Chloe Neill

if you can__ make a joke at a time like this, what__ the point of living?

I'm working from the assumption it's going to go horribly wrong. If we get out of here with limbs intact and no aspen slivers in uncomfortable places, we're calling it a win."Merit/Jonah

I wanted what most people wanted__ove, companionship.I wanted someone to touch. I wanted someone to touch me back.I wanted someone to laugh with, someone who would laugh with me, laugh at me.I wanted someone who looked and sawme . Not my power, not my position.I wanted someone to say my name. To call out, __erit,_ when it was time to go, or when we arrived.Someone who wanted to say to someone else, with pride, ____ here with her. With Merit.__ wanted all those things. Indivisibly.But I didn__ want them from Morgan.

I asked "What do you even do with a chimera?""What wouldn't you do with a chimera?" Jeff asked. "They're like the Swiss Army knife of animals.

But I'll admit that he's kind of offensively delicious" "Like salt and vinegar potato chips" "Exactly

Top Gun,_ I whispered to Lindsey. We__ started pointing out Luc__ ubiquitous pop culture references, having decided that because he cut his fangs in the Wild West, he__ been entranced by movies and television. You know, because living in a society of magically enhanced vampires didn__ require enough willing suspension of disbelief.-Merit in Chloe Neill__ Friday Night Bites

Seriously, I__ totally weirded out by the girly nature of this conversation. And yet, it__ kinda like you__e growing up. Do you think Judy Blume made a book about adolescent vampires? Are You There God, It__ Me, Merit?_ Mallory snorted, obviously pleased with herself.

You undo me, Merit. Wholly and completely. You don't take me at my word. You challenge me at every opportunity. And that means when I'm with you, I am less than the head of this House...and I am more than the head of this House. I am a man." He stroked my cheeks with his thumbs. "In my very, very long life, I need you more than I have ever needed anything.

Words have power? That sounds like you're into some Harry Potter juju.

I knew the point wasn__ the victory, but pulling yourself together and crawling your way back. That was life.

Snug pants, bandeau-type corset, and trim, motorcycle jacket. It was a fabulous outfit, but it was so urban-fantasy book cover

If it was appropriate to judge a person based on her footwear - and it obviously was - I decided I liked her immediately.

His lips so soft, yet so stern, he pressed his mouth to mine. "I will have both of you," he said. "My Sentinel and my city. And the GP will learn exactly how stubborn we both can be.

There are those among us who have erred, deeply and significantly. Who have wounded the world and broken themselves. The worst of them lose themselves in their errors. The best of them crawl back, one foot at a time, and seek to amend their breaches. That is the way of the brave.

Some minutes or hours or days later, when I lay boneless and well satisfied, Ethan raised his gaze to mine again. His eyes were silver, his fangs descended. "There is no going back," he said, "Not after this.