Karen Marie Moning Quotes

Gwen Cassidy needed a man. Desperately. Failing that, she'd settle for a cigarette.

Woman, you are a thousand kinds of fool.

Being threatened seems to being out the worst in me.

He'd surely been spawned by some cataclysmic event of nature, not born.

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

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.

I began peering into the corners of the room, making sure all the shadows were cast by objects and obeying known laws of physics.

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

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

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.

Got to love a dude that says things like "kinetic" and "detritus.

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

It's not enough to listen to their words. You have to mine their silences for buried ore. It's often only in the lies that we refuse to speak that truth can be heard at all.

Sit, " Chloe said, dashing after him and tugging firmly at his sleeve. "Let's hear the rest of it. You can kill him later."~Chloe to Dageus.

It's funny how, when things seem the darkest, moments of beauty present themselves in the most unexpected places.

Attitude shapes reality.

Failure is always new information, and those who are willing to suffer it repeatedly make it a stepping-stone to success.

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

Men. Do they all evade as first line of defense?

Barrons: "He got upset it wouldn't shut up and tore its head off."Mac: "The child?" I gasped

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

You both talk too much, ” the kid says. “Shut up. Don’t make me tell you again.”We shut up, which I find hysterically funny.

We stand strong, or we cower. We emerge victorious, tempered by our trials, or fractured by a permanent, damming fault line.

When anything is possible, how do you choose?

Love hath no pride.

One day you may kiss a man you can’t breathe without, and find breath is of little consequence.”“Right, and one day my prince might come.”“I doubt he’ll be a prince, Ms. Lane. Men rarely are.

Now it's not just my lip you'll be needing to kiss if you're wishing to make amends with me, Irish.

And there, my dear Fio, you make one of Womankind's greatest mistakes: falling in love with a man's potential. We so rarely share the same view of it, and even more rarely care to achieve it.

Fine. Okay. I killed her. But I didn’t mean to. And I didn’t kill her, kill her.”“Oh, I see. As long as you didn’t kill her, kill her, then that’s okay.

One of the first lessons a warrior is taught is that denial of one's circumstances only results in failure to recognize real danger.

I'd never understood why anyone would want to live forever. It had always seemed to me that death lent life a certain poignancy, a necessary tension.