Sam Hall > Quotes

“For Artemis, the virgin goddess,” Colette said with a beaming smile, taking that moment and stamping her dainty little foot on it.”
― Sam Hall, Good Girl

“While human beings were always capable of change, relying on someone else becoming someone different was stupid. When people show you who they are, believe them.”
― Sam Hall, Cross to Bear

“Quite the opposite,” Nordred continued. “Your mind is on what happened, what will happen and not on what is happening. Thinking ahead has its place, but it’s a tool we are all too willing to use. Don’t focus on the threats that might be there. Focus on what’s happening right now, because those threats may never eventuate.”
― Sam Hall, With Fangs and Claws

“You fancy some other silly boy as your mate. One that stinks of iron and ambition.” I let out a little gasp then, utterly betraying the truth. “But you’ll learn just how wrong he’d be for you. I’ll make sure of it.”
― Sam Hall, With Fangs and Claws

“I think the vast majority of my books are speculative fiction, wondering what it would be like if women got what they needed from romantic partners, not the dissatisfaction so many express. A man that’s focussed on her needs. That’s protective of her as a person, not as a thing he possesses. As someone he recognises, respects and loves as a person and a partner, not each one of them jammed into rigid gender roles that may or may not fit.”
― Sam Hall, Choose The Bears

“I just watched them move and talk and breathe, and it hurt so fucking much.”
― Sam Hall, Star on the Rise

“Paranormal romance?” All the hesitation went out of me at the sound of his voice. Mike and his mates teased me mercilessly for my taste in books, but it was a hill I was ready to die on. “Damn straight I do. A world where women find their fated mate, the one guy meant for her, and then he spends his life looking after her, him and his animal protecting her, making sure she has super orgasms?” I shrugged, finally wrestling the box free. “What’s not to like? Guys like porn movies, girls like porn books where the heroes are everything men aren’t.”
― Sam Hall, Choose The Bears

“On the page, yes, because you know that there will be a happy ending where love will conquer all with all the spontaneous orgasms only a book hero can achieve without even a hint of clitoral stimulation. So, y’know, total bullshit.”
― Sam Hall, Bears in Mind

“no one ever got better at anything without being willing to accept they might be bloody terrible, at first. Terrible is our natural state, skill comes from an act of will to push past that and reach for something else.”
― Sam Hall, With Fangs and Claws

“Women all across the world are not given choices: around what roles they take on or how they look, what clothes they wear, and who they do and don’t have as sexual partners. Bear shifters are supposed to be better than human men. You make sure you have her enthusiastic consent before claiming her because it’s the right thing to do.”
― Sam Hall, More Than I Can Bear

“You OK, Julie? Is there anything you need to help you settle in?” Finn asked. Dick and lots of it, my brain supplied helpfully. Naked muscly bodies overlapping themselves into some kind of super horny carpet that I could roll myself all over and then fuck myself to death on. Shaun naked, on his knees using his tongue to… Shit, I’d settle for just one dick right now.”
― Sam Hall, The Wolf at My Door

“This place had a seriously weird vibe about it. It was kind of like one of those bad sexual harassment training videos, where the characters are all stereotypes of sleazy work mates, yet because the actors were totally hot, you ended it feeling strangely conflicted about the message.”
― Sam Hall, The Wolf at My Door

“You said you had some books for me? If I’m going to sit home alone tonight, then I at least want something saucy and slightly rapey to read.”
― Sam Hall, Bears in Mind

“I want to be happy.” His grip tightened on me then, crushing me against his chest. “I want to be appreciated, treated like I’m fucking special for once and not someone’s afterthought. I want to be—” “Loved.” His voice was deep, rich and throbbing with emotion. “You want to be loved in the way you fucking deserve, Nat, and I promise you, we’ll spend our entire lives trying to do that.”
― Sam Hall, Bears With Me

“He’d have to be six foot seven or more of solid but not bulky muscle, which unfortunately led to my gaze dropping lower, wondering if he was big everywhere. It was like visiting Loch Ness. You had to look into the depths just to see if the monster was lurking there.”
― Sam Hall, The Wolf at My Door

“So this here is a blah blah gun thingie,” Aaron said seriously, showing me his fine weapon. “It’s great for blah and manly things.”
― Sam Hall, The Wolf at My Door

“You know this means you lose your true blue Aussie card, right?” I narrowed my eyes at her, then flipped her off. “Like, dude, we punch sharks in the face and wrestle crocodiles, not run screaming from bears who just want to love you.”
― Sam Hall, Bears in Mind

“You think that it's your superior skill and strength that allows you to rule the world,” I said, “but instead it’s this. When a woman is born into a world where men own everything, all she can do is go cap in hand and beg for a piece of it. Her skills, her power, they don’t matter, just what she has to trade that they deem is worth something to them.”
― Sam Hall, With Fangs and Claws

“Vaginas are funny things, much harder to sense than I assume a dick would be, but mine was awake and paying attention.”
― Sam Hall, The Wolf at My Door

“A woman has a right to walk away from a relationship, for whatever reason, without enduring physical or emotional abuse.”
― Sam Hall, Bears in Mind

“there was something about a man, or a woman, a loved one, turning up and being present in your life. Someone who was willing to walk beside you as you did the work, because maybe, just maybe, their persistent subliminal message of love, of acceptance, of need and desire, but most of all, of respect, could provide you with a buffer from a cruel and unusual world, creating a safe harbour in which you could decide to love yourself.”
― Sam Hall, Billion Dollar Pack

“A man couldn’t fix a woman. He couldn’t make her feel good about herself when she was trained to feel bad. He couldn’t take her trauma and wave his dick over it, whisking it all away. Once the first gloss of a relationship wore off and you started acting like the person you really were, it all came back, but there was something about a man, or a woman, a loved one, turning up and being present in your life. Someone who was willing to walk beside you as you did the work, because maybe, just maybe, their persistent subliminal message of love, of acceptance, of need and desire, but most of all, of respect, could provide you with a buffer from a cruel and unusual world, creating a safe harbour in which you could decide to love yourself.”
― Sam Hall, Billion Dollar Pack

“I turned to find my own mother standing there. “So you told your fathers off?” I went to explain, but she just smiled, pressing her car keys into my palm. “About time really. They are too hidebound, the lot of them.” She nodded to the car. “A sleuth isn’t a group of shifters of the same species. It’s a group of people that care for each other, will stand by the others when the world burns. That’s what I raised you to do. The dangers your sleuth faced are done with for now. Just be there with them, making sure nothing else touches them.”
― Sam Hall, Bearly Hanging On

“Your husband is a fucking idiot, thinking he’s going to find what he needs in other women. You wouldn’t be out drinking at a pub on your own if we were married. You’d be mine, body, mind and soul, and no other bloke would get a chance to even look at you, let alone get their hands on what belonged to me.”
― Sam Hall, Bears in Mind

“That’s what your father doesn’t seem to understand. I just want to see you smile.”
― Sam Hall, With Fangs and Claws

“We’ll never ask that of you, Darcy,” Dane said in a much gentler tone. “A warg is not an undemanding mate. We will want everything you have to give and more, but…” His fingers teased the small hairs at the back of my neck, until I tossed his hand off with a shake of my head, resulting in the others laughing. “In our world, it must be freely given. A warg must earn his mate’s love, devotion and surrender, and he does that by giving her the same.”
― Sam Hall, With Fangs and Claws

“Other people, those who don’t have to bear the weight of an abuser’s actions, they live in a state of blissful ignorance. They’ve been spared from seeing the truly dark side of people and that gives them an unacknowledged gift to carry them through life.”
― Sam Hall, With Fangs and Claws

“Keep your weapons close, little huntress,” he told me. “My brothers will be ecstatic when I tell them what kind of queen we have discovered. But until we can get you safely back onto our land, you need to protect yourself. Then we’ll take over. Rest now, because the others will be plaguing your father for time with you, now that I’ve had mine.”
― Sam Hall, With Fangs and Claws

“It is an unfortunate consequence of being a woman in my world that many of us tend to learn how to lie quite effectively. Feminine rage, disinterest and dislike can, not most of the time, but can be met with extremes of anger or even violence. I’d been screamed at, called everything from a slut to frigid, poked, shoved and even had fists waved in my face because I dared to tell the man I was standing with I wasn’t interested in him. Men that had taken it upon themselves to approach me. Other women have faced much greater consequences. As a matter of self-preservation, we learn the art of skirting conflict, of managing some men so as to not provoke their fragile egos into dangerous displays. This wasn’t all or even most men, though many times I’d fallen into the trap of doing it, just in case they were 'that guy’.”
― Sam Hall, Not My Fantasy

“You can’t change what you are, cub, no matter what they have to say about it. They aren’t trying to change you into something else. They’re trying to scare you into not using your power.”
― Sam Hall, Problem Child