Melika Dannese Hick > Quotes

“There was something in her eyes that made me trust her. Maybe it was because they held the same cynicism, the same world-weariness I saw in my own every morning when I looked at myself in the mirror.”
― Melika Dannese Lux, Corcitura

“He was mocking me. I could see his mouth beginning to lift in a maddening smirk, a smile that was half sardonic and half secretive, as if the fate of the world depended on the answer to a riddle only he knew and would never share.”
― Melika Dannese Lux, Corcitura

“A lot of things should have been, Zigmund, but they aren’t. Are you going to be miserable about the things you cannot change, or do something about the things you can?”
― Melika Dannese Lux, Corcitura

“Darkness enveloped us again, and for the first time in years, I welcomed it.”
― Melika Dannese Lux, Corcitura

“A decision made during a moment of weakness can ruin your life.
        To date, I had made three.”
― Melika Dannese Lux, Corcitura

“Death stalked toward us on padded feet.
       And it was not alone.”
― Melika Dannese Lux, Corcitura

“I had lied to myself from the very beginning, deceived myself into believing that I was being fanciful and overly imaginative. Surely such monstrosities only existed in nightmares? Yet I had lived through a nightmare these past months, and that was no dream at all.
       I was still fighting against the awful truth, not wanting to give in, searching my mind for a logical explanation—but there was none. And the most horrible realization of all was that I had known, somewhere deep inside, ever since the day I first set eyes on Vladec Salei.
       Plague carrier.
       Living death.
       Drainer of life.
       The phrasing did not matter. No euphemism could strike fear into the hearts of men the way that single word could.
       Vampire.
        And for me, the uninitiated, that single word meant death.”
― Melika Dannese Lux, Corcitura

“I know the consequences, Manon,” Ilyse conceded. “I know the fate you endured might one day be my own. But I refuse to be a prisoner for the rest of my life.”
― Melika Dannese Lux, City of Lights: The Trials and Triumphs of Ilyse Charpentier

“Why should I not know what he's really called?"
"Tell a man your name and he will have power over you forever," Carver muttered.”
― Melika Dannese Lux, Deadmarsh Fey

“I used to ask myself, ‘Sergei, would you rather spend your money on drink or women?’ and thanks to the club, I spend it on both and am called a patron of the arts.”
― Melika Dannese Lux, City of Lights: The Trials and Triumphs of Ilyse Charpentier

“Do you often wonder,” she continued, desperately hoping her questions would win Vasily over, “what might have been had his gaze fallen upon some other miserable wretch? Yes, you would have been destitute, starving in the streets, scraping for your next meal…but even beggars are free.”
― Melika Dannese Lux, City of Lights: The Trials and Triumphs of Ilyse Charpentier

“I’d go to hell and back and cut off the devil’s head myself to save you.”
― Melika Dannese Lux, Corcitura

“Maybe I had been making a greater monster of him than he really was, or maybe I was still under his influence, for I was certain that he wanted me to believe he was no more than a harmless man who happened to use vampirism to get what he desired. Some remnant of his mesmerism was still upon me. I had never been able to shake the feeling that he was tucked away in a corner of my mind, that he could read my thoughts, know what I was thinking. He had done something to me, but what that was, I had never been able to discover. All I knew was that the feeling had been with me since the morning I woke up and found myself in Venice.”
― Melika Dannese Lux, Corcitura

“ 'I’ve seen its other side. I know what lives here, what’s been slumbering for so long.”
 A hollow pit opened up where Roger’s heart was supposed to be. “How would you know that?”
 “I woke it up.”
― Melika Dannese Lux, Deadmarsh Fey

“And I swore it to myself the night Maurice ran away,” Ilyse screamed, terror and fury coursing through her veins, “and I’ll swear it again; no matter what you do, you will never conquer me.”
― Melika Dannese Lux, City of Lights: The Trials and Triumphs of Ilyse Charpentier

“Affronts to her reputation pierced her to the heart, though I couldn’t understand why, since she had very little character left to defend.”
― Melika Dannese Lux, Corcitura

“Thirteen years of friendship had bonded us together more thoroughly than if we had been born of the same mother. Even at this late stage, I was unwilling to let him go.”
― Melika Dannese Lux, Corcitura

“Oh, come now, Manon,” Ilyse laughed, “It’s my job to liven things up a bit, too. I can’t let you and your dimples have all the fun.”
― Melika Dannese Lux, City of Lights: The Trials and Triumphs of Ilyse Charpentier

“Don’t listen to the ramblings of fools,” he said, smiling grimly. “When it comes down to it, if they knew the truth, no one would want to live on this earth forever.”
― Melika Dannese Lux, Corcitura

“She rounded on me with such ferocity that for a moment I didn’t recognize her. A flash of fangs, a dark gleam in her blacker-than-night eyes. It was the most vampiric I’d ever seen her.”
― Melika Dannese Lux, Corcitura

“This beast, like the greater evil we faced later on, went by many names. When he invaded Everl’aria, the Moarteans christened him Groaza. Others called him The Devourer of the World. And to those on Sviddheim, he was The Bottomless, for his savagery had no end.”
― Melika Dannese Lux, Deadmarsh Fey

“Draw the curtains.
“Whatever for?”
Prying eyes and itchy ears.
“Are you naturally cryptic, or is it something you picked up at Guardian training academy?”
― Melika Dannese Lux, Deadmarsh Fey

“His character is like an emerald—multifaceted and enhanced by inclusions.”
― Melika Dannese Lux, Corcitura

“I’ve read about this in books, imagined it in my mind countless times since I’ve been here, but to actually witness it is something entirely different. I thought I was prepared, but nothing—no amount of book learning or supposed life experience or bravado—can make you invulnerable to the sight of a vampire drinking blood.”
― Melika Dannese Lux, Corcitura

“With Stefan, the line between good and evil, right and wrong, becomes increasingly blurred.”
― Melika Dannese Lux, Corcitura

“I’m not bound by any God-ordained rules. I’m a rebel. I follow my own path.”
“Then follow it out into the marshes and drown yourself, why don’t you?”
“The marshes dried up” was Carver’s matter-of-fact answer.”
― Melika Dannese Lux, Deadmarsh Fey

“If I were pressed, I would admit that she was beautiful, in a dead bride sort of way.”
― Melika Dannese Lux, Corcitura

“Because, my dear Eric, I have tasted the secret knowledge. I know how much to say and when to pull back. I know what to see and not see. And now that I have become whole again, I can never go back. All these things he has given me. Better than my supposed mother and father ever could. For that, I owe him my life and allegiance.”
― Melika Dannese Lux, Corcitura

“I’m not asking for your forgiveness. I have done no wrong according to my kind. I never meant to turn you. I just wanted to have a little fun with you before they took you away.”
― Melika Dannese Lux, Corcitura

“I’ve always felt comfortable amongst the horrors. I married your uncle Gerard, after all.”
― Melika Dannese Lux, Corcitura