Akil Quotes

But if you cross me again Akil, so-help-me, I'll find a way to kill you this time."
His eyes lit up at the prospect, as though he'd accepted a challenge I didn't even know I'd laid down. "I'd expect nothing less."
Demons; only they can get a cheap thrill from a death threat. ~ Pippa DaCosta

Thank you for seeing me on the days when I couldn't see myself. ~ Mara Brock Akil

I think pregnancy, like life, is what you make it. I received a good hand. I'm thankful and blessed and so peaceful and can't wait to welcome my son. ~ Mara Brock Akil

You were a crushed and broken thing, like a butterfly crumpled in the hand of a child. ~ Pippa DaCosta

You think this is funny?" I snorted. "You would. Your sense of humor is so dark, even the lesser demons don't get you. ~ Pippa DaCosta

Any form of media is an opportunity to be a mirror and reflection of what we are experiencing more in the details of our life. What makes it fun and unique in a lot of ways is how that journey is changing just by the mere fact of the current time. ~ Mara Brock Akil

I'd never really done Christmas. The years I'd spent with Akil didn't count. The only religion he got behind was the worship of his own ego. ~ Pippa DaCosta

If I ever have to get that close to the Prince of Greed again, it'll be too fuckin' soon. And I ain't ever doin' that Star-Trek teleportation crap again, yah hear? I feel dirty . ~ Pippa DaCosta

Oh, you're good."
Akil narrowed his eyes. "You must have me confused with another sociopathic demon. ~ Pippa DaCosta

He stood in my quaint kitchen, looking somewhere between intrigued and mildly bored, the picture of sophisticated elegance in his obscenely expensive suit. Cufflinks reflected the light while his eyes captured it. Immortal. Ageless. Infinite. So toxic, he should come with a danger-of-death warning sign. ~ Pippa DaCosta

Speaking Akil's name around Stefan felt like throwing gasoline on a bushfire." ~ Muse ~ Pippa DaCosta

I'm trying to talk about challenging subjects people might not like and trying to find relief as we discuss it. ~ Mara Brock Akil

Muse is not to be so easily dismissed. She is quite capable of turning your insides to ash before you can draw breath to apologize. ~ Pippa DaCosta

A staple of my personality is that I want what I want - and I'm willing to do without until I get it. ~ Mara Brock Akil

Get off that damn chair and pull yourself together. You're supposed to be an ageless creature of chaos and all I'm getting right now is sulking city boy. ~ Pippa DaCosta

People are dying out there, and I'm not faring much better."

"Worrying about the demise of anonymous people won't bring them back."

Pursing my lips, I planted a hand on a hip. "How very demon of you."

"Thank you."

"That wasn't a compliment."

~ Muse & Akil ~ Pippa DaCosta

I'm just a wretched half-blood girl caught in a storm."
Akil tasted his wine and smiled. "Muse, you are the storm. ~ Pippa DaCosta

I shook my head. Akil was right about one thing. Stefan would never understand. He spent his life killing demons. He had it simple. I'd spent my life among them. I might despise the majority of them, but I knew them. They were family. Twisted, bitter, dangerous, slippery, back-stabbing, but family all the same. ~ Pippa DaCosta

We are not so different, and yet we are worlds apart. Ahkeel/Akil, The Veil Series prequel. ~ Pippa DaCosta