Romance

"I'm sorry, I really did want to talk to you." His free hand went to her face and cupped her cheek. Something tightened pleasantly in her belly. "Just talk" she breathed. He nodded, but used their clasped hands to pull her closer to him. She raised her head and met his eyes, a storm of blue and green. She smirked. "That's a shame."

"If a princess in the days of enchantment had seen a four-footed creature from among those which live in herds come to her once and again with a human gaze which rested upon her with choice and beseeching, what would she think of in her journeying, what would she look for when the herds passed her? Surely for the gaze which had found her, and which she would know again."

"With an evil, tempting wink that threatened to undo him, she added, "I'm the one you have to watch out for."

"Why are you dim when your face is so fucking pretty? When your eyes are bright enough to light up my whole damn world. Why?"

"Not all vampires are created equal."

"… I suppose that it is not so easy to go home and it takes a bit of time to make a son out of a stranger."

"He was so much more than she had expected. More than a delicious body and a smile that came out of nowhere to light up the darkness of this hopeless place."

"I am an acquired taste."

"Romance only comes into existence where love is fatal, frowned upon and doomed by life itself."

"She missed his voice, the music he played on his guitar, the sound of his laughter. And sex. yes, she missed that, too. Having the evenings and weekends free to whatever she wanted--something she had once cherished about being single--wasn't nearly as satisfying as doing those things with Javier. But that's what it meant to love a military man."

"They danced slow circles in the sand, Javier singing the words to the Spanish version of the song, the melancholy music putting a strange ache in his chest, an ache he saw reflected in her eyes. Was she feeling what he was feeling?"

"What Hans had intended to end at a simple kiss quickly escalated into something neither one of them seemed able to stop."

"I don’t have cookie-cutter relationships, Rumi. Women aren’t i Phone apps that I download and discard!"

"So that’s it? You’re just going to rescue me and go?"

"He wanted to taste nothing unless it was the sweetness of her mouth, the musk of her arousal, the salt of her tears, wanted to touch nothing unless it was the silk of her hair, her soft curves, wanted to breathe nothing unless it had come from her lungs."

"Time is tick, tick, ticking away. How many souls will I capture today? Will they be a challenge or will they be given? Only time will tell as the clock keeps tick, tick, ticking. Your god has arrived with enough hatred for y’all, with enough evil for the big and small, so come one, come all. I will shred your souls and place them in my satchel, call you a settler and make you my peddler. Come one, come all, come stand behind your god. I will lead you into the darkness of Earth's end. Come one, come all, my wilted flowers, come claim your title, speak out and cheer it. Come one, come all, let’s have a ball, my wilted flowers . . . Sweet, Unconquerable Spirits."

"The irony was that my real enemy had been there all along right in front of me. Smiling crookedly and convincing me we were friends. Trying to seduce me for the thrill of the chase. Chastising me for not trusting him that first year in the tower stairs at the Academy… Telling me he loved me. And then tossing me aside the second I jeopardized his dreams. I wasn’t what he had wanted all these years. I’d merely been a diversion in his pursuit of the crown. I never should have trusted a prince."

"Aku tahu, mencintai dan melupakan, sama sulitnya."

"Was he trying to rescue her?She fought not to roll her eyes. Men."

"Apa kamu tidak bisa menerima takdir kalau kita akan selalu pergi bersama?"