“
Alright then, I guess that’s settled,” Lilly said, then she turned to Fane, “Lay a paw on my little girl and you will be a three legged Lassie, got it?”
Fane winced and then asked, “You both do realize I’m a wolf not a dog right?
”
”
Quinn Loftis (Prince of Wolves (The Grey Wolves, #1))
“
Nobody will ever fuck you the way I'm about to fuck you, Saeris Fane. I'm about to introduce you to all seven gods. When you meet them, don't forget to tell them I'm the one you worship on your knees.
”
”
Callie Hart (Quicksilver (Fae & Alchemy, #1))
“
I'll be grateful for every second that I can say that I belong to you, Saeris Fane. Eighty years or eighteen hours. It doesn't matter to me. It'll still be the highest honor of my life.
”
”
Callie Hart (Quicksilver (Fae & Alchemy, #1))
“
Lay it on me"
"I was trying to. Geez, woman, make up your mind," Fane hold her, eyes glowing. She threw one hand up to hold him off.
"I meant your idea, fur ball, not your delectable body.
”
”
Quinn Loftis
“
It’s just you, Little Monster. Own it or it will own you.
”
”
Penelope Douglas (Corrupt (Devil's Night, #1))
“
I’ll be grateful for every second that I can say I belong to you, Saeris Fane.
”
”
Callie Hart (Quicksilver (Fae & Alchemy, #1))
“
I'm in love with you, Saeris Fane,” he whispered quietly into my hair. “And I'm already half-mad, anyway. What's a little complicated thrown into the mix?
”
”
Callie Hart (Quicksilver (Fae & Alchemy, #1))
“
No darkness can conquer the light love sheds.
”
”
Quinn Loftis
“
Too much of water hast thou poor Ophelia, and therefore I forbid my tears.
But yet it is our trick, let shame say what it will. when these are gone the women will be out!
Adieu my lord, I have a speech of fire that fane would blaze,
But that this folly doubts it.
”
”
William Shakespeare (Hamlet)
“
Don't you dare die on my watch, Saeris Fane! Fisher will never forgive me if his sole reason for living is torn to pieces on her first fucking battlefield.
”
”
Callie Hart (Quicksilver (Fae & Alchemy, #1))
“
Fane lightly slapped her thigh. "Luna, behave."
"Make me," she challenged as she leaned back, causing him to growl low in his chest.
”
”
Quinn Loftis (Just One Drop (The Grey Wolves, #3))
“
Did you smoke something this morning and not share?"
Jacque rolled her eyes. "Do you really think I have to smoke something to get happy when I wake up next to Fane every morning?"
"Okay, point to you," Jen said, waving Jacque off.
”
”
Quinn Loftis (Just One Drop (The Grey Wolves, #3))
“
No, we’re talking Brad and Johnny need to bow down and recognize,” Jacque answered.
”
”
Quinn Loftis (Prince of Wolves (The Grey Wolves, #1))
“
Fane's wolf must have been in control of the wheel because he leaned down over Jacque and growled low. He placed his face against her neck, breathing deep, and his voice was guttural when he spoke. "Mine." Jacque turned her head slightly and did what no other would ever be able to do when this alpha was at this point, she looked him in the eyes. "Yes, I am yours.
”
”
Quinn Loftis (Blood Rites (The Grey Wolves, #2))
“
My bet is we'll find trouble down that way." He indicated the direction the giggles were coming from.
"Are we going to survive this week?" Fane asked Decebel wearily.
"What's this we crap? You're mated, you can go hole up with your woman. I, on the other hand, get to be smack in the middle of the festivities," Decebel said the word as if it were a disease.
”
”
Quinn Loftis (Just One Drop (The Grey Wolves, #3))
“
A week after Jacque and Fane's ceremony, Decebel had gotten in his Hummer and, without looking back, driven away from the pack mansion. And 62 days, 4 hours, and 22 minutes later he still hadn't returned. But who's counting?
”
”
Quinn Loftis (Just One Drop (The Grey Wolves, #3))
“
Man, that is so freaking yummy," Jen said, watching the exchange between Fane and Jacque along with everyone in the room. "I want one Sally, go find me one."
"One hot, loving, passionate, furry werewolf coming up," Sally said sarcastically. "Would like fries or tots with that?"
"I prefer whipped cream actually," Jen said wistfully.
”
”
Quinn Loftis (Blood Rites (The Grey Wolves, #2))
“
I'll see you there little Red.' Fane’s voice faded out of her mind and she could feel his humor. Oh, wasn't he just too cute, picking up on her two best friends' idea of a sick joke - to turn her into the little girl who almost wound up as the wolf's dinner.
"My, what big eyes you have, wolf-man," Jacque said out loud, unable to stop her sarcasm from boiling up.
“The better to see you with love,” Jen chimed in.
“What big ears you have!” Sally continued their comic relief.
“The better to hear you with my love,” Jen followed.
“What big teeth you have!” Sally mocked, her hands on either side of her face.
“The better to eat you with my love,” Jen cackled, but she wasn’t finished. True to Jen form she added her own twisted sense of humour. “My, what a big-“
Sally slapped a hand over her mouth, quickly realising where Jen was going with that statement.
”
”
Quinn Loftis (Blood Rites (The Grey Wolves, #2))
“
Three years ago, curious little Erika Fane wanted to play with the boys, so we indulged her, and she betrayed us.
”
”
Penelope Douglas (Corrupt (Devil's Night, #1))
“
Perhaps we are cursed," Karkasy told the empty fane, "to crave something which does not exist. There are no gods, no spirits, no daemons. So we make them up, to comfort ourselves.
”
”
Dan Abnett (Horus Rising (The Horus Heresy, #1))
“
For fifteen years, the people of Weep had lived with the certainty that the monsters were dead, and Eril-Fane had lived with the burden of it.
”
”
Laini Taylor (Muse of Nightmares (Strange the Dreamer, #2))
“
Saeris Fane was twenty-four years of age when she died. Honestly, she should have died a lot sooner, but the girl never did know when to give up.
”
”
Callie Hart (Quicksilver (Fae & Alchemy, #1))
“
Eril-Fane let out a slow breath. “Were you afraid of the dark as a child?”
A chill snaked up Lazlo’s spine. He thought again of the crypt at the abbey, and the nights locked in with dead monks. “Yes,” he said simply.
“Even when you knew, rationally, that there was nothing in it that could harm you.”
“Yes.”
“Well. We are all children in the dark, here in Weep.
”
”
Laini Taylor (Strange the Dreamer (Strange the Dreamer, #1))
“
Fane was so surprised by her that he barely reached her when she got in the face of one of the wolves. She had her finger in his face and was yelling every expletive known to man, and some not known for that matter.
”
”
Quinn Loftis (Prince of Wolves (The Grey Wolves, #1))
“
There is no greater torture than being forced to watch as your love, your reason for living, breathing, and existing, sinks into oblivion. Your heart stops no matter how you try to get to her, she just gets farther and farther away." ~Fane from 'Beyond the Vail'
"Attention shoppers, just a brief announcement, crazy ass werewolf on isle three. Those with abundance of testosterone, don't touch their lady merchandise and you might walk out of here intact." ~Jen from 'Fate and Fury'.
"In the event of some sort of gathering, if one of the bossy, overbearing, possessive fur balls has not flipped his switch and attacked some poor young pup in some misguided attempt to protect his woman's virtue, then the night is not over.
”
”
Quinn Loftis (Beyond the Veil (The Grey Wolves, #5))
“
Decebel looked over at Fane. "A face tu fiecare a lua ce ei say?(Do you ever get what they say?)"
Fane smiled at his Beta. "Nu mai incerce sa, (No longer try)."
"Good call." Decebel nodded.
Jen looked over at Decebel, her eyes narrowing. "No talking in foreign tongue when around the Americans."
Decebel leaned towards her, the gleam in his eyes causing Jen to tremble. "But Jennifer, I thought you spoke Romanian." He looked around at Sally and Jacque. "Weren't you two under the impression that she spoke Romanian?"
Jacque and Sally nodded despite the daggers Jen was staring their way.
"That was thoroughly impressed upon us, wouldn't you say, Sally?" Jacque turned to look at her.
"Wait. Uh yeah, I distinctly remember a bar...vodka...and I'm almost positive Jen speaking in Romanian to the hot bartender."
Sally was grinning from ear to ear as Jen's face grew red.
"I hope you two aren't attached to your undergarments because I just got the sudden urge to have a bonfire," Jen growled out.
"Note to self: hide underwear."
"Or you could just solve that problem by not wearing any." Jacque heard Fane's voice through their bond. Her jaw dropped open and her face turned bright red as she turned to look at her mate.
Jen looked at Sally. "Looks like Fane had a suggestion about the princess' undergarments. If I had my guess, I'd say he told her I couldn't burn them if she didn't own any."
If Jacque could've turned any redder she would have. "How? What..." Jacque stuttered as she looked at her blonde friend, trying to figure out how she knew what Fane had been thinking.
"It's a gift, Watson. But really what it boils down to is when it comes to chicks and underwear, guys will always say they don't mix."
Decebel coughed as he choked on his laughter while Fane had buried his face in Jacque's back, his shoulders shaking. Jacque and Sally both looked at their friend with open mouths.
”
”
Quinn Loftis (Just One Drop (The Grey Wolves, #3))
“
Jacque leaned over and whispered in Sally's ear, "I give it two days before he lays one on her."
"You're being generous. I say less than twenty four hours."
"Is that a bet?" Jacque asked, eyebrows raised.
"Better believe it," Sally answered. Her lips eased into a crooked smile.
Jen leaned around Sally and glared at her two best friends. "What are you two betting on?"
"Good grief. What, does she have eagle ears or something?"
"No, you dork. Your whisper is just you talking in normal volume but making your voice raspy. Really, you sound more like a chick who's been smoking for thirty years."
Jen shrugged. "I'm just throwing that out there. You can take it and apply it at your leisure."
Fane was chuckling at Jen's words when Jacque elbowed him, causing him to cough."You don't get to laugh, wolf-man."
Jacque turned back to Jen. "Thank you for that observation, Sherlock."
"Always glad to help a friend in need, Watson." Jen grinned at Jacque's irritated look.
”
”
Quinn Loftis (Just One Drop (The Grey Wolves, #3))
“
I know why she stormed out of here."
Decebel's and Jacque's heads both whipped around. "You do?" they both asked at the same time.
Fane raised an eyebrow at Sally's words.
Sally in turn eyeballed Decebel. "Jen never really learned how to use an inside voice. So, Decebel, why don't you share how she asked you if you were involved with Crina, and how you never really gave her an answer but instead taunted her, and then nearly made her hyperventilate with desire."
Decebel's head cocked to the side, his eyebrows drawn together. "How -"
"I would say it's a gift, but really I'm just nosy as hell. And damn, boy, the look you were giving her nearly had me in a puddle."
"Shut up!" Jacque squealed. "Are you telling me Jen stormed out of here because he got her all hot and bothered?"
Sally was grinning from ear to ear. Decebel looked like he would be perfectly happy if the universe would just swallow him whole.
"She was angry when she left," Decebel defended. "She left because she was mad."
"Yeah, mad because she's got it bad for you, Sherlock," Sally told him, rolling her eyes.
"Really? She likes me?"
Jacque laughed at Decebel's cocky smile.
"Um, if you aren't her mate that's not a good thing, Casanova," Jacque reminded him.
Sally nodded in agreement, scrutinizing Decebel. "Let's just hope that she finds her mate at Mate Fest so she can get over you."
Decebel took a step towards Sally. Fane stepped around Jacque and laid a hand on Decebel's chest, stopping him. "Easy, Beta."
Decebel closed his eyes taking slow breaths, leashing his wolf. Then Sally's words worked past the jealous fog. "Mate Fest?" he questioned.
Sally grinned. "Jen deemed it."
"Naturally," Decebel muttered with a slight smile.
”
”
Quinn Loftis (Just One Drop (The Grey Wolves, #3))
“
Perhaps we are cursed,’ Karkasy told the empty fane, ‘to crave something which does not exist. There are no gods, no spirits, no daemons. So we make them up, to comfort ourselves.
”
”
Dan Abnett (Horus Rising (Horus Heresy #1))
“
I’ve never been one to trust in the gods, but I choose to believe that all things come from the same place when life begins. I have hope that they return to the same place when it ends. I’ll be waiting for you there, Saeris Fane.
”
”
Callie Hart (Quicksilver (Fae & Alchemy, #1))
“
Everyone else had managed to pick up the tatters and mend them into wearable lives. Why couldn't he?
”
”
Laini Taylor (Muse of Nightmares (Strange the Dreamer, #2))
“
Had Fane done some Romanian voodoo on her? ‘Cause she would so do some voodoo up on his ass if he did.
”
”
Quinn Loftis (Prince of Wolves (The Grey Wolves, #1))
“
But in his heart of hearts, Fane did not choose the city. He did not choose a kingdom. He chose her.
”
”
Emily Lloyd-Jones (The Drowned Woods)
“
It is the way of our species that when one mate dies the other follows,” Fane told her.
“Oh, my gosh!” Sally exclaimed. “That is so freaking romantic! Or depressing it’s all in how you look at it. Do you have any cousins?” she asked him hopefully.
”
”
Quinn Loftis (Prince of Wolves (The Grey Wolves, #1))
“
Nice job denuding your face, by the way," she said, waggling her fingers under her chin to indicate his shave. "I'd forgotten what it looked like under there."
He grimaced. "Oh. Well, I'm sorry to have to remind you, but it itched."
"What are you talking about, sorry? You have an excellent face," she said, examining him. "It isn't pretty, but there are other ways for a face to be excellent."
He touched the sharp angle of his nose. "I do have a face," was about as far as he was willing to go.
"Lazlo," called Eril-Fane from across the room. "Gather everyone, will you?"
Lazlo nodded and rose. "Consider yourself gathered," he informed Calizte, before going off in search of the rest of the team.
”
”
Laini Taylor (Strange the Dreamer (Strange the Dreamer, #1))
“
I’m marrying little Rika Fane, motherfuckers!
”
”
Penelope Douglas (Nightfall (Devil's Night, #4))
“
Leave her alone, Damon.” “Suck me, Fane,” he shot back.
”
”
Penelope Douglas (Kill Switch (Devil's Night, #3))
“
My business is not yours. Setting aside this interesting turn of events for a moment please, I would like to purchase that black Honda Shadow, how much?” Fane asked.
”
”
Quinn Loftis (Prince of Wolves (The Grey Wolves, #1))
“
Decebel pulled Jen close in a show of gentleness that she was beginning to notice he only displayed to her. “You don’t always have to be the strong one.”
“That’s where you’re wrong, Dec. I do, for them. Sally, Lilly, and at times even Fane. I have to be the one who believes so strongly that we will get her back that I can be sarcastic. That I have the luxury of bringing humor be it light or dark into this majorly messed up situation. And not that we will just get her back, but that we will get her back whole. There are worse things than death to a woman, Decebel.
”
”
Quinn Loftis (Blood Rites (The Grey Wolves, #2))
“
I’m not a good father.” I breathed out a sigh, clutching her. “Ivarsen has no discipline. He’s going to be undriven. Fane is neurotic. Everything has to be perfect. Gunnar is going to blow us up with his machines. Dag has refused to eat a vegetable since birth, and Octavia’s going to wind up in a fucking asylum when she finds out real life pirates are just terrorists with grenade launchers.” I gulped, hating that after thousands of years there was still no proven method of raising kids. “I don’t know what to do. How the hell would I know what a good parent does and doesn’t do?
”
”
Penelope Douglas (Fire Night (Devil's Night, #4.5))
“
Jen leaned around Sally and glared at her two best friends. "What are you two betting on?"
"Good grief. What, does she have eagle ears or something?"
"No you dork. Your whisper is just you talking in normal volume but making your voice raspy. Really, you sound more like a chick who's been smoking for thirty years." Jen shrugged. "I'm just throwing that out there. You can take it and apply it at your leisure."
Fane was chuckling at Jen's words when Jacque elbowed him, causing him to cough.
"You don't get to laugh, wolf-man." Jacque turned back to Jen. "Thank you for that observation, Sherlock.
”
”
Quinn Loftis (Just One Drop (The Grey Wolves, #3))
“
«Le dipendenze rischiano di durare tutta la vita», commentò. «E io ho qualche problema di principio con le cose che hanno un decorso superiore alle tre settimane».
”
”
Virginia De Winter
“
I'm going to say this one time and one time only, so you had better listen up. The world is going to hell in a hand basket. We got Jacque running off into ponds like a crazy woman; Fane thinking he's Aqua Man, diving in after her and getting his ass captured by the wicked witch; we have freak lightening shows; thunder that shakes the ground; and wind strong enough to knock you over. And you know what's really scary? It's going to get worse before it gets better. The fan is broken from all the shit that has hit it. Yes, I have a potty mouth. I get to have one when the world as we know it is crumbling around us.
”
”
Quinn Loftis (Beyond the Veil (The Grey Wolves, #5))
“
The shoes represent my ability to provide foot coverings for you and maybe one day our children.” Fane cleared his throat and continued, fumbling along as he went.
“You see, it is important that you know that you won’t be without something on your feet, so-” Jacque held up her hand to stop Fane from going any further.
“There are no shoes in this box, are there?” Fane shook his head once. “Not one.
”
”
Quinn Loftis (Blood Rites (The Grey Wolves, #2))
“
Thus far, however, he didn't have any real objections to the idea. The person that he would not want going wasn't full blood, so he didn't have to worry about that. Thank the moon, he thought.
"We have also decided, as Fane's mate is not full blooded, that it would perhaps be wise to include half blooded and dormant in The Gathering. Obviously they are potential true mates."
And there's the other shoe, Decebel thought.
”
”
Quinn Loftis (Just One Drop (The Grey Wolves, #3))
“
I see, and sing, by my own eyes inspir'd.
So let me be thy choir, and make a moan
Upon the midnight hours;
Thy voice, thy lute, thy pipe, thy incense sweet
From swinged censer teeming;
Thy shrine, thy grove, thy oracle, thy heat
Of pale-mouth'd prophet dreaming.
Yes, I will be thy priest, and build a fane
In some untrodden region of my mind,
Where branched thoughts, new grown with pleasant pain,
Instead of pines shall murmur in the wind:
- Ode to Psyche - Excerpt
”
”
John Keats (Ode to Psyche and Other Poems)
“
She pulled out a knife from somewhere and pressed the side of the blade into my neck.
Jesus. She must be fun in bed.
I grinned. “You won’t hurt me.”
“And why not?”
“Because we’re friends.”
“You don’t know the meaning of the word!” she snapped. “You don’t care about me!”
“I would kill for you,” I shot back, getting in her face.
”
”
Penelope Douglas (Kill Switch (Devil's Night, #3))
“
Be still.
The voice repeated the words again and again, like a beating heart, until Janner was at last able to obey and to rest, rest, rest. There in the light of the Fane of Fire, Janner Wingfeather encountered---absorbed---an abiding peace that he would never forget all the days of his life.
He was still. And he was loved.
”
”
Andrew Peterson (The Warden and the Wolf King (The Wingfeather Saga, #4))
“
By noon Carter reached the jasper terraces of Kiran which slope down to the river's edge and bear that temple of loveliness wherein the King of Ilek-Vad comes from his far realm on the twilight sea once a year in a golden palanquin to pray to the god of Oukranos, who sang to him in youth when he dwelt in a cottage by its banks. All of jasper is that temple, and covering an acre of ground with its walls and courts, its seven pinnacled towers, and its inner shrine where the river enters through hidden channels and the god sings softly in the night. Many times the moon hears strange music as it shines on those courts and terraces and pinnacles, but whether that music be the song of the god or the chant of the cryptical priests, none but the King of Ilek-Vad may say; for only he had entered the temple or seen the priests. Now, in the drowsiness of day, that carven and delicate fane was silent, and Carter heard only the murmur of the great stream and the hum of the birds and bees as he walked onward under the enchanted sun.
”
”
H.P. Lovecraft (The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath)
“
All good things comes to those who wait.
”
”
Violet Fane
“
Voidbane’s roar had shaken the heavens.
”
”
Peter Fane (The Blind Dragon (A Tale from the Canon of Tarn, #1))
“
The morning after he fought the Blaidd, Fane woke to aching ribs and a corgi across his chest.
”
”
Emily Lloyd-Jones (The Drowned Woods)
“
In groves of oak, or fanes of gold, Still floats upon the morning wind, Still whispers to the willing mind.
”
”
Ralph Waldo Emerson (Poems)
“
Kai’s kids had great manners and were fairly quiet. Athos was smart, ambitious, and determined. Will’s children never fought him on anything. They did what they were told the first time he asked.
My kids…
But I stopped the thought in its tracks, remembering Ivar helping his mom make pancakes this morning.
My kids could be really sweet, actually, couldn’t they?
Gunnar was so good about helping with spills, so his mom wouldn’t slip. Fane helped her pick out books at the store for Dag and Octavia, describing the pictures and story, so she knew what to buy.
”
”
Penelope Douglas (Fire Night (Devil's Night, #4.5))
“
Why her? Why, despite my mother, who always loved me, and my friends, who always had my back, was it Erika Fane who put the air in my lungs or made my blood run hot. She always got to me.
”
”
Penelope Douglas (Corrupt (Devil's Night, #1))
“
Perhaps you enjoy being beaten," she replied, with a nod at his bruised face.
"Perhaps I wish I could be," he said, with more honesty than he'd intended.
Blodeuyn stared at him for a few heartbeats and Fane let out a breath. He was used to speaking with double-edged words, to using truths as both shield and weapon. Humans did not speak in such a manner - they either lied or they didn't.
”
”
Emily Lloyd-Jones (The Drowned Woods)
“
I’m marrying little Rika Fane, motherfuckers!” Michael yelled, and we all followed, belting our battle cry into the night.
“Whoo!” we all joined in.
Michael slapped my back. “Let’s go get my girl.
”
”
Penelope Douglas (Nightfall (Devil's Night, #4))
“
Three years ago, curious little Erika Fane wanted to play with the boys, so we indulged her, and she betrayed us. There was no way we’d forget. Once restitution was paid, my friends could have peace.
”
”
Penelope Douglas (Corrupt (Devil's Night, #1))
“
If I rolled the dice carved out of my weathered bone
And offered of my blood the libation to the fane
When even the reaper’s mockery forsakes me alone
My own clangorous thoughts are the last to remain
”
”
T.M. Lakomy
“
I see, and sing by my own eyes inspired.
O let me be thy Choir and make a moan
Upon the midnight hours;
Thy voice, thy lute, thy pipe, thy incense sweet
From swinged Censer teeming;
Thy Shrine, thy Grove, thy Oracle, thy heat
Of pale-mouthe'd Prophet dreaming!
Yes, I will be thy Priest and build a fane
In some untrodden region of my Mind,
Where branched thoughts, new grown with pleasant pain
Instead of pies shall murmer in the wind
”
”
John Keats (The Complete Poems of John Keats)
“
Clayton served the birdie to Fane, who smacked it over the net with the flick of a wrist. Tyler launched the birdie at me. It hit me on the shoulder, but I swung anyway as it bounced to the floor. “Hello? Earth to Aurora,
”
”
Nikki Jefford (Entangled (Spellbound, #1))
“
Michael holds my face, kissing my cheek, jaw, and neck. “Do you trust me?” he asks.
I…
I nod.
“Then why would you ever think the idea of children with any other woman wouldn’t make me sick?” he whispers, and I can hear the pain in his voice. “We will have kids. If you want them. But I will never not have you.” He shakes me. “Do you understand?”
A sob lodges in my throat.
“Do you understand?” he growls again. “A world where there is no us can’t happen.
”
”
Penelope Douglas (Conclave (Devil's Night, #3.5))
“
Since the belief by humans that men “change” into werewolves is false, Fane is able to do what the Canis Lupus call phasing. The wolf and the man are one, there is no changing from one to the other, a change would mean that once a man is in wolf form he is no longer a man but fully wolf and when in human form he is fully human. This is not the case, a Canis Lupus is always aware of his wolf as is the wolf always aware of the man, they exist together usually harmoniously.
”
”
Quinn Loftis (Prince of Wolves (The Grey Wolves, #1))
“
No matter the money or the meetings or the mayor’s office, Michael,” I tell him, “I’ll always be perpetually twelve. Searching for Trevor’s older brother in every room I enter.”
He never has to feel intimidated. Nothing is worth anything without him.
”
”
Penelope Douglas (Conclave (Devil's Night, #3.5))
“
You will become my best friend, my lover, and I will become yours. Even now I know you feel it, that no one in this world will ever love me as you will and no one will love you as I will. We were born to love each other and that love will grow stronger as time goes on. I worry that I won’t make you happy,” Fane’s voice was so soft, laced with tight emotions, “but that wise voice helped me see that I will. I will also make you mad, sad, annoyed, and probably a little claustrophobic at times.” Jacquelyn grinned at him, full of adoration and he pressed on encouraged by her response. “ But I will do everything in my power to make you happy. My wolf will step in when my human side steps out of line. The wolf only sees black and white. All he understands is that you are our mate . He will love you, protect you, provide for you, play with you, and make you content while my human side fills in the gaps of emotions the wolf does not understand. You will make me a better Alpha, a better man. I will give you what no other man ever could, the other half of your soul.
”
”
Quinn Loftis (Blood Rites (The Grey Wolves, #2))
“
What’s wrong Fane?” she asked him.
“You know what you are to me, yes?” he asked.
Jacque whispered her answered out loud, “Mate.”
Fane nodded his head, “Yes, Meu inimă, you are my mate . The other half of my soul, and the thought of you not wanting me is more than I can bear,” Fane told her honestly.
“No pressure huh?” Jacque said trying to lighten the mood.
“I would never ask you to do something you do not want to Luna, but I will not lie and say that I won’t follow you around like a sick puppy,” Fane said with a smile, though the tears were not quite gone yet.
”
”
Quinn Loftis (Prince of Wolves (The Grey Wolves, #1))
“
And then there was the hole. It was larger than Anna’s fist, punched jagged into the left side of Father’s chest. A black opening. Emptiness. A hole that should not be. If I reached down into it, Anna thought, I would reach into nothing, and its steel teeth would close on my shoulder and bite . . . .
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Peter Fane (The Blind Dragon (A Tale from the Canon of Tarn, #1))
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Jacquelyn you are not helping,” he told her with a growl. “I realize you do not understand the intensity of my feelings for you, but I cannot change my nature. In the wild, wolves mate for life, and a male wolf will kill any who tries to take his mate. It is the same with my species. I realize this Trent,” Fane said his name in obvious repugnance “was a part of your life and you can’t change that, and it’s not that I dislike him as a person. It’s just that I am jealous of the obvious affection you felt and still feel for him. I don’t like the fact that you were intimate with him, when that is my right alone.
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Quinn Loftis (Prince of Wolves (The Grey Wolves, #1))
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Ivarsen has no discipline. He’s going to be undriven. Fane is neurotic. Everything has to be perfect. Gunnar is going to blow us up with his machines. Dag has refused to eat a vegetable since birth, and Octavia’s going to wind up in a fucking asylum when she finds out real life pirates are just terrorists with grenade launchers.
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Penelope Douglas (Fire Night (Devil's Night, #4.5))
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Tutti sembravano avere perso la voglia di scherzare, solo Sebastian mormorò. «Lo avevo detto che non mi piacciono i gatti»
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Virginia De Winter
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Who’s your employer?” I asked, suspicious. “Who’s paying you? Who’d pay the city off to look the other way about this?” He just stared at me, unblinking and then answered, sounding almost serene. “Someone who wants you to have a chance, Mr. Torrance.” And I sat back in my chair, my eyes finally open and knowing the answer without him telling me. Christiane Fane.
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Penelope Douglas (Kill Switch (Devil's Night, #3))
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He walked over to Jacque, whose head was bowed and turned so that her neck was bared. It was like she knew instinctively to submit so as to not provoke the dominant wolf and hopefully she would subdue him in her surrender. Fane's wolf must have been the one in control of the wheel because he leaned down over Jacque and growled low. He placed his face against her neck, breathing deep, and his voice was guttural when he spoke. "Mine."
Jacque turned her head slightly and did what no other would ever be able to do when this Alpha was at this point, she looked him in the eyes. "Yes, I am yours." As soon as the words were out of her mouth, Fane pulled his power in and all of a sudden it was like a weight had been lifted and they could breathe again.
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Quinn Loftis (Blood Rites (The Grey Wolves, #2))
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Ferrol’s Law was created for ordinary Fhrey, not the Miralyith,” Gryndal said. “The Art has elevated us, and we cannot be bound by the law of a god when we have become gods ourselves.”
Arion saw Mawyndulë nodding, a look of wonder and admiration in his eyes. He would be the next fane, and it was her responsibility to make sure he was a good ruler. She stepped forward.
“How wonderful! I wasn’t aware we had achieved divinity. When exactly did that happen?”
Her tone caught them all by surprise.
“And now that we have,” she continued, “please tell me when we’ll be having tea with brother Ferrol? My mother would love his recipe for vegetable soup. As for myself, I’d like some advice on how to create my own race of people, for that ability has eluded me.
”
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Michael J. Sullivan (Age of Myth (The Legends of the First Empire, #1))
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If Dann's dane, Ann's dirty, if he's plane she's purty, if he's fane, she's flirty, with her auburnt streams, and her coy cajoleries, and her dabblin drolleries, for to rouse his rudderup, or to drench his dreams. If hot Hammurabi, or cowld Clesiastes, could espy her pranklings, they'd burst bounds agin, and renounce their ruings, and denounce their doings, for river and iver, and a night. Amin !
”
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James Joyce (Finnegans Wake)
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May showers enrich thy happy soil,
Fair land, where fanes & towers arise:
On thee let sainted pilgrims pour
The richest blessings of the skies.
The wave that round thy bosom plays,
Conscious of its endeared retreat,
When the rude tempest rocks thy domes,
In sigh resigns its happy seat.
Yet urged another glance to steal
Of thy loved form so good so fair,
Flies to avoid the painful view
Of rival lovers basking hence.
”
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Ibn Battuta (The Travels of Ibn Battutah)
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The morning sun and the endless sky beckoned. Behind her, as if on cue, Moondagger rose on his haunches, spread his white wings wide, lifted his head to the vaults, and roared. In unison, the armory crews saluted them. Anna returned their salute, crossing her chest with her fist. “Arming master,” Master Zar asked formally. “Is the rider ready for orders?” “Sir.” Master Jason nodded, fist crossing his chest. “The rider is ready.
”
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Peter Fane (The Blind Dragon (A Tale from the Canon of Tarn, #1))
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I would’ve kept my word,” he goes on. “Just kissing you and holding you, and that would’ve been enough then, because just the feel of you drove me out of my mind.” His breath is hot on my skin, and I hear the desire in his voice. “l would’ve sat you down on the counter in my parents’ dark kitchen that night, standing between your legs as I ate you up, because at any moment we could’ve been caught, and I wanted to get us into trouble. I wanted them to try to keep me from you the way they always did, only this time I wouldn’t have listened.
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Penelope Douglas (Conclave (Devil's Night, #3.5))
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Mayor Fane?” he teased to Erika, I assumed. “Two idiots are drag racing around Thunder Bay. Can you call the station and tell all units to report to Delphi heading east?” he asked and then clarified. “Alllllll units.”
I heard her voice on the other end. I couldn’t tell what she was saying, but it sounded like an angry ferret.
“Don’t be a douche,” he said, picking at the cord of his hoodie. “What else do you do all day anyway?”
More angry chatter.
“Suck me,” he mumbled, and then she said something else, and then he said, “Yeah, your mom…
”
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Penelope Douglas (Nightfall (Devil's Night, #4))
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But I watched as the
boughs of the universe grew against their nature and aligned in such a way
that you would still meet. I foresaw then that no matter how the boughs and
branches of this tree were manipulated, you and he would always collide.
There was nothing I could do to stop it.
”
”
Callie Hart (Quicksilver (Fae & Alchemy, #1))
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Homer's Hymn to Venus
Published by Garnett, "Relics of Shelley", 1862; dated 1818.
Verses 1-55, with some omissions.
Muse, sing the deeds of golden Aphrodite,
Who wakens with her smile the lulled delight
Of sweet desire, taming the eternal kings
Of Heaven, and men, and all the living things
That fleet along the air, or whom the sea,
Or earth, with her maternal ministry,
Nourish innumerable, thy delight
All seek ... O crowned Aphrodite!
Three spirits canst thou not deceive or quell:—
Minerva, child of Jove, who loves too well
Fierce war and mingling combat, and the fame
Of glorious deeds, to heed thy gentle flame.
Diana ... golden-shafted queen,
Is tamed not by thy smiles; the shadows green
Of the wild woods, the bow, the...
And piercing cries amid the swift pursuit
Of beasts among waste mountains,—such delight
Is hers, and men who know and do the right.
Nor Saturn's first-born daughter, Vesta chaste,
Whom Neptune and Apollo wooed the last,
Such was the will of aegis-bearing Jove;
But sternly she refused the ills of Love,
And by her mighty Father's head she swore
An oath not unperformed, that evermore
A virgin she would live mid deities
Divine: her father, for such gentle ties
Renounced, gave glorious gifts—thus in his hall
She sits and feeds luxuriously. O'er all
In every fane, her honours first arise
From men—the eldest of Divinities.
These spirits she persuades not, nor deceives,
But none beside escape, so well she weaves
Her unseen toils; nor mortal men, nor gods
Who live secure in their unseen abodes.
She won the soul of him whose fierce delight
Is thunder—first in glory and in might.
And, as she willed, his mighty mind deceiving,
With mortal limbs his deathless limbs inweaving,
Concealed him from his spouse and sister fair,
Whom to wise Saturn ancient Rhea bare.
but in return,
In Venus Jove did soft desire awaken,
That by her own enchantments overtaken,
She might, no more from human union free,
Burn for a nursling of mortality.
For once amid the assembled Deities,
The laughter-loving Venus from her eyes
Shot forth the light of a soft starlight smile,
And boasting said, that she, secure the while,
Could bring at Will to the assembled Gods
The mortal tenants of earth's dark abodes,
And mortal offspring from a deathless stem
She could produce in scorn and spite of them.
Therefore he poured desire into her breast
Of young Anchises,
Feeding his herds among the mossy fountains
Of the wide Ida's many-folded mountains,—
Whom Venus saw, and loved, and the love clung
Like wasting fire her senses wild among.
”
”
Percy Bysshe Shelley (The Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley)
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When I tum meoptics, from suchurban prospects, 'tis my filial's bosom, doth behold with pride, that pontificator, and circumvallator, with his dam night garrulous, slipt by his side. Ann alive, the lisp of her, 'twould grig mountains whisper her, and the bergs of Iceland melt in waves of fire, and her spoonme-spondees, and her dirckle-me-ondenees, make the Rageous Ossean, kneel and quaff a lyre! If Dann's dane, Ann's dirty, if he's plane she's purty, if he's fane, she's flirty, with her auburnt streams, and her coy cajoleries, and her dabblin drolleries, for to rouse his rudderup, or to drench his dreams. If hot Hammurabi, or cowld Clesiastes, could espy her pranklings, they'd burst bounds agin, and renounce their ruings, and denounce their doings, for river and iver, and a night. Amin!
”
”
James Joyce (Finnegans Wake)
“
Fane and Jacque looked up from the table when they heard Sally's singing all through the cafeteria. She was belting out at the top of her lungs Train's "Meet Virginia". A very pissed off looking Jen was dragging her IV pole as quickly as she could without falling, trying to catch up to her quarry. By the time Sally had reached the table, she had tears “streaming down her face from laughing so hard. She leaned over the table, panting, finishing her serenade. "Her confidence is tragic, but her intuition magic, and the shape of her body, unusual, meet Virginia!" Sally ended dramatically, arms in the air like Vanna White indicating where Jen now stood. Much to Jen's chagrin the entire cafeteria broke into applause.
Jen pasted on her most dazzling smile and waved at everyone adoringly, but to Sally she muttered under her breath, "This is war.
”
”
Quinn Loftis (Blood Rites (The Grey Wolves, #2))
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Hey,” she giggled, and I could hear her friends’ chatter in the background. “I’m not drinking. I might do some kissing. And I’m raising a little hell. Proud of me?”
“Go to the theater,” I blurted out. “Now. It’s an emergency. Stay there until I come and get you.”
There was silence, and I half-expected to be questioned, but she didn’t fight.
I heard her swallow. “Okay,” she replied quietly. “I’ll text when I’m there.”
“Love you,” I said.
“Love you too.
”
”
Penelope Douglas (Fire Night (Devil's Night, #4.5))
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When he listened to stories of knights and heroes, Fane had never considered what slaying a man might entail. He had only ever thought of shining swords and good intentions.
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Emily Lloyd-Jones (The Drowned Woods)
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A beautiful drow woman. Too beautiful. Painfully beautiful. It was not an emissary of Lolth, she knew. No, no. It was the image of Lolth herself, reaching out to her from the Abyss. Sos’Umptu fell to her knees, as did every other drow in the Fane of the Goddess.
“Many of my handmaidens have come to Menzoberranzan, my city,” Lolth said. Sos’Umptu wanted to look upon her, but dared not lift her gaze.
“They brought me here, to you, in full confidence that you would be an acceptable and accepting host.”
“I pray you found me acceptable.”
“Indeed, Sos’Umptu Baenre. Indeed. Rise now, I command. Look upon me. Let me see the love in your eyes.
”
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R.A. Salvatore (Lolth's Warrior (The Way of the Drow, #3; The Legend of Drizzt, #39))
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Et celui qui n'en vaut pas la peine, c'est l'amant "vulgaire", celui qui aime le corps plutôt que l'âme. En effet, cet amant-là n'a pas de constance, puisque l'objet même de son amour n'a pas de constance ; oui, sitôt que se fane la fleur du corps que précisément cet amant-là aimait, il s'envole et disparaît, et il trahit sans vergogne tant de beaux discours et de promesses. En revanche, celui qui aime un caractère qui en vaut la peine reste un amant toute sa vie, car il s'est fondu avec quelque chose de constant.
”
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Platón (La banquet / Phèdre / Apologie de socrate (en coffret))
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Elara pushed Hadrian and Fane out of the way as the tunnel exploded into the air, unleashing a blast of fire. Elara threw herself over the hole of the tunnel and took all the fire herself.
Hadrian and Fane watched from a distance as Elara erupted in flames, powerless to do anything to help her.
“Elara!” Hadrian called out, attempting to go after her, but Fane held him back.
“She’ll be fine,” Fane said. “She has become one with the fire.
”
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Dana Gricken (The Girl Who Walked Through Fire (The Dragonwitch Chronicles, #1))
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And then he gently placed his lips on her neck. Jacque didn’t even try to suppress the small moan that came out of her tightly closed lips. But Fane could not leave well enough alone. After he kissed her neck, he playfully nipped her neck with his teeth while pulling his lips away.
”
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Quinn Loftis (Prince of Wolves (The Grey Wolves, #1))
“
Did you just purr? ’Cause I didn’t think wolves purred.” “I didn’t purr. I rumbled,” Fane said with as much dignity as he could muster.
”
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Quinn Loftis (Prince of Wolves (The Grey Wolves, #1))
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At his answer, Captain Fane tips his head back and laughs. “Reds, did you hear that? We finally got a Sail for our sail-less ships!” Mean amusement floods the icy plains.
”
”
Raven Kennedy (Gild (The Plated Prisoner, #1))
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When man was in the world a wide-eyed boy,
And clouds of sorrow crossed his sky of joy
To scatter dewdrops on the buds of May.
Then could he work and love and fight and pray,
Nor heartsick grow in fortune's long employ.
Mighty to build and ruthless to destroy
He lived, while masked death unquestioned lay.
Now ponder we the ruins of the years,
And groan beneath the weight of boasted gain;
No unsung bacchanal can charm our ears
And lead our dances to the woodland fane,
No hope of heaven sweeten our few tears
And hush the importunity of pain.
”
”
George Santayana (Poems)
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I’ll be grateful for every second that I can say that I belong to you, Saeris Fane. Eighty years or eighteen hours. It doesn’t matter to me. It’ll still be the highest honor of my life.
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Callie Hart (Quicksilver (Fae & Alchemy, #1))
“
Don’t you dare die on my watch, Saeris Fane! Fisher will never forgive me if his sole reason for living is torn to pieces on her first fucking battlefield.
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Callie Hart (Quicksilver (Fae & Alchemy, #1))
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Over the years, Fane and I had formed a special relationship. It consisted of seeing who could get the other in the most uncomfortable situation. My personal favorite was when he had used me as collateral in a poker game and intentionally lost. I would never inform him that it amused me more than irritated me.
”
”
Mariana Thorn (Seizing Shadows (Fur, Fangs, and Fairies Book 2))
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The wind began to rush violently as he moved on, and he became aware of other creatures in the darkness. They came first as a vague awareness in his mind, then as soft cries that seemed to seep through the haze and cling inquisitively about him. At last they appeared as living bodies, touching softly with cringing fingers the flesh of his person. He laughed in maddened frenzy, knowing somehow that he was no longer in a world of living creatures, but a world of death where soulless beings wandered in hopeless search of escape from their eternal prison. He stumbled on amidst them, laughing, talking, even singing gaily, his mind no longer a part of his mortal being. All about him, the creatures of the dark world followed in cringing companionship, knowing that the maddened mortal was almost one of them. It was all a matter of time. When the mortal life was gone, he would be as they were – lost forever. Orl Fane would be with his own kind at last. Almost
”
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Terry Brooks (The Sword of Shannara (The Original Shannara Trilogy #1))
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Fane stood up and gave Mr. Mooney a glare so dark it sent a shiver down my spine. It was the first real sensation I’d experienced since the accident.
”
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Nikki Jefford (Entangled (Spellbound, #1))
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Now I was curious. Valerie jumped down from the bleachers. “Fane!” He didn’t pay attention to her. I held my breath waiting for him to tell me what he saw. Valerie sashayed her way over to Fane, red hair blazing down her shoulders.
”
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Nikki Jefford (Entangled (Spellbound, #1))
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Because power doesn’t equal worth,” Arion said. She stepped through the lodge door, walking slowly and favoring her left side. “Wisdom, the sort that your grandmother Fenelyus employed, is a far greater virtue.” She turned to Gryndal. “I told you that I had agreed to take Nyphron’s proposal to Fane Lothian. This madness can end in a sensible conclusion that doesn’t require rivers of blood.
”
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Michael J. Sullivan (Age of Myth (The Legends of the First Empire, #1))
“
There are no shortcuts. Being true to yourself and what really counts is the only route that leads anywhere.
”
”
Sarah Fane
“
Her last words grabbed his attention, and he forgot me completely. Valerie looped her arm around Fane’s and they walked toward the double doors. I was right behind them, silent as a ghost. When I reached the hall entrance leading to the locker rooms I stopped. I saw his head start to turn. I knew he was going to look back, but by the time he did I’d be gone.
”
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Nikki Jefford (Entangled (Spellbound, #1))