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“Normal Psy did not whimper, did not show any emotion, did not feel. But Sascha had known since childhood that she wasn't normal. She'd successfully hidden her flaw for twenty-six years.”

—Sascha Duncan, Slave to Sensation

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“The Psy are known to be icily controlled, inhumanly practical, and impossible to push to violence.”

— from Prologue: Silence, Slave to Sensation by Nalini Singh

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“the Psy race had once felt the same emotions as humans and changelings. But something had changed long enough ago that in the present, it seemed as if they had always been formed of ice.”

—thoughts of Tazia Nerif, Echo of Silence (Wild Embrace) by Nalini Singh

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“A life without love, without laughter, without pain, without sadness, without misery, without heartbreak, without . . . just without.”

—from Disruption, Echo of Silence (Wild Embrace) by Nalini Singh

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“the Forgotten, with their hopes and dreams of a better life, were a roadblock to the Psy goal of absolute power.”

—from Death, Blaze of Memory

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“Death followed the Forgotten like a scourge. Relentless. Without pity.

They'd sought to find hope when they dropped from the PsyNet, wanting only to build a new life away from the cold choices of their brethren.”

—from Death, Blaze of Memory

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Here is an interesting tidbit of an idea: the reason why each pack has an alpha and a hierarchy despite being vastly diffefent animals might actually be because of the human side and the social structures humams tend to create.

Neat. Bad biology excused.

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“Kaleb was nothing if not patient. The same way a cobra is patient.”

—the thoughts of Kaleb Krychek, Caressed By Ice

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“The second he broke conditioning, he became a loaded gun with no safety switch. That was why he was never going to[…]end the Silence in his mind.

It was the only thing keeping the world safe from what he was...”

—the thoughts of Judd Lauren, Caressed By Ice

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“Silence had been invented for those like him-the brutal killers and the viciously insane, those who had turned the world of the Psy into a blood-soaked hell so bad, Silence had become the better choice.”

—the thoughts of Judd Lauren, Caressed By Ice

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“The flesh parting under the blade, the blood pouring, the pallor of death, she'd seen it all. It had left her a trembling, shaken mess, but she'd found comfort in the fact that it had been nothing more than a nightmare. Except now her nightmare had taken the ugliest of forms.”

—from the thoughts of Brenna Kincaid, Caressed By Ice

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“As a child he had been subjected to the most excruciating pain and then been taught to block it. A good Psy felt nothing. A good Arrow felt even less.

It made it so much easier to kill people.”

—from the thoughts of Judd Lauren, Caressed by Ice

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“Zaid Adelaja was washed from this Earth, but the torch of the Arrows continued to be handed from one acolyte to the next... until there was no more Mercury and the long-dead Adelajas were being hailed as visionaries.”

—from Arrows, Caressed By Ice

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“Tendaji and Naeem Adelaja were as cool as ice, their emotions holding nothing of anger or madness...for a while. The experiment eventually failed. The dark side of emotion rushed back into the Adelaja twins in an avalanche”

—from Arrows, Caressed By Ice

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“Mercury was a cult. That was what everyone said at the start. The Psy laughed at Catherine and Arif Adelaja's claims of being able to free their people from insanity and murderous fury. To be Psy was to court the edges of madness. It was accepted. It was accepted. There was no cure.”

—from Arrows, Caressed By Ice

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“Though she'd never before felt anything, in those dreams she'd been drenched in fear, suffocated by the weight of terror.”

—Faith NightStar, Visions of Heat

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“there were others who saw Silence as an act of betrayal against their very gifts. The F-Psy had stopped countless massacres, saved countless lives, done endless good, but they had done it all with emotion. Without emotion, their abilities would be controllable, but crippled.”

—from Madness, Visions of Heat