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For a Few Demons More (The Hollows, #5) QUOTES

For a Few Demons More (The Hollows, #5) QUOTES

1 " As my hand found his, bitter salt tears spilled from my eyes, in sorrow and pain and regret that I had so utterly failed him. "

― Kim Harrison , For a Few Demons More (The Hollows, #5)

2 " That's why I want you there, he said. You're unpredictable, and that can be the difference between success and failure. Most people make decisions in anger, fear, love, or obligation. You make decisions to irritate people. "

― Kim Harrison , For a Few Demons More (The Hollows, #5)

3 " I’ve got your back. Nothing alive will ever hurt you if I have breath in me. And nothing dead will hurt you if I don’t.” (Kisten) "

― Kim Harrison , For a Few Demons More (The Hollows, #5)

4 " Having been a demon curse, however brief, should leave a mark. A streak of silver hair, or bewitching eyes. Maybe crows on one's roof or a hound from hell at your heel. Blowing out my breath I stood and squinted at my reflection. A black eye. Swell. "

― Kim Harrison , For a Few Demons More (The Hollows, #5)

5 " There were no more choices, no more options, no more clever ways out of a tough situation. And the rush, I realized in a brutal wash of despair, is a false god I’ve chased my entire life. One that cost me everything in the blind search for sensation. My entire existence amounted to nothing. "

― Kim Harrison , For a Few Demons More (The Hollows, #5)

6 " I’m your worst nightmare come to walk this side of the lines. I’m an elf, Trent something you’re forgotten how to be. You’re scared of black magic. I can see fear shimmering under your aura like sweat. I live and breathe black magic. I’m so tainted with it that I will use it without thought, without guilt and without hesitation. "

― Kim Harrison , For a Few Demons More (The Hollows, #5)

7 " Do you hurt uncle Kisten', he asked.(...) but Kisten beat me to it. “Only my heart, Audric,” he said. “Ms. Rachel is like the sun. See her sparkling there with the wind in her hair and fire in her eyes? You can’t catch the sun. You can only feel its touch on your face. And if you get too much of it, it burns you. "

― Kim Harrison , For a Few Demons More (The Hollows, #5)

8 " CINCINNATI MORGUE, AN EQUAL-OPPORTUNITY SERVICE SINCE 1966. "

― Kim Harrison , For a Few Demons More (The Hollows, #5)

9 " Trent sighed, visibly bothered at my admittedly childish behavior, but I was hot, damn it, and needed money, and therefore I was vulnerable to his bribes and his air-conditioned car. "

― Kim Harrison , For a Few Demons More (The Hollows, #5)

10 " Minias smiled. Great. Another charming demon. I sort of prefer the insane ones. "

― Kim Harrison , For a Few Demons More (The Hollows, #5)

11 " See, this was why I liked coffee. You couldn’t screw up making coffee. Even the bad stuff was good. "

― Kim Harrison , For a Few Demons More (The Hollows, #5)

12 " Lately I’d begun carrying pain amulets in my bag, like some people have breath mints. "

― Kim Harrison , For a Few Demons More (The Hollows, #5)

13 " It was a nice bit of blackmail that kept him off my back, but he refused to take the message that I wasn’t going to work for him. ’Course, that might be my fault…since I seemed unable to say no when he waved enough money at me. "

― Kim Harrison , For a Few Demons More (The Hollows, #5)

14 " And don’t try to sell me any crap about the kindly demon. I know three of you now, and you are all evil, insane, or just plain nasty. "

― Kim Harrison , For a Few Demons More (The Hollows, #5)

15 " Piscary killed people, but he didn’t have the concept of pity or remorse. It would be like telling a shark he was a bad fish and to stop eating people. But Trent? He knew he was doing wrong, and he did it anyway. "

― Kim Harrison , For a Few Demons More (The Hollows, #5)

16 " Get your hand off me,” I exclaimed, voice loud with misplaced anger as I yanked away from his grip. “I’m a professional, not some distraught girlfriend.” Well, I was that too, but I knew how to act at a crime scene. "

― Kim Harrison , For a Few Demons More (The Hollows, #5)

17 " The gentle sound of her words became the shushing of my blood in my head, and I listened, hovering on the edge of consciousness, bathed in the oblivion of whatever drug they had given me. "

― Kim Harrison , For a Few Demons More (The Hollows, #5)

18 " From my ear Jenks snickered. “Awwww, you two are so sweet, I could fart fairy balls. "

― Kim Harrison , For a Few Demons More (The Hollows, #5)

19 " Ivy and I will deal with the uncomfortable situation like we always have…by ignoring it. It was something we were both good at. "

― Kim Harrison , For a Few Demons More (The Hollows, #5)

20 " I felt sick. Buying Kisten’s and my safety from Piscary was so wrong. But it was either that or deal with a demon, and I’d rather keep my soul clean and let my morals get dingy. "

― Kim Harrison , For a Few Demons More (The Hollows, #5)