Erin Kellison Quotes

The Agora had fallen, too.tVince 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.
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The shadow acts on instinct, not reason.
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The texture of her skin was phantom silk, not human., not blood-warm, but dizzyingly hot anyway.
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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.
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The sooner it's over, the sooner we can go back to bed. Everything good happens in bed.
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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.
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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.
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This was the stuff of novels with -- yeah -- men like him on the cover.
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Laughter gurgled up from inside her. She'd just mugged a mugger. Look out, world.
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Kiss me good."Jordan went on tiptoe and kissed him with everything she had. His mouth mashed against hers just as greedily, tongues tangling, hearts beating wildly against each other. The embrace of his arms tightened, and he lifted her. She didn't need a stupid floor with him near. Together they could fly."Bow chicks wow wow," said another voice.
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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.
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Tonight was about fathers. Vince was going to kill hers for murdering his.
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...now the whole fucking world is different.""It's about to get worse," Steve said."Then I'll call for food," Vincent said. "Mirren, this might be our last meal. Any preferences?
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So either I help you or I'm on my own?" With no way to get to Lambert. No way to stop the rage inside. No way to feel remotely normal again."That's the choice," she said.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Sleep," he commanded. "You need to rest after being jumped.""You could jump me.
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Rook cocked his head. "Harlen would want me to give you more time.""I could punch you again, even while being proxied," she offered. "Would that satisfy you?""And into the Scrape we go," he said.
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Fucking unicorns wouldn't be hard to chase, as they'd probably stay in roughly the same spot while they, you know, fuck.
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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.
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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.
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Even dead he won't let me go!"t"Third time's the charm.
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He's a nightmare," she said.t"I can be, too." Rook answered, his red eyes glowing. "Just try me.
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His dad's eyes were getting darker. "How bad is it really?"tVery bad. Too many fronts to fight.tBur for starters...t"That big storm out east?" Jordan and Rook had gone to investigate... "That's the Sandman in the waking world."tHis dad frowned deeply. He shook his head and shrugged. "I don't know what that means."tYeah, well... "Neither do we.
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There is no reason for any of this if we don't survive."tVince reached out and ran a hand through her long hair. "Ah, love. That's where you're wrong. As long as we do what we're meant to do, it doesn't really matter if we survive or not.
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You can't bluff your way past everyone.""You mean about filleting that guy?" Sera returned."Who said I was bluffing?
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The Sandman is rising."It'd been the only thing Coll had said before delirium had taken him again.The Sandman. Rising.
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No one could blame her if she was running a little low on the sugar and spice and everything nice.
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Red light flickered behind her closed eyelids, and when she opened them, she discovered that they were surrounded by flames.tLet it burn....tHis sleek brow wrinkled, and he shook his head. Poor man looked conflicted, which was an interesting expression on a nightmare. "Your city is on fire."tShe smiled languidly. "Ain't it grand?
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He was interested in the shadow herself - how her mind worked, what motivated her, her essence, how she came to be. It was a fascinating phenomenon.
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The man was married to a half-fae, half-human woman, a banshee, who'd' just delivered twins. It was a wonder his hair wasn't completely prematurely white.
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Her was interested in the shadow herself - how her mind worked, what motivated her, her essence, how she came to be. It was a fascinating phenomenon.
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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.
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You're not alone."tEllie snorted through her tears. "I'm never alone.
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People would have to learn to deal with old monsters again. Stay in their houses. Shutter their windows.
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Cam himself, was faetouched. And the love of Cam's life, Ellie? She was all human, just in two parts - body and shadow.
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There is absolutely nothing that can harm the shadow. Nothing. I advise you strongly not try.
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You see?" Thane waved at the photo. "Everything about her is nonsensical. A dragon who lies with a wolf? I suppose pigs fly and the moon is blue, too.
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Send the mediator to me when he comes."t"What are you going to do?"tMatthew knew him so well. Thane would handle this the old way. "I'm going to eat him.
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Thane Ealdian prowls the earth once more. Shutter your houses. Bar your doors. Offer him gold and women to satisfy his cravings. A black dragon is like the very devil himself.
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He was just Thane. Timeless. Ageless. Magic. The world turned around him.
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Fire is fire," Matthew said. "It burns.
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The trouble with being an angel on Earth was that he was still a man. He got hungry. He thirsted. His lungs clamored without the draw of air. And for this woman, the only one in a thousand years, his body and soul ached. The trick was to will his mind, and ignore the Earthly sensations, as he'd done so many times with pain and trouble. Desire was no different, a call of the flesh. He could divide himself-acknowledge the lust and act on intellect. But see, the trouble with being an angel was that he was still a man.
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Humankind has always had access to Shadow -- dreams, nightmares, legends, inspiration, Humanity taps into Shadow every day. And when we die, we pass into Twilight.
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Please," her shadow begged.tLaughingstock for sure.t"I can't give you what you want," Cam said. "You know that." She had to know that.
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Shadow is on the move," a soldier said suddenly....t"We spotted her in the West atrium, then she vanished into the unfinished apartments. Scared the shit out of Dr. Marea on four, then ended up in the kitchen ogling a cheesecake.
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A dragon took what it wanted. Took and kept.
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dragon took what it wanted. Took and kept.
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She went on tiptoe and pecked his cheek with a kiss. Daring of her, she knew.tHis green eyes went dragon-gold and sharp, the bones of his forehead morphing slightly to suggest the crowned brow of the dragon inside. At least he was smiling, though it was the kind of greedy grin that would send most people running in the opposite direction.tNot her.t"Let's just get this over with," she said.t"Yes." His voice had gone rumbly. "And then on to something else.
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Nothing can age a dragon, but you just might be the exception.
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I'm glad you turned cartwheels here."tSamantha heard the note of loneliness in his voice. "You did hear me say back tuck? Because that was my coolest move."tHis arm came around her shoulders, and they started across the space again. "Back tuck. Coolest move. Got it.
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Two human families have died out on me in the past century alone."tWarrick inclined his head. "It might help if you didn't eat members of your staff when you're displeased.
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She'd survived Brandon. Just to die all over again. "Well, hell."tHe smiled wanly at her. "Indeed.
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Heat roared within him. Greedy heat. He wanted her....tShe was in over her head, and it seemed... so was he.
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The dragon in him didn't want to give her a choice. Just wrap around her and smolder smugly, daring anyone who came near to cross him. Mine.
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It'll all be over soon, and you can go back to ruling the world." She slid off her stool....tHe watched her go. Felt unaccountably lonely.t"When did I stop ruling the world?" he called after her.
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