Urban Fantasy Quotes

These words you want to remember: if you do not learn to control the power within you, it will consume more than just your enemy.

~ Brynn Myers

He lowered his head until his lips hovered centimeters above hers. This was the moment he craved. This heated moment – each of them lingering, waiting, wanting. He loved the excitement of the build-up almost as much as the conquest itself. As he’d told her many times, the greater the anticipation, the sweeter the reward.

~ Lisa Carlisle

Your friends are…interesting,” she said, making me snort. “I would hate to see your enemies.” She looked back at me, black eyes assessing. “You did not mention that one of the ‘friends’ you risked your life for was desperately hoping he could rip your head off.” “I was a soldier of the Order,” I said wearily. “He’s the leader of a rogue dragon underground. I’m sure I’ve killed a few of his dragons in the past.”I’m also stupidly in love with the girl he considers his, and we both know it.

~ Julie Kagawa

You think us fairies don’t understand sarcasm? We invented sarcasm.

~ Grace Hudson

Jev was certain the words “should’ve known better” would go somewhere on her tombstone, but at the moment her focus shifted to the dozens of angry pixies honed in on her.

~ Katherine Mcintyre

He was here. Nice to have someone to hold my hand in the end. Valkyrie, I need to lift you. This is going to hurt. His arms slid underneath my body. I screamed. Almost gone. I struggled. Needed to tell him not to worry. It wasn't his fault. Don't bother trying to save me. Hurts too much. What is it, Valkyrie? You have to stop struggling. His head hovered above my mouth. There's nothing... left to save.

~ Amanda Carlson

There ain't nothin' that makes a man feel more alive than white-hot desire.

~ Sara Humphreys

Even now, as a vampire, the fear of addiction ruled her world.Would she ever be free?

~ Sara Humphreys

The Segue Institute was the preeminent research organization for all things paranormal and it was housed in a haunted, renovated turn of-the-century hotel. The place was supposedly loaded with what the scientists there called Shadow, capital S, a scary word for magic. Dark magic.

~ Erin Kellison

Voodoo very old magic - possibly one of the oldest forms of all time. It's often referred to as vodou or voudoun....Voodoo worships the loa, which are literally spirits - like ghosts - but much more powerful. The priestess can summon the loa, and the spirit inhabits her body. It's called being 'ridden

~ Amanda Carlson

You can't bluff your way past everyone.You mean about filleting that guy? Sera returned.Who said I was bluffing?

~ Erin Kellison

Did the van die because it's a complete piece of shit or was it something supernatural? Tyler asked...

~ Amanda Carlson

I like you like this. The way it should be. Safe in my arms.

~ Amanda Carlson

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

~ Erin Kellison

When we are allowed two seconds of freedom, be prepared for me to tear your clothes off.That sounds like a perfect plan.

~ Amanda Carlson

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

~ Erin Kellison

Jesus, Jess, it would be nice if you stayed out of life-and-death scenarios for five minutes.

~ Amanda Carlson

Ray is going to fly you out and the plan is to meet up in two hours.She sighed. I despise Vamp Air, but I guess it can't be helped. I can't even think about the amount of bugs that will be caught in my teeth over these swamplands.Well, maybe it would help if you just keep your mouth shut---

~ Amanda Carlson

Vampires love to gossip. They live for drama...

~ Amanda Carlson

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

What's more powerful than a priestess? I didn't really want to know, did I?A bokor.The name rang a few tiny bells inside my head, but not enough to put it together on my own. Explain.In a nutshell, they're the equivalent of a sorceress, and they deal primarily with the dead.

~ Amanda Carlson

A ghostly voice shivered along my spine, whispering, We shall meet soon, bèt nan bwa.

~ Amanda Carlson

Ray snorted. Yeah, the air right around where the boat was parked is absolutely full of shit. Like the devil blew his nose all over it.That's a pretty picture, Ray.

~ Amanda Carlson

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.

~ Erin Kellison

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

When they had hurried to the train station with their violin cases, they had drawn almost as many stares as they would on any normal day when their hair was to their knees and sheeting behind them like red silk. A poetic fruit-seller had told them once that they looked like dryads, and they did still, only now they looked like dryads who had tired of snagging their hair on brambles and sliced it all off on the edge of a knife.

~ Laini Taylor

People spend their entire lives fearing the very thing you apparently crave. They do anything they can to delay the process or fool themselves into believing it’s farther away than it actually is. With every passing year, with every milestone, they only feel more anxiety, more inclination to defeat this inevitability of nature, only to realize that they’ve fostered an entire life of crippling fear, wasted on the fixation of its end. And there you sit, begging for it.

~ Luna Demasi

When you find her, you will have the answers you need.

~ Cynthia D. Witherspoon

I told you. . .you belong in a castle.

~ Evette Davis

I know you can read me, and I can often hear your thoughts too. Makes for an interesting relationship, don't you think?

~ Evette Davis

It's common knowledge in the industry that people often lie, or minimize things, when they participate in surveys, No one wants to tell a stranger they drink four cocktails a night, or eat junk food for every meal. It's the same with their views on candidates and political issues. Most people won't tell you they don't like someone when they have to look you in the eye. None of that would matter for me, though, because I would know their true emotions whether they shared them or not.

~ Evette Davis