Maya Banks
You hold your head up. You submitting to me doesn't mean you're anything less...the very last thing I want is for you to be some mindless puppet.Collection: Mean
You have more power, more control than you could possibly imagine. My heart is in your hands. That's not bullshit. I'm not saying stuff I think you want to hear in order to manipulate you. I can't be any more honest than this. I'm yours, baby. I'm putting it out there. My heart, my soul, it all belongs to you.Collection: Baby
Bad things happen to good people all the time. It sucks. It's not fair but then much of life isn't fair. It's how you live that matters. It's how you deal with the bumps in the road.Collection: Hard Times
Words are just words. The evidence is in how you act, how you react.Collection: Breathless
She wanted happily ever after more than he could possibly know. She wanted forever. Problem was, she just wasn’t sure she believed in it anymore. It was why she clung to her fiction so much. She immersed herself in books because there she could be anyone and it was easy to believe in love and happily ever afterCollection: Believe
When a woman submits to a man, it's the most precious gift she can give. Herself. Unreservedly. The man has to respect and honor that gift above all else. Even if he respects nothing else in the world, he must respect the woman in his care. It's his sworn duty to protect, honor and cherish his submissive. To take care of her and provide a safe haven. Someone who would put his own needs above his woman's is no man.Collection: Safe Haven
You can't control everything. You can't control how someone feels about you. Or what makes them tick. You can only control how you react, how you act, how you think and feel.Collection: Thinking
Most of all, I want you to know without a doubt that I've got your back. And your front. And your sides. I've got all of you and I'm not letting go.Collection: Letting Go
Men love a submissive woman, Damon said simply. Even when they say the don't. There's just something about a beautiful, soft woman looking to them to protect and take care of them that inspires a man to greatness.Collection: Beautiful
I don't deserve your love or your shine, but I want it because with you I can feel the sun. I don't want to go back to those shadows.Collection: Shining
Women were supposed to be the enigmas, but men? Moody, brooding bastards, the lot of them. A woman with PMS had nothing on a man. Where women might get hormonal once a month, men suffered their own brand of PMS on a daily basis. - FaithCollection: Men
I'm not stubborn. My way is just better.Collection: Stubborn
Maybe I didn't always know what I was missing, but it was you. Always you.Collection: Missing
Some crushes just never went away. They built, instead, into something permanent, obsessive and all consuming.Collection: Crush
Girlfriends' code. What's discussed with girlfriends stays with girlfriends.Collection: Girlfriend
I'm getting the impression that women, in any form, scare you." He shrugged. "They're the more violent species. And unpredictable. I'd rather take on a wild boar. You can't shoot women.Collection: Scare
You’re my dream, Alaric McCabe. And I love you. I’ve loved you from the moment your horse dumped you at my cottage. I spent so much time being resentful and lamenting the circumstances of my life, but ’tis true that I wouldn’t change a single thing because then I would have never known your love.Collection: Dream
Sometimes forgiveness is the hardest thing to give, but the most cherished thing to receive.Collection: Giving
You need to worry less about what everyone else thinks and focus on what makes you happyCollection: Thinking
I'm so exhausted and yet I feel like I'll never sleep again.Collection: Sleep
I cannot allow another man to take what I already consider mine.Collection: Men
No other man will have youCollection: Men
Never be afraid to tell me anything,” he whispered against her hair. “No matter how ashamed you might feel. I’ll never judge you, Rachel. I love you.Collection: Love You
My attitude is born out of necessity. I've made mistakes. I've made decisions I regretted. I know what it's like to live with regret. I live with it everyday. But if I let it take over, I'd never get out of bed in the morning.Collection: Morning
Impulsively, she leaned across the truck and kissed him on the cheek. He glanced over in surprise when she pulled away, but pleasure glowed in his eyes. "What was that for?" "Just seemed like the thing to do," she said. "Well, feel free to do it more often," he encouraged. "I assure you I won't mind.Collection: Eye
His gaze narrowed and she could see his hands twitching again like he’d love nothing more than to throttle her. She was beginning to think it was an affliction of his. Did he go around wanting to choke the life out of everyone or was she special in that regard? “I’m afraid ’tis an urge that is entirely original to you,” the laird barked. She clamped her mouth shut and closed her eyes. Mother Serenity had vowed one day Mairin would regret her propensity to blurt out her least little thought. Today just might be that day.Collection: Mother
No. I don’t regret it. It wasn’t the right thing to do, but I don’t regret it. - ToniCollection: Regret
Nothing good is ever easy. Or worth it.Collection: Easy
There were worse things than death, as she'd discovered. Sometimes living took far more courage. Facing another day. Enduring. Those things took strength. Far more than dying.Collection: Dying
He was better than any drug, any remedy for her illness.Collection: Drug
I want babies too," he said huskily. "Daughters as beautiful as you are.Collection: Beautiful
He’d never get over her. He knew that without hesitation or doubt. He loved her. As deeply as it was possible to love another person. And God, he wanted her. Every day. In hit life. As much a part of him as he would be of her.Collection: Doubt
Is there something wrong?” he asked. She gave a short negative motion with her head. And then words, so sweet, like a cool northern breeze blowing off the lake. “You could hold me now.” It was almost his undoing. “Ah baby.Collection: Baby
You'll call me Damon. I see no need for dramatic titles. I, on the other hand will call you beautiful, lover, mine. I'll call you mine." (Damon to Serena)Collection: Beautiful
I've always wanted to be psychoanalyzed in a den of iniquity.Collection: Dens
If you don’t stay away from her I’ll rearrange that pretty face of yours. - SimonCollection: Faces
Whoa, wait a minute, Coletrane. Are you proposing to me?” “Well I would if you’d let me finish,” he grumbled.Collection: Waiting
Fantasies were safe. It was a break from reality. A chance to act on desires for a short period of time.Collection: Reality
He inhaled her scent, uncaring of the blood and dirt and grime that permeated her hair and clothing. He was holding her. Finally holding her. “You’re real. You’re real.” She pulled away, looked up at him, the same answering emotion shining in her blue eyes. With a groan, he lowered his mouth to hers. He couldn’t hold back. Nothing in the world would have kept him from kissing her in that moment. He was overcome.Collection: Real
Promise me, man. If anything ever happens to me, promise me you'll take care of Angelina. She's something special, Micah. Heart way too big for her own good. I worry because she doesn't see everyone for who they are. She's too busy looking for the good. I've tried to get her to adopt some cynicism, but the truth of the matter is, she wouldn't be the same girl if she did.Collection: Girl
I want him to burn for me, to not be able to go a day without touching me, holding me, caressing me. He'll be an excellent lover. I want a man who knows how to please me.Collection: Men
I’ll have your fathers make something special,” Holly said serenely. “If it turns out we don’t like him, I’ll cook the next meal for him.Collection: Father
How do you maybe hit someone?” Michael drawled. “Okay, so I decked him. At the time he deserved it.Collection: Okay
Said to Mairin; "There's little decency to good loving" Maddie said. "If 'tis decent, it isn't much fun"!Collection: Fun
Sophie, honey, stop looking at me like that,” Garrett said gruffly. “You’ll have me convinced I’m going to die.” “You’re not?Collection: Sophie
Here we are, a man and a woman, both wanting the same things, and yet, you aren’t attracted to me.Collection: Men
What are the two of you whispering about?” Alaric demanded irritably. She glanced over to see the warrior watching her, his eyes narrow with suspicion. “If I wanted you to know, I’d have spoken louder,” she said calmly. He turned away muttering what she was sure were more blasphemies about annoying females. “You must make the priest weary with the length of your confessions,” she said. He raised one eyebrow. “Who says I confess anything?Collection: Eye
She laid her head against his collarbone, and he kissed her temple. To her shock, she felt a shudder roll through his body about the same time she registered wetness against her skin. Tears. His tears. She started to turn around, but he tightened his grip. “Stay,” he said in a choked voice. “Just let me hold you, baby. Just let me hold you.Collection: Baby
Perhaps I’m tired of waiting for something I may never find.Collection: Tired
One song bled into another and they remained locked together, neither willing to break the intimacy that surrounded them, concealing them in the small space the two occupied.Collection: Song