Quotes from Karen Marie Moning

You know I'm no' a good man," he said, his voice deceptively gentle, belying the steel beneath it. "I've made no excuses. I've given you no pretty lies. You came with me anyway. Doona pretend you doona know what I want and doona think to deny me. Twice now you've tried to go back. There is no going back with me, Chloe-lass.

I had no idea how it knew, but it knew I knew, and I knew it, and there was no point in faking.

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.

I'm envious of how well he's engineered to survive, to conquer, to outlast apocalypse.

You can fall in love again; most people do—but you can never replace a sister.

Forever trusting who we are and nothing else matters

he looked like the kind of creep that would line her up in the sights of an assassin's rifle without a shred of emotion.

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.

I'm all about personal satisfaction, I'm beginning to see a pattern: jumping on the short-term-gratification train always seems to wreck me off the rails somehow.

I wept for me, for my sister, for things I couldn't even begin to put into words, and might never be able to explain. But it felt something like this: I used to walk on my feet. Now all I knew how to do was crawl. And I wasn't sure how long it was going to take for me to get up off my knees and regain my balance, but I suspected that when I did, I would never walk the same way again.

Death's an insult.

Then you shouldn't be boinking him!" "It's my own business who I boink

I must have stood there for five minutes trying to talk myself into opening it. The unknown is a vast paralyzing limbo. I'd like to tell you that the monster under the bed is rarely as bad as your fear of it, but in my experience it's almost always worse.

I like that about you. Waves are banal. Tsunamis reshape the Earth. Under the right circumstances, even entire civilizations.

See that blonde down there with the big tits? I was about to get laid." "One, I'm too young to hear that kind of stuff, and two, I don't see you carrying a club to knock her over the head with, so how were you going to accomplish that?

Mom raised me better, I want that noted for posterity's sake: Rainey Lane is a fine, upstanding woman.

I won't hurt you," he said, his voice low and urgent.

Hey," she snapped. "I sought but to give you a good morrow kiss, lass. 'Tis a Scots custom." She craned her neck, scowling up at him, and gave him a look that said Yeah, right, nice try. "A wee one. No tongue. I promise," he said, his lips curving faintly. "You never give up, do you?" "I never will, sweet. Doona you know that by now?

Mythological race? Dark King? Magic? Was this all some kind of joke?

He swapped the fistful of my shirt for one in my hair, and ground his mouth against mine.

Temper, temper, wee English. 'Tis truly most becoming to you.

My sun, moon and stars.

known," Dani said miserably. "She hangs here. Likes Chester's. I been hunting her. Guess she knew it. Ow!" She touched her mouth. Her lips were cracked, oozing. It looked as if her teeth were about to start falling out. Tears stung my eyes. I slammed my palms into the frozen Gray Woman.

Because you're a good lass." A heavy sigh. "And I'm no' a good man.