Alexis L. Menard > Quotes

“For the ones who lost themselves trying to please everyone. You can still be anything you want to be.”
― Alexis L. Menard, House of Bane and Blood

“You are what I want every morning when I wake, every need of my flesh, every dream when I close my eyes.”
― Alexis L. Menard, House of Bane and Blood

“Not all cages are built with bars.” Some, like mine, were made from the shackles of duty and the chains of domestic obligations.”
― Alexis L. Menard, House of Bane and Blood

“You’re my dream.” He grabbed my perusing hand in his. “You’re the center of all my circles.”
― Alexis L. Menard, House of Bane and Blood

“Power came in many forms. Wealth, status, beauty, but the most cunning of all forms were secrets.”
― Alexis L. Menard, House of Bane and Blood

“We might have been rivals in our past, but we are together now. You are mine, and long as you are bound to me, I will do everything in my power to keep you safe.”
― Alexis L. Menard, House of Bane and Blood

“Wanting you isn’t hard, princess. It’s all the rest that makes it difficult.”
― Alexis L. Menard, House of Bane and Blood

“I see you, Milla. I see all of you. The good, the better, and the best because there is no bad in you. You are enough.”
― Alexis L. Menard, House of Bane and Blood

“Time is relative in the dark.”
― Alexis L. Menard, House of Bane and Blood

“Order hates what it can’t control.”
― Alexis L. Menard, House of Bane and Blood

“A slow smile wandered across his lips. “I like how your hair curls more when it’s damp outside. I like how your hips look in a silk dress. I particularly like the way you say my name when you’re frustrated, as it gives me a hint of how you’d say it in my bed.” “Nicolai!” “That’s right. Keep practicing.”
― Alexis L. Menard, House of Bane and Blood

“Who did this to you, Milla?”
― Alexis L. Menard, House of Bane and Blood

“My brothers.” I looked him in his stormy eyes. “They’re all the family I have left. I don’t have nonnas or uncles or cousins. My brothers can treat me however they want because they know they are all I have, and being used feels close enough to being wanted. I don’t understand why that’s so difficult for you to understand, seeing as you’re using me as well.”
― Alexis L. Menard, House of Bane and Blood

“His black eyes widened. “You married—” “Nicolai Roman Asshole Attano,” I replied with a grimace. “Yes, don’t remind me.”
― Alexis L. Menard, House of Bane and Blood

“Even this close to the heavens, the night is dull without you, Stiarna. Do what you must. Do what you have to live.”
― Alexis L. Menard, The Last Daughter

“He was danger and darkness and deliverance, and he was every desire of my soul embodied.”
― Alexis L. Menard, City of Mirth and Malice

“It’s always good to remember that even villains can have happy endings.”
― Alexis L. Menard, House of Bane and Blood

“You have a face that looks constantly pissed off, making you fundamentally unapproachable, and it's highly arousing to me. When you sat at the bar and Dom didn’t serve you, I thought you might’ve burned down my pub with your glare. The only thing more beautiful than your smile is that look. The one you’re giving me. Right now.”
― Alexis L. Menard, House of Bane and Blood

“I’ll buy you another one. Drop the dress, Milla. I won’t look until you beg me to.”
― Alexis L. Menard, House of Bane and Blood

“You can be called anything you like, Camilla, but your title will never change what you truly are to me.” “And what is that?” I asked. Bringing both of my hands to his lips, he kissed the spot they overlapped. “Mine.”
― Alexis L. Menard, City of Mirth and Malice

“I hope you don’t expect me to go without you. We’re a package deal now. Where you go, I go. Till death parts us.”
― Alexis L. Menard, House of Bane and Blood

“arched my brow to twist the knife a little deeper. What did he have to say about that? The screech of his chair as he pushed from the table told me I was about to find out. “Sit down, Nico, you haven’t been excused,” his grandmother chided him. “Sorry, Nonna, me and the missus need to discuss something of importance.” “What are you doing?” I asked, feeling him jerk my chair back. “Nicolai Roman Asshole Attano, you will not—” My protests turned out to be futile as he lifted me by the hips and tossed me over his shoulder. “Put me down or I swear I will murder you! Damn the contract!” Nico’s strides never faltered. “Say goodnight, Camilla.” “I know where you sleep, Attano!” My voice echoed down the hall as we turned out of the dining room, where the servants waiting outside shot us curious looks. I looked at each of them and grumbled, “Don’t ever get married!” “You know, if you wanted to sneak into my bed, princess, all you had to do was ask nicely. These threats aren’t necessary.”
― Alexis L. Menard, House of Bane and Blood

“Being used feels close to being wanted.”
― Alexis L. Menard, House of Bane and Blood

“Families like ours don’t get remorseful,” I said, gesturing to the room around us. “We get even.”
― Alexis L. Menard, House of Bane and Blood

“Dying is merely the failure of living.”
― Alexis L. Menard, House of Bane and Blood

“I would run through fire and burn for you. I would lose arm and leg and limb. I’d do it all over, knowing what would happen to me, if it meant eventually having you as I do now.”
― Alexis L. Menard, House of Bane and Blood

“kill someone. The look on my face must have told him so. He added, “Can we start this night over? My family apparently really enjoyed you today, and they’d like you to come downstairs.” “They would like me to come downstairs?” He frowned, forced to slide the words through his teeth. “I would like for you to come downstairs.” It made me smile, watching the notorious Nicolai Attano grovel at my bedroom door. I thought I might pick more fights with him, just to replay the experience. “That’s benevolent of you, Nico. But my answer is still no.” “Are you always this unforgiving?” “Yes. Remember that the next time you feel like pissing me off.” I took a step backward, leaving enough space for the door to slam shut in his face.”
― Alexis L. Menard, House of Bane and Blood

“You’re just like our father. Only cared about making her happy at the expense of the rest of us.” If that made me similar to Giovanni Marchese, then so be it. “Am I?” I said, feigning interest. “Perhaps that’s why Milla calls me Daddy every night.”
― Alexis L. Menard, City of Mirth and Malice

“Fear is a poor motivator for loyalty.”
― Alexis L. Menard, House of Bane and Blood

“Sometimes idiocy disguises itself as courage.”
― Alexis L. Menard, City of Mirth and Malice