Jessica Bird citations

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“Zsadist: I didn't make up the rules of this scenario
Wrath: You'll die if you go by yourself.
Zsadist: Well… I'm kind of ready to get off the ride.
Phury felt his skin get tight all over.”

“I’m talking to you more than I speak with my mahmen.”
“I thought your mother was dead.”
“She is.”
“You have a very low standard for communication.”

“Man, you cannot be real," the human said softly.
"Why not?"
"You just can't."
She laughed a little. "Well, I am." He cleared his throat again. Offered her a lopsided grin.
"Mind if I ask you to prove it?"
"How?"
"Can I touch your hair?”

“That scent she threw off was not anything by Chanel. Unless they’d recently added a Tragedy line.”

“When she didn't say anything more, he frowned, thinking this was the pair of them in a nutshell: Standing three feet away from each other and being separated by miles.”

“Still, it would have been great, just once, to have a man stare at her with total adoration. To have him be… enthralled. Yes, that was the word. She would have loved for a man to be enthralled by her.”

“I didn't know it would be black," she murmured with a little smile.
Horror flooded his face. "Oh, Christ!”

“… but her eyes had had too much in them and his heart way too little for things to keep going.”

“What… are you?" she choked out.

"No sunlight. Funky choppers." he inhaled raggedly. "Take a guess.”

“What's doing?”

“Hello, Doctor. It's your man.”

“Bye-bye, Elan. P. S., Next time you implicate someone falsely, try to pick a pacifist.”

“You’re like your,” he whispered. “You make the world go away for me”

“good call. A second drag and your next stop's the wastepaper basket - and not to toss your kleenex, true.”

“Without his mate to share his life, he was but a screen for events and circumstances to pass through. He was npt even empty, for he was no vessel to hold even the thinnest of air.
He lived, though was not truly alive”

“And mortal terror in a female was Z's favorite turn-on. He got off on it like most males favored crap from Victoria's Secret.”

“Strong relationships are not rocked by a truth that is grounded by resolute monogamy.”

“Word of advice. These have a kick, so don’t suck too hard—”
Holy hypoxia, Batman.”

“Because when I looked at you across that table at the diner, no one else existed. And whether or not anything happens between you and me, it took meeting you to show me what I was missing.”

“He was having an illicit affair… with his own mate.”

“Her bra was cotton and white and, bless its little frickin´ heart, had a front clasp.”

“And bottom line, without John by her side, everything seemed to be just a big, resounding meh.”

“And I'm full aware of how much you don't like me at this moment"

Can't be a new thing for you" Jim said”

“She is . . . the moon in my night sky. And that is the beginning, middle, and end of it. There is no more to be told than that, and never shall I speak of her again.”

“I love you. It was the tie that bound, even across the divides of death and time.”

“That human, he's a lesser waiting to happen, in my opinion--nothing less, nothing more”

“He didn’t even know what it was, Vishous.”
“The tux?” V lit a hand-rolled.
“Of course he didn’t. He’s a real male.”

“Butch didn't live in his own place. He didn't spend his own money. He had no job, no future. He was a well-kept pet, not a man.”

“The Brotherhood was strong, a unit. a powerful force in their world for good. And so too were the females. Strong. A unit. A powerful force for good in their world.”