Quotes from 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

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.

Did he think I would beg him to stay? Never. People had to want to stay, choose to be with you, or it meant nothing.

The legendary Tuatha De Danaan had come! And what did the grand Keltar laird do? Fainted like a willy-nilly peahen.

You would deceive me for a single kiss." "I would raze worlds for a single kiss." "Try saving one, for far more than that.

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

What's the surest way to be victimized? Believe yourself a victim. To win? Believe yourself a champion.

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.

I know why I'm obsessed with her. She's the innocence I've lost. As I was going dark, she was getting nothing but brighter.

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.

When one begins at the bottom, ascendance is a given.

I stepped inside and stopped, blinking in astonishment. From the exterior I'd expected a charming little book and curio shop with the inner dimensions of a university Starbucks. What I got was a cavernous interior that housed a display of books that made the library Disney's Beast gave to Beauty on their wedding day look understocked.

God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference today.

The things I could teach her Ã¢â'¬Â¦ if she could survive them.

Time will scar my wound and I'll emerge from my fugue tougher, if not healed.

Humor is a girl's best friend. The world's a funny place.

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!

You don't grieve love; you celebrate that you had it.

Tonight, the sea was a shiver of dark glass, harboring secrets untold in her depths while on her tranquil surface stars glittered like diamonds.

The point is the three of you are dysfunctional, volatile, inefficient, and in my way.

What happens when a sheepdog gets bit by a wolf?" "Duh. It becomes a wolf." "No. It becomes a sheepdog that fights with the lawlessness and savagery of a wolf.

I couldn't decide what had been more disturbing—my bizarre hallucination or the hostile crone.

sorry was worthless. It changed nothing. Merely coerced the victim to offer forgiveness for what you shouldn't have done to begin with.

Stunned, she looked down. Up. Down. Up again. Slowly. "Take your time, lass," he murmured, so softly she scarcely heard him. His next comment was deliberately beyond her audible range, a silky "I plan to with you.