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Dorian’s going to love this.”
She glared. “I swear to God, you tell him, and I’ll” — what the hell could you threaten an alpha with?—“I’ll tell Hawke you want to go on daily bonding runs with him.
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Nalini Singh (Branded by Fire (Psy-Changeling, #6))
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You know I'll never say no, and Nate's so dedicated, I think he loves our alpha more than me."
"I resent that," Nate grumbled. "I might love football more than you, but definitely not Lucas's ugly mug.
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Nalini Singh (Slave to Sensation (Psy-Changeling, #1))
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She got to me."
"It happens to the best of us."
"Yeah? Who gets to you?" He was so strong that sometimes she worried. Everyone needed to bend a little, even a panther responsible for the lives of his entire pack.
"That damn wolf. He sent you a present last week."
Sascha smiled at the thought of Hawke's flirting. The SnowDancer alpha did it only to jerk Lucas's chain. "I never saw any present. What was it?"
"How the hell should I know? I stomped on it and threw it into the deepest crevice I could find." He smirked. "Then I called him to ask how Sienna was doing."
She burst out laughing. "Wicked, wicked man.
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Nalini Singh (Hostage to Pleasure (Psy-Changeling, #5))
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I'm doing this for Toby and Marlee, not you." The defiant words were directed at Hawke.
The alpha gave her a mock-salute. "Heaven forbid you do anything because I asked you to.
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Nalini Singh (Slave to Sensation (Psy-Changeling, #1))
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Go play your favorite game.”
Feeling the hum of anticipation in his belly, Andrew gave his alpha an innocent smile. “I have no idea what you mean.”
Hawke pointed a finger at him. “I want my calm, collected lieutenant back by the end of the week, or I’m packing you in a box and shipping you to fucking Siberia.”
Andrew grinned. “I hear it’s nice there this time of year.
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Nalini Singh (Play of Passion (Psy-Changeling, #9))
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No self-respecting wolf would eat a rodent - though we might've been able to use your teeth as decorations," Andrew said with a straight face.
Teijan hissed out a very unratlike snarl. "Why the hell do I bother to talk to you?"
"Hawke thinks I give you cheese." He pulled a small, foil-wrapped wedge out of his pocket. "Here you go"
"*** you" But the Rat alpha was laughing.
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Nalini Singh (Play of Passion (Psy-Changeling, #9))
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If the alpha tried to separate him from Brenna, he'd have a fight on his hands. A bloody one.
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Nalini Singh (Caressed by Ice (Psy-Changeling, #3))
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It was so easy to win the trust of children, but this child would never be in a position where that trust could get her killed.
Her alpha father and empath mother would never permit it.
Neither would her deadly grandmother.
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Nalini Singh (Allegiance of Honor (Psy-Changeling, #15))
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Big Alpha Man does not stay in car. Big Alpha Man roar and beat manly chest.
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Nalini Singh (Night Shift (Kate Daniels, #6.5; SPI Files, #0.5; Psy-Changeling, #12.5))
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He wasn't alpha because he played nice when his people were threatened. And his woman? He'd lay waste to the world for her.
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Nalini Singh (Slave to Sensation (Psy-Changeling, #1))
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If I was yours," she said, "how would you treat me?"
"Like a fucking queen.
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Nalini Singh (Silver Silence (Psy-Changeling Trinity, #1; Psy-Changeling, #16))
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He held Aden’s gaze, the other man’s expression unreadable. “It’s the alpha’s responsibility and his privilege to create that environment—we are the guardians of every heart in our care.” Aden Kai might not be changeling, but he was an alpha and he held within his hands the power to change his people from the inside out.
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Nalini Singh (Shards of Hope (Psy-Changeling, #14))
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I think, to be missed is a gift. To be remembered an even bigger one.
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Nalini Singh (Alpha Night (Psy-Changeling Trinity, #4; Psy-Changeling, #19))
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Have you met Mr. Tall, Dangerous, and Smoldering before?" Margo put a hand on Selenka's shoulder, the contact instinctive between packmates. "It's a serious breach of the girlfriend code to hide snacks like that.
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Nalini Singh (Alpha Night (Psy-Changeling Trinity, #4; Psy-Changeling, #19))
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Damage meant nothing except that the person had lived life and taken a few knocks along the way.
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Nalini Singh (Alpha Night (Psy-Changeling Trinity, #4; Psy-Changeling, #19))
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Don’t worry. There’s a manual—it began with information about intimate physical interaction, but now has a growing section on emotional connection and how to nurture it.
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Nalini Singh (Alpha Night (Psy-Changeling Trinity, #4; Psy-Changeling, #19))
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His Starlight should’ve been in bed, resting. Instead, she was here, fighting to clean up a mess of violence, fighting to save lives. Because she was Silver Fucking Mercant, and she was as tough as any bear in StoneWater. Including its alpha.
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Nalini Singh (Silver Silence (Psy-Changeling Trinity, #1; Psy-Changeling, #16))
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What do you ask from Judd in exchange for giving sanctuary to the kids?'
His pale eyes iced over. 'Judd is a fully trained Psy assassin with experience in covert wet work. I’d be a fool if I didn’t utilize his skills.' She choked back a cry. 'How can you ask that of him?' An alpha looked after his own.
He didn’t destroy them. But maybe Hawke didn’t consider the Laurens his own. After all, and for reasons she’d never known, he hated the Psy as much as her brothers did.
His face gentled, an unexpected softening of harsh masculine lines. Closing the distance between them, he cupped her cheek. 'He is who and what he is, Brenna. If you want something different, you shouldn’t be with him.'
'He’s the only one I want to be with.'
'Then accept his beast like you do your own.
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Nalini Singh (Caressed by Ice (Psy-Changeling, #3))
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Why shouldn't we kill you?" he asked the black-garbed male who came forward to meet him.
"We have no quarrel with you." The man's eyes were flat, his voice toneless. "We ask permission to enter your territory to hunt a Psy fugitive."
"Permission denied." Lucas folded his arms. "I don't make a habit of allowing enemies into my territory."
"This fugitive may be dangerous to you and your people."
Lucas smiled and it was nothing friendly. "Then the fugitive will die."
"We would prefer to capture this one alive."
"Didn't your mother ever tell you - you don't always get what you want?
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Nalini Singh (Hostage to Pleasure (Psy-Changeling, #5))
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She wouldn’t have let him,” Lucas said, touching Ashaya’s face with his palm. It was a gesture of acceptance, as well as an alpha’s offer of protection. “Dorian’s mate is a strong woman.
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Nalini Singh (Hostage to Pleasure (Psy-Changeling, #5))
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She curled her fingers into his chest instead of complying. “You’re an incredibly handsome male,” she said. “Perfect bone structure, pure blond hair, eyes so blue they should be impossible. Your only ‘flaw’ is this tattoo.” She traced the three jagged lines on his right biceps. “It’s an echo of the markings on your alpha’s face.” He gave a short nod. “A symbol of absolute loyalty.” Her lips parted. “Knowing that just makes you even more dangerously beautiful.
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Nalini Singh (Hostage to Pleasure (Psy-Changeling, #5))
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Yeah, what the hell. We can be remedial alphas together.
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Nalini Singh (Shards of Hope (Psy-Changeling, #14))
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He was an alpha bear. He had balls big enough to handle rejection.
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Nalini Singh (Silver Silence (Psy-Changeling Trinity, #1; Psy-Changeling, #16))
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After seeing what you did to that car, I don't think any of these punks are going to be playing chicken with you." Grin feral, the other man slapped him on the shoulder, his strength reverberating through Ethan. "Trust Selya to find herself a mate who can cut people in half.
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Nalini Singh (Alpha Night (Psy-Changeling Trinity, #4; Psy-Changeling, #19))
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Our mating,” she said, “was a thing of instinct. But it’s become so much more. We’ve become who mates should be to one another—lovers, friends, swords, and shields.” She held up the ring. “I want you to wear this so you never doubt who you are to me. My mate, my love, and my Ethan.
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Nalini Singh (Alpha Night (Psy-Changeling Trinity, #4; Psy-Changeling, #19))
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Such a mistake would’ve crushed me had I thought myself perfect and held myself up to some great standard of alphahood. Instead, I accepted that I can’t see into the heart of every wolf, and I did all I could to fix the resulting damage.
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Nalini Singh (Alpha Night (Psy-Changeling Trinity, #4; Psy-Changeling, #19))
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How do you always know about a birth?" Ruby asked with a mystified smile. "Wait a minute. Did Lorenzo call you?"
"Nope." Hawke winked, the thick fan of his silver-gold lashes coming down over an eye of a blue so pale, it was immediately clear that Hawke was a changeling, was wolf. "It's an alpha thing."
[...]
"Garnet."
Turning the screen in her direction, Garnet raised an eyebrow. "Yes?" She had a good idea of what was coming.
Wolf-blue eyes gleamed. "Where's your mate?"
Kenji shifted so he could scowl at Hawke. "Now you're just showing off.
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Nalini Singh (Wild Embrace (Psy-Changeling, #2.5, #5.5, #11.5, #12.25))
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All right,” he said. “Since you asked, Webmind is an emergent quantum-computational system based on a stable null-sigma condensate that resists decoherence thanks to constructive feedback loops.” He turned to the blackboard, scooped up a piece of chalk, and began writing rapidly. “See,” he said, “using Dirac notation, if we let Webmind’s default conscious state be represented by a bra of phi and a ket of psi, then this would be the einselected basis.” His chalk flew across the board again. “Now, we can get the vector basis of the total combined Webmind alpha-state consciousness...
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Robert J. Sawyer (WWW: Watch (WWW, #2))
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Hawke nodded. He trusted the alphas of the leopard and falcon packs on a gut level. Neither Lucas nor Adam would ever knife him in the back, of that both parts of him were dead certain.
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Nalini Singh (Tangle of Need (Psy-Changeling, #11))
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HAWKE had made Sienna promise to stay in place when he left to get supplies. She’d broken that promise. But since he’d found her again before he got too grumpy and hungry, he didn’t snarl as he said, “Put up the tent,” and rolled the compact package to where she lay flat on her back, staring at the soft gray of the evening sky. “It’s your punishment.” Clearly exhausted, she glared at him. “Do you never run out of energy?” He pushed up the sleeves of his sweatshirt. “I’m alpha. Right now, I’m a hungry alpha who wants to take a bite out of you for making me run the extra miles. Put up the tent.” She sat up but didn’t touch the tent. “Go bite yourself.” So, she was feeling pissy. That was fine with him. He liked it much better than the defeated pain he sensed had come close to breaking her earlier today. “Actually, I’d prefer to use my teeth on softer flesh.” He was reaching out to snag her when flames erupted along her back, in her hair. “Sienna!
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Nalini Singh (Kiss of Snow (Psy-Changeling, #10))
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Talin looked up at Clay. "Do you know what they are muttering about?"
He shook his head. "They're mated."
Oddly enough, Talin understood. Different rules applied to couples, especially couples as profoundly in sync as Lucas and Sascha. Their connection was a near visible line of pure emotion, one that made her hurt with envy.
"Tally." Clay tugged at her ponytail.
She glanced up, knowing that unlike the alpha pair, she and Clay remained divided. In her mind, she saw them on opposite ends of a glass bridge. Able to see the abyss that awaited if they didn't make it to each other, but unable to take the steps that would close the gap forever. "Sit down," she said, angry at him for being so possessive, at herself for being too scared to trust in his promise to never leave her again.
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Nalini Singh (Mine to Possess (Psy-Changeling, #4))
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Mates were equals always. “You’re my knight only in the sense that you’re my permanent and forever backup.
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Nalini Singh (Alpha Night (Psy-Changeling Trinity, #4; Psy-Changeling, #19))
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An alpha wolf could never be anything but the strongest person in the room—except when alone with his mate. Sienna knew his every scar, his every vulnerability. If she ever asked him to kneel down so she could slit his throat, he’d do it without blinking. Wolves didn’t mate lightly, and the strongest dominants in the pack were even worse. Possessive, protective, demanding—and devoted. His every breath was hers.
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Nalini Singh (Wolf Rain (Psy-Changeling Trinity, #3; Psy-Changeling, #18))
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if the time came that Hawke couldn’t take on a small E who stared at him in mutinous fury, then he needed to give up being alpha.
Inside him, his wolf was too astonished
”
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Nalini Singh (Wolf Rain (Psy-Changeling Trinity, #3; Psy-Changeling, #18))
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Tough little thing, isn’t she?” Hawke’s voice held a faint edge of respect—and coming from an alpha wolf so deadly even the most powerful Psy in the world didn’t encroach on his territory, that was a big fucking deal.
”
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Nalini Singh (Wolf Rain (Psy-Changeling Trinity, #3; Psy-Changeling, #18))
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He watched her with unyielding focus even as shards of white-hot agony thrust into his brain. Ethan had chosen.
”
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Nalini Singh (Alpha Night (Psy-Changeling Trinity, #4; Psy-Changeling, #19))
“
I asked Hogan to describe his process in performing this task. He replied: In 1998, I read Tracks in the Psychic Wilderness by Dale Graff333 [retired Defense Intelligence Agency director of the US government’s classified psi research program] in which he described how to remote view. I sat in front of a monitor with the code for a target in my mind and closed my eyes. I made my mind “an empty rice bowl.” I repeated the code to myself and waited. The impressions came and I sketched them. I nailed the target the first time. What I do hasn’t changed much [since then], but I have some nuances that are different. I go to a quiet place and sit. I close my eyes and warm down for a minute or two by relaxing. [Former army “psychic spy”] Joe McMoneagle takes 45 minutes to warm down. I’d be asleep by then. I can go only a minute or two. With my eyes closed, I blank my mind and repeat the target code or location. It could be a code like [the letters] AMEF or a location like “on the table in Wayne’s office.” I just need something to focus my attention on that thing out of the innumerable other things in the universe. I have a place I “look” in my mind, and I know my eyes actually focus on it. It isn’t like an infinity setting on a camera. I think it’s with a focus of about three feet. The next part is difficult to describe. I allow images to come. If someone says it’s an object on a table, I allow an “impression” of a table to come into that space. I’m not really remote viewing the table. It’s just a platform. Then my mind relaxes into allowing target impressions through. I may say, “Let me see the object on Wayne’s table.” As I relax into it, I get a feeling that is a little like a very small feeling of that time when you’re starting to drift into sleep. I could guess it’s going from Alpha [brainwave rhythm] into Theta, but I don’t know. I don’t hold it for long, though. I come back from it and have to go back in. I have to open my eyes and sketch what I get, but I’m not a good artist and by the time I get a part of a sketch started, I’ve lost some of the target. I write the impressions in words and sketch what I can. Then I have to close my eyes again, warm down briefly, and repeat the process. I have to stay with details and avoid naming something. I’m much better at objects than pictures. I’ve learned that everything I get is meaningful, but some can’t be associated with an object. It’s still attached to some real thing. I have had no training, and probably haven’t done more than a hundred sessions since I first learned I could do it in 1998.
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Dean Radin (Supernormal: Science, Yoga and the Evidence for Extraordinary Psychic Abilities)
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We’re all damaged in one way or another, Selenushka.
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Nalini Singh (Alpha Night (Psy-Changeling Trinity, #4; Psy-Changeling, #19))
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The teenager grabbed his arm. “I can see you, but I can’t see you . . . No, wait.” A deep frown. “You’re not gone. You’re . . . lost. Don’t fade. Don’t throw away the broken shards. You just need glue.
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Nalini Singh (Alpha Night (Psy-Changeling Trinity, #4; Psy-Changeling, #19))
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The primal heart of her reached out for the shattered heart of him and a cold, brilliant, paradoxically light-fractured darkness exploded into her mind.
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Nalini Singh (Alpha Night (Psy-Changeling Trinity, #4; Psy-Changeling, #19))
“
Being alpha is more than a position. It is more than a responsibility. It is a joy and a weight and it is who you are.
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Nalini Singh (Alpha Night (Psy-Changeling Trinity, #4; Psy-Changeling, #19))
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He was a monster, trained and raised. But he was now Selenka’s monster.
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Nalini Singh (Alpha Night (Psy-Changeling Trinity, #4; Psy-Changeling, #19))
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I see a broken Arrow and I feel him slipping away from the family we’re trying to build. Ethan is alone in a way I can’t comprehend.
—Conversation between Vasic Zen and Aden Kai (three months ago)
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Nalini Singh (Alpha Night (Psy-Changeling Trinity, #4; Psy-Changeling, #19))
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Then show me your jagged edges and your fractured pieces, your obsession and your need. Show me you.
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Nalini Singh (Alpha Night (Psy-Changeling Trinity, #4; Psy-Changeling, #19))
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Vengeance served hot is vengeance wasted.
—Unknown philosopher
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Nalini Singh (Alpha Night (Psy-Changeling Trinity, #4; Psy-Changeling, #19))
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Touch is our cornerstone
Cure for the heart
Medicine for the soul
—Anonymous changeling poet
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Nalini Singh (Alpha Night (Psy-Changeling Trinity, #4; Psy-Changeling, #19))
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Changeling justice is brutal in its honesty. We humans love to call it barbaric, but is it not more barbaric for a proven murderer to walk free because of a legal loophole?
—Editorial by Oceane Vargas for The San Francisco Gazette (January 2082)
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Nalini Singh (Alpha Night (Psy-Changeling Trinity, #4; Psy-Changeling, #19))
“
Zolotse moyo,” he said. “You are my light, the star I can always follow to find my way home.
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Nalini Singh (Alpha Night (Psy-Changeling Trinity, #4; Psy-Changeling, #19))
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Deadly wolf gold was now the color of his existence.
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Nalini Singh (Alpha Night (Psy-Changeling Trinity, #4; Psy-Changeling, #19))