Karen Marie Moning citations

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“Yesterday is skin on snake, to be shed many times.”

“Some people fall apart when they get hurt. Puddle into apathy and despair and never recover. They wait all their lives for someone to come along and rescue them.”

“Pretty girl and all. Asking. Gotta love that. Stuff of heroes. Don't get the role too often.”

“She loves. And she doesn't know how to pull it back when you have to, because sometimes you sure as feck have to. Got to grab it up with both hands and pull it back before somebody turns into knives and uses it to cut you to pieces.”

“Using your own time to make someone else’s life better is, like, the nicest thing you can do for anybody.”

“Walk out of this with your parents, the stones, and Darroc dead, Ms. Lane, and I‘ll give you the bloody thing.”

“There are men you build a future with, Dani. And then there are men that you know, going in, that you're only making a memory with. I know the difference
.. Some memories are worth the price. I'll deal with it.”

“Cat got your tongue? And what a lovely tongue it is. I know. It licked every inch of me. Repeatedly. For months," He purred but with steel in the velvet”

“Who says wethe walls back up? You're roaches, we're Raid. We'll get rid of you eventually.”

“Evil is a completely different creature, Mac. Evil is bad that believes it's good.”

“Holy water at my wrists and behind my ears; my version of Eau de Don'tbiteme”

“If V’lane were a signpost, it would read Abandon All Personal Will, Ye Who Tread Here.”

“Being nearly naked around Barrons felt a lot like going to a shark convention lightly basted in blood.”

“… You have me in your mouth, you don't get anybody else. Or you don't get me." - Jericho Barrons”

“I can't help but see myself in them. The Seelie are who I was before my sister died. Pink, pretty, frivolous Mac. The Unseelie are who I've become, carved by loss and despair. Black, grungy, driven Mac.”

“I hammered him with my fists. He just stood and took it. He didn't suffer graciously, he looked pissed off to no end. But he let me hit him. And he didn't hit me back.”

“When my faith is getting weak
And I feel like giving in
You breathe into me again…”

“Goor or evil, right or wrong, he mattered to me.”

“You can’t look at someone with your eyes and take their measure.
You have to look with the heart.”

“I'm his locomotive and he's my shield.”

“Are we, like, having a conversation?"
"Did you just, like, ask me for advice and listen with an open mind? If so, then yes, I would call this a conversation”

“That's weak! You don't know what caring is… Caring is love. And love fights! Love doesn't look for the path of least resistance. Hell's bells, Roderick, if love was that easy everyone would have it. You're a coward!”

“There are more balls in twenty feet of street here then there are in all of Dublin, and I'm proud to be swaying in the nut sack.”

“A lamb in a city of wolves.”

“You need me as much as I need you. That makes us equal partners in my book.
Well, your book is just wrong.”

“Yesterday was a memory. Tomorrow was a hope. Today was another day to live and do one's best to love”

“You exist in a place that is beyond all rules for me. Do you understand that? - JZB”

“Woman, you are a thousand kinds of fool.”

“It seemed Barrons had finally gotten his cake and eaten it too.”