Erin Kellison Quotes

The Sandman is rising.It'd been the only thing Coll had said before delirium had taken him again.The Sandman. Rising.

~ Erin Kellison

No one could blame her if she was running a little low on the sugar and spice and everything nice.

~ Erin Kellison

Maisie stepped out and moved as if there were gravity. Are you coming or what?Rook nodded and hefted Steve with him. You should consider counseling.For what?Your God complex.

~ Erin Kellison

Fucking unicorns wouldn't be hard to chase, as they'd probably stay in roughly the same spot while they, you know, fuck.

~ Erin Kellison

Has anyone else here seen or fought a nightmare?Marshal Spence Neumann lifted his head. Seen one. Swear to God it looked like my ex-wife for a second.A chuckle rumbled within the group. Someone mumbled, She was a nightmare.

~ Erin Kellison

Everyone knew the Hans Christian Andersen fairytale about the Sandman and how he brought sweet dreams to sleepers. An early, now-defunct Reve company had even used him as their mascot. But that's all the Sandman had been - a mascot. A little grinning elf holding an hourglass.

~ Erin Kellison

Laughter gurgled up from inside her. She'd just mugged a mugger. Look out, world.

~ Erin Kellison

The nightmare was shaped like a goddess - a beauty with a body curved to incite reckless sinning. She wore an angry pout that he knew would burn his mouth. She had hair like snow and eyes as cold and fathomless as the deepest reaches of space. How like a nightmare to seduce and terrify at the same time.

~ Erin Kellison

Tonight was about fathers. Vince was going to kill hers for murdering his.

~ Erin Kellison

Who the fuck is the Sandman? Still ludicrous. A fairy tale.Mirren crossed her legs and shifted in her seat. Elvis winked at him from her breasts. It's not like I've met Him. My father never invited Him over to dinner. He's --- she took a deep breath and did a lazy little wave of her hand, as if searching for the right words -- the power that dominates Darkside. Pure creation.

~ Erin Kellison

They moved as a unit, a first for her. The madman and the nightmare.

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She glanced again toward Vincent. And who is he again?Vincent grinned. I'm Vincent Blackman of the SpiderSly Company. Mirren and I are going to sleep together; we just have to get through this bullshit of her father's first.

~ Erin Kellison

The wind stilled a bit and he blinked the sand out of his eyes. Before him stood nothing less than the god of the Scrape. It had to be a god. He was huge, muscled, hung like an elephant, and sandy gold, just like his domain.

~ Erin Kellison

If she couldn't be with Harlen in Washington, DC, this was the place to be.Sera's mobile screen lit, and she glanced down to find a text from him: I have to pee.

~ Erin Kellison

He'd pushed and pushed and pushed until she had nowhere else to go but away from him. He'd been young back then himself. Inexperienced. Stupid. A little patience accomplished a lot more. Hard lesson to learn. Worst way to learn it.

~ Erin Kellison

This was the stuff of novels with -- yeah -- men like him on the cover.

~ Erin Kellison

He dragged her to him, and she, being equally focused on attaching her mouth to his, lost her balance. Stepping in for the save, he held her up against the doorjamb with his hard body, mouth rasping hers, tongue deep enough to touch her soul. Could be oxygen deprivation, but she saw stars behind her closed lids.

~ Erin Kellison

The sooner it's over, the sooner we can go back to bed. Everything good happens in bed.

~ Erin Kellison

She gave herself up to the waves of the storm. If they drowned, it would be together, a shattered vessel on the sea, a collision of longing and desire.

~ Erin Kellison

The shadow acts on instinct, not reason.

~ Erin Kellison

The Agora had fallen, too. Vince turned the radio off, dismissing what they'd just heard, and merged onto I-87. A little shriek of madness sounded in the back of his brain, but he said, with admirable calm considering, Seriously, love, I think we've got this.

~ Erin Kellison