“
I love New York. You can pop out of the Underworld in Central Park, hail a taxi, head down Fifth Avenue with a giant hellhound loping behind you, and nobody even looks at you funny.
”
”
Rick Riordan
“
The entrance to the Underworld is in Los Angeles.
”
”
Rick Riordan (The Lightning Thief (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, #1))
“
I care," he said in a trembling voice. "I care so much that I do not know how to tell you without it seeming inconsequential compared to how I feel. Even if I am distant at times and seem as if I do not want to be with you, it is only because this scares me, too.
”
”
Aimee Carter (The Goddess Test (Goddess Test, #1))
“
Keep climbing,' he told himself.
'Cheeseburgers,' his stomach replied.
'Shut up,' he thought.
'With fries,' his stomach complained.
”
”
Rick Riordan (The House of Hades (The Heroes of Olympus, #4))
“
Christmas in the Underworld was NOT my idea.
If I'd known what was coming, I would've called in sick. I could've avoided an army of demons, a fight with a Titan, and a trick that almost got my friends and me cast into eternal darkness.
But no, I had to take my stupid English exam.
”
”
Rick Riordan (The Demigod Files (Percy Jackson and the Olympians))
“
To answer your question, you want me because I'm made of awesome.
”
”
Gena Showalter (Heart of Darkness (Includes: Lords of the Underworld #4.5))
“
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.
”
”
Gena Showalter (The Darkest Night (Lords of the Underworld, #1))
“
Right," she said, "We're going to the Land of the Dead and I shouldn't think negative.
”
”
Rick Riordan (The Lightning Thief (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, #1))
“
Sometimes what we want isn't what we need.
”
”
Gena Showalter (The Darkest Night (Lords of the Underworld, #1))
“
The older lady harrumphed. "I warned you, daughter. This scoundrel Hades is no good. You could've married the god of doctors or the god of lawyers, but noooo. You had to eat the pomegranate."
"Mother-"
"And get stuck in the Underworld!"
"Mother, please-"
"And here it is August, and do you come home like you're supposed to? Do you ever think about your poor lonely mother?"
"DEMETER!" Hades shouted. "That is enough. You are a guest in my house."
"Oh, a house is it?" she said. "You call this dump a house? Make my daughter live in this dark, damp-"
"I told you," Hades said, grinding his teeth, "there's a war in the world above. You and Persephone are better off here with me."
"Excuse me," I broke in. "But if you're going to kill me, could you just get on with it?
”
”
Rick Riordan (The Last Olympian (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, #5))
“
One hand was behind his back, and he held it out, presenting a bouquet of white and smoky purple lilies.
“They’re straight from the underworld, by the way. They are everlasting. They won’t die.
”
”
Jess C. Scott (The Devilin Fey (Naked Heat #1))
“
I'm William, but you can call me Sexy. Everyone does.
”
”
Gena Showalter (The Darkest Kiss (Lords of the Underworld, #2))
“
And from today onward, I want to never be separated from you. Wherever you go, I go. Even if that means going to hell itself, wherever you are, that's where I want to be. Forever.
”
”
Sarah J. Maas (The Assassin and the Underworld (Throne of Glass, #0.4))
“
I tried to tell you. You said you didn't care, remember?"
A muscle ticked below his eye. "You should have told me anyway."
"While you had barbells within your reach? Please. I'm Disease, not Stupid.
”
”
Gena Showalter (The Darkest Night (Lords of the Underworld, #1))
“
Hazel frowned. "Why that one?"
"You don't see the ghost?" Frank asked.
"Ghost?" Nico asked.
Okay... if Frank was seeing a ghost that the Underworld kids couldn't see, something was definitely wrong.
”
”
Rick Riordan (The House of Hades (The Heroes of Olympus, #4))
“
Once I learned, I went online and ordered every romance novel I could find. They're fairy tales for grown-ups.
”
”
Gena Showalter (The Darkest Night (Lords of the Underworld, #1))
“
That's because I'm made of awesome."
"And dipped in awesome."
"And sprinkled with awesome."
"Gods, I love the taste of awesome.
”
”
Gena Showalter (The Darkest Surrender (Lords of the Underworld, #8))
“
Sometimes I see something so moving I know I’m not supposed to linger. See it and leave. If you stay too long, you wear out the wordless shock. Love it and trust it and leave.
”
”
Don DeLillo (Underworld)
“
We're going to the Underworld," Izzy said. She bounced a little as she said it, her eyes bright and her tone implying that "the Underworld" was akin to "Candy Land.
”
”
Rachel Hawkins (Spell Bound (Hex Hall, #3))
“
The Death Mist is not for helping!" Akhlys shrieked. "It shrouds mortals in misery as their souls pass into the Underworld. It is the very breath of Tartarus, of death, of despair!"
"Awesome," Percy said. "Could we get two orders of that to go?
”
”
Rick Riordan (The House of Hades (The Heroes of Olympus, #4))
“
Knock him out, Paris!'
'Sure. Want me to spew diamonds from my ass while I’m at it?
”
”
Gena Showalter (The Darkest Night (Lords of the Underworld, #1))
“
He had a bleeding cut on his leg and he smelled like shit.
Her nose wrinkled. "Step in something?" she asked innocently.
"That I did not mind." He took a menacing step toward her. "What I did mind was being hit by a cab, then landing on the lap of a naked man. With an erection, Anya. He had an erection.
”
”
Gena Showalter (The Darkest Kiss (Lords of the Underworld, #2))
“
The usual warmth of his hands wasn’t there. They chilled my skin as they slipped to my waist, and I realized he was scared.
”
”
M.R. Noble (Karolina Dalca, Dark Eyes (The Dark Eyes #1))
“
I love you," he repeated, shaking her again. "I have for years. And he hurt you and made me watch because he's always know how I felt, too. But if I asked you to pick, you'd choose Arobynn, and I. Can't. Take. It.
”
”
Sarah J. Maas (The Assassin and the Underworld (Throne of Glass, #0.4))
“
Please!’
That word didn’t make sense to Nico. The Underworld had no mercy. It only had justice.
‘You’re already dead,’ Nico said. ‘You’re a ghost with no tongue, no memory. You won’t be sharing any secrets.
”
”
Rick Riordan (The Blood of Olympus (The Heroes of Olympus, #5))
“
Once upon a time, a prince fell madly in love with a demon from the Underworld. When she disappeared back into the sea, he ached so much for her that he walked into the ocean and never returned.
—Kenettran Folk Tales, various authors
”
”
Marie Lu (The Young Elites (The Young Elites, #1))
“
For just a second, I saw Persephone, pomegranate in hand. Dooming herself to the underworld. Is that who I was? Hades himself, coveting springtime, stealing it, condemning it to endless night.
”
”
Stephenie Meyer (Midnight Sun (Twilight, #5))
“
Apparently, dancing for him and throwing herself at him weren't enough. Apparently, she had to nearly commit murder to arouse him enough to attack her.
”
”
Gena Showalter (The Darkest Kiss (Lords of the Underworld, #2))
“
Her parents wanted her to find her own way in life. That’s what they’d said countless times in the past. Of course, they’d been referring to school subjects and college applications and job prospects. Presumably, at no stage did they factor living skeletons and magic underworlds into their considerations. If they had, their advice would probably have been very different.
”
”
Derek Landy (Skulduggery Pleasant (Skulduggery Pleasant, #1))
“
So,uh, where am I, exactly ? And what do you plan on doing with me ?"
"You're at Underworld General Hospital. As you can probably guess, we specialize in nonhuman medical care. Our location is secret, so don't ask."
"UGH ? Your hospital is called 'ugh' ? Oh, that's precious.
”
”
Larissa Ione (Pleasure Unbound (Demonica, #1))
“
Demon?” Gwen gasped out. Her back jerked ramrod-straight, and her face leeched of
color. “Did you just say demon?”
Oh, uh…did I say that?” Strider once again glanced around the plane helplessly. “No, no.
I think I said seaman.
”
”
Gena Showalter (The Darkest Whisper (Lords of the Underworld, #4))
“
Dying isn't the only way into the Underworld, but it's the safest."
Well, that sounded like an oxymoron if I'd ever heard one.
”
”
Jennifer L. Armentrout (Apollyon (Covenant, #4))
“
Discretion prevented me from saying that I thought she was a fiend from the underworld and that mountain lions couldn't force me to enter her service.
”
”
Megan Whalen Turner (The Thief (The Queen's Thief, #1))
“
THE WOMAN WAS GOING TO KILL HIM, and not because she was stronger and more vicious than he was. Which, if he thought about it, she was. He’d never ripped a man’s throat out with his teeth, and he was damned impressed that Gwen had. She’d made the Lords of the Underworld look like marshmallows.
”
”
Gena Showalter (The Darkest Whisper (Lords of the Underworld, #4))
“
No one should brave the underworld alone.
”
”
Poe
“
If we were different people in different circumstances, I would get down on my knees and beg you to stay at the end of the winter. I would move heaven and earth and the Underworld itself to keep you with me.
”
”
Katee Robert (Neon Gods (Dark Olympus, #1))
“
Anya jumped in front of the man, acting as his shield. “Now, Sabin. He didn’t mean any harm. He’s borderline stupid. You know that.
”
”
Gena Showalter (The Darkest Whisper (Lords of the Underworld, #4))
“
You remember the word we said when we pressed our hands together, right?"
I nodded. Forem. But what does it mean?"
"Forever,” he said his breath shaky. "It means we're bonded together forever.
”
”
Jessica Sorensen (The Underworld (Fallen Star, #2))
“
I love New York. You can pop out of the Underworld in Central Park, hail a taxi, head down Fifth Avenue with a giant hellhound loping along behind you, and nobody even looks at you funny.
Of course, the Mist helped. People probably couldn't see Mrs. O'Leary, or maybe they thought she was a large,loud,very friendly truck.
”
”
Rick Riordan (The Last Olympian (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, #5))
“
I don’t even know what to say.” Aeron.
“I do. Fuck.” Paris.
”
”
Gena Showalter (The Darkest Night (Lords of the Underworld, #1))
“
Yep, that's me. I know. I know. You're humbled I'm here, feel like throwing rose petals at my feet, blah, blah, blah. No need, though. Just try and think of me as a normal guy
-William
”
”
Gena Showalter (The Darkest Pleasure (Lords of the Underworld, #3))
“
What's your name?" he asked above the roar of the music.
She leaned close. "My name is Wind," she whispered. "And Rain. And Bone and Dust. My name is a snippet of a half-remembered song."
He chuckled a low, delightful sound. She was drunk and silly, and so full of the glory of being young and alive and in the capital of the world that she could hardly contain herself.
"I have no name," she purred. "I am whoever the keepers of my fate tell me to be."
He grasped her by her wrist, running a thumb along the sensitive sknin underneath. "Then let me call you Mine for a dance or two.
”
”
Sarah J. Maas (The Assassin and the Underworld (Throne of Glass, #0.4))
“
William: What's your nickname?
Maddox: I do not have one.
William" I'm happy to give you one. Captain Ass. What do you think?
Maddox: I can leave.
William: New nickname: Big Baby. Anyway, let's continue...
”
”
Gena Showalter (Into the Dark (Lords of the Underworld, #0.5,3.5; Atlantis #4.5))
“
Each of us has his own way of emerging from the underworld, mine is by writing. That's why the only way I can keep going, if at all, is by writing, not through rest and sleep. I am far more likely to achieve peace of mind through writing than the capacity to write through peace.
”
”
Franz Kafka (Letters to Felice)
“
A star becomes a sun, under the pressure of darkness.
”
”
M.R. Noble (Karolina Dalca, Dark Eyes (The Dark Eyes #1))
“
Hades allowed himself the faintest smile, but there was nothing cruel in his eyes.
‘I can entertain the possibility that you acted for multiple reasons. My point is this: you and I rose to the aid of Olympus because you convinced me to let go of my anger. I would encourage you to do likewise. My children are so rarely happy. I … I would like to see you be an exception.’
Nico stared at his father. He didn’t know what to do with that statement. He could accept many unreal things – hordes of ghosts, magical labyrinths, travel through shadows, chapels made of bones. But tender words from the Lord of the Underworld?
No. That made no sense.
”
”
Rick Riordan (The Blood of Olympus (The Heroes of Olympus, #5))
“
Gods, woman," William said. "Your voice is like death. Can you shut it until I leave the room? Please. Seriously, you're like the one woman in the world I want to resist." -Page 271
”
”
Gena Showalter (The Darkest Pleasure (Lords of the Underworld, #3))
“
This means nothing,” she said.
“Less than nothing,” he lied.
“I’ll hate myself later.”
“I hate myself now.
”
”
Gena Showalter (The Darkest Pleasure (Lords of the Underworld, #3))
“
Realization hit his face like a bomb. His hand trembled on my cheek, and he looked down to the ground, no longer able to hold my gaze.
”
”
M.R. Noble (Karolina Dalca, Dark Eyes (The Dark Eyes #1))
“
For a moment, Strider almost forgot how pissed he was with Amun and Haidee as he savored the fact that he'd just cock-blocked the keeper of Death. Almost.
”
”
Gena Showalter (The Darkest Secret (Lords of the Underworld, #7))
“
Everyone will hurt you if you let them in.
”
”
Jessica Sorensen (The Underworld (Fallen Star, #2))
“
Paris answered for him. "Last time he spread the flashing love, Reyes threw up all over his shirt. I never laughed so hard in my life. Lucien, though, has no sense of humor and vowed never to take us again."
"I'm surprised you didn't mention the part where you fainted," Lucien said wryly.
Strider chortled. "Oh, man. You fainted? What a baby!"
"Hey," Paris said, frowning at Lucien. "I told you I hit my head midflash."
Lucien
”
”
Gena Showalter (The Darkest Kiss (Lords of the Underworld, #2))
“
What I did mind was being hit by a cab, then landing on the lap of a naked man. With an erection, Anya. He had an erection.
”
”
Gena Showalter (The Darkest Kiss (Lords of the Underworld, #2))
“
Legion hissed like a startled cat, the noise scraping at Reyes’s skin. “Me no boy. You think me a boy?”
Everyone stopped, stared. Even Aeron.
Reyes was the first to find his voice. “You’re a…girl?”
A nod. “Me pretty.”
“Yes, you are.” Reyes exchanged a glance with Lucien. “Beautiful.
”
”
Gena Showalter (The Darkest Pleasure (Lords of the Underworld, #3))
“
By the way, only a real man can accept his feminine side."
"I don't know who fed you that line of garbage, but I can promise she's laughing at you right now.
”
”
Gena Showalter (The Darkest Seduction (Lords of the Underworld, #9))
“
In the silence of her bedroom, she swore an oath to the moonlight that if Sam were hurt, no force in the world would hold her back from slaughtering everyone responsible.
”
”
Sarah J. Maas (The Assassin and the Underworld (Throne of Glass, #0.4))
“
I have no name," she purred. "I'm whoever the keepers of my fate tell me to be.
”
”
Sarah J. Maas (The Assassin and the Underworld (Throne of Glass, #0.4))
“
she told me to be my own hero. Inside of all of us was the potential for greatness—all it took was a change in perspective. “You can burn brighter than they can, if you have too.
”
”
M.R. Noble (Karolina Dalca, Dark Eyes (The Dark Eyes #1))
“
He would have been handsome—in a serial-killer kind of way—if not for those tattoos.
”
”
Gena Showalter (The Darkest Night (Lords of the Underworld, #1))
“
Who is she, why is she still here and when can I see her naked? Paris asked with an eyebrow wiggle
”
”
Gena Showalter (The Darkest Night (Lords of the Underworld, #1))
“
I like to be admired from afar, and then complimented up close.
”
”
Gena Showalter (The Darkest Seduction (Lords of the Underworld, #9))
“
The best way to spell victory? K-I-L-L.
”
”
Gena Showalter (The Darkest Surrender (Lords of the Underworld, #8))
“
There are two types of men, Karolina. The ones who can admire the greatness of the little flower. Or the ones who try to control it.
”
”
M.R. Noble (Karolina Dalca, Dark Eyes (The Dark Eyes #1))
“
For a second, fire flared inside of him, not like mine, but the fire of a man about to lose control.
”
”
M.R. Noble (Karolina Dalca, Dark Eyes (The Dark Eyes #1))
“
You wanted to drown in a woman. Here's your chance. Drown in her blood"
~Violence(Maddox)
”
”
Gena Showalter (The Darkest Night (Lords of the Underworld, #1))
“
I'll take the cemetery," Kane said. He didn't sound excited. Rather, he sounded resigned. "The club might collapse if I go.
”
”
Gena Showalter (The Darkest Night (Lords of the Underworld, #1))
“
Do you want me?” he whispered. It was a simple but loaded question. The answer, like it could remove all anguish from the past few weeks, stood out in my head. “Yes.
”
”
M.R. Noble (Karolina Dalca, Dark Eyes (The Dark Eyes #1))
“
Hate. Huh. He'd never hated himself. If anything, he'd always liked himself a little too much. Once, a human female had even accused him of picturing his own face while he climaxed. He hadn't denied it, either, and next time he'd slept with her, he'd made sure to scream, "Strider" at the pivotal moment."
--Strider, keeper of the demon of Defeat--
”
”
Gena Showalter (The Darkest Secret (Lords of the Underworld, #7))
“
How do we thank an angel? Somehow I don’t think a fruit basket will do the trick." ~ Amun
”
”
Gena Showalter (The Darkest Secret (Lords of the Underworld, #7))
“
He’s a love-’em-and-leave-’em kind of guy. And though he’s not a Lord, he does have a curse hanging over his head. I have the book to prove it.”
William growled low in his throat. “Anya! Must you share my secrets with everyone?” He flattened his palms on the arms of his chair. “Fine. If you can spill, I can, too. Anya’s the reason the Titanic sank. She was playing chicken with the icebergs.”
Scowling, Anya anchored her hands on her hips. “William had a bronze made of his penis and placed it on his mantel.
”
”
Gena Showalter (The Darkest Whisper (Lords of the Underworld, #4))
“
The lamp tipped over, nailing Kane in the head.
Sabin shook his head. The man was a walking disaster Literally. Whenever Kane stepped into a room, things went to hell pretty quickly. Sabin expected the ceiling to cave in any moment. And yea, it had happened before.
”
”
Gena Showalter (The Darkest Night (Lords of the Underworld, #1))
“
I had plans, Karolina, and I chose power over love.
”
”
M.R. Noble (Karolina Dalca, Dark Eyes (The Dark Eyes #1))
“
If only Paris and the Harpies had gotten along. But Promiscuity had taken one look at the beautiful women and deemed them “too much effort.
”
”
Gena Showalter (The Darkest Whisper (Lords of the Underworld, #4))
“
You can burn brighter than they can, if you have too.
”
”
M.R. Noble (Karolina Dalca, Dark Eyes (The Dark Eyes #1))
“
I don't wanna take my time going to work, I got a motorcycle and a sleeping bag and ten or fifteen girls. What the hell I wanna go off and go to work for? Work for what? Money? I got all the money in the world. I'm the king, man. I run the underworld, guy. I decide who does what and where they do it at. What am I gonna run around like some teeny bopper somewhere for someone elses money? I make the money man, I roll the nickels. The game is mine. I deal the cards
”
”
Charles Manson
“
she told me to be my own hero. Inside of all of us was the potential for greatness—all it took was a change in perspective.
”
”
M.R. Noble (Karolina Dalca, Dark Eyes (The Dark Eyes #1))
“
If I had bodily functions, I think I would have peed my pants.
”
”
Gena Showalter (The Darkest Night (Lords of the Underworld, #1))
“
That means life itself is a fairy tale. Like the characters, we all live and love and search for a happily-ever-after.
”
”
Gena Showalter (The Darkest Night (Lords of the Underworld, #1))
“
I couldn’t remember a time when I felt the type of love Miruna had. Eternal love. The kind which keeps one going when one is ninety and alone.
”
”
M.R. Noble (Karolina Dalca, Dark Eyes (The Dark Eyes #1))
“
CPR dummy looked like him and had clearly been stabbed. Repeatedly. In the groin. He thought she might have used the dummy for target practice, and tried not to be offended. Key word: tried.
”
”
Gena Showalter (The Darkest Secret (Lords of the Underworld, #7))
“
This is the gate between the living and the dead", he said. "You are still living. The others on the grounds died very long time ago."
A chill ran through me. "And you?"
"Me?" The corner of his mouth twitched. "I rule the dead. I am not one of them
”
”
Aimee Carter (The Goddess Test (Goddess Test, #1))
“
What's this about?"
"Finally. Interest," was the only response.
"If this is one of your tricks..." Like the time Torin had ordered hundreds of blow-up dolls and placed them throughout the fortress, all because Paris had foolishly complained about the lack of female companionship in town. The plastic "ladies" had stared our from every corner, their wide eyes and let-me-suck-you mouths taunting everyone who passed them.
Things like that happened when Torin was bored.
”
”
Gena Showalter (The Darkest Night (Lords of the Underworld, #1))
“
When is your birthday?” (…)
Wide silver-gold eyes swung to him. “You don’t know?”
“No.”
Pouting, she twirled a strand of her hair. “How can you not know?”
“Do you know mine?” he asked.
“Of course I do. It’s the day you met me.
”
”
Gena Showalter (The Darkest Surrender (Lords of the Underworld, #8))
“
William untucked the covers and stood, making a mental list of everything he'd need for the coming trip. A few blades, serrated and non serrated. A vial of acid. A bone saw. A spiked paddle. A cat-o'-nine-tails. And a bag of Gummy Bears.
”
”
Gena Showalter (The Darkest Secret (Lords of the Underworld, #7))
“
Please don't go."
He let out an uneven breath. "You'll be fine without me. You always have been."
Maybe once, but not now. "How can I convince you to stay?"
"You can't."
She threw down the torch. "Do you want me to beg, is that it?"
"No-never."
"Then tell me-"
"What more can I say?" he exploded, his whisper rough and harsh "I’ve already told you everything—I’ve already told you that if I stay here, if I have to live with Arobynn, I'll snap his damned neck.”
“But why? Why can’t you let it go?”
He grabbed her shoulders and shook her. “Because I love you!”
Her mouth fell open.
“I love you,” he repeated, shaking her again. “I have for years. And he hurt you and made me watch because he’s always known how I felt, too. But if I asked you to pick, you’d choose Arobynn, and I. Can’t. Take. It.”
The only sounds were their breathing, an uneven beat against the rushing of the sewer river.
“You’re a damned idiot,” she breathed, grabbing the front of his tunic. “You’re a moron and an ass and a damned idiot.” He looked like she had hit him. But she went on, and grasped both sides of his face, "Because I'd pick you."
And then she kissed him.
”
”
Sarah J. Maas (The Assassin and the Underworld (Throne of Glass, #0.4))
“
You can't go."
"Give me a reason why I shouldn't."
"Because I'll miss you, damn it!" she hissed, splaying her arms. "Because what's the point in anything if you just disappear forever?"
"The point in what, Celaena?" How could he be so calm when she was so frantic?
"The point in Skull's Bay, and the point in getting me that music, and the point in... the point in telling Arobynn that you'd forgive him if he never hurt me again."
"You said you didn't care what I thought. Or what I did. Or if I died, if I'm not mistaken."
"I lied! And you know I lied you stupid bastard!
”
”
Sarah J. Maas (The Assassin and the Underworld (Throne of Glass, #0.4))
“
Well I've been calling myself Scarlet Pattinson for several weeks. Have you seen Robert Pattinson? Hottest. Man. Ever. And no, I don't care if that makes me a couger. He sings with the voice of an angel. Gods, I love when a man sings to me. You never did because your voice is terrrible." She shuddered in distaste. "I swear, its like a demon running its claws over brimsone.
”
”
Gena Showalter (The Darkest Lie (Lords of the Underworld, #6))
“
He’d never be able to touch her, and as passionate as she was, she would eventually need a man who could. He’d never had to worry about these things before because he’d never been with a woman. Not even before his possession. He’d been too busy then, too involved in his job. Maybe he needed to join Workaholics Anonymous, he thought dryly. He had to be the only millennia-old virgin in history.
”
”
Gena Showalter (The Darkest Whisper (Lords of the Underworld, #4))
“
Do you know who I am?" she demanded.
"Well, you're Night, I suppose," said Annabeth. "I mean, I can tell because you're dark and everything, though the brochure didn't say much about you."
Nyx's eyes winked out for a moment. "What brochure?"
Annabeth patted her pockets. "We had one, didn't we?"
Percy licked his lips. "Uh-huh." He was still watching the horses, his hand tight on his sword hilt, but he was smart enough to follow Annabeth's lead.
[...]
"Anyway," she said, "I guess the brochure didn't say much, because you weren't spotlighted on the tour. We got to see the River Phlegethon, the Cocytus, the arai, the poison glade of Akhlys, even some random Titans and giants, but Nyx...hmm, no you weren't really featured."
"Featured? Spotlighted?"
"Yeah," Percy said, warming up to the idea. "We came down here for the Tartarus tour--like, exotic destinations, you know? The Underworld is overdone. Mount Olympus is a tourist trap--"
"Gods, totally!" Annabeth agreed. "So we booked the Tartarus excursion, but no one even mentioned we'd run into Nyx. Huh. Oh, well. Guess they didn't think you were important.
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Rick Riordan (The House of Hades (The Heroes of Olympus, #4))
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Dangerous as a lightning strike, as lethal as a pair of crisscrossing short swords, William whispered, “You’re about to find out how your liver tastes, my friend.”
“I have tasted it already,” Zacharel said, his voice its usual monotone. The snowflakes began to fall in earnest, tiny at first, but growing in diameter. An arctic wind blustered around him. “It was a bit salty.”
How the hell was a guy supposed to respond to that?
Apparently William didn’t know, either, because he gaped at the angel. Then, “Maybe if you added a little pepper?”
O-kay. It was official. William had an answer for everything.
”
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Gena Showalter (The Darkest Seduction (Lords of the Underworld, #9))
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Pale hair fell in waves to his shoulders, framing a face mortal females considered a sensual feast. They didn't know the man was actually a devil in angel's skin. They should have, though. He practically glowed with irreverence, and there was an unholy gleam in his green eyes that proclaimed he would laugh in your face while cutting out your heat. Or laugh in your face while you cut out his heart.
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Gena Showalter (The Darkest Night (Lords of the Underworld, #1))
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I long for the days of disorder. I want them back, the days when I was alive on the earth, rippling in the quick of my skin, heedless and real. I was dumb-muscled and angry and real. This is what I long for, the breach of peace, the days of disarray when I walked real streets and did things slap-bang and felt angry and ready all the time, a danger to others and a distant mystery to myself.
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Don DeLillo (Underworld)
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William: I just had the best idea ever. Let's give Maddox a ring.
Paris: You mean propose to him? To grumpy ole Maddox? Willie, why didn't you tell us you're a masochist, who swung that way? You're so delicate, he'll rip you to shreds the moment you climb into his bed. Plus, he's hitched himself to Ashlyn. You try to lay a move on him, and that sweet thang will rearrange your face.
William: I mean call him, you idiot. What's with you tonight? Permanent brain damage? We'll breath heavily and ask him what he's wearing. I bet no one's phone sexed him before.
”
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Gena Showalter (The Darkest Secret (Lords of the Underworld, #7))
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Stridey-Man: " Want 2 vaca w/me?"
William: "Romantic getaway for 2? UR not my type"
Stridey-Man: "I'm everyone's type. So U in or out? 'Cause I'm thinking about hooking up w/P, wherever he is. U'd just B extra baggage."
William: "In"
Stridey: "Knew you couldn't resist me. B ready in 5."
William: "Right on. Make it 10. I want 2 style my hair for U. U know, just how U like it."
Stridey: "Now U only have 8 minutes 2 do UR hair.
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Gena Showalter (The Darkest Secret (Lords of the Underworld, #7))
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With each day, he felt the barriers melting. He let them melt. Because of her genuine laugh, because he caught her one afternoon sleeping with her face in the middle of a book, because he knew that she would win.
She was a criminal—a prodigy at killing, a Queen of the Underworld—and yet . . . yet she was just a girl, sent at seventeen to Endovier.
It made him sick every time he thought about it. He’d been training with the guards at seventeen, but he’d still lived here, still had a roof over his head and good food and friends.
Dorian had been in the middle of courting Rosamund when he was that age, not caring about anything.
But she—at seventeen—had gone to a death camp. And survived.
He wasn’t sure if he could survive Endovier, let alone during the winter months. He’d never been whipped, never seen anyone die. He’d never been cold and starving.
Celaena laughed at something Dorian said. She’d survived Endovier, and yet could still laugh.
While it terrified him to see her down there, a hand’s breadth from Dorian’s unprotected throat, what terrified him even more was that he trusted her. And he didn’t know what that meant about himself.
”
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Sarah J. Maas (Throne of Glass (Throne of Glass, #1))
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He grasped her by the wrist , running a thumb along the sensitive skin underneath. "Then let me call you Mine for a dance or two"
She grinned but someone was suddenly between them, a tall, powerfully built person. Sam. He ripped the stranger's hand off of her wrist. "She's spoken for," he growled, all too close to the young man's maked face. The stranger's friend was behind him in an instant, his bronze eyes fixed on Sam.
Celaena grabbed Sam's elbow. "Enough," she warned him.
The masked stranger looked Sam up and down, then held up his hands. "My mistake," he said, but winked at Celaena before disappeared into the crowd, his armed friend close behind.
Celaena whirled to face Sam. "What in hell was that for?"
"You're drunk," he told her, so close her chest brushed his, "And he knew it, too."
"So?" Even as she said it, someone dancing wildly crashed into her and set her reeling. Sam caught her around the waist, his hands firm on her as he kept her from falling to the ground.
"You'll thank me in the morning."
"Just because we're working together doesn't mean I'm suddenly incapable of handling myself." His hands were still on her waist.
"Let me take you home.
”
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Sarah J. Maas (The Assassin and the Underworld (Throne of Glass, #0.4))
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William clapped to gain everyone's attention. "All right, listen up. I've got good news and bad news. Because I'm such a positive person, we'll start with the good. Ashlyn survived the birthing, and so did her personal horde."
The hallway echoed with breathy sighs of relief...none louder than Maddox's own.
"So what's the bad?" someone demanded.
After a dramatic pause, the warrior said, "I'm out of conditioner. I need someone to flash out of here and get me some. Hint, I’m looking at you, Lucien. And, yeah, you're welcome for my amazing contrib to your happy family. Little terrors clawed me up but good.
”
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Gena Showalter (The Darkest Seduction (Lords of the Underworld, #9))
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Twenty-seven.”
His brow puckered, and he blinked over at her. “Twenty-seven hundred years, right?”
If he were speaking to Taliyah, yes. “No. Just twenty-seven plain, ordinary years.”
“You don’t mean human years, do you?”
“No. I mean dog years,” she said dryly, then pressed her lips together. Where was the filter that was usually poised over her mouth? Strider didn’t seem to mind, though. Rather, he seemed stupefied. Would Sabin have had the same reaction were he awake? “What’s so hard to believe about my age?” As the question echoed between them, a thought occurred to her and she blanched. “Do I look ancient?”
“No, no. Of course not. But you’re immortal. Powerful.
”
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Gena Showalter (The Darkest Whisper (Lords of the Underworld, #4))
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Nico leaned over the edge o the chasm, thrusting out his hand, but he was much too far away to help. Hazel was yelling for the others, but even if they heard her over the chaos, they'd never make it in time.
Annabeth's leg felt like it was pulling free of her body. Pain washed everything in red. The force of the Underworld tugged at her like dark gravity. She didn't have the strength to fight. She knew she was too far down to be saved.
"Percy, let me go," she croaked. "You can't pull me up."
His face was white with effort. She could see in his eyes that he knew it was hopeless.
"Never," he said. He looked up at Nico, fifteen feet above. "The other side, Nico We'll see you there. Understand?"
Nico's eyes widened. "But-"
"Lead them there!" Percy shouted. "Promise me!"
"I- will."
Below them, the voice laughed in the darkness. Sacrifices. Beautiful sacrifices to wake the goddess.
Percy tightened his grip on Annabeth's wrist. His face was gaunt, scraped and bloody, his hair dusted with cobwebs, but when he locked eyes with her, she thought he had never been more handsome.
"We're staying together," he promised. "You're not getting away from me. Never again."
Only then did she understand what would happen. A oneway trip. A very hard fall.
"As long as we're together," she said.
She heard Nico and Hazel still screaming for help. She saw the sunlight far, far above- maybe the last sunlight she would ever see.
Then Percy let go of his tiny ledge, and together, holding hands, he and Annabeth fell into the endless darkness.
”
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Rick Riordan (The Mark of Athena (The Heroes of Olympus, #3))
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Dear Camryn,
I never wanted it to be this way. I wanted to tell you these things myself, but I was afraid. I was afraid that if I told you out loud that I loved you, that what we had together would die with me. The truth is that I knew in Kansas that you were the one. I’ve loved you since that day when I first looked up into your eyes as you glared down at me from over the top of that bus seat. Maybe I didn’t know it then, but I knew something had happened to me in that moment and I could never let you go.
I have never lived the way I lived during my short time with you. For the first time in my life, I’ve felt whole, alive, free. You were the missing piece of my soul, the breath in my lungs, the blood in my veins. I think that if past lives are real then we have been lovers in every single one of them. I’ve known you for a short time, but I feel like I’ve known you forever.
I want you to know that even in death I’ll always remember you. I’ll always love you. I wish that things could’ve turned out differently. I thought of you many nights on the road. I stared up at the ceiling in the motels and pictured what our life might be like together if I had lived. I even got all mushy and thought of you in a wedding dress and even with a mini me in your belly. You know, I always heard that sex is great when you’re pregnant. ;-)
But I’m sorry that I had to leave you, Camryn. I’m so sorry…I wish the story of Orpheus and Eurydice was real because then you could come to the Underworld and sing me back into your life. I wouldn’t look back. I wouldn’t fuck it up like Orpheus did.
I’m so sorry, baby…
I want you to promise me that you’ll stay strong and beautiful and sweet and caring. I want you to be happy and find someone who will love you as much as I did. I want you to get married and have babies and live your life. Just remember to always be yourself and don’t be afraid to speak your mind or to dream out loud.
I hope you’ll never forget me.
One more thing: don’t feel bad for not telling me that you loved me. You didn’t need to say it. I knew all along that you did.
Love Always,
Andrew Parrish
”
”
J.A. Redmerski