J.R. Ward
Some things are destined to be -- it just takes us a couple of tries to get there.Collection: Couple
I have no words,” he said hoarsely. “And I know exactly what you’re telling me.” Lover UnleashedCollection: Lovers
I was dead until you found me, though I breathed. I was sightless, though I could see. And then you came...and I was awakened.Collection: Zsadist
Welcome to the wonderful world of jealousy, he thought. For the price of admission, you get a splitting headache, a nearly irresistable urge to commit murder, and an inferiority complex. Yippee.Collection: Love
You're looking at that chick like you want to roll her up in a taco and put your hot sauce all over her.Collection: Want
Some bridges you crossed on your own, no matter who drove you to the edgeCollection: Bridges
As much as we have free choice, absolute destiny is immutable. What is meant to happen does, through one measure or another.Collection: Destiny
For him , life was a coin that had disaster on one side and waiting for disaster on the otherCollection: Waiting
There came a time in everyone’s life when they realized that in spite of how hard they’d been running from themselves, everywhere they went, there they were: Addictions and compulsions were nothing but marching bands of distraction, masking truths that were unpleasant, but ultimately undeniable.Collection: Running
You asked me to speak. If this is a problem, the solution is not to get defensive because you don't like what you hear. The answer is to not invite me to talk." iAm ~ Lover At LastCollection: Answers
Souls were the same. They, too, had useless baggage that impeded their proper performance, these annoying, holier-than-thou bits dangling like an appendix waiting for infection. Faith and hope and love...prudence, temperance, justice, and fortitude...all this useless clutter just packed too much damn morality into the heart, getting in the way of the soul's innate desire for malignancy.Collection: Love
My twin's not broken. He's ruined. Do you understand the difference? With broken maybe you can fix him. Ruined? All you can do is wait to bury him.Collection: Differences
Falling into ruin was a bit like falling in love: Both descents stripped you bare and left you as you were at your core. And both endings are equally painful.Collection: Falling In Love
I’m on the benevolent side of antisocial. I don’t mind people, but I’d prefer not to have a lot of them around.Collection: People
Love can conquer everything but reality. Which will win every stinking time.Collection: Winning
When you were young, you thought time was a burden, something to be discharged as fast as possible so you could be grown-up. But it was such a bait-n-switch – when you were an adult, you came to realize that minutes and hours were the single most precious thing you had.Collection: Bait
From one king to another, know that I'm giving you the middle finger right now." And he was, with a smile.Collection: Kings
Hey, no offense, but do you mind if you put both your palms where I can see ’em?Collection: Mind
You are so beautiful, he mouthed. But of course she couldn’t see his lips. Guess he was going to have to show her.Collection: Beautiful
Bad deeds like beauty, are in the eye of the beholder.Collection: Eye
Bye-bye, Elan. P.S., Next time you implicate someone falsely, try to pick a pacifist.Collection: Bye
And bottom line, without John by her side, everything seemed to be just a big, resounding meh.Collection: Lines
...He palmed up the life Alert. Death Alert was more like it: Help, I haven't fallen and I'm standing up-can you come and rectify this problem? - IsaacCollection: Helping
Fine, dandy, she thought. Then lose the shirt, peel off those leather pants, and lie down on my tile. We'll take turns being on the bottom.Collection: Lying
Mary frowned. A vampire doctor. Talk about exploring your alternative therapies.Collection: Doctors
The look in Manny´s eye was the ocular equivalent of a middle finger.Collection: Eye
You want to poof it or ride back with me?Collection: Want
Are you wet for me, Mary? I think you are. I think you're covered with honey.Collection: Thinking
Unfortunately, beer was only a short-term answer. And head transplants had yet to be approved by the FDA.Collection: Beer
It was a universal truth among males that anytime you saw a guy get it in the nuts, you experienced a shot of phantom pain in your own croquet set.Collection: Pain
I would do anything for you. Anything." With that, he pushed his way out...and as the door eased shut, she realized that I love you could indeed be said without actually uttering the phrase. Actions did mean more than words.Collection: Love You
He tasted each one of them. The raw power and majesty of Wrath. The vast strength of Rhage. The burning, protective loyalty of Phury. The cold savagery of Zsadist. The sharp cunning of Vishous.Collection: Loyalty
Nothing bubbled up from the depths. For once, the present was so alive and captivating that the past was not even an echo or a shadow-she was, in this moment, wiped clean.Collection: Past
Word of advice. These have a kick, so don’t suck too hard—” Holy hypoxia, Batman.Collection: Advice
Man, that did his ego good. Matter of fact, she hit him with anything like that again, he was going to feel like he could bench-press a city bus. With a jet plane on its roof.Collection: Men
Wow," she breathed. "I know, right? Hung like a horse." "If you're really nice-and you live through this-I'll promise not to tell V." "About my size." She laughed a little, "No, that you assumed I'd look at you in any fashion other than professionally.Collection: Fashion
Lassiter came in alone, likely because Doc Jane had returned to the Pit. And the angel was naked as a jaybird… and just frickin’ fine. No bullet holes, no scars, no contusions. “You keep looking at me like that and you’d better buy me dinner afterward.Collection: Angel
His thumb went back and forth over the satin, as if he were rubbing her hip as he had when they'd been together, and he moved his leg over so that it was on top of the skirting. It wasn't the same, though. There was no body underneath, and the fabric smelled like lemons, not her skin. And he was, after all, alone in this room that was not theirs. "God, I miss you," he said in a voice that cracked. "Every night. Every day.Collection: Night
No Last Meal for you guys, either. Guess we have that in common.” Someone bust out the pom-poms and cheer for the team. Yay.Collection: Cheer
This was the gift of recovery, he thought. The ability to be here in this moment with the female he loved and be fully aware, fully awake, fully present. Undiluted.Collection: Recovery
United by their clasped hands, they became again the two halves, the light and the dark. The Destroyer and the Savior. A whole.Collection: Dark
He didn't say anything. Didn't try any of the hugging bullshit, either, which was just as well. Instead, he placed a wooden case next to Tohr on the bed, exhaled some Turkish smoke, and went back for the exit like he couldn't wait to get out of the room. Except he stopped before he left, "I gotchu, my brother," he said to the door. "I know, V. You always have. ~Vishous and Tohrment Lover RebornCollection: Brother
May I take your vein for a moment? I find myself... curiously depleted" Okay, right. Talk about your Johnny-on-the-spots: He locked them in and all but tore off his arm and threw it at her.Collection: Veins
It was a universal truth among males that anytime you saw a guy get it in the nuts, you experienced a shot of phantom pain in your own croquet set. As Lassiter crouched beside the Brother’s pretzel of a body, he was feeling a little nauseous himself, and he took a moment to cup what hung between his legs—just to reassure the boys downstairs that however much of an iconoclast he was, some things were sacred.Collection: Brother
Often people with fine countenances and fit bodies were mistakenly assumed by others to have the brains to match.Collection: People
You are so . . . odd." "I shall take that as a compliment." -Thor to No'OneCollection: Compliment
You are the male I might have been. You are the potential I had and lost. You are the honor and the strength and the kindness she needs. You'll take care of her. I want you to take care of her.Collection: Kindness
For f*ck's sake, get off the cross. Someone else needs the wood" ~ZsadistCollection: Needs
Man, some open doors were not welcoming, and that was so the case here—less hi-how’re-ya, more come-in-so-your-skin-can-be-used-to-make-a-super-hero-cape-for-one-of-Hannibal-Lecter’s-patients.Collection: Hero
The weight of the dead was heavier than the pounds of the body.Collection: Weight