#underworld

Perhaps, but this Awakening felt very different from those in the past. A peculiar sensation seemed to spread throughout his body, propelled by the very beating of his heart. Within his veins, lycan blood mixed with his own, merging in an unexpected alchemical reaction. He felt a change come over him, a fundamental transformation in his very nature. Power such as he had never known surged through his veins. His eyes snapped open, revealing a pair of jet-black orbs. Hybrid eyes. ↗

— Greg Cox

#change

Right," she said, "We're going to the Land of the Dead and I shouldn't think negative. ↗

— Rick Riordan

#humor #negative #percy-jackson #positive #underworld

A woman's body is the gate to this life. A man's body is the gate to the next life. ↗

— Louise Erdrich

#next-life #otherworld #underworld #women #men

I like to be admired from afar, and then complimented up close. ↗

— Gena Showalter

#narcissism #seduction

I’ve never cheated on a lover. I’m faithful, always. But the war comes before anyone’s feelings. Every time.” Wow. Battle before love. Without a doubt, he was the most unromantic male she’d ever met. Even more so than her great-grandfather, who had laughingly burned her great-grandmother to death after she’d given birth to Gwen’s grandmother. ↗

— Gena Showalter

#lords-of-the-underworld #romance #death

Well, when I did Underworld 2, I was in Vancouver for five months and I was reminiscent to be back up there. ↗

— Scott Speedman

#back up #did #five #i #months

I care," he said in a trembling voice. "I care so much that I do not know how to tell you without it seeming inconsequential compared to how I feel. Even if I am distant at times and seem as if I do not want to be with you, it is only because this scares me, too. ↗

— Aimee Carter

#hades #henry #love #relationships #love

Did you see him? I know the photo was grainy, but he looks like one of those death metal goth heads, or whatever they’re called. All dressed in black with long hair I took umbrage at my mother describing my boyfriend this way. John was the Lord of the Underworld. How else was he supposed to dress? ↗

— Meg Cabot

#john-hayden #underworld #death

Aren’t all fairy tales based in fact? You yourself are supposed to be nothing more than a myth. Pandora’s box is a story parents read to their children at night,” she countered. “That means life itself is a fairy tale. Like the characters, we all live and love and search for a happily-ever-after. ↗

— Gena Showalter

#darkest #gena #lords #night #showalter