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21 " It felt good. It felt right, like a step in the right direction when lately, all I’d been doing was stumbling further and further toward chaos. "
― Pippa DaCosta , Devil May Care (The Veil, #2)
22 " fire is nothing without the air it breathes. "
23 " So this was how it was going to be: use the half-blood for her peculiar party tricks. I should have expected it. I’d been used to it most of my life. Why should things change now? "
24 " I had yet to convince the powers-that-be that I was mentally stable. I knew something they didn’t; I hadn’t ever been mentally stable, and it was unlikely I ever would be. "
25 " I had control issues, enough emotional baggage to excite a team of psychiatrists, and—thanks to my demon half—a penchant for snap decisions driven by instinct. And that was when my demon was subdued. When she came to the party, I was as stable as a nuclear reactor on meltdown. "
26 " I’d summoned enough of my element from beyond the veil to ignite a near-nuclear reaction and then snuffed it out instead of unleashing it. The fact that I was still alive was a miracle, and I suspected it was something to do with PC34. I’d slapped my demon right back down, shoved her in a box, and stuffed her away in some dark mental hiding place. When she came back she was going to be pissed. "
27 " It was my turn to smile. “I’m not all bad.” Her grin faded, and her eyes cooled. “Half-blood turned Enforcer? You’re about as bad as they get. "
28 " Well, it beat being tied to a bed and drugged up to the eyeballs. "
29 " The air I dragged through my teeth strummed with frequencies beyond human interpretation. Power. Chaos. Home. "
30 " Fifteen years to make Muse the woman. A few hours with Damien to unmake me. "
31 " I may not have been a good woman, but I wasn’t a coward. I wouldn’t run. "
32 " Light swirled beneath her skin like a genie in a bottle. Four-pronged gossamer wings unfurled behind her. They briefly beat the air too quickly for me to see each stroke. "
33 " Sometimes, when you sleep with the enemy, waking up is the hardest part. "
34 " They say time heals . It doesn’t. It masks. I wore a mask of confidence— a mask of determination— because it was all I had left. Inside, I was a wreck "
35 " Muse. Holy-hell. You’re the half-blood who ruined the Prince of Greed. "
36 " Tears are useless things; tiny droplets of salt infused water, insignificant and pitiful. "
37 " If I ever have to get that close to the Prince of Greed again, it’ll be too fuckin’ soon. And I ain’t ever doin’ that Star-Trek teleportation crap again, yah hear? I feel dirty . "