Get to Know Kyrian... With Quotes

•  "Desi dearest, I have never begged a day in my life, and the sun will surely splinter before I ever plead for anything from the likes of you." - Kyrian

• "Your greatest weakness is your nobility.  That woman hates you, yet you won't kill her to be safe.  While she tries to kill you, you'll guard her from me with your life.  You just can't resist a human in peril, can you?" - Desiderius (about Kyrian) 

• "Life is seldom what we want it to be." - Kyrian

• "How long do you think we'll have to wait?" = Amanda

"I don't know." - Kyrian

"Who did you call?" - Amanda

"No one." - Kyrian

"You don't like to answer questions, do you?" - Amanda

"Honestly?  I don't like to talk at all.  I'd rather just stand here in silence." - Kyrian

 

• "Look, I know you don't know me or trust me at all.  I don't blame you.  But there are people in the world who can give without asking for anything back.  I'm one of them." - Kyrian

 

• "Is he always this sarcastic?" - Amanda (about Kyrian)

 

"Actually, I thought he was being rather nice to you." - Tate

 

• "The difference is I normally don't kill humans, but if you don't stop quizzing me, I might make an exception." = Kyrian

• "My God, can it be you actually answered a question?  Holy cow, we'd better call Tate in here quick before you keel over dead or undead or whatever it is you vampires do." - Amanda (about Kyrian)

• "I know you can't tell it by looking at me, but I've had a hard life.  I've lost everyone who was ever important to me and I know what it's like to be kicked hard when you're down." - Kyrian

• "He eats spaghetti?" - Esmeralda

"Do you?" - Amanda

"It's not as good as sucking the necks of Italians, but it's not bad." - Kyrian

 

• "Talon, I hear what you're saying. I'm just not listening to it." - Kyrian

• "Honestly, you have no idea how much your parents love you until something happens to you - then it's too late." - Kyrian

• "Why do you call her 'ma'am' when she's younger than you?" - Nick

"It's a sign of respect." - Kyrian

 

• "When you're not being sarcastic, scary, or bullish, you're actually not bad to be around.  Of course, I've only been around you for about two minutes when you weren't one of those three things, so who am I to judge?" - Amanda (about Kyrian)

• "A wooden stake through the heart will kill just about anything.  And if it doesn't, run like hell.  Again, my lady, you watch too much television.  Don't you have a life?" - Kyrian

• He didn't believe in love anymore.  Didn't believe in much of anything.

• "You know, I really hate Romans, but I have to say their descendants make one fine automobile." - Kyrian

• "And not a single mark on the Lamborghini.  Ha!  Eat steel, you soul-sucking bastards." - Kyrian

"You actually enjoyed that, didn't you?" - Amanda

"Oh, hell yes.  Did you see the look on their faces?  Man, I love this car." - Kyrian

"Dear God, please separate me from this maniac before I die of fright." - Amanda

" Oh, c'mon.  Don't tell me that didn't get your blood pumping." - Kyrian

"Yes, yes, it did.  In fact, my blood is pumping so fast that I'm not really sure why my heart hasn't exploded.  You are one crazy human being." - Amanda

"I used to be, anyway." - Kyrian

 

• "I guess I shouldn't be surprised.  At least this time she's not an Amazon princess with an irate mothere demanding parts of your body be removed.  Two thousand years later, and you're still getting into unbelievable messes." - Julian (about Kyrian)

• "No good deed goes unpunished." - Kyrian

• It was all he'd ever truly wanted.  A peaceful hearth, children to love, and a wife who loved him.  Such simple things, really.  Yet they had forever eluded his grasp.

• "You always had more balls than brains." - Julian (about Kyrian)

• "It's not exactly how I start out conversations.  Hi, I'm Kyrian.  I have no soul.  What about you?" - Kyrian

"You're not funny." - Julian

"Sure I am, you just never appreciated my sense of humor." - Kyrian

"That's because you would only let it out when we were one step away from death." - Julian

 

• This wasn't the same man he had known in Macedonia.  Kyrian of Thrace had always been fun-loving and lighthearted.  The man before him now was jaded.  Guarded.  Suspicious and almost cold.

• "Have a nice life, Cupcake." - Kyrian

"Cupcake?" - Amanda

"After the 'buff stud in black leather' remark, I figured I owed you one." - Kyrian

 

• "Speaking of, I need you to buy me a new leather coat today." - Kyrian

"Why?" - Nick

"The old one has a hole in the shoulder." - Kyrian

"Why?" - Nick

"I got attacked.  Why else?" - Kyrian

"You okay?" - Nick

"Don't I look okay?" - Kyrian

"No, you look like hell.' - Nick

 

• "All of us tried to tell him she was only after his wealth, but he refused to listen.  He did that a lot back then." - Julian (about Kyrian)

• "I'll head out as soon as I can and I'll keep my eyes peeled for, and I cringe to say this, things out of the ordinary for us." - Kyrian

• "Why don't I believe that?" - Amanda

"Probably because I could never lie worth a damn." - Kyrian

 

• "Tell me how many jobs are out there where you get to play hero every night.  My pay is astronomical and I live forever.  What is there not to love about this job?" - Kyrian

• "What kind of life have you lived, little one, that everything seems to be a question of fair and unfair?  Life and death just are.  Fair has nothing to do with it." - Kyrian

• "For her, I turned my back on my family.  I gave up a kingdom and hurt the people who truly loved me.  Because of Theone, the last words I spoke to my parents were hurtful and cruel.  And when they delivered the news to my father that I had died, the grief of it drove him insane.  He flung himself from the window of my childhood room onto the courtyard stones below, where he died a broken man, calling my name.  My mother never spoke another word again until the day she died, and my youngest sister sheared her hair off to let the world know just how much she grieved.  Without me to lead our forces, the Romans invaded and took over my homeland.  My people lost their dignity, their nationality, and suffered for centuries under Roman occupation.  Tell me, what would you have done to my wife?" - Kyrian

"I don't know, I guess I would have killed her, too." - Amanda

"One would think that, anyway." - Kyrian

"You didn't, did you?" - Amanda

"No, I didn't.  I had my hands wrapped around her neck and was about to end her life when she looked up at me with those weepy, fearful eyes.  One minute I wanted to kill her and the next thing I knew, I wiped her tears away, kissed her trembling lips, and left her there in peace.  So, you see, you sit beside the greatest fool ever born.  A man who traded his soul for a vengeance he never took." - Kyrian

 

• "What do you want me to say?  That I had a moment of weakness when I saw it?  That for an instant I felt the pang of being homesick?  Yeah, I did.  There, you now know the Dark-Hunter who has no soul has a heart.  Are you happy?" - Kyrian

• "As they say, I made my bed and I was crucified in it.  I was the one who was blind and foolish." - Kyrian

• "You actually do know how to be nice to someone." - Amanda

"Only when the mood strikes me." - Kyrian

 

• "Remind me later, I really need to kill him." - Kyrian

• "One day, Gator bait..." - Kyrian

"Yeah, right.  That threat might actually carry weight if I didn't know how much you live to order me around.  You'd go insane if you couldn't page me at all hours of the night." - Nick

 

• "Sorry. I keep forgetting it's fashionable to look like you just rolled out from under a Dumpster." - Kyrian

• "What do I need with a soul, anyway?  All it does i make a man weak.  I won't be weak again." - Kyrian

• It was himself that he feared, for once he gave his heart of his loyalty, he never revoked it.

• "They like to live dangerously, don't they?" - Amanda

"It takes a certain breed to do what they do.  Flirting with disaster is pretty much a basic requirement." - Nick

 

• "Second rule of the Code, you've got to do what you've got to do.  If I die, you're up next.  And if you are, don't fail." - Kyrian

• "You the Dark-Hunter?" - minion

"You the flunky?" - Kyrian

"I don't like your tone." - minion

"And I don't like you.  Now that we've dispensed with the introductions and declared our mutual distaste for one another, why don't you take me to the one who holds your leash?" - Kyrian

 

• "Couldn't you think up something a little more original than this?  I mean, push your limits.  You're supposed to be a crazed mastermind and this is all you have to offer?" - Kyrian

• "How can you be so lucid?  This has to be excruciating for you." - Amanda

"I was tortured by the Romans for over a month, Amanda.  Believe me, this is nothing." - Kyrian 

 

• He knew the first rule of war was that a surprise attack virtually guaranteed a victory, and he had just blown his best surprise.  Still, he refused to keep his advantage at the risk of Amanda or one of her family members being hurt.  

• "You know, crosses don't work on us and neither does garlic." - Kyrian

"Yeah, right.  Would you still say it if I touched you with it?" - Esmeralda

"Ow, ow, ow!  Really.  It has no effect.  As for the garlic, well, it's garlic and it stinks, but if that doesn't bother you,  I can live with it." - Kyrian

 

• "If you get yourself killed, what good would it do anyone?" - Amanda

"It would help Nick since he would inherit all my property." - Kyrian

 

• He had tried so hard to let go of his past, tried so hard to banish it, and yet it was always there just under the surface waiting to stab him when he least expected it. 

• "I don't give a damn if - " 

"Listen to me, General.  No one here doubts your ability to make Desi the next menu item at the Road Kill Diner; however, you have other people to protect, including a headstrong Cajun who listens about as well as you do, and a sorceress with virtually untapped powers.  So, for once, could you just do as I ask and not argue?" - Acheron
 

"Just this once, so don't get used to it." - Kyrian

 

• "Yes, O great lord and master, I'm resting." - Kyrian

• "I don't need to be coddled." - Kyrian

"Fine, Nick.  Want to tell me how you need nothing and no one too and then storm out of the house?" - Amanda

"Now you know why I tolerate him.  Two peas in a pod." - Kyrian

"Let me guess, you were just like him at his age?" - Amanda

"Actually, he's a lot more tolerable than I was.  Not quite as stubborn, either." - Kyrian

 

• "The last time I believed a woman loved me I gave up an empire for her and watched her laugh while I was crucified.  Don't be a fool, Amanda.  Love isn't real.  It's an illusion.  You don't love me.  You can't." - Kyrian

• "Tell me, have you ever seen a pissed-off ancient Greek general?  It's not a pretty sight.  Really." - Kyrian

• "Ooo, if I were wearing boots, I'd be shaking in them." - Kyrian

"Don't you ever get scared?" - Desiderius

"I faced down an entire Roman legion with only a sword to protect me.  Now, why would I be afraid of some two-bit, half-god Daimon with an inferiority complex?" - Kyrian

 

 

 

Quotes from Sherrilyn Kenyon's Night Pleasures and Chronicles of Nick series