Claire Cray > Quotes

“Been a pleasure, Don Gato. Have a sexy evening.”
The cat looked dryly at him before hopping down to the floor and sauntering out of the house.
Ken’s face showed genuine surprise as the cat left. He looked curiously at Jin.
Guessing that Ken was wondering if he’d just used his telepathy on the cat, Jin beamed. “Oh, yeah,” he lied. “Not just human minds I’m the master of. I get cows to dance in musicals.”
― Claire Cray, Minus Tide

“How could I have disliked a man with a library like that?”
― Claire Cray, Merrick

“I was the wind in the trees.”
― Claire Cray, Merrick

“Would you be content with so many secrets?"
Merrick looked down, frowning as he pondered the question. "No," he said at length, his thumb still tracing soothing shapes on the back of my hand. "Not if it troubles you so."
"Are you afraid I'll be shocked, Merrick?"
"I suppose we're beyond that."
A bi of hope flickered in my chest and the faint trace of humor in his voice, and I turned my face towards his. "You suppose?" I asked.
"Jesus, I'm a vampire and a sodomite. Who can you trust to hear your sins if not me?”
― Claire Cray, William

“I was entirely lost by the time his forehead touched mine. Taking a long, shuddering breath, I tried to steady myself even as his touch reduced me to a soft and needful thing.”
― Claire Cray, Merrick

“Connections between friends and neighbors and families wove in and out through the decades like trails of footprints. You just had to care enough to follow them.”
― Claire Cray, In Strange Woods

“In one picture, ten loggers sat side by side in a wedge-shaped cut sawed out of a massive cedar. James could almost hear the thunderous, splintering crash that giant must have made when it fell. The thought filled him with a strangely intimate sort of woe.  On”
― Claire Cray, In Strange Woods

“He washed beneath my arms, and from my shoulders to my wrists.”
― Claire Cray, Merrick