Kresley Cole quotes:

If I could sum up 'Shadow's Claim' in six words: cage fights with hot alpha males. Seriously, though, while the fights are the backdrop for Trehan and Bettina's love story, the main emphasis is on how Trehan - a pitiless master assassin - wages the ultimate battle to win her heart.

One of my favorite things to do is formulate powers for a character, then come up with their corresponding weaknesses and liabilities. And I delight in world-building: melding the supernatural with the natural, then tweaking and polishing until it feels organic.

I write what I like to read, and I enjoy love triangles in YA and adult fiction - not to mention in other media like TV, opera, theatre, and even in video games! I relish when dark and compelling characters compete for our protagonist's heart. The doubts, the uncertainty - the jealousy! - can be breathtaking.

As the installments in the 'Immortals After Dark' series span simultaneous timelines, making sure the details remained accurate was a hair-raising/losing exercise.

I've been a huge fan of all things paranormal my whole life. For me, it was always a question of when, not if, I was going to write a paranormal series. I dipped my toe in the genre by incorporating a mystical curse into the 'MacCarrick Brothers Trilogy.'

There was French kissing, and then there was Cajun French kissing. Spicier, harder, wilder.

Before the final battle in 'Poison Princess,' Evie remembered how to use her Empress powers, practiced with them to the point of exhaustion, then had a trial by fire. In a way, she earned those powers, as she hadn't before, so that was certainly a confidence builder.

The one test I have for every completed book is if I feel head over heels in love with the hero. If he hasn't stolen my heart from the previous hero, I know the book isn't right.

Jackson asked, "Where'd the water come from in your house?""A pipe." Then he explained to Jackson, "Water travels in pipes.

My toughest criticism usually comes from myself. As my editor can attest to, I'm never done tweaking a book until the production department has to rip it from my hands!

Call her Betty Fucking Crocker, because the cake was so going to be worth the bake."

I can draw you a diagram. Hint: I'm slot B, and you're tab A.

Joke 'em if they can't take a fuck. -NATALIE

How do you plan to keep me here during the day? An unblooded Forbearer shouldn't be sohard to vanquish."Vanquished by her? Amusing. "I'll send you back to the cell. You want to be my pet? I'll takeyou out and put you back in your cage at my pleasure."She blinked at him. "You don't want to send me back. Who will entertain you? I can deal pokerand make shadow animals.

Fate has a way of getting what she wants, no matter how we try to avoid it.

I always favor the hero and heroine from whichever book I've completed most recently. Yes, I'm faithless and fickle!

I enjoy a good cliffhanger. As a reader, I relish that nervous feeling you get when you're engrossed in a story, but in the back of your mind you're aware that there aren't that many pages left. How will it end? Everything can't be wrapped up! This can't end! Then it does, and your heart seems to stop.

He's like six hundred years younger than you are. I refuse to be the moral compass of our cell! Most weekends I have an intoxispell bong attached to my mouth like a respirator. I love scatological humor, and I list 'pranks involving nuclear waste' and 'making demons eat things' as my hobbies.

We're more cerebral than physical.""Your cerebrum can't have an orgasm.

This twilight, Lothaire was holding court.He sat upon his gilded throne, decoratedwith gold-dipped skulls. His design. If he'd had a queen, her throne would have been similar. Of course, her skulls would be daintier."

I give you a week, maybe two, before you're driven to bite someone.""I don't know how to... to bite or drink! But you could teach me.""And what could you possibly do in return?" Lothaire waved a negligent handPlay football for me? Break in my jeans really well?"

Old as carbon," Nix agreedAnd so powerful I'm working on my demigoddess badges."

When Rydstrom shut the door, Cade stared at it for long moments.At length, he turned for the stepsFuckall, he said on a stunned breathDoes this mean I'm no longer the bad brother...?

Some men would take happiness where they found it. Especially when they have absolutely no promise of it anywhere else. [Rydstrom]

Look, I think maybe we've been hurt so often that even if someone harms us accidentally, we're blind to see it that way.

He estado loca por ti desde la isla, y fui golpeada desde la primera noche que estuvimos juntos, juntos. .- Mariketa a Bowen

Old as carbon, Nix agreedAnd so powerful I'm working on my demigoddess badges.

I woan let you go back to that boy--not until you give me one bec doux." A sweet kiss. Then he reached forward, unlacing the ribbon from my hair."What are you doing?" I murmured."Souvenir." He put it in his pocket, and for some reason that struck me as the sexiest thing I'd ever seen.

And speaking of females, if I call you by one's name while my fangs are plunged deep in your neck, just run with it.

Elizabeth, With my compliments. You will never get your claws into another one of mine. Rot in hell, Nïx clasped her hands over her chest, sighing, "He gave you his heart. That's so romantic. So much better than a candy heart. Those get stuck in the fangs, you know.

Gods, I love it when you talk mathy to me.

He gave her an indulgent look. "I'll forgive these rash words for now." She sputtered, "Forgive? Let's talk about who should be forgiving who.""Whom," he corrected."Shut up! I'm in the right here. Remember all those things you did to me?"

I got nothing. Even the spies I'm spying on who are spying on other spies got nothing.

I take no actions that I wouldn't publicly recount. If you can't speak your deeds, then don't do them.

It'll only hurt for a second. Promise...

Lothaire:Hate scars. I'm physically flawless--why can't everyone be? Everywhere Lothaire went, people stopped and stared. Of course, then they usually ran.

My looks had gone from well-kempt cheerleader to apocalyptic disasterpiece.

My mom could be really fierce. A regular Frau Badass.

Never run from one such as me, female. You will noâ?? get away - and we like it.

Remember my titles? I don't get poisoned,I do the poisoning.I'm the princess of it.

Rydstrom: "To get it right this time."

Those who betray me only do so once.

Two things that can never be contained? Velociraptors and zombies.

The bottom line is, insults only hurt when they come from someone I respect.