S.M. Reine > Quotes

“The question isn't "Why do we die?" The question is "Why do we live?”
― S.M. Reine, Six Moon Summer

“Dying is as natural as being born, and all of us have to face it someday. Some sooner than others. It's difficult to understand the meaning of it all. The question isn't, 'Why do we die?' The correct question is, 'Why do we live?”
― S.M. Reine, Six Moon Summer

“So what, you assumed you’d show up before the dance and I’d magically be ready to go? I need warning to get beautiful.”
― S.M. Reine, Long Night Moon

“Getting shot was an experience that Elise ranked on the “unpleasantness” scale right around “trying to survive a week without coffee.”
― S.M. Reine, Sacrificed in Shadow

“When she released him, James looked stunned. “Still?” She suppressed a swell of sadness. “Always.”
― S.M. Reine

“You’ve taken so many drugs that you couldn’t legally operate a pair of safety scissors.”
― S.M. Reine, Seasons of the Moon Boxed Set

“No sex. No taking care of her pack. No physical activity at all.
Being pregnant was definitely much, much worse than being a werewolf.”
― S.M. Reine, Darkmoon

“Never talk to them when they’re human, or they’ll trick you. You’ll get confused and sympathetic. That was what his mom always said. She was probably right. Last time he talked to a werewolf, he ended up dating her.”
― S.M. Reine, Long Night Moon

“What about nightmares? Have you experienced sexual dreams of a dark nature?”
― S.M. Reine

“We are eternal, but we can be slain, if only you discover how.”
― S.M. Reine, Damnation Marked

“There’s beauty in the spontaneity of chaos. Too few people appreciate it.”
― S.M. Reine, The Descent Series: Vol.1

“Sharp teeth flashed between his lips when he spoke. He was a real teddy bear, but he looked scary as hell, and he was meant to deter Zohak from sending fiends through the front door. Elise paused. “Go home, Ed.”
― S.M. Reine, Damnation Marked

“Of course you like coffee. Everyone likes coffee. It’s just a matter of how much sugar and creamer you need.”
― S.M. Reine, The Descent Series: Vol.1

“They were twin beasts in the night, swift and sleek and growling. With her body arched over the moonlight-soaked motorcycle, her thighs welded to metal and leather, Elise felt like she and the bike had become a single animal—another member of Rylie’s pack, restricted only to where the wheels could take her.”
― S.M. Reine, Sacrificed in Shadow

“Nothing charms a woman less than taking her for a ride in a car held together with duct tape and wishes.”
― S.M. Reine, Shadow Burns

“There were few tools of persuasion more powerful than awkward silence.”
― S.M. Reine, Death Scream

“Never apologize for your curves. They’re a woman’s deadliest natural weapon.”
― S.M. Reine, Shifters After Dark

“You think you can push people around and not pay for it?”
― S.M. Reine, The Descent Series: Vol.1

“place called Sheol, which Seth understood was a general way of talking about the grave.”
― S.M. Reine, Darkmoon

“Rylie’s mind whirled with the mental calculations. It had been over a week since they were separated. How many minutes was that? How many hours? How many years? It didn’t matter, in the end. She opened her arms wide and her kids stepped forward to embrace her. She didn’t care that they were so tall and lanky. It felt right to hold them again. They smelled like family, like pack, and she never wanted to let them go. Rylie’s children had come home.”
― S.M. Reine, Darkmoon

“One thing that Nash had learned from the wars, First and Second alike, was that silence was not something to be desired. Silence seldom indicated peace. It was merely the absence of another noise—screams in the wake of battle, or the laughter that should have filled the night. Silence was the sound of grieving.”
― S.M. Reine, Ruled by Steel

“Sometimes there are chapters in our lives we don’t want others to read.”
― S.M. Reine, Shifters After Dark

“So we’re about to get married,” Elise said. “Inter-species and same-sex. That’s…progressive.”

Jerica shrugged. “The fundies always said we’d go to Hell for this. Guess they were right.”
― S.M. Reine, Ruled by Steel

“do. For now…” Rylie nodded, wrapping the Bible in the blanket again. “You can sleep here, if you want.”
― S.M. Reine, Magic after Dark

“Do you ever have those moments when you’re so angry that you grow calm? Like the bands of a hurricane are swirling inside your body but you’re the eye? You’re danger incarnate, but you don’t look it?”
― S.M. Reine, Magic after Dark

“If hopes were unicorns, we’d be galloping across a magical fairytale land of roses”
― S.M. Reine, Preternatural Affairs, Books 1-3: Witch Hunt, Silver Bullet, and Hotter Than Helltown

“Abel joined hands with Rylie, drawing her into the pack as the energy of the moon swept over them. The huge, silvery sphere hung over the ridges of the mountains, turning the trees into blue shadows and making the waterfall sparkle. “Ready?” Abel asked. Rylie tilted her face toward the moon, drinking in its rays, spreading her energy through the pack. “Yes,” she whispered. She allowed all of her wolves to change at once, drawing their pain away so that they could shift effortlessly into their second skins. Fur blossomed like flowers facing the sun. They were a dozen different shades of gray and brown and gold—huge, beautiful beasts that Rylie could never see as monsters. Rylie and Abel changed last. He was black, and she was gold. Together, they were the sun and the night, yin and yang. She was afraid to face her mother, afraid to see Jessica’s reaction. But she wasn’t going to try to hide from her mom anymore. Rylie turned to her proudly—Alpha of the pack. Jessica’s hands covered her mouth, eyes filled with tears. “You’re beautiful,” she said. Rylie’s heart swelled. Abel rammed his face into hers, as if to say, I told you so. The pack ran into the night, and Rylie was home.”
― S.M. Reine, Alpha Moon

“A man should be more original than a bouquet of roses and a box of chocolates. Flowers die and sugar sticks to your hips like a permanent record to a criminal.”
― S.M. Reine, Shifters After Dark

“The little girl smiled. The spaces in between her teeth were dark with blood. Aside from that, she was kind of cute.”
― S.M. Reine, Shadow Burns

“Abuelita had her chancla. If we mouthed off, she’d take her sandal off and hurl it at us, and I swear to every deity that’s ever existed that the chancla had homing powers. It could turn corners and strike us square in the face when we were trying to run away. Pops didn’t have a chancla, so he had to settle for using magic if we broke one of his rules.”
― S.M. Reine, Ashes and Arsenic