Quotes by Samantha Young

Jai, she pleaded quietly, if you hadn’t noticed, I’m a guts and glory kind of girl. I think I’d die trying to protect anyone I care about. It’s just the way I’m wired, I guess. I would die trying to protect Charlie because I love him. He’s my family, and I don’t want to lose any more family. She took another step so her body pressed flushed to him, her fingers falling to his lips. The sound of his shallow breathing emboldened her. But Jai… I would die a hundred deaths to save you… because the thought of being here without you now, the thought of losing you… is unimaginable. Their eyes locked and heat bloomed in her cheeks as Jai pressed closer to her, his hand sliding across her lower back and gently guiding her even more tightly against him. Jai, you have no idea how much I’ve fallen in love with you. I don’t think a person could fall any harder.

He fought his inner wuss and groaned, “Fine. Bait me up and show me the hook.

there were moments throughout the whole day when she had to shake herself because she found her thoughts climbing over her like creeping ivy, scratching and biting into her skin and entangling her in their morbid clutch. Because... wasnt ot true now that not only was she not human but she was kind of a thing rather than Jinn? The Seal was an object with no emotion or thought or feeling. It has one purpose. To command the Jinn. What did that really make her then?

I’ve had a lot of food but if you don’t jiggle me too much you can have your wicked way with me.

Sometimes the clouds weren’t weightless. Sometimes their bellies got dark and full. It was life. It happened. It didn’t mean it wasn’t scary, or that I wasn’t still afraid, but now I knew that as long as I was standing under it with Braden beside me when those clouds broke, I’d be alright.

Youre letting me go?He curled his upper lip, his expression painfully bitter as he took a step back from me. Apparently... I never had a hold of you. He turned sharply, and without another word striding down the street into the dark.Braden never once looked back and that was a good thing.If he had, hed have seen Jocelyn Butler crying real tears for the first time in a long time, and he would have known that Id lied. And lied big. For anyone who saw me, knew they were watching a heart in the process of it breaking.

It was one thing to deal with monsters that were human in appearance. Another thing entirely to deal with humans who were monsters.

I dont want this heart, its split in two.

The thought of hurting him ripped me apart. Ripped me so totally, that I knew, I cared more for him than I did myself.

Live young. Live hard. Love deep.

I’m glad you’re quitting the bar.You are?Yeah. I’ve never liked you working there, and I miss you at the weekend.Why didn’t you say anything?Because you seemed happy. It’s sort of my life mission to make sure you stay that way, he teased.

Might there come a timeWhen we stand over a graveAnd mourn ourselves?Mourn the past, a previous life?Shall we weep for the passing of time?Shall we grieve for unfulfilled dreams?In my naivety; in my beliefIn immortal youth, I sleep walk through life.Someone... wake me up.Please.Wake me up.

Regret, Joss. Regret does awful things to a person.

I dont know whether to be proud or appalled that danger, blood and death inspire you so.

...And you, you better run because im going to destroy you for what youve taken from me.

She would see it as betrayal. Nothing more. Nothing less.

In public, you’re Joss Butler. Cool, self-possessed. In bed, you’re Jocelyn Butler—you’re hot, babe. Uncontrolled. Needy. Sweet,” he breathed. “I like that I know that. I don’t like the fact that other men do too.

I turned to face him, knowing in him, Id find the temporary cure. Do you want to fuck it out? Braden smiled slowly, bemused, causing another twist of attraction in my gut. Fuck it out?All the bullshit. What she did. What he did. Every soulless bitch that wanted something from youHis expression changed immediately, becoming hard, unfathomable, as he took a step towards me. Are you saying you dont want anything from me?I want this. I want our arrangement. I want you... I sucked in a breath, feeling my control slip. ... to fuck it out of me.

Youre not untrustworthy, youre not cold and youre not a bitch. You have... issues. I get that. We all have issues. But once I realized you were lying to me, I began to understand why. You think you never gave yourself away with me. You think you have time to backpedal and pretend nothing happened between us, because that way if anything ever happens to me, you can tell yourself you dont care, and you dont feel the pain.

Seattle? With Caine? In a hotel?I’d either kill him or screw him again.“Fuck.”“Alexa, the speakerphone is on,” Caine’s amused voice sounded from my desk.Oh, balls.