Renegade Erica Stevens Quotes

There were more than just earthquakes and steaming holes to fear here, she realized as the hair on the back of her neck stood up, and a cold sweat broke out on her forehead. There were also humans. She wasn't sure what frightened her more. ~ Erica Stevens

They wouldn't have broken me. I'm not breakable, I may be shaken right now, but I'm not broken. ~ Erica Stevens

I will always come for you. ~ Erica Stevens

I wouldn't change a thing," he whispered against her cheek.
"Why?"
"Because I love you."
"Is it so simple then?"
He smiled back at her. "Yes. ~ Erica Stevens

She grinned up at him, her eyes sparkling and mischievous and her mouth slightly swollen from his kiss. He wasn't entirely certain if forever would be enough for him. He knew that no matter what, this woman, once his blood slave, then his greatest downfall, and finally his salvation would never fail to amaze him, never fail to bring joy and love to his life, and would him captive for eternity. ~ Erica Stevens

She engulfed him, filled him, she eased every awful thing inside of him. He trusted that he did the same for her. ~ Erica Stevens

What you fuel your body with is pretty crucial to how you perform. ~ Erica Enders-Stevens

He hadn't forgotten about her defiance, her willfulness, but he didn't find it as charming as he once had. In fact, it was aggravating the hell out of him right now. She should be cowering, trembling with fear. She had to know that she would not survive this meeting, and yet she didn't show one ounce of trepidation. ~ Erica Stevens

The worst part, he realized as he destroyed first one vampire, and then another, was that he didn't care. He welcomed it, embraced it, and relished in the death around him as it briefly calmed his tormented spirit. ~ Erica Stevens

The monster inside of him was clawing to break free, while the man inside of him was tempted to fall to his knees and beg Ashby to give her back to him, unharmed. ~ Erica Stevens

Her splendid inner glow had always resided within her, and it was one of the most exquisite things he had ever encountered. ~ Erica Stevens

This." He seized hold of her hand and pressed it over his still heart. "There are times I can almost feel this actually beating for you. You have owned it since the moment I saw you. It may have taken me a while to come to that realization, but it's true, and there is nothing, nothing that is going to change that. Not blood and not sex. You were made for me Aria. ~ Erica Stevens

Obviously living on the road is pretty hard to stay in shape while you're gone on the road all the time having to eat out three meals a day, just being physically and mentally exhausted. ~ Erica Enders-Stevens

I think you've figured out the extremes that I will go to, and that there isn't anything I won't do, any one I won't destroy, to protect her. ~ Erica Stevens

Don't leave me," she whispered.
"Never," he groaned against her ear. "No matter what happens I will always be with you Arianna. Always. ~ Erica Stevens

She had tried to explain to all of them that she hadn't been abused, that it was only her heart that had been maimed, but none of them believed her. She supposed it didn't help that she was more like the walking dead than a living person since her return. She most certainly wasn't the same girl that had been taken from the woods, and they blamed the prince for that. They ~ Erica Stevens

He knew that no matter what, this woman, once his blood slave, then his greatest downfall, and finally his salvation would never fail to amaze him, never fail to bring joy and love to his live, and would hold him captive for eternity. ~ Erica Stevens

I always stood for the elimination of conflict and wars, and any of those causes that ignite them. ~ Cat Stevens

How cold the vacancy
When the phantoms are gone and the shaken realist
First sees reality. The mortal no
Has its emptiness and tragic expirations. ~ Wallace Stevens

There were a gazillion new details to take in and so many things to learn that I did not know what to make of it all. ~ Kristine K. Stevens

In any triangle, who is the betrayer, who the unseen rival, and who the humiliated lover? Oneself, oneself, and no one but oneself! ~ Erica Jong

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Just as my fingers on these keys
Make music, so the selfsame sounds
On my spirit make a music, too.

Music is feeling, then, not sound;
And thus it is that what I feel,
Here in this room, desiring you,

Thinking of your blue-shadowed silk,
Is music. It is like the strain
Waked in the elders by Susanna:

Of a green evening, clear and warm,
She bathed in her still garden, while
The red-eyed elders, watching, felt

The basses of their beings throb
In witching chords, and their thin blood
Pulse pizzicati of Hosanna.

from "Peter Quince at the Clavier ~ Wallace Stevens

Thought is an infection. In the case of certain thoughts it becomes an epidemic. p901 ~ Wallace Stevens

Your fear is holding you back from becoming who you're really meant to be. ~ Erica Cope

That is what you love a friend for: the ability to change your angle of vision, bring back your best self when you feel worst. And speak the truth
but without malice. Loving candour is the secret of friendship. ~ Erica Jong

I'd love to break America, like all artists do. It's a lot of work but, you know, it's got to be done! ~ Rachel Stevens

In 1975 I decided that there was no future in flying (airline jobs were impossible to get, and who wants a job where you are judged only by seniority?) and headed off to grad school. ~ W. Richard Stevens

I tried Zen and Ching, numerology, tarot cards and astrology. I tried to look back into the Bible, and could not find anything. At this time I did not know anything about Islam, and then, what I regarded as a miracle occurred. My brother had visited the mosque in Jerusalem, and was greatly impressed that while on the one hand it throbbed with life. ~ Cat Stevens

My tribute to mystical, magical trees that the Cherokee called "standing people ... " ~ Wallace Stevens

I can't say what my greatest strength between acting and singing is ... I'll leave that to the critics. Maybe my best strength is performance itself, being with the audience and feeling what they feel, bouncing off of them. ~ Erica Schroeder

The truth is that there comes a time
When we can mourn no more over music
That is so much motionless sound ~ Wallace Stevens

Being a daughter is only half the equation; bearing one is the other. ~ Erica Jong

I have a bit of a traveling addiction, and, ah, yeah. I went to, ah, Bali this summer. ~ Fisher Stevens

I won't let anyone hurt you."
If a heart can smile, mine does.
"Bodee, thanks," I say, though I know he doesn't need it. "I'm sorry you lost her."
"At least I found you," he says. ~ Courtney C. Stevens

No one talked about the questions, because talking ruined plausible deniability. Talking burst the bubble of innocence. Talking ended the happily ever after. These were the truths they believed. And they were lies. They should have talked while there was still something to say. ~ Courtney C. Stevens

It can never be satisfied, the mind, never. ~ Wallace Stevens

Perfectionism is the enemy of art. Since art is essentially divine play, not dogged work, it often happens that as one becomes more professionally driven one also becomes less capriciously playful. ~ Erica Jong

We wish we were Obi-Wan Kenobi, and for the most part we are, but there's a little Darth Vader in all of us. ~ J. Christopher Stevens

One foot in front of the other, more aimless than direct, Bradford left the waiting room for the outside world. Called for a taxi and then dialed Munroe again, desperate for her voice, for one ray of light in the darkness, afraid of what he might say if she did answer, afraid of himself and the inner deadening that pointed to a danger far more lethal than any rage he'd felt. ~ Taylor Stevens

When Marion had been a teenager, she wanted a tattoo. As an oldest child who did mostly what was expected of her, she had been fascinated by the abandon tattoos implied, the willing, blind leap into commitment. ~ Erica Bauermeister

To identify a person as a Southerner suggests not only that her history is inescapable and formative but that it is also impossibly present. Southerners live uneasily at the nexus between myth and reality, watching the mishmash amalgam of sorrow, humility, honor, graciousness, and renegade defiance play out against a backdrop of profligate physical beauty. ~ Sally Mann