Quotes from Karen Marie Moning

Don't hurt yourself, honey. It's just a wish," I teased. But she wished like she did everything else: one hundred fifty percent. She stood there so long I was beginning to suspect she had a little bit of an attorney in her and was adding codicils and caveats. Then her eyes popped open and she flashed me that cocky grin. She nearly blew the icing off the cake.

I munch candy bar after candy bar as I move deeper into the nutty place.

Don't make it war, he said, and I won't. I don't have to. He already did.

Death is not seductive. It does not come silk-clad and sweet-smelling as I did for my chosen. It is lonely and cold and merciless. It takes everything from you, before it finally takes you.

pretty girl. "Then you understand vengeance," he said softly.

Aye, lass, now you're truly mine," he said fiercely. "Forever.

That the deadly bottom-feeders of the dark Fae give Jericho Barrons a wide berth perturbs me immensely but I'd promise to never ask him another question about it again, if only he'd cut a swath through them right now and save me. I shouted his name until my throat hurt, but no knight-errant rushed to my rescue.

They hold a secret smile and a certain amused resignation. As if he has watched humanity's idiocies play out in front of him so many times that they have begun to Ã¢â'¬Â¦ not pain but perhaps perturb him. As if he wearies of watching the rats in the maze run into the same walls over and over.

It's not easy to remember what you are every single bloody fucking second.

Drop your blinders and raise the sewer to eye level; admit you're swimming in shit. If you don't acknowledge the turd hurtling down the drain toward you, you can't dodge it. I've come to get out of the toilet bowl and become the commode that flushes the shit.

Barrons is arrogant and cold. He's also wealthy, strong, brilliant, and a walking enigma. Most women seem to find him drop-dead sexy, too.

I can't not misstep. I have feet.

Letting go of what was, to survive what is.

in the Deep South, women learn at a young age that when the world is falling apart around you, it's time to take down the drapes and make a new dress.

Don't believe anything dead until you've burned it, poked around in its ashes, and then waited a day or two to see if anything rises from them.

I've found my calling, and it isn't being a sidhe-seer. It's running a bookstore, especially one that carries the best fashion magazines, pretty pens, stationery, and journals, and has such an upscale, elegant atmosphere. It embodies all the things I always wanted to be myself: smart, classy, polished, tasteful.

Burns from dropped matches, Ms. Lane? Matches one might have dropped while flirting with a pernicious Fae, Ms. Lane? Have you any idea the value of this rug?

You think you betrayed me and one day I will kill you for it. I'm not sure why I even bother talking. My eyes flashed with temper. I hated being transparent. That you allied with Darroc to attain your goals did not betray me. I'd have done the same. Then why are you so pissy? That you fucked him will be forgiven once you fuck me. Another woman might run headlong toward absolution.

You're Mac, he says. And I'm Jericho. And nothing else matters. Never will. You exist in a place that is beyond all rules for me. Do you understand that?

Heavy stuff, I know. I think I've finally graduated from the don't-knows that don't know to the don't-knows that do. Barrons had security cameras in the garage. He'd just given me a tape of myself breaking into it.

It's not much fun always being the best and fastest. A little competition keeps you on your toes, makes you try harder, live larger.

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.

They can't die! Superheroes don't die!

Too much falsely inflates. Too little underprepares.