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As A Child, He Had Hardened His Heart And Learned To Take Their Punches. He Had Learned To Spit Back And Take Down Anyone Who Cast A Jaundiced Eye Or Who Made A Comment About Either Him, His Mother, Or His Sister. He’d Told Himself That He Didn’t Need Anyone’s Love Or Caring. And So He Had Learned To Live Like A Feral Animal, Always Ready To Strike Out When Someone Tried To Touch Him.

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As A Child, He

Sherrilyn Kenyon

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As A Child, He Had Hardened His Heart And Learned To Take Their Punches. He Had Learned To Spit Back And Take Down Anyone Who Cast A Jaundiced Eye Or Who Made A Comment About Either Him, His Mother, Or His Sister. He’d Told Himself That He Didn’t Need Anyone’s Love Or Caring. And So He Had Learned To Live Like A Feral Animal, Always Ready To Strike Out When Someone Tried To Touch Him.

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It Can’t Eat Him. I Forbid It. (artemis) She Can Do As She Pleases. I Taught Her To Waste Not, Want Not. (acheron)

God Forbid I Should Bleed To Death, Eh? Then You'd Have To Cart Around My Rotting Corpse. (kyrian) Could You Be Any More Morbid? Jeez, Who Was Your Idol Growing Up? Boris Karloff? (amanda) Hannibal, Actually. (kyrian) You're Trying To Scare Me, Aren't You? Well, It Won't Work. I Grew Up In A House With An Angry Poltergeist And Two Sisters Who Used To Conjure Demons Just To Fight Them. Buster, I've Seen It All And Your Gallows Humor Isn't Working On Me. (amanda)

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Oh, Hello, Me Lovely, We Haven’t Met. Asmodeus, Demon Extraordinaire, At Your Service. Any Service You May Require, Especially Those That Involve Nudity And Adjoining Body Parts Joining Other People’s Body Parts. (asmodeus)

You Okay? (grace) Oh, Yeah. I’m Just Fine Considering The Fact I’ve Walked Through Burning Fires That Hurt Less Than My Groin Does Right Now. (julian) I Said I Was Sorry. Okay, Can You Reach The Pedals? (grace) I’d Like To Reach Your Pedals…(julian) Julian! Would You Concentrate? (grace) All Right. I’m Concentrating. (julian) I Don’t Mean On My Breasts. (he Dropped His Hungry Gaze To Her Lap.) Or There, Either. (grace)

Hey, Just Be Grateful I’m Old. When An Arcadian First Starts Time-walking, We Only Have About A Three Percent Chance Of Success. I Once Ended Up On Pluto. (sebastian) Are You Serious? (channon) They’re Not Kidding About It Being The Coldest Planet. (sebastian)

I Don’t Want Your Lying Kindness. Sure, You’ll Smile And Be So Sweet To Me That I’ll Trust You, But The Minute I Don’t Give You Everything You Want The Instant You Demand It, You’ll Turn On Me And Try To Crush Me. You’re Just Like Everyone Else In The World. No One Matters But You. (aiden)

What Good Was Owning The World When He’d Have No Choice Except To Defend Himself Against Every Person In It? Personally, He’d Rather Be A Beggar With One True Friend Than A Prince Surrounded By Two-faced Assassins.’ (aiden)

We Don’t Have To Do This. I Can Fight Coyote. We Have The Ability To Defeat Him.” – Sundown “are You Out Of Your Effing Mind? Hello? Where Have You Been For The Last Two Days? I Want Whatever Screwed-up Glasses You’re Looking Through. ’cause From Where I’ve Been Standing, We’ve Been Getting Our Asses Seriously Kicked Around The Block. Up A Few Stairs And Down Again.” – Sasha

Cause I’m Gonna Put My Foot So Far Up Their Butts They’re Going To Burp Shoe Leather. (nick)

I Still Don’t Believe It. It’s Not In Him. Yeah, And You Are Delusional. Babe, News Flash, With The Exception Of You And The Pirate, We’re All Animals Here. And We All Have A Killer’s Instinct.

I Want Blood! Two Of Aksel’s Dogs Cornered Me Near Tondara. They Shot Me. Those Bastards Actually Shot A Hole In My Stabilizer The Size Of Mirala…aren’t You Going To Say Something? (syn) Were You Hurt? (nykyrian) No. (syn) Then Why Are You Having A Fit? (nykyrian) I Don’t Know, It Just Felt Right. You See Why I Don’t Like Being Sober? I Overreact Like An Old Woman. (he Opened His Flask, Then Slammed It Down On Nykyrian’s Desk.) Figures The Damned Thing Would Be Empty. (syn)

Well, I Guess I’m Just Not As Special As You Are. (urian) No One Knows Their True Mettle Until It’s Been Tested. This Is Yours. Whether You Pass Or Fail Is Entirely Up To You. I Can’t Tell You What To Do, But I Know Where I’ll Be Tonight. (acheron)

He’s A Tough Little Son Of A Biscuit Eater. (bubba)

Oh No, No, No! Are You Going To Suck My Blood? (amanda Do I Look Like A Lawyer To You? (kyrian)

Well, We Better Be Quick And Not Become Human Popsicles. I’m Going To Be Really Upset At You If I Freeze To Death. (shahara)

You’re Not Weird, Are You? (jack) Not Particularly, No. (syd) Well, Good. I Got Enough Weirdness For The Lot Of Us. Don’t Want To Share It. (jack)

Want To Come Back To The Morgue With Me After Lunch? (tate) I Shudder At The Thought Of The Pickup Line You Must Have Used The Night You Met Lashonda. Come With Me, Baby, And See My Collection Of Stiffs. (simone)

I’m Partial To The Truth, Lo. Good, Bad Or Indifferent. (vane)

No, I Was Just Wondering Who You Killed To Reclaim Your Health. (wulf) I’m Sure The Cows You Eat Aren’t Exactly Thrilled By Their Slaughter Either. (urian) They’re Not People. (wulf) In Case You Haven’t Noticed, Dark-hunter, There Are A Lot Of People Out There Who Aren’t Human Either. (urian)

You Of All Beings Know How Fate Works. What Happened To You As A Human Happened Because Everyone From Your Parents On Down Tried To Circumvent What Was Supposed To Be – Which Ultimately Was The Destruction Of The Atlantean Pantheon. There Was No Changing That Prophecy. But The Way You Suffered Was Completely Unnecessary. Had Your Parents Embraced Their True Destiny, You Would Have Been Saved Years Of Torment. Fate Will Not Be Denied. We Can Sculpt It, But In The End We’re All Pawns To Our Final Destinies. Good, Bad, Or Indifferent. (savitar)

Look, I Admit You Seem Like A Decent Person. For All I Know You Stop And Move Turtles Out Of The Road Whenever You See One To Keep Someone From Running It Over. But This Turtle Is Tired Of Having Its Guts Spattered On The Pavement While Other People Drive Right Over Him. I Just Want To Scrape Myself Up And Hide In The Woods, Okay? (aiden)

What Planet Are You From? Obviously Planet Insanity Was Missing A Local, Long-term Resident.' (nick)

What Do You Want From Me?” – Nick “normally, It’d Be Your Life And Your Soul. Unfortunately, I Can’t Take Either Right Now. Sucks To Be Me Today.” – Death

I’m Going. But Before I Do, Let Me Congratulate All Of You On Your Stupidity. (fury)

Let Me Out Of Here, Katra. Now. (sin) I Can't. (kat) Then I Hope You Can Live With The Death Of Humanity On Your Conscience. I’ll Just Sit Myself Over Here Until It’s Over. You Got Any Good Dvds I Can Watch? It’ll Help Drown Out The Screams For Mercy. Especially From The Kids. Those Are Always The Hardest To Ignore. (sin)

You Want The Bad News, Or The Really Bad News? (eros) Oh, Let’s See…how About We Make My Day Special, And Start With The Worst, Then Work Our Way Up? (julian)

What’s Going On? (astrid) Not Much. Some Invincible Asshole Is Trying To Kill Me. (zarek)

So Would You Like To Join Me For Something To Eat? (jericho) As Long As It Doesn’t Involve The Entrails Of Demons, I Might Be Persuaded. (delphine) Demon Entrails Have No Appeal For Me, Either. Zeus’s Are Another Matter. (jericho)

Don’t Worry If I Lay My Head Back And Start To Snore While We’re Flying. It’s Normal. I’m Just Here In Case Jake Has A Stroke And Dies. (tony)

No, It Was The Brutal Loss Of His Family That Haunted Him And For That Nykyrian Couldn’t Fault Him At All. Syn Had Been Put Through A Meat Grinder By Life. The Fact That Man Could Still Get Up And Make It Through A Day Without Blowing His Brains Out Amazed Him.’ (nykyrian)

I Can’t Believe You Were Going To Call Me A Liar And Take My Place Under The Guillotine. Next Time I Try To Save You, Woman, You Better Stay Saved. (fury)

My Weaknesses Are Women In High Heels, Freedom Under Siege, And Ebay. (steele)

Ewwww-eee-wwww. Hey Ash, You Vant To Suck My Blud? (fang) No, Thanks. The Last Thing I Want Is To Catch Parvo From You, Or Some Other Freaky Dog Disease That Makes Me Lift My Leg Around Hydrants. (acheron)

And This Atlantean Destroyer Is Now Leading The Daimons And Sending Them Out To Battle Against Acheron, Who Is Just Using Us And The Humans As Cannon Fodder To Protect Himself? Really, Kyros, Put Down The Crack Pipe...or Go Write Children’s Fantasy Novels. I’ll Bet You Even Know Exactly Who Conspired To Kill Kennedy, Huh? I’m Sure The Money From D.b. Cooper Is What Financed Your Stunning Collection Of Furniture. (danger)

It's The Lack Of Humanity In The Human Psyche That Haunts Me. The Hypocrisy. How People As A Group Can Take Something Like Tolerance And Contort It Into A New Form Of Intolerance And Conformity. The Way Humanity Can Justify Any Kind Of Evil.

Look. Let’s Just Say He’s In Tabitha’s Line Of Work. Okay? (selena) Ladies’ Lingerie? He Hardly Looks The Type To Sell That. (sunshine)

Little Brother, I Don’t Mean To Be A Downer, But We’re Talking About War Here. There’s No Way To Mitigate Damages. He Won’t Let Us. I Was There With Twenty-five Chthonians To Fight Him And He Spanked Our Hides Like We Were Lemurian Slave Women. Two Of Us Had Our Hearts Ripped Out And Shoved Down Our Throats While He Laughed, Then He Licked The Blood Clean From His Fingers And Came At The Rest Of Us. (savitar)

It’s True, And I Was Really Hideous As A Preteen. Tall And Gawky. I Used To Bump My Head Into Everything. Still Do Sometimes. (kat) You Are My Daughter. (acheron) Sure I Am, I Can’t Imagine You Ever Being Uncoordinated. (kat) Oh, I Assure You I’ve Nailed Quite A Few Signs With My Forehead. It’s A Wonder ‘exit’ Isn’t Permanently Imprinted Right Between My Eyes. (acheron)

Well, I Would Throw Myself Under The Nearest Bus, But Considering My Luck Today, I’m Sure It Would Break Down Less Than A Millimeter From Me And Just Ruin My Clothes…probably Break My Watch, Too. (taryn)

I'm Beginning To Think My Name Has Been Changed To 'damn It' Or 'asshole'” Styxx

Hope Is That Tiny Light That The Gods Have Given Us So That We Can Find Our Way Through Our Darkest Hours. And While We Might Stub Our Toes And Bruise Our Knees, If We Keep Moving Forward, Even When Our Progress Is Slow And Painful, We Will Overcome And Be Made Better By Our Journey. … No Misery Or Bad Situation Is Ever Infinite Or Final Until We Make A Conscious Decision For It To Be So.

When I Was A Little Girl, I Used To Try And Bring Sunshine To My Mother. I Felt So Bad That She Had Never Really Seen Or Felt It. So I Would Try And Catch It In Jars. When That Failed, I Captured Jars And Jars Of Lightening Bugs And Told Her That If We Could Catch Enough Of Them, Then It Would Look Like The Sun. She’d Laugh, Hug Me, And Then Set Them Free And Tell Me That Nothing Should Have To Live Its Life In A Cage. (cassandra)

Life Was Brutal And It Made Victims Of Everyone.’ (nykyrian)

Talon Glanced Around The Loft. It Looked As If A Bottle Of Pepto-bismol Had Exploded, Or The Cat In The Hat Had Come For A Visit.’ (talon)

And They Choose Our Mates. (ravyn) So What Do They Do? Jump Here On Earth, Tap You On The Shoulder, And Say, ‘hey, Bub, Marry Her’? (susan)

Well . . . He Lets It Ruin His Life. He Gets So Obsessed With Going After The One Thing That Hurt Him That He Loses Sight Of Everything Else. He Becomes Isolated From Everyone And Everything. Paranoid. He Feels Like He Can't Trust Anyone Around Him Ever. In The End, He Loses Everything, Even His Life. And For What? Total Stupidity, If You Ask Me.

You Keep Talking Like That, Vane, And I Might Be Forced To Keep You.” “you Keep Looking At Me Like That, And I Just Might Let You.

And Neither Do I, Asshole. (wren) Wow. Multiple Syllables And A Whole Sentence From The Tiger. Who’d Have Ever Thought It? Whoever She Was, She Must Have Had A Lot Of Talent To Make You Speak. Next Thing You Know, She’ll Have The Dead Walking. Quick, Call A Dark-hunter. I’m Sure Some Of Them Would Like Another Resurrection. (dev)

You Don’t Know About Travis Fimmel? Oh, Sister, You Are Deprived. He The Finest Man Alive. (simi) You Lust For Men? (xirena) Well, I Certainly Don’t Lust For Women. (simi) No, I Mean You Lust For Humans? (xirena) Well, Don’t You? (simi) Ew! What Have You Don’t To Her? You Have Corrupted A Good Demon! (xirena)

To Make An Omelet You Must First Break Some Eggs.

I’m Giving You That Chance Now. (stryker) It’s Too Late. Too Many Centuries Have Passed. There Was A Time When I Lived Only To Hear A Kind Word From Your Lips. But That Ship Sank Under An Assault Of Bitterness That No Amount Of Charm Or Guile Will Recover. (zephyra)

Please Tell Me The Cave Just Had A Little Indigestion. (kat)

Trust Me, Baby, You Weren’t That Good. I Was Just A Better Actress Than You Were Actor. (zephyra To Stryker) Ew! No Offense, Mum, I Don’t Want To Know Who You’ve Slept With. Kill The Sexual Bantering And Him Before I Go Deaf From It. (medea)

Kat Laughed. 'who Wants To Live Forever?' Kish Put His Hand Up. 'for The Record, I Do.' Sin Scowled At Him. 'then Why Do You Irritate Me So Often?' Suicidal Tendencies Are Inherent In My Species?

Shut Up, Sit Down, And Read. (tory) Please? (acheron) You Need Something? (tory) You To Be Polite To Me, Ms. I Own The World- Now Do What I Say You Pathetic Pleb. (acheron) You Don’t Strike Me As The Kind Of Guy Who Takes Orders Anyway. (tory) Yes, But A Simple Please Goes A Long Way. I’m The One Doing You A Favor Here. (acheron) Fine. Please Sit Down, Shut Up, And Read. (tory)

I Can’t Touch Him. (jared) Well, Don’t You Suck. (stryker) Oh, Believe Me, I Couldn’t Agree More. Just Be Grateful It’s Not Contagious. (jared)

Only A Fool Took A Remote From A God.

Then Let Me Put It To You This Way. There Is Seldom Black And White In Our World. Sometimes Things We Perceive As Good Have Moments Of Profound Evil, But Profound Evil Will Always Tell You That It’s Always Good. It Never Admits That It Could, In Any Way, Be Evil. (alexion)

Black And White

Nick‘s Eyes Widened As A Total State Of Befuddled Huh Possessed Him. Was He In The Twilight Zone?

But If Fate Won’t Be Denied...if It’s Set, How Could There Be Infinite Possibilities? (kat) Only Certain Aspects Are Fated. The Outcome Isn’t. It Was Fated That Sin Would Loose His Godhood. The Means And What Followed Were Determined By Free Will. Free Will Is That One Scary Variable That Sets So Much Into Motion That No One, Not Even I, Have Control Over. (acheron)

So, You're Like Angel? (amanda) You Watch Way Too Much Television. Angel Has A Soul. I Don't. (kyrian) Now You're Back To Being Scary Again. (amanda) Baby, You Ain't Seen Scary Yet. (kyrian)

Someone Please Tell Me That We’re Not Seriously Having A Friggin’ Debate Over The Genius Of ‘karma Chameleon’ At Seven O’clock In The Morning? (xypher)

Are You Out Of Your Collective Minds? I Swear I Can’t Leave You Two Alone For Three Seconds That You Don’t Go Off And Hurt Yourselves. I Expect Stupid Out Of You, But You Know Better.” – Caleb “i Tried To Tell Him That. He Won’t Listen To Me. Tag. You’re It.” – Nekoda

I'm Too Young, Too Smart And Too Good-looking To Die.

So, Magellan, Where Are We Going? (danger) Away. I’m Open To Any Location, So Long As It Doesn’t Involve Returning To Your House While Wart-head Is There.

Dazed, Nick Nodded, Then Looked To Caleb. “i’m Such An Effing Idiot.” “we Knew That,” He Said Drily. “we Definitely Didn’t Have To Throw You Into A Coma For That Little-known Nugget.

Then Why Are We Being Shot At? (syd) ’cause The Sonofabitch Can’t Tell Time. (steele)

I Might Have Lost Some Skin, But I Got Kissed By A Beautiful Woman Who Was Happy To See Me. I Gotta Say That’s Pretty Epic In My Book. Definitely Not A Worst-case Day Here.” – Sundown

For The Record, We’re Not Friends. (stryker) For The Record, I Don’t Care. (savitar)

You Live Your Life Like It’s A Rare Treasure To Be Savored. You Take Pleasure From The Simplest Of Things And You Never Take Them For Granted. I Saw The Joy On Your Face And The Life In Your Eyes When You Cradled The Permits To Your Chest. I’ve Never Seen Anything Lovelier. I Actually Thought You Would Cry Just From The Joy Of Touching Them. I’ve Been Numb All My Life, Megeara, But You…you Feel On A Level That I Can’t Even Imagine, And For A Little While I Wanted To Feel That, Too. (arik)

Possible Or Not, They Tried To Turn Me Into A Nick Mcnugget. (nick)

Sometimes We Don’t Realize How Destructive Our Creations Are Until It’s Too Late. And Sometimes Those Creations We Make Turn On Us And Seek Only To Kill Us Even Though We Loved And Succored Them. (apollo)

It Is Sometimes Difficult To Get Rid Of First Impressions.

First Impression

See How Exciting Anthropology Is? He’s A Leading Expert In Ancient Greece. Now You Should All Change Your Majors So That You Can Ogle Men Like Him All Day Long. Or Better Yet, Uncover Naked Male Statues. (tory) Was That Necessary? (acheron) Hey, I Live To Recruit Students For The Department. If I Can Make You Good For Something, Then By Golly I’m Going To Do It. (tory)

I Am A Socially Awkward Mandork. (nick)

Socially Awkward

You Really Don’t Want To Take That Tone With Me. (varyk) Well, I Do Have Several Others We Can Choose From. Contemptuous. Angry. Snide. Aggravated. How About I Just Settle On Extreme Sarcasm And We Call It Even? (dev)

If It Is Our Destiny To Be Hit By The Train, We Will Be Hit By The Train. The Only Thing We Can Change Is How The Train Turns Us Into A Hamburger.

You’re The One Who Unleashed Him. (savitar) Yeah, Well, Let’s Move On From The Blame Game. I Was Having Suicidal Thoughts And It Seemed Like A Good Idea At The Time. In Retrospect, Not So Much. (stryker)

I Find You Irritating. (kat) I Haven’t Even Begun To Irritate You Yet. Imagine What I Could Do If I Applied Myself? (solin) I Can Imagine. I Can Also Imagine Ripping Your Throat Out And Tying My Shoes With Your Larynx. (kat)

Where Did You Find An Andarion? I’ve Never Seen One On Gouran Before. Aren’t You Afraid To Be With Him? (sales Woman) Why No, I’m Not Afraid. He’s Already Had His Daily Feeding. (kiara) What Do You Feed Him? (sales Woman) Babies. Lots And Lots Of Babies. (kiara)

Show No Fear To Your Enemies. Only Contempt. Never Let Anyone Look Down On You. You're Just As Good As Any Of Them. I Don't Care Who They Are. Better In Fact. In Our World, Dagans Are Royalty And You, My Son, Are A Prince.

You Risked The Cub? (dev) He’s Not Just A Cub. (aimee) You’re Right. He’s The Passenger Who Fell Off The Short Bus. (dev)

And Not A Single Mark On The Lamborghini. Ha! Eat Steel, You Soul-sucking Bastards! (kyrian)

You Can Take My Life, But You'll Never Break Me. So Bring Me Your Worst... And I Will Definitely Give You Mine.

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