{"author":"Pippa DaCosta","author_id":"Pippa+DaCosta","total_quotes":37,"quotes":[{"text":"I don’t know if I can.”I splayed my hand on the bulkhead beside Fran's shoulder and looked her in those pretty green eyes. “It’s easier if you don’t think about it. Shut it away, think about something else. Drink, fuck, do what you gotta do. Bury it so damn deep, it can’t touch you. And before long, you’ll forget what you were worried about.”Her lips turned down at the corners. She closed her eyes and sighed. “Is that what you do?”“It works.” Or it had. Until recently. Until One somehow made me look at myself though her eyes. Now I had shit going on in my head, like not wanting to let her down. Not wanting to let any of them down. Like this life and my place in it might actually mean something. That kinda thinking would get a man killed. ~ Caleb.","author":"Pippa DaCosta","tags":["action","adventure","romance","science-fiction","scifi"],"id":984,"author_id":"Pippa+DaCosta"},{"text":"But if you cross me again Akil, so-help-me, I’ll find a way to kill you this time.”His eyes lit up at the prospect, as though he’d accepted a challenge I didn’t even know I’d laid down. “I’d expect nothing less.” Demons; only they can get a cheap thrill from a death threat.","author":"Pippa DaCosta","tags":["beyond-the-veil","devil-may-care","muse-to-akil","the-veil-series","urban-fantasy"],"id":24197,"author_id":"Pippa+DaCosta"},{"text":"Beat me, hurt me, fight me and I’ll bounce back, but be nice to me? I folded quicker than a banker in a high-stakes poker game.","author":"Pippa DaCosta","tags":["muse","nice-to-me","strong"],"id":42670,"author_id":"Pippa+DaCosta"},{"text":"The lust for chaos wrenched reason from my mind. She wanted the power I’d called before. She wanted to burn it all; to slice open the veil and summon the fires of hell to dance for her. She burned for it, and so did I.' ~ Muse.","author":"Pippa DaCosta","tags":["beyond-the-veil","devil-may-care","muse","pippa-dacosta","the-veil-series","urban-fantasy"],"id":44945,"author_id":"Pippa+DaCosta"},{"text":"Ideas take root at the oddest moments. Some grow into novels, the weaker ones wither and die.","author":"Pippa DaCosta","tags":["ideas","inspiration","writing"],"id":51921,"author_id":"Pippa+DaCosta"},{"text":"Sometimes there is no right thing. Sometimes wrong wins, and that's okay. Life doesn't have cooker-cutters for right and wrong, Ryder. There's that messy gray area in between, and I sure hope I'm not the one staring down the barrel of your gun when you figure that out.' Muse ~ Darkest Before Dawn. #3 The Veil Series.","author":"Pippa DaCosta","tags":["darkest-before-dawn","muse","muse-to-ryder","the-veil-series","urban-fantasy"],"id":52603,"author_id":"Pippa+DaCosta"},{"text":"When demons call you the Mother of Destruction, sh*t gets real.' Muse.","author":"Pippa DaCosta","tags":["darkest-before-dawn","muse","the-veil-series","urban-fantasy"],"id":56263,"author_id":"Pippa+DaCosta"},{"text":"If you hurt Muse, I will hunt you down, use every rusted weapon I own, cut off your precious parts and feed them to the hellhounds.' Ryder.","author":"Pippa DaCosta","tags":["muse","pippa-dacosta","ryder","the-veil-series","urban-fantasy"],"id":71338,"author_id":"Pippa+DaCosta"},{"text":"I curled my lip at the sight of sizzling human hair and skin clinging to my demon flesh. Damn, I’d have given anything to be back in Boston, sipping chai tea latte.' ~ Muse, Ties That Bind, #5 The Veil Series.","author":"Pippa DaCosta","tags":["demons","muse","the-veil-series","urban-fantasy"],"id":77665,"author_id":"Pippa+DaCosta"},{"text":"It didn't take a synthetic mind to decipher Caleb Shepperd, just a human one.' ~ #1001.","author":"Pippa DaCosta","tags":["girl-from-above","sci-fi","science-fiction","space-opera"],"id":101336,"author_id":"Pippa+DaCosta"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":37,"pages":4,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}