Karen Marie Moning Quotes

I love books, they're in my blood.

Fear and doubt are major stampeders.

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

Holy borrowing bibliophile, let's book!

Turn it off," Ryodan says without even looking at me. "You're distressing Dani. No one distresses Dani but me.

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

The only reality you can control is the one you're willing to face.

And when he did that, my hands curled into fists because I thought about touching his face like maybe I could catch joy in my hands and hold it.

-I'm going to kill the kid. - Barrons says faintly. Ryodan makes a burbling sound like a bodly laught. -Get in line

I think dating courtesies are common courtesies that should be practiced in most all civilized encounters. I pine for the days of good, old-fashioned manners.

Mom raised us to believe that every lie puts something out there in the world that's inevitably going to come back and bite you in the petunia.

You're leaving me, Rainbow Girl.

We're translating the Kama Sutra," Barrons said, with interactive aids.

I have studied humans for a small eternity. Intent infuses their every movement. Road maps to their inner navigation, plastered all over their skin. Born to be slaves.

Please tell me we don't grow up and turn into the adults that drive us crazy.

Mac." He said my name and laughed. "What a name for something like you. Mac.

He didn't just kiss, he claimed ownership. Took her mouth with urgency, as if his life depended on his kissing her.

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

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

Don't celebrate yet, Ms. Lane. Don't believe anything is dead until you've burned it, poked around in its ashes, and then waited a day or two to see if anything rises from them.

You can't save people from themselves. You can only try to wake them up.

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

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.

Yes, I have loved, Ms. Lane, and although it's none of your business, I have lost. Many things.

Gah, some chicks should be shot. Put out of everyone else's reproduction pool.

I lock eyes with my reflection and don’t look away. The day you look away you start to lose yourself. I’m never going to lose myself. You are what you are. Deal with it or change.

One day you do meet a man who kisses you and you can't breathe around it and you realize you don't need air.

When you know who I am. Let me be your man.

How could they let me grow up like that—happy and pink and stupid?

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.

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

Dubh is do?" I was incredulous. It was no wonder I hadn't been able to find the stupid word. "Should I be calling pubs poos?" "Dubh is Gaelic, Ms. Lane. Pub is not.

I hope when I'm ninety-five the only things I want are free: love, family, a good home-cooked meal.

Life equaled love plus passion squared. Loving and being passionate about what one did was what made life so precious.

What is the greater good but tyranny’s chameleon?

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

People treat you as badly as you let them treat you. Key word there: let.

Hope is a critical thing. Whithout it, we are nothing. Hope shapes will. The will shapes the world.

You're not falling for me, are you, Irish?" -Adam to Gabrielle

He looked blank. “He’s the one who’s been doing the magic against us?” “Duh,” I said. “Doona be ‘duh’ing me, lass,” he growled, his burr thickening.

One of the primary tenets of the course was that highly successful leaders kept journals, morning and night, in order to stay tightly focused on their goals.

Your feet will bring you to where your heart is.

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

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

It's not my fault who I am. The only think that's my fault is what I choose to do

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

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

Lose the pessimism, Ms. Lane. It's a self-fulfilling prophecy.

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.