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Quotes About Determination

For the record, Irish," he informed her tightly, just in case she got the wrong idea, "I kneel to no one.
~ Karen Marie Moning
But we have to— No we don't. But we can't— Yes we can. But she doesn't— She'll figure it out. But it's— Not your fault and not your problem. But I'm the one— Bloody hell, Ms. Lane, how many "buts" are you going to throw at me besides the only one I want?
~ Karen Marie Moning
Hope strengthens. Fear kills. It's how you go on that defines you
~ Karen Marie Moning
Failure is always new information, and those who are willing to suffer it repeatedly make it a stepping-stone to success.
~ Karen Marie Moning
We fuck up. Over and over. And we get back up and try to do better. That's all any of us do.
~ Karen Marie Moning
Think you two puny Druids can hold this keep for a single night?
~ Karen Marie Moning
There was no lifeboat here in these deep, killing waters, not even a lighthouse, marking the way back to shore with its soft amber promise. There was only the storm of Barrons and the one I seemed to be, and if there were dark shapes moving in the waters beneath my feet that I should probably take a good hard look at and possibly reconsider trying to swim here, I didn't care.
~ Karen Marie Moning
All I need is a badly mangled, irate sentence stalking me.
~ Karen Marie Moning
At the very last moment, just before its lips claimed hers, its grip on her face relaxed slightly and she did the only thing she could think of: She head-butted it. Snapped her head back, then forward again, and bashed it square in the face as hard as she could. So hard, in fact, that it made her woozy and gave her an instant migraine, making her wonder how Jean-Claude Van Damme always managed to coolly continue fighting after such a stunt. Obviously, movies lied.
~ Karen Marie Moning
I can either be a victim—or a winner. Fuck victimhood. I don't wear it well; it clashes with my wardrobe. I'm ready. Only one of us is getting out alive. It's going to be me.
~ Karen Marie Moning
In that you're wrong. I choose, I adhere, I pursue, I commit, I attain. That - that, my errant friend - is an absolute." - Hawk
~ Karen Marie Moning
It's not the hand you're dealt that matters. It's how you play the cards.
~ Karen Marie Moning
Either I can stay up here and freeze my ladycrackers off trying to find a falling star, or you can do something about it yourself. I— and my freezing nether regions— would thank you most assuredly. As would all of Dalkeith. Do something, man." - Grimm
~ Karen Marie Moning
It's our actions that define us. What we choose. What we resist. What we're willing to die for.
~ Karen Marie Moning
I'll give you until nine P.M. tomorrow to get the bloody hell out of this country and out of my way. The nerve. I'd had to bite my tongue on the juvenile impulse to snap, Or what?—you're not the boss of me, second only to an even more juvenile impulse to call my mom and wail, Nobody likes me here and I don't even know why!
~ Karen Marie Moning
O ye of little faith. Why would you run? Do you still believe there's any incarnation of you I wouldn't want? Wouldn't go after determined to share a life with, to the end of space and time itself?
~ Karen Marie Moning
You don't get to make my decisions for me. It's my life and only I know what I need and what I'm willing to go through. I don't want to live without you. I felt that once. I never want to feel it again." I'd been lost, purposeless, denied Heaven. It was as if his frequency and my frequency made such an exquisite song together that without it I wasn't alive.
~ Karen Marie Moning
When one sifts place, ka-lyrra, one comes out on top of whatever currently occupies that space. Which isn't much of a problem if one also has all one's powers. But I don't. We hit a lake somewhere around the ninety-seventh hop. And, contrary to popular belief, I don't walk on water." ~Adam to Gabby
~ Karen Marie Moning
I'll give you until nine P.M. tomorrow to get the bloody hell out of this country and out of my way. The nerve. I'd had to bite my tongue on the juvenile impulse to snap, Or what? -you're not the boss of me, second only to an even more juvenile impulse to call my mom and wail, Nobody likes me here and I don't even know why!
~ Karen Marie Moning
If I were a character in a novel, I'd snipe the bitch who wrote my life this way.
~ Karen Marie Moning
You are so stubborn." "I am? I? Woman who insists everything be her way? You must wear hard white shoes. You must remove your weapons. You must travel in a car. You must not kiss me even though I wrap my legs around you when you do. Must must must. I weary of that word.
~ Karen Marie Moning
Her brain has more muscles than her body, and less sense. Her passion for life pushes her limbs further than they were meant to go. She's going to burn herself to ash if she doesn't find someone or something that takes her all the way down to ground zero and recharges her.
~ Karen Marie Moning
Wrong on that score. And efficiency is no guarantee of survival. Nor is intellect. What it takes to be the last one standing is an unquenchable hunger to live. He who wants it the most wins. It takes fire, willingness to burn down to your motherfucking core.
~ Karen Marie Moning
If you don't do things with all your might, you may end up being harmed by those things you try halfway.
~ Karen Marie Moning