Alyssa Day > Quotes

“Friends and family argue and fight, but it means nothing. It's human nature. Love isn't perfectly patient or kind or sunny. Love is volatile and tempestuous and forgiving.”
― Alyssa Day, Atlantis Redeemed

“Right. Of course. So many of us would voluntarily turn ourselves over to a...What was it? A vampire? No, wait, a vampire goddess. To save the lives of other people. Yeah, you're right. That's not noble. I do that every day before breakfast. Twice on Fridays.”
― Alyssa Day, Atlantis Unleashed

“Dropped down the Rabbit Hole, with hot models gone wild..."- Riley Dawson”
― Alyssa Day, Atlantis Rising

“Quinn to Alaric
"“No way, buddy. Don’t touch me until we figure this out. You might electrocute me, which would totally ruin my day. Or, worse, it would send some kind of energy beam through me like when you, um, healed me earlier, and I’m not going to try making love to a glowing light stick just yet.”

Day, Alyssa. “Heart Of Atlantis.”
― Alyssa Day, Heart of Atlantis

“He'd saved her life and killed her trust. He'd thought it a fair trade, at the time.”
― Alyssa Day, Vampire in Atlantis

“No matter what it takes. Make at least part of him live, and I can find the rest of him somehow. Someday.”
― Alyssa Day, Vampire in Atlantis

“You know better than that the only thing about you that scares me is
your absence, Alaric”
― Alyssa Day, Vampire in Atlantis

“Lucky for you, since you’re the most dangerous man I’ve ever met. A
sane woman would run away from you, not toward you.”
― Alyssa Day, Heart of Atlantis

“Wishes have voices sometimes.”
― Alyssa Day, Atlantis Redeemed

“Except for Quinn, a dark voice whispered in his mind. A smile from her would be a gift beyond price.”
― Alyssa Day, Atlantis Unmasked

“I’ve trusted human women before. Twice. The first died, and the second paid a terrible price and despises me. Never, ever again.”
― Alyssa Day, Atlantis Redeemed

“But thinking of Quinn and his future child was like gasoline to the flame of his fury.”
― Alyssa Day, Heart of Atlantis

“A tiger, an alligator, and a redneck walked into my pawnshop.”
― Alyssa Day, Dead Eye

“For Pete's sake, Quinn, you should have seen him when I was pregnant. He practically set a peacock on fire for daring to walk across my path in the garden one day.”
― Alyssa Day, Heart of Atlantis

“That seems to be another habit of yours. I get broken, and you fix it.”
― Alyssa Day, Atlantis Unleashed

“The priest was Quinn's biggest danger of all.”
― Alyssa Day, Vampire in Atlantis

“He thinks I’m pining away for you, and he thinks I should be his mate”
― Alyssa Day, Atlantis Redeemed

“You don’t always have to take it all on, either, you know. The weight of the world. The responsibility for everyone else’s problems. Sometimes it’s okay to let somebody else worry about you.”
― Alyssa Day, Heart of Atlantis

“So he was frustrated with her. Most people rolled their eyes when they got frustrated. Alaric made dolphins do ballet.”
― Alyssa Day, Heart of Atlantis

“I am needed here. Atlantis can burn in the nine hells for all I care. I have sacrificed enough to Poseidon. My days as high priest are done.”
― Alyssa Day, Heart of Atlantis

“No. Merely a trick of the light. But I had the impression you were seeking something more formal than‘Okay, go for it,’ as Ven would say,” Alaric said, a hint of a smile surfacing. “Looked pretty impressive,didn’t it? It’s a priest thing.”
― Alyssa Day, Atlantis Unmasked

“Your magic is unbalanced without the soul-meld”
― Alyssa Day, Vampire in Atlantis

“You can shoot a gun. You just can't hit anything you aim at.”
― Alyssa Day, Dead Eye

“I'm a little tired of protecting people who help the ones trying to conquer them”
― Alyssa Day, Vampire in Atlantis

“Never, do you hear me? I will give up my friends, my country, my duty, and even my honor—but never you.”
― Alyssa Day, Heart of Atlantis

“I would give a century of my life for a single taste of your lips”
― Alyssa Day, Atlantis Unleashed

“Yet where Denal had prayed to Poseidon for death, Alaric was praying to the same god for life.”
― Alyssa Day, Atlantis Unmasked

“Nothing said “successful business” like an old, dusty, busted, duct-taped taxidermied alligator.”
― Alyssa Day, Dead Eye

“With Quinn, safety wasn’t even an illusion. It was an impossibility”
― Alyssa Day, Atlantis Unmasked

“Finally, she looked up at him and met his gaze, and she gasped. He knew what must be visible on his face and therefore did not try to deny it. “You know,” he rasped out. “You have always known, and you will always know that I am yours, and yet never can be. I am the most powerful high priest Poseidon has ever appointed, and yet I am too weak to hide the depths of my feelings for you.”
― Alyssa Day, Atlantis Unleashed