Do you think I haven't noticed? You can't wait to be free of me. I drink and then you bolt up, as if you've had to force yourself to endure my presence." She'd started to sob then. "I've always tried to be clean when I come to you. I spend hours in the tub, washing myself. But I cannot find the dirt that you see." -Marissa to Wrath
J.R. WardYou would have made a fine warrior, you know that?" I am one. Death is my enemy." Yeah, it is, isn't it." God, it made such sense that he'd bonded with her. She was a fighterโฆ like him. "Your scalpel's your dagger." Yup.
J.R. WardIt finally happened, he thought as he burrowed under his shirt and took hold of his heavy cross. All his life heโd wondered why heโd never fallen in love, and now he knew: Heโd been waiting for this moment, this woman, this time. The female is mine, he thought. - Manny
J.R. WardUnited by their clasped hands, they became again the two halves, the light and the dark. The Destroyer and the Savior. A whole.
J.R. WardSouls were the same. They, too, had useless baggage that impeded their proper performance, these annoying, holier-than-thou bits dangling like an appendix waiting for infection. Faith and hope and love...prudence, temperance, justice, and fortitude...all this useless clutter just packed too much damn morality into the heart, getting in the way of the soul's innate desire for malignancy.
J.R. Ward