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Sherrilyn Kenyon is a bestselling US writer. Under her own name, she writes both urban fantasy and paranormal romance. She is best known for her Dark Hunter series. Under the pseudonym Kinley MacGregor she wrote historical fiction with paranormal elements. Kenyon's novels have an "international following" with over 70 million copies in print in over 100 countries. Under both names, her books have appeared at the top of the New York Times, Publishers Weekly, and USA Today lists, and they are frequent bestsellers in Germany, Australia, and the United Kingdom. Wikipedia  

✵ 11. December 1965
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Sherrilyn Kenyon Quotes

“The man may not be dead, but he was certainly stiff. And this hadto do with rigor mortis.”

Sherrilyn Kenyon book Night Pleasures

Source: Night Pleasures

“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.”

Sherrilyn Kenyon Night Embrace

Source: Night Embrace

“What do you do when Mom leaves you alone like this? (Kat)
I write romance novels. (Acheron)”

Sherrilyn Kenyon

Source: Devil May Cry

“So you're the infamous Acheron. (Amanda)
Lord and Master of the great barbarian horde that roams the night. (Acheron)”

Sherrilyn Kenyon book Night Pleasures

Source: Night Pleasures

“You have to learn to smile through your pain. Sometimes it’s all we got.”

Sherrilyn Kenyon

Source: Born of the Night

“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

Source: Dream Chaser

“Have you ever noticed that salvation, much like your car keys, is usually found where and when you least expect it? (Acheron)”

Sherrilyn Kenyon

Source: Kiss of the Night

“I will fear no evil for I am the baddest beast in the land. (Nick)”

Sherrilyn Kenyon

Source: Infinity

“Dude! Put a bell on. You don't walk up on a brother like that and scare the crap out of him. (Nick)
Sorry. Didn't realize you scared like a little girl. (Acheron)”

Sherrilyn Kenyon

Source: Invincible

“No one should have to pay for love in flesh or blood. (Acheron)”

Sherrilyn Kenyon

Source: Dark Side of the Moon

“But as the Roman playwright Terence once wrote, From many a bad beginning great friendships have formed”

Sherrilyn Kenyon

Source: Seize the Night

“Should I ask about the handcuffs? (Tate)
Not unless you want to live… otherwise if anyone asks, tell them I died of a heart attack during a wild sexcapade with her. (Kyrian)”

Sherrilyn Kenyon book Night Pleasures

Source: Night Pleasures

“Where are the cops when you need them? (Nick)
Probably eating beignets. As the old saying goes, when seconds count, the police are just minutes away. (Caleb)”

Sherrilyn Kenyon

Source: Infinity

“You will fail and I’ll dance on your grave. (Apollymi)”

Sherrilyn Kenyon

Acheron

“What are you? (Danger)
Well, had you listened before you stabbed me, you would have heard the ‘I’m Acheron’s Squire’ part. Apparently that somehow escaped your hearing and you mistook me for a pin cushion. (Alexion)”

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Source: Sins of the Night

“Come home with me, Acheron. I’ll make it well worth your while. (Artemis)
I have a headache. (Acheron)
You’ve had a headache for two hundred years! (Artemis)
And you’ve had PMS for eleven thousand. (Acheron)”

Sherrilyn Kenyon Night Embrace

Source: Night Embrace

“May you get exactly what you want and live long enough to regret it.”

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Source: Born of Shadows

“The only clothes Amanda has are the ones on her back. (Kyrian)
From what I saw, she had no clothes whatsoever on her back. Her front neither. (Nick)
One day, Gaitor bait… (Kyrian)
Note to self- be nice to woman, keep mouth shut. (Nick)”

Sherrilyn Kenyon book Night Pleasures

Source: Night Pleasures

“Stop a minute and listen. I know I'm asking the impossible from you, but for once in your life, shut your mouth and open your ears."

"I'm not the one talking."

Kyrian snarled at him. "Don't get smart with me."

"You want me stupid?"

"Nick….”

Sherrilyn Kenyon

Source: Invincible

“A flower can't grow without rain. (Alexion)
Too much rain and it drowns. (Danger)
And yet the most beautiful of the lotus flowers are the ones that grow in the deepest mud. (Alexion)”

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Source: Sins of the Night

“I don’t even know what to say to you. (Acheron)
Me, either. I guess we’ll just stand here and cry at each other, huh? (Kat)”

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Source: Devil May Cry

“What the matter, Zarek? You afraid to die? (Thanatos)
Dying’s easy. It’s living that’s hard. (Zarek)”

Sherrilyn Kenyon book Dance with the Devil

Source: Dance with the Devil

“Should I warm the oven and bake you a batch of hero cookies? - Zephyra”

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Source: One Silent Night

“Are you up? Dressing? (Astrid)
No. I’m pissing on your rug. What do you think I’m doing? (Zarek)
I’m blind. For all I know you really are peeing on my rug, which is a very nice rug incidentally, so I hope you’re kidding. (Astrid)”

Sherrilyn Kenyon book Dance with the Devil

Source: Dance with the Devil

“Without a word or hesitation, Pain took the mop from Nick. Suffering moved to pick up glass.
"Wow. Where have you two been all my life?"
Pain quirked and eyebrow as he mopped the floor.
"Walking hand in hand with you. Haven't you noticed?”

Sherrilyn Kenyon

Source: Invincible

“Don't worry, Otto. I'm an acquired taste. Most of my best friends had to know me for years before they could even stand my presence. I'm like mold, I usually grow on you very slowly. (Tabitha)”

Sherrilyn Kenyon

Variant: she said with a smile. "I'm an acquired taste. Most of my best friends had to
know me for years before they could even stand my presence. I'm like mold, I usually grow on you very
slowly.
Source: Seize the Night

“Cause I’m gonna put my foot so far up their butts they’re going to burp shoe leather. (Nick)”

Sherrilyn Kenyon

Source: Infinity

“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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Source: Acheron

“Please nothing, she’s a vicious piranha. She looks all cute and cuddly, then she opens that mouth and lets loose so much venom she could double as a nest of scorpions. (Leo)”

Sherrilyn Kenyon

Source: Dark Side of the Moon

“And not a single mark on the Lamborghini. Ha! Eat steel, you soul-sucking bastards! (Kyrian)”

Sherrilyn Kenyon book Night Pleasures

Source: Night Pleasures

“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 book Night Pleasures

Source: Night Pleasures

“Aimee-"If someone's possessed by a demon, how do you get the demon out?"
Xedrix-"Call a priest.”

Sherrilyn Kenyon

Source: Bad Moon Rising

“You’re not a morning person, are you? (Simone)
I’m a Dream-Hunter/demon. By my very nature I’m nocturnal. That big yellow ball in the sky offends me to the very core of my being. (Xypher)”

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Source: Dream Chaser

“Didn't I tell you not to touch the Lamborghini? (Kyrian)
(Hunter groused an instant before he cut the wheel and sent the vampire flying through the air.)
And they told me you guys couldn't fly. (Kyrian)”

Sherrilyn Kenyon book Night Pleasures

Source: Night Pleasures

“But, Bubba? Aren’t you and Mark friends? (Nick)
Ah, hell no. Mark’s not my friend, he’s my minion. (Bubba)”

Sherrilyn Kenyon

Source: Infinity

“I say we should stake him to an anthill and throw little pickles at him! (Selena)”

Sherrilyn Kenyon book Night Pleasures

Source: Night Pleasures

“Life is pain. Anyone who says differently is selling something.”

Sherrilyn Kenyon

Source: Infamous

“Do me a favor."

"Don't lick your seat belt?"

Ash's expression was total confusion. "Huh? where did that randomness come from?”

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Source: Invincible

“Someone else has to be disseminating it. (Mark)
Dis-a what? (Nick)
Disseminating. It means distributing it. (Mark)
Then why didn’t you say that? (Nick)
Remind me to get him a word-of-the-day calendar. (Mark)”

Sherrilyn Kenyon

Source: Infinity

“It's not your fault. You had no way of knowing I'd traded my soul. It's not exactly how I start out conversations. Hi, I'm Kyrian. I have no soul. What about you? (Kyrian)”

Sherrilyn Kenyon book Night Pleasures

Source: Night Pleasures

“(She grabbed him for a bear hug.)
Stop sexually harassing me, Mom. (Nick)”

Sherrilyn Kenyon

Source: Infinity

“Nah. I got it. Just try not to stake Jean-Luc again if you meet up with him. (Acheron)
I can’t help it. All you fanged people look alike in the dark. (Tabitha)
Yeah. I know what you mean. All you soul-full people look alike to us, too. (Acheron)”

Sherrilyn Kenyon

Source: Seize the Night

“What are you? (Zarek)
I’m a nymph. (Astrid)
I hope you just left an important syllable off that word, princess. (Zarek)”

Sherrilyn Kenyon book Dance with the Devil

Source: Dance with the Devil

“Life's not easy for anyone. Everyone has scars they're afraid to show and we all get slammed headfirst into a proverbial locker from time to time by someone bigger and badder.”

Sherrilyn Kenyon

Source: Infinity

“What happened to cause the jail fight? (Maggie)
They thought it would be fun to knock around the ‘kid’ and show off their manhood. I thought it would be fun to knock a couple of them unconscious. (Wren)”

Sherrilyn Kenyon

Source: Unleash the Night

“And if wishes were horses, I’d have been run over in childhood.”

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Source: Acheron

“I just want to be warm. Just once let me be warm. Is there no star capable of sharing its fire with me? (Zarek)”

Sherrilyn Kenyon book Dance with the Devil

Source: Dance with the Devil

“You know, I really hate Romans, but I have to say their descendants make one fine automobile. (Kyrian)”

Sherrilyn Kenyon book Night Pleasures

Source: Night Pleasures

“There's only so many times you can kick a dog before it turns viscous. (Julian)”

Sherrilyn Kenyon Fantasy Lover

Variant: There were only so many kicks a dog could take before it turned vicious.’ (Acheron)
Source: Fantasy Lover