Shadow Rider Series Quotes

“She looked down onto his face. So gorgeous. It wasn't just his beautiful, very masculine features, it was the way he was inside. "I'm in love with you. There isn't anything that you can tell me that is going to change that.”
― Christine Feehan, Shadow Warrior

“He'd always had his family, his brothers and sister, and they had formed a unit so strong, when he was younger, he hadn't thought he would ever need anyone else. Loneliness taught him otherwise.”
― Christine Feehan, Shadow Warrior

“Grace had filled those lonely places, replacing them with laughter and conversation. She'd given him the purpose he needed there in his home to maintain his balance in a world of stark duty.”
― Christine Feehan, Shadow Warrior

“She was...salvation. Everything good. She lit up a room just as she lit up his life.”
― Christine Feehan, Shadow Warrior

“She took away sorrow and anger, replacing it with acceptance and love.”
― Christine Feehan, Shadow Warrior

“Justice is served, " he said softly, and stepped into a long shadow.”
― Christine Feehan, Shadow Warrior

“I knew the moment I saw your courage on that plane, Nicoletta. I knew you. What was inside you, and I knew I had to learn to be man enough to deserve to call you mine.”
― Christine Feehan, Shadow Flight

“Claiming her as his. He was rough, demanding and possessive. He wanted her to feel his brand of love. Complete. Encompassing. Reverent. Carnal.”
― Christine Feehan, Shadow Warrior

“She was an intelligent woman and she wasn't just going to hand herself over to him because she was tempted. He loved that about her because it meant when she did fully surrender, he'd earned it and he had a much better chance of keeping her when he had to tell her he was a shadow rider and what that meant for both of them.”
― Christine Feehan, Shadow Warrior

“He'd meant what he'd said when he'd told her he didn't want to ever see her hurt or with tears in her eyes. He knew never was a long time, but he would still do his best to make that promise count.”
― Christine Feehan, Shadow Warrior

“It was at home, when she was alone with herself, the way she'd been her entire life, that she was lost. She had no purpose. No focus. No center to balance her. Now, this man, Vittorio Ferraro, an amazing, sensual, intelligent man offered those things to her.”
― Christine Feehan, Shadow Warrior

“He smiled at her, looking more like temptation than ever before. She didn't care, she wanted everything he could give her.”
― Christine Feehan

“The feelings of conquest and possession mixing with love were a heady combination. Those traits were deep in him and she accepted him without judgment. How could he not be in love with her?”
― Christine Feehan, Shadow Warrior

“His shadow and hers had become entangled in spite of his efforts to keep them apart. Although, truthfully, he hadn't tried that hard. He knew if she rejected him, the consequences to him would be dire.”
― Christine Feehan, Shadow Warrior

“Vittorio had recognized early on he had a gift. His voice could be compelling, or commanding, and those in a room reacted to it. He could calm others down, arouse or infuriate, all with his tone.”
― Christine Feehan, Shadow Warrior

“The rider uses a technique, breaking the neck cleanly, so there is no suffering. That is why it is important not to allow it to be personal if at all possible. You always want the visit to be about justice, not revenge.”
― Christine Feehan, Shadow Warrior

“She could be a phoenix, rising like that firebird from the ashes of who she had been”
― Christine Feehan, Shadow Flight

“I promised myself I'd wait until you turned twenty-one and that's in a few more weeks. I already know that's too damned far away.”
― Christine Feehan, Shadow Flight

“When she couldn't sleep and the nightmares were too close, she listened to them, sang the lyrics and let them carry the worst of her past away.”
― Christine Feehan, Shadow Flight

“I took you into the shadows, which it strictly forbidden. I gave you a glimpse of the life we lead. I can bring you all the way in or leave you behind right now. You have to choose.”
― Christine Feehan, Shadow Flight

“She was known as QBSITDROH" She rattled off the letters fast as if she'd used them often. [...]
"You'll have to teach your special name to sisters-in-law. They occasionally need a humorous way to cope. What does it stand for?"
"Queen bitch spawned in the deepest recesses of hell.”
― Christine Feehan, Shadow Warrior

“He needed her to know who he was-her man. Her lover. The man she trusted to always take care of her, have her back, give her everything.”
― Christine Feehan, Shadow Warrior

“There's always going to be a part of me that is that little girl no one wanted.”
― Christine Feehan, Shadow Warrior

“By conversing about the weather, a job, just everyday things, whoever was listening would be able to ascertain a rythm to a voice. The way a person breathed. Their heartbeat. That would help indicate if they suddenly told a lie.”
― Christine Feehan, Shadow Warrior

“She glanced at it now, thrown from the light from the flames dancing in the fireplace. Her shadow and Vittorio's were connected. More than connected. The tubes had intertwined to the point that it appeared to be one shadow, not two.”
― Christine Feehan, Shadow Warrior

“He could hurry everything else in his life, but he was never going to make the mistake of hurrying his time with Grace. She was too important and everything else could take a backseat.”
― Christine Feehan , Shadow Warrior

“She would be a part of their world and that meant secrecy at all times. She couldn't tell a soul anything he told her. Trust worked both ways and he was trusting her with his life and the lives of his family members.”
― Christine Feehan, Shadow Warrior

“He could see faint streaks of light as if the man left behind prints. They didn't appear like footprints, there were more faint bluish lights, more of a blob-line than a print, but every person left them behind and from shadows he could see them. He couldn't spot the imaging once out of tube, but the shadows acted as if he was seeing through a thermal lens.”
― Christine Feehan, Shadow Warrior

“He breathed away all the anger, all emotions, cloaking himself with Grace and everything in him settled, once more allowing complete control.”
― Christine Feehan, Shadow Warrior

“Then she became aware of a deep sadness in Emmanuelle and she found herself growing protective of Taviano's sister for no reason she really understood other than she seemed very sad at times.”
― Christine Feehan, Shadow Flight