β
Iβd said it before and meant it: Alive or undead, the love of my life was a badass.
β
β
Richelle Mead (Blood Promise (Vampire Academy, #4))
β
You guessed? You must have been pretty sure, considering you could have killed me."
"I was ninety percent sure."
"I see," Clary said. There must have been something in her voice, because he turned to look at her. Her hand cracked across his face, a slap that rocked him back on his heels. He put his hands on his cheek, more in surprise than pain.
"What the hell was that for?"
"The other ten percent.
β
β
Cassandra Clare (City of Bones (The Mortal Instruments, #1))
β
You've won the evolutionary lottery: You're a vampire. Let's go to Disneyland!
β
β
J.R. Ward (Dark Lover (Black Dagger Brotherhood, #1))
β
I envy people that know love. That have someone who takes them as they are.
β
β
Jess C. Scott (The Devilin Fey (Naked Heat #1))
β
The sunset bled into the edges of the village. Smoke curled out of the cottage chimney like a crooked finger.
β
β
Sara Pascoe (Being a Witch, and Other Things I Didn't Ask For)
β
You so need to lighten up about that potato-launcher incident," Butch said.
Phury rolled his eyes and eased back in the banquette. "You broke my window."
"Of course we did. V and I were aiming for it."
"Twice."
"Thus proving that he and I are outstanding marksmen.
β
β
J.R. Ward (Lover Unbound (Black Dagger Brotherhood, #5))
β
You know how sometimes you tell yourself that you have a choice, but really you don't have a choice? Just because there are alternatives doesn't mean they apply to you.
β
β
Rick Yancey (The 5th Wave (The 5th Wave, #1))
β
Rejection is an opportunity for your selection.
β
β
Bernard Branson
β
That took balls."
"Please," I said with a snort, "that took ovaries. Of which I have two.
β
β
Darynda Jones (First Grave on the Right (Charley Davidson, #1))
β
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.
β
β
J.R. Ward (Lover Avenged (Black Dagger Brotherhood, #7))
β
Terrific. A bisexual dominant vampire with kidnapping expertise.
β
β
J.R. Ward (Lover Unbound (Black Dagger Brotherhood, #5))
β
We'd stared into the face of Death, and Death blinked first. You'd think that would make us feel brave and invincible. It didn't.
β
β
Rick Yancey (The 5th Wave (The 5th Wave, #1))
β
I think we need to have a little talk, woman to skank.
β
β
Jeaniene Frost
β
Maybe I needed sensitivity training. I once signed up for an anger management class, but the instructor pissed me off.
β
β
Darynda Jones (First Grave on the Right (Charley Davidson, #1))
β
Run first,' Shane said. 'Mourn later.'
It was the perfect motto for Morganville.
β
β
Rachel Caine (Glass Houses (The Morganville Vampires, #1))
β
Okay, God, I thought. Get me out of this and Iβll stop my half-assed church-going ways. You got me past a pack of Strigoi tonight. I mean, trapping that one between the doors really shouldn't have worked, so clearly you're on board. Let me get out of here, and Iβll...I donβt know. Donate Adrianβs money to the poor. Get baptized. Join a convent. Well, no. Not that last one.
β
β
Richelle Mead (Blood Promise (Vampire Academy, #4))
β
Why don't I just give you a pair of my panties to hang around your neck? Then whenever you feel jealous, you can wave them at whoever's pissing you off.
β
β
Jeaniene Frost
β
Tasers are a one-size-fits-all paranormal butt-kicking option. Mineβs pink with
rhinestones.
β
β
Kiersten White (Paranormalcy (Paranormalcy, #1))
β
That's you," Wrath said. You shall be called the Black Dagger warrior Dhestroyer, descended of Wrath son of Wrath."
"But you'll always be Butch to us," Rhage cut in. "As well as hard-ass. Smart-ass. Royal pain in the ass. You know, whatever the situation calls for. I think as long as there's an ASS in there, it'll be accurate."
"How about bASStard?" Z suggested.
"Nice. I feel that.
β
β
J.R. Ward (Lover Revealed (Black Dagger Brotherhood, #4))
β
WHAT ARE YOU, NUTS? THE MAN'S A VAMPIRE!
Yeah, but he's a really, REALLY sexy one.
β
β
Sherrilyn Kenyon (Night Pleasures (Dark-Hunter #1))
β
If I couldn't be a good example, I'd just have to be a horrible warning.
β
β
Darynda Jones (First Grave on the Right (Charley Davidson, #1))
β
You are mine, woman, and I am yours. Until you, my life was desolate. I existed, but I didn't truly live. Now I live, even in my death.
β
β
Gena Showalter (The Darkest Night (Lords of the Underworld, #1))
β
I am going to knock the slut out of you. And that should take some doing, you uppity English tramp!
β
β
Jeaniene Frost
β
The summer sun bowing out threw slashes of colour between the buildings. London looked big, empty, and lonely. She stood in the doorway, like a cat trying to make up its mind.
β
β
Sara Pascoe (Being a Witch, and Other Things I Didn't Ask For)
β
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.
β
β
Julie Kagawa (The Iron Queen (The Iron Fey, #3))
β
Oscar looked up from his plate, and if a cat could laugh, he would have. βBoy, thatβs ugly, even for a jinn. Looks like a cross between a rat, a frog and a bottlebrush.
β
β
Sara Pascoe (Being a Witch, and Other Things I Didn't Ask For)
β
Oo, I like a good cat fight β especially when it doesnβt involve me,β Oscar said.
βShut up!β Bryony and Raya said simultaneously. A hairline crack formed in the ice between them.
β
β
Sara Pascoe (Being a Witch, and Other Things I Didn't Ask For)
β
His debtors always assumed he'd demand their firstborn. Like I'm fucking Rumpelstiltskin? What would Lothaire do with countless squalling babes? Raise them in a kennel?
β
β
Kresley Cole (Lothaire (Immortals After Dark, #11))
β
Whatβs βague?ββ Raya asked.
βMalaria.β Oscar said.
βOh, great.β
βHey, you want plague? They got that too.β Raya ignored
the cat.
β
β
Sara Pascoe (Being a Witch, and Other Things I Didn't Ask For)
β
On the end of my bed. Heβs short, round and bald, with a tartan loin cloth, and what looks like a spout on the top of his head,β Bryony said. βYou flatter me,β came the snide male voice. βBut itβs a valve.
β
β
Sara Pascoe (Being a Witch, and Other Things I Didn't Ask For)
β
A soft noise, almost a sob. Ash rose, hesitated, as if fighting the compulsion to obey. "I will always be your knight, Meghan Chase," he whispered in a strained voice, as if every moment he remained was painful to him. "And I swear, if there is a way for us to be together, I will find it. No matter how long it takes. If I have to chase your soul to the ends of eternity, I won't stop until I find you, I promise."
And then he was gone.
β
β
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.
β
β
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?
β
β
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
β
β
Maggie Stiefvater (Shiver (The Wolves of Mercy Falls, #1))
β
Then Raya saw Rebecca West, the fourteen-year-old who only saved her own life by testifying against her mother, and then she saw her own face reflected in these girls β a swirl of chance, and life and sorrow.
β
β
Sara Pascoe (Being a Witch, and Other Things I Didn't Ask For)
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.
β
β
Laurell K. Hamilton (Narcissus in Chains (Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter, #10))
β
Whoa. Fangs. She had fangs.
She leaned in, prodded them a little. Eating with those puppies was going to take some getting used to, she thought.
On impulse, she brought up her hands, turned her fingers into claws. Hissed.
Cool.
β
β
J.R. Ward (Dark Lover (Black Dagger Brotherhood, #1))
β
She peeped through one of the small holes in the outer wall rising up from the walkway. The world on the outside was nothing but countryside now. Dirt roads, like chocolate ribbons, disappeared into woods or green fields in the distance.
β
β
Sara Pascoe (Being a Witch, and Other Things I Didn't Ask For)
β
After a moment, Wrath turned to John. "This is Lassiter, the fallen angel. One of the last times he was here on earth, there was a plague in central Europe-"
"Okay, that was so not my fault-"
"-which wiped out two-thirds of the human population."
"I'd like to remind you that you don't like humans."
"They smell bad when they're dead."
"All you mortal types do.
β
β
J.R. Ward (Lover Enshrined (Black Dagger Brotherhood, #6))
β
And she was right. No matter how they tried, the two humans, with the cat but without the microchip, couldnβt connect to headquarters. Raya heard a loud popping sound in her mind, like a huge rubber band being snapped, like a glider plane released from a Piper Cub.
β
β
Sara Pascoe (Being a Witch, and Other Things I Didn't Ask For)
β
There aren't any syringes." Red Sox came over and held a sterile pack out. When she tried to take it from him, he kept a grip on the thing. "I know you'll use this wisely."
"Wisely?" She snapped the syringe out of his hand. "No, I'm going to poke him in the eye with it. Because that's what they trained me to do in medical school.
β
β
J.R. Ward (Lover Unbound (Black Dagger Brotherhood, #5))
β
If I shot an arrow and thought about an ass, would it surprise you that I hit Erik?' Stark asked me in a pleasant, nonchalant voice.
β
β
P.C. Cast (Tempted (House of Night, #6))
β
The door banged open, and Eve rushed out, flushed and mussed and still buttoning her shirt. 'It's not what you think,' she said. 'It was justβoh, okay, whatever, it was exactly what you think. Now, what?
β
β
Rachel Caine (Lord of Misrule (The Morganville Vampires, #5))
β
How long have you been with Raphael?β
βYou ask a lot of questions for a dead woman.β
βWhat can I say? I prefer to die well-informed.
β
β
Nalini Singh (Angels' Blood (Guild Hunter, #1))
β
Usually my form of turning someone down was shoving a stake through his heart while smirking, Gotcha!
β
β
Jeaniene Frost (Halfway to the Grave (Night Huntress, #1))
β
Out of all the paranormal books I'd read and reviewed, no one glowed like this. Some glittered in the light. Others had wings. No one was a freaking giant sun.
β
β
Jennifer L. Armentrout (Obsidian (Lux, #1))
β
Yeah, tell me Iβm a bottle of single malt scotch, she thought. Thatβs the way to my heart.
β
β
L.J. Smith (Nightfall (The Vampire Diaries: The Return #1))
β
Do you think we can be friends?β I asked.
He stared up at the ceiling. βProbably not, but we can pretend.
β
β
Priya Ardis (Ever My Merlin (My Merlin, #3))
β
Tell you what, you let me go, and Iβll ask you plenty of questions about your race. Until then, Iβm slightly distracted with how this little vacation on the good ship Holy Sh*t is going to pan out for me.
β
β
J.R. Ward (Lover Unbound (Black Dagger Brotherhood, #5))
β
It was the sort of bone deep emotion that made him want to hold her tighter with one hand, and draw a sword against the world with the other.
β
β
Jeaniene Frost (First Drop of Crimson (Night Huntress World, #1))
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.
β
β
J.R. Ward (Lover Eternal (Black Dagger Brotherhood, #2))
β
Come on, itβs an American tradition. Apple soup? Momβs homemade chicken pie?'
She chuckled in spite of herself, then winced. 'Itβs apple pie and Momβs homemade chicken soup. But you didnβt do badly, for a start.
β
β
L.J. Smith (Nightfall (The Vampire Diaries: The Return #1))
β
Why is everything always my decision?" I asked.
Because you will not tolerate anything else."
Oh, I remembered now. "Great", I whispered.
- Anita to Jean-Claude
β
β
Laurell K. Hamilton (Cerulean Sins (Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter, #11))
β
Oh for craps sake. You're not dying again, are you? It's seriously inconvenient when you do that." -Aphrodite
β
β
P.C. Cast
β
Cβest moi, cβest moi,βtis I,' I told him. It seemed appropriately melodramatic, though I didnβt know if heβd catch the reference. I shouldnβt have worried.
Unexpectedly, he laughed. βTrust you to quote Lancelot rather than Guinevere.
β
β
Patricia Briggs (Moon Called (Mercy Thompson, #1))
β
Things on the essential list: vodka, Nine Inch Nails, a steady supply of mortal men, and an all-purpose bitchy attitude.
β
β
Richelle Mead
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.
β
β
Jennifer L. Armentrout (Onyx (Lux, #2))
β
You've maddened me for you...have changed everything. So, I'm going to f*ck you long and hard, beauty, because if I'm to be enslaved by you-I want to be your master as well.
β
β
Kresley Cole (Pleasure of a Dark Prince (Immortals After Dark, #8))
β
Is this how humanity waves good-bye?
Hell no.
β
β
Rick Yancey (The 5th Wave (The 5th Wave, #1))
β
If you were Catholic, you'd singe the ears of the priest you confessed to.
β
β
Jeaniene Frost
β
Mercy is for the weak⦠let me show you how much of an Unseelie I still am.
β
β
Julie Kagawa (The Iron Knight (The Iron Fey, #4))
β
Among my stillness was a pounding heart.
β
β
Shannon A. Thompson (Seconds Before Sunrise (Timely Death, #2))
β
And to think of all the colors in the world, blood chose to be red.
β
β
Nelou Keramati
β
Vane grabbed me. βDuLac, letβs chat.β
Chat. British-speak for βStand still while I yell at you.
β
β
Priya Ardis (My Merlin Awakening (My Merlin, #2))
β
He wasn't that good looking, he had the social skills of a wet cat and the patience of a caffeinated hummingbird
β
β
Karen Chance
β
When he kisses me again, the last part of me that could stand myself dies.
β
β
Karen Marie Moning (Shadowfever (Fever, #5))
β
The passion I feel for you is more than youβre prepared for.
β
β
Kailin Gow (The Phantom Diaries (The Phantom Diaries, #1))
β
Hey!" Caleb snapped as he realized Nick was about to lock him on the outside with their attackers. He pushed the door open and glared at him. "No man left behind."
Nick scoffed. "This aint' the army, boy. It's every man for himself. Fall behind. Get eaten
β
β
Sherrilyn Kenyon (Infinity (Chronicles of Nick, #1))
β
Regrets are about decisions that you know you should have done different.
β
β
Laurell K. Hamilton (Bullet (Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter, #19))
β
He hesitated, but then stepped beneath the tree and knelt, depositing me gently on the ground between two giant roots. And he stayed there, kneeling beside me, holding my hand in his. Something splashed the back of my hand, cold as spring water, crystalling to my skin. A faery's tears.
β
β
Julie Kagawa (The Iron Queen (The Iron Fey, #3))
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
β
Jess C. Scott (The Devilin Fey (Naked Heat #1))
β
The telegram was sealed β an old-fashioned touch, I thought, but then Iβd never had a telegram before. I took my time opening it. I said nothing.
β
β
Michael Wyndham Thomas (The Erkeley Shadows)
β
Did you recently turn into a jerk or have you been one since birth?
β
β
Priya Ardis (My Boyfriend Merlin (My Merlin, #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.
β
β
X. Williamson (Distract My Hunger)
β
You could know a man not by what his friends said about him, but by how he treated his servants.
β
β
Cassandra Clare (Clockwork Angel (The Infernal Devices, #1))
β
Life is a book waiting to happen.
β
β
Sloan McBride
β
And just then Damon stepped out of the coat closet, and at the same time Aunt Maggie tripped him neatly and said, βBathroom door beside you,β and picked up a vase and hit the rising Damon over the head with it. Hard.
β
β
L.J. Smith (Nightfall (The Vampire Diaries: The Return #1))
β
Lothaire is very much alive.β
βYou swear?β
βOften. Though not as much as foul-mouthed Regin. I try not to in front of Bertil.β She petted the bat.
βI meantβwill Lothaire live?β
βHe will.
β
β
Kresley Cole (Lothaire (Immortals After Dark, #11))
β
Bonnie, believe in me. Iβll save you.
I remember how to fly.
β
β
L.J. Smith (Nightfall (The Vampire Diaries: The Return #1))
β
Why had my life suddenly become a Nancy Drew mystery from hell?
β
β
Rachel Hawkins (Demonglass (Hex Hall, #2))
β
Raven?'
Yes?'
What do you believe in?'
I believe in - finding out!
β
β
Ellen Schreiber (Vampire Kisses (Vampire Kisses, #1))
β
Nothing looked disturbedβ¦yet everything felt that way. The guy was on the bed, calmness itself, as though heβd decided on a momentβs lie-down and just zizzed off.
β
β
Michael Wyndham Thomas (The Erkeley Shadows)
β
Hell won't be so bad, you know. After all, I'll be there to keep you company.
β
β
Tess Oliver (Camille (Camille, #1))
β
They don't fit you?" V asked his roommate.
"Not the point. No offense, but these are wicked Village People." Butch held his heavy arms out and turned in a circle, his bare chest catching the light. "I mean, come on."
"They're for fighting, not fashion."
"So are kilts, but you don't see me rocking the tartan."
"And thank God for that. You're too bowlegged to pull that shit off."
Butch assumed a bored expression. "You can bite me.
β
β
J.R. Ward (Lover Unbound (Black Dagger Brotherhood, #5))
β
V settled back against the pillows and measured the hard line of her chin.
"Take off your coat."
"Excuse me?"
"Take it off."
"No."
"I want it off."
"Then I suggest you hold your breath. Won't affect me in the slightest, but at least the suffocation will help pass the time for you.
β
β
J.R. Ward (Lover Unbound (Black Dagger Brotherhood, #5))
β
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
β
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.
β
β
Cassandra Clare (City of Bones (The Mortal Instruments, #1))
β
Zo, I'm not a damn pussy!'
Erik, looking very tall and full-grown, kick-your-butt vampyre-like, snorted sarcastically and then said, 'No, you're a damn human. Wait, that does make you a pussy!
β
β
P.C. Cast
β
Wow," Miranda said, "You'd better be careful Della. In the last few days, I think you've used up your vampire quota of apologies for the next ten years."
"Kiss my apologetic ass!" Della snapped.
β
β
C.C. Hunter (Taken at Dusk (Shadow Falls, #3))
β
Straightaway, she'd called to the guard, "Oh, boys?" She'd sauntered to the glass in only her black lace bra and panties. "I need some assistance," When they slowed, agog, she'd purred, "Can one of you help me find my orgasm?
β
β
Kresley Cole (Dreams of a Dark Warrior (Immortals After Dark, #10))
β
there are three kinds of people in the world: those who don't know and don't know they don't know; those who don't know and do know they don't know; and those who know and know how much they still don't know.
β
β
Karen Marie Moning (Bloodfever (Fever, #2))
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?
β
β
Derek Landy (Death Bringer (Skulduggery Pleasant, #6))
β
At a normal high school, having class outside on a gorgeous May day is usually pretty awesome. It means sitting in the sunshine, maybe reading some poetry, letting the breeze blow through your hair...At Hecate Hall, a.k.a. Juvie for Monsters, it meant I was getting thrown in the pond.
β
β
Rachel Hawkins (Demonglass (Hex Hall, #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!
β
β
Kresley Cole (Dreams of a Dark Warrior (Immortals After Dark, #10))
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.
β
β
Kresley Cole (Dreams of a Dark Warrior (Immortals After Dark, #10))
β
One second, he was in my mouth, my tongue flicking over the broad head of him; the next, his hands were on my waist and I flipped onto my front. He nudged my legs apart with his knees, spreading me as he gripped my hips, tugging them up, up before he sheathed himself deep in me with a single stroke.
I moaned into the pillow at every glorious inch of him, rising onto my forearms as my fingers grappled into the sheets.
β
β
Sarah J. Maas (A Court of Mist and Fury (A Court of Thorns and Roses, #2))
β
Rhys shuddered, and I watched his cock twitch.
βPlay later,β he ground out.
Indeed.
His mouth found mine, the kiss open and deep, a clash of tongues and teeth. He lay me down on the pillows, and I locked my legs around his back, careful of the wings.
Though I stopped caring as he nudged at my entrance. And paused.
βPlay later,β I snarled into his mouth.
Rhys laughed and slid in. And in. And in.
β
β
Sarah J. Maas (A Court of Mist and Fury (A Court of Thorns and Roses, #2))
β
How come when mortals want things, their only option is to make a deal with Hell and sell their soul? Why canβt they make deals with God in exchange for good behavior?"
It was another of those rare moments when Iβd surprised Carter. I waited for the glib answer Iβd mentioned to Seth, something along the lines of goodness being its own reward. The angel considered for several seconds. "Humans make those deals all the time," he said finally. "They just donβt make them with God."
"Then who are they making them with?" I exclaimed.
"Themselves.
β
β
Richelle Mead (Succubus Heat (Georgina Kincaid, #4))
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.
β
β
L.A. Weatherly (Angel (Angel, #1))
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You know that half the girls in school would have been after you."
He gave a soft laugh. "If they were into someone who was flunking out...I don't think I'd do too well with having to go to class when a bell rings or caring about homework..."
"A bad boy--even better. You'd have done well in Spanish class."
"If I ever went to it."
We lay in silence for a awhile; Alex's arms felt so warm and safe that I was starting to get sleepy. "Say something in Spanish," I mumbled.
He kissed my hair. "Te amo, Willow," he said quietly.
I came awake, smiling into the darkness. "What does that mean?" I whispered.
I could almost hear his own smile. "What do you think it means?"
I hugged him, kissing his collarbone and wondering if it was possible to actually die of happiness. "Te amo, Alex.
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L.A. Weatherly (Angel (Angel, #1))