01UndatedIvy turned. 'He bit you on the neck?' she said, deadpan serious but for her eyes. 'Oh, then it's got to be love. She won't let me bite her neck.Kim Harrison / quote ↗
02UndatedI have to save the world tomorrow, and I don't even know what I'm going to wear yet.--Rachel MorganKim Harrison / quote ↗
04UndatedBug? You sack of sweat stink. I've got farts that smell sweeter than you. Think you're better than me? Poop ice cream cones, do you? Call me a bug! Rachel, let me do him now.Kim Harrison / quote ↗
05UndatedIt is not always what we do, Sa'han, but who we love that makes us who we are. QuenKim Harrison / quote ↗
06UndatedThe undead did not love, but they remembered love with a savage loyalty.Kim Harrison / quote ↗
08Undated...treat people with understanding when you can, and fake it when you can'tuntil you do understand.Kim Harrison / quote ↗
09UndatedI'm not talking about the blood ecstasy. I'm talking about my being able to fill that emotion void she has. You know her as well as I do, maybe better. She aches with it. She needs to be accepted for who she is so badly. And I was able to do that. Do you know good that felt? To be able to show someone that, yes, you are someone worth sacrificing for? That you like them for their faults and that you respect them for their ability to rise above them?Kim Harrison / quote ↗
10UndatedI was cold, hungry, and in a hole in the ground. But at least I had my elven porn, damnit!Kim Harrison / quote ↗
12UndatedYou don't have to have sex to find a feeling of closeness and understanding. Lord knows I feel that way about you. Use that to shackle your hunger. Isn't that what love is?Kim Harrison / quote ↗
13UndatedNina sniffed, shifting her shoulders to look at the sky through the branches. "She's a sweet girl, but poor."Ire pricked through me, and the last of his charisma shredded. "Being poor is not an indication of potential or worth. It's a lack of resources.Kim Harrison / quote ↗
14UndatedI like attics. They're as peaceful as God's church. Alone and apart, but a body can hear everything. The past stacked up like forgotten memories, but with a small effort, brought down and enjoyed again.Kim Harrison / quote ↗
15UndatedArms wrapped around me, I looked over the past boxed up and piled haphazardly about, like memories in a person’s brain. It was only a matter of knowing where a thought was and dusting it off.Kim Harrison / quote ↗
16UndatedI took a breath, seeing from across the room the rain on his eyelashes. A sudden need to brush them free filled me. I could almost feel the dampness of the rain on my fingers, how soft it would feel.Kim Harrison / quote ↗
17UndatedStudent food." His eyes went to the tomato on the sill. "Whatever's in the refrigerator over pasta.Kim Harrison / quote ↗
18UndatedRachel knew what she was doing. And when she didn't, she could improvise on the fly, coming up with options that left a lot of collateral damage but usually only hurt herself, not the people around her. It was one of the things he would never admit that he admired about her.Kim Harrison / quote ↗
19UndatedWith a gentle pressure, our lips met. His hands slipped more firmly about me, and I held myself back, not afraid, but wanting to feel everything slowly as I leaned in, tasting the wine on him, feeling the warmth of his body pressing into mine, breathing in our scents that were mingling and changing with the warmth. My hands rose to find his hair, and I relaxed into him as the silky strands brushed through my fingers. I wanted more, and I leaned into him as our lips moved against each other.Kim Harrison / quote ↗
20UndatedI'd give anything if you'd kiss me." I said. "I mean," I said when he tilted his head to look at me, his eyes wide in shock, "I've kissed guys before. It's like a handshake these days," I lied, just wanting to know what his lips on mind would feel like. "Almost required if you're leaving.Kim Harrison / quote ↗
22UndatedJust let me sleep," she grumbled. "Let me sleep, and I'll sign a paper that you're a fucking angel.Kim Harrison / quote ↗
23UndatedMistakes can be fixed but if you do it more than once, it's no longer a mistake.Kim Harrison / quote ↗
24UndatedYou listen to me, and listen good!" she shouted, shocking me. "I am not evil because I have a thousand years of demon smut on my soul!" she exclaimed, the tips of her hair trembling and her face flushed. "Every time you disturb reality, nature has to balance it out. The black on your soul isn't evil, it's a promise to make up for what you have done. It's a mark, not a death sentence. And you can get rid of it given time.""Ceri, I'm sorry," I fumbled, but she wasn't listening. "You're an ignorant, foolish, stupid witch," she berated, and I cringed, my grip tightening on the copper spell pot and feeling the anger from her like a whip. "Are you saying because I carry the stink of demon magic, that I'm a bad person?""No..." I wedged in."That God will show no pity?" she said, green eyes flashing. "That because I made one mistake in fear that led to a thousand more that I will burn in hell?""No. Ceri -" I took a step forward."My soul is black," she said, her fear showing in her suddenly pale cheeks. "I'll never be rid of it all before I die, but it won't be because I'm a bad person but because I was a frightened one.Kim Harrison / quote ↗
