Quotes from Karen Marie Moning

Nobody looks good in their darkest hour. But it's those hours that make us what we are. We stand strong, or we cower. We emerge victorious, tempered by our trials, or fractured by a permanent, damning fault line.

Chiseled a single commandment upon a slab of stone: That is how to live: in the choosing. There are no rules but those you make for yourself.

It's a strange new world out there and the rules have changed: It's every princess for herself.

Most of the time I can handle the mess I call my life, but in the butt-crack of the night even I get a little depressed

I am stretched on your grave and will lie there forever…

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.

Shadows are wonderful things. They hide pain and conceal motives.

God does not step in and adjust minute details on a whim.

There is no freedom for me here.

What kind of idiot breaks all his bones at the precise moment his damsel needs him the most?

Grief still kicked me awake in the morning, kept me company all day, and crawled into bed with me at night.

Life is an iceberg and I've only been seeing the tip.

Me under her, behind her. Driving up into her. What will she do? Say? How does she sound when she comes?

My heart makes the decision without me and tries to get to her the fastest way possible.

springs from dark, blood magic, the most potent kind.

Earth is ours. I'm not letting them have it. I'm not letting them destroy it. Not on my watch.

It was currently playing an old Louis Armstrong song—"What a Wonderful World." Born in a generation that thinks cynical and disenchanted is cool, sometimes I'm a little off the beaten track. Oh well.

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.

I like threatening, handling, and conquering and excel at it.

Nulla di strano in questo: lui è freddo e arrogante. Ma anche ricco, forte, brillante nonché un enigma ambulante. La maggior parte delle donne sembra trovarlo anche sexy da morire. Grazie al cielo, io non la penso come loro. Io non amo il pericolo. Preferisco un uomo dotato di una forte fibra morale. E alla fibra Barrons si avvicina solo quando va dal droghiere a comprare i cereali.

Life rocks. It's better than Woodstock.

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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.

I speak belligerence in every language known to man.