Sherrilyn Kenyon
Sherrilyn Kenyon is a bestselling US writer. Under her former married name, she wrote both urban fantasy and paranormal romance. She is best known for her Dark Hunter series. Under the pseudonym Kinley MacGregor she writes historical fiction with paranormal elements. (Sherrilyn Kenyon Quotes)
“A human’s love. I couldn’t wish anything better for him. Animals protect what they know. They protect what they are bound to, but humans…humans have a greater capacity for sacrifice for those who live in their hearts. (Aristotle) ”
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Unleash the Night
“A man protects those who need it most. Those who cannot protect themselves.”-Sin”
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Claiming the Highlander
“A silent man is a thinking man. A silent woman is an angry one …”
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Styxx
“A wise man once told me that life, like war, is neither right nor wrong. It just is. And rather than worry over a philosophy you can’t change, you should just try to live through it as best you can.”
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Styxx
“A woman ever needs know about men is that they are creatures of their codpieces. Appeal to their chausses and you will have complete control of them, for when their male piece is in control, their brain is not.”
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Master of Desire
“Actions that sometimes seem mean aren’t. Rather they are done by the ones we love in order to protect us without our knowing it. (Acheron)”
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Acheron
“After all, the deadliest wounds aren’t the wounds you see, Edilyn. They’re the ones that bleed internally. And yours was damn near fatal.”
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Dragonmark
“Again, I repeat, don’t ask questions you don’t want answered. Just accept the fact that Acheron is a freak of nature and let it go. (Zarek)”
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Kiss of the Night
“Alix literally felt like the only piece of meat at a kennel as a team of women descended on her to trim her hair, tweeze her brows—something that had to have been invented by a sadist—and make her face over.”
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Born of Ice
“All a woman ever needs know about men is that they are creatures of their codpieces. Appeal to their chausses and you will have complete control of them, for when their male piece is in control, their brain is not.”
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Master of Desire
“Alright, macho babe boy, I’m not some little ditz to bat my eyelashes at the buff stud in black leather. Don’t try your he-man tactics with me. I’ll have you know, in my office, I’m known as the ball-breaker. (Amanda)”
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Night Pleasures
“And human will is the strongest force ever created. There are those born to succeed and those who are determined to succeed. The former fall into it, and the latter pursue it all costs. They won’t be denied. Nothing daunts them.”
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Invincible
“And we’re back where we started. Beginning to feel like I’m riding a hamster wheel.”
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Instinct
“And when it comes to questioning people, I have a lot more finesse than High King Let’s Beat The Shit Out Of Them Until They Answer Us. The nonviolent art of interrogating someone is totally lost on Kip. (Syn)”
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Born of Night
“Anything you need, you tell him and he’ll get it for you. If he offends you in any way, let me know and I’ll kill him when I get up.” (Sherrilyn Kenyon Quotes)
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Night Pleasures
“Are we just going to stand here taking pot shots at each other? Or can we focus our collective ADD on getting us off this shit hole? (Devyn)”
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Born of Ice
“Are we not all a thousand characters in millions of plays throughout our lifetime?”
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Born of Legend
“Are you two having some sort of strange human thing that you can’t follow what I’m saying? (Simi)”
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Dance with the Devil
“Aren’t you an enigma wrapped in a thick coating of contradictions.”
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Invincible
“Aricles and I are married. The Greek god Apollo found out and he threatened to discredit and shame me before the other gods unless Aricles refused to fight. To protect my honor and name, he has allowed all of you to insult and attack him, and I will not stand for him to be hurt again. By anyone.” Bathymaas”
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Dark Bites
“As her father had so often said… Laugh as much as you breathe and love as long as you live.”
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Born of Shadows
“Baby, it’s either laugh or cry and crying takes way too much energy. If you can’t find humor in the shit life heaps on you, you really will grow miserable.”
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Born of Night
“Baby, open your eyes and look around. We’re all damned in one way or another. But damned is a far cry from dead. And you live like you are dead.”
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Seize the Night
“Bastien stood then fell back down. “Well, ain’t this a bitch? Could have sworn I was further from the floor than this a second ago.” Dancer”
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Born of Fury
“Because people learn from their mistakes, Danger. Pain and failure are a natural part of life. It’s kind of like a parent who watches their child fall down while learning to walk. Instead of coddling the child, you set them back on their feet and let them try again. They have to stumble before they can run.”
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Sins of the Night
“Better to break bread with someone who smells like an arse than to be one. Stenches can be washed off. But an ass today is an ass tomorrow.”
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Dragonmark
“Beware the seeds that are planted, even in the most fallow of fields. For those we lay with callous hands, might very well prove to be those of our ultimate destruction.”
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Invision
“Boy, you knock on the devil’s door and he will head slam you through the wall.”
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No Mercy
“Braden arched his brow as Maggie walked away. She was truly something else. What she was, he couldn’t say in polite company, but never before had he met a woman quite like her.”
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Claiming the Highlander
“But as the Roman playwright Terence once wrote, From many a bad beginning great friendships have formed”
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Seize the Night
“But before I go, I will say this. Yes, my brothers are extreme, but I like them that way. Besides, there aren’t that many men in the universe who would kick down a League prison door, raid an assassin base camp, or start an intergalactic war to protect their spouses. Bat-shit crazy works for us.”
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Born of Fury
“But don’t look over your shoulder, and don’t dwell on what we can’t change. Keep your eye on the horizon and focus on what we need to do now. Upwards and onwards. Alway.”
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Born of Defiance
“But hatred and rage solve nothing. Like a might fire, they quickly consume whatever is fed them. Yet it can’t last. Soon enough, they devour all around them and burn out, leaving nothing but a hollowed shell no longer capable of feeling anything at all. ”
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Time Untime
“But life isn’t about learning to forgive those who have hurt you or forgetting your past. It’s about learning to forgive yourself for being human and making mistakes.”
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Time Untime
“But no one could change the mind of someone else. That was for them to do. And if they weren’t willing, then there was no magic in existence to make them see what they didn’t want to see.”
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Time Untime
“But old dreams never really died. They were always there, living as regrets for what might have been”
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Sins of the Night
“But one thing I realized with my brother is that you can’t toss your pearls before the swine. I think that’s why my mother insisted you give anonymously. The instant anyone sees that you’re kind and giving, they immediately take advantage of it. They seem to mistake kindness for weakness and giving for stupidity. (Aiden)”
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Upon the Midnight Clear
“By understanding the nuances of the world around you and how to survive the temptations, you can rule anything. Even yourself” (Sherrilyn Kenyon Quotes)
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Invincible
“Contrary to what you think, not all preternatural beings hang out at the local Supernatural Pub looking for humans and dates.”
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Inferno
“Damn adulthood. He wanted to send it back for a full refund.”
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Born of Betrayal
“Dead or alive, the balls still hurt when kicked, huh? (Zarek)”
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Dance with the Devil
“Do you know what a friend is, milord? (Emily) An enemy in disguise. (Draven)”
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Master of Desire
“Don’t ask me any more questions, Keller. I’m just going to lie to you and I’d rather not have the stress of trying to remember what lie I handed you. (Alexion)”
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Sins of the Night
“Don’t be stupid, Katra. Never speak in anger and never try to force your will onto someone else. You’ll never find peace in that. (Acheron)”
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Devil May Cry
“Don’t start on that. When I offered you her gifts, you told me to shove them straight up my back orifice. (Eros)”
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Fantasy Lover
“Don’t worry about it. We’re used to being told to go screw ourselves. And that’s from the people who actually like us. You should hear what our enemies say. (Nykyrian)”
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Born of Night
“Don’t worry. It’ll never happen again. You know me, I do date occasionally, but I usually spend at least a few normal, boring days with a guy before we rock the house down. Of course, no one ever rocked my house down the way this guy did. He leveled the mother to its foundations. (Sunshine)”
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Night Embrace
“Especially given the severity of some of her curses. God help him if any of them ever came true. Why, he’d be a two-headed, three-toed, monkey-nosed, blind son of a cesspit-licking lackey if she had her way. (Braden)”
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Claiming the Highlander
“Even if I were lying on the sun itself, I would be freezing there without you. (Zarek)”
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Dance with the Devil
“Even the devil may cry when he looks around hell and realizes that he’s there alone.”
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Devil May Cry
“Ever wonder why the gods created man, Grom? I personally think that we’re the original reality show. They were so effing bored that they created us just so that they could feel better about themselves”
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Styxx
“Every great legend begins with that one person who raises an angry fist to the sky and flips off the gods in defiance. Acheron”
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Invision
“Every man, woman, and child is capable of extreme and utter prejudice and cruelty when they feel justified in their hatred.”
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Styxx
“Every person I save is another victory against the evil that festers in this world and I will not rest until every captive is free. (Stryder)”
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A Dark Champion
“Every person you meet is waging his or her own war against a callous universe that is plotting against them.”
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Inferno
“Every step we take is one inch closer to our salvation and one foot closer to our doom.”
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Illusion
“Every time I think that it’s not worth it – that the people in it deserve the misery of their lives – I come across someone who makes me rethink that.”
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Invincible
“Everyone cries sometimes, Tory. There are some pains that run too deep for even the strongest to take without breaking. I don’t think any less of you for it. (Acheron)”
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Acheron
“Everyone suffers at least one bad betrayal in their lifetime. It’s what unites us. The trick is not to let it destroy your trust in others when that happens. Don’t let them take that from you.”
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Invincible
“Excuse me? I believe the correct words you’re looking for are Thank you, Thorn, for saving our asses when we got caught with our britches down.”
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Deadmen Walking
“Family isn’t about the blood you share. It’s about the people willing to bleed for you.”-Maris – Born of Fury”
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Born of Fury
“Fate was indeed a cruel bitch, and she was laughing mightily at him this day.”
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Master of Desire
“Foolish humans. They had no idea what they were dealing with. No idea that the only way to kill a Deruvian was to burn them completely and then scatter the charred ashes over water so that they couldn’t take root and regenerate.”
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Deadmen Walking
“For better or worse, every decision we make, good or bad, small or large, puts us on a course to nightmares we don’t see coming until they’re in our face.”
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Illusion
“For better or worse, our pasts and experiences are what define us. But they don’t have to rule us. In time, all hurts can be forgiven. It’s only when you add to them that they can’t.”
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Born of Silence
“For the moment, he’s off plotting his Igoresque revenge. I don’t know about you, but I have this image of him rubbing his hands together and laughing like Dexter from Dexter’s Laboratory. (Kyrian)”
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Night Pleasures
“For those who want to believe, no proof is ever required. For those who refuse to believe, no proof is ever enough.”
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Deadmen Walking
“Forgiveness is the best part of valor…Discretion is easy. It’s finding the courage to forgive yourself and others that is hard. (Acheron)”
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Dance with the Devil
“Funny how internal scars never healed. They were the souvenirs of the past.”
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Born of Night
“Get in my way again, boy, and you’re going to learn that Velkan isn’t the only one in this family who has fangs.” Retta to Viktor”
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Dark Bites
“Grudges seldom hurt anyone except the one bearing them.”
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One Silent Night
“Have you a point in this mission, other than to piss me off and insult me? In which case, mission accomplished, but your life is drawing perilously close to its end as a result.” Falcyn”
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Dragonsworn
“Have you ever noticed that salvation, much like your car keys, is usually found where and when you least expect it? (Acheron)”
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Kiss of the Night
“Have you ever wanted something that you knew was bad for you? Something that you ached for so much you could think of nothing else? (Wren)”
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Unleash the Night
“Have you two made friendly with the privates yet? (Eros)”
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Fantasy Lover
“He loves to tease and nettle me to the brink of murder, but I wouldn’t have it any other way. He is everything in this world to me.” Samia” (Sherrilyn Kenyon Quotes)
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Dragonbane
“He made a sound of disgust in the back of his throat. “Oh thank you so much. That’s what every man wants to hear about his name. You might as well call me ‘Little Pecker’ while you’re at it and tell me you would love to have me go shopping with you for feminine hygiene products. Oh and by all means, carry a big, sparkling pink bag with flowers on it and make me hold it.”
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No Mercy
“He made her want to believe in fairy tales and lies. In males who were decent and loving.”
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Born of Defiance
“He only felt a traitorous part of his body that wanted to be connected to her. But he knew better than to listen to that part of himself. It had a mind of its own that could get him into all kinds of nightmares if he let it.”
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Instinct
“He started to look back, but he knew better. That fool always got eaten in the movies. And Nick didn’t want to be on anyone’s menu.”
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Illusion
“He was like some wild, untamed creature that you could keep and feed for a time, but in the end you knew you’d have to let it go for its own sake as well as yours.”
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Night Embrace
“He who lets fear rule him, has fear for a master (Acheron)”
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Night Embrace
“He would remember their kiss forever. She wouldn’t recall him at all.’ (Wulf)”
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Kiss of the Night
“Hope is that tiny light that the gods have given us so that we can find our way through our darkest hours.”
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Inferno
“Hopeless implies that at one time there was hope. And that’s another word I don’t understand. Hope only exists for people who have choices. (Zarek)”
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Dance with the Devil
“How did you learn to stop crying? (Leta) I nailed my heart shut and learned to stop caring about anyone except me. They can’t make you cry when you don’t give a shit about them or their opinions. You can only be hurt by the ones you love. (Aiden)”
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Upon the Midnight Clear
“How do they balance on these spindly things?”
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Dragonbane
“Human will is the strongest will ever created. There are those who are born to succeed and those who are determined to succeed. The former fall into it, and the latter pursue it at all costs. They won’t be denied. Nothing daunts them.”
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Invincible
“Humans are capable of so much creativity and goodness and at the same time they are destructive and cruel. (Leta)”
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Upon the Midnight Clear
“I accept you as you are, and I will always hold you close in my heart. I will walk beside you forever.”
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Night Play
“I always knew you were hiding something from me. I was just never sure what. Funny, I used to think it was another woman you loved, not a lunatic brother.” Catherine says to Micheal.”
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Dark Bites
“I am glad that though someone did me grossly wrong my final mark on this world is not one of countering hurt with more hurt but is one of love and friendship. We will always be known by our actions. Let them always be good ones.”
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The Dream-Hunter
“I am woman. Born of Pain. Hear me roar.”
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Stygian
“I blamed you for what other dragons did. Instead of judging you by your actions and heart, I judged you by theirs and by my own fear.”
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Dragonbane
“I don’t give a damn if they throw me down into the deepest, slimiest pit for eternity. I belong here and no one is going to make me leave. No one! (Selena)”
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Seize the Night
“I don’t need friends. All they do is eat your food, drink your beer, then spew your secrets the first time you do something that displeases them. No offense, but when you have as many enemies as I do, you keep your secrets under lock and key. (Solin)”
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The Dream-Hunter
“I don’t want your lying kindness. Sure, you’ll smile and be so sweet to me that I’ll trust you, but the minute I don’t give you everything you want the instant you demand it, you’ll turn on me and try to crush me. You’re just like everyone else in the world. No one matters but you. (Aiden)”
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Upon the Midnight Clear
“I don’t do vague. If I want to call you a coward, I will bock at you in no uncertain terms.”
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Time Untime
“I don’t suffer from my insanity – I enjoy every minute of it.”
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Dance with the Devil
“I hate humanity as much as I hate the gods. Both groups are selfish bastards bent on destroying everything around them. They were given a perfect world and rather than enjoy it, they’d rather destroy it and each other. Excuse me if I don’t look at them with love in my eyes but rather scorn in my heart.” (Sherrilyn Kenyon Quotes)
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The Dream-Hunter
“I have found my star. She is beauty and grace. Elegance and goodness. My laughter in winter. She is courageous and strong. Bold and tempting. Unlike any other in all the universe, and I cannot touch her. I dare not even try.” (Zarek)”
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Dance with the Devil
“I just want to be warm. Just once let me be warm. Is there no star capable of sharing its fire with me? (Zarek)”
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Dance with the Devil
“I know better than to get in between three women arguing. If you’ll remember, the whole Trojan War started over that. (Wulf)”
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Kiss of the Night
“I marvel at the fact you’ve lived to your age and no one’s taken those rose-colored glasses and shoved them up your ass. (Aiden)”
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Upon the Midnight Clear
“I refuse to believe this was my fate. I was not meant to be this. I was never meant to be…” The pain in his eyes tore through her. “This can’t be all I was born for.”
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Acheron
“I saw my whole life flash before my eyes, boss. It was horrific. I haven’t done anything to regret yet and it’s been way too brief. I at least want a license before I check out, you know?”
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Inferno
“I say we should take him to an anthill and throw little pickles at him! (Selena)”
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Night Pleasures
“I scoured myself with lye soap from head to toe to get the evil funk of demon snot off me. I have flossed things the gods never meant to be flossed and used things that would be toxic to most living organisms. All to sanitize my body for your chewing pleasure.”
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No Mercy
“I sense in you a true heart. A faithful heart. And by your wounds and scars, I can tell that you are fearless. So I shall call you Caleb, the faithful, fearless warrior who defends what he believes with everything he has. That is what I see when I look upon you. Not a demon. An ever-courageous, noble warrior. One day, I suspect, you shall look into a mirror and see the same noble man I do.” Lilliana”
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Invision
“I suggested we hire a new engineer, but someone ignored me. (Vik) And what was I supposed to do? Shit one out? (Devyn)”
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Born of Ice
“I think infatuation is like a garden. If tended and cared for, it grows into love. If neglected or abused it dies. The only way to have eternal love is to never let your heart forget what it’s like to live without it. -Vane”
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Night Play
“I thought only a wooden stake through the heart killed a vampire. (Amanda) A wooden stake through the heart will kill just about anything. And if it doesn’t, run like hell. (Kyrian)”
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Night Pleasures
“I told you when we mated that I would gladly give you my heart, my life, and my love, but that when I did so they came with one condition. Never abuse me. Love is not abuse.”
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Dragonbane
“I wish I could just fling myself into bed with you, but I can’t. I don’t want to be used that way and I don’t want to use you! Can’t you understand that?”
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Fantasy Lover
“I won’t forgive I won’t forget. Let hell open and rain my wrath down on them all. I will not be stopped and I have no mercy left inside me. I am death and I revel in the killings of my enemies. Bring me them all until I’m drunk on their blood.”
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Born of Silence
“I worry about the men of your time, Grace. They all seem to be great fools. (Julian)”
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Fantasy Lover
“I’m enchanted by your beauty, my lady. Welcome aboard. You make a most welcome addition to our acerbic company…a lovely-smelling one, too. (Vik)”
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Born of Ice
“I’m not Sisyphus trying to restrain death. Illyria is a soldier. If it’s her time, it’s her time. I’m not at war with Atropos. It’s her will to take us whenever she likes. My only goal is to die with dignity. (Stryker)”
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One Silent Night
“I’m not tense, just terribly, terribly alert.” Nick”
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Inferno
“I’m sure he just wanted to touch a piece of home. Hell, whatever artifact he took probably belonged to him or some member of his family. I’m not going to kill anyone because he was homesick, Artie – kind of like killing someone when he’s on the can. It’s just wrong. (Acheron)”
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Devil May Cry
“If a person stared too long into the darkness, it would absorb them”
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Born of Silence
“If brute force doesn’t work, you aren’t using enough”
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Styxx
“If it just sits in your living room, eating your food, messing up your stuff, and using your phone while taking all of your money, and never behaves as if you actually set it free in the first place … you either married it or gave birth to it.” (Sherrilyn Kenyon Quotes)
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Unleash the Night
“If it makes you feel better though, she is well worth it. (Draven) I hope you can still say that when they’re scooping your entrails out and you’re still alive to feel it. (Simon)”
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Master of Desire
“If it makes you feel better, I’m not happy with the way all this went down any more than you are. But sometimes things have to go wrong in order to go right. (Acheron)”
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Kiss of the Night
“If they shoot at you, shoot back. If it’s one of my people, don’t worry about blasting one by accident. Jayne would kill them anyway for endangering you.”
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Born of Defiance
“If wishes were horses, even beggars would ride. (Dark-Hunter)”
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Sins of the Night
“If you can’t improve the silence, you shouldn’t be speaking. -Hauk”
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Born of Shadows
“If you love something, set it free. If it comes back, it was, and always will be yours. If it never returns, it was never yours to begin with.”
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Unleash the Night
“If you worry about every ‘what if’ that might befall you, your fears will paralyze you.”
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Born of Fury
“If you’re going to rattle my cage, you better make sure I’m padlocked in it.”
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Born of Defiance
“I’m hunted by League assassins for fun and promotion and you think these backwater pussies scare me? Really?”
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Born of Vengeance
“I’m only one kill away from Command Assassin. Be a damn shame for that kill to be you”
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Born of Ice
“I’m surprised your mother never turned you in.” “She tried once. Nyk put the fear of the gods into her.” -Galene & Fain”
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Born of Betrayal
“I’m the top of the food chain and well…you’re the food.”
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Dance with the Devil
“I’m too young, too smart and too good-looking to die.”
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Invincible
“In all my life, I have only had one haven that sheltered me from my hell. One woman whose smile made me fly even after I’d hit the ground so hard that I didn’t think I could ever stand again. There is nothing in this universe that could destroy me, except you, Zarya. You have taken a monster and made him human. My wounded soul was healed because of your smile. So long as I live and even beyond this life, I am and will always be ever yours.”
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Born of Silence
“In every garden grows one single rose so perfect that once the frost takes it, no other can grow there again. My rose is and will ever be my Edilyn. And I shall never stop mourning her.” Illarion’s Tattoo”
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Dragonbane
“In every house, there was always one malcontent jealous prick out to destroy everyone else just for spite. The entire history of the earth was written in the blood of those betrayed by the very people they’d foolishly trusted. (Stryker)”
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One Silent Night
“In every universe, we play out different decisions we’ve made for whatever reason. What breaks one person at one time can make them strong at another. And one small variable can have devastating consequences. Timing is everything, kid.”
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Illusion
“In fact, my mother always says that emotions are what the gods gave us to distract us from the pain of life. They are what make life bearable and what keeps us going no matter how hard it gets. (Alix)”
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Born of Ice
“In spite of rumourd, I haven’t completely gone to the darkside yet. But damn, those cookies are good.” Come to the dark side. We have cookies.”
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Time Untime
“In the end, we are what our pasts have made us and we live the lives the gods have chosen for us.”
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Born of Night
“In the heart and in the soul, evil takes its wicked toll. When moonlight shines like flowing blood, over the earth, the Daimons will flood”
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No Mercy
“In the immortal words of Maya Angelou … people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”
Sherrilyn Kenyon
Inferno
“In time, you won’t need it to do that. You’ll be able to access that part of yourself anytime you need to. But for now, you’ll require a tool to help you channel all that teenage hormonal ADD that’s bouncing around and through you.” – Death”
Sherrilyn Kenyon
Invincible
“In true Bastien form—and keeping in mind that he’s only seven at the time—he yanks off his helmet, throws his backpack down, and lies on the ground, using the helmet for a pillow, and says to them, and I quote verbatim, ‘Later, bitches. I’m done for the day. Y’all can carry me home or call for a lift. Either way, I ain’t moving from here. My ass is too precious for this abuse.”
Sherrilyn Kenyon
Born of Vengeance
“Innocents should never be forced to pay for the acts of others.”
Sherrilyn Kenyon
Dragonsworn
“Inside of every being there is a constant war being raged. The part that tell us to do what is right and what is decent and the part of us that is self-serving. The part that wants what it wants regardless of who is hurt getting it.”
Sherrilyn Kenyon
Sword of Darkness
“Ironically no one ever wants to hear what I have to say about anything. They usually argue with me to the point I want to put them through a wall. Hopefully you won’t be so dense. (Acheron)”
Sherrilyn Kenyon
Dream Chaser
“Is that a threat? You’re but one man against all of us. (Fergus) Aye. I’m one man with a full garrison of troops sitting rather nicely entrenched on my English lands. Trained knights and soldiers ready to march at my command. You touch one hair on Lochlan’s head and I can promise you, I’ll see every one of you in your grave. (Braden)”
Sherrilyn Kenyon
Claiming the Highlander
“Is there anything in this place to drink that didn’t once filter through internal organs?”
Sherrilyn Kenyon
Deadmen Walking
“It seemed his demon couldn’t tell the physical difference between when he was in danger and when he was “in” Danger.” (Sherrilyn Kenyon Quotes)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
Sins of the Night
“It was a vintage Bastien move. Why just aggravate a situation when you could annihilate it and bomb it up a few levels?”
Sherrilyn Kenyon
Born of Vengeance
“It was all primal instinct. A dog doesn’t know why it barks or growls. It just knows something about its environment isn’t right and it reacts.”
Sherrilyn Kenyon
Illusion
“It’s a matter of free will. Decisions made at the wrong or right time, for the wrong or right reasons.”
Sherrilyn Kenyon
Illusion
“It’s all about perspective, my friend. That and the ability to duck fast when life throws excrement at you.” Caillen”
Sherrilyn Kenyon
Born of Shadows
“It’s amazing how much power a simple false phrase repeated can have .”
Sherrilyn Kenyon
Sword of Darkness
“It’s amazing the damage we do to ourselves and others when all we’re trying to do is protect ourselves from being hurt.”
Sherrilyn Kenyon
Styxx
“It’s been a full week since she left and all you’ve done is sulk like a dying cow. (Kish)”
Sherrilyn Kenyon
Devil May Cry
“It’s easy to look at people and make quick judgments about them, their present and their pasts, but you’d be amazed at the pain and tears a single smile hides. What a person shows to the world is only one tiny facet of the iceberg hidden from sight. And more often than not, it’s lined with cracks and scars that go all the way to the foundation of their soul.”
Sherrilyn Kenyon
Acheron
“It’s never the enemy without who brings you down. It’s always the enemy within.
Sherrilyn Kenyon
Invincible
“It’s not easy to kill someone, Rowena. To stare at them, face to face, that moment when you both realize you’ve dealt them a mortal blow. There is something that passes between you. My father once told me it’s a part of their soul that creeps into you. A part that will haunt you all of your life. (Stryder)”
Sherrilyn Kenyon
A Dark Champion
“It’ll wash. Better I be a little dirty than a child be hurt. Clothes can be replaced. Children should always be cherished. (Ioel)”
Sherrilyn Kenyon
No Mercy
“It’s easy to lock your heart with hatred. But only when it’s free will you be able to move forward without pain anchoring you to a past that’s holding you back.”
Sherrilyn Kenyon
Deadmen Walking
“It’s not enough that we voice good intentions. We must back them with action.”
Sherrilyn Kenyon
Born of Legend
“It’s not fair to show someone the sun and then banish him from it. Even the devil may cry when he looks around hell and realizes that he’s there alone. -Acheron”
Sherrilyn Kenyon
Devil May Cry
“I’ve never had anything I didn’t have to pay for with blood and bone. Until you.” – Vane”
Sherrilyn Kenyon
Night Play
“Just remember, family isn’t perfect. It’s just perfectly ours.”
Sherrilyn Kenyon
Born of Fury
“Keep your lips and other body parts to yourself or you’ll be headless. (Apollymi)”
Sherrilyn Kenyon
Devil May Cry
“Laugh as much as you breathe and love as long as you live.”
Sherrilyn Kenyon
Born of Shadows
“Law of the jungle. The betrayee gets to eat the betrayer. -Dante Pontis ”
Sherrilyn Kenyon
Kiss of the Night
“Leave him be, Sin, or I swear, in the mood I’m in, I’ll tear your head off your shoulders and use it for a footstool. (Braden)”
Sherrilyn Kenyon
Claiming the Highlander
“Let me give you free advice, kid. Whenever something is coming for you, snap its neck or double tap. Never, ever hesitate. It’s infinitely better to be judged by twelve than carried by six.” – Death”
Sherrilyn Kenyon
Invincible
“Let no one steal your light with their lies or their cruelty. Shine on, through it all. Shine in spite of their hatred. In spite of the hurt they give. Let them all choke on your light until it blinds them and washes away whatever meanness they’re intent to spew. Tomorrow, no one will remember what cruel thing they said, but they will remember how you held your head high during the storms. They will remember the brightness of your smile and the way you laughed while they tried to bring you down. Let your laughter be the beacon that warms the world.”
Sherrilyn Kenyon
Intensity
“Let no one take you down. You stand and you fight until the end! Not for fanfare, or for applause or laurels, but because you know what’s right and what’s wrong. Never fight because you have an audience or to gain esteem or notoriety. You fight for what matters— for the right things in life. Truth. Honesty. Dignity. Let no one steal, lie or cheat. You keep what you earn and never allow anyone to run over you because of the lies they tell others. And the lies others are so willing to believe about you.”
Sherrilyn Kenyon
Intensity
“Life hammers us all. Too many times we become things we never thought we’d be. For many reasons.”
Sherrilyn Kenyon
Illusion
“Life has a way of breaking even the strongest among us.”
Sherrilyn Kenyon
Styxx
“Life is a tapestry woven by the decisions we make.”
Sherrilyn Kenyon
Kiss of the Night
“Life is about coming to terms with the mistakes made. Learning to live with them even when they cut soul deep.”
Sherrilyn Kenyon
Born of Silence
“Life is all about regrets. Don’t let those regrets be that you’ve hurt someone who really loves you. Keep those to a minimum. It’s bad enough when you have to carry them through a single lifetime. When you carry them through thousands, it’s brutal.”-Kyrian”
Sherrilyn Kenyon
Invincible
“Life is ever a complicated symphony of catastrophes. Ever seeking to lay us low and lift us higher.”
Sherrilyn Kenyon
Intensity
“Life is gamble, It’s harsh and painful most of the time, and it’s not for the timid. Spoils go to the victor, not to the one who doesn’t even show up for the battle.” -Acheron”
Sherrilyn Kenyon
Night Play
“Life is hard. For everyone. We are all warriors fighting our way through it.”
Sherrilyn Kenyon
Born of Betrayal
“Life is messy, Ren. It’s not easy and it’s definitely not for the timid. Everyone has a past.”
Sherrilyn Kenyon
Time Untime
“Life is never simple. It’s messy, complicated, and at times debilitating.”
Sherrilyn Kenyon
Illusion
“Life is never the fairy tale they sold us on when we were kids. More often, it’s the nightmare we can never wake from. What they don’t tell us when we’re little is that the trick is to find the one who will be there in the middle of the night to hold us when we’re screaming and tell us that it’ll be all right. The one who doesn’t shirk or run from our nightmares, but who holds us through them and makes sure we never face them alone.”
Sherrilyn Kenyon
Born of Legend
“Life is serious. (Valerius)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
No, life is an adventure. It’s thrilling and scary. Sometimes it’s even a bit boring, but it should never be serious. (Tabitha)”
Seize the Night
“Life isn’t supposed to be easy. Ever. But with the hardest challenges go the greatest rewards. And every incredible moment of my life came only after I did something that made my gut clench with fear.”
Sherrilyn Kenyon
Inferno
“Life isn’t finding shelter in the storm. It’s about learning to dance in the rain.”
Sherrilyn Kenyon
Acheron
“Life wasn’t about misery. It wasn’t about spreading pain. His father had always said that life was a balance. Good and bad. The goal was to make sure that when you left the world, you left it with the scales shifted as much to the good column as you could.”
Sherrilyn Kenyon
Born of Vengeance
“Life wasn’t for the timid. It was harsh and it was biting. But the one thing that made it bearable was the people you cared for. It was finding that light in the darkness. That peace in hell.”
Sherrilyn Kenyon
Born of Night
“Life’s to short to spend it fighting when you could be holding the one you love. And love’s to rare to squnder it with petty concerns.” The Apolloite groom to Rafael”
Sherrilyn Kenyon
Dark Bites
“Lips and tongues lie. But actions never do. No matter what words are spoken, actions betray the truth of everyone’s heart.”
Sherrilyn Kenyon
Born of Fury
“Little brother, I don’t mean to be a downer, but we’re talking about War here. There’s no way to mitigate damages. He won’t let us. I was there with twenty-five Chthonians to fight him and he spanked our hides like we were Lemurian slave women. Two of us had our hearts ripped out and shoved down our throats while he laughed, then he licked the blood clean from his fingers and came at the rest of us. (Savitar)”
Sherrilyn Kenyon
One Silent Night
“Little late for that now. I don’t think an ‘Oops, my bad, my weapon accidentally misfired two dozen rounds’ will work to get me out of this. (Devyn)”
Sherrilyn Kenyon
Born of Ice
“Living was okay, but it wasn’t the breaths people took that measured a life. It was the moments that took those breaths away that mattered the most. And Dev did that every time he looked at her. Naked or not.”
Sherrilyn Kenyon
No Mercy
“Look tough and no one messed with you. Look homicidal and they avoided you entirely.”
Sherrilyn Kenyon
Born of Shadows
“Love is deceitful and sublime. In its truest form, it brings out the best in all beings. At its worst, it’s a tool used to manipulate and ruin anyone who is stupid enough to hold it.”
Sherrilyn Kenyon
Dream Chaser
“Love is the greatest corrupter ever known and has been the numbers one downfall of mankind since the first creation.”
Sherrilyn Kenyon
Born of Shadows
“Love really did conquer all–even two headstrong people who were bound to breed even more obstinate children for the future. But that was all right by her. After all, the world needed heroes who could wield both swords and words with equal skill.” (Sherrilyn Kenyon Quotes)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
A Dark Champion
“Love, unlike bills, never lasted. Hearts were made to wander.”
Sherrilyn Kenyon
Born of Defiance
“May you get exactly what you want and live long enough to regret it.”
Sherrilyn Kenyon
Born of Shadows
“Maybe that was the point of life. Not to get the things you wanted that you thought would make you happy. But to find the things you truly needed, those most wonderful people that you just couldn’t live without”
Sherrilyn Kenyon
Dragonmark
“Milord, Knight in Shining Armor, methinks thou hast a present in thy chamber.”
Sherrilyn Kenyon
Dark Bites
“Most people would rather suffer through a bad situation than take steps needed to free themselves…”
Sherrilyn Kenyon
Born of Night
“My father tutored me well on amnesia. He always said it was a necessary ingredient for any friendship. (Kiara)”
Sherrilyn Kenyon
Born of Night
“My father used to say that it’s not enough to just beat an attacker off. You have to hurt them enough that they’ll know not to tangle with you anymore. Or preferably kill them. (Wren)”
Sherrilyn Kenyon
Unleash the Night
“My father used to say that life is what you make it. Today is the first day of the rest of your life. You can’t change the past, but the future isn’t set in stone. You can effect a change there. Move forward not with hatred or love. Move forward with purpose. (Simone)”
Sherrilyn Kenyon
Dream Chaser
“My mother always said that you should share your troubles. If you let them out, then they are less likely to burden you, whereas if you keep them inside they fester your blood and taint your soul. (Emily)”
Sherrilyn Kenyon
Master of Desire
“My people never dreamed of a world like this. Of having so much without backbreaking, debilitating work. And yet for all the physical improvements, people are still people. They’re killing each other to get more to prove a point only the killer understands. Still brutalizing and torturing each other over things that in another hundred years won’t even matter.”
Sherrilyn Kenyon
Sins of the Night
“Never look back. You can’t change what you’ve done. You can only change what you’re going to do. Pain is always all around us. It’s easy to become blind to it. But imagine all the times in your life when you were hurting and going through shit, if just one person had looked over at you and instead of kicking you while you were down, had said, ‘It’s okay. You’re not a bad person. It’s just a bad turn of the cards. You’ll get through it.’ Can you imagine what an incredible world this would be?”
Sherrilyn Kenyon
Stygian
“Never take your eyes off your opponent. And never think you don’t have to work for a victory. Even now, you could surprise me. (Takeshi)”
Sherrilyn Kenyon
Acheron
“Nick froze instantly. “You don’t mock my mother. You don’t speak of her in anything but the most reverent of tones. I don’t care if you are Death, I will open a can of Cajun whup-ass all over you, boy.”
Sherrilyn Kenyon
Invincible
“No matter how dark the night. Or how bitter the storm, light always finds a way through the densest clouds to shine again. Remember that, and hold it tight to your chest, whenever you feel defeated. Whenever you want to give up. Lift one fist and one finger to the sky, and defy them all to the bitter end!”
Sherrilyn Kenyon
Intensity
“No matter how much we lie to ourselves about what a good person we are inside, sooner or later, we are all someone else’s nightmare. Let us hope, for all our sakes, that history judges us with far kinder labels than what we’ve used to judge each other.”
Sherrilyn Kenyon
Born of Betrayal
“No one was good and no one over the age of ten was unscarred. Life was brutal and it made victims of everyone”
Sherrilyn Kenyon
Born of Ice
“No power from above can make one human love another. Love comes from within the heart. (Julian)”
Sherrilyn Kenyon
Fantasy Lover
“No, he wasn’t a pig. He was a lonely, hurt man who didn’t know how to cope in a world that had turned its back on him. (Astrid)”
Sherrilyn Kenyon
Dance with the Devil
“No. You’re asking me to support your stupidity. And you know how I feel about fools. I ate all the dumb ones in every litter … or so I thought. Apparently, I somehow missed you.”
Sherrilyn Kenyon
Dragonmark
“Not that I’ve ever feared a fight or backed down from one –(Wren)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
That’s the truth. I swear he’s half beta fish. He’d fight his own reflection to prove a point. (Maggie)”
Unleash the Night
“Nothing is ever truly set by fate. In one blink, everything changes. Even though it should be a clear, sunny day, the softest whisper into the wind can become a hurricane that destroys everything it touches. (Acheron)”
Sherrilyn Kenyon
Sins of the Night
“Nothing’s more terrifying than to know you’ve got family in harm’s way and to not be able to get to them.” -Jayne”
Sherrilyn Kenyon
Born of Betrayal
“On second thought she hoped she never met a woman that attractive.. If she did, she would be morally obligated to run her over with her car..” Bride”
Sherrilyn Kenyon
Night Play
“One single word and I swear I’ll rip your tongue out.”
Sherrilyn Kenyon
One Silent Night
“Only a fool took a remote from a god.”
Sherrilyn Kenyon
Night Embrace
“Our lives are marked and shaped by our regrets. Things we all want to take back and can’t. In a perfect world, we would never hurt the ones we love or cause hurt to befall them. But the world isn’t perfect and neither are we”
Sherrilyn Kenyon
Styxx
“Over, under, around, or through, there’s always a way. You don’t give up and you never give in. They can scar your body and take your freedom, but only you can surrender your heart and soul. Nothing is worth compromising yourself for. Stand fast and stand true. Always.”
Sherrilyn Kenyon
Illusion
“Parenthood is an equal share of awe and ah, crap.” -Galene”
Sherrilyn Kenyon
Born of Betrayal
“People are basically irritating. Myself included. ”
Sherrilyn Kenyon
Devil May Cry
“People make their own realities. they paint the truth as they want it to be, regardless of fact. for those who want to believe, no proof is ever required. for those who refuse to believe, no proof is ever enough”
Sherrilyn Kenyon
Deadmen Walking
“People make their own reality, goddess. We hate and we love for reasons that are known only to us.”
Sherrilyn Kenyon
Styxx
“People make their own reality. That was what Praxis had taught him years ago. A hundred people can witness the exact same event, and give two hundred and three different accountings of it.”
Sherrilyn Kenyon
Styxx
“People see their own sins in others.
Sherrilyn Kenyon
Born of Shadows
“People started down the road with good intentions, but the moment the road became rough or difficult, they’d abandon it.”
Sherrilyn Kenyon
Dream Chaser
“People will knife you in the back for a stinking crumb and then go on with their lives as if you’re nothing but a worthless roach. (Aiden)”
Sherrilyn Kenyon
Upon the Midnight Clear
“Perhaps I should sit up front with the driver and give you two enough space to beat the crap out of each other and settle this like grown adolescents. (Geary)”
Sherrilyn Kenyon
The Dream-Hunter
“Please don’t let it be really hot here.’ New Orleans in August was about as hot as he wanted to deal with. And he definitely didn’t want to smell rotten eggs for eternity. He’d had enough of Kyrian’s dirty laundry for that.”
Sherrilyn Kenyon
Instinct
“Remember, you don’t have to outrun the zombie. You just have to outrun your friends.”
Sherrilyn Kenyon
Inferno
“Rise to the occasion, my daughter. Never let anyone tell you that you lack courage or conviction to see your tasks done. The only opinion that really matters is your own, and you are a creature of absolute beauty and strength, through and through. Never, ever forget that. So in the midst of the storm, stand proud against it, lift up your middle finger, and defy the fates with everything you have. If they want to fight, bring it. You have more than enough intelligence and skill to battle them until they beg you for mercy.”
Sherrilyn Kenyon
Illusion
“Rubbing at the bridge of his nose with his middle finger, Thorn snorted at his tirade. “Should I get my violin out? I feel this little chat of yours needs an accompanying rhapsody.”
Sherrilyn Kenyon
Deadmen Walking
“Sam gave Captain Suicide a droll stare. “How did you die again? Oh wait, I know this. ‘I can take ’em. I don’t need to wait for reinforcements. I can do it myself.’ How’d that work out for you again?”
Sherrilyn Kenyon
No Mercy
“Sane people played by the rules. They looked for rational explanations and solutions in an insane universe.”
Sherrilyn Kenyon
Born of Silence
“She didn’t judge him or hate him for things that weren’t his fault. She accepted him and that was the greatest miracle of all.”
Sherrilyn Kenyon
Night Play
“She glanced up from his lips to those dark eyes that smoldered with his fire. She remembered now what they had looked like as she’d seen him before Morgen had entered his world. “Your eyes used to be blue.” “That was a long time ago.” -Seren to Kerrigan” (Sherrilyn Kenyon Quotes)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
Sword of Darkness
“She was here to frame him, not screw him. Damn, the legends were true. There was something innately alluring about Andarions. Almost like they put off some kind of ferocious do-me pheromone.”
Sherrilyn Kenyon
Born of Fury
“She was plain and far from skinny or petite. As for parties…she’d rather be alone in a corner somewhere reading. She hated being nice to people she didn’t like because her father wanted contributions. She hated being fake. All she wanted was to be herself.”
Sherrilyn Kenyon
Unleash the Night
“Should I get my violin out? I feel this little chat of yours needs an accompanying rhapsody.”
Sherrilyn Kenyon
Deadmen Walking
“Show no fear to your enemies. Only contempt. Never let anyone look down on you. You’re just as good as any of them. I don’t care who they are. Better in fact. In our world, Dagan’s are royalty and you, my son, are a prince.”
Sherrilyn Kenyon
Born of Shadows
“Simone crossed herself and prayed as she watched headlights coming at them, fast and furious. Her hands shaking from fright, she buckled herself in while Jesse screamed out like a terrified child in the back seat. As if he could die.”
Sherrilyn Kenyon
Dream Chaser
“So are we going to continue glaring angrily at each other while we pose in our tough stances? Or use our time to work out a plan that hopefully doesn’t end with our mutual deaths? (Acheron)”
Sherrilyn Kenyon
One Silent Night
“So how many women have you visited in their dreams? (Geary) Is this one of those questions that if I don’t answer it correctly, you get angry at me? (Arik)”
Sherrilyn Kenyon
The Dream-Hunter
“So long as I live and even beyond this life. I am and will always be ever yours.”
Sherrilyn Kenyon
Born of Silence
“So long as you keep this anger inside, it will infect you. You have to let it go and move on. Life isn’t fair. It’s not supposed to be.”
Sherrilyn Kenyon
Born of Fury
“Some kisses are worth living for”
Sherrilyn Kenyon
Kiss of the Night
“Someone please tell me that we’re not seriously having a friggin’ debate over the genius of ‘Karma Chameleon’ at seven o’clock in the morning? (Xypher)”
Sherrilyn Kenyon
Dream Chaser
“Sometimes we don’t realize how destructive our creations are until it’s too late. And sometimes those creations we make turn on us and seek only to kill us even though we loved and succored them. (Apollo)”
Sherrilyn Kenyon
One Silent Night
“Sometimes we let them treat us badly because we yearn to feel loved and accepted so much that we are willing to do anything to get it. It’s very painful to realize that no matter how much you try, you feel like it, do not even want to accept you as you are. When they finally understand you, I regret all that time you’ve spent pleasing others and you wonder what that is so horrible in you that prevents them even pretend to want. ”
Sherrilyn Kenyon
Night Play
“Sooner or later, we all dance with the devil.”
Sherrilyn Kenyon
Dance with the Devil
“Strength through adversity. The strongest steel is forged by the fires of hell. It is pounded and struck repeatedly before it’s plunged back into the molten fire. The fire gives it power and flexibility, and the blows give it strength. Those two things make the metal pliable and able to withstand every battle it’s called upon to fight. (Savitar)”
Sherrilyn Kenyon
Devil May Cry
“Sure. My ego’s had enough time to recover a modicum of dignity. Let’s make sure we crush it again before I mistake myself for a god. -Acheron”
Sherrilyn Kenyon
Acheron
“Tell me, did you summon me just so you could beat the crap out of me? Or is there a more productive reason for why I’m here? (Eros)”
Sherrilyn Kenyon
Fantasy Lover
“That didn’t sound like them slinging beads at us. Think if I whip my shirt off, they’ll go blind and leave?” Nick”
Sherrilyn Kenyon
Invision
“That is the beauty of memory, isn’t it? Our reality is always clouded by our perceptions of truth. (Mnimi)”
Sherrilyn Kenyon
Night Embrace
“The Ambrose Malachai will never be forgotten. But it’s up to you as to how he’ll be always be remembered.”
Sherrilyn Kenyon
Illusion
“The bitterest truth was always better than the sweetest lie.”
Sherrilyn Kenyon
Born of Fury
“The depth and strength of our character is defined by our moral code. People only reveal themselves when they’re thrown out of the usual conditions of their lives. That’s when the truth of who they are is revealed…”
Sherrilyn Kenyon
Born of Shadows
“The man may not be dead, but he was certainly stiff. And this had nothing to do with rigor mortis.”
Sherrilyn Kenyon
Night Pleasures
“The most beautiful heart of all is the one that can still love even while it bleeds, and especially after it’s been shattered into thousands of pieces.”
Sherrilyn Kenyon
Styxx
“The only way to have eternal love is to never let your heart forget what it’s like to live without it.”
Sherrilyn Kenyon
Night Play
“The past is dead. Tomorrow will become whatever decision you make it. ~ Acheron.”
Sherrilyn Kenyon
Acheron
“The past is history written in stone that can’t be altered. The future is transitory and never guaranteed. Today is the only thing you can alter for certain. Make the most of it.”
Sherrilyn Kenyon
Born of Silence
“The Simi is environmentally sound. Eat everything except for hooves”
Sherrilyn Kenyon
Dance with the Devil
“The slightest stirring in the air can set a hurricane in motion a thousand miles off. (Acheron)”
Sherrilyn Kenyon
Unleash the Night
“The strongest of metals is forged under the most violent of conditions, my lord. It is buried deep in the hottest coals and then beat and pounded until it is bent into shape. Then it becomes the strongest, most lethal of weapons. A thing of absolute beauty and force.”
Sherrilyn Kenyon
Styxx
“The Valley of no return. So named because no one ever comes out of here alive. Like Blaise … because I really am going to kill him as soon as I find my strength.” Falcyn”
Sherrilyn Kenyon
Dragonsworn
“The wealth of a soul is measured by how much it can feel… its poverty by how little.” (Sherrilyn Kenyon Quotes)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
Invincible
“The world isn’t fair. And no matter how good and decent you are, no matter how much you give to others, someone is always going to hate you for no other reason than the fact that you breathe. You can’t help that. You can’t change people or their minds once they’ve allowed them to get twisted by hatred. But you can change how you deal with them. Never back down, but walk away when you can, fight when you must. Whatever you do don’t give them the power to hurt you. Don’t let them inside you. They’re not worth it. Live your life for yourself. Stay true to yourself and if they can’t see the beauty that is you, it’s their loss. Let the bitterness take them to their graves. Spend your time on what matters most. Being you and appreciating the people who see you for who and what you are. The people who love you, and the ones that you love. They are all that matter. Let the rest go to hell.” – Drux Cruel”
Sherrilyn Kenyon
Born of Silence
“The worst decisions in life we make are always the one we make out of fear.”
Sherrilyn Kenyon
Born of Betrayal
“Then I tell you this, as you value your putrid lives, you will leave here and make whatever lies you wish to your master. Never darken Lord Orrick’s doorway again. For if you do, there is no corner of hell you can find to hide that I won’t come seek you out. And I promise you, your master’s wrath is nothing compared to mine. (Draven)”
Sherrilyn Kenyon
Master of Desire
“Then let me put it to you this way. There is seldom black and white in our world. Sometimes things we perceive as good have moments of profound evil, but profound evil will always tell you that it’s always good. It never admits that it could, in any way, be evil. (Alexion)”
Sherrilyn Kenyon
Sins of the Night
“There can be no faith without doubt. No strength without temptation.”
Sherrilyn Kenyon
Dark Bites
“There is seldom black and white in our world. Sometimes the things we perceive as good have moments of profound evil, but profound evil will always tell you that it’s always good. It never admits that it could, in any way, be evil.”
Sherrilyn Kenyon
Sins of the Night
“There is this place of insanity that lives deep inside everyone.”
Sherrilyn Kenyon
Time Untime
“There was a reason why there was only a single stairway to heaven, but an entire highway to hell.”
Sherrilyn Kenyon
Illusion
“There was nothing humane about humanity. At the end of the day, they were all animals with only survival instincts.”
Sherrilyn Kenyon
Night Play
“There was nothing like their will to survive and to protect. They were truly the most vicious and loyal creatures ever born. And she had callously thrown that away for a group of bitches who lacked all understanding of real loyalty.”
Sherrilyn Kenyon
Dragonbane
“There was something about Ash that made every hormone in her body stand up and pant for more”
Sherrilyn Kenyon
Seize the Night
“There’s an old Ritadarion saying. You’re never more alive than when you walk hand in hand with death. (Syn)”
Sherrilyn Kenyon
Born of Night
“There’s always one, isn’t there?” Stryker asked rhetorically. In every house, there was always one malcontent jealous prick out to destroy everyone else just for spite. The entire history of the earth was written in the blood of those betrayed by the very people they’d foolishly trusted.”
Sherrilyn Kenyon
One Silent Night
“There’s only so many times you can kick a dog before it turns viscous. (Julian) ”
Sherrilyn Kenyon
Fantasy Lover
“These men did not like to be kept waiting, nor did they want to be interrupted once settled. For the first time, Cameron’s courage faltered as she watched the men begin a private and intense whispered conversation. What are you doing, Cam? This was what she’d come for—to speak to Captain Devyl Bane and enlist his aid.”
Sherrilyn Kenyon
Deadmen Walking
“They travel through the night on the wings of heavenly stallions bringing hope and new faith to those left behind. Even though they are free, they never forget their past and spend their lives trying to bring peace to others. (Brotherhood Chanson)”
Sherrilyn Kenyon
A Dark Champion
“They’re lucky I didn’t rip their arms off for touching her”, it was the kindest thing anyone has ever said about her.”
Sherrilyn Kenyon
Born of Ice
“Things are always given to us when we need them… You just have to decide if you’re strong enough, brave enough, to seize it and make it yours. (Acheron)”
Sherrilyn Kenyon
Night Embrace
“This one’s easy to use. The pointy end goes into their body. (Liza)”
Sherrilyn Kenyon
Dream Chaser
“This was how life was meant to be. It was scary at times, but you had to trust in the ones you loved to see you through the madness of it.”
Sherrilyn Kenyon
Born of Legend
“This way everyone will know what a total jack-off you date, and reminder to you that no one else will have me and my weirdness. So you never have to worry about me cheating or straying. I know the best when I see it and no one’s better than my girl.”
Sherrilyn Kenyon
Born of Vengeance
“Those who judge only by the heart are far too rare in this world.”
Sherrilyn Kenyon
Invision
“Through thick and thin, we’re brothers to the bitter end. And if you’re going to hell, buddy, I’m driving the bus.”
Sherrilyn Kenyon
Born of Silence
“Toss the oar and let the current take us wherever. Or grab the oar with both hands and fight the current with everything we have. In the end, we all determine what fate we embrace. For we are either pawns or players. The final decision is always ours.”
Sherrilyn Kenyon
Stygian
“Trust me, baby. Everyone wants someone they can hold and love. Someone who will be there to help pick up the pieces when everything falls apart. Sin is no different from anyone else. If you have any care for Sin at all, don’t leave him in the darkness. It’s not fair to show someone the sun and then banish him from it. Even the devil may cry when looks around hell and realizes that he’s there alone. (Acheron)”
Sherrilyn Kenyon
Devil May Cry
“Trust me, Stryder, there is no greater pain than to let the one you love leave your side. Knowing they are out there, alone, and always wondering if they are healthy and happy. (Zenobia)”
Sherrilyn Kenyon
A Dark Champion
“Trust was for the stupid.”
Sherrilyn Kenyon
Sins of the Night
“Urian, a smart man strikes the first blow, but it’s the wise man who strikes the last one. Understand?”
Sherrilyn Kenyon
Stygian
“Vengeance only destroys the one who seeks it.”
Sherrilyn Kenyon
The Dream-Hunter
“We all have more than our share of pains and sorrow. Embarrassments and things that haunt us. From that, no one is ever immune, no matter how good or perfect a life you think they live. Shame and hurt spare no one.”
Sherrilyn Kenyon
Time Untime
“We all make mistakes. It’s part of growing. The trick isn’t to be perfect. It’s to find a place of solace in the mind so that it doesn’t cane you for trusting the wrong person or following after the wrong dream. All of us fall victim to harmful guile at some point.”
Sherrilyn Kenyon
Time Untime
“We all survive. We all go home. We are brothers unto the end. (Brotherhood Creed)”
Sherrilyn Kenyon
A Dark Champion
“We almost made it to thirty seconds without an insult. I think we set a new record.”
Sherrilyn Kenyon
Acheron
“We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark, but the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light. When we refuse to see the truth that lies before us because facing it is too hard and scary for us. Because when we acknowledge that light, then we see the monsters the dark no longer hides and we are honor bound to do something to stop them.”
Sherrilyn Kenyon
Deadmen Walking
“We can’t change what we’ve done, but we can always change what we’re going to do.”
Sherrilyn Kenyon
Time Untime
“We come from a long line of people who live to read boring texts – I think it may be why we all die young. Complete boredom. (Geary)”
Sherrilyn Kenyon
The Dream-Hunter
“We do not repay mercy with murder. Kindness grows kindness, and you will reap the harvest of whatever seeds you sow.”
Sherrilyn Kenyon
Born of Legend
“We don’t have a choice in how or when our bad days will blindside us. But what we do choose is how we allow them to leave us once they’re gone. You can use those moments as a catalyst to spur you on to greater things or you can let it be the event that breaks you and leaves you shattered and forever lost in darkness.”
Sherrilyn Kenyon
Inferno
“We have three kinds of family. Those we are born to, those who are born to us, and those we let into our hearts.”
Sherrilyn Kenyon
Dark Bites
“We must spoil our women, boy. A happy woman makes a happy home. An unhappy one makes us drink.”
Sherrilyn Kenyon
Styxx
“We will always be known by our actions. Let them always be good ones.”
Sherrilyn Kenyon
The Dream-Hunter
“Well after that testosterone-shattering experience, I have no more dignity to worry about. Ever. Anyone have a cushion I can sit on? A really big fluffy one? Hell, let’s even make it pale pink with bows on it just for good measure.” (Sherrilyn Kenyon Quotes)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
Born of Shadows
“Well, we learned a vital lesson here today, me mateys. You canna keelhaul a demon no matter how hard you try for it. The rotten crafty beastie bastard won’t be having none of it.”
Sherrilyn Kenyon
Deadmen Walking
“What good was owning the world when he’d have no choice except to defend himself against every person in it? Personally, he’d rather be a beggar with one true friend than a prince surrounded by two-faced assassins.’ (Aiden)”
Sherrilyn Kenyon
Upon the Midnight Clear
“What have you gotten yourself into? You don’t want to be involved with my sorry ass. I’m just not worth this kind of trouble.”
Sherrilyn Kenyon
Born of Legend
“What kind of life has you lived, little one, that everything seems to be a question of fair and unfair? Life and Death just are. Fair has nothing to do with it.”
Sherrilyn Kenyon
Night Pleasures
“What makes you think anyone has a roadmap? You think I know where I’m going? That I ever have? We’re all mice stumbling in our mazes, trying to find our cheese. Hoping the levers we’re pulling are the right ones and not the ones designed to shock us.”
Sherrilyn Kenyon
Dragonmark
“Whatever fool had penned the nonsense that words could do no harm should be condemned to Tophet’s lowest fiery pit. For they did far more damage than mere broken bones that eventually healed. Furious,”
Sherrilyn Kenyon
Invision
“When others seek to knock you down, you rise up and know that only you can defeat you. Never give anyone power over you, not for any reason.”
Sherrilyn Kenyon
Stygian
“When someone is drowning and you try to save them, they’re more likely to drown you before you pull them out.”
Sherrilyn Kenyon
Styxx
“Where I come from, family’s defined as those who don’t screw you over a paycheck. Blood makes no difference. If you can trust them with your life and know that they’ll be there come whatever hell rains down, then they’re your family.”
Sherrilyn Kenyon
Born of Shadows
“While I respect suicidal tendencies on most days, you’d do well to remember who you’re addressing and, more to the point, what I can do to you. No one says you have to go back to Tartarus in one piece. (Acheron)”
Sherrilyn Kenyon
Dream Chaser
“Who among us is not ever-changing? Ever evolving into someone new? Maybe someone better… or someone worse.”
Sherrilyn Kenyon
Born of Legend
“Why do you think there’s only a single stairway to heaven, but an entire highway to hell? Because it’s a lot easier to slide down then climb up, and it takes a whole lot less energy to boot.”
Sherrilyn Kenyon
Inferno
“Why is it when you want the ground to swallow you whole, it decides to stop trying? -Ethon”
Sherrilyn Kenyon
No Mercy
“With my background and genetic makeup,buddy, you’re lucky I’m as normal as I am. (Katra Agrotera)”
Sherrilyn Kenyon
Devil May Cry
“Words are easy to say, but emotions betray the best intentions.”
Sherrilyn Kenyon
Styxx
“Works for me. For the ones we love, today we’re allies. Tomorrow we resume our natural order of mortal enemies. Gentlemen, and I use that term loosely for all of us, have we an accord? (Acheron)”
Sherrilyn Kenyon
One Silent Night
“Worst thing would be that Darling killed her. And then he’ll probably shoot me and add me to his monument in the yard.”
Sherrilyn Kenyon
Born of Silence
“Yeah, it never fails to amaze me how a single lie can undo an entire lifetime of good. (Aiden)”
Sherrilyn Kenyon
Upon the Midnight Clear
“Yeah, right. Life is a soul-sucking test that you either survive or you fail. Personally, I think failure blows, so I intend to survive and laugh my ass off at all the losers. (Nick)”
Sherrilyn Kenyon
Unleash the Night
“Yeah, well, it’s what happens when we spoil the things we love. They don’t always understand the boundaries and their ridiculous wants can get us killed if we’re not careful. (Jaden)”
Sherrilyn Kenyon
Acheron
“Yeah. I don’t need much, and whatever else I need I’m sure I can buy since the Council knows that I am the charmed one who has to be humored lest the big bad Norseman go a Viking on their heads. (Chris)”
Sherrilyn Kenyon
Kiss of the Night
“Yes, but if we hurt the Abadonna in the process, we’re going to find out what it feels like to be turned inside out. Literally. Like most beings, I actually like the fact that my skin is outside my body. (Urian)”
Sherrilyn Kenyon
Kiss of the Night
“You are my heaven, and you will always be my enternal hell!~ Darling”
Sherrilyn Kenyon
Born of Silence
“You are one seriously testy Creature of the Night. (Amanda) ”
Sherrilyn Kenyon
Night Pleasures
“You are the only warmth in my heart. The only sunshine my winter has ever known. (Talon)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
Night Embrace
“You are the strongest male I have ever known, Dancer. No one is more worthy of your noble lineage. You honor your family and your ancestors. And you are a treasure for Andaria. I know the first Dancer of the Warring Blood Clan of Hauk smiles whenever he looks down and sees the strength and beauty of his namesake.”
Sherrilyn Kenyon
Born of Fury
“You better, Artemis. Because if you don’t get him under control, the world is going to become the very thing that makes you wake up screaming at night. (Acheron)”
Sherrilyn Kenyon
Dance with the Devil
“You can blame it all on fate and the universe, but in the end you alone decide if you’re going to lie down and let hell take you under, or if you’re going to stand strong in defiance of it all with your middle finger raised.”
Sherrilyn Kenyon
Inferno
“You can take my life, but you’ll never break me. So bring me your worst… And I will definitely give you mine.”
Sherrilyn Kenyon
No Mercy
“You can’t protect yourself. No matter how safe you think you are. No matter how much precaution you take, the rodents always find a way in.’ (Kiara)”
Sherrilyn Kenyon
Born of Night
“You can’t tame a wolf and expect it to lie before your hearth in harmony. Sooner or later, the nature of the beast sets in and it does what its instincts tell it—it kills.”
Sherrilyn Kenyon
One Silent Night
“You have to learn to smile through your pain, little brother. Sometimes it’s all we got.”
Sherrilyn Kenyon
Born of Night
“You I expected better off.” He turned his swirling sliver gaze from Sam to Dev and Fang. “You two not so much.”-Acheron”
Sherrilyn Kenyon
No Mercy
“You keep talking like that, Vane, and I might be forced to keep you.” “You keep looking at me like that, and I just might let you.”
Sherrilyn Kenyon
Night Play
“You know I never really understood that expression. Seriously. If someone says they’re going to open up a can of whup ass on you, it means someone out there is canning whup ass. Truth be told, that’s the guy I’d be most afraid of.” Medea” (Sherrilyn Kenyon Quotes)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
Dragonsworn
“You know the incredible thing about hearts is their unbelievable capacity for forgiveness. You’d be amazed what people will overlook when they love someone. (Acheron)”
Sherrilyn Kenyon
Devil May Cry
“You know, I would date, if I could find a man worth shaving my legs for. (Grace)”
Sherrilyn Kenyon
Fantasy Lover
“You know, it’s amazing to me the wounds we carry for eternity. But what has fascinated me most these last few years is how the right person can heal them. I remember a wise man once said to me that everyone deserves to be loved. Even you. (Zarek)”
Sherrilyn Kenyon
Acheron
“You know, I’ve walked this earth for over eleven thousand years, my lady. I have seen things in my life that are unimaginable to you, and you ask me if I doubt you? Lady, I doubt the very air you breathe. (Acheron)”
Sherrilyn Kenyon
Night Pleasures
“You know, the thing about life and love is that they are both ever-changing while people seldom are. (Acheron)”
Sherrilyn Kenyon
Night Embrace
“You know, there are just some things you never expect to face even on this job. A flying primate that shoots fire out its nose is one of them.”
Sherrilyn Kenyon
No Mercy
“You leave a man an invitation like that…he’d have to be dead to decline. I am definitely not dead. Although rigor has definitely settled into at least one part of my body with a vengeance.”
Sherrilyn Kenyon
No Mercy
“You live your life like it’s a rare treasure to be savored. You take pleasure from the simplest of things and you never take them for granted. I saw the joy on your face and the life in your eyes when you cradled the permits to your chest. I’ve never seen anything lovelier. I actually thought you would cry just from the joy of touching them. I’ve been numb all my life, Megeara, but you…you feel on a level that I can’t even imagine, and for a little while I wanted to feel that, too. (Arik)”
Sherrilyn Kenyon
The Dream-Hunter
“You need to calm down and remember that everyone grieves differently. Doesn’t mean they don’t care. You don’t judge people in pain, and you damn sure don’t lash out at them when they’ve lost what Syn has!”
Sherrilyn Kenyon
Born of Betrayal
“You should always give your opponent a fighting chance. Let the best fighter win, and if it’s not you, then die with dignity. (Stryker)”
Sherrilyn Kenyon
One Silent Night
“You think because you are born of light that you’re somehow better and kinder than those who aren’t, but you’re not. It merely makes you feel entitled in your wrongful actions against others. But, you’re no better than my mother. If anything you’re worse because you think your viciousness is justified…”
Sherrilyn Kenyon
Instinct
“You touch her, and I will take that dagger at your side and cut your heart out with it. (Julian)”
Sherrilyn Kenyon
Fantasy Lover
“You’re a wondering soul, looking for a peace that doesn’t exist. Lost you will be until you find the one inner truth. We can never hide from what we are. The only hope is to embrace it.’ (Old Seer)”
Sherrilyn Kenyon
Kiss of the Night
“You’re not worth the salt in my tears or the brain power it would take me to even conjure your face. (Aiden)”
Sherrilyn Kenyon
Upon the Midnight Clear
“You’re so hilarious. You know, if this whole Daimon-slaying gig doesn’t work out for you, you should really consider being a comedian. The bright Barney hair color would just add to the overall entertainment factor.”
Sherrilyn Kenyon
Inferno
“Your brother is a beslubbering, churlish, hell-governed princox, and I hope one day he gets the beating he deserves for it. (Maggie)”
Sherrilyn Kenyon
Claiming the Highlander
“Your Dark-Huntress, Danger, called for Acheron and since he’s busy, I was sent to check things out and report back to him on what’s happening. So here I am. Joy, oh joy of my life. (Alexion)”
Sherrilyn Kenyon
Sins of the Night
“Your destiny is shaped by choice, never by chance. Beware the decisions you make, no matter how small, for they will be your salvation…or your death.”
Sherrilyn Kenyon
Invincible
“You’re so afraid of being hurt that you attack first. Only those who really care about you will weather the assault of your verbal attacks and stay. The rest will fall away.”
Sherrilyn Kenyon
Born of Night
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