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Quotes About Transformation

Fire isn't good or bad. It just burns.
~ Karen Marie Moning
When he kisses me again, the last part of me that could stand myself dies.
~ Karen Marie Moning
Just one time before I turn into the villain of this piece, just one time before I become the fourth and final Unseelie prince, I want to be her Highlander. And her hero.
~ Karen Marie Moning
We will K'Vruck the world.
~ Karen Marie Moning
Those who were so long imprisoned in ice and darkness seem to find the sunlight jarring, painful. The longer I walk around with this grief inside me, the more I understand that. It's as if sunshine is a slap in the face that says, Look, the world's all bright and shiny! Too bad you're not.
~ Karen Marie Moning
Yesterday is skin on snake, to be shed many times.
~ Karen Marie Moning
I can't help but see myself in them. The Seelie are who I was before my sister died. Pink, pretty, frivolous Mac. The Unseelie are who I've become, carved by loss and despair. Black, grungy, driven Mac.
~ Karen Marie Moning
All the sudden Ryodan's standing one inch away from me, hand under my chin, holding my face up to his. "You'll never be just anything. A tsunami can never be 'just' a wave." "Get off my chin." "I like that about you. Waves are banal. Tsunamis reshape the Earth. Under the right circumstances, even entire civilizations." I blink. "You're going to be one hell of a woman one day, Dani.
~ Karen Marie Moning
Some of us are born more than once. Some of us recreate ourselves many times. Ryodan says adaptability is survivability. Ryodan says a lot of stuff. Sometimes I listen, All I know is, every time I open my eyes, my brian kicks on. Something wakes up deep in my belly, and I know I'll do anything it takes... To. Just. Keep. Breathing.
~ Karen Marie Moning
I want to be Jericho Barrons when I grow up.
~ Karen Marie Moning
A woman who's lived in a cage all her life. And hates it. Bored in there, aren't you. Waiting for life to happen. And when it finally does, it steals from you what you loved most. So take back. Explode. Lash out. Blow up
~ Karen Marie Moning
You'll never be just anything. A tsunami can never be just a wave (...) Waves are banal. Tsunamis reshape the Earth
~ Karen Marie Moning
He's disturbingly sexual to men and women alike in a way that sets your teeth on edge. With Barrons you aren't sure if you're going to get fucked or turned inside out and left a new unrecognizable person adrift with no moorings on a see with no bottom and no rules.
~ Karen Marie Moning
In order to make something, Ms. Lane, you must first unmake what is in the process. Should you begin with nothing, even nothing is unmade when it is replaced with something.
~ Karen Marie Moning
She's too young. Too innocent. Too human. For what I'm becoming.
~ Karen Marie Moning
I love re-creating myself. Change means you get to choose again. Become something new. -Dani
~ Karen Marie Moning
Please tell me we don't grow up and turn into the adults that drive us crazy.
~ Karen Marie Moning
Abruptly, she knew that after this night she was never going to be the same again. Nothing was ever going to be the same. Oh, yes, the man could define himself as the dawning of an epoch if he wanted to. There was, quite simply, before Adam and after Adam.
~ Karen Marie Moning
Barrons fucks you up. Ryodan makes you fuck yourself up.
~ Karen Marie Moning
I know why I'm obsessed with her. She's the innocence I've lost. As I was going dark, she was getting nothing but brighter.
~ Karen Marie Moning
I didn't have time to change." "Then you'll make it now. I'm not working on you with that much death on your skin.
~ Karen Marie Moning
Time will scar my wound and I'll emerge from my fugue tougher, if not healed.
~ Karen Marie Moning
What happens when a sheepdog gets bit by a wolf?" "Duh. It becomes a wolf." "No. It becomes a sheepdog that fights with the lawlessness and savagery of a wolf.
~ Karen Marie Moning
Ryodan made me question myself and pushed me to be the most I could be.
~ Karen Marie Moning