Karen Marie Moning Quotes

“Bedevil the devil and devil be dammed. I fear no devil and bow to no man.

- Adam Black”

“Truth hurts. But lies can kill.”

“I'd rather live a hard life of fact than a sweet life of lies.”

“He pulls me around and kisses me. "You're Mac," he says. "And I'm Jericho. And nothing else matters. Never will. You exist in a place that is beyond all rules for me. Do you understand that?"
I do.
Jericho Barrons just told me he loves me.”

“You can't go forward if you're looking backward. You run into walls that way.”

“When he kisses me again, the last part of me that could stand myself dies.”

“Fire isn’t good or bad. It just burns.”

“You're leaving me, Rainbow Girl.”

“V'lane: Are you busy tomorrow MacKayla?
Barrons: She's working on old texts with me.
V'lane: Ah. Old texts. A banner day at the bookstore.
Barrons: We're translating Kama Sutra… with interactive aids.”

“I love books, by the way, way more than movies. Movies tell you what to think. A good book lets you choose a few thoughts for yourself.”

“Its our actions that define us. What we choose. What we resist. What we're willing to die for.”

“If aught must be lost, ‘twill be my honor for yours. If one must be forsaken, ‘twill be my soul for yours. Should death come anon, ‘twill be my life for yours. I am Given.”

“Last night you said you wanted to know what to expect so you could better select your attire. I told you we were going to visit a vampire in a Goth-den tonight. Why, then, Ms. Lane, do you look like a perky rainbow?”

“Love knows no right or wrong.
Love is. Only is.”

“It's just that in the Deep South, women learn at a young age that when the world is falling apart around you, it's time to take down the drapes and make a new dress.”

“Some things are sacred. Until you act like they're not. Then you lose them”

“Four: If you try to force yourself into my head, I will force myself into your pants.”

“We have to save the world," I reminded him.
He reached for me. "The world can wait. I can't.”

“Hope strengthens. Fear kills.”

“I have a black sense of humor. You try living my life, see what color yours turns.”

“It's what you choose to believe that makes you the person you are.”

“No matter how people try to dispute it, perception is reality. Its what you choose to believe that makes you the person you are.”

“I'm not the hero, Mac. Never have been. Never will be. Let us be perfectly clear: I'm not the antihero, either, so quit waiting to discover my hidden potential. There's nothing to redeem me.”

“So how did he look at me?"

"Like it was his birthday and you were the cake.”

“God Said: Let there be light!
I said: Say please.”

“You, Ms. Lane, are a menace to others! A walking, talking catastrophe in pink!”

“Desire makes life happen. Makes it matter. Makes everything worth it. Desire is life. Hunger to see the next sunrise or sunset, to touch the one you love, to try again.

'Hell would be waking up and wanting nothing,' he agrees.”

“See me when you look at me.”

“I said breathe. Not do a fish-out of-water imitation.”

“I see God in a sunrise, not in repetitious ritual.”

“The entire time I'm burning in Hell, I'll regret each tear I made you weep. But if Hell were the price for twenty days with you, I'd condemn myself again and again.

- Cian MacKeltar”

“I’m asking the questions tonight.” One day I was going to write a book: How to Dictate to a Dictator
and Evade an Evader, subtitled How to Handle Jericho Barrons.”

“He's trying not to laugh. I tell him I would have doomed mankind for him, and he's trying not to laugh.”

“I was no longer sexually vulnerable to the death-by-sex Fae Prince.
Jericho Barrons was my poison now.”

“Oh ye of little faith. Not for IYD… But you didn't even try.”

“I know part of what turns me on so hard, makes me so violent with lust, is that he's dangerous. I fell for the bad guy. I'm crazy about the one who's trouble. The alpha that doesn't play well with others and doesn't take orders from anyone.”

“What are you" -Mac

"I don't follow" -Jericho

"You dropped 30 feet in that warehouse. You should have broken something. What are you?" -Mac

"A man with a rope." -Jericho”

“Dude, the bush is ready. Why you still beating around it?”
“I’ve lived a long time, kid, and I’ve never heard anyone mutilate the English language quite like you.”

“What are you Barrons?”
“The one who will never let you die, and that’s more, Ms Lane, than anyone in your life has been able to say to you. More than anyone else can do”

“When insane things start to arrange themselves in sane patterns around you, you know you got problems.”

“Good and evil are merely opposite sides of a coin. Get tossed in the air enough, it's easy to come down on the wrong side.”

“Home, Ms. Lane?” His deep voice was gently amused.

“I have to call it something,” I said morosely. “They say home is where the heart is. I think mine’s satin-lined
and six feet under.”

“Okay, Barrons, it's time."
"I am not helping you shave your legs." he said instantly.
"Oh please. As if I'd let you.”

“It's a strange new world out there and the rules have changed: It's every princess for herself.”

“Once, long ago in her world, a sunny day in spring was her favorite, but now a sunny day in winter delights her more. It is the perfect metaphor for their love.
Sunshine on ice.
She warms his frost. He cools her fever.”

“I get off on a man with strong moral fiber. The closest Barrons ever gets to fiber is walking down the cereal aisle at the grocery store.”

“The nerve. Threatening you and not being precise about it.”

“And you can tell Darroc that Ms. Lane is mine. If he wants her, he can bloody well come and get her”

“I like sex for breakfast, kid. I eat early and often.”

“Punch me."
"Don't be absurd."
"Come on, punch me, Barrons."
"I'm not punching you."
"I said, punch--OW!"
He decked me.”

“The kiss…. was not meant to seduce, it was meant to mark a woman's soul.

Chloe”

“It's often only in the lies we refuse to speak that any truth can be heard at all.”

“When he comes, he makes a noise deep in his throat that is so raw and animal and sexual that I think if he merely looked at me and made that noise, I might explode in an orgasm.”

“You hated my rainbows, now you don't like my leather. Is there anything you like on me?”

“You never knew what you could get away with until you tried.”

“Some people bring out the worst in you, others bring out the best, and then there are those remarkably rare, addictive ones who just bring out the most. Of everything.”