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Iβd said it before and meant it: Alive or undead, the love of my life was a badass.
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Richelle Mead (Blood Promise (Vampire Academy, #4))
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I envy people that know love. That have someone who takes them as they are.
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Jess C. Scott (The Devilin Fey (Naked Heat #1))
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Rejection is an opportunity for your selection.
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Bernard Branson
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You know,β he said, βthis is why I love you so much.β
Her tone was heartbreakingly warm. βWhat do you mean?β
You donβt ask me to go inside because itβs cold. You just want to make it easier for me to be where I want to stand.
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J.R. Ward (Lover Avenged (Black Dagger Brotherhood, #7))
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Ash brought my hand to his lips, his eyes never leaving mine. "I love you, Meghan Chase," he murmured against my skin. "For the rest of my life, however long we have left. I'll consider it an honor to die beside you.
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Julie Kagawa (The Iron Queen (The Iron Fey, #3))
β
I have always loved you, princess" Robin Goodfellow promised, his green eyes shining in the darkness. "I always will. And I'll take whatever you can give me.
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Julie Kagawa (The Iron Queen (The Iron Fey, #3))
β
Have you ever met someone for the first time, but in your heart you feel as if youβve met them before?
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JoAnne Kenrick (When A Mullo Loves A Woman (Pearl Kizzy, #1))
β
Crashing into the trembling void
Stretching my hand to you
Losing myself to frigid regret
Is this fragile love
A way
To say
Good-bye
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Maggie Stiefvater (Shiver (The Wolves of Mercy Falls, #1))
β
I knew from the moment I heard you, the moment I saw the gun and realized that this lovely, petit woman was the executioner, that you would never die waiting for me to save you - that you would save yourself.
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Laurell K. Hamilton (Narcissus in Chains (Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter, #10))
β
Do you think we can be friends?β I asked.
He stared up at the ceiling. βProbably not, but we can pretend.
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Priya Ardis (Ever My Merlin (My Merlin, #3))
β
V shook his head. βRemember what you saw in that clearing, cop? Howβd you like that anywhere near a female you loved?β
Butch put down the Bud without drinking from it. His eyes traveled over Rhageβs body.
βWeβre going to need a shitload of steel,β the human muttered.
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J.R. Ward (Lover Eternal (Black Dagger Brotherhood, #2))
β
Among my stillness was a pounding heart.
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Shannon A. Thompson (Seconds Before Sunrise (Timely Death, #2))
β
Vane grabbed me. βDuLac, letβs chat.β
Chat. British-speak for βStand still while I yell at you.
β
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Priya Ardis (My Merlin Awakening (My Merlin, #2))
β
The passion I feel for you is more than youβre prepared for. - Eric
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Kailin Gow (The Phantom Diaries (The Phantom Diaries, #1))
β
One hand was behind his back, and he held it out, presenting a bouquet of white and smoky purple lilies.
βTheyβre straight from the underworld, by the way. They are everlasting. They wonβt die.
β
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Jess C. Scott (The Devilin Fey (Naked Heat #1))
β
I could recognise his soul in mine as much as he could find me in his. Our sole existences seemed to have been for this very moment when nothing else mattered.
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X. Williamson (Distract My Hunger)
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I should go," I said thickly. "Let me know when you want to start practice again. And thanks for...talking."
I started to turn; then I heard him say abruptly, "No."
I glanced back. "What?"
He held my gaze, and something warm and wonderful and powerful shot between us.
"No," he repeated. "I told her no."
"I..." I shut my mouth before my jaw hit the floor. "But...why? That was a once-in-a-lifetime thing. You could have had a baby. And she...she was, you know, into you..."
The ghost of a smile flickered on his face. "Yes, she was. Is. And that's why I had to say no. I couldn't return that...couldn't give her what she wanted. Not when..." He took a few steps toward me. "Not when my heart is somewhere else.
β
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Richelle Mead (Frostbite (Vampire Academy, #2))
β
I was trying to make you jealous!" Simon screamed, right back. His hands were fisted at his sides. "You're so stupid, Clary. You're so stupid, can't you see anything?"
She stared at him in bewilderment. What on earth did he mean? "Trying to make me jealous? Why would you try to do that?"
She saw immediately that this was the worst thing she could have asked him.
"Because," he said, so bitterly that it shocked her, "I've been in love with you for ten years, so I thought it seemed like the time to find out whether you felt the same about me. Which, I guess you don't.
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Cassandra Clare (City of Bones (The Mortal Instruments, #1))
β
When you give yourself to me, completely, I will bite you. Until then, my love, I will only nibble on you.β~Cole
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Tina Carreiro (Power of the Moon (Power of the Moon #1))
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With every breath I take, I will always love you.
β
β
Jennifer L. Armentrout (Every Last Breath (The Dark Elements, #3))
β
if i had to choose between breathing or loving you, i would say 'i love you' with my last breath
β
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Shannon Dermott (Waiting for Mercy (Cambion, #2))
β
There is no law stronger than that of
magic. - Kian
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Kailin Gow (Bitter Frost (Frost, #1))
β
It had insta-love, the bane of my existence. Girl sees boy and falls in love. Immediately. Soul mate, breath stealing, toes curling, love after one conversation. Boy pushes girl away for some paranormal reason or another. Girl still loves boy. Boy finally admits love.
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Jennifer L. Armentrout (Onyx (Lux, #2))
β
Vaneβs lips tightened to suppress a smile. βWhy so hostile, love?β
βYou whacked me on the head with a ball!β
βYou deserved it.
β
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Priya Ardis (My Merlin Awakening (My Merlin, #2))
β
Aidan from the past: He took her hands in his bloodied, callused ones. βAccept me?β His eyes glowed, his lashes spiked from rain.
Declan in the present: He gripped her nape. βI fuckin love you, Regin!β Rain spiked his lashes as he gazed down at her, commanding her, βLove me back!
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Kresley Cole (Dreams of a Dark Warrior (Immortals After Dark, #10))
β
Do I look like I want to be involved in your teen love saga? Ask someone who cares.
β
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Priya Ardis (My Boyfriend Merlin (My Merlin, #1))
β
I caught his hand. βWhat do you want me to do?β
Leaning down, he kissed the pulse beating on my neck just above the damaged skin. βTomorrow, I need you to die.
β
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Priya Ardis (My Merlin Awakening (My Merlin, #2))
β
Because all I could think about was you, Anna, and how good you are, and what you'd think of me. You put thoughts into my head a Neph shouldn't have!
β
β
Wendy Higgins (Sweet Evil (Sweet, #1))
β
He felt like home.
β
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JoAnne Kenrick (When A Mullo Loves A Woman (Pearl Kizzy, #1))
β
HARRY DRESDENβWIZARD Lost Items Found. Paranormal Investigations. Consulting. Advice. Reasonable Rates. No Love Potions, Endless Purses, Parties, or Other Entertainment
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Jim Butcher (Storm Front (The Dresden Files, #1))
β
Drink from the fountain of love where every drop is eternal passion.
β
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Mahogany SilverRain (Ebony Encounters: A Trilogy of Erotic Tales)
β
I saw you, and I wanted to be close to you. I wanted you to let me in. I wanted to know you in a way no one else did. I wanted you, all of you.
β
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Becca Fitzpatrick (Finale (Hush, Hush, #4))
β
He's like six hundred years younger than you are. I refuse to be the moral compass of our cell! Most weekends I have an intoxispell bong attached to my mouth like a respirator. I love scatological humor, and I list 'pranks involving nuclear waste' and 'making demons eat things' as my hobbies.
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Kresley Cole (Dreams of a Dark Warrior (Immortals After Dark, #10))
β
By the time Bones announced it was Tammy's turn, I'd fallen in love with him all over again. Flowers and jewelry worked for most girls as a romantic gesture, but here I was, misty-eyed at watching him show my mother how to stab the shit out of him.
β
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Jeaniene Frost (Death's Excellent Vacation)
β
I love how he sometimes gets embarrassed by the mushy stuff between us and then his voice gets all gruff and he tickles me or kisses me to shut us both up. Boy, do we ever kiss. We make out like champions.
β
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Cynthia Hand
β
So just let me deal with it, I can be emotionally flawed and still love you all at the same time. Iβm a great multitasker.
β
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Holly Hood (Prison of Paradise (Wingless, #4))
β
Don't get pissy with me leech." With a glare, Carrow pressed her print to his torque. "Even tapped out, I can still do a love spell to make you fall in love--with the sun.
β
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Kresley Cole (Dreams of a Dark Warrior (Immortals After Dark, #10))
β
She affected me, even when she was absent.
β
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Shannon A. Thompson (Seconds Before Sunrise (Timely Death, #2))
β
Emma turned to him, bottom lip trembling. βFor me?β
βAlways for you. All things for you. He coughed into his fist βAll your own.
β
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Kresley Cole (A Hunger Like No Other (Immortals After Dark, #1))
β
Lips to lips, mouth to mouth,
Comes the speaker of the shrouds,
Suck in the spirit, speak the words,
Let secrets of the dead be heard.
β
β
Yasmine Galenorn (Witchling (Otherworld / Sisters of the Moon, #1))
β
Our universe grants every soul a twin-
a reflection of themselves -the kindred spirit - And no matter where they are or how far away they are from each other- even if they are in different dimensions, they will always find one another. This is destiny; this is love.
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Julie Dillon
β
You are such a tease, Remyβyou just love to lead every guy on. Donβt you? But youβre the one whoβs going to get hurt. Logan is a player. Trust me, I know him and his kind.
β
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Hope Worthington (Shifting Moon: Shifting Moon Saga, Book 1)
β
Heβd used the amulet to read my thoughts again.
I pictured smacking him in the face.
β
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Priya Ardis (Ever My Merlin (My Merlin, #3))
β
I came to conquer this land and its people, but instead, one of its people conquered me.
β
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Laura Thalassa (Pestilence (The Four Horsemen, #1))
β
He was acting like our kiss had broken him, and his reaction was breaking me.
β
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Shannon A. Thompson (Seconds Before Sunrise (Timely Death, #2))
β
You're still... Declan?"--
--Voice hoarse, he said, "Aye, it's me. I will never be your perfect Viking, Regin! I've made unforgivable mistakes. I've no family or friends, and my men hold no love for me. I'm scarred inside and out. And I'm bloody askin' for you anyway!
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Kresley Cole (Dreams of a Dark Warrior (Immortals After Dark, #10))
β
Later, I would understand more fully how deep and enduring the love of a mother for her child can be, but at that time, I just knew she felt something coming, something dangerous.
β
β
Steven Decker (Child of Another Kind)
β
Weave the circle, tightly sewn,
Let nothing evil or unknown
Enter within. Stay without
On pain of death, we cast you out.
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β
Yasmine Galenorn (Blood Wyne (Otherworld / Sisters of the Moon, #9))
β
His gaze swept her head to toe. βYouβre wearing my colors, love.β He stalked forward and leaned down to brush her cheek with a kiss. βSoon youβll be wearing me,β he whispered for her ears only.
β
β
Rebecca Zanetti
β
We come together, we create our families, we chose our mates out of the desire to form a life together. Love takes many forms, wears many faces, but when it's real, when it touches your heart, you will know it and--with hope--embrace it. Love is stronger than hate, love is stronger than anger. Love is stronger than all artificial divisions that exist n our world.
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Yasmine Galenorn (Demon Mistress (Otherworld / Sisters of the Moon, #6))
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No one can force you to become a monster β you hurt someone and you create your own demons.
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β
Melody Manful (Dominion (Guardian Angels, #1))
β
Get away from my ex-girlfriend, you moany little whinge-bag.'
Caelen took a deep breath, like he was in pain, and stood up. His voice was low, guttural. 'I was hoping I'd get the chance to kill you.'
'You won't be killing anyone, you sad little emo git.'
'You've stood in the way of our love for long enough.'
'Just listening to you makes me want to top myself, you self-pitying Paranormal Romance novel reject.'
Caelen glared. 'Stop insulting me.'
'Why? If you cry will your mascara run?
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Derek Landy (Death Bringer (Skulduggery Pleasant, #6))
β
I don't think that science and the paranormal have to be at war; in fact, it's crucial that they work together. It seems naΓ―ve to believe that the world is exactly as it seems.
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Chelsie Shakespeare (The Pull)
β
She touched something deep in his soul. He didn't believe in love at first sight, but the thought of hurting her made his chest ache.
β
β
Jodie B. Cooper (Beloved LifeMate)
β
It is not always what we do, Sa'han, but who we love that makes us who we are. Quen
β
β
Kim Harrison (The Hollows Insider (The Hollows, #9.5))
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Will you be my forever, Donia?
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β
Melissa Marr (Darkest Mercy (Wicked Lovely, #5))
β
Love is more than just feeling something Syn, it's the connection of two souls that intertwine and cannot be without the other. It's not just saying you love someone, itβs showing them with every fucking breath you take, every look. It just is, simple as that. That kind of love doesn't die. It withers the soul without the other to keep it alive.
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Amelia Hutchins (Fighting Destiny (The Fae Chronicles, #1))
β
Oh, uh-uh," Shaundelle said. "I'm not gonna be no place where no ghost is gonna be knockin' nobody upside the head. I'm outta here. I'm not going to take any chances that some ghost is gonna mess up this pretty face.
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Deborah Leblanc (Toe to Toe (Nonie Broussard Ghost Tracker Series))
β
Because I know it in my bones. You are the only female I desire, the only water that will quench my thirst, the only sun that will warm my skin, the only lips that were made for mine.
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Dannika Dark (Impulse (Mageri, #3))
β
Reading a good book in silence is like eating chocolate for the rest of your life and never getting fat.
β
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Becca Fitzpatrick (Kiss Me Deadly: 13 Tales of Paranormal Love)
β
Margaret's voice, with its raspy twang, reminded her of magnolias and whiskey.
β
β
Deborah Leblanc (Toe to Toe (Nonie Broussard Ghost Tracker Series))
β
He's not meeting my eyes anymore. "We're young," he says. "We've got lots of time to fall in love.
β
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Cynthia Hand (Unearthly (Unearthly, #1))
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He whom the gods love dies young.
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Menander (The Plays and Fragments)
β
Love will have its sacrifices. No sacrifice without blood.
β
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J. Sheridan Le Fanu (Carmilla)
β
A true test of someoneβs love is how they act when theyβre stressed and not how much they love you when everythingβs goinβ good.
β
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T.R. Graves (Warriors of the Cross (Warrior, #1))
β
β¦Youβre throwing us away because youβre afraid to let yourself fall in love. Youβre searching for something that isnβt real. Youβre not Eric Stone. Heβs your protagonist. Eric Stone is make-believe and life isnβt an adventure novel.
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Diane L. Kowalyshyn (Crossover (Cross your Heart and Die, #1))
β
We have formed a sick little friendship over the past year
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Dee Remy (There Once Was A Boy)
β
Willow, you know that you said you couldn't tell how I felt at the rest stop?"
I nodded, and he took my hand, laying it flat on his chest with his own resting over it. "Can you tell now?" he asked.
His heart beat firmly under my hand; my own pulse was pounding so hard that I could barely think straight. Closing my eyes, I took a deep, steadying breath, and then another as I tried to clear my mind, to feel what he was feeling. For a moment there was just the softness of our breathing--then all at once it washed over me in a great wave.
He was in love with me, too.
I opened my eyes. Alex was still holding my hand to his chest, watching me, his expression more serious than I'd ever seen it. Unable to speak, I slowly dropped my hand and wrapped my arms around him. His own arms came around me as he rested his head on my hair.
"I really do, you know," he said, his voice rough.
"I know," I whispered back. "I do, too.
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L.A. Weatherly (Angel (Angel, #1))
β
Patti told me that to truly love someone, you must hold them in an open hand. That was how I needed to love Kai. It was necessary to uncurl my fingers and let him go.
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Wendy Higgins (Sweet Evil (Sweet, #1))
β
Unfortunately for you love, I take my pleasure with a shot of pain
β
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Keri Lake (Somnium (Halos, #1))
β
No ale for the girl, Birgit," Aidan said to the woman. "Do we not have milk?"
Regin's face heated. And all the worse, because she would dearly love some milk.
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Kresley Cole (Dreams of a Dark Warrior (Immortals After Dark, #10))
β
He loves me. Inside his head, his every thought and reaction was born of love, love inside and out, crazy, irrational (and sure, a bit lustful) love. He loves me, and that's also what terrified him when he saw me all lit up like a Christmas tree. He doesn't know what I am, but he loves me.
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Cynthia Hand
β
Catch me, Seth," she invited.
He paused.
"Faeries chase," he said, an then , with a flirtatious smile, he turned away, but before he could take a second step, she was behind him, arms around him, lips pressed against his neck.
"I seem caught," he murmured.
The Summer Queen whispered, "Me too."
And They fell together in a bed of flowers that now covered the floor
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Melissa Marr (Darkest Mercy (Wicked Lovely, #5))
β
Nonie chewed on her bottom lip for a moment. She'd told Fezzo so much already yet there wasn't a speck of incredulity in his eyes. His expression was serious, and she had his full attention. "I'm not quite sure about what to do with Helen, the ghost that followed me home.
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Deborah Leblanc (Toe to Toe (Nonie Broussard Ghost Tracker Series))
β
Recent studies have shown that approximately 40% of authors are manic depressive. The rest of us just drink.
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Melodie Campbell (Rowena Through the Wall)
β
Nathaniel Strider could never love. He's obviously discovered early on that girls' hearts were vulnerable and all a lad needed was a penetrating gaze and a disarming smile and the world was at his feet.
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Tess Oliver (Camille (Camille, #1))
β
He'd died. Plain and simple. And it pissed him off. Left him frustrated and disappointed. Where had all , the guardian angel crap they'd fed him in catechism gone to? He'd seen no angels, seraphim, archangels or pearly gates. No one to show him the ropes now that he was dead. What the hell was he supposed to do?
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Deborah Leblanc (Toe to Toe (Nonie Broussard Ghost Tracker Series))
β
You also would love to hang out with Logan. And donβt even try to deny, you think Logan is super-hot. I know you. You like him, and he likes you. He was insanely worried about you last night. Heβs either head over heels for you or heβs your guardian angel. He was insanely worried about you last night. If I didnβt know you had just met, I would swear he was in love with you.β Meredith said in an excited tone.
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Hope Worthington (Shifting Moon: Shifting Moon Saga, Book 1)
β
Robert, Iβm sorry that you feel so strange, but Iβm not sorry that youβre feeling it because of me,β I whispered, my heart feeling a familiar twinge as I continued, βbut even if you hadnβt felt it, it would not change the way I feel about you.
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S.L. Naeole (Falling From Grace (Grace, #1))
β
When Shaundelle turned and looked back at Nonie she had her lips pursed. "The man say wear whatever you want. Wear black, girl. It's slimmin', not that you need any slimmin' with your skinny self, but it makes me look like I've been dietin' for a week. I don't want to be the only one wearin' black, so wear black, okay?
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Deborah Leblanc (Toe to Toe (Nonie Broussard Ghost Tracker Series))
β
Although this scouting gig sounded like a financial hit, it made Nonie extremely nervous. She feared someone slip--that someone being Buggy--and others would find out Nonie's secret. And if the wrong person caught wind that she could see and speak to the dead, word would spread through Clay Point like ants at a picnic.
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Deborah Leblanc (Toe to Toe (Nonie Broussard Ghost Tracker Series))
β
She doesnβt need the pack. She doesnβt need me.β
I shot to my feet. βThatβs not true,β I said hotly.
He tilted his head a little, his eyes meeting mine. His eyes softened. βI misspoke,β he said in a steady voice. βShe doesnβt need me to make sure she has enough food or a place to live-that is my privilege, but she doesnβt need me to do that. She doesnβt need me to keep her safe or to make her a whole person. She doesnβt need me to do anything except love her. Which I do.
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Patricia Briggs (Fire Touched (Mercy Thompson, #9))
β
Don't you dare throw your life away for an unknown superstition. If you die --" My voice broke, and I swallowed thickly. "I love you," I whispered, fisting my hands against his stomach. "You can't leave. You swore you wouldn't."
Ash's hands came to rest over mine, twining our fingers together. "Even if the world stands against you," he murmured, bowing his head. "I promise.
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Julie Kagawa
β
This is what the Problem means,β he went on. βThis is the effect it has. Lives lost, loved ones taken before their time. And then we hide our dead behind iron walls and leave them to the thorns and ivy. We lose them twice over, Lucy. Deathβs not the worst of it. We turn our faces away.
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Jonathan Stroud (The Empty Grave (Lockwood & Co., #5))
β
...I don't know what marriages are like on your plane. I know Fae marriages can be all about respect and treating your wife like a lady. That's crap, love. You're my wife. I'm going to do all sorts of filthy things to you because you belong to me. You're my little toy. I'm going to fuck you as often as I can and in as many ways as my filthy mind can come up with. That's a strong marriage.
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Sophie Oak (Beast (A Faery Story, #2))
β
I want to know when you're worried, when you're angry or happy or sad. You can probably do the same to me, though I'm slightly better at shielding my emotions. More practice."
"A shadow crossed his face, a flicker of pain, before it was gone. "Unfortunately, the longer we're together, the harder hiding it will become, for both of us." He shook his head and gave me a wry smile. "One of the hazards of having a faery in love with you.
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Julie Kagawa (The Iron Queen (The Iron Fey, #3))
β
I noticed him right away. No, it wasnβt his lean, rugged face. Or the dark waves of shiny hair that hung just a little too long on his forehead. It wasnβt the slim, collarless biker jacket he wore, hugging his lean shoulders. It was the way he stood. The confident way he waited in the cafeteria line to get a slice of pizza. He didnβt saunter. He didnβt amble. He stood at the center, and let the other people buzz around him. His stance was straight and sure.
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Priya Ardis (Ever My Merlin (My Merlin, #3))
β
They say love is blind...but it isn't. Love is perfect sight. Love is the ability to see a person, I mean really see him-his strengths, his weaknesses, his flaws, all his past triumphs and mistakes-and view that person not as the world says you're supposed to see him, but as you see him-as that special someone you know you will always embrace, body and soul, no matter what anyone else says or thinks
I know I can't tell anyone what I've been through. I know they wouldn't understand. They don't see him the way that I see him. All they know is the legend, the darkness. They don't know the inner beauty, the warmth and the joy more intense than anything I ever thought was possible to experience.
They don't know the truth behind the name.
My angel.
My only.
Lucifer.
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Marlon Pierre-Antoine (Wandering Stars)
β
He nodded. "I think you're good for him, Meghan," he said, smiling in a small, sad way that was completely different from the Puck I knew. "I see the way he looks at you, something I haven't seen in him since the day we lost Ariella. And...I know you love him in a way that you can't love me." He looked away, just for a moment, and took a deep breath. "Jealousy isn't something that we deal with well," he admitted. "But some of us have been around long enough to know when to let go, and what is most important. The happiness of my two best friends should be more important than some ancient feud.
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Julie Kagawa (The Iron Queen (The Iron Fey, #3))
β
A king without a Queen." Kian sighed, breathing mist into the air. He held me tighter, kissing me with a heat that seemed to thaw the very snow on which we stood. "You don't know me as well as you think you do," he said. "What I'm holding back. What I'm capable of. You haven't felt it - how much I love you...
β
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Kailin Gow (Silver Frost (Frost, #3))
β
You think I am very cute, you think me sexy, as well. I can read your thoughts, remember.β
I hoisted myself up and slid across his body. You are conceited, arrogant, and domineering, everything I dislike in a man.
And you are independent, stubborn, and heedless, everything I dislike in a women.
I slid my hands under his back and kissed his dampened lips. So why is it that I love you so much?
He smiled a smug, masculine little smile and captured my legs with his.
Because I love you, and to be loved by a Dark One is enough for any woman.
I pinched him in a particularly vulnerable spot and allowed him to kiss me with all the sexy arrogance he had.
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Katie MacAlister (Sex and the Single Vampire (Dark Ones #2))
β
Rough times." Qhuinn shrugged. "And I'm not interested in saints."
"Really? You're in love with one," Layla chimed in.
As Qhuinn glanced over at Blay, his mismatched eyes narrowed.
"Damn straight I am," he said softly.
As the redhead turned red--natch--that connection between the two males became positively tangible.
Love was such a beautiful thing.
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J.R. Ward (The King (Black Dagger Brotherhood #12))
β
We were arrogant and naive, thinking we knew what we felt then was love. Love can be a cheap emotion, lightly given, thought it didnΒ΄t seem so to me at the time. Looking back, I know we were only filling in the holes in our soles, the way the tide rushes sand to fill in the crevices of a rocky shore. We-or maybe it was just I-bandaged our needswith what we declared was love. But, eventually, the tide draws out what it has swept in.
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Alma Katsu (The Taker (The Taker, #1))
β
Please,β I gasped out.
He just brushed his lips against my jaw, my neck, my mouth.
βTamlin,β I begged. He palmed my breast, his thumb flicking over my nipple. I cried out, and he buried himself in me with a mighty stroke.
For a moment, I was nothing, no one.
Then we were fused, two hearts beating as one, and I promised myself it always would be that way as he pulled out a few inches, the muscles of his back flexing beneath my hands, and then slammed back into me. Again and again.
I broke and broke against him as he moved, as he murmured my name and told me he loved me. And when that lightning once more filled my veins, my head, when I gasped out his name, his own release found him. I gripped him through each shuddering wave, savoring the weight of him, the feel of his skin, his strength.
For a while, only the rasp of our breathing filled the room.
I frowned as he withdrew at lastβbut he didnβt go far. He stretched out on his side, head propped on a fist, and traced idle circles on my stomach, along my breasts.
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Sarah J. Maas (A Court of Mist and Fury (A Court of Thorns and Roses, #2))
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I had my arms around his waist, smiling as I looked up at him. Being with Alex made me so completely happy, in an easy, uncomplicated way that I hadn't felt since I was a small child. "I love you," I said. In the five days we'd been there, it was the first time I'd said the words to him in English; they just slipped out.
Alex's expression went very still as he looked down at me, his dark hair stirred by the slight breeze. I picked up a sudden wave of his emotions, and they almost brought tears to my eyes. Gently, he took my face in his hands and kissed me.
"I love you, too," he said against my lips.
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L.A. Weatherly (Angel (Angel, #1))
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When her blue-black eyes lifted to his, everything disappeared. Their bodies dematerialized. The room they were in ceased to exist. Time became nothing. And in the void, in the wormhold, Wrath's chest opened up sure as if he'd been shot, a piercing pain licking over his nerve endings.
He knew then that there are many ways for a heart to break. Sometimes it's from the crowding of life, the compression of responsibility and birthright and burden that just squeezed you until you couldn't breathe anymore. Even though your lungs were working just fine. And sometimes it's from the casual cruelty of a fate that took you far from where you had thought you would end up.
And sometimes it's age in the face of youth. Or sickness in the face of health. But sometimes it's just because you're looking into the eyes of your lover, and your gratitude for having them in your life overflows...because you showed them what was on the inside and they didn't run scared or turn away: they accepted you and loved you and held you in the midst of your passion or your fear...or your combination of both.
Wrath closed his eyes and focused on the soft pulls at his wrist. God, they were just like the beat of his heart. Which made sense.
Because she was the center of his chest. And the center of his world.
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I can't wait." Kian pressed my hands to his lips. "I love you with all my heart, all my being, all of myself. Whatever my mother says, whatever the law says, you are still my intended. I can feel it. Feel it the way I feel the power of Winter Magic in my blood. It is a truth more ancient than any laws, any magic. We can still communicate telepathically, with our minds, which is one magic of love. When you have love for someone, and it is returned, lovers can communicate through the mind - as long as we have that connection, we will never be truly parted. Promise me that, Breena.
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We kissed again. It grew deeper; Alex wrapped his arms around me, drawing me close against him. His back was smooth and warm. I ran my hands over it as we kissed, loving the feel of his skin, and almost went faint as his lips moved briefly to my neck and then found my mouth again. In my entire life, nothing had ever felt as good as Alex kissing me like that. When we finally pulled apart, both our hearts were pounding.
I cleared my throat, skimming my fingers along his forearm. "Alex, you, um...you know that I've never--"
"I know," he broke in softly. He reached for my hand, linking his fingers through mine. "Willow, it's OK. We'll do whatever you want. I just want to be with you; I don't care.
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L.A. Weatherly (Angel (Angel, #1))
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You want to β¦?β His other eye popped open as I started to slide down his body, intent on exploring that part of him which had given me so much pleasure. He grabbed me before I was able to move four inches. I looked up, worried that I had done something wrong. A familiar strained, tense look was on his face, his eyes screwed up tight. I looked down at his penis. It was no longer in a resting state. βI thought you were sated?β
I was. Until you went and mentioned doing that to me.
No! Donβt touch me there, woman! For the love of β grk!β
A half hour later, Gabriel, his arm wrapped around me because my legs were unusually weak, hustled me toward the house with a grim look on his face.
I will beat this,β he muttered. βI am a wyvern, I am strong. I will control my needs long enough to give you pleasure, and you will enjoy it, dammit!β
I said nothing, but I smiled. A lot. [May and Gabriel, pg. 307]
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Katie MacAlister (Playing With Fire (Silver Dragons, #1))
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Holding my pendant, I lay on my side without moving, noiseless tears streaming down my face until the pillow grew damp beneath my cheek. I didn't want to die. I wanted to live, to be with Alex, to experience so much more than I had so far. But just then, it was Alex I was crying for. All that he'd gone through, all those deaths of people he loved--and now he was having to experience it again, with me. Thinking of what he was going through was like being beaten up inside; it was even worse than imagining whatever might happen the next day. Part of me hoped that he really did hate me now--maybe it would help; maybe it would make it not hurt so much.
And more than that, I guess I was crying for both of us...that it hadn't turned out to be always, after all.
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L.A. Weatherly (Angel (Angel, #1))