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Think of every fairy-tale villainess you've ever heard of. Think of the wicked witches, the evil queens, the mad enchantresses. Think of the alluring sirens, the hungry ogresses, the savage she-beasts. Think of them and remember that somewhere, sometime, they've all been real.
Mab gave them lessons.
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Jim Butcher (Small Favor (The Dresden Files, #10))
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If you are a monster, stand up.
If you are a monster, a trickster, a fiend,
If you’ve built a steam-powered wishing machine
If you have a secret, a dark past, a scheme,
If you kidnap maidens or dabble in dreams
Come stand by me.
If you have been broken, stand up.
If you have been broken, abandoned, alone
If you have been starving, a creature of bone
If you live in a tower, a dungeon, a throne
If you weep for wanting, to be held, to be known,
Come stand by me.
If you are a savage, stand up.
If you are a witch, a dark queen, a black knight,
If you are a mummer, a pixie, a sprite,
If you are a pirate, a tomcat, a wright,
If you swear by the moon and you fight the hard fight,
Come stand by me.
If you are a devil, stand up.
If you are a villain, a madman, a beast,
If you are a strowler, a prowler, a priest,
If you are a dragon come sit at our feast,
For we all have stripes, and we all have horns,
We all have scales, tails, manes, claws and thorns
And here in the dark is where new worlds are born.
Come stand by me.
”
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Catherynne M. Valente
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The beautiful wooden board on a stand in my father’s study. The gleaming ivory pieces. The stern king. The haughty queen. The noble knight. The pious bishop. And the game itself, the way each piece contributed its individual power to the whole. It was simple. It was complex. It was savage; it was elegant. It was a dance; it was a war. It was finite and eternal. It was life.
”
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Rick Yancey (The Infinite Sea (The 5th Wave, #2))
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Not all girls are made of sugar
and spice and all things nice.
These are girls made of dark lace
and witchcraft and a little bit of vice.
These are daughters made claw first
and story-mad, tiger roar and wolf-bad.
These are women made of terrible tempests
and savage storms and the untamed unwanted.
These are damsels made of flawless fearlessness
made of more bravery than knights have ever seen.
These are princesses made of valour and poison alike
and they are here to hold court as your queens.
”
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Nikita Gill
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She's also ruthless - it's love me or off with your head. She's the Red Queen
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Don Winslow (Savages (Savages #2))
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But let me be a lover in the Savage Garden with you, and the light that went out of life would come back in a great burst of glory. Out of mortal flesh I would pass into eternity. I would be one of you.” - Daniel
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Anne Rice (The Queen of the Damned (The Vampire Chronicles, #3))
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Her cheeks were flushed. She caught hold of the Savage's arm and pressed it, limp, against her side. He looked down at her for a moment, pale, pained, desiring, and ashamed of his desire. He was not worthy, not... Their eyes for a moment met. What treasures hers promised! A queen's ransom of temperament. Hastily he looked away, disengaged his imprisoned arm. He was obscurely terrified lest she should cease to be something he could feel himself unworthy of.
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Aldous Huxley (Brave New World)
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I saw Oberon charge into the fray on a huge black warhorse, glamour swirling around him, and sweep a hand toward the thickest of the fighting. Vines and roots erupted from the ground, coiling around the Iron fey, strangling them or pulling them beneath the earth. Atop a rise, Mab raised her arms, and a savage whirlwind swept across the field, freezing fey solid or impaling them with ice shards. The armies of Summer and Winter howled with renewed vigor and threw themselves at the enemy.
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Julie Kagawa (The Iron Queen (The Iron Fey, #3))
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You looked like a fucking queen,” he murmurs, his voice full of pride. “That’s why I claimed you, Savage. I didn’t want anyone else taking what was mine. My queen. You belong to me.
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Monica Murphy (Things I Wanted to Say, But Never Did (Lancaster Prep, #1))
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A pledge,” I say again. “To drive fear into those who will confront us.”
Violetta hesitates—only for a moment. “To bind us together.”
“I pledge myself to the Rose Society,” I begin. “Until the end of my days.” One by one, the others call out the same thing, murmurs at first that turn into firm words.
“To use my eyes to see all that happens,” says Sergio.
“My tongue to woo others to our side,” says Magiano, with his savage smile.
“My ears to hear every secret,” Violetta continues.
“My hands,” I finish. “To crush my enemies.”
“I will do everything in my power to destroy all who stand in my way.” Right now, what I want is the throne. Enzo’s power. A perfect revenge. And all the Inquisitors, queens, and Daggers in the world won’t be able to stop me.
”
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Marie Lu
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You shall suffer for ever the influence of my kiss. You shall be beautiful in my fashion. You shall love that which I love and that which loves me: water, clouds, silence and the night; the immense green sea; the formless and multiform streams; the place where you shall not be; the lover whom you shall not know; flowers of monstrous shape; perfumes that cause delirium; cats that shudder, swoon and curl up on pianos and groan like women, with a voice that is hoarse and gentle! And you shall be loved by my lovers, courted by my courtiers. You shall be the queen of all men that have green eyes, whose necks also I have clasped in my nocturnal caresses; of those who love the sea, the sea that is immense, tumultuous and green, the formless and multiform streams, the place where they are not, the woman whom they do not know, sinister flowers that resemble the censers of a strange religion, perfumes that confound the will; and the savage and voluptuous animals which are the emblems of their dementia.
”
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Charles Baudelaire
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It’s not that I hate people, I just feel better when they’re not around.
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J.T. Geissinger (Savage Hearts (Queens & Monsters, #3))
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In every woman, there is a 100% Savage Queen. Speak to the 100% Savage Queen and the 100% Savage Queen will answer.
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100% Savage Queen Sarah
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Ah, what sights and sounds and pain lie beneath that mist. And we had thought that our hard climb out of that cruel valley led to some cool, green and peaceful, sunlit place---but it's all jungle here, a wild and savage wilderness that's overrun with ruins. But put on your crown, my Queen, and we will build a New City on these ruins.
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Eldridge Cleaver (Soul on Ice)
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Think of every fairy-tale villainess you've ever heard of. Think of the wicked witches, the evil queens, the mad enchantresses. Think of the alluring sirens, the hungry ogresses, the savage she-beasts. Think of them and remember that somewhere, sometime, they've all been real.
”
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Jim Butcher (Small Favor (The Dresden Files, #10))
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Kill for you, live for you, die for you,
”
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Eva Ashwood (Queen of Anarchy (Dirty Broken Savages, #2))
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Save the drama for the queens. Stand alone be a wolf, a rebel, a warrior, a savage, a badass. Be anything but a damn drama queen!
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Melody Lee (Moon Gypsy)
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Please be quiet. My inner demons are demanding that I kill you, and I want to hear what they have to say.
”
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J.T. Geissinger (Savage Hearts (Queens & Monsters, #3))
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Rudeness is something that I just can't tolerate for most of the time&that's why I'm 100% Savage Queen for life!
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100% Savage Queen Sarah
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You will wear the féth fiada until this is done, Amadan.”
“Bloody hell,” Adam muttered savagely. “I hate being invisible.”
“And Keltar,” Aoibheal said in a voice like sudden thunder, with a glance up at the balustrade. “Henceforth I would advise against tampering with my curses. Perform the Lughnassadh ritual now or face my wrath.”
“Aye, Queen Aoibheal,” Dageus and Drustan replied together, stepping our from behind stone columns bracketing the stairs.
Adam smiled faintly. He should have known no Highlander would flee, only retreat to a higher vantage – take to the hills, in a manner of speaking – waiting in silent readiness should battle be necessary.
”
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Karen Marie Moning (The Immortal Highlander (Highlander, #6))
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I can set this world on a fire and still can call it a rain.
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Victoria Aveyard (Red Queen (Red Queen, #1))
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Kings have to move the pawns at their disposal. It’s just what kings do. As for the pawns, well, they might not have a king’s power, but they can still make themselves useful.
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J.T. Geissinger (Savage Hearts (Queens & Monsters, #3))
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I am Tory Vega, daughter of the Savage King, sister of Darcy Vega and rightful queen of this fucking land. I. do. Not. Beg.
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Caroline Peckham (Restless Stars (Zodiac Academy, #9))
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And then the queen wept with all her heart. Not for the cruel and greedy man who had warred and killed and savaged everywhere he could. But for the boy who had somehow turned into that man, the boy whose gentle hand had comforted her childhood hurts, the boy whose frightened voice had cried out to her at the end of his life, as if he wondered why he had gotten lost inside himself, as if he realized that it was too, too late to get out again.
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Orson Scott Card (Maps in a Mirror: The Short Fiction of Orson Scott Card)
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I do have old-fashioned, inflexible ideas about gender roles. But trust me when I say that they’re all to your benefit. Now, will you let me open the door to the bloody bookshop for you, or will your wee feminist ego insist we arm wrestle over it?
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J.T. Geissinger (Savage Hearts (Queens & Monsters, #3))
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She looks savage and fierce, almost unstoppable. She’s half Malice’s size, but in this moment, she doesn’t look like it. She looks like a queen.
”
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Eva Ashwood (Twisted Game (Filthy Wicked Psychos, #1))
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A breeze, briefly gentle but growing more savage, jostled the potted plants and curios that cluttered the room.
”
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Sylvia Izzo Hunter (The Midnight Queen (Noctis Magicae, #1))
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I’ve never met a woman I wanted to strangle, protect, scream at, cherish, fight with, and fuck, all at the same time.
”
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J.T. Geissinger (Savage Hearts (Queens & Monsters, #3))
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You’re insane!” “We’ve already established that you’re the crazy one. I’m the monster, remember?
”
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J.T. Geissinger (Savage Hearts (Queens & Monsters, #3))
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My smile makes her gnash her teeth. “Ready?” “Go to hell.” “Can’t. The devil has a restraining order against me.
”
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J.T. Geissinger (Savage Hearts (Queens & Monsters, #3))
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Swinburne, by the way, when a very young man, had gone to Walter Savage Landor, then a very old man, and been given the poet’s blessing he asked for; and Landor when a child had been patted on the head by Dr Samuel Johnson; and Johnson when a child had been taken to London to be touched by Queen Anne for scrofula, the King’s evil; and Queen Anne when a child...
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Robert Graves (Goodbye to All That)
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Well, I'd hardly finished the first verse," said the Hatter, "when the Queen bawled out 'He's murdering the time! Off with his head!'"
"How dreadfully savage!" exclaimed Alice.
"and ever since that," the Hatter went on in a mournful tone, "he wo'n't do a thing I ask! It's always six o'clock now.
”
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Lewis Carroll (Alice in Wonderland)
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Science has robbed the sun and moon of magic, leaving a spotted ball of gasses and a dead crater-pocked world in place of gold god and silver queen: a poor trade. Worse, men and women no longer live by intuition, but by ideas. The chittering dictums of the head and the will block out the spontaneous voices of the blood and the impulse. . . . Deprived of the rhythm of savage song, the meaning of the animal yell, we exist for the mechanical screak of steel on steel . . . .
We must get back “in touch.
”
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Sylvia Plath
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I wonder if my sister will mind when I start calling her fiancé Daddy?
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J.T. Geissinger (Savage Hearts (Queens & Monsters, #3))
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God, you’re hopeless.” “Please be quiet. My inner demons are demanding that I kill you, and I want to hear what they have to say.
”
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J.T. Geissinger (Savage Hearts (Queens & Monsters, #3))
“
He kills people for a living, but nobody’s perfect.
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J.T. Geissinger (Savage Hearts (Queens & Monsters, #3))
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I fret, my queen, though she’s still quite small, Another is fairest of them all. She’s hiding between your hanging gowns, Her destiny is your end, she’ll take your crown.
”
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Loxley Savage (Seven Sins of Snow)
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No serpent's tooth, they say, has the sharpness of an ungrateful child, but no serpent's tooth has the sharpness of many an unappreciated mother.
”
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Thomas Savage (The Sheep Queen)
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Help us, God our Savior for the glory of your name; deliver us and forgive our sins for your name's sake.
Psalm 79:9(my fav bible verse)
”
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100% Savage Queen Sarah
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You’re my fucking queen. Have I ever told you that?
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Sheridan Anne (Savages (Depraved Sinners, #3))
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Lysandra’s smile was a thing of savage, dark beauty.
”
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Sarah J. Maas (Queen of Shadows (Throne of Glass, #4))
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You didn’t create a monster, Alexander. You created a queen.
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S.L. Scott (Savage (Kingwood, #1))
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It was like thinking you were the princess in the fairy tale only to wake up and find you were the evil queen the whole time. The Villain.
”
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Stacey Marie Brown (Shadow Lands (Savage Lands, #6))
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Of all the people I’ve met who know what I do, you’re the only one who’s ever treated me like I’m human.
”
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J.T. Geissinger (Savage Hearts (Queens & Monsters, #3))
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No,” he says flatly. “Please?” He growls, “What the fuck is wrong with you?” “There’s no need to get testy.” “Testy?” “I’m just saying. You don’t have to get all mad about it.
”
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J.T. Geissinger (Savage Hearts (Queens & Monsters, #3))
“
If zombies ever take over, you’ll be safe.” “What do you mean?” “They only eat brains.
”
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J.T. Geissinger (Savage Hearts (Queens & Monsters, #3))
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I never needed a white knight to save me. I need the dragon.
”
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J.T. Geissinger (Savage Hearts (Queens & Monsters, #3))
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a hot, scary, wealthy stranger just tried to save me from being my future brother-in-law’s prostitute.
”
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J.T. Geissinger (Savage Hearts (Queens & Monsters, #3))
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I hold grudges like new mothers hold their infants.
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J.T. Geissinger (Savage Hearts (Queens & Monsters, #3))
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apparently, imminent death brings out my inner ninja who wants to bitch slap everyone in sight.
”
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J.T. Geissinger (Savage Hearts (Queens & Monsters, #3))
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I’ll still haunt you forever if you kill me.” “People don’t come back from the grave.” “You have no idea how stubborn I am.
”
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J.T. Geissinger (Savage Hearts (Queens & Monsters, #3))
“
I love you, sis. Kill for you, live for you, die for you,
”
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Eva Ashwood (Queen of Anarchy (Dirty Broken Savages, #2))
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As always, she looks incredible. Perfect hair, perfect face, perfect body. My gorgeous older sister, fearless lion, effortless flirt, consumer of men’s souls.
”
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J.T. Geissinger (Savage Hearts (Queens & Monsters, #3))
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normies shouldn’t judge creatives. They just have no idea how we’re wired.
”
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J.T. Geissinger (Savage Hearts (Queens & Monsters, #3))
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She licks her lips, then says defiantly, “Fine. Kiss me. But I won’t like it.” Challenge accepted.
”
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J.T. Geissinger (Savage Hearts (Queens & Monsters, #3))
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It's like she's the sun, and I have to orbit around her.
”
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Eva Ashwood (Queen of Anarchy (Dirty Broken Savages, #2))
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in the snow on this or that side of the tunnel
”
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Thomas Savage (The Sheep Queen)
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Really? You look younger than that by years.” “It’s all the preservatives in the candy.
”
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J.T. Geissinger (Savage Hearts (Queens & Monsters, #3))
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Are those your bodyguards?” “I don’t have bodyguards.” “Why not?” He slants me a look. “Oh. Right. You’re the guy other people need bodyguards for.
”
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J.T. Geissinger (Savage Hearts (Queens & Monsters, #3))
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Jannie can be the new mother,” Sally said largely, “and Mommy and I will just be the babies and Laurie is the queen and Daddy is a herd of rabbits.
”
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Shirley Jackson (Life Among the Savages)
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But let me be a lover in the Savage Garden with you, and the light that went out of life would come back in a great burst of glory. Out of mortal flesh I would pass into eternity. I would be one of you.
”
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Anne Rice (The Queen of the Damned (The Vampire Chronicles, #3))
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I reach up and stroke his beard, smiling. “You’re a psychopath.” “Don’t try to flirt your way out of this.” That makes me smile wider. “Only you would think a woman calling you a psychopath is flirting.
”
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J.T. Geissinger (Savage Hearts (Queens & Monsters, #3))
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They shouted, “Eustace! Eustace! Coo-ee!” till they were hoarse and Caspian blew his horn.
“He’s nowhere near or he’d have heard that,” said Lucy with a white face.
“Confound the fellow,” said Edmund. “What on earth did he want to slink away like this for?”
“But we must do something,” said Lucy. “He may have got lost, or fallen into a hole, or been captured by savages.”
“Or killed by wild beasts,” said Drinian.
“And a good riddance if he has, I say,” muttered Rhince.
“Master Rhince,” said Reepicheep, “you never spoke a word that became you less. The creature is no friend of mine but he is of the Queen’s blood, and while he is one of our fellowship it concerns our honor to find him and to avenge him if he is dead.”
“Of course we’ve got to find him (if we can),” said Caspian wearily. “That’s the nuisance of it. It means a search party and endless trouble. Bother Eustace.
”
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C.S. Lewis (The Voyage of the Dawn Treader (Chronicles of Narnia, #3))
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I also want to thank you for the rose you left me. That was really nice. I’ve never had a man bring me flowers before. I know it was only the one, and also you thought I was a captive prostitute at the time, but still. It was thoughtful. So thank you.
”
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J.T. Geissinger (Savage Hearts (Queens & Monsters, #3))
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Grr. She’s being nice. I have no defense against my sister when she’s nice. It’s like if Dracula took a moment before he ripped open your throat with his fangs and sucked out all your blood to say a few polite words about your lovely taste in interior design.
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J.T. Geissinger (Savage Hearts (Queens & Monsters, #3))
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Were you able to rest while I was gone?” “Some.” He feeds me another spoonful of soup. “How’s your pain level?” “Splendiferous.” “Try again without the sarcasm.” “On a scale of one to ten, it’s a forty-seven.” “Without exaggeration, too. If you can manage it.
”
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J.T. Geissinger (Savage Hearts (Queens & Monsters, #3))
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I see the mad glint in her eye and know she’s planning something. Like overthrowing all the governments of the world and becoming Supreme Ruler of Earth. I can already see her throne, a massive structure made of all the spirits of men’s souls that she’s crushed.
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J.T. Geissinger (Savage Hearts (Queens & Monsters, #3))
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They very soon came upon a Gryphon, lying fast asleep in the sun. (IF you don't know what a Gryphon is, look at the picture.) 'Up, lazy thing!' said the Queen, 'and take this young lady to see the Mock Turtle, and to hear his history. I must go back and see after some executions I have ordered'; and she walked off, leaving Alice alone with the Gryphon. Alice did not quite like the look of the creature, but on the whole she thought it would be quite as safe to stay with it as to go after that savage Queen: so she waited.
”
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Lewis Carroll (Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, #1))
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I take back what I said about you being a gentleman.” “I’ll burst into tears over that right after you give me your fucking mouth.” She inhales, closing her eyes and swallowing. When she opens her eyes again, I know it’s war. I’ve seen hardened killers look less psychotic.
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J.T. Geissinger (Savage Hearts (Queens & Monsters, #3))
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I don’t beg you,” I hissed, my bloodied fingers painting a final rune onto the clay despite the way my hand shook, and the ether ripped pieces of me away chunk by chunk. “I am Tory Vega, daughter of the Savage King, sister of Darcy Vega and rightful queen of this fucking land. I. do. Not. Beg.
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Caroline Peckham (Restless Stars (Zodiac Academy, #9))
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Eena!”
Recognizing Ian’s voice, Eena turned to find him approaching her from behind. He was entirely clad in body armor and gauntlets, cradling an open-faced helmet in one arm. Painted on his chest plate was a flaming, gold sword. From his side hung a leather sheath, a golden hilt peeking from the top.
“I’m glad you’re back. You are going to stay and watch us play, aren’t you?” He looked hopeful she’d say yes.
Eena smiled brightly. “I didn’t know you were talented enough to be on a dueling team. Nice sword,” she teased.
Ian blushed a degree. “Thanks. They call us the Savage Warriors!” He rasped their team name in a semi-ferocious voice. “Jerin’s team captain.”
She laughed at the showy designation. “And who’s your challenger today?”
“The Dragon Slayers - Derian’s team.”
Eena’s face fell. “Derian is playing?” She groaned internally, knowing she should’ve guessed as much. This was starting to look like another setup.
”
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Richelle E. Goodrich (Eena, The Return of a Queen (The Harrowbethian Saga #2))
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For the first time, I realize that it’s not just the king who appears inhuman.
I do too.
The ferocity of the scar that runs down my cheek, the tightness of my jaw, the look in my eye— I’m no natural thing. Murder and violence have made me this way. Loss and war have made me this way.
I look like a savage.
A savage queen. One who doesn’t need a crown or even a weapon to appear powerful.
I see it now— this world’s faith in me. It’s not just that I am an anachronism; the harshness of my face speaks to these people who have only ever known war.
No wonder the West wants me gone.
A century has gone by, and yet even after all that time I am still something to fear.
”
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Laura Thalassa (The Queen of All that Lives (The Fallen World, #3))
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I was around her age when I began. The beautiful wooden board on a stand in my father’s study. The gleaming ivory pieces. The stern king. The haughty queen. The noble knight. The pious bishop. And the game itself, the way each piece contributed its individual power to the whole. It was simple. It was complex. It was savage; it was elegant. It was a dance; it was a war. It was finite and eternal. It was life.
”
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Rick Yancey (The Infinite Sea (The 5th Wave, #2))
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You don’t seem traumatized.” I smile into his chest. “Maybe an orgasm is the cure for PTSD.” “Or maybe the little boss bitch Khaleesi’s got nothing on my waif.” “Waif?” “That’s what I call you in my head sometimes. The demon waif.” After a beat, he says, “Is that bad?” “Let me overthink it for a minute.” “Because I don’t want you to be offended.” “Oh, sure. Who would be offended by being described as a skinny stray from hell?
”
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J.T. Geissinger (Savage Hearts (Queens & Monsters, #3))
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I mean it. You’re only here because I’m punishing Declan.” “Okay.” His voice rises. “You’re nothing but a means to an end. You’re part of my plan. This”—he waves a hand between us—“isn’t anything. It’s nothing. You mean zero to me.” I look down at my hands, then back up at him. I say quietly, “Okay.” His temper snaps. He shouts, “Why do you keep agreeing with me?” “Because we both know you’re full of shit, so arguing would be pointless.
”
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J.T. Geissinger (Savage Hearts (Queens & Monsters, #3))
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The people cast themselves down by the fuming boards
while servants cut the roast, mixed jars of wine and water,
and all the gods flew past like the night-breaths of spring.
The chattering female flocks sat down by farther tables,
their fresh prismatic garments gleaming in the moon
as though a crowd of haughty peacocks played in moonlight.
The queen’s throne softly spread with white furs of fox
gaped desolate and bare, for Penelope felt ashamed
to come before her guests after so much murder.
Though all the guests were ravenous, they still refrained,
turning their eyes upon their silent watchful lord
till he should spill wine in libation for the Immortals.
The king then filled a brimming cup, stood up and raised
it high till in the moon the embossed adornments gleamed:
Athena, dwarfed and slender, wrought in purest gold,
pursued around the cup with double-pointed spear
dark lowering herds of angry gods and hairy demons;
she smiled and the sad tenderness of her lean face,
and her embittered fearless glance, seemed almost human.
Star-eyed Odysseus raised Athena’s goblet high
and greeted all, but spoke in a beclouded mood:
“In all my wandering voyages and torturous strife,
the earth, the seas, the winds fought me with frenzied rage;
I was in danger often, both through joy and grief,
of losing priceless goodness, man’s most worthy face.
I raised my arms to the high heavens and cried for help,
but on my head gods hurled their lightning bolts, and laughed.
I then clasped Mother Earth, but she changed many shapes,
and whether as earthquake, beast, or woman, rushed to eat me;
then like a child I gave my hopes to the sea in trust,
piled on my ship my stubbornness, my cares, my virtues,
the poor remaining plunder of god-fighting man,
and then set sail; but suddenly a wild storm burst,
and when I raised my eyes, the sea was strewn with wreckage.
As I swam on, alone between sea and sky,
with but my crooked heart for dog and company,
I heard my mind, upon the crumpling battlements
about my head, yelling with flailing crimson spear.
Earth, sea, and sky rushed backward; I remained alone
with a horned bow slung down my shoulder, shorn of gods
and hopes, a free man standing in the wilderness.
Old comrades, O young men, my island’s newest sprouts,
I drink not to the gods but to man’s dauntless mind.”
All shuddered, for the daring toast seemed sacrilege,
and suddenly the hungry people shrank in spirit;
They did not fully understand the impious words
but saw flames lick like red curls about his savage head.
The smell of roast was overpowering, choice meats steamed,
and his bold speech was soon forgotten in hunger’s pangs;
all fell to eating ravenously till their brains reeled.
Under his lowering eyebrows Odysseus watched them sharply:
"This is my people, a mess of bellies and stinking breath!
These are my own minds, hands, and thighs, my loins and necks!"
He muttered in his thorny beard, held back his hunger
far from the feast and licked none of the steaming food.
”
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Nikos Kazantzakis (The Odyssey: A Modern Sequel)
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I holler after him, “You never would have kissed me so much if you really planned to kill me!” “Tell that to my late ex-wife.” That leaves me breathless, and not just because my stomach hurts from the effort of shouting. I lie there with my heart beating like mad, thinking of all the ways he might have murdered his poor ex, until Mal sticks his head back through the door. “I don’t have an ex-wife. I’ve never been married. I only said that to scare you.” “It worked.” “I told you I was a bad person.
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J.T. Geissinger (Savage Hearts (Queens & Monsters, #3))
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100% Savage Queen Sarah
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You’re a fool, Marius, or you think I am. Don’t you think I know what this world is capable of? What absurd mixture of the savage and the technologically astute makes up the mind of modern man?” “My Queen, I don’t think you know it!” Marius said. “Truly, I don’t. I don’t think you can hold in your mind the full conception of what the world is. None of us can; it is too varied, too immense; we seek to embrace it with our reason; but we can’t do it. You know a world; but it is not the world; it is the world you have selected from a dozen other worlds for reasons within yourself.
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Anne Rice (The Queen of the Damned (The Vampire Chronicles, #3))
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In that moment, I understand the way that the noblest yearning for duty and sacrifice can be mixed up with all that is savage and shameful, like in the Bible, where a just and merciful God tells you to kill everyone, kill the children, kill the livestock, kill John Polling, leave nothing alive to sully this pure and just world. Except when it's all done you find out that wasn't really God after all, just some politician, or maybe it was God, but he taps you on the shoulder and says, 'No, dude, that isn't what I meant,' and leaves you sitting in a Dairy Queen in Bothell with blood on your hands and no further orders...
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Stuart Archer Cohen (The Army of the Republic)
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During a famine, the father and stepmother of Hansel and Gretel abandon them in a forest so that they will starve to death. The children stumble upon an edible house inhabited by a witch, who imprisons Hansel and fattens him up in preparation for eating him. Fortunately Gretel shoves the witch into a fiery oven, and “the godless witch burned to death in a horrible way.” 41 • Cinderella’s stepsisters, when trying to squeeze into her slippers, take their mother’s advice and cut off a toe or heel to make them fit. Doves notice the blood, and after Cinderella marries the prince, they peck out the stepsisters’ eyes, punishing them “for their wickedness and malice with blindness for the rest of their lives.”
Snow White arouses the jealousy of her stepmother, the queen, so the queen orders a hunter to take her into the forest, kill her, and bring back her lungs and liver for the queen to eat. When the queen realizes that Snow White has escaped, she makes three more attempts on her life, two by poison, one by asphyxiation. After the prince has revived her, the queen crashes their wedding, but “iron slippers had already been heated up for her over a fire of coals.... She had to put on the red-hot iron shoes and dance in them until she dropped to the ground dead.
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Steven Pinker (The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined)
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She was almost to the door when Aelin said, “How much longer—until you’re free of your debts?” “I still have a great deal to pay off, so—a while.” Lysandra paced a few steps, and then caught herself. “Clarisse keeps adding money as Evangeline grows, claiming that someone so beautiful would have made her double, triple what she originally told me.” “That’s despicable.” “What can I do?” Lysandra held up her wrist, where the tattoo had been inked. “She’ll hunt me until the day I die, and I can’t run with Evangeline.” “I could dig Clarisse a grave no one would ever discover,” Aelin said. And meant it. Lysandra knew she meant it, too. “Not yet—not now.” “You say the word, and it’s done.” Lysandra’s smile was a thing of savage, dark beauty.
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Sarah J. Maas (Queen of Shadows (Throne of Glass, #4))
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Zach leans over and whispers on my lips, “Cleopatra. That’s your name, right?” I swallow against the onslaught of emotions. I feel the savage flapping of the butterflies in my stomach and I press my belly against him to make him feel it too. Make him feel all these crazy, intense emotions inside of me. “But hardly anyone calls me that.” A lopsided smile as he traces my cheek with a thumb. “Do you know Cleopatra was an Egyptian queen?” I nod. “Yeah. My mom used to tell me that she was the most beautiful woman of her time.” “People are crazy, aren’t they?” I clutch his dark t-shirt at his waist. “Why?” “They don’t know what they’re talking about. One look at you and they would’ve snatched away her crown and laid it down at your feet.” The shudder that goes through me is the biggest one yet. He called me beautiful. Beautiful.
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Saffron A. Kent (Bad Boy Blues (St. Mary’s Rebels, #0))
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I'm in sore straits, Jeeves.'
'I am sorry to hear that, sir.'
'You'll be sorrier when I explain further. Have you ever seen a garrison besieged by howling savages, with their ammunition down to the last box of cartridges, the water supply giving our and the United States Marines nowhere in sight?'
'Not to my recollection, sir.'
'Well, my position is roughly that of such a garrison, except that compared with me they're sitting pretty. Compared with me they haven't a thing to worry about.'
'You fill me with alarm, sir.'
'I bet I do, and I haven't even started yet. I will begin by saying that Miss Cook, to whom I'm engaged, is a lady for whom I have the utmost esteem and respect, but on certain matters we do not... what's the expression?'
'See eye to eye, sir?'
'That's right. And unfortunately those matters are the what-d'you-call-it of my whole policy. What is it that policies have?'
'I think the word for which you are groping, sir, may possibly be cornerstone.'
'Thank you, Jeeves. She disapproves of a variety of things which are the cornerstone of my policy. Marriage with her must inevitably mean that I shall have to cast them from my life, for she has a will of iron and will have no difficulty in making her husband jump through hoops and snap sugar off his nose. You get what I mean?'
'I do, sir. A very colourful image.'
'Cocktails, for instance, will be barred. She says they are bad for the liver. Have you noticed, by the way, how frightfully lax everything's getting now? In Queen Victoria's day a girl would never have dreamed of mentioning livers in mixed company.'
'Very true, sir. Tempora mutanter, nos et mutamur in illis.'
'That, however, is not the worst.'
'You horrify me, sir.'
'At a pinch I could do without cocktails. It would be agony, but we Woosters can rough it. But she says I must give up smoking.'
'This was indeed the most unkindest cut of all, sir.'
'Give up smoking, Jeeves!'
'Yes, sir. You will notice that I am shuddering.
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P.G. Wodehouse (Aunts Aren't Gentlemen (Jeeves, #15))
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With an overpowering shock, it came home to Austin that there stood a benighted young savage for whom the Great War had never been. She lived in an Edwardian world where twenty-five francs went to the pound and the map of Europe was what it had been in Queen Victoria’s days. Doubtless Edward had wasted much valuable time in drawing obsolete frontiers in the sand—a highly appropriate medium. He opened his mouth and gaped, taking in the implications slowly. Nineteen hundred and eight—nineteen hundred and eight—the Wrights made their first flight in 1908. She wouldn’t know what an aeroplane was. She wouldn’t know about wireless. The war—wireless—aeroplanes—a hundred and twenty-five francs to the pound—the blessings of Bolshevism—cross-word puzzles—and jazz. He gaped, and recalled her phrase—no, not hers—Edward’s phrase, parroted: “There wouldn’t be any place for me in a modern civilization.
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Patricia Wentworth (Kingdom Lost: A Golden Age Mystery)
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At least, Queen Lorelei had once counseled her daughter to that effect, years ago when she could still speak without uttering gibberish.
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Vivienne Savage (Beauty and the Beast (Once Upon a Spell, #1))
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His bulk is surpassed only by his height, which is surpassed only by the gut punch of that V thing leading from his washboard abs downward, like a pair of muscle arrows pointing to the goodies in his crotch.
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J.T. Geissinger (Savage Hearts (Queens & Monsters, #3))
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A savage grin pulled at my lips as I felt like I was running with a pack of wolves, the five of us joined by spirit and promises and love.
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Caroline Peckham (Queen of Quarantine (Brutal Boys of Everlake Prep, #4))
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Blake picked the paperback up from her desk entitled Warrior Fae, flipped it open to the last page and tore it out before scrunching it up and tossing it in the trash. Fucking savage. Not that I was complaining. She deserved to never find out the end of her book. If I had the time, I’d find a way to track down every copy in the world so that she could suffer forevermore without knowing how it ended. I wasn’t sure if there was any worse fate than that to bestow on someone.
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Caroline Peckham (Queen of Quarantine (Brutal Boys of Everlake Prep, #4))
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So Leda's daughters,
two lethal brides,
will twice and thrice wed.
One will launch Greece in a thousand ships,
her beauty the ruin of her land,
and the men sent to rescue her
will come back ashes and bones.
The other, the queen hell-bent on revenge,
will rise in the house of Mycenae,
loyal to those who revere her,
savage to those who oppose her.
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Constanza Casati
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He growls, “Say yes, and I swear every day will be better than the last, you bloody stubborn woman. You have my heart. My soul. My life. I want you to have my name as well, and wear my ring so everyone who sees you knows you belong to me. I’m so proud to be your man, I want the whole goddamn world to know you’re mine.
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J.T. Geissinger (Savage Hearts (Queens & Monsters, #3))
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I’m just an introvert who loves books, candy, and arguing with strangers on the internet.
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J.T. Geissinger (Savage Hearts (Queens & Monsters, #3))
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I’d read a book about a mountain man once though. He was a mafia prince who’d gone into hiding because of the things he’d found out about himself and he’d sure made being a mountain man sound hot. He’d found a girl up there on that mountain and had torn down heaven and earth to get revenge against the people who had hurt her. The sex had been pretty damn hot too. So maybe Saint could pull off the mountain man thing with the right bit of encouragement. If Nicoli could do it in Beautiful Savage, then why not my OCD criminal mastermind too?
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Caroline Peckham (Queen of Quarantine (Brutal Boys of Everlake Prep, #4))
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There’s a little growl in his voice when he speaks again, and I shiver at the sound and the way it vibrates through me. “You
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Eva Ashwood (Queen of Anarchy (Dirty Broken Savages, #2))
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There’s a little growl in his voice when he speaks again, and I shiver at the sound and the way it vibrates through me. “You like it,” he says. “Being ours. You fight it because that’s what you do, who you are. You’re a fighter. But you still like it. It gets you right here.
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Eva Ashwood (Queen of Anarchy (Dirty Broken Savages, #2))
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You certainly do seem to have a beast hidden inside the beauty.
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Alley Ciz (Savage Queen (The Royalty Crew #1))
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Fear not, Snow, for the evil queen is about to enter a fight she is not prepared for. She cannot win, nor can she lose. The battle will end as soon as it has begun, while we prepare to defeat her in the final fight. The war will be ours. We shall taste triumph in the form of blood, celebrating our victory as the queen’s head watches over us, skewered to a stake.
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Loxley Savage (Seven Sins of Snow)
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Yes. I'm 100% Savage Queen!
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100% Savage Queen Sarah
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I don't give a fuck about rude people if anyone crosses my boundaries to mistreat me or anyone! Lol! 100% Savage Queen for life!
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100% Savage Queen Sarah
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Attitude is a little difference thing that makes a big difference.
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100% Savage Queen Sarah