Echo Chen

“I lunged for the dagger and sat on top of him, my knees pinning his arms, my dagger on his throat.
He lay still. “I give up,” he said and smiled. “Your move.”
Er. I was sitting atop the Beast Lord in my underwear, holding a knife to his throat. What the hell was my next move?
Curran’s gaze fixed on a point on my shoulder. “That’s a claw mark,” he said, his voice gaining a hard edge. “Wolf. Who?”
“Nobody!” Oh, now there was a brilliant answer. He would believe that.”
― Ilona Andrews, Magic Strikes

“« Are you hungry, baby?” Curran asked.
“Starving.”
“I think we should go to dinner.”
“Great idea.”
“What are you going to wear?”
“My badass face.”
“Good choice,” he said. »”
― Ilona Andrews, Magic Rises

“May fortune be kind, and the night gentle.”
― Robin Hobb, Fool's Fate

“Goodbye, FitzChivalry Farseer.”
― Robin Hobb , Fool's Fate