Chloe Neill Quotes

• “You undo me, Merit. Wholly and completely. You don't take me at my word. You challenge me at every opportunity. And that means when I'm with you, I am less than the head of this House...and I am more than the head of this House. I am a man." He stroked my cheeks with his thumbs. "In my very, very long life, I need you more than I have ever needed anything.”

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• “You can run. You can keep running to the ends of the earth. But I won’t be far behind you.”
  
  “Ethan—”
  
  “No. I will never be far behind you.” He tipped up my chin so that I could do nothing else but look back into his eyes. “Do 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—and that I’ll continue to regret that mistake and try to convince you to give me another chance until the earth stops turning.”

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• “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.”

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• “He paused, then tapped a finger against the box. “This is a wish,” he said quietly, “that even after four hundred years of existence, a man can be strong enough to accept the gifts he’s given.”
  “Ethan—,” I began, but he shook his head.
  “I’m prepared to wait for a positive response.”
  “That’s going to take a while.”
  Ethan lifted a single eyebrow, a grin lifting one corner of his mouth. “Sentinel, I am immortal.”

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• “Jeff, I have a problem.”
  “I’m glad you’ve finally realized I’m your answer, Merit.”

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• “Well?”
  “Well, what?” I waved a hand at the room.
  “Start genuflecting. Let’s see some knee action.”
  “You’re serious.” I lifted my brows.
  He responded in kind, but finally nodded his head, then walked between the couches. He dropped to one knee, then held out his hands.
  
  “I’m monumentally sorry for the pain and humiliation that I caused you and your—”
  “Both knees.”
  “Pardon?”
  “I’d prefer to see both knees on the ground. I mean, if you’re going to grovel, be the best groveler you can, right?”

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• “I wanted what most people wanted—love, 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, “Merit,” when it was time to go, or when we arrived.
  Someone who wanted to say to someone else, with pride, “I’m here with her. With Merit.”
  I wanted all those things. Indivisibly.
  But I didn’t want them from Morgan.”

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• “As we left the kitchen, I asked, “Can I hold your sword today?”
  Catcher glanced back over his shoulder and lifted a brow.
  “The sword,” I corrected. “The sword.”
  We’ll see.”

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• “Luc : It's time for our annual review of Rules You Disrespectful Bastards Never Follow.”

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• “Stop. That was a mistake. It shouldn’t have happened."
  "No?"
  "No."
  "I could offer you more.”
  "What?”
  "Power. Access. Rewards. You’d need be available only to me.”
  "Are you asking me to be your mistress?”
  "Yes.”
  "Oh, my God.”
  "Is that a yes?”
  "No, Ethan, Jesus. Definitely not.”

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• “You’re crude.”
  "I’m crude?”
  "You just offered to make me your whore.”
  "To be the Consort of a Master vampire is an honor, Initiate, not an insult.”
  "It’s an insult to me. I’m not going to be your—anyone’s—sexual outlet. When that . . . happens for me, when I meet him, I want partnership. Love. You don’t trust me enough for the former, and I’m not even sure you’re capable of the latter.”

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• “The best revenge is a life well lived.”

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• “Catcher snorted. “If we’re not playing naked Twister, we’re wasting our waking hours.”
  “Yep,” Mallory said as she tugged him down the sidewalk, “that’s the love of my life. He’s a romantic at heart.”

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• “Be stubborn if you wish to, if you need to, but we know how this will end.”

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• “It is an apology,” he said, “for not believing in you . . . or in us. Yesterday, I thought I’d lost you, and then we fought together,” he said. “I pushed you away for fear of what our relationship would do, could do, to this House. And then we protected this House together. That is the true measure of what we could do.”

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• “Do you understand what I’m offering you?"
  "Do you understand that it’s not 1815?"
  "It’s not unusual for Masters to have Consorts."
  "Yes, and your current Consort’s in my kitchen right now. If you need . . . relieving, talk to her."
  "As much as it pains me to say it, Amber isn’t you."
  "I don’t even know what that means. Should I—What? Be flattered that while you don’t like me, you’re willing to sacrifice just to get into my pants?”

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• “Say what you had to about Ethan, but the boy filled a library very, very well.
  Okay—arguably, that wasn’t the only thing he filled out well, but let’s stay on track.”

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• “Always remember," he whispered to me, "that you are an uncommon soldier, whatever they say. And you are quite a thing to behold.”

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• “It's stupid, I know. I have this thing, this idea. This bullshit 'Mr. Darcy' idea, about the one that changes his mind. That comes back for me. And I'll look up some night, and he'll be there in front of me. And he'll stare at me and say, "It was you. It was always you.”

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• “Awkwardness, thy name is vampire.”

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• “Pec-tacle?
  You know, like spectacle but with more dude nipples.”

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• “I kissed him, let him kiss me, let him clutch my hips, curl his fingers into
  the fabric of my shirt, slide his hands around my waist and splay them
  against my back, pull me infinitesimally closer. He made a sound, a growl or
  purr, some predatory noise that rumbled in his throat, then said my name. And
  this time, it wasn’t a question but a sound of victory, a claim on his prize.”

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• “And then his voice echoed through my head. Merit.
  He silently called my name, even as he stood beside her.
  Liege? I answered back.
  His eyes glinted. Don’t call me that.
  There is nothing else for me to call you. You are my employer.That is the deal we’ve struck.”

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• “She has a point, Liege.”
  Ethan clucked his tongue. “Captain of my Guards and he carries the standard of my Sentinel. Oh, how quickly they turn.”
  “You’re first in my heart, Liege.”

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• “Let’s just remember, Sullivan, that I want you for your smoked meats and your smoked meats only.”
  He barked out a laugh. “Touché, Sentinel.”

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