Karen Marie Moning citations

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“Nobody looks good in their darkest hour. But it's those hours that make us what we are. We stand strong, or we cower. We emerge victorious, tempered by our trails, or fracture by a permanent, damning fault line.”

“He wasn't handsome. That was too calm a word. He was intensely masculine. He was sexual. He attracted.”

“The power of thought is far greater than most people ever realize.”

“If you are not with me, you are against me. I have no mercy for my enemies.”

“What is the greater good but tyranny’s chameleon?”

“Jericho Barrons just told me he loves me.”

“He doesn’t beat me,” I said irritably. “I’d kill him if he did.”
“She would. She has a temper. Stubborn, too. But we’re working on that, aren’t we, Ms. Lane?”

“He’s so beautiful,” she said wistfully. “He’s like an angel.”
“Yep,” I agreed flatly. “The one that fell.”

“Barrons." I hastily shoved the phone between the cushions.

Ms. Lane." He inclined his dark head.

You tattooed me, you bastard." I got right to the point.”

“What the bloody hell are you, Ms. Lane?”

“My philosophy is pretty simple – any day nobody’s trying to kill me is a good day in my book.”

“Women have been repeating the same mistake since time began: falling for a man’s potential. We rarely see it the same way, and even more rarely care to achieve it.”

“Hard. Fast. Deep. When I'm done you'll know you're mine.”

“You've mistaken me for someone else. Do not wait on me, Ms. Lane. Do not construct your world around mine. I'm not that man."
"Screw you, Barrons."
"I'm not that man, either.”

“There's nothing I can't live with. Only things I won't live without.”

“Silence isn't golden, it's deadly. It's a vacuum that fills up with ghosts.”

“Strength wasn‘t about being able to do everything alone. Strength was knowing when to ask for help and not being too proud to do it.”

“You're not falling for me, are you, Irish?"

-Adam to Gabrielle”

“Barrons, Jericho: I haven't the faintest fecking clue. He keeps saving my life. I suppose that's something.”

“Silver eyes met hers and locked. “I didn’t like Dani.”
“At least you’re consistent,” she said coolly.
His silver eyes were ice. “I loved her.”

“Beautiful women rarely possess sufficient depth of character to survive without their pretty feathers.”

“Barrons: "He got upset it wouldn't shut up and tore its head off."

Mac: "The child?" I gasped”

“I'll never get laid trying to keep you safe. You're a train wreck on steroids.”

“Anyone worth knowing breaks once. Once. No shame, no foul if you survive it. You did.”

“How does it feel, MacKayla? You have a piece of me in your mouth. Would you like another?”

“I close my eyes and ride the mindless bliss. It's all I can do. Be. Feel. Live.
I'magain.
I always will be with this man.”

“A little blood never bothers me.”

“He is in my soul and i am in his, and we are in bed but we are in a desert, and i do not know where he begins and i end - Mac”

“There was pain, but there was also joy. It was in the tension between the two that life happened. Imperfect as it was, this world was real. Illusion was no substitute. I'd rather live a hard life of fact than a sweet life of lies.”