Archangel's Kiss - Nalini Singh

Quotes

:::Nalini Singh, Archangel’s Kiss:::

• “Reason without emotion is often a mask for cruelty; emotion without reason can allow people to excuse all sorts of excesses.”
• “They didn't understand that she held his heart, held it so utterly that there was nothing he wouldn't do, no line he wouldn't cross to keep her safe.”
• “Tell me something, Raphael?”
  He was already turning, heading to the door. "What is it you'd like to know, Guild Hunter?”
  She hid her smile at his slip. "What do I call you? Husband? Mate? Boyfriend?”
  Stopping with his hand on the doorknob, he shot her an inscrutable look. "You can call me 'Master'.”
• “Are your eyelashes like your hair?”
  “Yes. They’re very beautiful—want to see?”
  Her lips twitched. “Vanity is a sin, Bluebell.”
  “When you have it, flaunt it, I say.”
• “Love, he thought as he held her to his heart, was an agony beyond compare.”
• “Venom’s pupils contracted the instant before he slid his sunglasses back on.
  She couldn’t help it. “Why isn’t your tongue forked?”
  “Why can’t you fly?” A smirk. “Those things on your back aren’t accessories you know.”
• “The longer you live, the more mistakes you make. And the more sorrows you carry.”
• “Do you think you have the right to give me orders now?”
  The Archangel of New York, a creature so lethal that part of her feared him even now, lifted the hair off her nape, brushed his lips across her skin. "Of course. You are mine." No hint of humor, nothing but stark possession.
  "I don't think you've quite got the hang of this true love thing.
• “Fathers and mothers,” she found herself saying, “leave their mark, no matter if we’ve known them a lifetime or only a day.”
• “Sometimes, the scars are what make us who we are.”