Christine Feehan > Quotes

“Life gives us choices. You either grab on with both hands and just go for it, or you sit on the sidelines.”
― Christine Feehan, Night Game

“The trouble is not really in being alone, it's being lonely. One can be lonely in the midst of a crowd, don't you think?”
― Christine Feehan, Dark Prince

“I claim you as my life mate. I belong to you. I offer my life for you. I give to you my protection, my allegiance, my heart, my soul, and my body. I take into my keeping the same that is yours. Your life, happiness, and welfare will be cherished and placed above my own for all time. You are my life mate, bound to me for all eternity and always in my care.”
― Christine Feehan

“And maybe that was love. Being so vulnerable and allowing someone else in so far they could hurt you, but they also give you everything.”
― Christine Feehan, Water Bound

“Betrayal is never easy to handle and there is no right way to accept it.”
― Christine Feehan, Dark Demon

“Don't cater to stupidity.”
― Christine Feehan, Dark Possession

“-She is like the wind, open and free. If I cage the wind, would it die?
-Then don't cage it, Mikhail. Trust it to stay beside you.”
― Christine Feehan, Dark Prince

“She stared at herself in the mirror. Her eyes were dark, almost black, filled with pain. She'd let someone do that to her. She'd known all along she felt things too deeply. She became attached. She didn't want a lover who could walk away from her, because she could never do that - love someone completely and survive intact if her left her.”
― Christine Feehan, Turbulent Sea

“The real question is, can you love the real me? Not the perfect person you want me to be, not that image you had of me, but who I really am.”
― Christine Feehan, Oceans of Fire

“It’s hard to feel desire when you don’t feel desirable”
― Christine Feehan, Safe Harbor

“Someone needs to drag you kicking and screaming into this century.”
― Christine Feehan, Dark Prince

“Wolves? I should have known. Of course you have wolves. Doesn’t everybody?” She snapped her fingers. “The gun, Lucian. Hand it over. I’ve decided I have to shoot you after all. It’s the only way to preserve my sanity.”
― Christine Feehan, Dark Guardian

“You're the kind of man my mother warned me about.”
― Christine Feehan, Dark Prince

“He pulled away abruptly - self-preservation required it - and pressed his brow to hers, breathing deep. "You remember one thing. You decide you want to get married, it's going to be me."

Briony watched him stalk outside, slamming the kitchen door behind him. Both eyebrows raised, she turned to Ken.

Close your mouth, honey. That's just Jack trying to be romantic and failing miserably. Don't let him get away with that shit either. If he's going to ask you, make him do it all they way. You know - down on one knee, looking stupid."

Briony nearly choked. "That's just mean, Ken."

He leaned close to her. "If you do it, Briony, tell me first so I can videotape it. I could blackmail him for the rest of his life.”
― Christine Feehan, Conspiracy Game

“I killed Freddie the vamp like twenty times, but he wouldn't die.
--Natalya Shonski ”
― Christine Feehan, Dark Demon

“You can't turn the sheriff into a toad, Hannah. It's against the rules.”
― Christine Feehan, Magic in the Wind

“If what he said was the truth, it broke her heart. If what he said was a lie, it was broken anyway.”
― Christine Feehan, Oceans of Fire

“She didn't know how to love, to give herself to someone, to out herself in someone else's keeping and take him into hers. She didn't trust anyone with her heart - or the darker places of her soul.”
― Christine Feehan, Turbulent Sea

“-Mikhail?...Try making suggestions next time, or just plain asking. You go do whatever it is you're doing, and I'll go search you extensive library for a book on manners.
-You will not find it.
-Why am I not surprised?”
― Christine Feehan, Dark Prince

“They called each other family and that’s what they were—sisters. Many people in the world had family of the heart, kin by choice rather than by blood, and hers had come along in her darkest hour and saved her life.”
― Christine Feehan, Spirit Bound

“I’m quite capable of walking,” she pointed out.
It is faster this way. Your legs are short.”
They are not!”
― Christine Feehan, Dark Guardian

“I wasn’t going to argue with you. Why ever would you think that? I never argue."
Lucian smiled at her. She was so small, it amazed him she was such a strong person. "Of course you do not argue. What was I thinking? Go to sleep, honey, and allow my poor body to rest."
"I’m already asleep. You’re the one gabbing.”
― Christine Feehan, Dark Guardian

“Trust. Such an easy word. Such an impossible quality.”
― Christine Feehan, Dark Destiny

“Of course I can do this. I'm pregnant, not brain-damaged. My condition doesn't change my personality.”
― Christine Feehan, Ruthless Game

“I'm an observer. I read about life. I research life. I find a corner in a room and melt into it. I can become invisible. It's an art, and I am a wonderful practitioner.”
― Christine Feehan, The Twilight Before Christmas

“His lips slid over her ear. "My mind shares yours. If you're determined to go through with this, then know whatever this takes you, you won't be alone, Tansy. I'm strong. I'll find your mind and I'll bring you back."
"Last time I broke into a million pieces."
"I'll find each one.”
― Christine Feehan, Murder Game

“I have to figure out why I worked at a job I hated for years. I have to find out why I can’t see what everyone else sees in me. I don’t feel beautiful. When I look in the mirror, I never saw beautiful. For this to happen to someone like me, it’s devastating, Jonas. I don’t want you to think it’s vanity, it isn’t. I can’t see me and I need to be able to do that. I need to find out what I’m like and what I want. I have to be comfortable in my own skin before I can be in a relationship the way you want.”
― Christine Feehan, Safe Harbor

“Maybe you are already lost and just do not know it.”
― Christine Feehan, Dark Demon

“He felt safe with her. He'd never been safe with another human being, not since he'd been taken as a child from his home. He'd never been able to trust. He could never give that last small piece - all that was left of his humanity - into someone else's keeping. And now there was Rikki. She let him be whatever he had to be to survive. She didn't ask anything of him. There was no hidden motive. No agenda. Just acceptance. She was different - imperfect, or so she thought - and she knew what it was like to fight to carve out a space for herself. She was willing for him to do thar.”
― Christine Feehan, Water Bound

“It's all well and good to look back after the fact and see what we should have done, but we rarely know what path is best when we take that first step.”
― Christine Feehan, Oceans of Fire