Naomi Lucas > Quotes

“Maybe that's the trick about communicating. When it doesn't matter, it's easy, and when it does...It's the hardest thing in the world to find the right words-the right time.”
― Naomi Lucas, Viper

“Katalina, dear, nothing in life comes easy. You’ll find that your demons come back over and over. What you do about those visits is entirely up to you. Exorcising a demon is as hard as forgetting a memory”
― Naomi Lucas, Wild Blood

“And in the darkness, my smile grows. I'm home.”
― Naomi Lucas, Death Adder

“You are—” she straightens “—really thick-headed.” I consider her words and decide she’s right. My skull is rather thick. The cartilage of my cowl is heavy. “I am,” I agree.”
― Naomi Lucas, King Cobra

“Maybe I'm walking into a trap. I'm waiting for him to show me his grays when all I can see is green.”
― Naomi Lucas, Boomslang

“If I am only allowed to have one summer, then I am glad it was this one.”
― Naomi Lucas, The Scarecrow's Queen

“I’m trying to figure out why I find you so distracting. Because right now, Delilah, I don’t understand.”
― Naomi Lucas, The Scarecrow's Queen

“As long as you are here, I will always be where you are.”
― Naomi Lucas, Boomslang

“I’m useless on the ship”
― Naomi Lucas, Titanoboa

“She came to me. As my eyes rove over her form tucked against my chest, my nerves bristle, uncertain what to do now that she is here. Despite the walls around us, danger is everywhere, and I question my ability to keep her now that I have her. One zap from Ursula’s device and she could be taken away. She came to me… What I expected after she had been alone with me long enough, I did not know. I only knew I needed her to come to me. Yet when she remained beyond my reach longer than the others, her strength visibly waning, my paranoia grew. Pressing her form closer to me, I gently run my hand over her hair. It is as soft as it appears, and her wayward curls catch my fingers, curling around them. Wanting more, I search for her hair tie and slowly tug it out.”
― Naomi Lucas, Cottonmouth

“Don’t claim me,” I warn, frozen, too afraid to move. “Don’t you dare.” He cups my nape and leans back, taking his heat and his overwhelming presence with him. “I dared.”
― Naomi Lucas, Boomslang

“Sssshhhh, female, sshh." He gathers me into his arms. "You're safe now."
I gasp through tears, rubbing my face against him. "I thought you were dead."
"As long as you're alive, female, I'm alive. I'll always be looking for you.”
― Naomi Lucas, Viper

“I will always give you what you need, female. I only fear…” he whispers. “I cannot give you what you want as well. In that, we are the same. Regardless, this changes nothing with how I feel about you. There is nothing I want more.”
― Naomi Lucas, Boomslang

“No human man would’ve considered doing the same. They’re all words”
― Naomi Lucas, Viper

“They relink the chains to Syasku’s bands, and the sound of clanging metal sounds the space. Once he’s secured, the soldiers remove his cage and step away. “You’re dismissed,” Pierce orders. They file out of the room, never once looking my way. “Commander Pierce.” I step toward the man who is often at my father’s side. A man I’ve known since I was a child, someone who once intimidated me into silence whenever he was near. He doesn’t frighten me anymore. “Not now, Vivian.” He dismisses me and he strides up to Syasku. As he does, Syasku’s face wrenches, his lips pull back, and his body starts shaking uncontrollably. Realizing Pierce is hurting him, I rush forward. “Fucker,” Pierce curses, ramping up the electricity. “Stop!” I grab his arm. “You’re hurting him!” He throws me off him, and I stumble away. Pivoting, I seize his arm again. “Stop!” Pierce doesn’t throw me off this time. Instead, his scowl deepens as he looks at me. Syasku’s convulsions come to an abrupt end, and his body slumps into his restraints. The reek of burnt flesh and static floods my nose, making me want to gag.”
― Naomi Lucas, Cottonmouth

“I will never let you go now that you are here.” His voice is dark and possessive. It brings out my own possessiveness. “I hope not. I don’t want to go anywhere.”
― Naomi Lucas, Death Adder

“And unlike me”
― Naomi Lucas, Titanoboa

“When nothing pounced on her from the shadows, she moved again. Now that she had escaped one enemy, she had to deal with another. The darkness.”
― Naomi Lucas, Radiant

“I don’t think I could explain how I feel about Vruksha to another. Being with him is like being sated”
― Naomi Lucas, Viper

“Coffee can fix a lot. Coffee does more than a diamond ring, tastes better than true love’s first kiss. I didn’t believe her at first. I do now. Coffee is love.”
― Naomi Lucas, A Gargoyle's Delight

“Collins shoots me an angry look”
― Naomi Lucas, Blue Coral

“Groaning, I close my eyes, and when I reopen them she is watching me. Her mouth is open and her cheeks are red. She’s staring at where my prick bulges from my tail as her breath quickens. Looking away, she shifts and clamps her legs together, but not before her arousal reaches me across the room. Thicker than it has ever been, my appendage jerks. Intoxicated with need, a hiss rumbles from my chest. She adjusts her position again, glancing at me, then away to the door, just to glance right back. “I want you to be my mate,” I rasp, telling her what she thinks I owe her. “Is that what you needed to hear?” I ask when she remains silent. Her eyes shift to my face. “Yes.” “I can smell you, female,” I murmur, “even from over here.” Her discomfort is evident, and her cheeks flush red before she covers them with her hands. “I don’t want to know that.” I lift one of mine and offer it to her again. “I will not hurt you. If I wanted to, I would have already done so.” I wait, frozen in place as she decides, her uneasy shuffling and apprehension apparent. It has been hours.”
― Naomi Lucas, Cottonmouth

“There’s only one who lights me up.”
― Naomi Lucas, Radiant

“Father came to me after Laura’s departure and threatened my freedom, promising me another round of isolation inside the Yulen medical storage if I had anything to do with her escape, or was withholding anything from him. It was how he would punish me as a child and later as a young adult—locking me away with no company and with nothing to do except work on my studies for months on end. The isolation was worse than a beating. I never knew when he would return or let me out. Nervous about the consequences, I didn’t know what to say other than I’d never spoken to her. I thought he knew that. He’s always watching. He’s the Supreme Commander of The Dreadnaut.”
― Naomi Lucas, Cottonmouth

“legs, Syasku’s lips part, and a low vibration fills the room. It turns into a soothing hum that sends prickles up my arms. Unlike anything I’ve heard before, it settles my anxiety. Like a lullaby, his hiss cascades over me in gentle waves, calming my frayed nerves and quieting my scattered thoughts. Easing into my chair, the tension seeps from my limbs, fading into the background. There’s a stillness around us like there’s no one else but him and me, no one else anywhere. “Please, let me help you,” I whisper. His humming deepens, growing richer, and thicker, and the rest of my guard drops, subduing me completely. As my eyes hood and my body melts into the chair, a slit opens in his tail and a long, thick appendage emerges. Like a sword being brandished from his pelvic region, his girth curves toward his chest, his cock’s tip lodged in the air, leaning into him. The underside of it bulges outward, faintly knotted into a ball that ripples downward to his base, the creases becoming more rigid the closer they get to his tail. The length and thickness larger than any human man’s.”
― Naomi Lucas, Cottonmouth

“It’s only a matter of time before we find a way to hurt them. Humans have a way of prevailing.”
― Naomi Lucas, Viper

“I will never know another as you”
― Naomi Lucas, Death Adder

“Little human”
― Naomi Lucas, Viper

“That is the second time you have said that. Genesis-8?” I take his hand. He goes rigid as I flip it over and trail my fingers over the grooves along his palms. It’s the first touch I give him freely. “It was once a manufactured drug that could bond with a human’s genome, I believe, like a cellular virus, one that could change us from within so we could use alien technology. Lurker technology belongs to a species of aliens that briefly cohabited on this planet with humans. A species that was far more advanced than us. They’re ancestors of yours.” Holding his hand, I peer up at him, recalling what Celeste shared with me and the strange myths handed down through my family. “Reptilian in nature, Lurkers were closest to Earth’s serpents, so geneticists spliced a serpent’s DNA, with human and Lurker, manufacturing your kind, a species who could breed the drug naturally and share it with others, with humans. Genesis-8 is what we call the pure drug, but what’s inside you, what’s in your veins, is wholly organic.”
― Naomi Lucas, Boomslang

“I’ve only ever seen you.”
― Naomi Lucas, Viper