Dacosta Quotes & Sayings

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. — Pippa DaCosta

I dragged my beaten body onto my feet, spat blood into the mangled dirt, and lifted my head to Mammon. "Do not let my human half beguile you." I echoed his words, almost to the letter. — Pippa DaCosta

Shit. We were practically married. The lack of sex proved it. — Pippa DaCosta

Well, it beat being tied to a bed and drugged up to the eyeballs. — Pippa DaCosta

He stood in my quaint kitchen, looking somewhere between intrigued and mildly bored, the picture of sophisticated elegance in his obscenely expensive suit. Cufflinks reflected the light while his eyes captured it. Immortal. Ageless. Infinite. So toxic, he should come with a danger-of-death warning sign. — Pippa DaCosta

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 — Pippa DaCosta

Passmore used his personality the way a magician used smoke. It was all for the diversion. — David B. Dacosta

They will be moisture sensors, valve controls, "smart dust," parking meters, home appliances, and so on. These types of end devices almost never contain the processors, memory, hard drives, and other features needed to run a protocol stack. — Francis Dacosta

Cross my heart, and hope to die. Bake a demon in a pie. — Pippa DaCosta

I'm just a wretched half-blood girl caught in a storm."
Akil tasted his wine and smiled. "Muse, you are the storm. — Pippa DaCosta

Ideas take root at the oddest moments. Some grow into novels, the weaker ones wither and die. — Pippa DaCosta

What were you keeping me for, if not to use against your enemies?" His gaze softened. "Once, yes. Now I find myself in the alarming situation of fearing I may lose you again and caring. — Pippa DaCosta

Oh to let go of it all ... The pain, the anguish, the shame and disgust ... Just let it all go. Embrace chaos. — Pippa DaCosta

His face bore an imperial nose, one belonging to the same pedigree as the one venomously blasted from the face of the Sphinx statue by Greek envy. — David B. Dacosta

My sparkling personality? Razor-sharp wit? The great hair? Chicks dig the hair. — Pippa DaCosta

Hell, even Akil had sent demon-nasties after me in the past, although he appeared to have resolved his homicidal tendencies since I'd literally sucked the life out of him. — Pippa DaCosta

I sat across the table from him and watched as he popped open the lid. "I gather you like ice cream?" An eyebrow twitched comically. "Snow demon." He shrugged. — Pippa DaCosta

This where you bring all your girls before you bury them in the woods? — Pippa DaCosta

I have not lived for millennia to be bested by a half-blood whore and her puppet prince." ~ Valenti — Pippa DaCosta

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 — Pippa DaCosta

Sometimes, when you sleep with the enemy, waking up is the hardest part." ~ Muse — Pippa DaCosta

Only a few hairline fractures around his eyes and lips spoke of the torment he'd been through. I wanted to smooth those lines away, and wished it was that easy to erase the scars of our past." ~ Muse, Drowning In The Dark #4 The Veil Series. — Pippa DaCosta

I shook my head. Akil was right about one thing. Stefan would never understand. He spent his life killing demons. He had it simple. I'd spent my life among them. I might despise the majority of them, but I knew them. They were family. Twisted, bitter, dangerous, slippery, back-stabbing, but family all the same. — Pippa DaCosta

They believed him out of control. What they didn't know - what nobody but me knew - was that he'd never been more in control. He knew exactly what he was doing. He was free. — Pippa DaCosta

We are enemies. Opposites. An immovable object and an unstoppable force. — Pippa DaCosta

Right. And I'm Mary Poppins. Wait while I get my umbrella, so I can beat you to death with it for never giving me a straight answer to anything. Cut the crap. Give it to me straight. — Pippa DaCosta

I had a long list of things that were best not to dwell on. Losing control, failing Dawn, eyeing up Mammon for violent and bloody demon sex, breaking Akil's nose, and how I wanted to rip Adam's spine from his flesh and beat him with it. — Pippa DaCosta

People are dying out there, and I'm not faring much better."

"Worrying about the demise of anonymous people won't bring them back."

Pursing my lips, I planted a hand on a hip. "How very demon of you."

"Thank you."

"That wasn't a compliment."

~ Muse & Akil — Pippa DaCosta

If there are princes involved, you should stay out of their way." Jerry's smile softened his hard-as-nails persona. "I wish I could." I smiled my own half-hearted smile. "Maybe they should stay outta my way?" He chuckled, the sound of his laughter soft and delicious. "Maybe. — Pippa DaCosta

You are not yet grown. But you, little half-blood, will be magnificent. — Pippa DaCosta

Greetings, half blood. You have gained power, I see. Asmodeus will be pleased." "Asmodeus can go fuck himself. — Pippa DaCosta

I feel at home in a lot of places, but I am truly an African-American. — Yaya DaCosta

We are not so different, and yet we are worlds apart. Ahkeel/Akil, The Veil Series prequel. — Pippa DaCosta

I'd seen this movie. This was the part where the dinosaurs ate the tourists. — Pippa DaCosta

You think this is funny?" I snorted. "You would. Your sense of humor is so dark, even the lesser demons don't get you. — Pippa DaCosta

Vampire Kellan Barstow is tired of watching his best friend Lucas Phillips pine after his one true mate. Though he's jealous that Lucas found his before he found his own, he wants him to be happy and hopes to spur him on to make a move toward his chosen human, librarian Emily Yost. But Kellan's sick of Lucas's moping and decides one thing will convince Luke he needs to act. Sleeping with another woman. — Pippa DaCosta

Get off that damn chair and pull yourself together. You're supposed to be an ageless creature of chaos and all I'm getting right now is sulking city boy. — Pippa DaCosta

Muse is not to be so easily dismissed. She is quite capable of turning your insides to ash before you can draw breath to apologize. — Pippa DaCosta

I'd never really done Christmas. The years I'd spent with Akil didn't count. The only religion he got behind was the worship of his own ego. — Pippa DaCosta

Next time I'm taking down hellhounds for you, I'll remember to tone down the pretty. — Pippa DaCosta

I had yet to convince the powers-that-be that I was mentally stable. I knew something they didn't; I hadn't ever been mentally stable, and it was unlikely I ever would be. — Pippa DaCosta

I should have known he'd be trouble as soon as he walked into my workshop, but I couldn't have known he'd be the death of me. — Pippa DaCosta

One day you will have vengeance, little half-blood. You will stand upon a wasteland littered with your dead kin and you will be free. — Pippa DaCosta

I need to feel you as a man does a woman. You have no idea what it costs me to say these things to you. You cannot fathom what it means. I need you. I lay the truth before you. Would you turn me away? Right here and now, Muse, I am but a man. — Pippa DaCosta

Tears are useless things; tiny droplets of salt infused water, insignificant and pitiful. — Pippa DaCosta

I was the proverbial child raised by wolves, only my wolves were demons. Wolves would have been kinder. — Pippa DaCosta

You're the half-sister of the full-blood demon, Valenti. The illegitimate child of Asmodeus - one of the Seven Princes of Hell. You were sold at birth as a plaything for lesser demons."
"A half-blood abomination," he snarled. "An embarrassment to demons everywhere. By all rights, you should be dead. — Pippa DaCosta

It was my turn to smile. "I'm not all bad." Her grin faded, and her eyes cooled. "Half-blood turned Enforcer? You're about as bad as they get. — Pippa DaCosta

I am chaos eternal. I desire everything this world and the next offers. I am greed, I am hunger. Oh how I hunger ... I want the pathetic mortals of this world to bow before me. I want all that they own, all they desire, every marvelous creation of theirs, but there is only one thing in this world that I need, and that, Muse, is you. — Pippa DaCosta

You're not going to fight me, Captain. This is the right call. You know it."
She marched me off the bridge and into the brilliant white passageway. "You think I'm just going to trust you'll let me go?" I asked, getting a painful nudge in the back.
"You don't have a choice." She was right about that. "Relax. I got your back, Cale."
"You've got a pistol in my back is what you've got."
"Just like old times."
Trust her? Well, shit. — Pippa DaCosta

My parents were very active in the Civil Rights Movement. My father was a Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) worker; my mother was a secretary with the Panthers. — Yaya DaCosta

No demon could ever care enough to let go." ~ Muse — Pippa DaCosta

You are capable of great things, he said with conviction. If by great things, he meant complete destruction, then yes, it would seem so. — Pippa DaCosta

How do you stop yourself from loving someone even when you know they're incapable of loving you back? — Pippa DaCosta

Speaking Akil's name around Stefan felt like throwing gasoline on a bushfire." ~ Muse — Pippa DaCosta

Surely the Prince of Greed and the Mother of Destruction can kick some demon-ass back to the netherworld. It might mess up your street-cred, but I'm sure an ego the size of yours can take it. Once we've averted disaster, you can go back to being the slippery, back-stabbing son-of-a-bitch I know so well. — Pippa DaCosta

Humans are passionate in all they do, even should they wish to do nothing. They battle, they rage, they kill, they love, they are capable of mercy in the most impossible of circumstances, and they are monstrous. — Pippa DaCosta

I considered how the princes were masters of manipulation and wondered if Ahkeel knew exactly how this would end and if I'd survive his game. — Pippa DaCosta

Being human was a lot more difficult than it looked. Demon was easy. Demon was simple. Human was ... terrifying. Muse — Pippa DaCosta

If she was anything like you, she'd have rained hell down on them all. — Pippa DaCosta

We are their gods, their angels, their devils, and their dreams. We could rule them. — Pippa DaCosta

I've hated you for the longest time, but I've loved you for longer." ~ Stefan #5 The Veil Series, Ties That Bind, — Pippa DaCosta

Tell me," he demanded. "Tell me when. I'm going to come with you."
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"Tell me," he ordered.
"I'm ... yes!" she said. "Yes!"
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"Can you really do that/" she asked. "Come on command?"
Mike Muldoon, Navy SEAL, to Joan DaCosta — Suzanne Brockmann

I owe Oprah and that show a tremendous debt. — Edwidge Danticat

Without the queen pulling your strings, you're nothing but thoughts and dreams. Such things are easily destroyed." ~ General Kael, City of Fae #2 — Pippa DaCosta

Impossibly, I knew I could beat him. It wasn't fantasy. It was fact. — Pippa DaCosta

You have more control than I've given you credit for. I underestimated you, Muse. Yah think? — Pippa DaCosta

Happiness is the bomb cosmetic! When I'm smiling, sometimes I'm giving thanks for all the things I have rather than worrying about the things I don't. — Yaya DaCosta

You'd best teach me how to raise hell because we're going to need it. — Pippa DaCosta

Some had yet to be touched, and I had to fight the urge to upset the precise design just for fun. — Pippa DaCosta

It didn't take a synthetic mind to decipher Caleb Shepperd, just a human one." ~ #1001 — Pippa DaCosta

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 — Pippa DaCosta

What do you do when you're swimming with sharks? You make sure you're the biggest, most badass thing in the pool. — Pippa DaCosta

And there's no synthetic owners manual?" His lips twitched, smile threatening to break into a grin.

A joke. He wasn't funny. "Do you come with an owners' manual, Captain? Because I'd like to study your troubleshooting section."

"Would you like to strip me down to my nuts and bolts, and figure out what makes me tick?"

"I knew what made you tick from the moment we first met. That's why I punched you between the legs."

~ #1001 & Caleb — Pippa DaCosta

If I ever have to get that close to the Prince of Greed again, it'll be too fuckin' soon. And I ain't ever doin' that Star-Trek teleportation crap again, yah hear? I feel dirty . — Pippa DaCosta

What kind of fairytale ends with the Prince trying to flay the Princess?" "Is that what you are? A Princess?" Laughter danced with the light in his eyes. "Go to hell." He pursed his lips then worked them together as though fighting his own words. "I wasn't aware the fairytale was over." He snorted a laugh. I crossed my arms and shot him a look. "You're in denial." "Denial? I'm the Prince of Greed. I don't recognize denial." "I noticed. — Pippa DaCosta

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 — Pippa DaCosta

We had already planned my wedding when my brother passed away in 2012. When you're grieving, you don't necessarily want to think about something like that, but my brother told me that he wanted me to, so we went ahead and did it. — Yaya DaCosta

So this was how it was going to be: use the half-blood for her peculiar party tricks. I should have expected it. I'd been used to it most of my life. Why should things change now? — Pippa DaCosta

History repeats. — Pippa DaCosta

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. — Pippa DaCosta

Besides, what is human consciousness if not a data stream? A means for human beings to harvest information and interpret the world around them? — Pippa DaCosta

He had no right to look so accommodating when I knew the sort of man he really was; the sort who sacrificed his own son in the name of science, the sort who used his daughter to entrap a Prince of Hell. I'd known demons more human than Adam Harper. — Pippa DaCosta

There was only so much damage control I could do, and no amount of bull crap about escaped animals from the zoo was going to mask my very public display of power. — Pippa DaCosta

Except when Kellan and Lucas sleep with Sydney, a woman Kellan has flirted with for weeks, things quickly spiral out of control. Because — Pippa DaCosta

Akil's sexy-as-sin picture could be plastered all over the tabloids. He wouldn't like that. His halo would slip in the eyes of the Boston public. Never mind that his tarnished halo hung on devil horns. — Pippa DaCosta

I had no idea why a small swarm of spiders had decided to latch onto me, but as long as we were on friendly terms, I was happy to have them tag along. — Pippa DaCosta

I have to agree that most people in America read a kind of a fiction which is not of a high literary calibre. People read for entertainment. — Walter Mosley

If he kept that up, I was going to ugly-cry all over his expensive coat. — Pippa DaCosta

You lie through your teeth. You wouldn't know the truth if it crawled up your ass and bit you on the balls. — Pippa DaCosta

Here's to life in-the-black. May we wish it on our enemies. - Caleb — Pippa DaCosta

So fuck off, netherworld. The demons can't have me. Akil can't have me. Nobody gets to tie me up and chain me down. Not anymore. — Pippa DaCosta

and shined the flashlight up — Pippa DaCosta

Mister Vance, what a fine pleasure. Welcome to my home. Please, keep those quick fingers of yours to yourself though, sir." As — Pippa DaCosta

You realize, half-bloods are impossible. A human body shouldn't be able to contain an elemental demon. It's physically and mentally impossible. Something about how you and your demon are tied together goes beyond scientific explanation. You shouldn't exist. It's a wonder you're not a jabbering lunatic. — Pippa DaCosta

Rejuvenate your strength, renew your mind, re-invigorate your spirit when you pray each day — Simone DaCosta

I try to make my mood uplifting and peaceful, then watch the world around me reflect that mood. — Yaya DaCosta

Oh, I'd kill him - once I figured out how to summon my demon before he could pin her down again. He was so going on my revenge list. — Pippa DaCosta

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. — Pippa DaCosta

You're impossible. You're a murdering son-of-a-bitch. You get off on pain and control and fucking up peoples' lives. You lie through your teeth. You wouldn't know the truth if it crawled up your ass and bit you on the balls." ~ Muse to Akil — Pippa DaCosta