{"author":"Chloe Neill","author_id":"Chloe+Neill","total_quotes":33,"quotes":[{"text":"But I'll admit that he's kind of offensively delicious' 'Like salt and vinegar potato chips' 'Exactly.","author":"Chloe Neill","tags":["chicagoland","mallory","merit","urban-fantasy","vampire"],"id":25262,"author_id":"Chloe+Neill"},{"text":"I wanted what most people wanted—love, companionship.I wanted someone to touch. I wanted someone to touch me back.I wanted someone to laugh with, someone who would laugh with me, laugh at me.I wanted someone who looked and sawme . Not my power, not my position.I wanted someone to say my name. To call out, “Merit,” when it was time to go, or when we arrived.Someone who wanted to say to someone else, with pride, “I’m here with her. With Merit.”I wanted all those things. Indivisibly.But I didn’t want them from Morgan.","author":"Chloe Neill","tags":["bites","friday","merit","night"],"id":47083,"author_id":"Chloe+Neill"},{"text":"The world has a lot to offer. There’s a lot to explore. I like to take advantage of that.","author":"Chloe Neill","tags":["chloe","deep","drink","jonah","neill"],"id":65635,"author_id":"Chloe+Neill"},{"text":"Seriously, I’m totally weirded out by the girly nature of this conversation. And yet, it’s kinda like you’re growing up. Do you think Judy Blume made a book about adolescent vampires? Are You There God, It’s Me, Merit?” Mallory snorted, obviously pleased with herself.","author":"Chloe Neill","tags":["chloe-neill","friday-night-bites","vampire"],"id":85065,"author_id":"Chloe+Neill"},{"text":"I am beginning to remember what it means to need things. Laughter. Companionship. Love. 'He leant forward and pressed his forehead to mine. 'And I need you, Merit.","author":"Chloe Neill","tags":["amity","companionship","ethan","love","merit","need"],"id":87971,"author_id":"Chloe+Neill"},{"text":"There are those amongst us who have erred, deeply and significantly. Who have wounded the world and broken themselves. The worst of them lose themselves in their errors. The best of them crawl back, one foot at a time, and seek to amend their breaches. That is the way of the brave. -Gabriel Keene, Pack Apex, pp. 37.","author":"Chloe Neill","tags":["life","magic"],"id":94388,"author_id":"Chloe+Neill"},{"text":"Together the magicks swirled and danced around us, invisible but tangible, like an breeze. This wasn't defensive or offensive magic. It wasn't used to gather information, for strategy or diplomacy, or to fight a war against supernatural enemy.  It simply was.  It was fundamental, inexorable. It was nothing and everything, infinity and oblivion, from the magnificent furnace of a star to the electrons that hummed in an atom. It was life and death and everything in between, the urge to fight and grow and swim and fly. It was a cascade of water across boulders, the slow-moving advance of mountain glaciers, the march of time.","author":"Chloe Neill","tags":["caroline-evelyn-merit","caroline-merit","chicagoland-vampires","chloe-neill","magic","magick","magicks","merit"],"id":135489,"author_id":"Chloe+Neill"},{"text":"Oh please,' Scout said.'Don't take that tone with me. You know you'd love to have a minion. Someone at your beck and call. Someone to do your bidding. How many times have you said to yourself,' Self, I need a unicorn to run errands and such?","author":"Chloe Neill","tags":["funny","unicorn"],"id":141572,"author_id":"Chloe+Neill"},{"text":"You've got better boobs,' I acknowledged. And just as we'd done each time we'd had this boobs-versus-legs conversation, we looked down at our chests. Ogled. Compared.","author":"Chloe Neill","tags":["humorous"],"id":149607,"author_id":"Chloe+Neill"},{"text":"You are incorrigible.” “I know.” She sighed happily. “All the shit we’ve been through—all the shit I’ve been through—and I can still make lascivious jokes with the best of them. That’s impressive, Merit. That’s character.","author":"Chloe Neill","tags":["humor","laughter","life"],"id":156966,"author_id":"Chloe+Neill"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":33,"pages":4,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}