Quotes from Karen Marie Moning

He's assuming. And as the man once told me himself: assume makes an ass out of u and me.

Life took the strongest root with a little bit of rain and a whole lot of shit for fertilizer.

He loved. He could lose.

Then why? Why would you do something that you know is going to end up bad? Why would anyone ever do something they know is going to hurt them?

Hope is a critical thing. Without it, we are nothing. Hope shapes the will. The will shapes the world. I

What good is it to be a superhero if you only are some of the time and you never get to know when?

heart had reasons of which reason knew nothing, the only quote of Pascal's

This moment is perfect. And it's all we ever have. This moment, right now. We're fools if we fail to cram all the living and loving we can possibly do into each and every one.

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

Failing my soul mate to anchor me, I risk nothing.

This is not a world I ever wanted to know.

You're no joy to live with, I can tell you that!" "I smile sometimes. I even laughed about your Ã¢â'¬Â¦ hat.

Funny thing to me is how their conscious and subconscious seem to be so split, like they aren't talking to each other at all. Like competing feelings can't possibly coexist inside you.

Ah, my long-lost shallow life.

I just go with it, focus on whichever feeling I have most often and try to keep my mouth shut when it's the other. But most folks got Id and Ego living on different floors in their head's house, in different rooms, and they've locked all the doors between them, and nailed sheets of plywood over that, because they think they're, like, sworn enemies that can't hang together.

Some things the gut distills to their essence no matter how hard you try to factor in compassion and mercy and understanding. One of them killed the other. And there is violence in my heart.

He is War. Divisiveness. Brutality. Heinous crimes against humanity. As an event on the battlefield, and the personification of it in a cage, he is all that and more. How many humans fell before the murderous hooves of this sly horseman of the apocalypse? Nearly half the world's population, by last count.

They die like superheroes: cracking a joke. Like they're just going to get up tomorrow and fight another day. No fear. Balls to the wall until the bloody end.

You don't see the forest for the trees.

I can't scrape that memory off the inside of my skull fast enough!

Sympathy isn't quite as bad. Sympathy says, I know how it feels, doesn't it just suck? Pity means they think you're defeated

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.

Just die. It'll end everyone's misery, including your own.

My tears were involuntary. My soul was leaking.