Juliette Cross > Quotes

“Funny thing about fear. When you cling to it, the fear grows exponentially, a monster morphing into a suffocating mass. But when you face it head-on, conquering the beast before it swallows you whole, you find there was nothing there to fear at all. The chains break, and the whole world feels lighter than ever before.”
― Juliette Cross, Waking the Dragon

“You want to be possessed, but not controlled. You want to be protected, but not smothered. You want to be dominated, but only in one way.”
― Juliette Cross, Waking the Dragon

“What do you think, Vi?"

She smiled wide with a lascivious look. "You had me at werewolf wet t-shirt contest.”
― Juliette Cross, Always Practice Safe Hex

“What kind of man is he?"

"Super dark and broody,
And delicious."

She had no idea.”
― Juliette Cross, Always Practice Safe Hex

“Every kindness and every abuse makes a mark upon the soul.’’ My voice trembled. “The soul remembers”
― Juliette Cross, Darkest Heart

“I'm not really what you'd call a damsel in distress."
"I hate fucking damsels. Always in such distress. Who wants a high-maintenance girl like that?”
― Juliette Cross, Darkest Heart

“A dragon was ten times more capable of swooping in and stealing the maiden away than that prissy fuckstick, prince charming.”
― Juliette Cross, Darkest Heart

“You want the monster," he grated, a foreign wildness in his voice. "You're going to get him.”
― Juliette Cross, Always Practice Safe Hex

“No one can tell you your artwork is worthless but you. And no one can tell you it has value but you.”
― Juliette Cross, Wolf Gone Wild

“She might look like sex and candy, but there was no doubt she was untouchable. And didn’t that just make me want to touch? Everywhere”
― Juliette Cross, Darkest Heart

“What's this?" I raised our laced hands.

His onyx eyes flickered to me and held. "You can let go if you want."

After a few seconds, I whispered, "I don't want to.”
― Juliette Cross, Always Practice Safe Hex

“To thine own self be fucking true”
― Juliette Cross, Darkest Heart

“You look like a naughty waiter," I remarked with a smile.

"You look like my delicious dinner." His dark gaze was in fact eating me up with relish.”
― Juliette Cross, Always Practice Safe Hex

“I’d slay the whole world to keep you safe.”
― Juliette Cross, Dragon Fire

“Also, loquacious?" I arched a brow. "Trying to impress me with your big vocabulary?"

"Since you're unwilling to check out my big cock, I thought it second best.”
― Juliette Cross, Always Practice Safe Hex

“My spirit balanced on the razor’s edge of light and dark, freedom and slavery, life and death.”
― Juliette Cross, Darkest Heart

“So that's what it feels like," he mumbles, his breath coming heavy as he tilted towards sleep.
"What, what feels like?" I asked into the dark, the moonlight painting the coverlet silver.
I thought he'd fallen asleep entirely, but then, "To fuck a woman I'd die for.”
― Juliette Cross, Darkest Heart

“... But I won't be your prey. There's only one hunter here." His grin sent a shiver down my spine. "I want something more from you, Sorcha Linden. More than your body.”
― Juliette Cross

“Words, Genevieve.” He smiled with such sadness, my heart cracked. “They mean nothing next to your actions. It is what we do that defines who we are and where our devotion truly lies.”
― Juliette Cross, Sealed in Sin

“I love the smell of sex and brimstone in the morning”
― Juliette Cross, Darkest Heart

“He was a grim. An unknown. And his aura made me want to be very, very naughty. With him. My desire was so blood-burning, throat-choking intense that I feared what would be left after that kind of love affair was all over.”
― Juliette Cross, Always Practice Safe Hex

“You’re like the perfect man conjured from my nerdiest fantasies.”
― Juliette Cross, Wolf Gone Wild

“He whispered in one long breath, “I have wanted you from the moment you first walked into my bedchamber, bringing me a bowl of broth from the kitchen. I have wanted you every second of every day and every long, long suffering night. It cut me to the bone so deep that I couldn’t control myself. I couldn’t keep away from you, not even in my dreams.”
― Juliette Cross, Dragon Fire

“I want you in my arms. I want you in my bed. I want to bury myself deep inside you and feel you shatter beneath me, again and again. I want you daily, nightly, repeatedly, constantly, forever. And when I know it’s safe to take you, you’d best be ready. If you’re not, you’d better run and hide, because it will take a legion of angels and demons to keep me off of you.”
― Juliette Cross, Forged in Fire

“The lines had blurred. Not just between good and evil, or heaven and hell. But in my own fucking black heart. What was left of it anyway. Seems this beguiling, enigmatic angel had sparked some pitiful little light there.”
― Juliette Cross, Darkest Heart

“You know, for a big, bad werewolf, you sure are sweet.”
― Juliette Cross, Wolf Gone Wild

“We may be rivals, Lavinia. But it doesn't make me want to fuck your brains out any less.”
― Juliette Cross, Always Practice Safe Hex

“Then take me to the stars, baby”
― Juliette Cross, Darkest Heart

“Are you the spiderman?" I asked, our breaths mingling, mouths inches apart.

"No, Lavinia." He shook his head then dipped closer to me. I was sure he would kiss me, but he skimmed his nose along my jaw until his lips brushed my ear. "You are," he grated, biting my lobe. "And I'm so fucking caught in your web.”
― Juliette Cross, Always Practice Safe Hex

“I was doomed. Fated to follow her and this quest till the end. Even if it led me to the darkest pit of hell. I heaved a deep sigh.

Maybe the darkest pit in hell was worth it.”
― Juliette Cross, Darkest Heart