Quotes by Nalini Singh

The bastard kissed her. She was so mad, she bit him hard enough to draw blood. Raphael pulled back, lip already beginning to swell. “We are no longer even, Elena. You’re now in debt.”“You can deduct it from my slow and painful death.

There was a very slight chance she might actually kill him that way, and if she did, she’d be brought up on charges. Unless, of course, she could prove harmful intent. She could see it now.See, Your Honor, he was going to f*ck me silly, make me like it.

I dont need a mate,” she muttered, staring up at the bright circle of the early autumn moon. “But cant you send me a nice, sexy, strongmale to dance with? Pretty please?” She hadnt had a lover for close to eight months now, and it was starting to hurt on every level. “He doesnt even have to be smart, just good between the sheets.” Good enough to unsnap the tension in her body, allow her to function again. Because sex wasnt simply about pleasure for a cat like her—it was about affection, about trust, about everything good. “Though right this second, Id take plain old hot sex.”That was when Riley walked out of the shadows. “Got an itch, kitty?” Snapping to her feet, she narrowed her eyes, knowing he had to have deliberately stayed downwind in order to sneak up on her. “Spying?” “When youre talking loud enough to wake the dead?” She swore she could feel steam coming out her ears.

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, Youre not acting like a Psy.Maybe if they tried sex with you, the others would change their minds, too.

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

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

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.

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.

God, you’re sexy when you talk Psy.

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.

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.

Eyes narrowed, Judd stared at the structure as if at a mortal enemy. Slapping his fellow lieutenant on the shoulder, Riaz said, Dont 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. Ill destroy it later.

While waiting for Brenna to prepare the drink he did as directed and worked through their conversation. It wouldve gone faster had he not kept getting distracted by the sight of her moving with feminine efficiency mere meters away. The sway of her hips were-Dont I ever want to lick a woman all up? She squeaked, then swivelled to face him, bracing her hands on the counter behind her. Not quite how I wouldve put it. Her tone was higher than normal.But yeah. You, he said quietly, no longer able to lie, You tempt me. Oh. Her breasts rose up as she took a deep, shuddering breath. Youve never let on.Yes, he had. If she ever saw the way he watched her when she wasnt looking, shed be in no doubt as to the strength of his unacceptable reaction to her.

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.

To fight evil, you have to understand the dark.

Taking a sip of the hot chocolate hed 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.

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.

Theres not much left inside me, Max Sometimes, all she heard were echoes.

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 Saschas having a bad influence on me.You started it.

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.