“The hugest changes were the ones that could not be seen – that’s where the real apocalypse lay: in people’s hearts, their souls, their beings.”
— Dianna Hardy
“…it only takes one voice, at the right pitch, to start an avalanche.”
— Dianna Hardy
“Love finds you, not the other way around, and you can’t run from it.”
— Dianna Hardy
“She smiled into his mouth. “That was … wow.”“It’s always wow. You’re wow. I’ll never get enough of you, Lydia. Not after ten years in dreams; not after forever in real life.”
— Dianna Hardy
“I love your independence, I love that you don’t swoon, I love that you’ll fight me with your last breath if you think I’m wrong, and if I ever have to catch you, I swear I’ll make sure you’re standing on your feet as quickly as you can manage it.”
— Dianna Hardy
“You chase off every man that’s ever been interested, and you do it without even trying.”
— Dianna Hardy
“You’re not allowed to have legs and not use them.Dance.”
— Dianna Hardy
“The thought of being whoever I want is a terrifying thing, because I have only ever been who everyone has wanted me to be.”
— Dianna Hardy
“As if reading her mind, he leaned into her again, pupils dark, irises glowing like a forest caught in the last rays of sun before dusk… “Do you want me to make you come?”“Is that a trick question?”
— Dianna Hardy
“What am I to y”
— Dianna Hardy
“Time flies when you grow fangs and fur.”
— Dianna Hardy
“I loved you instantly, because angels can love instantly.”
— Dianna Hardy
“If you’re waiting for me to declare my undying love for you, I can’t do that yet, blood-bond or no blood-bond. If you think I’m the swoony type of heroine you find in romance novels, who’ll fall into your arms just because you saved me from an alternate reality or whatever, get ready to leave empty handed, because I don’t want to be caught.”
— Dianna Hardy
“You are old and grey,” she teased.“And you’re never too immortal for a spanking,” he shot back…”
— Dianna Hardy
“Love. It seemed impossible that she could love him, but she was so deep in him there was really nowhere to go but further in. So this is what love was. Uncontrollable. Consuming. But so irresistible you wanted to be consumed.”
— Dianna Hardy
“And then there was”
— Dianna Hardy
“Pieces of your heart broke every day when you were a mother.”
— Dianna Hardy
“I’m only saying what you won’t. He’s a hunk, admit it. A tall, dark, exotic hunk who wants to bed you, and you must be a fucking nun, because it’s been three weeks since you met him and you’re going to have to remove the cobwebs from your vagina with forceps soon, they’re growing into intelligent life form—”
— Dianna Hardy
“God,” she butted her head into his chest, “I’m so angry with myself.”“What? Why?”“Because … this is my mess I dragged you into, and you don’t deserve any of it, and I feel like I’m ruining you with every single thing I say, and…” she lifted her head, eyes shimmering, “I’m a selfish, selfish bitch. Because all I can think about, is whether I’ll regret it in three hours, when we walk out of here, and I never know, not even once, what it’s like to be with a really nice guy.”
— Dianna Hardy
“I don’t know what we’re doing here – you and me … I don’t know what we are or what we can be, but this doesn’t have to be about that. This can just be about … a chance. Taking a chance.”
— Dianna Hardy
“I’ll never let go of you again,” she whispered. “I swear it.”
— Dianna Hardy
“God, no. I don’t want to tame her, I want to watch her. I just want to watch her be herself – it turns me on like nothing else.”
— Dianna Hardy
“She looked at him for an age, and he read nothing short of love on her face. It warmed him to the core he’d thought dead, and scared the crap out of him.”
— Dianna Hardy
“Endings bring new beginnings. Love has many truths. And knights come in all colours.”
— Dianna Hardy
“We have choice,” she insisted. “This is it. We don’t get to choose our choices, Gwain, we just get to make the ones we’re given…”
— Dianna Hardy
“She had forced herself to learn to read – picked up bits and pieces, here and there, from the very few teachers who had been patient with her; from looking at words while out and about; from television, and from friends. And to avoid the shouting and drug-induced moaning, and the row of male visitors her mum would entertain, she would barricade herself in her room – there’d been no lock – and lose herself in books.”
— Dianna Hardy
“The one thing you should never do to a woman, whether you make love to her or fuck her, is apologise straight after.”
— Dianna Hardy
“…you’d be amazed at the grand tales the human brain will throw up to make sense of something nonsensical.”
— Dianna Hardy
“Don’t be sorry for the truth. A harsh truth is less damaging than a tender lie, and the worst lies are the ones we tell ourselves.”
— Dianna Hardy
“It may be our actions that define us, but it is our reaction that changes the course of things.”
— Dianna Hardy