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It's unnecessary to understand how an animal became rabid to put it down, -- Karen Marie Moning
He pulls me around and kisses me. "You're Mac," he says. "And I'm Jericho. And nothing else matters. Never will. You exist in a place that is beyond all rules for me. Do you understand that?"
I do.
Jericho Barrons just told me he loves me. -- Karen Marie Moning
Aye, Jessica, I like you. And I'm not just stuck with you. You fit me here, woman. He thumped his chest with his fist. -- Karen Marie Moning
All my life, up until that moment, I'd had a warm, protective blanket wrapped around me, knitted of aunts and uncles, purled of first and second and third cousins, knot-tied with grandmas and grandpas and greats. That blanket had just dropped from my shoulders. I felt cold, lost and alone. -- Karen Marie Moning
Mayhap you'd prefer to spend this eve with me at an inn, rather than going straight to my brother's," he suggested with a seductive smile. Chloe scowl deepened. "One eve is no' enough?" he teased, though his eyes were distant. "Greedy lass, would you be wishing a week? -- Karen Marie Moning
I don't convince nobody of nothing. You take me or leave me just the way I am! But I ain't changing for you or nobody else and I ain't faking either, and if you think breaking my bones one by one is going to accomplish a thing besides, like, breaking my bones, good luck with that! -- Karen Marie Moning
Her eyes are different. Wary, guarded, tinged with that human emotion I despise the most: regret. -- Karen Marie Moning
Do you think a woman can give a man everything while still withholding her heart? We are not made that way! - Fiona -- Karen Marie Moning
I love you, Dani Mega O'Malley," Dancer said against my ear as he moved inside me. "More than the world is big. Deeper than the sky is blue. Truer than the universe is vast. I love you more eternal than pi. -- Karen Marie Moning
Barrons: "He got upset it wouldn't shut up and tore its head off."
Mac: "The child?" I gasped -- Karen Marie Moning
The corners of his mouth twitched then he gave up the ghost and just flashed me one of those rare, full-on smiles that always made me catch my breath and stare. He's so damn beautiful and his smiles are sunshine in a black velvet sky, improbable and stunning. -- Karen Marie Moning
You can't help yourself, can you? You think the only thing to do with a parade is rain on it. Some people know to enjoy the parade because, dude, the rain always comes back. -- Karen Marie Moning
You're not pretty. Goddamn it, Dani. You're beautiful. -- Karen Marie Moning
Hope strengthens. Fear kills. -- Karen Marie Moning
I love you more eternal than pi. -- Karen Marie Moning
Psychotic rapists don't have friends."
"I was unaware you were a psychotic rapist or I would not have offered."
"Ha."
-Mac and V'Lane -- Karen Marie Moning
Jericho Barrons was my poison now. -- Karen Marie Moning
Although it may not seem like it, this isn't a story about darkness. It's about light. Kahlil Gibran says Your joy can fill you only as deeply your sorrow has carved you. If you've never tasted bitterness, sweet is just another pleasant flavor on your tongue. One day I'm going to hold a lot of joy. -- Karen Marie Moning
Tramp stamp or get the fuck out. -- Karen Marie Moning
Unpredictable as a hungry lion, he might be feared by everyone else, but he never ripped out my throat, only licked me, and, if his tongue was a little rough sometimes, it was worth it to walk beside the king of the jungle. -- Karen Marie Moning
I thought you were disgusted by the people that come to my club." "They're still people." He presses the button again. "If you go outside, you will be killed. If you make noise, you will be sent outside. Don't piss me off." Just like that, Chester's goes completely silent. -- Karen Marie Moning
I'll never be her first.
But one day I'll be her last. -- Karen Marie Moning
We fuck up. Over and over. And we get back up and try to do better. That's all any of us do. -- Karen Marie Moning
He's happy, Yi-yi."
I went very still. "He, who?"
"The one who danced you into love. -- Karen Marie Moning
Sometimes my dreams feel so real it's hard to believe they're just the subconscious's stroll across a whimsical map that has no true north. -- Karen Marie Moning
The only thing that keeps us rooted in the past is our refusal to embrace the present.
Dude, you gotta hug it with both arms and legs and hold on tight! The present is all we've got. That's why they call it a present! -- Karen Marie Moning
Whether he knew it or not, it was her Drustan, damn it all, just a month and five centuries younger. -- Karen Marie Moning
Rioting begets violence begets rioting. I sometimes think the entire human race is comprised of barely restrained animals, avid for any excuse to tear off their masks of civility. And here I am, always trying desperately to keep mine on. -- Karen Marie Moning
I'm a bartender. I like recipes. They're concretes. Was the drink recipe for seduction one shot charm and two shots self-deception, shaken, not stirred? -- Karen Marie Moning
Let's get something straight, MacKeltar. I am not going home with you. I am not going to bed with you, and I am not wasting one more moment arguing with you."
"I promise not to mock you when you change your mind, lass. -- Karen Marie Moning
Sometimes when really bad things happen, you put them in a box and never look at them again because they'll cost you the rest of your life. Some wounds never heal. You excise the savaged flesh and become the next thing. -- Karen Marie Moning
I'm used to feeling like I'm the only one sees the hard things coming, and I'm always angling to skew the odds in my favor. It's nice to know somebody else is preparing, too. -- Karen Marie Moning
She was his reason for being. His every defining moment occurred because of her, and only in her presence did he know peace. She was his brightest shining star. She made him a better man, and to men who know how fundamentally and deeply they're flawed, such a woman is irresistible. -- Karen Marie Moning
The nerve. Threatening you and not being precise about it. -- Karen Marie Moning
What's your heritage, anyway? I said irritably, backing away, putting more space between us. He regarded me blankly, looking startled by the personal question, and as if he lacked a frame of reference for one. -- Karen Marie Moning
Don't lose yourself to anger. It's gasoline. You can burn it as fuel, or you can use it to torch everything you care about and end up standing on a scorched battlefield, with everybody dead, even you-only your body doesn't have the good grace to quit breathing -- Karen Marie Moning
Being touched by Jericho Barrons with kindness makes you feel like you the biggest, most savage lion in the jungle, lying down, placing your
head it its mouth and, rather than taking your life, it licks you and
purrs. -- Karen Marie Moning
Recognize him as such, too. Yes, he had disobeyed his queen. So had many others, who'd never been punished so harshly. Had the crime he'd committed merited a death sentence? There were other Seelie who felt as he did, who wanted a return to -- Karen Marie Moning
This man would not kiss me as I like to be kissed but as he does. His way is too hard, demanding, dangerous. His way is not love. It is passion and it burns. Incinerates. -- Karen Marie Moning
I ordered, Dad paid, just like old times when life was simple, and Daddy was always there to be my Friday night date whenever my latest boyfriend had been a jerk. -- Karen Marie Moning
Movies tell you what to think. A good book lets you choose a few thoughts for yourself. Movies show you the pink house. A good book tells you there's a pink house and lets you paint some of the finishing touches, maybe choose the roof style, park your own car out front. -- Karen Marie Moning
When he'd pushed inside me and I'd feel him begin to penetrate, it had turned me into a wild thing-hot, wet, and desperate for more of him. With every kiss, every caress, every thrust, I'd just needed more. He'd touched me, I went nuts. The world dwindled down to one thing: him. -- Karen Marie Moning
Your race devotes itself to justifying its errors, not correcting them -- Karen Marie Moning
DANCER ELIAS GARRICK
"NEVER THE SIDEKICK, ALWAYS THE HERO. I'LL SEE YOU IN THE SLIPSTREAM. -- Karen Marie Moning
Breath was everything. When nothing else could be done: one could breathe and shape and infuse that breath with strength and purpose. -- Karen Marie Moning
You exist in a place that is beyond all rules for me. Do you understand that? - JZB -- Karen Marie Moning
I may be more sparing with mention of my gang rape in the future. Although I enjoy baiting this bear, I don't enjoy his pain. Just his fire. -- Karen Marie Moning
We have to save the world," I reminded him.
He reached for me. "The world can wait. I can't. -- Karen Marie Moning
You can kill but don't cuss. Break any rule necessary to save the world but don't watch porn or even think about having sex. -- Karen Marie Moning
Things never stop going wrong. Life isn't about waiting for peace to arrive, it's about learning to thrive in the midst of war. There's always another one on the way." He -- Karen Marie Moning
You can't change an unpleasant reality if you won't acknowledge it, Mac. You can only control what you're willing to face. Truth hurts. But lies can kill. -- Karen Marie Moning
Get a little practice. See what it feels like to drive a knife through my heart. Relish it. Watch the light fade from my eyes, stare into my dying, taste it, see how you like it. There's a moment in death that is unlike anything else in all existence. -- Karen Marie Moning
Fact: you can never know another person completely.
Fact: you are born alone and die alone.
Fact: there is no such thing as safety. Only vigilance, determination to survive, and a willingness to be ruthless about it.
Fact: love is not perfect.
Fact: neither am I. -- Karen Marie Moning
And then what? Said, 'Oh, I'm so sorry, Ms. Lane, I didn't mean to wrinkle your lovely blouse. May I press that for you?' Or perhaps you gouged it with one of your pretty pink nails?
I was really beginning to wonder what his hang-up with pink was, but I didn't resent the sarcasm in his voice. -- Karen Marie Moning
Barrons knows virtually everything about me. I wouldn't be surprised if somewhere he has a little file that encompasses my entire life to date, with neatly mounted, acerbically captioned photos - see Mac sunbathe, see Mac paint her nails, see Mac almost die. -- Karen Marie Moning
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. -- Karen Marie Moning
Caveat: what you fear most will destroy you. -- Karen Marie Moning
My need for sex seems directly proportionate to how much emotion I repress, and I'm repressing violently today. -- Karen Marie Moning
It's funny how, when things seem the darkest, moments of beauty present themselves in the most unexpected places. -- Karen Marie Moning
Chicks. Christ. They just don't get it sometimes. -- Karen Marie Moning
We Irish know how to make the most of the times of plenty, for sure enough they'll be famine again. -- Karen Marie Moning
Dude, got eyes? I'm collecting evidence." [ ... ]
"In Ziploc bags."
"I think they're Glad."
"They look impartial to me. -- Karen Marie Moning
I'm sorry your pretty little world got all screwed up, but everybody's does, and you go on. It's how you go on that defines you. -- Karen Marie Moning
He believes the world populated by obvious monsters. The most dangerous of us are the least obvious. He relies on his skill as a lie detector, reading and judging the conflicting emotions of others. -- Karen Marie Moning
I want results and I know how to get them. He's always telling me to ask. Tonight I'm asking. -- Karen Marie Moning
That sounds suspiciously like faith in me," he mocks. "You see faith where only a challenge has been issued. Will you fail? -- Karen Marie Moning
The worst part about losing someone you love - besides the agony of never getting to see them again - are the things you never said. The unsaid stalks you, mocks you for thinking you had all the time in the world. None of us do. -- Karen Marie Moning
I'm not going anywhere until you're safe," Christian says to me, real quiet.
"Isn't that quaint. The chivalrous Unseelie prince with the dick of death," Ryodan mocks. -- Karen Marie Moning
Oh, for heaven's sake, she thought with droll exasperation, this certainly explains a lot. It's no wonder I haven't been able to keep my hands off the blasted man since the day I met him. He's an artifact! A Celtic one at that! -- Karen Marie Moning
They loved so intensely that moments of their life have been etched into the very fabric of the mansion. Some say the king designed it that way, so if one day he lost her he could come live with her residue. -- Karen Marie Moning
Lust is absurd. It strikes in the strangest places at the oddest times. She doesn't even realize she's feeling it. She's erected a barricade of propriety and lies between us. I despise the type of woman she is. I loathe her soft pink innocence. My body doesn't concur. I wonder why her? -- Karen Marie Moning
Last night you said you wanted to know what to expect so you could better select your attire. I told you we were going to visit a vampire in a Goth-den tonight. Why, then, Ms. Lane, do you look like a perky rainbow? -- Karen Marie Moning
I tasted your blood. I know your fucking soul. -- Karen Marie Moning
I would wear pink because I knew my future was anything but rosy. I would accessorize myself to the hilt, and I would wear flirty shoes because my world needed more beauty to counter all the ugliness in it. I would wear pink because I hated gray, I didn't deserve white, and I was sick of black. -- Karen Marie Moning
One must break with one's past to embrace one's future. It is never an easy thing to do. It is one of the distinguishing characteristics between survivors and victims. Letting go of what was, to survive what is. (Page 106) -- Karen Marie Moning
In order to make something, Ms. Lane, you must first unmake what is in the process. Should you begin with nothing, even nothing is unmade when it is replaced with something. -- Karen Marie Moning
I close my eyes and ride the mindless bliss. It's all I can do. Be. Feel. Live.
I'm Pri-ya again.
I always will be with this man. -- Karen Marie Moning
They're called shortcuts for a reason. The shorter they are, the more they usually cut. Nothing is without price. -- Karen Marie Moning
Safety is a fence, and fences are for sheep. -- Karen Marie Moning
He isn't what he's pretending to be with her. I watch him all the time. I'm going to be there when he stops pretending. I'm going to be her bulletproof vest, her shield, her fallen fucking angel, whether she wants one or not. He's pretending he's almost human. He's no more human than me. -- Karen Marie Moning
It had just been made excruciatingly clear to him that the human male brain and the human male cock couldn't both sustain sufficient amounts of blood to function at the same time. It was one or the other, and the human male apparently didn't get to choose which one. -- Karen Marie Moning
Desire makes life happen. Makes it matter. Makes everything worth it. Desire is life. Hunger to see the next sunrise or sunset, to touch the one you love, to try again. "Hell would be waking up and wanting nothing," he agrees. -- Karen Marie Moning
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. -- Karen Marie Moning
You like me." "I do not," she lied. "But I didn't mean to hurt your feelings." He was undaunted. "Aye, you like me, lass. I can tell. You called me by my given name and you are frowning, with dewy eyes. I forgive you for being cruel and thoughtless. -- Karen Marie Moning
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 -- Karen Marie Moning
Maybe it was silent because it was gone. Maybe my lake had swallowed it and neutralized it. I was inundated with maybes lately. Limp noodley things you could do nothing with. -- Karen Marie Moning
I make a new discovery that totally blows; dying is the easy part. It's coming back to life that sucks. -- Karen Marie Moning
Nobody looks good in their darkest hours. But it's those hours that make us what we are. -- Karen Marie Moning
I burn everywhere and I'm hot, and I'm hot, and I'm so fecking unbelievably hot that I start tearing off my clothes and I can't do it fast enough because I feel thick and slow and stupid -- Karen Marie Moning
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. -- Karen Marie Moning
I realized I would rather have a single night with you, even if it meant I was doomed to be bound to you, aching for you forever than not know such love. -- Karen Marie Moning
How would it feel, if you cared for such a person, to watch his complete retreat? To see him day in and out, yet never converse again? To know that he could speak to you if he chose to, but won't? -- Karen Marie Moning
I lived with the constant awareness that if I cared about you and you figured it out, you'd leave. -- Karen Marie Moning
All I can think is: His head is gone and I don't know how to merge with the Book. -- Karen Marie Moning
How could they let me grow up like that - happy and pink and stupid? -- Karen Marie Moning
You're Mac," he says. "And I'm Jericho. And nothing else matters. Never will. You exsist in a place that is beyond all rules for me. Do you understand that?"
"I do. -- Karen Marie Moning
Just saying, things ain't always bad just 'cause you don't understand 'em or ain't like 'em. That's like thinking anybody who's smarter or faster is dangerous just 'cause they got more brains or quicker feet. Ain't fair. Peeps can't help how they're born. -- Karen Marie Moning
My heart has jet lag. -- Karen Marie Moning
Mac reflected on the Unseelie King and his concubine:
He'd loved her for all time
After he'd believed she was gone
Sunshine to his ice.
Frost to her fever.
I wished them forever.
You, too, beautiful girl.
The Unseelie King was gone. -- Karen Marie Moning
He sees her like I do: at seventeen, twenty, thirty. Superimposed over the fourteen-year-old, he sees the woman she'll become.
And he's staking claim.
Over. my. Dead. Fucking. Body.
And I can't die. -- Karen Marie Moning
Omnipotent not omniscient. We are frequently blinded by how much we see. -- Karen Marie Moning
Propping the mirror against the wall near the door, he waved a hand at it and clipped, "Drustan: Cian MacKeltar. Cian: Drustan MacKeltar."
"Dageus," Drustan's voice was soft as velvet, never a good sign, "why are you introducing me to a mirror? -- Karen Marie Moning
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. -- Karen Marie Moning
Distinguish yourself [ ... ] in an age where girls often make themselves too available to boys, by making him work a little for your attention. He'll think he's won a prize when he gets it, and he'll work that much harder to keep it. Boys turn into men and men put a premium on what's hard to get. -- Karen Marie Moning
I didn't have time to change."
"Then you'll make it now. I'm not working on you with that
much death on your skin. -- Karen Marie Moning
I don't smile. My smiles don't make people relax. -- Karen Marie Moning
Regardless of how many people I surrounded myself with, no matter how many friends and family I loved and was loved by in return, I was alone at the moment of being born and at the moment of dying. Nobody came with you and nobody went with you. It was a journey of one. -- Karen Marie Moning
Hey, wanna fuck? -- Karen Marie Moning
I am going to love you now, slow and sweet, but when you come, I'm going to f*** you the way I need to. The way I've been dreaming about since the moment I saw you. -- Karen Marie Moning
What have you stuffed in your pants, MacKeltar?" she demanded.
"Nothing that wasn't God-given," he replied stiffly.
Gwen stared. "There's no way that's part of you. You must have gotten a sock or something stuck. Oh, my." She pried her gaze from his groin. -- Karen Marie Moning
She's my baby girl, Quinn. I want love for her. Real love. The kind that makes a man crazy inside.
-Gibraltar to Quinn -- Karen Marie Moning
He is so beautiful that he makes a part of my soul weep. I don't understand those tears. They aren't like the ones I cry for Alina. They aren't made of water and salt. I think they're made of blood. -- Karen Marie Moning
You might be able to thrash your way out of a spiderweb, but thrashing in quicksand doesn't work. The harder you fight, the more ground you lose. Struggling merely expedites your inevitable defeat. -- Karen Marie Moning
Werewolves? Oh please, just plain stupid. Who wants to get it on with a man ruled by his inner dog? -- Karen Marie Moning
What are you?" I said irritably.
"In the Serengeti, Ms. Lane, I would be the cheetah. I'm stronger, smarter, faster, and hungrier than everything else out there. And I don't apologize to the gazelle when I take it down. -- Karen Marie Moning
I want purple trews, lass," Drustan called over the door.
"No," she said irritably.
"And a purple shirt. -- Karen Marie Moning
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? -- Karen Marie Moning
Pretty, pink Barbie fucks hard and raw like an animal. Her head is thrown back, spine arched, she's oblivious to rules, to moral order, to all but inner imperatives. And I wonder: could she live like she fucks? -- Karen Marie Moning
Sometimes the small pleasures in life are the sweetest. -- Karen Marie Moning
lust, greed, desire, and supremacy; -- Karen Marie Moning
Let me be your anchor. I'll never let you be lost again. -- Karen Marie Moning
And there you have it ... if I knew that I could only have a few nights in that man's arms or nothing, I would take those magic nights and use them to keep me warm for the rest of my life. -- Karen Marie Moning
Life took the strongest root with a little bit of rain and a whole lot of shit for fertilizer. -- Karen Marie Moning
Familiar routine is balm to a fragmented soul. -- Karen Marie Moning
Hope builds a stairway to Heaven. Fear opens an abyss to Hell. -- Karen Marie Moning
Och, woman," he said softly, "you show me Heaven and ask me to revisit Hell? Not now, sweet Jessica. Now is for us.
No grim thoughts. Only us . -- Karen Marie Moning
Was that the sum total of my exsitence? I didn't get the erudition of 'I think therefore I am.'
Instead I got 'I am, therefore I want to fuck Jericho Barrons. -- Karen Marie Moning
I have found there to be little distance between the unlatching of a chain and the spreading of a woman's legs. As if they can never unbar only a single entrance. It's a disease called hope. Women suffer from it greatly. -- Karen Marie Moning
Holy fecking crikey, it comes! -- Karen Marie Moning
When you love too hard, you can lose the will to live without them. Everywhere you look is a great big sucking absence of what you once had and will never have again. And life gets weirdly flat and too sharp and painful at the same time, and nothing feels right and everything cuts. -- Karen Marie Moning
I've spent enough time behind a bar that I've formed a few opinions about what people wear and what it says about them. Guys who wear black from head to toe fall into two categories: they want to be trouble, or they are trouble. -- Karen Marie Moning
Since the moment I laid eyes on Jericho Barrons, I wanted him. I wanted him to do things to me that pink and clueless MacKayla Lane was shocked and appalled and ... okay, yeah, well, utterly fascinated to find herself thinking about. -- Karen Marie Moning
You and I more than anyone else in the universe are perfect for each other. -- Karen Marie Moning
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. -- Karen Marie Moning
We're all going to die. Alone and miserably. With lots of pain. That's the way life goes. People make promises and don't keep them. They say they care about you and forget you. -- Karen Marie Moning
I wasn't - " I began.
I didn't - " He began.
How charming," V'lane cut us off. His voice arrived before he did. "The very portrait of human domestic bliss. She's on the floor, you're towering over her. Did he strike you, MacKayla? Say the word and I'll kill him. -- Karen Marie Moning
What if I told you that when you kiss me, lass, I doona feel cursed? That mayhap your kisses could save me. Would you? -- Karen Marie Moning
You are so stubborn."
"I am? I? Woman who insists everything be her way? You must wear hard white shoes. You must remove your weapons. You must travel in a car. You must not kiss me even though I wrap my legs around you when you do. Must must must. I weary of that word. -- Karen Marie Moning
Once, long ago in her world, a sunny day in spring was her favorite, but now a sunny day in winter delights her more. It is the perfect metaphor for their love.
Sunshine on ice.
She warms his frost. He cools her fever. -- Karen Marie Moning
Love, once given, is forever. It canna simply go away. -- Karen Marie Moning
Remember this mortal-you have your own kind of forever-the immortality of love." -Aoibheal, Queen of the Fae -- Karen Marie Moning
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. -- Karen Marie Moning
I hope when I'm ninety-five the only things I want are free: love, family, a good home-cooked meal. -- Karen Marie Moning
I mock everything. Don't take it so personally. Adam Black -- Karen Marie Moning
Lose the pessimism, Ms. Lane. It's a self-fulfilling prophecy. -- Karen Marie Moning
Because what he showed me is that he sees the same things in her I do. He knows she's worth waiting for. And when it's time, he intends to be the one. That's why he's keeping her close. To those of us who live forever, a few years isn't long to wait. -- Karen Marie Moning
It's not what Ryodan does," Jo says slowly. "It's more what he is." Her eyes take on a serious sheen. "He's like, unbelievably brilliant, ten steps ahead of everyone else all the time."
Bullshit. He's not that smart. I beat him at Triad. Once. About ten thousand years ago. -- Karen Marie Moning
Brutality is the refuge of the dull of mind, ka-lyrra. Only a fool conquers when he might instead seduce.
~Adam Black to Gabrielle O'Callaghan -- Karen Marie Moning
He didn't just kiss, he claimed ownership. Took her mouth with urgency, as if his life depended on his kissing her. -- Karen Marie Moning
It's more like, you are mine forever, should you agree and give me the words back. And now I am yours forever, whether you agree or not. -- Karen Marie Moning
Once you start splitting hairs, trying to convince yourself some things are more acceptable to destroy, you've already lost the most important war. -- Karen Marie Moning
That part of his body was simply uncontrollable, apparently functioning in accordance to a single law of nature: She existed
he got a hard-on. -- Karen Marie Moning
I hate fate. I don't believe in her. Unfortunately, I think the bitch believes in me. -- Karen Marie Moning
You think you're going to chain me to a wall then stand here and tell me why it's okay that I am the way I am? That because of all the crap folks put me through when I was young it's all right that I turned out like this?
Dude, I don't have a problem with how I turned out. I like me. -- Karen Marie Moning
The man kisses me and I just hop right on him like he's the hottest new ride at Disneyland. -- Karen Marie Moning
No matter how people try to dispute it, perception is reality. Its what you choose to believe that makes you the person you are. -- Karen Marie Moning
Ego and superego were dispatched with a single swift, killing blow and in swaggered my new ruler - that primitive little hedonistic bastard, the id. -- Karen Marie Moning
I'm a moth to his flame and it frightens me how willingly I'd burn my wings off for him. Destroy the world. Follow him to Hell. It's scary to feel like you can't breathe without someone. -- Karen Marie Moning
I think you're beautiful and smart and talented and deserve a man that can feel with something besides his dick. -- Karen Marie Moning
We're superheroes. He's not sticking to the script. If he keeps deviating, I'm jumping comic books. -- Karen Marie Moning
As if they were supposed to have made a direct hit, to have a long, full, crazy, wild, passion-filled, child-strewn life together, but somehow they'd come at each other from the wrong angle, and missed what could have/would have/should have been. -- Karen Marie Moning
Any man who reads is a fine one. -- Karen Marie Moning
What was she going to do with two Drustans?
A kinky part of her proposed something unmentionable and rather fascinating. Really, if they were both him, it wouldn't be like she was cheating on anyone. -- Karen Marie Moning
I have to balance the scales and there's a lot weighing in against me. -- Karen Marie Moning
They'll try to kill you."
"Good thing I'm hard to kill." Only one thing concerned me. "Will you?"
"Never. I'm the one who will always watch over you. Always be there to fuck you back to your senses when you need it, the one who will never let you die. -- Karen Marie Moning
Good night, Lisa. Sleep with the angels."
Her eyes stung from quick tears. It had been her mother's nightly benediction: Sleep with the angels. But then he added words her mother never had: "Then come back to earth and sleep with your devil, who would burn in hell for one night in your arms. -- Karen Marie Moning
They say if you die in a dream, your heart stops in real life. I don't know if that's true. I've never known anyone who died in a dream to ask. Maybe because they're all dead. -- Karen Marie Moning
No lips," Drustan warned. "Unless you wish me to be kissing Chloe. -- Karen Marie Moning
You didn't have to rip my dress," she said plaintively when he let her breathe. "I love this one. Nellie worked on it for days." "I'm sorry, lass," he said somberly. " 'Twas an accident, lass. Sometimes I forget my strength. I mean to be gentle but it doesn't come out that way. Can you forgive me? -- Karen Marie Moning
You, Ms. Lane, are a menace to others! A walking, talking catastrophe in pink! -- Karen Marie Moning
V'lane: Are you busy tomorrow MacKayla ?
Barrons: She's working on old texts with me.
V'lane: Ah. Old texts. A banner day at the bookstore.
Barrons: We're translating Kama Sutra ... with interactive aids. -- Karen Marie Moning
He was on me before my brain processed the fact that he was coming for me. -- Karen Marie Moning
His coworker was velvety-skinned, a sexy boy-on-the-cusp-of man. -- Karen Marie Moning
What is he thinking? You're the Mega. You don't take Wolverine's claws!" "I know, right? -- Karen Marie Moning
Sorry was worthless. It changed nothing. Merely coerced the victim to offer forgiveness for what you shouldn't have done to begin with. -- Karen Marie Moning
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. -- Karen Marie Moning
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. -- Karen Marie Moning
I'm sorry, Silvan. I didn't mean to wake you."
"I wouldn't have missed seeing my son getting barricaded in the privy by a wee lass for anything. Bonny fortune with your plan, m'dear. -- Karen Marie Moning
Being threatened seems to being out the worst in me. -- Karen Marie Moning
I smashed my fist into his face. Lies roll off us. It's the truths we work hardest to silence. "Then you weren't looking hard enough! I'm the one with boobs!" "I know you're the one with boobs! They're in my fucking face every fucking time I turn around! -- Karen Marie Moning
I always get them to call me whatever I want. I'm always in control. Isn't much I like more than a beautiful woman tied to my bed while I make her come till she passes out. So what's my problem? -- Karen Marie Moning
Bring it on, Tinker Bell. -- Karen Marie Moning
He was still frowning at the cake, looking at it as if he expected it to sprout dozens of legs and begin scuttling toward him, thin-lipped, teeth bared. -- Karen Marie Moning
Dude, you are one sick feck." "Och, Dani, my love," he says, gliding toward the bed, "you've really no idea. -- Karen Marie Moning
Got to love a dude that says things like "kinetic" and "detritus. -- Karen Marie Moning
Only a fool conquers when he might instead seduce. -- Karen Marie Moning
I have a black sense of humor. You try living my life, see what color yours turns. -- Karen Marie Moning
After he'd gone, she'd suffered a momentary, nearly immobilizing flash of panic
what if the Hunters somehow managed to find her while he was gone?
but it dissipated swiftly, leaving her astonished to realize that she truly trust him to keep her safe, at least from everything besides himself. -- Karen Marie Moning
Oh, yes, I'm going to have to kill you, Barrons, I said coolly. Partly because, for the most minuscule sliver of an instant, while looking at those handcuffs, I'd imagined myself climbing back into bed and pretending I wasn't cured yet. -- Karen Marie Moning
On the lips of my enemy, my sister's lover, my lover's killer, I taste the punishment I deserve. I taste oblivion. -- Karen Marie Moning
Sometimes when all hell's breaking loose the only thing to do is to break more hell loose. -- Karen Marie Moning
Old witch passed on a few good things but they'll never counter all the evil she did. -- Karen Marie Moning
I'll never get laid trying to keep you safe. You're a train wreck on steroids. -- Karen Marie Moning
Ryodan growled. For fuck's sake, you don't stalk an orgasm, you enjoy its arrival. -- Karen Marie Moning
Dying for someone isn't the hard thing. The man that dies escapes. Plain and simple. Game over. End of pain. Alina was the lucky one. Try living for someone. Through it all-good, bad, thick, thin, joy, suffering. -- Karen Marie Moning
I want to drop to all fours and bay like a wild thing drunk on being hungry and strong, a beast that could fuck for days without cease if I could only find someone that could take it as hard and long a I can give it. -- Karen Marie Moning
There are ledgers. Those I kill. Those I reward."
"There are legends. You used to be one."
"I am a legend."
"Dani's a legend. Not you."
"This Dani appears to matter to you."
"Always."
"Perhaps you had a funny way of showing it. -- Karen Marie Moning
love doesn't die just because the person does, -- Karen Marie Moning
He just didn't look like the kind of creep that would messily murder a woman in her hotel room; he looked like the kind of creep that could line her up in the sights of an assassins rifle without a shred of emotion. -- Karen Marie Moning
Rule #1 in the Universe: the crap always hits the fan. It's the nature of crap. It's a fan magnet. -- Karen Marie Moning
The four Keltar Druids brought their wives and children. They breed like it's their personal mission to populate their country in case somebody attacks again, as if anybody wants the bloody place. -- Karen Marie Moning
Think you two puny Druids can hold this keep for a single night? -- Karen Marie Moning
By the time you work your way down the hierarchy to a brunette, you got yourself a woman who knows who she is, likes it enough that she ain't gonna change, and is probably gonna try to change you, if push comes to shove. Pushy, that's what brunettes are. Even the dainty, fragile-looking ones. -- Karen Marie Moning
Its our actions that define us. What we choose. What we resist. What we're willing to die for. -- Karen Marie Moning
She's too young. Too innocent.
Too human. For what I'm becoming. -- Karen Marie Moning
Fire to his ice, frost to her flame. -- Karen Marie Moning
Oooh! Stop that. When you smile at me I want all of it."
"What?" He looked confused -- Karen Marie Moning
Why did you laugh right before you lost consciousness."
"Death's an adventure. I lived big. Rigor mortis makes your face stick. So, who knew how to thaw me?"
"Death's an insult."
"At least an affront," I agree. -- Karen Marie Moning
Nobody home but She for Whom I Am the World. Can't go on like this, can't keep doing it.- Jericho Barrons -- Karen Marie Moning
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. -- Karen Marie Moning
He, who had once been whole, was halved, without hope of ever being complete again. And when you've known that kind of love, to endure the creeping passage of time without it is to live a half-life where nothing ever feels real. -- Karen Marie Moning
It's hard to talk to you when I'm touching you. -- Karen Marie Moning
There is a monster inside me. And she's beautiful. -- Karen Marie Moning
You don't love anyone either. An argument could be made that you only ever do one of three things to the people closest to you: make enemies of them, kill the people they love, or get them killed. Careful. You're on thinner ice than you've ever been with me. -- Karen Marie Moning
Finally, he knew the kind of loving that made two one and understood Jane was his world. His ocean, his country, his sun, his rain, his very heart. -- Karen Marie Moning
Hope is a critical thing. Without it, we are nothing. Hope shapes the will. The will shapes the world. I -- Karen Marie Moning
The paranoid one's wards are still active. They keep me several feet from the building."
"But not his car," I said, a smile tugging at my lips. Barrons would go nuts if he knew that V'lane had touched his Viper. And stretched out on it nude? He'd have an aneurysm. -- Karen Marie Moning
Life isn't always fair, lass, but that doesn't mean it can't still be sweet.- Dageus -- Karen Marie Moning
It's a strange new world out there and the rules have changed: It's every princess for herself. -- Karen Marie Moning
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 -- Karen Marie Moning
I was a twenty-two-year-old single white female alone in a strange country where my sister had been killed. -- Karen Marie Moning
He built his beloved a playground of infinite proportions, tucked away in a safe pocket of reality where she could stay for all time, unchanging. Unaging. She would be safe. Nothing and no one could ever hurt her. He would never have to worry that he might lose her. -- Karen Marie Moning
Life is an iceberg and I've only been seeing the tip. -- Karen Marie Moning
It seemed Barrons had finally gotten his cake and eaten it too. -- Karen Marie Moning
Holy psychotic PCs, Robin, we've a murderous MacBook on the loose! -- Karen Marie Moning
You mean you have to be epic already, for it to make you more epic? -- Karen Marie Moning
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. -- Karen Marie Moning
Fear of the power you believe someone or something has over you is nothing but a jail cell you choose to walk into. -- Karen Marie Moning
There aren't many crimes in my book. Not many sins either. But top on both of those lists is killing time. Have fun with it, make something cool, play video games, work hard if you feel like it, but do something. Killed time is an abortion, life that never gets lived, gone, just gone. -- Karen Marie Moning
He goes for stark versus accessorized, dark over bright, jewel tone instead of pastel, carnal over flirty. -- Karen Marie Moning
There's no place on Earth, feck, there's no place in all of heaven or hell that they'll ever be safe from me again! -- Karen Marie Moning
Life is a gift. You fight to keep it. You never quit. Never. -- Karen Marie Moning
Bloody hell, Ms. Lane, how many "buts" are you going to throw at me besides the only one I want? He rakes a hungry gaze over my ass and I shiver. -- Karen Marie Moning
My clarinet sounded like an apoplectic yak. For the brief days I blew the trumpet, a hostile-sounding pig snorted along in jerky fits and starts with the rest of the irritated band. -- Karen Marie Moning
Life's a choice: you can live in black and white, or you can live in colour. I'll take every shade of the rainbow and the gazillion in between! -- Karen Marie Moning
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. -- Karen Marie Moning
Bloody hell, she wants respect. Which I'm all about giving. I respect them the entire time they're sharing my bed and I treat them great when they're not, flirting them up, telling them how beautiful they are, while pointing them at the next man to help them get over me. -- Karen Marie Moning
Goor or evil, right or wrong, he mattered to me. -- Karen Marie Moning
Air ye deaf, lass?
I think. He might have called me a hairy jackass -- Karen Marie Moning
It would seem you are in need of assistance, sidhe-seer." A musical baritone drifted through the window, otherworldly, sensuous, and punctuated by a forbidding growl of thunder. -- Karen Marie Moning
I get it the whole idea of willingly going to hell for someone. Living there insane if you have to because you'd rather be insane with them than endure life without them. -- Karen Marie Moning
I hate it when people throw big sweeping generalizations at you that you can't even begin to interpret. -- Karen Marie Moning
This close to him I must bite my tongue to prevent myself from moaning with need. This close to him I feel like an animal. -- Karen Marie Moning
Solitude and inaction are unraveling me right down to the core. -- Karen Marie Moning
God, the floor is cold! It hurts, it hurts, it hurts! I just thought "God." I don't use that word. Do I believe? Have I found faith here, on my knees, now, at the end? That seems kind of hypocritical-like to me. Ain't dying a hypocrite. -- Karen Marie Moning
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 -- Karen Marie Moning
I'm what-iffing! I don't what-if! What-iffing is for growups. They what-if themselves right into doing nothing, and die without ever living. -- Karen Marie Moning
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! -- Karen Marie Moning
I kept it to remind me that although there is evil, there is sometimes beauty and light. You, Jillian. You were always my light. -- Karen Marie Moning
Immortals. Pains in the asses, every one of them. -- Karen Marie Moning
Okay, Barrons, it's time."
"I am not helping you shave your legs." he said instantly.
"Oh please. As if I'd let you. -- Karen Marie Moning
Drustan didn't tell me either. He regretted that later, when I kissed Dageus because I thought he was Drustan. Drustan didn't care for it one bit. They're possessive about their women, but I'm sure you know that. I'm Gwen, by the way, Drustan's wife. -- Karen Marie Moning
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. -- Karen Marie Moning
Then we're on the same page. Same paragraph, same sentence," I snapped. "Same bloody word," he agreed flatly. -- Karen Marie Moning
He's so beautiful," she said wistfully. "He's like an angel."
"Yep," I agreed flatly. "The one that fell. -- Karen Marie Moning
I have to talk to him," I said flatly. "I forbid it." Every cell in my being bristled. I practically shouted, "You what?" "For. Bid. It." "You did not just say that to me. -- Karen Marie Moning
For fuck's sake, you vanished and I couldn't find you. Do you really think I'm going to let that happen again? If you believe nothing else, concede it will work for that reason alone. I don't lose things that are mine. -- Karen Marie Moning
Life is not black and white. The closes we ever get to either of those colors is wearing them. -- Karen Marie Moning
I don't make sonic booms. I want a whip. I like the idea of walking around making sonic booms everywhere. -- Karen Marie Moning
I'm here. You're safe now. It's okay to
remember. They can never hurt you again. -- Karen Marie Moning
She's not that kind of girl, the endless string type. You get a shot at something like her once in a lifetime. And if you screw it up there's a special place in hell for you. -- Karen Marie Moning
He was obsessed, and obsessed men are dangerous men. -- Karen Marie Moning
You don't realize how reassuring it is to see yourself every day until you can't anymore. -- Karen Marie Moning
I squinted. "What's that on your hand, Barrons? Blood?" He started, glanced at me, then at his hand. "Ah yes," he said, as if remembering, "I was out for a walk. There was a badly injured dog in the street. I returned it to its owner's shop to die. -- Karen Marie Moning
Faces don't freeze like that unless pushed to breaking, where death itself becomes the kindness. -- Karen Marie Moning
Love can grown among the rocks and thorns of life. -- Karen Marie Moning
Ritual numbs the brain. Repetition is grass for sheep. -- Karen Marie Moning
Life rocks. It's better than Woodstock. -- Karen Marie Moning
A wave of frantic helplessness was building inside me, threatening to turn tidal. I didn't dare give in to panic. I had to stay calm and focused and work on moving forward however I could, even if it meant taking baby steps. -- Karen Marie Moning
I don't believe Barrons is out to destroy mankind. I don't think he particularly cares much for mankind, but I don't think he has any deep-seated desire to see us all wiped out. -- Karen Marie Moning
Everything else falls away except for the family you're born into, choose, or make; the circle of love you'll die to protect and keep near you. The only thing that keeps us rooted in the past is our refusal to embrace the present. -- Karen Marie Moning
Valhalla on the right. Paradise regained on the left. Stuck between a Godiva truffle and a chocolate eclair. Between a rock and a very hard place. Two very hard places from the looks of it. -- Karen Marie Moning
I'm not here to argue for the world. That's not in my job description. I'm just trying to save it. -- Karen Marie Moning
Forever trusting who we are and nothing else matters -- Karen Marie Moning
If you are not with me, you are against me. I have no mercy for my enemies. -- Karen Marie Moning
Next thing I know I'm hiking that sweet, short skirt up over her sweet round ass, breaking my own rules, gonna screw a brunette, on the highway to Hell. -- Karen Marie Moning
Life's not linear at all. It happens in lighting flashes. So fast you don't see those lay-you-out cold moments coming at you until you're Wile E. Coyote, steamrolled flat as a pancake by the Road Runner, victim of your own elaborate schemes. -- Karen Marie Moning
It's a sponge and I'm a sponge and for a second there all our sponge parts are one and I don't just have square pants, everything about me is squarish because I'm part of a wall. -- Karen Marie Moning
I'm obsessed and addicted and ripped-down-raw in love with Jericho Barrons. -- Karen Marie Moning
A little blood never bothers me. -- Karen Marie Moning
There was a knife in his hand. He gave me a tight, mocking smile as he moved to the slab. "Wing or a thigh? Ah, I'm afraid we don't have any thighs left." He sliced into the Fae. -- Karen Marie Moning
Why have you always cared so much about these tiny worlds?" "Why have you never?" He had once. When she'd cared about him. He'd made himself small for her and walked in her manner, tending small things. But being small was so much more complicated than being God. -- Karen Marie Moning
He fucks with the single-minded devotion of a dying man hunting God. -- Karen Marie Moning
I'm envious of how well he's engineered to survive, to conquer, to outlast apocalypse. -- Karen Marie Moning
You want to believe in black and white, good and evil, heroes that are truly heroic, villains that are just plain bad, but I've learned in the past year that things are rarely so simple. The good guys can do some truly awful things, and the bad guys can sometimes surprise the heck out of you. -- Karen Marie Moning
Feelings, emotions - they are neither right nor wrong. They cannot be assigned a value. Feelings *are*. By labeling a feeling wrong, you force yourself to ignore that feeling. And what you most need is to feel it, let it burn through you, then get on with life. -- Karen Marie Moning
Raking a hand through his hair, he forced his attention to the text she'd left on the coffee table, refusing to dwell on the disconcerting fact that a part of him had taken one look at the lass in such proximity to his bed and said simply: Mine -- Karen Marie Moning
The currency of life is passion, and as with any coin, it has two sides: pleasure, pain, joy, sorrow. Impossible to slip a single side of that coin in your pocket. You take all or nothing."
"Perhaps we are alike, you and I, and I prefer my pockets empty."
"My pockets are far from empty. -- Karen Marie Moning
I know part of what turns me on so hard, makes me so violent with lust, is that he's dangerous. I fell for the bad guy. I'm crazy about the one who's trouble. The alpha that doesn't play well with others and doesn't take orders from anyone. -- Karen Marie Moning
I had a sudden dismal view of my future, of being led around and asked incessantly, like one of those Verizon commercials, Do you feel sick now? -- Karen Marie Moning
An event horizon is also called the point of no return. In a sense of general relativity, it's the point at which the gravitational pull becomes so great escape is impossible. Some theorize quantum gravity effects become significant in the vicinity of such an occurrence. -- Karen Marie Moning
Turn it off," Ryodan says without even looking at me. "You're distressing Dani. No one distresses Dani but me. -- Karen Marie Moning
She lives at my discretion. I can take her breath. I can give it back. -- Karen Marie Moning
Hope strengthens. Fear kills. It's how you go on that defines you -- Karen Marie Moning
Barrons' lips twitched. I'd almost made him smile. Barrons smiles about as often as the sun comes out in Dublin, and it has the same effect on me; makes me feel warm and stupid. -- Karen Marie Moning
I'm not helping you, Ms. Lane. I'm entertaining the notion that you might be of use to me. If so, I need you alive. -- Karen Marie Moning
I always thought fainting showed an inherent weakness of character, but I understood it now. It was an act of self-preservation. Confronted by emotion too extreme to handle, the body shuts down to keep from running around like a chicken with its head cut off, potentially injuring itself. -- Karen Marie Moning
Temptation isn't a vice you triumph over once, completely, and then you're free. Temptation slips into bed with you each night and helps you say prayers. It wakes you in the morning with a friendly cup of coffee, and knows just the way you take it, heavy on the sin. -- Karen Marie Moning
Temptation isn't a sin that you triumph over once, completely and then you're free. Temptation slips into bed with you each night and helps you say your prayers. It wakes you in the morning with a friendly cup of coffee, and knows exactly how you take it. -- Karen Marie Moning
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. -- Karen Marie Moning
I look down. Ryodan's dick is as big as mine. "Why the bloody hell don't you wear underwear?" To an Unseelie prince, an exposed male dick is a call to battle.
"They chafe. Too small and confining."
"Fuck you," I say. -- Karen Marie Moning
Sometimes, Ms. Lane," he said, "one must break with one's past to embrace one's future. It is never an easy thing to do. It is one of the distinguishing characteristics between survivors and victims. Letting go of what was, to survive what is. -- Karen Marie Moning
The only offer/threat that had perked her momentary interest was when he'd shouted that he was going to toop her 'til her bonny legs fell off. -- Karen Marie Moning
I wanted to walk beside this man for a long time, and to do that I'd have to be able to be completely myself. -- Karen Marie Moning
The bottom line is we choose our epitaphs. -- Karen Marie Moning
Using your own time to make someone else's life better is, like, the nicest thing you can do for anybody. -- Karen Marie Moning
I see how he feels about his world and I want to be one of the parts he prizes. I want to be worth fighting for. Worth the same kind of effort he puts into the things that matter to him. Like Dani."
"I don't tell her no human matters to the boss like Dani. -- Karen Marie Moning
Like a horse, honey, somebody's gonna break you.'
'Never. Going. To. Happen. -- Karen Marie Moning
You're never going to believe what just walked into the club," Lor told Ryodan. "Tell me to change. Say the word. -- Karen Marie Moning
She says, all serious like, Lor, you're a really sweet guy
(who the bloody fuck is she talking about? I'm looking
around the bed but it's only me and her) ... -- Karen Marie Moning
The more excited I get, the more I vibrate."
"Now there's a thought," Lor says.
"If you mean what I think you mean, you want to shut the fuck up and never think it again," Ryodan says. -- Karen Marie Moning
If you can't fuck it, eat it or use it for a weapon
kill it. -- Karen Marie Moning
Sonofamotherfuckinggoddamnbitch! JaysustiittyfuckingChrist!
That was Lor. Man of few words. -- Karen Marie Moning
And Mega has a crush on Chester."
"I do not!"
"Do too, Mega."
"He's like, old!"
"How old, Christian says."
"Like at least thirty or something."
Lor laughs. " Fucking ancient, ain't it, kid?"
"Dude," I agree. I like Lor. -- Karen Marie Moning
Barrons was powerful, broodingly good-looking, insanely wealthy, frighteningly intelligent, and had exquisite taste, not to mention a hard body that emitted some kind of constant low-level charge. Bottom line: He was the stuff of heroes.
And psychotic killers. -- Karen Marie Moning
What part of 'directly' didn't you understand?"
"Same part of 'play well with others' you never understand, O cantankerous one," I muttered.
He laughed, surprising me [ ... ] "I'd be a lot less cantankerous if you admitted you wanted to fuck me and we got down to it. -- Karen Marie Moning
Barrons, Jericho: I haven't the faintest fecking clue. He keeps saving my life. I suppose that's something. -- Karen Marie Moning
Funny thing about payment is that it isn't the buyer of the goods or services that gets to set it. It's the seller. That's me. -- Karen Marie Moning
People treat you as badly as you let them treat you. Key word there: let. -- Karen Marie Moning
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. -- Karen Marie Moning
I whirled and locked gazes with him, shucked my pride, doffed my prickly alpha stubbornness and said, You are my world, Jericho Barrons. Not him. Never him. -- Karen Marie Moning
Is anyone who's supposed to be dead actually dead? -- Karen Marie Moning
When my faith is getting weak
And I feel like giving in
You breathe into me again ... -- Karen Marie Moning
He would be, she now knew, a whole lot dominant in bed and a little bit dirty.
-Gabrielle about Adam -- Karen Marie Moning
I'm gonna give one of 'em my virginity one day." She preened. I was momentarily dumbstruck. I couldn't begin to enumerate all the things that were appalling about that possibility. "We so have to talk," I finally managed. -- Karen Marie Moning
Your heels are damaging my rug. It's an eighty-thousand-dollar rug."
I say, "You like me in heels. Money doesn't signify anymore. And at least I'm not burning holes in it."
"A wiser woman wouldn't remind me of that time. I'm still pissed about it. -- Karen Marie Moning
I feel like I'm stuck in an IFCF." I raised a brow. "Interdimensional Fairy Cluster Fuck," she said sourly. -- Karen Marie Moning
Sometimes I worry that there's not enough room in my brain for both my dreams and reality that I'm a hard drive with limited gigabytes and one day I won't be able to maintain the firewall between them. I wonder if that's what senility is. -- Karen Marie Moning
I hope they change my drugs soon. Whatever I'm on isn't working. -- Karen Marie Moning
He moves in, standing close without touching. He doesn't need to. I sometimes think our atoms are so glad to see each other that they send little messengers back and forth, ferrying desire, strength, and love between the islands we are. -- Karen Marie Moning
Have you been in a fight? No, let me guess; you saved a wounded dog, again?" I said dryly. That was the excuse he'd used last time. "I had a nosebleed." "Nosebleed, my petunia." "Petunia?" "Ass, Barrons. As in you are one. -- Karen Marie Moning
Women fight differently from men. You couldn't get me to hurt a woman's breasts for anything. I know how tender my own are when I'm PMSing. Besides, we feed babies with them. -- Karen Marie Moning
My world we humans we're just pawns on an immortal chessboard. -- Karen Marie Moning
Sun, moon, and stars, I told him. He inclined his head. Of all the years, this one with you has been my finest. Fire to my ice, Mac. Frost to my flame, Jericho. Forever, we said, and it was a vow far more powerful and binding than any ring or piece of paper. -- Karen Marie Moning
I moved to the counter. A note was propped on the register. Welcome home, Ms. Lane. Arrogant, overconfident jackass. -- Karen Marie Moning
The unknown is a vast, paralyzing limbo. -- Karen Marie Moning
Moth to a flame I follow. -- Karen Marie Moning
Why should I let you take it?" "Because you owe me." "Why do I owe you?" "Because I put up with you. -- Karen Marie Moning
He's disturbingly sexual to men and women alike in a way that sets your teeth on edge. With Barrons you aren't sure if you're going to get fucked or turned inside out and left a new unrecognizable person adrift with no moorings on a see with no bottom and no rules. -- Karen Marie Moning
Her hair is a hot mess around her face, just the way I like it - bed-head always makes me want to fuck. Then again, pretty much everything does. -- Karen Marie Moning
If you already know the
answer, Ms. Lane, don't waste my time. You just wasted a month of it.
-Barrons -- Karen Marie Moning
Yesterday was a memory. Today was a hope. -- Karen Marie Moning
I miss her. I don't know how to live without her. There is a hole inside me that nothing fills.
If you don't find something to fill that hole, someone else will. And if someone else fills it, they own you. Forever. You'll never get yourself back. -- Karen Marie Moning
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 -- Karen Marie Moning
Dunnottar? Edward? Dear God! She hadn't merely traveled through time - she'd been dropped smack into the sequel to Braveheart! -- Karen Marie Moning
Sometimes the most heroic action you can take looks a lot like inaction to the rest of the world. Sometimes the hardest, longest walk is the one the white-hat takes offstage. -- Karen Marie Moning
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. Oxygen is trivial. Desire makes life happen. Makes it matter. Makes everything worth it. Desire is life. Hunger to see the next sunrise or sunset. To touch the one you love. To try again. -- Karen Marie Moning
You would deceive me for a single kiss." "I would raze worlds for a single kiss." "Try saving one, for far more than that. -- Karen Marie Moning
The inspector ate only two of my tiny sandwiches: the first because he hadn't expected it to taste so awful; the second, I think, because he'd thought surely the first must have been a mistake. -- Karen Marie Moning
I belly up a laugh from way down deep where I'm always half laughing anyway because being alive - dude! - it's the greatest adventure in the world. What a ride it's been. Short but stupendous. -- Karen Marie Moning
That's impossible," Gwen gasped. "The fastest I've ever run on a treadmill was ten and a half minutes and I nearly died. And it was only one mile. I had to rest for hours and eat chocolate to revive myself. -- Karen Marie Moning
I wake up every day with a single imperative: live. By any means necessary. The only way Death will ever get his slimy bastard hands on me is over my dead body. -- Karen Marie Moning
The sun's nearly level with the horizon, right behind his head, making this weird halo effect around his face - as if! I'm surprised he doesn't smell like brimstone. He probably has a red pitchfork and hides horns under his hair. -- Karen Marie Moning
I inhaled his scent. He was near, a few feet away. Lust nearly buckled my knees. He was a tireless lover. There was nothing off-limits with him. -- Karen Marie Moning
I want this world. I want you. -- Karen Marie Moning
For a moment there he hadn't looked dark, forbidding, and cold, but dark, forbidding, and ... warm. In fact, when he'd laughed he'd looked ... well ... kind of hot. -- Karen Marie Moning
When he comes, he makes a noise deep in his throat that is so raw and animal and sexual that I think if he merely looked at me and made that noise, I might explode in an orgasm. -- Karen Marie Moning
Long gold hair, eyes so light they looked silvery, and golden skin, the man was blindingly beautiful. Every hair on my body lifted, all over, in unison. And I got the strangest thought: He's not human. -- Karen Marie Moning
I speak belligerence in every language known to man. -- Karen Marie Moning
Some people bring out the worst in you, others bring out the best, and then there are those remarkably rare, addictive ones who just bring out the most. Of everything.
They make you feel so alive that you'd follow them straight into hell, just to keep getting your fix. -- Karen Marie Moning
Since I've been on my own, I've been eating a lot of popcorn, cereal, instant noodles, and snack bars. I have a hot plate in my bedroom, a microwave, and a small fridge. That's the kind of kitchen I know how to get around in. -- Karen Marie Moning
She's chiffon and satin ribbons. I'm raw meat and razor blades. -- Karen Marie Moning
Depression gets you nowhere but tangled in an overgrown garden that can choke the life out of you. -- Karen Marie Moning
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. -- Karen Marie Moning
Occam's razor: The simplest explanation that accommodates all variables is most likely the truth. -- Karen Marie Moning
Failure is always new information, and those who are willing to suffer it repeatedly make it a stepping-stone to success. -- Karen Marie Moning
You came to Dublin, avenging angel, and what's the first thing you did? Fucked the devil. Oops, shit, eh? -- Karen Marie Moning
Ah, the painful truth: Fate was a cosmic toilet. It was the nature of the universe to flush sluggish things that failed to exercise free will. Stasis was stagnancy. Change was velocity. Fate - a sniper that preferred a motionless target to a dancing one. -- Karen Marie Moning
Jericho."
"Mac."
"Thank you for saving my life. Again. -- Karen Marie Moning
Yesterday was a memory. Tomorrow was a hope. Today was another day to live and do one's best to love -- Karen Marie Moning
Keep hoping to see the light in her eyes. Even knowing it'll mean she's saying good-bye. -- Karen Marie Moning
His eyes. She got lost in them for a long moment, wondering how she could have ever thought them tiger-gold. They were the color of dark whisky. And filled with some emotion. She stared. Something like ... Despair? -- Karen Marie Moning
Beginnings are fragile things. -- Karen Marie Moning
Time heals.
No, it doesn't. At best, time is the great leveler, sweeping us all into coffins. We find ways to distract ourselves from the pain. Time is neither scalpel nor bandage. It is indifferent. Scar tissue is not a good thing. It is merely the wound's other face. -- Karen Marie Moning
What good is it to be a superhero if you only are some of the time and you never get to know when? -- Karen Marie Moning
Below me, inside me, there's a pit that's dark and comforting and quite completely insane. If I sink into it, I can be free of all torture. -- Karen Marie Moning
So....stop....me. -- Karen Marie Moning
The sun does not rue that it rises. -- Karen Marie Moning
Those who were so long imprisoned in ice and darkness seem to find the sunlight jarring, painful. The longer I walk around with this grief inside me, the more I understand that. It's as if sunshine is a slap in the face that says, Look, the world's all bright and shiny! Too bad you're not. -- Karen Marie Moning
Yes, I have loved, Ms. Lane, and although it's none of your business, I have lost. Many things. -- Karen Marie Moning
Just one time before I turn into the villain of this piece, just one time before I become the fourth and final Unseelie prince, I want to be her Highlander. And her hero. -- Karen Marie Moning
She asked me to call her bitch downstairs when we were doing shots at the bar. Said it turned her on. Later, with a laugh, she switched it to princess. Now she wants mistress. High maintenance. Some women are worth it. -- Karen Marie Moning
Open up!" he roared, pounding it with his fist. Nothing. "Lass, if you open up now, I'll leave you in one piece, but I swear to you, if you keep me in here one more moment I will tear you limb from wee limb," he threatened. Silence. "Lass! Wench! Gwen-do-lynnnnnn! -- Karen Marie Moning
Love hath no pride. -- Karen Marie Moning
I love music because it's so fecking brilliant. Music is math, and math is the structure of everything and pretty much perfect. -- Karen Marie Moning
Are you decent?" a woman's voice called, pushing the door cautiously ajar.
"Nay, but we're clothed," Cian purred. -- Karen Marie Moning
There are many realities pocketed away in the one we call our own. Most go blindly about their lives and never see beyond the ends of their noses. -- Karen Marie Moning
I'm not good, Mac. Never have been.'
What-true confession time? my eyes tease. Don't need it.
'I want what I want and I take it.'
Is he warning me? What could he possibly threaten me with now?
'There's nothing I can't live with. Only things I won't live without. -- Karen Marie Moning
Make love to me, make me forget. -- Karen Marie Moning
He looked as if he'd stepped straight off the cover of one of those romance novels she ordered from Amazon so she didn't have to be embarassed by some supercilious male clerk in the bookstore. -- Karen Marie Moning
Life didn't explode in the sunshine and pretty places. Life took the strongest root with a little bit of rain and with a whole lot of shit for fertilizer. Although love could grow in times of peace, it tempered in battle. -- Karen Marie Moning
Oh, please," I rolled my eyes, "You're a leftie, Barrons."
"Touche, Ms. Lane," he murmured. -- Karen Marie Moning
I'm the one who will always watch over you. Always be there to fuck you back to your senses when you need it, the one who will never let you die. I pull my shirt over my head and kick off my shoes. "What more could a woman ask? -- Karen Marie Moning
You can tell them to run all you want but there aren't a lot of people that will, until they believe they're in major danger - which is usually too late. They gape like cows, and if you don't know it, cows gape a lot. -- Karen Marie Moning
It's just that in the Deep South, women learn at a young age that when the world is falling apart around you, it's time to take down the drapes and make a new dress. -- Karen Marie Moning
Black and white are nothing more than lofty ideals in our minds, the standards by which we try to judge things, and map out our place in the world relevance to them. -- Karen Marie Moning
You're leaving me, Rainbow Girl. -- Karen Marie Moning
No simple cherry picker for me, she thought. I get a time-traveling genius who comes with a world of problems and sends me back through time to fix them. -- Karen Marie Moning
His heavy-lidded gaze reflected a languor that had nothing to do with having just awakened, and there was no doubt what was on his mind. But this is no safe cherry picker, Gwen thought, growing more concerned by the moment.
This man looks like a cherry tree chopper-downer. -- Karen Marie Moning
Someday I'm going to push Jericho Barrons as far as I can and see what happens. -- Karen Marie Moning
He was a broad-shouldered beast. -- Karen Marie Moning
Then you will simply have to see for yourself. Touch me, lass. Feel my ... sock." His silver gaze sizzled with challenge, as he unzipped his zipper.
Uh-uh." She shook her head for added emphasis.
Then find me a pair of trews that doona threaten to sever my manparts. -- Karen Marie Moning
I will never again permit myself to forget that isolation is the first step to defeat. -- Karen Marie Moning
Home, Ms. Lane?" His deep voice was gently amused.
"I have to call it something," I said morosely. "They say home is where the heart is. I think mine's satin-lined
and six feet under. -- Karen Marie Moning
You tried to barter with the devil himself for me, you crazy woman. Bloody hell, doona you ever risk your life for mine. Ever! Do you hear me? -- Karen Marie Moning
Her brain has more muscles than her body, and less sense. Her passion for life pushes her limbs further than they were meant to go. She's going to burn herself to ash if she doesn't find someone or something that takes her all the way down to ground zero and recharges her. -- Karen Marie Moning
Everything is negotiable if the correct pressure is applied. -- Karen Marie Moning
I'd take some peace and quiet. A beautiful girl." He laughed. "A good book. -- Karen Marie Moning
Little testy tonight?"
"That woman's boobs do not belong in your face."
"It's not as if I can see yours at the moment."
"Well, you're damn well going to feel them. Soon."
"One hopes," he murmurs. -- Karen Marie Moning
Wither thou goest, there goest I, two flames sparked from but one ember; both forward and backward doth time fly, wither thou art, remember. -- Karen Marie Moning
Chloe-lass, I'm going to keep you." "Keep me, my ass," she snapped. "I don't agree to being kept." "Forever," he said, with a chilling smile. "And you will. -- Karen Marie Moning
You can't amp up my sex drive. It's already over the top. -- Karen Marie Moning
I couldn't decide what had been more disturbing - my bizarre hallucination or the hostile crone. -- Karen Marie Moning
Bedevil the devil and devil be dammed. I fear no devil and bow to no man.
- Adam Black -- Karen Marie Moning
Have I told you, Chloe-lass, that you're beautiful?" he said softly. She narrowed her eyes. If he thought a generic compliment would buy him a kiss, he was sadly mistaken. -- Karen Marie Moning
When insane things start to arrange themselves in sane patterns around you, you know you got problems. -- Karen Marie Moning
Curious lass, aren't you? I suspect it oft gets the best of you. -- Karen Marie Moning
One day you will kiss a man you can't breathe without, and find that breath is of little consequence. -- Karen Marie Moning
That's it. Fate is a fickle whore. We're not going. Take your clothes off and get back in my bed. -- Karen Marie Moning
No. Your face is lovely, lass. The sunset looks good on you. -- Karen Marie Moning
Sometimes you plug the hole any way you can, and worry about fixing the boat later. If the choices are sinking today or tomorrow, I'll take tomorrow. -- Karen Marie Moning
Keeping vigil over her are two monsters of very different breeds but monster just the same.
Death on her left.
Devil on her right. -- Karen Marie Moning
And the lass?" Drustan asked carefully. Dageus's smile was icy. "She goes where I go." "Dageus - " "Say no more. If she doesn't go, I doona go." "I would protect her for you." "She goes where I go." "And if she doesn't wish to?" "She will. -- Karen Marie Moning
You son of a bitch. You hurt my woman, Dageus growled, -- Karen Marie Moning
She had a hard time making herself let go and they waged a short, silent, silly little battle that he won, which she reluctantly conceded was probably only fair since it was part of his body. -- Karen Marie Moning
He was sexual in a way that made women think of deeply repressed fantasies therapists and feminists alike would cringe to hear tell of. -- Karen Marie Moning
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. -- Karen Marie Moning
Naught will be done to you that you doona wish done. Dageus MacKeltar -- Karen Marie Moning
His eyes flared dangerously. Did the lass think to share such intimacies with him and then rescind them? Och, nay, Dageus MacKeltar didn't go backward. She would find that out soon enough. -- Karen Marie Moning
That's why I'm still a virgin, because it means something to me and I'm not going to toss my virginity at your charming feet just because you're the most gorgeous, fascinating man I've ever met and I happen to like your last name. -- Karen Marie Moning
You can have the confounded shield if you love it that much, lass," Dageus said, sounding utterly bewildered. -- Karen Marie Moning
When Drustan reached the bottom step, she flung herself into his arms.
He swung her up into his embrace and kissed her hungrily. By the time he'd finished, she was gasping for air and laughing.
"My turn?" Dageus teased. -- Karen Marie Moning
As he closed the door he said over his shoulder, "Because you're a good lass." A heavy sigh. "And I'm no' a good man. -- Karen Marie Moning
I doona think Dageus will be teaching you a blethering thing," he said in a dangerous voice, and that time his lips did brush her ear. "And I bid you keep your lips off my brother, lest I confine you to your chambers. -- Karen Marie Moning
She glanced rapidly between them, blinking and hoping her double vision would go away. They were glaring at each other. Would they fight? If she saw her own double she probably be tempted to punch it once or twice. Especially today. For being so stupid. -- Karen Marie Moning
His smile was chillingly predatory, carnal and possessive. Do you really think I brought you this far to be letting you go, Chloe-lass? -- Karen Marie Moning
You can go fuck yourself, you great big domineering Neanderthal. Wake-up call: Guess what? We're not in the Stone Age anymore." "As I pointed out earlier, a physical impossibility. And I ken full well what epoch it is. Come here, Jessica St. James. Now. -- Karen Marie Moning
What is trust, sidhe-seer, but expectation that another will behave in a certain fashion, consistent with prior actions? -- Karen Marie Moning
You'd do a Highland husband proud, lass," he whispered. -- Karen Marie Moning
See things for what they are. Drop your blinders and raise the sewer to eye level. Admit that your swimming in shit. If you don't acknowledge the turd heading down the drain towards you; you can't dodge it. -- Karen Marie Moning
There are no coincidences in this world ... You must see with the eagle's eye. You must detach, lift above a conundrum, and map the terrain of it. Everything happens for a reason, if you can but discern the pattern. -- Karen Marie Moning
He had a way of making a woman feel, with a mere glance, as if she were the most desirable woman in the world. How was a woman to stare into the face of such lust, and not feel lust in response? -- Karen Marie Moning
She will never know that tonight, she was mine. -- Karen Marie Moning
I can either give in to fear and give up - or refuse to let it touch me and go on. -- Karen Marie Moning
Strong enough that I was no longer afraid to be gentle. Powerful enough that I could be vulnerable. Scarred enough that I could understand and -- Karen Marie Moning
Barrons had just given me the most carnal, sexually charged hungry look I'd ever seen in my life, and I was pretty sure he didn't even know he had done it. -- Karen Marie Moning
Haud yer wheesht, woman." "Hold my what?" "It means 'hush,' Jessica. Just hush. Would it kill you to hush? -- Karen Marie Moning
But then we so rarely understand the value of what we possess until it's gone. -- Karen Marie Moning
I never thought there might be one like you out there. Unaware, untrained.
Unbelievable. You have no idea what you are, do you?"
"Crazy? -- Karen Marie Moning
I'd also secreted a few crosses and bottles of holy water in various nooks. Barrons would laugh at me if he knew. You might wonder if I'm expecting an army from Hell. I am. -- Karen Marie Moning
I've tried to move [the sidhe-seers] during times of peace and quiet and had the luck of a broken mirror nailed beneath an upside-down horseshoe with a ladder nearby that a black cat just walked under. -- Karen Marie Moning
Woman, you are a thousand kinds of fool. -- Karen Marie Moning
The power of thought is far greater than most people ever realize. -- Karen Marie Moning
The point is the three of you are dysfunctional, volatile, inefficient, and in my way. -- Karen Marie Moning
How dare the embodiment of her worst nightmare come packaged as her hottest fantasy? -- Karen Marie Moning
Damn it's good to be me Adam Black on being Adam Black. -- Karen Marie Moning
Hunger for me, ka-lyrra, he thought silently, get addicted to me. I will be both venom and antidote, your poison and your only cure. -- Karen Marie Moning
He had a come-and-get-me-baby-I'm-pure-trouble-and-you're-gonna-love-it kind of attitude. -- Karen Marie Moning
There should be a vaccine against Adam Black. And all women should be given it at birth. -- Karen Marie Moning
Now it's not just my lip you'll be needing to kiss if you're wishing to make amends with me, Irish. -- Karen Marie Moning
You're not falling for me, are you, Irish?
-Adam to Gabrielle -- Karen Marie Moning
Her shoes squished with the movement and, as she peered uncomprehendingly down at them, a tadpole emerged from the leg of her jeans and flopped about on the ground.
"Eew!" She pointed a shaking finger at it. "A tadpole. I had a tadpole in my pants!"
"Lucky tadpole," he murmured. -- Karen Marie Moning
Abruptly, she knew that after this night she was never going to be the same again. Nothing was ever going to be the same. Oh, yes, the man could define himself as the dawning of an epoch if he wanted to. There was, quite simply, before Adam and after Adam. -- Karen Marie Moning
It had taunted, provoked, brushed its big, hard body against hers at every opportunity, and in general lounged about looking like the epically horny fairy it was reputed to be.
~Gabby's thoughts on Adam -- Karen Marie Moning
I think sex with him might undo my essential cellular cohesion. -- Karen Marie Moning
He raised a brow. 'Petunia, Ms. Lane?'
I scowled. Ass, Barrons. -- Karen Marie Moning
Tap the Skull and Crossbones app. -- Karen Marie Moning
Revenge is a dish best served cold. I never used to understand that saying, but I think I finally get it. -- Karen Marie Moning
After an eternity of grief and regret, he held the only thing he'd ever wanted as much as he wanted to be God. A second chance. -- Karen Marie Moning
Beautiful Girl, wake the fuck up, can't eviscerate essential self. -- Karen Marie Moning
If you've read any comics, you know superheroes have a critical vulnerability: the society they protect. -- Karen Marie Moning
You will hold me and we will live. Dance. Fuck. Feast. It will be grand. We will K'Vruck the world."
"I'm not holding you. Ever."
"You were made for me.
I for you.
Two for tea and t-t-tea for two. -- Karen Marie Moning
The walls between Man and Faery are coming down. -- Karen Marie Moning
We stand strong, or we cower. We emerge victorious, tempered by our , or fractured by a permanent, damming fault line. -- Karen Marie Moning
my hair was a mass of tangled curls just like the old days, minus -- Karen Marie Moning
I figure the folks that are the most interesting get to go to heaven. I mean, if I was God, that's who I'd want there with me ... I'd rather be a superhero in hell than an angel in heaven. What the feck would I do all day if I wasn't kicking demon ass? -- Karen Marie Moning
I'd rather be a superhero in hell, kicking all kinds of demon ass, than an angel in heaven, wafting around with a beatific smile on my face, playing a pansy harp all day. Dude, give me drums and bang cymbals! I like the crash and bang. -- Karen Marie Moning
The wound you refuse to dress is one that will never heal. You gush lifeblood and never even know why. It will make you weak at a critical moment when you need to be strong. -- Karen Marie Moning
She is a fool in too many ways to number: in affairs of infidelity, if a man strays, it is not the fault of the woman with whom he lays. A worthy heart eschews temptation, despite the magnitude. Clearly my heart is not worthy. -- Karen Marie Moning
Names are illusions," he growled. "Nonsensical labels seized upon by people to make them feel better about the intangibility of their puny existences. I am this. I am that," he mocked. "I came from so and so. Ergo I am ... whatever the blah-blah you want to claim. Bloody hell, spare me. -- Karen Marie Moning
These are my rapists, the ones that turned me inside out, ripped my mind from my body and shredded it. They are also, unfortunately, hot as hell. -- Karen Marie Moning
Ignoring it makes it irrelevant. No man wants his nudity to be irrelevant. -- Karen Marie Moning
If I entered a tropical beach, would I end up in Nazi Germany with my highly inconvenient black hair? -- Karen Marie Moning
Nuns? They'd take one look at Barrons and decide the devil himself had come knockng. He not only looked dangerous, he emanated something that made even me feel like crossing myself sometimes, and I'm not religious. -- Karen Marie Moning
When a man first awakens, it sometimes takes several moments before he starts thinking clearly."
"And here I thought it took several years, perhaps a lifetime for the average man's intellect to kick in. -- Karen Marie Moning
All my sins were trapped between its covers. And the damn thing just wouldn't go away. I'd tried to escape culpability, and my culpability had had the nerve to take on a life of its own and hunt me. -- Karen Marie Moning
If you'd just fight like you fuck, you'd've walked out of this room the day I carried you in. -- Karen Marie Moning
I'd learned a thing or two. Hope strengthens. Fear kills. -- Karen Marie Moning
And, although you think the memory of the battle won will be a pleasure - if it is a pleasure, you've lost the war. -- Karen Marie Moning
Fire to my ice. Ice to my fever. -- Karen Marie Moning
No man wants to sleep with a woman. He wants to fuck her. And nobody forces me to do shit. -- Karen Marie Moning
She straddles me, ass to my face, reverse cowgirl, tangled hair swinging. And son of a bitch, the woman can ride. -- Karen Marie Moning
When Barrons looks at me like that, it rattles me. Lust, in those ancient, obsidian eyes, offers no trace of humanity. Doesn't even bother trying. Savage Mac wants to invite it to come out and play. I think she's nuts. Nuts, I tell you. -- Karen Marie Moning
Surrounded by alpha males that know more magic than all the teachers at Hogwarts, I'm about to ask who's going to do what to get us through the gate, when it becomes a moot point. -- Karen Marie Moning
Assume' makes an 'ass' out of 'u' and 'me'. -- Karen Marie Moning
Her absence in my life was so painful that it was a presence. -- Karen Marie Moning
What are you Barrons?"
"The one who will never let you die, and that's more, Ms Lane, than anyone in your life has been able to say to you. More than anyone else can do -- Karen Marie Moning
But when you fight evil every day, stare it in the face, engage it, learn to think like it, you face a choice:Be defeated by the limits of your own morality, or summon a beast in yourself that obeys none. -- Karen Marie Moning
I didn't hear him behind me. I felt him. Electric. Wild. One foot in the swamp. Never going to crawl all the way out.
And I wanted to have sex with whatever he was. Where was I supposed to put that in my head? -- Karen Marie Moning
You are what you are. Find a way to live with it. -- Karen Marie Moning
A lamb in a city of wolves. -- Karen Marie Moning
I don't 'boink' anyone. I fuck, -- Karen Marie Moning
That sounds as if you're telling me you plan to keep me, lass. His eyes narrowed and he went very still. -- Karen Marie Moning
He wasn't handsome. That was too calm a word. He was intensely masculine. He was sexual. He attracted. -- Karen Marie Moning
I have enormous respect for our military men and women, the everyday heroes who provide the security the rest of us enjoy. I don't like them in front of that door. -- Karen Marie Moning
Holy water at my wrists and behind my ears; my version of Eau de Don'tbiteme -- Karen Marie Moning
Kid, you just never give up." "I'm like, alive. How could I? -- Karen Marie Moning
Have you no sense at all, that you would provoke me? I'm twice your size, you know, he murmured against her ear. -- Karen Marie Moning
He can deal with not being able to control you as long as you let the world believe he does. He's king here, honey. Kings can't be challenged publicly. -- Karen Marie Moning
Regret is poison that kills the soul. -- Karen Marie Moning
One thing I do know is things can always get worse, most often at the precise moment you've decided they can't. -- Karen Marie Moning
PROS: things that make it look like I could be
...
5. K'Vruck poked at me mentally, then said, "Ah, there you are." (WTF????) -- Karen Marie Moning
You make on the Womankind's greatest mistakes: falling in love with a man's potential -- Karen Marie Moning
Who would ever understand me? -- Karen Marie Moning
Loyalty stems from what you feel. Or don't. -- Karen Marie Moning
You weep for me, woman? -- Karen Marie Moning
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. -- Karen Marie Moning
He's trying not to laugh. I tell him I would have doomed mankind for him, and he's trying not to laugh. -- Karen Marie Moning
Basque and Celt. Criminals and barbarians. I didn't think there could be a more primitive pairing of genes. -- Karen Marie Moning
Like sheep, sidhe-seers herd by nature, until you *want* them to go somewhere. Then they're all fluffy bottoms and broken. -- Karen Marie Moning
There will be no takin' this back, lass. Doona even think to be tellin' me later that you willna hae me. You will hae me. -- Karen Marie Moning
I will confront the wasp in our nest come morning. -- Karen Marie Moning
I figure if there is a God, he or she isn't paying attention to what we build or if we follow some elaborate rules, but copping a ride on our shoulders, watching what we do ever day. Seeing if we took this great big adventure called life and did something interesting with it. -- Karen Marie Moning
Punch me." "Don't be absurd." "Come on, punch me, Barrons." "I'm not punching you." "I said, punch
OW!" He decked me. -- Karen Marie Moning
If he'd been any other man and i'd been any other girl, I'd have called the narrowing of his heavy-lidded dark eyes lust. But he was Barrons and I was Mac, and a blossoming of lust was about as likely as orchids blooming in Antarctica -- Karen Marie Moning
You're off your fucking rocker!" "You have no idea. I don't have a rocker anymore. I don't even have a fucking porch to put it on. And there certainly aren't slow paddling fans or magnolia trees blossoming above aforementioned missing chair. -- Karen Marie Moning
Christian : You two gonna stand there fucking each other with your eyes all night, or can we get on with it ? -- Karen Marie Moning
Barrons breaks heads. Ryodan turns them inside out. Barrons fucks you up. Ryodan makes you fuck yourself up. He pushes buttons and rearranges things according to his own private, coolly sociopathic plan. -- Karen Marie Moning
I want us to be ... what is your word? Friends."
"Psychotic rapists don't have friends."
"I was unaware you were a psychotic rapists or I would not have offered."
(Mac & V'lane) -- Karen Marie Moning
Alone, my arse, he thought. I'll walk in alone, while my men sneak up behind them and destroy every last one of the bastards who took my woman. -- Karen Marie Moning
I never avoid battle. Tuck tail and run isn't in my blood. Problem is, I only know two ways to fight: kill clean or kill messy - both of which involve killing unless I'm up against that feck Ryodan who can pluck me from hyperspeed and kick my ass ten ways to Tuesday. -- Karen Marie Moning
I stood staring at myself in the mirror trying to reconcile dual images. I was hunting the monster that had killed my sister. I was the monster that had killed his brother. -- Karen Marie Moning
When anything is possible, how do you choose? -- Karen Marie Moning
There are some lines you just can't let another person cross. They don't always make sense, they might not always seem like the most important things, but only you can know what they are, and when you butt up against one, you have to defend it. -- Karen Marie Moning
There are three floors beneath the garage? Why on earth?
-Mac -- Karen Marie Moning
My heart makes the decision without me and tries to get to her the fastest way possible. -- Karen Marie Moning
He was trying to pave his way to heaven by plastering over his sins with the putty of religious zeal. -- Karen Marie Moning
It's all black and white to you, isn't it?" "Gray is but another word for light black. Gray is never white. Only white is white. There are no shades of it. -- Karen Marie Moning
Stay the fuck out of my head!"
Fuck. There's a word I understand.
"Yes, please. -- Karen Marie Moning
A dutiful soldier, I retreated to the ditches as ordered and hunkered down there. In those ditches, I had an epiphany. People treat you as badly as you let them treat you. -- Karen Marie Moning
I know that when he has sex he laughs like the world is a perfect place. 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. -- Karen Marie Moning
Time will scar my wound and I'll emerge from my fugue tougher, if not healed. -- Karen Marie Moning
When did having a life become an event you had to schedule? -- Karen Marie Moning
He doesn't get that I'm not interested in a superhero boyfriend. I'm going to be the superhero that can kick his ass from one end of Dublin to the other. -- Karen Marie Moning
Either I can stay up here and freeze my ladycrackers off trying to find a falling star, or you can do something about it yourself. I - and my freezing nether regions - would thank you most assuredly. As would all of Dalkeith. Do something, man. - Grimm -- Karen Marie Moning
We will K'Vruck the world. -- Karen Marie Moning
Pessimists are only pessimists when they're wrong. When we're right, the world calls us prophets. -- Karen Marie Moning
In my experience, anybody besides your mom that feeds you is going to want something in exchange for it. -- Karen Marie Moning
Temper, temper, wee English. 'Tis truly most becoming to you. -- Karen Marie Moning
Just one time....When you know who I am. Let me be your man." ~ JZB -- Karen Marie Moning