Nalini Singh famous quotes

You’re in my every breath and every thought, intertwined so deep inside me that love’s not a strong enough word—you have my devotion, your name branded on my soul, my wolf yours to command. A hundred years? It’ll never be enough. I want eternity.
-- Nalini Singh

#Strong #Years #Names

A queen keeps a court that is spoken about. A goddess keeps a court that is never forgotten.
-- Nalini Singh

#Queens #Forgotten #Goddess

Emotion without reason lets people walk all over you; reason without emotion is a mask for cruelty.
-- Nalini Singh

#People #Over You #Emotion

But you, you’ve always been the rain, the wind, inside my mind. I taste you when I sleep, when I wake, when I breathe.
-- Nalini Singh

#Rain #Sleep #Wind

You trying to make me crazy?” “Everyone needs a hobby.
-- Nalini Singh

#Crazy #Trying #Needs

She wished he’d stop touching her. Not because she didn’t like it but because she liked it far too much. It made her hunger for things that could never be hers. And if someone went hungry for too long, they started to starve. Started to hurt.
-- Nalini Singh

#Hurt #Long #Touching

A faint smile that made every tiny hair on her body rise in quivering attention. "How fast can you run?" A wolf's question.
-- Nalini Singh

#Running #Hair #Attention

You’ll have to be my conscience.” He knew his flaws, and he knew the parts of him that were irrevocably broken. “Mine isn’t going to grow back.
-- Nalini Singh

#Broken #Flaws #Grows

To fight evil, you have to understand the dark.
-- Nalini Singh

#Dark #Fighting #Evil

Only ignorance excuses stupidity
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#Ignorance #Stupidity #Excuse

Make me forget." A whisper, a plea. Not giving her what she wanted wasn't even an option. He switched their positions so she was under him. "Aren't you afraid I'll take advantage?" She wiped away her tears. "Please do." "Ask nice." "Why don't I make you angry instead? That gets me kissed a lot.
-- Nalini Singh

#Nice #Giving #Tears

I heard Tammy say you could be charming. I haven't seen any proof yet." Oh, his cat like that. "I thought I was very charming when I petted you into orgasm." He shot her a look filled with sexual heat. "I plan to do more of that - right after I teach you about keeping secrets.
-- Nalini Singh

#Cat #Keeping Secrets #Looks

Your love is a fierce thing, Elena, a thing with claws and teeth when it comes to protecting those you claim.
-- Nalini Singh

#Love Is #Teeth #Fierce

A few minutes?" Feeling suddenly shy, she crossed her arms over her chest. The smile on his face widened, becoming touched with the feral wildness of the cat. It made thinking difficult. "I believed males needed a longer recovery time to mate." "Not this kitty cat." Rising to his feet, he said, "Get ready to play.
-- Nalini Singh

#Recovery #Cat #Thinking

I could kiss you forever," she murmured against his lips, sucking at the lower one, playing with the upper, his body weight a luscious pressure. "I love feeling you against me." "You say such things, Elena. You will make me your slave.
-- Nalini Singh

#Kissing #Forever #Feelings

Honor?” “Yes.” “I’m going to do things to you now that a good girl definitely shouldn’t let a man do to her.
-- Nalini Singh

#Girl #Men #Honor

Ever had a woman say no to you, Dmitri?” “Once.” He turned the corner with a smile that made her want to cup his face, trace those beautiful lips with her own. “I married her.
-- Nalini Singh

#Beautiful #Want #Faces

Pressing his thumb down on her jaw to part her lips, he kissed her again, angel dust glittering in the air. "Mmm." She rubbed against him. "Did you make a change to your special blend?" Angel dust, he'd told her, was normally rich and exquisite, but not sexual. Elena had only ever tasted Raphael's blend, and it was always oh-so-sexual-today, it also held a dangerous bite. Kisses down her throat. "I wouldn't wish my consort to suffer ennui.
-- Nalini Singh

#Angel #Kissing #Air

Raphael's pleasure, his kiss, sent her over a second time....and it wasn't until they both stirred again that Raphael reached down and undid the strap of her knife sheath, putting it and the knife on the bedside table. "Beautiful as this sheath is," he said, touching the leather, "I much prefer the one which holds my blade.
-- Nalini Singh

#Beautiful #Kissing #Knives

Eternity would mean nothing without you. For no power on this earth would I trade my Elena.
-- Nalini Singh

#Mean #Earth #Eternity

You,” she murmured, using both hands to undo his belt, “are the sexiest man I have ever met.” He made her think bad thoughts simply by breathing.
-- Nalini Singh

#Men #Thinking #Breathing

Contact would hurt, might be fatal, and yet she couldn’t stop herself. Obsession or compulsion, she didn’t know, but she did know that before this was over, she’d either end up in Dmitri’s bed . . . or one of them would bleed darkest red.
-- Nalini Singh

#Hurt #Might #Red

Truth was a tool. It should never simply be said. No, it had to be bent, twisted, colored, until it became a weapon.
-- Nalini Singh

#Weapons #Tools #Twisted

Option 1: Attempt to back out. Probable result: Death after painful torture. Option 2: Do the job and hope. Probable result: Death but probably no torture (good)
-- Nalini Singh

#Jobs #Painful #Results

So we're going to keep getting mega-hits like this?" Tomas's dark brown eyes sparkled as they landed on Sienna's down-bent head. "Not that I don't appreciate it, sugar, but it did make me 'hyper,' according to my mother.
-- Nalini Singh

#Mother #Eye #Dark

Take care of my heart won't you, Sophie? It's a little odd having it outside my body-but I'm planning to steal yours to make up for it.
-- Nalini Singh

#Heart #Sophie #Body

You can drive.” When he raised an eyebrow, she said, "I've had enough contact with human males to realize you seem to have a congenital inability to function while a female is at the wheel, and I'd rather your full attention be on the case.
-- Nalini Singh

#Eyebrows #Car #Female

No more dancing with any male but me. No more time to learn who you are before you have to hold that personality against mine. No more freedom to explore your sensuality before I own it.
-- Nalini Singh

#Dancing #Personality #Males

We fit, you and I,” he whispered looking into that haunting gaze. “Two broken pieces making a whole.
-- Nalini Singh

#Two #Broken #Pieces

Why is it”—she shivered as he kissed the top of her spine, went lower—“that I always end up naked while you remain dressed?” A husky masculine chuckle, his lips moving over her shoulder, his hands on her hips. “Because I'm a smart man.
-- Nalini Singh

#Smart #Moving #Men

You can run,” Dorian said in a neutral tone that did nothing to lessen the intensity of his expression, “but sooner or later, you run out of places to run to.
-- Nalini Singh

#Running #Expression #Tone

Have you ever made her angry?" If the cop said that he and his wife lived in a state of constant connubial bliss, Andrew decided he'd have full cause to throw a punch. Max raised an eyebrow. "Sure, I'm human." He slid the phone into the pocket of his suit pants and rose to his feet with a distinctly amused glint in his eyes. "Making up is the un part, in case you haven't figured that out yet.
-- Nalini Singh

#Eye #Phones #Feet

When the kid began to flag, Riley picked her up, swung her onto his back, and kept running. The leopard in Mercy growled in approval - whatever his faults (and they were many and legend), Riley knew how to take care of the innocent.
-- Nalini Singh

#Running #Kids #Leopards

To fight is to face death once more, perhaps the total annihilation of their kind. But to run... is that not also a kind of annihilation?
-- Nalini Singh

#Running #Fighting #Faces

He was strong. And his heart, it was breaking.
-- Nalini Singh

#Strong #Heart

If he decided to pursue Sienna...Sucking in a breath Indigo promised herself she'd warn the girl if and when the time came-because no woman should have to face that campaign unprepared.
-- Nalini Singh

#Girl #Ifs And #Faces

How do you know it'll be pleasurable?" He got on the bed and lay down. Breath a whisper, she came closer and tied one wrist to the headboard. The cat growled but didn't try to make him wrench free. "Because just looking at you gives me the most extreme pleasure I've ever felt." "Christ, baby, tie me up before you start talking like that.
-- Nalini Singh

#Baby #Cat #Talking

Can I bite you here, too?
-- Nalini Singh

You sure got a quick trigger, Sienna,” he teased...
-- Nalini Singh

#Triggers

Hawke," he said. "That's the word you need to be saying.
-- Nalini Singh

#Needs #Said

I shut up everything inside. Everything." Words ground out through clenched teeth. "I thought if I could hold it, just hold it, it would be fine. But it's not." "Why?" she asked. "Why are you losing control so badly?" The answer, when it came, broke Sascha's heart. "Hawke." It was an almost soundless whisper. "Oh, Sienna." She stroked her hand over the girl's hair, even as her mind worked at piercing speed. "Has it been cumulative?" Sienna nodded. "The second I met him, everything crumbled, my shields, my conditioning, everything!
-- Nalini Singh

#Girl #Heart #Hair

Arms wrapped around his neck, she kissed his temple. "I'm sorry I scared you." It wasn't the done thing for an archangel to admit fear, but he was hers, and she'd hurt him without meaning to; it was up to her to fix her mistake. His wings shifted, but he didn't extricate their bodies. "I didn't know fear until you, Elena. Use the power wisely.
-- Nalini Singh

#Hurt #Sorry #Mistake

He'd been so angry at her -always pushing his buttons, that girl. But then he'd taken her into his arms, and all that anger had blazed into a darker, hotly possessive need that had urged him to bend his head, bite down on the throbbing pulse in her neck, leave a mark.
-- Nalini Singh

#Girl #Taken #Needs

He hugged her again, before she could put some distance between them. Then the most sneaky wolf in the den lowered his voice and whispered, “But you’ve got an advantage, sweetheart. You’re already in his head. And you know how to mess with it.
-- Nalini Singh

#Distance #Voice #Sweetheart

I almost let the best thing that ever happened to me slip away because I was hung up on ideas of what I ‘should’ want. Sometimes there is no ‘should,’ there’s only a single chance to grab on to happiness.
-- Nalini Singh

#Ideas #Want #Chance

Once, he'd used it in song, but the songs in his heart had gone silent long ago, and he knew that one day so would his voice. A man with nothing inside him eventually had nothing to say.
-- Nalini Singh

#Song #Heart #Men

Pups think rules are suggestions.
-- Nalini Singh

#Thinking #Suggestions #Pups

Go on,” he said in a low tone that was a dare. “Keep on poking the hungry wolf, see how naked it gets you.
-- Nalini Singh

#Goes On #Tone #Naked

Nothing is stronger than the will of the human heart.
-- Nalini Singh

#Heart #Stronger #Humans

Life might hurt, might bruise, might forever scar, but it was for living.
-- Nalini Singh

#Hurt #Forever #Might

Human women have been slapping men for being bastards for centuries. You were doing what comes naturally.
-- Nalini Singh

#Men #Century #Humans

You know I'll never say no, and Nate's so dedicated, I think he loves our alpha more than me." "I resent that," Nate grumbled. "I might love football more than you, but definitely not Lucas's ugly mug.
-- Nalini Singh

#Football #Thinking #Ugly

Fathers and mothers,” she found herself saying, “leave their mark, no matter if we’ve known them a lifetime or only a day.
-- Nalini Singh

#Mother #Father #Matter

I have never been to a court s gracious as the one Neha keeps. Dmitri played a knife through his fingers, one of the three he'd brought back from Neha's territory. "She truly believes in giving honor to a visitor." He threw to knife at Jason. "He threw it back as Venom added, "Thought she might have that guest neatly executed as the court sleeps.
-- Nalini Singh

#Believe #Sleep #Knives

Life changes us. To wish otherwise is pointless.
-- Nalini Singh

#Life Changing #Wish #Pointless

I swear to God, if I get shot again, Indigo will strangle me.
-- Nalini Singh

#Shots #Indigo #Swear

Obviously, I need to study princesses further.
-- Nalini Singh

#Princess #Needs #Study

When she was like this, the wildness of her barely contained, it was hard to believe she'd come into his pack Silent, her emotions blockaded behind so much ice, it had infuriated his wolf.
-- Nalini Singh

#Believe #Ice #Emotion

There's not much left inside me, Max" Sometimes, all she heard were echoes.
-- Nalini Singh

#Echoes #Max #Sometimes

Taking a sip of the hot chocolate he'd 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.
-- Nalini Singh

#Heart #Eye #Eerie

My mother," he said, "has invited us to a ball." Elena pulled a blade from one of the butter-soft forearm sheaths that had been a gift from Raphael. "Excuse me while I stab myself in the eyes-and disembowel myself while I'm at it.
-- Nalini Singh

#Mother #Eye #Balls

I'm the hunter," Elena reminded him. "I should go first." "Of course you may go first. When I am dead.
-- Nalini Singh

#May #Firsts #Hunters

Her voice trembled. “I’m so glad you’re mine. I won’t ever let you go.” This time, it was Kaleb who said, “I know,” devastated at being so wanted. “You are just a little possessive.
-- Nalini Singh

#Voice #Littles #Letting You Go

If you don’t need my backsight,” she said to Kaleb, “then why am I here?” He rose to his feet and, placing his hands on the table, leaned toward her until she could’ve reached out and run her fingers along his freshly shaven jaw. “You are here,” he said in a tone that made her heart thump wildly against her ribs, “because you belong to me.
-- Nalini Singh

#Running #Heart #Hands

But sometimes, that depth of need—to save, to protect—can become a blinding fervor, one that destroys the very thing it thinks to safeguard.
-- Nalini Singh

#Thinking #Depth #Needs

That works fine for me . . . Sienna Lauren Snow.
-- Nalini Singh

#Snow #Fine #Lauren

I might not be Silent any longer, but I still have the perfect poker face.
-- Nalini Singh

#Perfect #Might #Faces

So decisive", he murmured in that calm tone that had adrenaline flooding her body, the primitive part of her brain conscious she was in the presence of a predator. "Got your eye on someone?" She didn‘t know what made her say it. "No. But I have no plans to die a virgin.
-- Nalini Singh

#Eye #Brain #Body

You try to leave and I will hunt you down." Relief poured through her, but she smacked at his thigh with the back of her brush. "Like a rabid dog? Very romantic.
-- Nalini Singh

#Dog #Trying #Relief

You," she managed to say hoarsely," are a very bad kitty cat.
-- Nalini Singh

#Cat #Kitties #Kitty Cat

Zach. You can only call me Mr. Quinn when you're angry.
-- Nalini Singh

#Call Me #Quinn #Angry

I made lasagna for dinner," Tamsyn called out. "That work for you?" He continued to look at her, as if he'd drink her up with his eyes. "Anything is fine." "Maybe I shouldn't waste my lasagna on you, then." Tamsyn grabbed a container from the cooling unit. "How about some cardboard instead?" Brenna found herself amused in spite of the blood that continued to scent the air and the taut expectation that stretched between her and Judd. Lips twitching, she waited for his response. "Cardboard has no nutritional value." Utterly toneless. "Lasagna would be a better choice.
-- Nalini Singh

#Eye #Air #Blood

Max cuffed his brother good-naturedly on the ear as River slid in past him and bent to kiss Sophia on the cheek. “Hello, are you sure you’re with the right brother?” Sophia had never had a younger sibling. But this man with his laughing eyes and bright smile... “Are you making me an offer?
-- Nalini Singh

#Brother #Sibling #Eye

A single raised eyebrow. "You've defected, sweetheart. No use worrying about the big, bad wolf now." She was aware of Judd speaking, but her attention never shifted off the man who was a predator, for all that he wore human skin. When he peeled open and held out a bar of some kind, she took it, aware low energy levels could be dangerous when it came to her ability to keep a handle on the cold fire. "Thank you." A faint smile, a strange amusement in those icy eyes. "You're welcome." It was the most polite interaction they'd ever had.
-- Nalini Singh

#Eye #Men #Fire

Do you think you have the right to give me orders now?" The Archangel of New York, a creature so lethal that part of her feared him even now, lifted the hair off her nape, brushed his lips across her skin. "Of course. You are mine." No hint of humor, nothing but stark possession. "I don't think you've quite got the hang of this true love thing.
-- Nalini Singh

#New York #Thinking #Order

The Princess Mahiya, and she is mine.
-- Nalini Singh

#Princess

Raphael, tell him you won’t do anything to him if I get ‘damaged.’ ” “That would be a lie, Elena. I would tear out his throat.
-- Nalini Singh

#Lying #Tears #Would Be

She blew out a breath between gritted teeth. “Sometimes I really want to”—a frustrated sound—“bite you!” He froze. “I might let you.” “I won’t do it if you’d enjoy it.
-- Nalini Singh

#Frustrated #Teeth #Want

We die...... We die together. That's the deal.
-- Nalini Singh

#Together #Deals

Lifting her head, she joined in as the others in the group began to howl in response to Brace's triumph. The sound was . . . It touched the soul, the music haunting, starkly pure and yet so very earthy.
-- Nalini Singh

#Soul #Groups #Haunting

Dropping her hand, she turned in his arms. Then, rising up on tiptoe, she cupped his face in her palms and drew him down. Her kiss was innocent, vulnerable, a caress so gentle that it made him her slave between one breath and the next.
-- Nalini Singh

#Kissing #Hands #Rising Up

She was his and he was hers. They had under-the-skin privileges.
-- Nalini Singh

#Skins #Privilege

Why are you sad, Dorian?" He couldn't lie to her. "The leopard wants you to see it.
-- Nalini Singh

#Lying #Leopards #Want

How long have you been with Raphael?” “You ask a lot of questions for a dead woman.” “What can I say? I prefer to die well-informed.” -Venom and Elena
-- Nalini Singh

#Long #Raphael #Venom

Once, he hadn't been able to touch her without causing himself pain. Now, it only hurt when he didn't touch her.
-- Nalini Singh

#Hurt #Pain #Able

You are mine, Elena. If you choose to sleep in another bed, I will simply pick you up and bring you home.
-- Nalini Singh

#Sleep #Home #Bed

We're all as susceptible to the lure of power.
-- Nalini Singh

For the first time in forever, he was stunned to silence. Not by her words, but by the tenderness in her hands, the worry in her eyes. He was an archangel. He’d been wounded far, far worse and shrugged it off. But then, there had been no woman with sun kissed by the sunset and eyes of storm gray to tear into him for daring to get himself hurt.
-- Nalini Singh

#Hurt #Sunset #Eye

Do you know where Jason is?” she asked Dmitri when they exited the morgue. Dmitri pressed the car remote to unlock the flame red Ferrari parked in the employees-only lot. “Tired of your Bluebell already?” A tendril of champagne circled around her senses, cut with something far harder. Never had she felt that harsh edge in Dmitri’s scent. She pitied the woman he took to his bed today. “Yeah, that’s it. I’m building a harem.
-- Nalini Singh

#Tired #Cutting #Flames

So the big, bad, and able-to-mind-control angel thinks you’re his. As in ‘I don’t share my woman.
-- Nalini Singh

#Angel #Thinking #Mind

I don’t want to lose my memories. Don’t make me forget. I would rather die as Elena, than live as a shadow.
-- Nalini Singh

#Memories #Shadow #Want

He closed his eyes, dropping his forehead against hers. “You’ll be the death of me, Elena.” She smiled. “You need a little excitement in that boring old life of yours.
-- Nalini Singh

#Eye #Needs #Littles

The one and only time an archangel can Make another angel is when our bodies produce a substance known as ambrosia. Ambrosia,is produced instinctively at a single point in an archangel’s life. It is legend that ambrosia only rises when an archangel loves true.
-- Nalini Singh

#Angel #Legends #Substance

I need a Stetson, so I can ride you like a cowgirl" - Mercy to Riley
-- Nalini Singh

#Cowgirls #Needs #Mercy

...his lips were pure temptation, soft, bitable, sensual in a way only a man's mouth could be.
-- Nalini Singh

#Men #Temptation #Sensual

Do you have no sense of self-preservation?
-- Nalini Singh

#Self #Self Preservation #Preservation