Quotes from Karen Marie Moning

I've been in your skin," he taunted. "I know you inside and out. There's nothing there. Do us all a favor and die so we can start working on another plan and quit thinking maybe you'll grow the fuck up and be capable of something.

But if there's one thing I've learned in life it's this: assume makes an ass out of 'u' and 'me

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.

Life isn't always fair, lass, but that doesn't mean it can't still be sweet."- Dageus

He'd told me once that fear was more than a wasted emotion, it was the ultimate set of blinders; that if I couldn't face the truth of my reality, I could never control it, and would be subject to the wishes of anyone whose will was stronger than mine. He knew too well, from battling his own inner monster, what I've come to fathom only here and now. The most critical, defining battles we wage in life, we wage alone. Against ourselves.

people were just out of control! . . . They've all got cell phones stuck to their ears and yet I've never seen such distance between people trying so hard to be close.

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

He kissed like no man she'd ever known. There was something about him, a rawness, an earthy sensuality that bordered on barbaric, something she'd never be able to explain to someone else. A woman had to be kissed by Dageus MacKeltar to fully understand how devastating it was. How it could bring a woman to her knees.

I'm here. You're safe now. It's okay to remember. They can never hurt you again.

Ryodan says softly, "Holy strawberries, Dani, we're in a jam.

Did you really think there was any version of me you could create, in any reality, in any universe that would not—first, foremost, and forever—be loyal to MacKayla Lane?

I mock everything. Don't take it so personally." Adam Black

Why should I let you take it?" "Because you owe me." "Why do I owe you?" "Because I put up with you.

Love doesn't build cages. It builds stairways to the stars.

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.

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.

My trews may be soft, lass, he thoughts, but what's in them isn't.

I was a twenty-two-year-old single white female alone in a strange country where my sister had been killed.

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.

Damn it's good to be me" Adam Black on being Adam Black.

He goes for stark versus accessorized, dark over bright, jewel tone instead of pastel, carnal over flirty.

When did having a life become an event you had to schedule?

You're Mac, and I'm Jericho. And nothing else matters.

I am a kite in a tornado but I have a long string. There is tension in my line. Somewhere, someone is holding onto the other end and, although it cannot spare me this storm, it will not let me be lost while I regain my strength. It is enough.