Karen Chance famous quotes

You love me?" He just looked at me for a moment. And then he reared back his head and laughed, a rich, mellow sound, unreserved and unashamed. " No, not at all. I regularly battle gods for women I dislike!
-- Karen Chance

#Battle #Sound #Moments

Pritkin and Mircea mixed like oil and water, only not so well.
-- Karen Chance

#Oil And Water #Oil #Water

What?” I said defensively, clutching the mink and my dignity. Since I was barefoot, mostly naked and completely hungover, I was pretty sure I grasped only one of them.
-- Karen Chance

#Naked #Dignity #Mink

I wasn't entirely sure, but a polite John Pritkin might be a sign of the apocalypse.
-- Karen Chance

#Might #Apocalypse #Polite

He had the look of an atheist who’d just had a visit from God: stunned, disbelieving and faintly ill.
-- Karen Chance

#Atheist #Looks #Ill

All I want to know is why a party of Fey wanted to kill me,” I said heatedly. The beetle’s lips twisted enough to show fang. “Doesn’t everyone?” Radu hustled me out the door before I could find out if the vamp’s plump little carcass would fit into his overstuffed desk.
-- Karen Chance

#Party #Doors #Want

There are things we want, and things we may have.... Sanity lies in knowing the difference.
-- Karen Chance

#Lying #Differences #Knowing

We’re going jogging.” “I don’t run for recreation. I run when someone’s after me with a weapon.” “That can be arranged,
-- Karen Chance

#Running #Jogging #Weapons

One day, you will say it to me again. You will be sober. And you will mean it.
-- Karen Chance

#Mean #One Day #Sober

Kiss me....Cassie....Like you mean it.
-- Karen Chance

#Mean #Kissing #Kiss Me

You know, dulceata, there are times when I truly believe you are the most frightening person I know. Thank you?
-- Karen Chance

#Believe #Frightening #Persons

Think you can maybe not die for five minutes?" "I'll try,"I told him seriously. "You know, if anyone else said that, it would be funny.
-- Karen Chance

#Thinking #Trying #Would Be

Look,” I said, trying to reason with him despite extensive experience that this rarely worked. “This isn’t a great time. I have my inauguration—” “Coronation.” “—coming up,
-- Karen Chance

#Trying #Looks #Reason

To know Pritkin was to want to kill him, but so far I'd resisted temptation.
-- Karen Chance

#Temptation #Want

It's okay. You aren't my type. What's your type? Someone who gets into less trouble.
-- Karen Chance

#Trouble #Type #Okay

War mages ordered, threatened and bitched. They didn't deal.
-- Karen Chance

#War #Deals

Mr. Complete Lack of Sympathy
-- Karen Chance

My new 9mm didn’t fit my hand as well as my old one, but it was rapidly becoming a familiar weight. At first I’d decided it was okay to wear as long as I shot only at supernatural bad guys who were already shooting at me. Lately, I’d had to broaden that definition to anytime my life was in danger. I was currently leaning toward a slightly more comprehensive rule somewhere between proactive self-defense and the-bastards-had-it-coming, which, if I survived long enough, I intended to blame on my deranged partner rubbing off on me.
-- Karen Chance

#Self #Hands #Long

I’d been declared—over my loud and sustained protests—Pythia, the chief seer of the supernatural world.
-- Karen Chance

#World #Loud #Chiefs

My name is Cassie Palmer and I’ve cheated death more times than anyone has a right to expect. In the last two months, I’ve been shot, stabbed, beaten and blown up a few dozen times, and that doesn’t count all the magical ways I’ve almost been killed. I’d have been dead a long time ago if not for my friends, one of whom had just jumped off the cliff after me. I’d have been a lot more appreciative if he hadn’t pushed me first.
-- Karen Chance

#Two #Names #Long

..."I ran out of stock around midnight and dropped by a place, got some Chinese." I hoped he meant takeout.
-- Karen Chance

#Chinese #Midnight #Ran

This was Dante's. Crazy was what we had for breakfast when we ran out of Corn Flakes
-- Karen Chance

#Crazy #Breakfast #Corn

The most temptation I'd experienced had been with Tomas, the Senate's spy who had been feeding off me without permission, and Mircea, who was probably plotting some nefarious scheme. I have no taste in men.
-- Karen Chance

#Men #Temptation #Spy

I dodged behind Mac for cover and refused to take the bait. I glanced at my nonexistent watch. 'Oops, look at the time. Guess I have to be going now. Let's not do this again sometime, okay?' Before I could move, Pritkin was there, jamming the medallion into the skin of my upper arm.'Ow!'He looked at me expectantly. I glared at him. 'That hurt!' What do you see?' A big red mark,
-- Karen Chance

#Hurt #Moving #Skins

You will die a worse death if you do not leave my domain,” a voice thundered down from the third story of the old tenement. “I am a servant of the Sacred Fire, the wielder of the flame of Arnor—” “So I should call you Gandalf?
-- Karen Chance

#Flames #Voice #Fire

I was tops at the Scarlet O'Hara school of emotional distancing. I always thought about the uncomfortable stuff tomorrow, and, as everyone knows, tomorrow never comes.
-- Karen Chance

#School #Emotional #Stuff

The Circle had been less than thrilled by its choice, but we'd finally come to terms. As in, they were no longer trying to play Whac-A-Mole with my head. Only now they seemed to think they had the right to make sure that nobody else did, either. That was a problem, because the vampires felt the same way and the Senate didn't share well.
-- Karen Chance

#Thinking #Play #Circles

I'm fine," I told him tersely. "Of course you are. You're one of the strongest people I know." It took me a second to process that, because he'd said it so casually. Like he was talking about the weather or what time it was. Only Pritkin didn't say things like that. His idea of a compliment was a nod and to tell me to do whatever it was I'd just done over again. Like that was usually possible. But that had sounded suspiciously like a compliment to me.
-- Karen Chance

#Weather #Ideas #Talking

I barely heard him, I was too busy watching Pritkin, who had slumped over with his head on the sofa arm, shoulders shaking helplessly, and what looked suspiciously like tears leaking out from under his closed eyes. "Not that bad," he muttered, and then he was off again.
-- Karen Chance

#Eye #Tears #Arms

I'm about to rupture something," he was informed, as the big, gaily wrapped box she was carrying smacked into the small of his back again. She had an uncanny ability to hit the same spot every time.
-- Karen Chance

#Rupture #Uncanny #Boxes

I keep hitting [Escape], but I'm still here! --Unknown, but used by Karen Chance in "Hunt the Moon
-- Karen Chance

#Moon #Hitting #Chance

I couldn’t see Pritkin’s face very well, just a pale blur against the shadows, but he didn’t sound happy. Some people thought he had only one mode... pissed off. In reality, he had plenty of them. Over the past few weeks, I’d learned to tell the difference between real pissed off, impatient pissed off and scared pissed off. I suspected that this was the last kind. If so, that made two of us.
-- Karen Chance

#Real #Past #Two