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“You can run. You can keep running to the ends of the earth. But I won鈥檛 be far behind you.鈥�

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鈥淣o. I will never be far behind you.鈥� He tipped up my chin so that I could do nothing else but look back into his eyes. 鈥淒o the things you need to do. Learn to be a vampire, to be a warrior, to be the soldier you are capable of being. But consider the possibility that I made a mistake I regret鈥攁nd that I鈥檒l continue to regret that mistake and try to convince you to give me another chance until the earth stops turning.”
― Chloe Neill, Hard Bitten

“He's twenty-nine. And what did you think he was going to look like?"
She shrugged.
"You know-old. Grizzled. Long white beard. Scruffy robes. Loveable, smart, a little absent minded."
I bit back a grin.
" I said 'sorcerer,' not 'Dumbledore.' So he's hot. It could be worse.”
― Chloe Neill, Some Girls Bite

“The merit of all things lies in their difficulty.”
― Alexandre Dumas, The Three Musketeers

“I wanted what most people wanted鈥攍ove, companionship.
I wanted someone to touch. I wanted someone to touch me back.
I wanted someone to laugh with, someone who would laugh with me, laugh at me.
I wanted someone who looked and sawme . Not my power, not my position.
I wanted someone to say my name. To call out, 鈥淢erit,鈥� when it was time to go, or when we arrived.
Someone who wanted to say to someone else, with pride, 鈥淚鈥檓 here with her. With Merit.鈥�
I wanted all those things. Indivisibly.
But I didn鈥檛 want them from Morgan.”
― Chloe Neill, Friday Night Bites

“Let鈥檚 just remember, Sullivan, that I want you for your smoked meats and your smoked meats only.鈥�
He barked out a laugh. 鈥淭ouch茅, Sentinel.”
― Chloe Neill, Twice Bitten

“I am beginning to remember what it means to need things. Laughter. Companionship. Love. "
He leant forward and pressed his forehead to mine. "And I need you, Merit.”
― Chloe Neill, Twice Bitten

“Lindsey patted my arm. 鈥淒on鈥檛 be embarrassed. It鈥檚 about time you two made the beast with two backs.鈥�
I had to work to form words. 鈥淭here are so many things wrong with that statement, I don鈥檛 know where to start.”
― Chloe Neill, Twice Bitten

“Sometimes hanging out in pajamas with a good book sounded like a phenomenal idea.”
― Chloe Neill, Hard Bitten

“Well, I suppose I could follow his advice. Are you hungry?鈥�
鈥淪urprisingly enough, not at the moment.鈥�
鈥淲ill miracles never cease?鈥�
鈥淗a,鈥� I said”
― Chloe Neill, Twice Bitten

“Now that, my friends, is what we vampires call a good exit.”
― Chloe Neill, Twice Bitten

“A slap wouldn鈥檛 have pulled me out of the trance any faster.”
― Chloe Neill, Some Girls Bite

“I'll have you in my bed again, Sentinel. And at my side. That is a promise.”
― Chloe Neill, Hard Bitten

“Avoidance helped settle the emotions. Considerably.”
― Chloe Neill, Friday Night Bites

“Give me something to go on, here. What kind of black magic are we talking? Elphaba,Wicked Witch of the West-type stuff or Slytherin-type stuff?”
― Chloe Neill, Hard Bitten

“You are caught, Sentinel.' His voice was rough.”
― Chloe Neill, Twice Bitten

“You give me thirty-two inches of folded steel and I'll take on anyone you want." -- Merit”
― Chloe Neill, Hard Bitten

“I wouldn鈥檛 say I was forward, but I made a move when I was interested.”
― Chloe Neill, Some Girls Bite

“Beware of those who criticize you when you deserve some praise for an achievement, for it is they who secretly desire to be worshiped.”
― Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

“When a gift is deserved, it is not a gift but a payment.”
― Gene Wolfe, Shadow & Claw

“And that鈥檚 why we鈥檙e sending Boobs McGee.鈥�
I slowly swiveled my head to glare at Catcher. 鈥淪eriously. You鈥檙e, what, twelve now?鈥�
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鈥淭hen I guess that settles that,鈥� I agreed. 鈥淢y boobs and I will go.”
― Chloe Neill, Drink Deep

“I realized that conservatism was the philosophy that best suited me, with its emphasis on individual liberty, personal responsibility, and merit.”
― Mark R. Levin

“Friends in high places definitely helped- especially if you had enemies in even higher spots.”
― Chloe Neill, Hard Bitten

“But she was not even grateful to him for it; nothing good on Pierre's part seemed to her to be an effort, it seemed so natural for him to be kind to everyone that there was no merit in his kindness.”
― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

“There is in Jesus Christ more merit and righteousness than the whole world has need of.”
― John Bunyan, The Pilgrim's Progress

“If only we could have picked our family...”
― Chloe Neill, Hard Bitten

“It is India that gave us the ingenious method of expressing all numbers by means of ten symbols, each symbol receiving a value of position as well as an absolute value; a profound and important idea which appears so simple to us now that we ignore its true merit. But its very simplicity and the great ease which it has lent to computations put our arithmetic in the first rank of useful inventions; and we shall appreciate the grandeur of the achievement the more when we remember that it escaped the genius of Archimedes and Apollonius, two of the greatest men produced by antiquity.”
― Pierre-Simon Laplace

“And so, on a night in late May, I found myself standing on the lawn of a Hyde Park mansion of vampires, staring up at the stone-framed visage of a boy in Armani, an enemy who鈥檇 become an ally. Ironic, I thought, that I鈥檇 given up one ally today but gained another.Ethan ran a hand through his hair.
鈥淲hat are you thinking about?鈥� I whispered up, knowing he couldn鈥檛 hear me.
Where was a boom box when you needed one?”
― Chloe Neill

“Aw, sad face. I came up with that totally off the cuff. No props for off the cuff?”
― Chloe Neill, Hard Bitten

“Go ahead,鈥� I told him. 鈥淕o see your admirers. Sign some autographs. It鈥檚 good PR for the House.鈥� He slid me a glance, smiled. 鈥淣ot concerned one of the fans will try to sweep me away with words of love?鈥� 鈥淥h, they鈥檒l try to sweep,鈥� I said. 鈥淏ut I have no worries you鈥檒l come back to me.鈥� His smile was meltingly handsome. 鈥淏ecause I love you without measure?鈥� 鈥淥f course,鈥� I said. Also, I had the car keys.”
― Chloe Neill, Blood Games

“What we individually deserve isn't as much as what we collectively merit.”
― C.J. Cherryh, Fortress in the Eye of Time