Karen Marie Moning Quotes

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“You are what you are. Deal with it or change.”

“If you weaken, I'll be strong. If you get lost, I'll be your way home. If you despair, I'll bring you joy. I will love you until the end of time.”

“We were watching Barrons.
Why were you watching Barrons?
Barrons needs watching.”

“If he were any other man, I might have suspected him of substance abuse, of being coked up or something. But Barrons was too much a purist for that; his drugs were money, power, and control”

“I make a new discovery that totally blows; dying is the easy part. It's coming back to life that sucks.”

“Dishonesty increases disorder exponentially. It's hard enough to communicate when you're telling the truth.”

“Superglue after duct tape a girl's best friend.”

“Question: When you’re one of the few people who can do something to fix a problem, just how responsible does that make you for it? Answer: It’s how you choose to answer that question that defines you.”

“Will an hour be enough?”
An hour implied that I needed a lot of help. “I’ll see what I can do,” I said coolly. I was ready in twenty minutes.”

“You have splendid breasts, lass," he purred, cupping the plump mounds. "Splendid," he repeated stupidly, and she almost laughed. Men loved breasts any shape or form, they just loved them.

-Drustan to Gwen”

“I don't know about you, but I call impromptu vomiting harm.”

“Get back on the bike and tell me where to go."
"I'll tell you where to go," I muttered sourly, and he laughed.”

“The battle had been invisible to the naked eye, but the hardest ones are.”

“PROS: things that make it look like I could be

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5. K'Vruck poked at me mentally, then said, "Ah, there you are." (WTF????)”

“Do your thing, Ms. Lane. you might be criminally young, but the night is not.”

“The two of you are getting downright chatty, aren't you, Ms. Lane? When did you last see him? what else did he tell you?
I'm asking the questions tonight.
If an illusion of control comforts you, Ms. Lane, by all means, cling to it.”

“I hear a guttural sound followed by a weak sigh and look back at the bodies.
"I'm going to kill the kid," Barrons says faintly.
Ryodan makes a burbling sound like a bloody laugh. I don't think he even has the parts left to laugh with. "Get in line.”

“We're taking back the night”

“Thankfully I’m not most women. I don’t get off on danger. 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.”

“Liminal sucks. You can't grasp it with your hands and shape it. You can't make midnight come faster, or grow up sooner, or avoid the in-betweens. You can only hang in there, and get through them.”

“He was on me before my brain processed the fact that he was coming for me.”

“Is anyone who's supposed to be dead actually dead?”

“What we achieve at our best moment doesn’t say much about who we are. It all boils down to what we become at our worst moment.”

“What the feck?” Dani snapped when I answered. “You sleep like the fecking dead up there! I been calling you for five fecking minutes!”

“Oooh! Stop that. When you smile at me I want all of it."
"What?" He looked confused”

“Safety is a fence, and fences are for sheep. I would rather die at twenty-two, knowing the truth, then live in a cage of lies for a hundred years.”

“I wondered what one wore to visit a vampire. The chic red sweater set didn't go so well with my darker hair, and I was afraid it might be construed as a flirtatious invitation to color me bloodier.”

“No wonder Barrons was so determined to keep me alive, and I had a Fae prince playing lapdog, and the Lord Master hadn't yet launched a full scale attack against me. They allme alive. I was Tigger. I was the only one.”

“I was adrift in a sea of questions and if answers were lifeboats, I was in imminent danger of drowning.”

“You mean you have to be epic already, for it to make you more epic?”

“Pretty girls don't have ugly mouths.”

“A woman who’s lived in a cage all her life. And hates it. Bored in there, aren’t you. Waiting for life to happen. And when it finally does, it steals from you what you loved most. So take back. Explode. Lash out. Blow up”

“Rule #1 in the Universe: the crap always hits the fan. It's the nature of crap. It's a fan magnet.”

“Whatever happened to the good old days when books just got along, cozied up together on bookshelves, hanging out, waiting to be read?”

“Even now, my back was still arched with sensual invitation, my bottom was questing up like a cat in heat, and my every move was supple, sinuous. I was one great big come-hither.”

“I was stunned to see that he looked stunned himself, which was an exorbitant display of emotion for Barrons.”

“Basque and Celt. Criminals and barbarians. I didn't think there could be a more primitive pairing of genes.”

“I flash him number seventeen of my thirty-five Looks of Death.”

“You're distressing Dani. No one distresses Dani but me.”

“You're not pretty. Goddamn it, Dani. You're beautiful.”

“if you’re making sense, you’ve just unmade confusion.”

“You can’t do damage control dead.”

“I don’t smile. My smiles don’t make people relax.”

“Do I, lass? Do I tempt you?”