Juliette Cross > Quotes

“Funny thing about fear. When you cling to it, the fear grows exponentially, a monster morphing into a suffocating mass. But when you face it head-on, conquering the beast before it swallows you whole, you find there was nothing there to fear at all. The chains break, and the whole world feels lighter than ever before.”
― Juliette Cross, Waking the Dragon

“You want to be possessed, but not controlled. You want to be protected, but not smothered. You want to be dominated, but only in one way.”
― Juliette Cross, Waking the Dragon

“What do you think, Vi?"

She smiled wide with a lascivious look. "You had me at werewolf wet t-shirt contest.”
― Juliette Cross, Always Practice Safe Hex

“A dragon was ten times more capable of swooping in and stealing the maiden away than that prissy fuckstick, prince charming.”
― Juliette Cross, Darkest Heart

“Every kindness and every abuse makes a mark upon the soul.’’ My voice trembled. “The soul remembers”
― Juliette Cross, Darkest Heart

“I'm not really what you'd call a damsel in distress."
"I hate fucking damsels. Always in such distress. Who wants a high-maintenance girl like that?”
― Juliette Cross, Darkest Heart

“What kind of man is he?"

"Super dark and broody,
And delicious."

She had no idea.”
― Juliette Cross, Always Practice Safe Hex

“She might look like sex and candy, but there was no doubt she was untouchable. And didn’t that just make me want to touch? Everywhere”
― Juliette Cross, Darkest Heart

“To thine own self be fucking true”
― Juliette Cross, Darkest Heart

“What's this?" I raised our laced hands.

His onyx eyes flickered to me and held. "You can let go if you want."

After a few seconds, I whispered, "I don't want to.”
― Juliette Cross, Always Practice Safe Hex

“I want you in my arms. I want you in my bed. I want to bury myself deep inside you and feel you shatter beneath me, again and again. I want you daily, nightly, repeatedly, constantly, forever. And when I know it’s safe to take you, you’d best be ready. If you’re not, you’d better run and hide, because it will take a legion of angels and demons to keep me off of you.”
― Juliette Cross, Forged in Fire

“You want the monster," he grated, a foreign wildness in his voice. "You're going to get him.”
― Juliette Cross, Always Practice Safe Hex

“You look like a naughty waiter," I remarked with a smile.

"You look like my delicious dinner." His dark gaze was in fact eating me up with relish.”
― Juliette Cross, Always Practice Safe Hex

“I love the smell of sex and brimstone in the morning”
― Juliette Cross, Darkest Heart

“My spirit balanced on the razor’s edge of light and dark, freedom and slavery, life and death.”
― Juliette Cross, Darkest Heart

“Also, loquacious?" I arched a brow. "Trying to impress me with your big vocabulary?"

"Since you're unwilling to check out my big cock, I thought it second best.”
― Juliette Cross, Always Practice Safe Hex

“I’d slay the whole world to keep you safe.”
― Juliette Cross, Dragon Fire

“... But I won't be your prey. There's only one hunter here." His grin sent a shiver down my spine. "I want something more from you, Sorcha Linden. More than your body.”
― Juliette Cross

“He was a grim. An unknown. And his aura made me want to be very, very naughty. With him. My desire was so blood-burning, throat-choking intense that I feared what would be left after that kind of love affair was all over.”
― Juliette Cross, Always Practice Safe Hex

“Words, Genevieve.” He smiled with such sadness, my heart cracked. “They mean nothing next to your actions. It is what we do that defines who we are and where our devotion truly lies.”
― Juliette Cross, Sealed in Sin

“You’re like the perfect man conjured from my nerdiest fantasies.”
― Juliette Cross, Wolf Gone Wild

“The lines had blurred. Not just between good and evil, or heaven and hell. But in my own fucking black heart. What was left of it anyway. Seems this beguiling, enigmatic angel had sparked some pitiful little light there.”
― Juliette Cross, Darkest Heart

“So that's what it feels like," he mumbles, his breath coming heavy as he tilted towards sleep.
"What, what feels like?" I asked into the dark, the moonlight painting the coverlet silver.
I thought he'd fallen asleep entirely, but then, "To fuck a woman I'd die for.”
― Juliette Cross, Darkest Heart

“He whispered in one long breath, “I have wanted you from the moment you first walked into my bedchamber, bringing me a bowl of broth from the kitchen. I have wanted you every second of every day and every long, long suffering night. It cut me to the bone so deep that I couldn’t control myself. I couldn’t keep away from you, not even in my dreams.”
― Juliette Cross, Dragon Fire

“When he was rough, my body soared. When he was gentle, he slayed me.”
― Juliette Cross, Windburn

“No one can tell you your artwork is worthless but you. And no one can tell you it has value but you.”
― Juliette Cross, Wolf Gone Wild

“Then take me to the stars, baby”
― Juliette Cross, Darkest Heart

“Are you the spiderman?" I asked, our breaths mingling, mouths inches apart.

"No, Lavinia." He shook his head then dipped closer to me. I was sure he would kiss me, but he skimmed his nose along my jaw until his lips brushed my ear. "You are," he grated, biting my lobe. "And I'm so fucking caught in your web.”
― Juliette Cross, Always Practice Safe Hex

“We may be rivals, Lavinia. But it doesn't make me want to fuck your brains out any less.”
― Juliette Cross, Always Practice Safe Hex

“Feeling your body beneath me was the closest to heaven that I shall ever come.” He spoke not in a whisper but on an intimate level, his voice rolling like the caress of dark velvet. “Your skin, your mouth, your body, your sweet, sweet moans, and your blood… I want them all. I want quite a bit more, actually. So you best prepare yourself, my lady. Since I’m already damned, I aim to have all of you. I want to see that look of ecstasy on your face over and over again when I’m buried deep inside you and you’re screaming my name.”
― Juliette Cross, The Red Lily