Nalini Singh Quotes

Dev? This time, she got a grunt. Smiling, she pressed her lips to his jaw, loving the roughness under her lips. I like sex.She saw the edge of a smile, and it made her own lips curve. I really like it. Rubbing her heel over the back of his leg, she ran her hand down his muscled arm, wanting only to touch him. When can we do it again?He sounded like he was chocking as he said, You're not acting like a Psy.Maybe if they tried sex with you, the others would change their minds, too.

~ Nalini Singh

Children were huge, wild creatures full of promise and hope and dirt and mischief.

~ Nalini Singh

We all have to live with our past, but it doesn’t have to define us.

~ Nalini Singh

He couldn’t say the words, had spent too long in Silence, but he’d learned other ways to speak. Taking the paperweight she’d knocked off her desk out of his pocket, he put it in her hands. “It’s fixed. As long as you don’t mind more than a few scars.

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I have something for you.”“Yeah? What? Is it shiny?”They both waited until Indigo had jogged away before resuming their conversation. “So,” Riley asked, “what have you got for me?” Taking his hand, she placed it palm-down over her heart. It would hurt like a bitch, she thought, but he was hers to protect as much as she was his. “Me.” And she opened up her soul, laid herself bare.

~ Nalini Singh

God, you’re sexy when you talk Psy.

~ Nalini Singh

Some women,” Dahariel said in that same hard tone devoid of any hint of humanity, “getunder a man’s skin until digging them out makes you bleed.

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While Dmitri, as the leader of Raphael’s Seven, could not accept such a weakness, the mortal he’d once been, the one who had loved a woman with a wide mouth and eyes of slanted brown . . . that man understood what it was to love so deeply it was a kind of beautiful madness.

~ Nalini Singh

Eyes narrowed, Judd stared at the structure as if at a mortal enemy. Slapping his fellow lieutenant on the shoulder, Riaz said, Don't even think about it. A pissed-off telekinetic versus the complex metal pylons and tubes of the jungle gym- the results would not be pretty.Judd glanced at his watch. I'll destroy it later.

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It wasn’t only his city that was healing, Raphael thought, his eyes catching the refracted light that betrayed Aodhan’s presence in the sky; his people were, too. And it had all begun with a single, vulnerable mortal who did not accept that to be an archangel was to be always right.

~ Nalini Singh

To fight evil, you have to understand the dark.

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Taking a sip of the hot chocolate he'd made her, she met his gaze, those eerie eyes of endless black impenetrable, unreadable. Max? Yes?Will you remember me?His heart broke into a thousand pieces. Always.

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In my time,” he said, “they believed in witches. Are you a witch, Honor, that you make me say these things to you?” Causing him to rip open wounds that had stayed safely scabbed over for so long that, most of the time, he managed to forget they existed. Her hands, so very, very gentle, continued to hold his face as she tugged him down until their foreheads touched. “I’m no witch, Dmitri. If I was, I’d know how to fix you.

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There's not much left inside me, Max Sometimes, all she heard were echoes.

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She fucking turns me inside out.Women who matter have a way of doing that. Lucas scowled. We sound like a couple of women, talking about feelings. I think Sascha's having a bad influence on me.You started it.

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Illium, with his wings of silver-kissed blue and a face designed to seduce both males and females, not to mention his ability to do the most impossible acrobatics in the air, would provide a worthy diversion. The fact that he’d decided to ditch half his clothing was just icing on the cake.

~ Nalini Singh

Raphael met Michaela's gaze. If you could kill every single beautiful woman in the world, would you?Her smile never faded. In an instant.

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When he put the old-fashioned mechanical toy on her palm, she stopped breathing. It was a tiny representation of an atom, complete with colored ball bearings standing in for neutrons, protons, and on the outside, arranged on arcs of fine wire, electrons. Turning the key on the side made the electrons move, what she’d thought were ball bearings actually finely crafted spheres of glass that sparked with color. A brilliant, thoughtful, wonderful gift for a physics major.“Why magnesium?” she asked, identifying the atomic number of the light metal. His hand on her jaw, his mouth on her own. “Because it’s beautifully explosive, just like my X.

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The fear is like metal on my tongue—I’ve known him but a fragment of time, and yet I’m certain if I accept his suit, it will destroy a part of me when he leaves.”Keir reached forward to tuck her hair behind her ear. “We’re all a little broken.” Quiet. Potent. “No one goes through life with a whole heart.

~ Nalini Singh

A woman who knows me, understands what I am, and who wants to have secret rules with me.

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I might be on the fence about this life, but I 'm not and will never be on the fence about you. I will fight for you.

~ Nalini Singh

The longer you live, the more mistakes you make. And the more sorrows you carry.

~ Nalini Singh

I can smell blood, Elena,” Dmitri drawled, walking back into the room. “Are you trying to flirt?

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But it was the dark hunger in his tone that got to her. Damn kinky vampire had actually liked the

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Illium, his expression subdued as it had been for too many days, turned to her. “Mind if I have a go?”“Kick his ass.”Stripping off his shirt and boots, Illium held out his hand for one of Venom’s blades. Lips curving, Venom passed it over. “Sure you can handle me, pretty, pretty Bluebell?”“Did I ever tell you about my snakeskin boots?” A savage grin, and she knew Venom was about to bear the brunt of whatever haunted the blue-winged angel.Venom swirled his blade in hand. “I do think I need some new feathers for my pillow.

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Do you know where Jason is?” she asked Dmitri when they exited the morgue. Dmitri pressed the car remote to unlock the flame red Ferrari parked in the employees-only lot. “Tired of your Bluebell already?” A tendril of champagne circled around her senses, cut with something far harder. Never had she felt that harsh edge in Dmitri’s scent. She pitied the woman he took to his bed today.“Yeah, that’s it. I’m building a harem.

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Someday,” she said in a voice as serene as a high mountain lake, “I’m going to break your neck. Then I’m going to saw it off with a hacksaw so I can take my time.” Venom’s grin creased his cheeks.“I knew you had it in you, kitty.”(Venom & Sorrow)

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Fly free, my daughter. Be what I could never be and leave the cage forever.

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Hey, Frenchie!” Sage poked his head out the door, the sun hitting the brown of his hair to reveal hidden strands of red. “Did you bring any baguettes?”“Why don’t you go season something, Herb?

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Sascha nodded. Want me to wait?Do I want my mate to wait in a deserted forest while a dangerous Psy fugitive remains on the loose? Wait, let me think.Sarcasm does not suit you. She kissed him again, laughter in her eyes.

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You do realize this makes your wings even more unique.Are you saying you shot me as a cosmetic procedure?

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Option 1: Attempt to back out.Probable result: Death after painful torture.Option 2: Do the job and hope.Probable result: Death but probably no torture (good)

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Fine. But remember, little rabbit, not a word to anyone. He moved close enough that the dark heat of him lapped against her in a quiet threat that made her glad for the blade. I'm not a nice man when I'm angry. She held her position, a ragged attempt to erase the humiliation of the panic attack. I'm fairly certain you're not a nice man at all. His answer was a slow smile that whispered of silk sheets, erotic whispers, and sweat-damp skin. The unhidden intent of it had her heart slamming hard against her ribs. No she said. Voice raw. A challenge.” He wasn't touching her and yet she felt caressed by a thousand ropes of fur, soft and lush and unmistakably sexual. I accept

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You refused to fall in love with anyone else, Dmitri.” A whisper with the impact of a gun-shot. “So I had to come back for you . . . husband.

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Flirt with him if you want, Honor, but you're mine.

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Dmitri clearly gives good . . . blood.

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A faint smile that made every tiny hair on her body rise in quivering attention. How fast can you run? A wolf's question.

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Come make me sticky.Dimitri to Honor

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Raphael lifted a finger, tracing it over her cheekbone. She flinched. Not because he was hurting her. The opposite. The places he touched ... it was as if he had a direct line to the hottest, most feminine part of her. A single stroke and she was embarrassingly damp. But she refused to pull away, refused to give in. (page 33 , Gollancz edition)

~ Nalini Singh

Hawke continued to walk beside his lieutenant— a man who, as a result of his incredible feats during the battle in San Francisco, now had a fan club. Complete with “I (heart) Judd” and “Judd Is My Boyfriend” memorabilia. In the normal course of events, civilians wouldn’t have gotten anywhere near the former Arrow, but it had been impossible to evacuate the entire city prior to the Pure Psy attack.

~ Nalini Singh