...lovers, even those who are married, always exist autonomously of one another, no matter how close they are or how long they've known each other. That's why jealously can flare in even the most intimate relationships.
Because you know that at some basic level this person exists separately from you. No mater how close you are, the landscape of their life is always tinted a different hue than your own." - Hunter to Joanna
Tags: urban-fantasy-series
What would become of me if I was never truly seen again?" - Joanna
Vicki PetterssonTags: urban-fantasy-series
People do lie to themselves, and they get away with it because every action affirms and reaffirms their perception. That's the power of the human mind. that's the power of thought, which is nothing more- and nothing less- than energy. And when you have a particularly powerful mind, extraordinary things can happen.
Vicki PetterssonPeople created chaos, not places, and they were damned good at it no matter where they lived. And when this glittering gem of a city teamed up with the world's oldest profession, fantasy piled atop fantasy; it could convince anyone that impulse was a virtue, not a vice.
Vicki Pettersson...a companion had seemed unnecessary fuel when her body still burned at the core, waiting to ignite. But now, with the wind blowing icicles through her [Kit] veins, it felt like she, too, was in the grave. All her nuclear energy had been snuffed like a match between the night's icy fingers.
Vicki PetterssonEven now...she [Kit] still had a need to believe that most people, that most of life, was good. That belief was a sort of strength, too.
Vicki Pettersson'I scrape under a nail and I pull out dirt. I pull off an overlay and I smell urine. It's the rot of their lives seeping into their nailbeds, you see? They can fix their hair and paint their nails and run on a treadmill until they're anorexia's poster child, but they can't fix their lives...lives of rotting perfection.'
Vicki Pettersson'Plenty of men are good at acquiring money and cars and things, but only a few have real forward motion. You know. Thrust.'
Vicki Pettersson'Sex drives us, love or no love. Power or no power. Money or no money. It's the most powerful drug in the world. Some pay for it. Some die for it.'
Vicki Pettersson'Being single...is about hope. It's about the future...the person you might meet at Starbucks or online or in the next aisle at the grocery store.'
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