Pippa DaCosta > Quotes

“I could never run from the half of me that danced in the dark.”
― Pippa DaCosta, Beyond the Veil

“And there’s no synthetic owners manual?” His lips twitched, smile threatening to break into a grin.

A joke. He wasn’t funny. “Do you come with an owners’ manual, Captain? Because I’d like to study your troubleshooting section.”

“Would you like to strip me down to my nuts and bolts, and figure out what makes me tick?”

“I knew what made you tick from the moment we first met. That’s why I punched you between the legs.”

~ #1001 & Caleb”
― Pippa DaCosta, Girl From Above: Trapped

“Sometimes, when you sleep with the enemy, waking up is the hardest part." ~ Muse”
― Pippa DaCosta, Devil May Care

“I may not have believed in lady luck, but I believed in her fucking sister, irony. That bitch was out to nail me to wall." ~ Caleb”
― Pippa DaCosta, Girl From Above: Trapped

“Get off that damn chair and pull yourself together. You're supposed to be an ageless creature of chaos and all I'm getting right now is sulking city boy.”
― Pippa DaCosta, Devil May Care

“Oh, you're good."

Akil narrowed his eyes. "You must have me confused with another sociopathic demon.”
― Pippa DaCosta, Darkest Before Dawn

“I was the proverbial child raised by wolves, only my wolves were demons. Wolves would have been kinder.”
― Pippa DaCosta, Devil May Care

“Shit. We were practically married. The lack of sex proved it.”
― Pippa DaCosta, Girl From Above: Betrayal

“I'm just a wretched half-blood girl caught in a storm."

Akil tasted his wine and smiled. "Muse, you are the storm.”
― Pippa DaCosta, Darkest Before Dawn

“I am chaos eternal. I desire everything this world and the next offers. I am greed, I am hunger. Oh how I hunger... I want the pathetic mortals of this world to bow before me. I want all that they own, all they desire, every marvelous creation of theirs, but there is only one thing in this world that I need, and that, Muse, is you.”
― Pippa DaCosta, Darkest Before Dawn

“I knew revenge like the ghost of an old friend." ~ #1001”
― Pippa DaCosta, Girl From Above: Escape

“I’d never really done Christmas. The years I’d spent with Akil didn’t count. The only religion he got behind was the worship of his own ego.”
― Pippa DaCosta, One For Sorrow

“You think this is funny?” I snorted. “You would. Your sense of humor is so dark, even the lesser demons don’t get you.”
― Pippa DaCosta, Darkest Before Dawn

“You lie through your teeth. You wouldn’t know the truth if it crawled up your ass and bit you on the balls.”
― Pippa DaCosta, Darkest Before Dawn

“One of my earliest memories was of a maze of pale green walls. The corridors never ended, no matter which way I turned. I was running, my feet bare, my paper-thin gown flapping around skinny foal-like legs, and the demons kept on coming. I’d run the maze before, because I always knew which way to turn to find the little clear plastic box. I’d run, and run. Lungs aching, throat burning, my feet slapping against the smooth floor, and the sound of scrabbling claws chased me down. I made it to the box, every time (I’d learned later, there were others who hadn’t) and once inside, I’d yank the clear door closed. The demons didn’t see the box. They saw only me, the wraith-like little half-blood girl. They would launch themselves—claws extended, jaws wide, eyes ablaze—and slam into my box, sending shudders rattling through my bones. They’d snap and snarl, hook their teeth into the box and gnaw at its edges, desperate to get to the feast huddling a few millimeters away.
Flooding, the Institute had called it.
At first I was afraid, and I learned how to run. Then I was angry, and I learned how to fight with my fists and my element. Then, I got even. I lured those demons into a corner and ambushed them, killing every last one. After countless visits to the maze, after weeks, years, I’d started liking it, and killing became as natural as breathing. It was what I was good at. What I was made for.
What I lived for.
© Copyright Pippa DaCosta 2016.”
― Pippa DaCosta, Chaos Rises

“When demons call you the Mother of Destruction, sh*t gets real." Muse.”
― Pippa DaCosta, Darkest Before Dawn

“Humans are passionate in all they do, even should they wish to do nothing. They battle, they rage, they kill, they love, they are capable of mercy in the most impossible of circumstances, and they are monstrous.”
― Pippa DaCosta, Wings of Hope

“I sat across the table from him and watched as he popped open the lid. “I gather you like ice cream?” An eyebrow twitched comically. “Snow demon.” He shrugged.”
― Pippa DaCosta, Beyond the Veil

“They believed him out of control. What they didn’t know—what nobody but me knew—was that he’d never been more in control. He knew exactly what he was doing. He was free.”
― Pippa DaCosta, Darkest Before Dawn

“You are capable of great things,” he said with conviction. If by great things, he meant complete destruction, then yes, it would seem so.”
― Pippa DaCosta, Beyond the Veil

“You’re not going to fight me, Captain. This is the right call. You know it.”
She marched me off the bridge and into the brilliant white passageway. “You think I’m just going to trust you’ll let me go?” I asked, getting a painful nudge in the back.
“You don’t have a choice.” She was right about that. “Relax. I got your back, Cale.”
“You’ve got a pistol in my back is what you’ve got.”
“Just like old times.”
Trust her? Well, shit.”
― Pippa DaCosta, Girl From Above: Trust

“But if you cross me again Akil, so-help-me, I’ll find a way to kill you this time.”

His eyes lit up at the prospect, as though he’d accepted a challenge I didn’t even know I’d laid down. “I’d expect nothing less.”

Demons; only they can get a cheap thrill from a death threat.”
― Pippa DaCosta, Devil May Care

“You’re the half-sister of the full-blood demon, Valenti. The illegitimate child of Asmodeus—one of the Seven Princes of Hell. You were sold at birth as a plaything for lesser demons.”
“A half-blood abomination,” he snarled. “An embarrassment to demons everywhere. By all rights, you should be dead.”
― Pippa DaCosta, Beyond the Veil

“I don’t know if I can.”

I splayed my hand on the bulkhead beside Fran's shoulder and looked her in those pretty green eyes. “It’s easier if you don’t think about it. Shut it away, think about something else. Drink, fuck, do what you gotta do. Bury it so damn deep, it can’t touch you. And before long, you’ll forget what you were worried about.”

Her lips turned down at the corners. She closed her eyes and sighed. “Is that what you do?”

“It works.” Or it had. Until recently. Until One somehow made me look at myself though her eyes. Now I had shit going on in my head, like not wanting to let her down. Not wanting to let any of them down. Like this life and my place in it might actually mean something. That kinda thinking would get a man killed.

~ Caleb”
― Pippa DaCosta, Girl From Above: Trust

“Oh to let go of it all... The pain, the anguish, the shame and disgust... Just let it all go. Embrace chaos.”
― Pippa DaCosta, Devil May Care

“What do you do when you’re swimming with sharks? You make sure you’re the biggest, most badass thing in the pool.”
― Pippa DaCosta, Darkest Before Dawn

“I pity any man, demon or otherwise, foolish enough to believe he owns you.”
― Pippa DaCosta, Devil May Care

“You were a crushed and broken thing, like a butterfly crumpled in the hand of a child.”
― Pippa DaCosta, Beyond the Veil

“I shook my head. Akil was right about one thing. Stefan would never understand. He spent his life killing demons. He had it simple. I’d spent my life among them. I might despise the majority of them, but I knew them. They were family. Twisted, bitter, dangerous, slippery, back-stabbing, but family all the same.”
― Pippa DaCosta, Beyond the Veil

“You have a job?”
“Do you think I just fucking run this ship so I can call myself captain and get laid?”
“Well, no. I thought you were a criminal.”
― Pippa DaCosta, Girl From Above: Escape