Aja James > Quotes

“If you want blood, come and get it. If you're here to fuck me, just name your place and position. Otherwise, get out.”
― Aja James, Pure Healing

“Not for his people, not for the world he protected, but for himself. He wanted to matter. To her.”
― Aja James, Pure Healing

“Love cannot be stolen. It can only be given. And it always takes two to make it happen. -- Mama Bear”
― Aja James, Dark Longing

“You have what she needs," he said again. "And you're capable of giving her more than she'd ever bargained for because you love her. Wether she wants it or not, it's your gift to her. True love requires no reciprocation. True love is unconditional.”
― Aja James, Pure Healing

“Pain is transitory despite its depths. Hate eventually eats itself into a hollow void. Sadness can last only as long as life itself. But love, love extends beyound reason and time. -- Excerpt from the Lost Chapters of the Ecliptic Scrolls”
― Aja James, Dark Longing

“How do we know the brilliance of Light if there is no Darkness to remind us? How do we thrive in the night without the sunrise to warm us?”
― Aja James, Pure Rapture

“For me, every soul has something to give, something to teach us, and it's our responsibility -- no, privilege -- to give what we can, to love when we can. -- Inanna Sharru-kinu”
― Aja James, Dark Longing

“Who are we truly? The one we are born or the one we are made? Where does our path lead? The one with footprints behind us or the one that Destiny laid?”
― Aja James, Pure Rapture

“Please," he begged, though he knew not for what. He'd never asked anything of anyone. Never put himself in such a vulnerable position. But he had no pride at this moment. He was utterly slain by her gentleness.”
― Aja James, Pure Healing

“Involuntarily, Valarius felt a stab of envy, but he tamped it down. He had no right to feel possessiveness toward her. He was nothing, and she, she was everything.”
― Aja James, Pure Healing

“Her mom always encouraged her to ask for things. Tell the truth. Ask permission. Unless you have to do something you know is right and can’t wait for permission. Then ask for forgiveness. But always be true to yourself and be honest with your feelings. No point beating around the bush when life is short.”
― Aja James, Dark Desires

“How do I please you," he whispered, embarrassed by his own deplorable lack of knowledge and skill.”
― Aja James, Pure Healing

“I didn’t care if we never consummated our union as long as you could be with me forever. One moment with you is far more precious than a lifetime with anyone else. I died when you did. Inside. I died…”
― Aja James, Dark Longing

“You will take me," he said resolutely. "You will accept me into your body.”
― Aja James, Pure Healing

“Just as surely as he loved her with all his being, he faced and accepted a second irrefutable truth: With this joining, with the surrender of his life force into the female he loved, he had entered his Decline.  Valerius had begun to die.”
― Aja James, Pure Healing

“What is Fate but pearls of choices strung together? What is Destiny but a path we walk on our own free will? Remember, Dark Ones, that nothing is written in the fabric of time until you decide where, when and what shall be the first verse. -- Excerpt from the Lost Chapters of the Ecliptic Scrolls”
― Aja James, Dark Longing

“This is who you are—the man I love.”

A shuddering sigh filled his chest as he opened his lips beneath hers, simply breathing her in.

Love me, he invited. Even though I don’t deserve it. Even though I’m afraid to accept it. I can’t stop myself from wanting it with every piece of my blackened soul.

-Eli & Clara”
― Aja James, Dark Redemption

“He would do what he had to do. He would do everything in his power to protect those he loved. As long as he could live with his conscience afterwards. -- Gabriel D'Angelo”
― Aja James, Dark Longing

“Battle often made vampires sexually aroused. And Ana was a full-blooded female warrior. Blood, sex and war were her specialty. Vampires likely invented the words “bloodlust” and “bloodthirsty.”
― Aja James, Dark Longing

“released the breath he didn’t realize he was holding”
― Aja James, Pure Healing

“Like a constantly rolling sphere, the Cycle of Life did not necessarily follow a straight line; it could curve into a better, brighter Path or a darker, bleaker Path, based on the force of choices made.”
― Aja James, Pure Healing

“long legs stretched before him, elbows on his slightly bent knees, he was eye level with a thumb-sucking little girl with what looked to be a disproportionately large head atop a bone-thin body.  She popped her thumb out of her mouth with a wet noise and held both arms toward him expectantly.  Valerius stared at her motionlessly, uncertain what he should do. She tilted her head sideways as if in thought, then seemed to make a decision.  If the mountain wouldn’t come to her, she was going to take herself to the mountain.  She waddled bravely between the warrior’s spread legs and crawled unceremoniously into his lap.  She grabbed one of his forearms with both little hands, surprisingly strong in their sticky grip, yanking a few of his hairs in the process, and pulled his arm around to hold her securely in his lap, where she wriggled around to find a comfortable position and promptly stuck a thumb back into her mouth.”
― Aja James, Pure Healing

“from Pure Healing

Just because I can't throw away my virginity at the closest dick on hand doesn't mean I can't date”
― Aja James

“He was wearing sunglasses despite the descending dark, but she could recognize him by his long, smooth strides from a mile away, the way his wide shoulders moved in sync with his narrow hips and tight ass. Meow. He could strut her catwalk any time.”
― Aja James, Dark Desires

“What is Fate but pearls of choices strung together? What is Destiny but a path we walk on of our own free will? Remember, Dark Ones, that nothing is written in the fabric of time until you decide where, when and what shall be the first verse.”
― Aja James, Dark Longing

“trapezoids”
― Aja James, Pure Healing

“After all, if I pass, I’ll have financial accounting to look forward to.  Isn’t that punishment enough?”
― Aja James, Pure Healing

“What is written cannot be unwritten, what is said cannot be unsaid. What is remembered can be a vision; Fate can be unwoven by pulling a single thread.”
― Aja James, Pure Rapture

“The past is written but incomplete, each story a footprint amongst countless feet. The truth is revealed but only a grain, a speck of sand amongst a vast desert plain.”
― Aja James, Pure Rapture

“The women were beautiful, but they hadn’t been attractive. Not to Devlin, anyway. Grace Darling was attractive, not beautiful. But apparently, at this juncture of Devlin’s accumulated experience, Grace was the only female who attracted him. That made her special. Unique.”
― Aja James, Dark Pleasures