached Zarek and the two of them had a mutual sneer-off."Law of the jungle.The betrayee gets to eat the betrayer."Zarek gave him a droll stare."Law of my jungle. Kill them all and let Hades sort them out."Dante actually laughed at that. "I like this one, Ash. He understands us.""Gee, Z," Ash said jokingly. "I think you may have found a new friend after all. That should make Astrid happy.”

“You’re the one with the family tree that doesn’t branch.” She illustrated said tree with her fingers. “How many Egyptian gods slept with their brothers’ and sisters’ wife’s mother’s uncle’s dogs? Hmm? I ask you?” He wasn’t quite sure if he should be offended or amused by her attack on his family. Honestly, he had no real feelings for any of them other than hatred and disdain but … “Have you visited your pantheon lately?” “We’re not talking about my pantheon, here. Are we? No. We’re insulting yours.”-Lydia and Seth-”

“Safe. No one ever is. No matter how hard we try. No matter how much we plan and prepare. There will always be an enemy at the door and a storm trying to knock us down. Life's not about security. It's about picking up the peices after it's all over and carrying on.”

“But I'm a woman, and as the great poet so cleverly wrote, hellhath no fury as a woman scorned. Consider me your personal hell.”

“There's always one, isn't there?" Stryker asked rhetorically. In every house, there was always one malcontent jealous prick out to destroy everyone else just for spite. The entire history of the earth was written in the blood of those betrayed by the very people they'd foolishly trusted.”

“Shesmiled with a newfound optimism. "The one thing I've learned most out ofall this is that it's not over until all the cards are played. She laid downher ace, thinking we can't beat it. But there are fifty-one other cards in thedeck and the game isn't over yet. We'll figure something out. Her little fitright now just shows that she's played her best hand. That was all she'scapable of doing to hurt you which is exactly why she did it. Don't let herruin your day, baby, and don't let her take from us what we have. We've gottenthis far together. What's another bitter goddess to us? Like my papou alwayssays, over, under, around or through. There's always a way and we'll find it."- Tory”

“I am glad that though someone did me grossly wrong my final mark on this world is not one of countering hurt with more hurt but is one of love and friendship. We will always be known by our actions. Let them always be good ones.”

“...it is by our actions that we are destroyed or saved. The choice is ours.”

“Remember Arikos the key to humanity is simple. Live your life with purpose. They humans need goals to strive for. All of Trieg's have been taken from him by his enemies so we need to replace them with new ones that matter to him. Without goals humanity is lost and a single man can't function. Acheron had been wrong about one thing. without goals everyone was lost. Even the gods.”

“Zarekshrugged, taking it in stride. "I'm an asshole. I admit it. I've beengoing to weekly Assholes Anonymous meetings, but it takes a long time to undo afew thousand years of habit. And to think you have even more years to undo thanme." -ZAREK”

“Why were we fighting if you had that kind of power?"In unison, every ex-Dark-Hunter and Nick said, "Just because you can doesn'tmean you should.""And sometimes things have to go wrong in order to go right," Wulf said. Whenthe other guys looked confused by his solo outburst, he added, "I guessI'm the only one he ever said that one to.”

“I'msorry," he breathed. "You're just extremely irresistible.""Strange,men have been resisting me for years.”

“Goodtuna fish sandwiches; he's the tallest man I've ever seen." -Pam”

“Toryfrowned at his backpack on the floor and the way he kept it within easy reach."What's in that backpack, by the way? You're always guarding it like itholds national security secrets or something.""Dirtyunderwear."Sherolled her eyes. "Thanks so much for that image.""Youasked.”

“Heset the backpack down on the floor. "It's easy to look at people and makequick judgments about them, their present and their pasts, but you'd be amazedat the pain and tears a single smile hides. What a person shows to the world isonly one tiny facet of the iceberg hidden from sight. And more often than not,it's lined with cracks and scars that go all the way to the foundation of theirsoul." - Ash”

“It's infinitely better to be judged by twelve than carried by six.”

“You'llnever see the moments coming that will forever mutilate your life—at least notuntil after they've mowed you down.—SAVITARAcheron”

“You need anything else... You to touch me like I matter...”

“The worst wounds, the deadliest of them, aren't the ones people see on the outside. They're the ones that make us bleed internally.”

“One word can give someone the strengththey needed at the moment or it can shred them down to nothing. A single smile can turn a bad moment good. And one wrong outburstcould be that tiny push that causes someone to slip over the edge of destruction.”

“Every life, no matter how isolated, touches hundred of others. It's up to us to decide if those micro connections are positive or negative. But whichever we decide, it does impact the ones we deal with.”

“I can'tdo it again,Nick. I can't. And I would rather give my life for you than have you give yours for me.”

“There are some things that defy explanation- kind of like. . . you know, you.”

“Everyone is in pain.No matter where they come from or what you think of them. Sorrow spares no one”

“Whoever had said that the hand rocked the cradle ruled the world must have has a Southern,born bred mother.”

“Most of all, she'd missedfeeling connected to someone else. Being a vital part of them—aching when theywere on a trip, knowing that someone was out there missing her and counting theheartbeats until they were back together again. There was nothing else likeliving and breathing for the smile of someone she loved. -leta”

“See I'm the reckless and wild one who saves him from being boring. It's why we're perfect for each other. We balance. - Madame Selena”

“Everyone deserves to have someone who loves them.”

“Astrid or Aphrodite, she is my Circe. only instead of turning a man into an animal, she has made the animal human--Zarek”

“screwed blued and tattooed”

“Mistakes don't have to define us. They're how we learn and grow. They show us who and what we don't want to be. It's why they're mistakes.”

“All of us have darkness inside us, and at times it possesses and seduces us in ways we never thought possible.”

“People aren't just ants rushing around over a crust of bread. Every life, no matter how isolated, touches hundreds of others. It's up to us to decide if those micro connections are positive or negative. But whichever we decide, it does impact the ones we deal with. One word can give someone the strength they needed at that moment or it can shred them down to nothing. A single smile can turn a bad moment good. And one wrong outburst or word could be the tiny push that causes someone to slip over the edge into destruction.”

“Trust the Simi. She ain't never wrong.”

“Sorrow spares no one, and scars respect no person.”

“I'm beginning to think the only choice anyone has in life is between either a bad choice or a worse one.”

“Nick rubbed his hand across his face as he tried to make sense of her prattle. But that was the thing about Simi. She seldom made sense.”

“In the land of Bad Ass, Acheron reigned supreme.”

“Never underestimate a backwoods Cajun in a fight, old man.”

“When the going gets tough, the tough reload." Nick DH”

“Im not tense, just terribly, terribly alert." Nick”