#urban

Pick up your clothes. I am not your maid. How do I know this? A maid cannot kill you with a tube sock. I can. ↗

— Rob Thurman

#niko #urban-fantasy #urban-fantasy

I’d learned a long time ago that you can’t prove a negative. You can prove that you did something, but it’s the devil to prove you didn’t do something. ↗

— Laurell K. Hamilton

#urban-fantasy

Charlie is one of the big good guys in my universe. ↗

— Robin McKinley

#urban-fantasy

Niko was a man of few words and flying, sugary snacks. I like that in a human. ~Catcher ↗

— Rob Thurman

#sarcasm #science-fiction #twinkies #urban-fantasy #science

His attitude, though always bad, has changed since he helped me prep the Pandora charm for Morgan. He thinks I'm falling for her, as ridiculous as that sounds, and he might be tempted to take matters into his hands. ↗

— Kim Harrison

#jonathan #quen #rachen-morgan #romance #the-hollows

This would go a lot easier if you'd stop screaming in pain,' Zoe told the muscular man lying beneath her. ↗

— Jaime Rush

#paranormal #tattoos #urban-fantasy #urban-fantasy

From DW: I got it. “Here's the thing,” I said. "I'm not going to be the government's bitch. ↗

— Tamara Rose Blodgett

#paranormal #paranormal-romance #sci-fi #supernatural #suspense

I grew up on a suburban street with lace curtains and dull neighbours, so I made up stories to tell my friend, in which they became serial killers and burglars. She told her mother, who then told mine. ↗

— Nina Bawden

#burglars #curtains #dull #friend #grew

A peasant becomes fond of his pig and is glad to salt away its pork. What is significant, and is so difficult for the urban stranger to understand, is that the two statements are connected by an and not by a but. ↗

— John Berger

#becomes #connected #difficult #fond #glad

A suburban mother's role is to deliver children obstetrically once, and by car forever after. ↗

— Peter De Vries

#car #children #deliver #ever after #forever