Top 120 Colleen Houck Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “A girl can still admire, can’t she? Even those who can’t afford to go in the store can still window-shop. Right? Knowing he wasn’t for me didn’t mean I couldn’t covet the merchandise.”

— Colleen Houck

52. “We looked at each other for a minute, not saying anything, but I could feel the air between us shift. It became thick, sultry, and tangible – like when the air changes right before a storm. I could feel its power envelop me as it brushed across my skin. Even though I couldn’t see it, I knew a storm was coming.”

— Colleen Houck

53. “Why does everything so bad for you always taste so dreamy?”

— Colleen Houck

54. “A quiet but indomitable voice behind me said, “I believe this is my dance.” It was him. I could feel his presence. The warmth of him seeped into my back, and I quivered all over like spring leaves in a warm breeze.”

— Colleen Houck

55. “How do I get past my fears? Make a life for myself? Risk loving someone? When death is all that waits for you, what’s the point in trying to have a life?”

— Colleen Houck

56. “Vampire sea horse monkeys? Are you serious?”

— Colleen Houck

57. “Because I’ve died many deaths, mostly over you, and I’m still alive. Trying to have a relationship with you is like trying to rescue someone from Hades. Only a fool would keep going back to get a woman who fights him every step of the way.”

— Colleen Houck

58. “I’ve loved her since the moment I laid eyes on her. I’ve been tortured to the point of death in her name. I would journey across the world to see her smile, to make her happy. When she becomes yours, dragon, and binds the threads of her Scarf around your heart, I will probably wither and die, for I am as wrapped up in her as a vine that clings to a tree seeking sustenance. She’s tied me to her for eternity. She’s my home. She’s my reason for being. To win and hold her heart is my only purpose.”

— Colleen Houck

59. “The ghost of a smile appeared on her face. “Learn to love the moment you are in. Treasure your experiences, for precious moments too quickly pass you by, and if you are always rushing toward the future, or pining for the past, you will forget to enjoy and appreciate the present.”

— Colleen Houck

60. “The generations rose and fell like so many waves upon the beach, and he stood alone, a rocky, unmovable sentinel, letting the waves of humanity pass him by, hardly noticing them at all.”

— Colleen Houck

61. “When we reached the front of the line at Burgerville, Ren let me order first and then asked for seven huge sandwiches, three orders of fries, a large soda, and one large blackberry milkshake. When the lady asked if it was to go, he shook his head, confused, and told her we’d be dining in. I laughed and told the lady he was very hungry.”

— Colleen Houck

62. “One heartbeat passed and then another, and the moment felt hot and frozen at the same time. Then he smiled, and it was sunshine and heat and unspoken promises wrapped in a single expression.”

— Colleen Houck

63. “This water is more delicious than the soft kisses from the daubed lips of a dozen nubile maidens.”

— Colleen Houck

64. “I’d expected his style to be exotic and very different from modern dancing, but I hadn’t expected that he would be doing a male version of belly dancing.”

— Colleen Houck

65. “Thousands of beautiful women? Yes. Thousands of insects whose only purpose is to lure fish? No.”

— Colleen Houck

66. “I’ve been working hard to become the kind of man she needs, the kind of man she already believes me to be.”

— Colleen Houck

67. “I don’t want you to see only a tiger when you look at me. I want you to see me. The man.”

— Colleen Houck

68. “It always takes more energy to join and build than to destroy, my dear.”

— Colleen Houck

69. “Making a mistake isn’t bad; what’s bad is refusing to learn from it so you don’t repeat it.”

— Colleen Houck

70. “Tarzan-like men are my weakness, apparently.”

— Colleen Houck

71. “For a witch, you certainly don’t know much about how hauntings work.”

— Colleen Houck

72. “If a king owned a pearl without price, a gem he cherished above all. Would he hide it away, bury it from sight afraid others would take it? Or would he display it proudly, set it in a ring or crown, so that all the world could behold its beauty and see what richness it brings to his life? You are my pearl without price.”

— Colleen Houck

73. “A desert lily need not turn jealous eyes toward the common violet.”

— Colleen Houck

74. “A life with Ren was harder to picture. We didn’t look as if we belonged together. It was like matching up Ken with Strawberry Shortcake. He needed Barbie.”

— Colleen Houck

75. “You look about as trapped as a piglet at a baby back ribs cookoff.”

— Colleen Houck

76. “Promise you’ll be happy.”

— Colleen Houck

77. “Lily, I can honestly tell you that i have never in my long life come across a creature as beguilinig as you. You are as fresh and as lovely as a budding flower by the dew of a golden morning. I breathe you in and am filled with the taste of sunshine, life, and hope. You are much more than beautiful. You are... temptation personified.”

— Colleen Houck

78. “A happy ending was promised, and a happy ending was delivered.”

— Colleen Houck

79. “A handsome prince, such as yourself, deserves someone who is no less than one hundred percent dedicated to him.”

— Colleen Houck

80. “My heart is caged no longer, iadala, for you have set me free. I walked a very long and lonely road to find you, and I want you to know I’d go through it all again a dozen times over as long as I knew you waited for me at the end.” -Ren, Tiger’s Destiny, pg. 435.”

— Colleen Houck

81. “If anyone can overcome a fear for the ocean, you can, little lady. Courage is being scared to death and saddlin’ up anyway.”

— Colleen Houck

82. “Love is not a consequence. Love is not a choice. Love is a thirst. A need as vital to the soul as water is to the body. Love is a precious draught that not only soothes a parched throat, but it vitalizes a man. It fortifies him enough that he is willing to slay dragons for the woman who offers it. Take that draught of love from me and I will shrivel to dust. To take it from a man dying of thirst and give it to another whilst he watches is a cruelty I never thought you capable of.”

— Colleen Houck

83. “I don’t understand how I could have believed you were a warm, affectionate, and tenderhearted person! You’re obviously as prickly as a porcupine and any man who comes close to you will end up with a face full of quills!”

— Colleen Houck

84. “The truth is, if I could bottle your water-lily scent and carry it with me as I wandered the desert, even if I was sick from the sun and dying from thirst, only to be saved by a desert sheikh who wished to barter for it, and even should the trading of it save my life, I would not part with it for all the jewels, silks, and precious riches of Egypt and all the lands surrounding it. So to say your scent is pleasant to me is an understatement most villainous.”

— Colleen Houck

85. “I stared into his handsome face and let those feelings overwhelm me and in that fleeting time I felt the ghost of our emotional connection. It was just a mere whisper, like a scent on the breeze that blows past you too quickly, bringing with it a memory of something you can’t quite grasp. I wasn’t sure if it was a trick of the light, a flicker of something real, or something I fabricated, but it captured all of my attention.”

— Colleen Houck

86. “Hurt her? I’m not going to harm her. You, on the other, hand I’m going to destroy. -Ren.”

— Colleen Houck

87. “It’s not the ones who look different from you that you should be careful around,” Deverell said. “It’s the ones who look human.”

— Colleen Houck

88. “The next day over Ren’s third omelet and Kishan’s fourth, Ren announced he wanted to take up wushu again. Kishan clapped his hands together, showing he couldn’t wait to clobber Ren.”

— Colleen Houck

89. “Kishan kept his distance, but his come-hither eyes made my face burn.”

— Colleen Houck

90. “Kuss des Tigers.”

— Colleen Houck

91. “In my experience,” the lantern began, his voice soft, “places like the oceans or the heavens, an undiscovered forest, a great underground chasm, or the mystery of a woman’s heart and mind are not the end of a journey, but a beginning. Do not let fear of the unknown prevent you from discovery, vampire; otherwise the story of your life will be a dull tale indeed.”

— Colleen Houck

92. “Finney asked everyone to carve pumpkins and light them to mark the path from the crossroad to the town. The tradition caught on, and soon crossroads all over the world opened on that one night and the mortal realm was haunted by ghosts, goblins, witches, werewolves, and vampires.”

— Colleen Houck

93. “I know there are powers I can’t discern and things that bend and shape us that we cannot see.”

— Colleen Houck

94. “Amon’s dancing was like a mashup of Elvis and the Chippendales.”

— Colleen Houck

95. “Amon murmured against my neck, “You taste like melted desert honey.”

— Colleen Houck

96. “It does not matter if we acknowledge the sun; it contiues to shine reardless of the heed we give it. If my efforts go without recognitioun, then so be it.”

— Colleen Houck

97. “The air felt thin and bursting with life. It always seemed to Ember that on Samhain, the world sucked in a breath and held it, waiting for the chime of midnight to ring, and then it slowly exhaled, blowing all the unseen things far back, away from the world of the living.”

— Colleen Houck

98. “The body is immaterial. It is the fire, the passion of the heart.”

— Colleen Houck

99. “He moved in a dance with the cosmos, practicing the steps that would take him to the places he wanted to see. As he circled, he gained wisdom and became truly more than he’d been.”

— Colleen Houck

100. “Ember had never imagined a kiss to be so innocent and so wanton at the same time. Her whole body trembled, and she felt as if she stood on the cusp of something wonderful. That if she was just brave enough to step over the edge, she’d experience the most exhilarating moment of her life.”

— Colleen Houck