It symbolises strength." Bastien snorts. "It certainly…

“Once upon a time, there was a naïve and innocent girl who thought she could tame the beast and live happily ever after. But…

— Nenia Campbell

“When we mated I felt your heart stop beating and it was as if the world had stopped turning. It was only while surrounded…

— Nenia Campbell

“You mean you don't want to come in and hold my hand while I piss?”

— Nenia Campbell

“He was everything your mother warned you about when she told you not to walk alone in the dark.”

— Nenia Campbell

“They said the shape-shifters fucked with the enthusiasm of animals—if they didn't devour you with the enthusiasm of one first.”

— Nenia Campbell

“No. I made that choice. I let all that anger and pain get twisted up in my thoughts for you.” He leaned in. “It…

— Nenia Campbell

“We both want you dead. I'm bringing the friendship bracelets to the next meeting.”

— Nenia Campbell

“She has built her whole life on the foundation of beauty: each chiseled plane, each sloping dimple, each soft curve as crucial as keystones…

— Nenia Campbell

“Does your family play games, too?" She tries to sound off-hand. "No. Just me - and my brother." Which means her parents are in…

— Nenia Campbell

“I feel I could kill. I feel that I might like it. And I know that this should scare me. But it doesn't. It…

— Nenia Campbell

“If people are meant to live, they'll live. If not, more room for the rest of us.”

— Nenia Campbell

“You were a well-respected agent, Michael, a rags-to-riches fairytale ending. Until you became disgraced. Now it appears your own organization wishes to be rid…

— Nenia Campbell

“If a woman defined herself solely by the man she was with—and vice versa—the world would be a very shallow and insipid place, indeed.”

— Nenia Campbell

“Everyone needs to escape sometimes, and retreating into somebody else's fantasy isn't nearly as satisfying as slipping into your own.”

— Nenia Campbell

“But fairytales were, at best, dirty mirrors whose warped and pitted surfaces reflected a highly distorted view of the truth, quite different from reality.”

— Nenia Campbell