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81 " All I did was go to sleep. There shouldn’t be anything safer than that. (Kiara)Spoken like a true civilian. Trust me, princess, that’s the most dangerous thing anyone does…Well, that, and go to the can. (Nykyrian) "
― Sherrilyn Kenyon , Born of Night (The League: Nemesis Rising #1)
82 " You’ve been downgraded from a thrill-kill to a simple bill-kill. (Nykyrian)Bill-kill? (Kiara)Kill you any way possible and send the bill in for payment. (Nykyrian)I can’t believe that someone’s life can be bartered and sold so easily. That it’s so common that there are even names for the different ways to take a person’s life. For torturing them? My God, what is wrong with you people? (Kiara)We’re not the ones who are sick, mu Tara. With us –the predators– you know what we’ll do and why we do it. What we’re capable of. We make no bones about it and we wear the uniform so that you can see us coming. The ones who are sickening are the cowards who masquerade as sheep. The ones who lull you into trusting them and smile at your face while they plot your downfall behind your back for any number of psychotic reasons. The friends who turn on you out of jealousy or greed. Who try to ruin you for no reason at all. They are the ones who should be put down. And they’re the ones who are truly sickening. (Nykyrian) "
83 " Oh my God…How could he do such a thing? What kind of monster is he? (Kiara)You think you’re so unsullied. How dare you sit there like some high queen dispensing her judgment on us. Don’t waste pity on Arast. If he’d been given the chance, he’d have raped you slowly and in ways you can’t even conceive of, then cut you into little pieces and fed you to his dogs. All except your head with your contorted fear permanently twisted on your pretty little face – that he would have sent home to your father as a present, but only after he’d been paid. And that’s nice compared to what he’d have done to Nykyrian. To what he’s done to Nykyrian in the past. (Syn) "
84 " How frail you are. I don’t want to hurt you by accident. (Nykyrian)I’m not as frail as I appear. I know from lots of experience that I bounce really well. (Kiara)I would kill anyone who hurt you. (Nykyrian) "
85 " I’ll kill her, freak. (Pitala)Then I’ll kill you and laugh while I do it. Either way it’s no real sweat off my balls. Release her and you can at least walk away alive. But that’s not a standing offer. Make your mind up quick before I kill you just for getting me out on a night when I’d rather be at home doing needlework. (Nykyrian) "
86 " What happened to Darling’s face? (Kiara)It got his. Repeatedly. (Syn) "
87 " Turn yourself over to Aksel, and I might let her go. (Arast)Yeah, right. And I’m a one-legged dung dealer. (Nykyrian) "
88 " Did you bathe in Chenz and Pitiri's blood?" Darling asked him. Nykyrian gave him a condemning stare. "I would have, had someone not detonated their charges prematurely." "Yeah, Cruel. You have to watch that premature detonation problem of yours." Darling tossed a throwing knife at Hauk's head. Hauk caught it and laughed as he tossed it back at Darling who caught it just as easily. "You keep doing that, human, and you're going to hurt my feelings." "You don't have feelings, Andarion." "Not true. Compared to Nykyrian, I'm as sensitive as a woman." "God knows you're beginning to whine like one. "
89 " who are you? really."Nykyrian shrugged. "Never figured it out. takes too much time to think about myself, and time is one luxury i don't own." pg.90 "
90 " You have no idea how many times I’ve been barricaded inside a box in my life. I know it’s for my protection. But that doesn’t mean I have to like it. (Kiara) "
91 " The redheaded man flashed her a dazzling smile. He really was gorgeous. "They're only teasing you." He stood and extended his hand to her. "I'm Darling Cruel and yes, my parents really were nasty enough to name me that."Kiara shook his gloved hand as she realized this was the man Syn had wanted to kill when they rescued her. Something in Dalring's manner reminded her of an aristocrat. He seemed easy enough to get along with, unlike the two Andarions.He indicated the Andarion eating her food as he retook his seat. "The glutton is Dancer Hauk.""Dancer?" Kiara was amused by the revelation.Hauk stiffened. "It means 'killer' in Andarion."Darling laughed, a deep throaty sound as he draped his arms over the back of the couch in a decidedly masculine pose. "You wish. Nykyrian told me it meant 'of beautiful cheeks.'"Hauk gave Nykyrian a glare that bordered on murder.Nykyrian shrugged, apparently unconcerned by the unspoken threat. "Don't waste that look on me, chiran. I didn't name you and I can't help it if your adoring mother was as sick as Darling's."-Darling, Kiara, Hauk, & Nykyrian "
92 " Syn let out a tired breath. “I’d never hit you, Cruel. I only fantasize about strangling you. "
93 " What the hell was that action?"Syn asked him."I think it´s something called ´paternal concern.´"Syn scowled at his bland explanation. "What...? You sure? I thought that crap was a myth." Nykyrian shrugged. "No, really. I watched it once in a documentary. It was fascinating. Belive it or not, there are people out there who actually have feelings for their progeny." "Get the f*ck out. No way. You´re screwing with my head again, aren´t you?" "No, I swear. You just saw it with your own eyes. I did not make this shit up." Syn shivered. "Yeah but it´s really messing with my concept of natural order of the universe. Paternal love? What´s next? Limp regrowth? Genetic splicing reversals? "
94 " Syn checked the lorina's feeder in the kitchen. "Where are the mongrels?"Nykyrian took a sip of tea before he answered. "They were confused by all the people. Last I saw of them, they were hiding out in my bed."Darling frowned. "They don't bite, do they?"Nykyrian scoffed. "I'm the only thing that bites in this house."-Syn, Nykyrian, & Darling "
95 " Did you bathe in Chenz's and Petiri's blood?" Darling asked him.Nykyrian gave Darling a condemning stare. "I would have, had someone not detonated their charges prematurely.""Yeah, Cruel. You have to watch that premature detonation problem of yours."Darling tossed a throwing knife at Hauk's head. Hauk caught it and laughed before he tossed it back at Darling who caught it just as easily. "You keep doing that, human, and you're going to hurt my feelings.""You don't have feelings, Andarion.""Not true. Compared to Nykyrian, I'm as sensitive as a woman.""God knows you're beginning to whine like one."-Darling, Nykyrian, & Hauk "
96 " Life wasn't for the timid. It was harsh and it was biting.But the one thing that made it bearable was the people you cared for. It was finding that light in the darkness. That peace in hell. "
97 " Most people would rather suffer through a bad situation than take steps needed to free themselves... "
98 " Didn’t matter how much love you gave them. How good you treated them. How you gave them everything you wish to the gods you’d had, including respect. It didn’t matter how much you hated the life you’d been forced against your will to live or how hard you’d try to put the past behind you. They cursed you for surviving and judged you on a past you despised even more than they did. He and Nykyrian were the ones who’d lived in hell, and these assholes who had no understanding of the world dared to look down on them for it. "
99 " Nykyrian glanced up from his dinner preparations. "Syn has a brain disorder that causes him to lie most of the time. Ignore him."Syn snorted. "I don't lie. I merely tell the truth creatively." -Nykyrian & Syn "
100 " He’d tried to sleep, too, but that was an elusive bitch who had no use for him tonight. "