S.L. Prater > Quotes

“I’d learn you if it were up to me. Your every thought. Your every scar. Your every wish and every desire. I want that time.”
― S.L. Prater, Court of Tricksters

“I dream of you, Rain. Then I wake up and I don’t have you, and it’s a nightmare.”
― S.L. Prater, Court of Tricksters

“In his presence, her palms sweat and her tongue tied and her heart positively soared. Eloquence was impossible.”
― S.L. Prater, Court of Tricksters

“I wouldn’t want to breech confidences”
― S.L. Prater, Street Witch: The Complete Trilogy

“In my imagination, meeting her again had gone very differently. She should have behaved like the villain she was, not like the vibrant sweetheart of our youth.”
― S.L. Prater, This Haunted Heart

“It’s making me feel . . .” “Feel like what?” “Like I’d like to stab you with something,” she confessed”
― S.L. Prater, Court of Tricksters

“Stop crying at me,” I begged her, my own gaze clouding with moisture.
“I can’t help it,” she sobbed, pressing her palms to her eyes. “I’m not doing it to hurt you! My tears aren’t weapons!”
“Well, they feel like arrows!”
― S.L. Prater, This Haunted Heart

“I bare witness that Marnie is present”
― S.L. Prater, Street Witch: The Complete Trilogy

“What is this tragedy?” I demanded, stepping over her body. “Are you always so melodramatic?”
“Worry not,” she moaned at me, “I’m only prone to melodrama when my entire life is crumbling around me. That only happens . . . more often to me than it does to anyone else because God hates me.”
― S.L. Prater, This Haunted Heart

“But if it was perfect enough, I thought it might call her ghost right out of the mire where she’d died. Bring her out of the trees and back to me. I wanted to feel her presence again, wanted her to haunt these halls.”
― S.L. Prater, This Haunted Heart

“What’s it you want with Vieve?”
Vengeance, I thought, but was smart enough not to say. Devotion. Retribution. Heartfelt apologies made on her knees that would do her no good at all.”
― S.L. Prater, This Haunted Heart

“After all I’ve done, you still want me terribly. I bet you hate that, don’t you?”
“I hate it,” I breathed. “I hate wanting you. I want to ruin you. I want to break your heart and carry around the shattered remains inside my breast pocket forevermore. I don’t want to long for your body another moment. It’s a baneful way to exist, wanting you. I wish I hated you.”
― S.L. Prater, This Haunted Heart

“Marnie could hear her dolling out directions to the staff as they came and went.”
― S.L. Prater, Street Witch: The Complete Trilogy

“He corralled her into the corner of the room where the bar met oak paneling”
― S.L. Prater, Court of Tricksters

“Blood driveled from her mouth.”
― S.L. Prater, Street Witch: The Complete Trilogy

“Vain, bossy know-it-alls. The very picture of
arrogance.”

“Yes,” Night said drolly, “but such a pretty picture.”
― S.L. Prater, Court of Tricksters

“And my heart,” I growled, clutching at my breast. “You ripped it right out of my chest!”
“Your haunted heart was never stolen,” she said, voice wobbly and hollow with threatening tears. “You gave me that willingly and took mine in return!”
― S.L. Prater, This Haunted Heart

“But of course you have every right. Wounds of the heart go the deepest and hurt the very most, everyone knows that. You haven’t truly lived until you’ve felt the sting of love lost. It’s what all the poets go on about. It’s one of those spices of life that, though bitter, remind you you’re still breathing. So have a cry,
love.”
― S.L. Prater, Court of Tricksters

“Only females could grow a babe in their womb. This was as close to a divine power as a mortal would ever come to know. In comparison”
― S.L. Prater, Court of Tricksters

“I should have known you were the devil,” she muttered. “Lucifer is always beautiful. I should have known it the second I laid eyes on you.”
― S.L. Prater, This Haunted Heart

“Marnie smiled fondly.”
― S.L. Prater, Street Witch: The Complete Trilogy

“Then he lowered to his knees before her and encouraged her thighs apart with his hands. Rain blinked at him. Surely”
― S.L. Prater, Court of Tricksters

“We’re immortals, Quiet. If you needed a decade or two or three to stop feeling betrayed, I was willing to wait.”
― S.L. Prater, Coven of Ill Repute

“She was also encouraged to conceal the inked Sidra star bellow her collar”
― S.L. Prater, Street Witch: The Complete Trilogy

“His eager breath stirred her hair.”
― S.L. Prater, Street Witch: The Complete Trilogy

“There is no greater act of trust, no greater act of love, than to bond with your one and only true mate.”
― S.L. Prater, Court of Tricksters

“I want you for you, the sound of your voice, the turn of your mouth, the fall of your hair, the storm in your eyes - my good witch, there isn’t a single thing about you that I don’t find superior in every way, and it confounds me that a woman of your caliber, your intelligence, your aptitude, hasn’t figured that out already on her own. It is because of those things that I find your blood appealing. Didn’t the way we ended last night tell you this already? Your kiss was all I needed. It was never my intent to create another mystery for you.”
― S.L. Prater, Coven of Ill Repute

“The last twenty years were your choice!” I flung at her.
“I know!” she screamed in my face, her hands in fists. “And they were the wrong choice! The wretched one, the worst one! The one that I can’t ever get away from. Can’t run fast enough from. Nothing I do, it doesn’t matter. I won’t ever escape it.”
― S.L. Prater, This Haunted Heart

“That’s the curse of being a woman. We often don’t see our own worth, and then it’s too easy for others to undervalue us as a result.”
― S.L. Prater, This Haunted Heart