Trez Selena The Shadows Quotes

“Just then, a telltale scent reached Trez’s nose and rocketed through his blood, the impact wrenching his head and his body around …
Whereupon he lost all thought. All breath. And all of his soul.
Selena stood at the head of the bloodred-carpeted steps, her lovely hand resting on the gold-leafed balustrade, her body held stiffly, as if she weren’t sure about her shoes, or her dress, or maybe even her hair.
There was absolutely nothing to worry about.
Unless she had a problem with being an H-bomb.”
― j r ward

“Selena’s brows rose even higher. “Trez, I heard something—”
“—’cuz I’m that desperate to have you!”
“—that sounded like a gun!”
They were both hollering over the engine, going back and forth as Fritz bat-out-of-hell’d it away from all the bullets.
And then the fun really began.”
― j r ward

“The flimsy things broke apart as they crashed on the sidewalk, sheets of papers fluttering off like doves released from cages.
As he turned back to Selena, he braced himself, trying to think of a way to reassure her—
Au contraire.
Selena was alive with excitement, her fangs flashing thanks to a huge smile, a giggling laugh bubbling out of her as she hung on to the door.
“Faster!” she yelled at Fritz. “Let’s go even faster!”
“As you wish, mistress!”
A fresh roar from that massive piece of German engineering under the hood sent them careening not just down the sidewalk, but right up to the very edge of the laws of physics.
Selena looked over at him. “This is the best night ever!”
― j r ward

“But of course, time didn't work like that. And memory is but a television show of your own life, a movie screen that you can play witness to, but not interact with, change to course of, redirect.”
― j r ward