Cassie Alexander > Quotes

“I planned to reintroduce him to my friends lorazepam and oxycodone in a big, big way.”
― Cassie Alexander, Nightshifted

“I’d always wanted to think that love could heal anything. But I realized lying there, eyes closed, listening to Asher breathe, that really love is what happens when you find out that it can’t.”
― Cassie Alexander, Deadshifted (Edie Spence, #4

“But if you believe in heaven then you have to believe someone's keeping score. And if someone's keeping score, if what we do really matters, then life ought to be fair. And I'm sorry it isn't. Shitty things happen to good people, and bad people never get what's coming to them. Don't tell me that there is a heaven as some sort of perverse reward for being good. That is bullshit of the highest caliber”
― Cassie Alexander, Nightshifted

“Welcome to the secret wing of County Hospital ....Where vampires get transfused, werewolves have silver allergies, and one nurse is way over her head !”
― Cassie Alexander, Nightshifted

“Nurses are natural kleptos. You don't want to be in a roon without enough supplies, so every time you walk past the med-cart you pocket another saline flush. By the end of the shift you can look like a chipmunk if you're not careful. Some days it's hard to remember that the gum at the end of the grocery aisle isn't there just for you.”
― Cassie Alexander, Nightshifted

“Nurses are natural kleptos. You don’t want to be in a room without enough supplies, so every time you walk past the med-cart you pocket another saline flush. By the end of the shift you can look like a chipmunk if you’re not careful.”
― Cassie Alexander, Nightshifted

“My voice mail message says I work nights and sleep days. Everyone who knows me, knows this. And still, people who aren’t employed at the Nursing Office feel compelled to call me before three P.M. Certain people feel compelled to call me repeatedly, until I pick up—namely, dicks.”
― Cassie Alexander, Nightshifted

“Compulsion, guilt, pick your poison.' Meaty shrugged. 'You make a better nurse than a patient.”
― Cassie Alexander, Nightshifted

“We could crawl inside your head and make you but a shell of yourself, a puppet of meat, for which we keep the only strings.” It paused to let the impact of this settle in. “Please stop trying to be brave, and become the pathetic creature we both know you to be.”
My short nails bit against my arms. “Fuck you.”
― Cassie Alexander, Nightshifted

“No matter how much I fought him or gave in to him in turns, I couldn’t fuck away my fears.”
― Cassie Alexander, Nightshifted

“I nodded. Everyone at the hospital wanted to think that their case was special, and if you were a good nurse, you helped them keep that illusion alive. Knowing that someone down the hall had it worse than you never stopped your own paper cut from hurting, at least not until they came in and bludgeoned you senseless with their amputated leg.”
― Cassie Alexander, Nightshifted

“I sank into the chair and checked to see if the charge nurse could see me—not if I didn’t lean out too far. The night was looking up! Two patients who ought to sleep all night long, and an Internet connection. How lucky was I? Pretty damn lucky, at least until someone needed a diaper change.”
― Cassie Alexander, Nightshifted

“The Shadows this, the Shadows that—I’d asked Charles about them once, when our breaks had overlapped....But Charles said “they” (complete with scare quotes) lurked in the corners by our entrance door, screening visitors, unseen. Since that made them sound like omnipotent dust bunnies, I preferred the version of them in my own imagination.”
― Cassie Alexander, Nightshifted

“Wheaties—now, with spider cum! It tasted so right it was almost healthy. Oh God. Never, ever, let Gwyneth Paltrow near any.”
― Cassie Alexander, Guarded by the Spider

“love you. I love you very much. I will love you enough that you never have to doubt yourself again. All you have to do is find me worthy.”
― Cassie Alexander, Guarded by the Spider

“Lucas shook his head. "We haven't caught him yet. We're still looking."

"Every ship but your four fastest," I murmured to myself.”
― Cassie Alexander, Moonshifted

“Inside, the bar was divetastic. It wasn’t smoky, but my shoes stuck to the stairs, and I was glad I hadn’t dressed up.”
― Cassie Alexander, Moonshifted

“I see a girl who is either brave—or insane—enough to let the creature who is going to kill her plug her c***. And that goes far beyond external beauty—that fact makes her spectacular.”
― Cassie Alexander, Guarded by the Nightmare

“And my beast had a feeling she would taste good, no matter where he licked her.”
― Cassie Alexander, Bend Her

“But I won’t lie, Mina. I am tired of watching you give your tears to those ingrates, who I will be murdering shortly in painfully imaginative ways—because I want all your tears for me, the same as I want the rest of you, until I pull your heart inside myself, to beat beside mine for an eternity.”
― Cassie Alexander, Guarded by the Nightmare

“I’d read somewhere once that ‘Mood’s a thing for cattle,’ meaning that one ought to always be in control of one’s self. Self-aware adults don’t always get the luxury of feeling out of sorts – or headachy, as the case may be.”
― Cassie Alexander, Dark Ink Tattoo Episodes 1-3

“Oh,” I said quietly, putting all the pieces together at last. “You’re worried I’ll see you hurt him and think things about when you’re going to hurt me, and have you realized you’re an idiot?” His head snapped back like I had slapped him. “If you looked around in that drawer back in my room you would’ve seen enough pills to kill myself ten times over—and do you know why I’ve got them all and hoarded them so carefully? To give up and fucking do that. But now, I don’t have to, Sylas—you’ll do it for me—and until then, I am fucking on this ride. You and I, and however many hims it takes,” I said, flinging an arm out at the still-hovering Nolan. “But I’m not going anywhere. Not without you. Not from here on out.”
― Cassie Alexander, Guarded by the Nightmare

“I’m not ready to give up on him yet.” “I bet. It’s fun feeling needed, until it gets you killed.”
― Cassie Alexander, Moonshifted

“knew I was in love with her—even if I’d never known what love was before—because I knew this had to be what love was: giving someone else the power to crush your heart.”
― Cassie Alexander, Guarded by the Nightmare