Akil Vitalis Quotes

“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

“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

“What kind of fairytale ends with the Prince trying to flay the Princess?” “Is that what you are? A Princess?” Laughter danced with the light in his eyes. “Go to hell.” He pursed his lips then worked them together as though fighting his own words. “I wasn’t aware the fairytale was over.” He snorted a laugh. I crossed my arms and shot him a look. “You’re in denial.” “Denial? I’m the Prince of Greed. I don’t recognize denial.” “I noticed.”
― Pippa DaCosta, Devil May Care

“Hell, even Akil had sent demon-nasties after me in the past, although he appeared to have resolved his homicidal tendencies since I’d literally sucked the life out of him.”
― Pippa DaCosta, Darkest Before Dawn

“Surely the Prince of Greed and the Mother of Destruction can kick some demon-ass back to the netherworld. It might mess up your street-cred, but I’m sure an ego the size of yours can take it. Once we’ve averted disaster, you can go back to being the slippery, back-stabbing son-of-a-bitch I know so well.”
― Pippa DaCosta, Darkest Before Dawn

“Akil’s sexy-as-sin picture could be plastered all over the tabloids. He wouldn’t like that. His halo would slip in the eyes of the Boston public. Never mind that his tarnished halo hung on devil horns.”
― Pippa DaCosta, Darkest Before Dawn

“Speaking Akil’s name around Stefan felt like throwing gasoline on a bushfire." ~ Muse”
― Pippa DaCosta, Darkest Before Dawn

“I need to feel you as a man does a woman. You have no idea what it costs me to say these things to you. You cannot fathom what it means. I need you. I lay the truth before you. Would you turn me away? Right here and now, Muse, I am but a man.”
― Pippa DaCosta, Darkest Before Dawn

“Being human was a lot more difficult than it looked. Demon was easy. Demon was simple. Human was…terrifying." Muse”
― Pippa DaCosta, Ties That Bind

“Muse is not to be so easily dismissed. She is quite capable of turning your insides to ash before you can draw breath to apologize.”
― Pippa DaCosta, Devil May Care

“He stood in my quaint kitchen, looking somewhere between intrigued and mildly bored, the picture of sophisticated elegance in his obscenely expensive suit. Cufflinks reflected the light while his eyes captured it. Immortal. Ageless. Infinite. So toxic, he should come with a danger-of-death warning sign.”
― Pippa DaCosta, Darkest Before Dawn