24 Quotes by Emily Poirier

When I thought about it, I realized how silly and artificial the things I knew about each of them were, but that was how it happened when nobody knew anybody and you tried listing off your interests and background in the hopes of finding people who would mesh with your interests and background.

Oen wasn't asking anything of her other than to listen and be interested, and in return Iria was able to pretend like she was any other person talking with a friend.

Out of habit and exhaustion, Iria’ssurprise did not show on her face. He had been worried about her. She didn’t even need the barest scraps of herreturning magic to know it. He’d been worried about her, and that was new, and it tugged at her. “Okay,” was her whole response, and she wondered if she would have cried had she had the energy for it.

They feared something that came as easily to her as breathing, and they feared her because she was not afraid of it.

I am trying to apologize to you, Beauty, but I am utterly out of practice. You will find that beasts rarely apologize, if they do at all.

It seemed especially cruel to hate someone for loving, but she knew that people could be especially cruel.

I like my niche genres and selective listening. Is that a crime?

Grayson raised an eyebrow and placed a hand gently on my knee. "I could think of a thing or two." I don't think my reaction was as eager and excited as he was hoping for, because he quickly amended, "Like cards or something.

The great shadow before me may have had an animal body, but he had the mind of a man at least, and men could be reasoned with, pleased, manipulated.