Shana Abe

“Your Grace: Others come. Prepare for Invasion. —M.”

— Shana Abé

“I am wed now. My husband is Zane. I’m sorry.”

— Shana Abé

I want to love, and be loved.

— Shana Abe

“I love you. At your best and your worst, I love you. Paris or Darkfrith. Here, there, and everywhere, I love you.”

— Shana Abe

“You snore.” “I don’t!” “Only a little. Very ladylike snores. I found them charming.”

— Shana Abe

“nothing helped tea. It simply was what it was, which was boiling hot and flavorless.”

— Shana Abe

“Your Royal Grace, Forgive my boldness. If I might inquire: How old are you? —Kimber”

— Shana Abé

“Tender creatures, these aristocrats. Who would have guessed?”

— Shana Abe

All that effort,” he mused, “merely to avoid me. How gratifying.

— Shana Abe

“I would give up all the summers of eternity for you. I love you. Forever and my summer days, I'll love you.”

— Shana Abe

“You do speak." It came out as an accusation. "When there's someone around worth speaking to.”

— Shana Abe

“It wasn't an itch. It was a sickness. It was poison blazing through him, thinking of her all the time, watching her,…

— Shana Abé

“There were seven of them. They smiled seven identical smiles, and the message behind each was identical, as well. It read: bloodbath. ”

— Shana Abe

“She did what she could for him. She kissed him in return. She lost her breath and both her hearts, and finally…

— Shana Abé

“Lia whispered, "I don't snore." And the thief angled his gaze warm to hers, offering his lazy smile. "Aye, love, but if…

— Shana Abé

“It’s funny how your life can come apart in an instant. How you can feel safe and satisfied one moment, and the…

— Shana Abe

I want. . . a steady hand. A kind soul. I want to fall asleep, and wake, knowing my heart is safe.…

— Shana Abe

“I lay in my bed and tried not to miss him, to miss the entire experience of him. I wanted to feel…

— Shana Abe

“I remember thinking that the Germans must have had a very fine view of all the neighborhoods they were obliterating.”

— Shana Abe

“You’re naught but a human man. You couldn’t possibly understand.” He lifted a brow, still smiling. “Liar.” “Cutpurse.” “Runaway.” “Swindler! “Coward,” he…

— Shana Abe

“Lia, all that I am is what I do. I'm not meant for a tame sort of life, to dwell in bucolic…

— Shana Abé

“You said I was pretty, before." "Did I?" A new laugh escaped him, mirthless. "How unoriginal. I must be the master of…

— Shana Abé

“In the dark he glimmered with starlight. When they altered directions the swelling hush of the wind filled her ears, but when…

— Shana Abé

“There's a word for this in English," he mused, still soft. "I can't recall it. I've made you a...a fallen women. Yes?"…

— Shana Abé

“He’d never liked tea. It seemed somewhat ridiculous to him, to interrupt his day with miniature cakes and dry, crustless sandwiches, and…

— Shana Abé

“How good to see you, Miss Jones.” That debonair tone, the friendly press of his hand upon mine. It was such a…

— Shana Abe

“Under the spell of the mighty Carpathians, with the breath of her creation blowing over her heart, Amalia's Gift splintered. She was…

— Shana Abé

“What is what?” asked Armand. “I don’t hear anything.” I hadn’t taken my eyes from Jesse. “There’s more than one. Two at…

— Shana Abe

“Stop,” Jesse said. I stared up at him, almost panting with fear. “Stop, beloved,” he said more gently, and took up my…

— Shana Abe

“Hullo,” he said sleepily, rubbing a hand along his jaw. He’s here in my room, right in the middle of the afternoon.…

— Shana Abe

“I didn’t think students were allowed below the main floor. I knew the kitchens were there, as were most of the servants’…

— Shana Abe

“All this is simply your reaction to my Gifts. You never loved me before, not in all those years. Now that you…

— Shana Abe

“I’d dreamed once of a forest of gold, and Jesse had done what he could to give it to me. His bedroom…

— Shana Abe

“My, my,” Chloe murmured, studying the chocolate she held. “I do believe this one’s gone off. It stinks like a cesspit.” Her…

— Shana Abe

“I guess you'll have to be a sodding duke now," I tried-clumsy, tasteless, and he only winced. "Sorry." I covered his hand…

— Shana Abe

“You called me,” I whispered. “And you came,” Jesse Holms answered, a green-eyed glance back at me, a half smile that dissolved…

— Shana Abe

“Something inside his chest unlocked--wildly, slowly, a peculiar sort of melting. He was lost. He was the thorn and the thistle, blown…

— Shana Abé

“He felt beyond himself. He felt for the first time in his adult life a shadow of fear in his heart--fear for…

— Shana Abé

She was spirit and presence, as rare and brilliant as snowflakes in sunlight, and he could not bring himself to harm her.

— Shana Abe

“I hate it here. I hate everyone here. I hate that I am so different. I love it here and I want…

— Shana Abe