Colette Rhodes > Quotes

“my stupid pheromones would be all ‘ooh yes, sexy monster husband! Tell me more about how attractive you find me! Let me do the scent dance of my people!”
― Colette Rhodes, Luxuria

“Honestly, it was more of a frog march than a romantic post-ceremony stroll, but the joke was on him because I was into being manhandled.”
― Colette Rhodes, Luxuria

“The plan was to go full dragon and rip them all apart, possibly feast on their corpses and pick my teeth with their bones.”
― Colette Rhodes, The [Not] Cursed Dragon

“I was a great disappointment to all of them. Unfortunately for them, I was at least partially fuelled by spite, so that fact brought me great joy.”
― Colette Rhodes, Excess

“I bathed quickly before heading back up to my room and picking out a dress for tonight, selecting a dark red one that I perhaps wouldn’t have chosen if I hadn’t seen Evrin earlier, standing around looking unfairly attractive. That asshole.”
― Colette Rhodes, Invidia

“I did my best not to feel outrageously bitter that other people were just out here, falling in love and living their best lives. I really tried. But also… how dare they?”
― Colette Rhodes, Invidia

“″Yes,” I replied, glancing at him out of the corner of my eye but refusing to get caught up in his intimidating beauty. Not today, Satan. I’ll spend this entire dinner thinking about the day I moved into my old apartment and realized no one had unclogged the shower drain in fifteen years if I have to. I’d prepared a mental list of my least sexy thoughts in advance.”
― Colette Rhodes, Luxuria

“He wasn’t your Darcy?” “He was the Wickhamest Wickham to ever Wickham,” I replied gravely.”
― Colette Rhodes, Gilded Mess

“Seriously, I was one muttered complaint about how slow my human legs moved away from whispering, ‘sorry, Monster Daddy,’ and dropping to my knees to ask for forgiveness.”
― Colette Rhodes, Luxuria

“″Eat,” I prompted, nudging my wife who hadn’t yet touched her food. “Did I interrupt you before your lunch today? Have you had your vegetables?” A slow smile spread across her face, her expression looking a little… bemused? ″I did, but thank you for checking on me, that’s very sweet of you.” ″I’m not sweet,” I countered immediately, worried someone had overheard. Damen leaned around Ophelia with a knowing grin on his face. “You’re the sweetest, big brother.” Little shit.”
― Colette Rhodes, Luxuria

“My mouth went dry. All the fluid in my body had traveled south on an urgent lubrication mission.”
― Colette Rhodes, Luxuria

“It’s going to be fine. You are going to make the best of this. You are Ophelia Bishop, failed huntress and moderately talented marketing coordinator. You can do this.”
― Colette Rhodes, Luxuria

“This distresses you,” I surmised, making a guess based on the slight downturn of his mouth and the tone of his voice. “No need to be afraid, fragile man. I’ve been assigned to protect you, and I take my duties seriously. Going forward, I’ll take more care with my claws around you.” “Please don’t call me fragile man,” Austin asked, looking slightly pained. “My ego can only take so much.”
― Colette Rhodes, Gula

“Everything in my life felt like a series of unanswered questions. Or maybe it was because my parents and my boss had conspired with the Elders to send me away with zero regard for my wishes.”
― Colette Rhodes, Run Riot

“We’re more than the sum of our regrets, Riot,” I told him softly.”
― Colette Rhodes, Run Riot

“You’d better hope they’re of me. If you’ve been drawing other Shades fucking my wife, wearing my crown,“—shit—“then I’m going to have to kill some of my own subjects, Queen Ophelia.”
― Colette Rhodes, Luxuria

“So…” I began, picking a loose thread on the cushion I was holding like a snuggly shield. “Do you do a lot of cocaine?”
― Colette Rhodes, Run Riot

“″What do you mean?” my wife asked, twisting away from me to look at my brother. Stupid feast. Stupid everyone taking her attention away from me.”
― Colette Rhodes, Luxuria

“Four? Fuck that. That was… a lot of penises. Penii? That was a flock of penii. No one needed that many.”
― Colette Rhodes, Golden Chaos

“She tried and failed to capture a whimper of need in her throat, and I couldn’t find it in myself to tease her for it. Not when that sound had wormed its way into my chest, spurring me on, encouraging me to satisfy this beautiful deadly creature in front of me. Astrid had never been more dangerous to me than she was at that moment.”
― Colette Rhodes, Superbia

“You should stop, the agathos part of my brain scolded.  Go a little lower, the malfunctioning side encouraged.”
― Colette Rhodes, Silver Bullet

“Enough,” Soren clipped. I was grinding my teeth to dust, but Meridia’s insults made it easier to maintain my silence if anything. I’d never been good at formulating words when I was truly angry. All of my best retorts came to me hours later, usually when I was alone in the shower.”
― Colette Rhodes, Superbia

“Are you seriously suggesting,” I said slowly. “That I came up with an elaborate plot to ensnare you with alpha-bait pre-heat scent before I’d even met you—because, obviously, you’re just that wonderful? Not only that, I somehow hypnotised you into showing up at my scent-free flat to propose a plus-one-relationship-of-convenience as, what, a ruse to spend time with you? Am I missing anything? It was a real evil mastermind move for me to accompany you to the pub with your friends and politely allow myself to be totally disrespected by them, no? What a genius I am. Perhaps I’ll write a book for other single omegas: How To Ensnare an Alpha in a Thousand Degrading Steps or More.”
― Colette Rhodes

“DEDICATION Ria’s story is dedicated to everyone who hasn’t quite got their shit together yet. To all of you who haven’t quite found where you fit, who haven’t found the thing that really lights your fire, whose parents ask skeptically if you’re actually going to use that arts degree. You do you.”
― Colette Rhodes, Golden Chaos

“Good morning, your majesty,” she said, bowing low. “I apologize if I woke you.” “No apology necessary,” I yawned. “I don’t suppose we can drop the ‘your majesty’ stuff?” She chuckled quietly. “How about ‘Queen Ophelia’? Is that more to your taste?”  “It feels arrogant to say ‘yes,’ but I have gone my whole life feeling like someone should call me a queen, so I’m going to roll with it,” I sighed, flopping back against the pillows.”
― Colette Rhodes, Luxuria

“I would like someone who took me seriously at least some of the time despite my cheerful personality, who wasn’t either intimidated by my title or disappointed that I’d never challenge Allerick for the top spot, and who would let me lick their pussy for several hours of the day. Was that really too much to ask?”
― Colette Rhodes, Acedia

“I was learning that sometimes it was okay if people didn’t like me. That some people were, in fact, awful, and I was better off with them not liking me.”
― Colette Rhodes, Wild Game

“Did any of you actually speak to Hugo?” I asked, raising an eyebrow as I surveyed the table. “I assure you, we’re quite on the same page about this.” “But you got along so well,” Stasia all but wailed. “The two of you were laughing all night!” “Well, yes.” I frowned. “That’s because I’m funny.”
― Colette Rhodes, Excess

“When is a monster not a monster? Oh, when you love it.”
― Colette Rhodes, Luxuria

“Three hot dudes all sporting wood in my honor was hella flattering. 10/10 would recommend.”
― Colette Rhodes, Golden Chaos