Jessica Bird Quotes page 2

“Fuckin' A… hope didn't so much spring eternal as it drowned out common sense and self-preservation.”

Source: Lover Unbound

“From one king to another, know that I'm giving you the middle finger right now." And he was, with a smile.”

Source: Lover Mine

“It had been so good to see his enemy again. Positively heartwarming.

Hallmark really needed to start up a line of revenge cards, the kind that let you reach out to those you were going to come after with a vengeance.

- Lash”

Source: Lover Reborn

“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.”

Source: Lover Enshrined

“If you're going to insist on being reasonable, I'm going to stop hanging with you.”

Source: Lover Eternal

“She was glad she didn’t know where it would take her. Because sometimes the only thing that
got you through hell was that you were in too deep to pull out.

[Ehlena]”

Source: Lover Unbound

“If you eliminate all possible explanations, then the impossible is the answer.”

Source: Lover Avenged

“V?" Butch said. "Don't leave, okay?"
"Never." V brushed Butch's hair back with a gesture so tender it was out of place coming from a male.”

Source: Lover Unbound

Jessica Bird book Lover Revealed

Source: Lover Revealed

“All right, then, her first rule for the rest of her days: no more looking outside for definitions. She might not have any clue who she was, but better to be lost and searching than shoved into a social box by someone else.”

Jessica Bird book Lover Revealed

Source: Lover Revealed

“You are perfect for a female."
"Not where I come from."
"Then they're using the wrong standard.”

“You would have made a fine warrior, you know that?"

I am one. Death is my enemy."

Yeah, it is, isn't it." God, it made such sense that he'd bonded with her. She was a fighter… like him. "Your scalpel's your dagger."

Yup.”

Source: Lover Unleashed

“Life was short, no matter how many days you were granted. And people were precious, each and every one, no matter how many you were lucky enough to have in your life. And love… love was worth dying for.
Worth living for, too. -Tohrment”

Source: Lover Unbound

“There was pain, and then there was PAIN. This was-Vishous”

Source: Lover Reborn

“No matter what you wear… to me, you will always have diamonds on the soles of your shoes.”

Source: Lover Unleashed

“he wanted to say. And not “we” as in the Brotherhood.

Not even “we” as in he and John.

More like … “me”.”

Source: Lover Avenged

“I am very comfortable with conflict, be it of the legal or mortal kind. My father was a mediator, a bridge maker. I am a grave maker.”

Source: Lover Reborn

“What happened to you?" she asked.
"I got hit in the side."
"With what?"
"A knife.”

Source: Lover at Last

“As always, Blay was the anchor who kept him from being swept away.”

Source: Lover Awakened

“Now tell me something. What’s your word for husband?”
“Hellren, I suppose. The short version is just hell.”
She laughed softly. “Go figure.”

Source: Lover Reborn

“You're not half the male you could be because of what was done to you. You're twice what anyone else is because you survived.”

Source: Dark Lover

Source: Lover Mine

“Qhuinn wanted to say”

“Butch nodded as if he knew exactly what was doing. "Like I said, my man, it's whatever. You and me? Same as always, no matter who you screw. Although… if you're into sheep, that would be tough. Don't know if I could handle that.”

Variant: Qhuinn wanted to scream... Yes he has!!!
Source: Lover Reborn

“She nodded, wondering why couldn't she have been named Mary. Or Sue.
But no, she had to be nine-letter Elizabeth.”

Source: Lover Unbound

“Whether you have sight or not, I see the future in your eyes." -Beth”

Source: Dark Lover

“Just once" Blay said softly. "Do it just once. So I'll know what it's like.”

Source: Lover Avenged

“Will you get off me!"
"But I'm giving you CPR-"
"I will die before kissing you, Hollywood." Z tried to sit up, his breathing heavy.
"Don't even think about it.”

Source: Lover Mine

“Sometimes the only way to know how far you'd come was to return to where you once had been.”

Source: Lover at Last

“I'm not broken, I'm ruined. Do you understand the difference? With broken maybe you can fix things. Ruined? All you can do is wait to bury me.”

Source: Lover Unleashed

“I am barren of words. For no sounds from my mouth are worthy of your hearing”

Source: Lover Awakened

“I'm an angel not a frickin' saint.”

Source: Lover Eternal

Jessica Bird book Covet

Source: Covet

“The guy stroked his goatee. "What do you call twenty guys watching the world series?"
"The New York Yankees," Butch replied.”

“Sometimes the only thing that got you through hell was that you were in too deep to pull out”

Source: Dark Lover

“And it was because of their long history that he searched for something to say, something that would get them back to where they had been.

All that came to him was…”

Variant: Because sometimes the only thing that got you through hell was that you were in too deep to pull out.
Source: Lover Avenged

“Love, after all, was universal. Qhuinn closed his fist up tight, and knew he would never, ever take that ring off. “Always,” Blay murmured. “Because family is an always kind of thing.”

Source: Lover Mine

“You're looking at that chick like you want to roll her up in a taco and put your hot sauce all over her.”

Source: Lover at Last

“For him, life was a coin that had disaster on one side and waiting for disaster on the other”

Source: Lover Avenged

“Next time you think of me like that, say my name when you come. It'll get you off even better.”

Source: Lover Enshrined

“You never realized how thick your fog was until it lifted.”

Source: Lover Enshrined

“V chuckled. "I had to do something to shut you up. Every damn time I've run into you since I grew it, you ask me if I've French-kissed a tailpipe."

(Rhage)”

Source: Lover Reborn

“Blay was the closest thing to an angel Qhuinn had ever come near.”

Source: Lover Eternal

“Undeterred by his lack of enthusiasm, she leaned forward, flashing him a set of breasts that didn't so much defy gravity as flip it off, insult its mother, and piss on its shoes.”

Source: Lover Enshrined

“How sweetly he came to her, she thought. Even with his bulk and power, he came to her… sweetly.”

Source: Lover Unleashed

“All kings are blind. The good ones see this and use more than their eyes to lead.”

Source: Lover Awakened

“Quick question. Does this magical skill with gray matter come with a total lack of compunction for your kind, or is it just you who were born without a conscience?

V: I beg your pardon?”

Source: Lover Avenged

“You've got nothing to worry about. The righteous do not always right, but their souls remain pure. -Lassiter the Angel”

Source: Lover Unbound

Source: Lover Enshrined

“Mary thought.”

“Being with Mary was different because… he wasn't the only one who wanted to make love to her.
The beast wanted her, too.
The beast wanted out so it could take her.”

Source: Lover Eternal

“Thank you for caring for my brother."
He took his sunglasses off.
And looked at her with total adoration.”

Source: Lover Eternal

“I lived for the night, because I could go over to your house. It was the only thing that kept me going. You were the only thing, actually. It was… you.”

Source: Dark Lover