Elder Races Quotes

“The love has got to be bigger than everything else. The isolation, the separation, the danger. When the love is bigger than all of that – you just do it. You pay the price in uncertainty and sometimes bereavement, because every moment you’re together is worth the cost.”
― Thea Harrison, Moonshadow

“I didn’t know I was looking for you, but I was,” he whispered.”
― Thea Harrison, Moonshadow

“There was nothing else in the entire universe, nothing but the two of them together. Her curves, his angles. Her light, his darkness. Her softness, his exquisitely aching hardness.
Male. Female.”
― Thea Harrison, Moonshadow

“Stop looking at my mouth.”
His eyes darkened, as she saw his pupils dilate. He mouthed back, just as silently. “What if I don’t want to stop looking at your mouth?”
― Thea Harrison, Moonshadow

“Why use a sledgehammer when a butterfly net will suffice?”
― Thea Harrison, Moonshadow

“He pointed the dripping tip of his sword at her and said between his teeth, “Are you insane? You ran into the building.”
She wiped monster blood off her lips. “Apparently, so did you.”
― Thea Harrison, Moonshadow

“She said, “Thank God. The spell didn’t recognize you as an enemy.”
He gave in to his impulse at last and cupped her chin, stepping close so that he could feel the heat from her body. It was a subtle warmth that touched him in places he didn’t understand and had long denied existed. “That’s because I’m not your enemy, Sophie.”
― Thea Harrison, Moonshadow

“I want to do everything to you, all at once,” he muttered. “I want to stroke you, fuck you, hold you down, lift you up, pin you, take you. I want you to take me. Lord and Lady, Sophie, I don’t know that I have any gentleness in me tonight.”
― Thea Harrison, Moonshadow

“He hissed, “You do not strike the King!”
“You’re not my king!” she shouted back.”
― Thea Harrison, Lionheart

“He hadn’t eaten for a very long time, and he was in the mood to find out what a falcon tasted like.”
― Thea Harrison, Lionheart

“The heavy sense of his presence, like dark chocolate, poured over her. She repressed a shiver. She loved dark chocolate.”
― Thea Harrison, Lionheart

“I apologize for my earlier behavior.”
She gave him a sidelong grin. “You’re not really sorry.”
He gave that due thought. Carefully he said, “I am regretful that I am not sorry. Does that count?”
― Thea Harrison, Lionheart

“We have to get you a haircut sometime today. You're starting to look like a sulky rock star."
"Well, I am a rock star," he said, deadpan”
― Thea Harrison, Liam Takes Manhattan

“He was surrounded by people who loved him, yet he had never felt lonelier.”
― Thea Harrison, Liam Takes Manhattan

“Kids these days," Dragos said quietly. "They grow up so fast."
"Supersonic fast," Pia said just as quietly.”
― Thea Harrison, Liam Takes Manhattan

“They were all Fae, yet not fully Fae. They were among the rarest of all the Elder Races. In modern-day slang, they were “triple threats,” creatures with the blood of three different races flowing through their veins. The strongest, most magical – the most tainted.
The Fae of the Light Court called them ‘abomination.’
Nikolas called them brothers.”
― Thea Harrison, Moonshadow

“I wish to know what you are doing here,” he whispered to the unknown woman, drumming his fingers on the road. “And what you might have to do with a stray puck and an enemy Queen.”
― Thea Harrison, Moonshadow

“The enemy of her enemy was not necessarily her friend.”
― Thea Harrison, Moonshadow

“His true nature, leopard, knight, and prince…
“Just as you see the Wyr in me, I see the Djinn in you.”
― Thea Harrison, Moonshadow

“What do you think about having some orgasms to celebrate?”
― Thea Harrison, Moonshadow

“Giving her a slow, coaxing smile that turned the heat in the room up by a thousand degrees, he stroked her lips with the balls of his thumbs as he murmured, “Can we get back to talking about possibly inviting that werewolf for sex?”
― Thea Harrison, Spellbinder

“She turned to Dragos. “I’m sorry I’m so crabby.”
His eyes gleamed in a subtle smile. “You’re very pregnant,” he told her. “And as you are well aware, I’ve read several books about pregnancy. I’ve decided to consider you somewhat insane until the baby is born.”
― Thea Harrison, Planet Dragos

“In that moment, there was nothing sweeter than the taste of his prey’s name on his lips.”
― Thea Harrison, Planet Dragos

“Dragos leaned forward and told her, “You are the best lying non-liar I have ever met.”
― Thea Harrison, Planet Dragos

“Still. Always.”
― Thea Harrison, Planet Dragos

“Leaning forward, she pressed her lips to his. His mouth was so still, so warm and perfect. Her closed eyes filled with dampness as she lingered over the sensation of touching his lips with hers.
It felt like saying goodbye to a man she had never met and could barely acknowledge to herself that she had truly wanted to.
Then he moved.
He moved.”
― Thea Harrison, Lionheart

“I have unanswered questions, Dr. Shaw,” Oberon said.
“We all have something,” she told him. After resting for almost two hours, her voice was marginally better. “I have a full bladder, but I don’t feel safe enough to pee.”
― Thea Harrison, Lionheart

“I’ll sleep enough when I’m dead.”
― Thea Harrison, Lionheart

“He might have survived all this time only to have his healer kill him after all.”
― Thea Harrison, Lionheart

“He added, “And we’re having sex tonight, goddammit.”

The last of her odd sadness broke apart as she laughed.

And there it was, that moment, with happiness dancing in her aquamarine gaze and the air around her effervescent with her Power – that moment was what the dragon would do anything and kill anyone for.

That moment was what he lived for.

That one, and then the one after that, and the one after that, all grouped together in his mind like luminous pearls on a string. Each one came to him new, a perpetual gift of joyful surprise, and as rich as he was, and as many jewels as he’d acquired, those moments were the sum total of the dragon’s true treasure.”
― Thea Harrison, The Unseen