Christine Feehan citations

“And maybe that was love. Being so vulnerable and allowing someone else in so far they could hurt you, but they also give you everything.”

“Life gives us choices. You either grab on with both hands and just go for it, or you sit on the sidelines.”

“The trouble is not really in being alone, it's being lonely. One can be lonely in the midst of a crowd, don't you think?”

“Betrayal is never easy to handle and there is no right way to accept it.”

“Don't cater to stupidity.”

“She is like the wind, open and free. If I cage the wind, would it die?
-Then don't cage it, Mikhail. Trust it to stay beside you.”

“Wolves? I should have known. Of course you have wolves. Doesn’t everybody?” She snapped her fingers. “The gun, Lucian. Hand it over. I’ve decided I have to shoot you after all. It’s the only way to preserve my sanity.”

“Someone needs to drag you kicking and screaming into this century.”

“The real question is, can you love the real me? Not the perfect person you want me to be, not that image you had of me, but who I really am.”

“It’s hard to feel desire when you don’t feel desirable”

“I killed Freddie the vamp like twenty times, but he wouldn't die.
--Natalya Shonski”

“You're the kind of man my mother warned me about.”

“You can't turn the sheriff into a toad, Hannah. It's against the rules.”

“If what he said was the truth, it broke her heart. If what he said was a lie, it was broken anyway.”

“She didn't know how to love, to give herself to someone, to out herself in someone else's keeping and take him into hers. She didn't trust anyone with her heart - or the darker places of her soul.”

“I’m quite capable of walking,” she pointed out.
It is faster this way. Your legs are short.”
They are not!”

“Mikhail?… Try making suggestions next time, or just plain asking. You go do whatever it is you're doing, and I'll go search you extensive library for a book on manners.
-You will not find it.
-Why am I not surprised?”

“They called each other family and that’s what they were—sisters. Many people in the world had family of the heart, kin by choice rather than by blood, and hers had come along in her darkest hour and saved her life.”

“Trust. Such an easy word. Such an impossible quality.”

“Of course I can do this. I'm pregnant, not brain-damaged. My condition doesn't change my personality.”

“I'm an observer. I read about life. I research life. I find a corner in a room and melt into it. I can become invisible. It's an art, and I am a wonderful practitioner.”

“Are you ever going to kiss me without swearing first?”

“Maybe you are already lost and just do not know it.”

“Do you have any idea how stubborn you can look? Our children better never give me that look, althought I won't mind if they give it to you. You'd deserve it.”

“The minute I'm in a little pain… your rough, tough, scary bad boy image totally falls apart.”

“It's all well and good to look back after the fact and see what we should have done, but we rarely know what path is best when we take that first step.”

“I'll be damned if I apologize for the choices I've made. They were hard decisions, but I had good reasons for making them.”

“We never can just stop time. Or take moments back. Life doesn't work that way, does it?”

“Don't worry, now that I know about your little ego problem, I'll do my best to look all gushy when you pound you chest.”