Quotes by Karen Marie Moning

“You loved me.It wasnt a question, but he answered it readily. I do. More than life. My heart. I didnt just pick a sweet turn of phrase to name you, but spoke from my soul when I named you thus. Wit...”

“Love hath no pride.”

“Life is too hard, too much to handle. Nobody told me thered be days like these. How could nobody tell me thered be days like these? How could they let me grow up like thathappy and pink and stupid?”

“Dont lose yourself in anger, Mac. Its gasoline. You can burn it as fuel, or you can use it to torch everything you care about and end up standing on a scorched battlefield, with everybody dead, eve...”

“...When a man first awakens, it sometimes takes several moments before he starts thinking clearly.""And here I thought it took several years, perhaps a lifetime for the average man's intellect to k...”

“I looked from one to the other, and realized that Barrons and my dad were having one of those wordless conversations he and I have from time to time. Though the language was, by nature, foreign to ...”

“It's hard to say what makes the mind piece things together in a sudden lightning flash. I've come to hold the human spirit in the highest regard. Like the body, it struggles to repair itself. As ce...”

“Men. Do they all evade as first line of defense?”

“You both talk too much, the kid says. Shut up. Dont make me tell you again.We shut up, which I find hysterically funny.”

“I have studied humans for a small eternity. Intent infuses their every movement. Road maps to their inner navigation, plastered all over their skin. Born to be slaves.”

“I lay my head on his chest and listen to his heart beating, solid and sure.....he reads me so well. He's known about my emotional empathy since we were children. Nothing disturbs him...Few can lie ...”

“In my experience, anybody besides your mom that feeds you is going to want something in exchange for it.”

“One day you do meet a man who kisses you and you can't breathe around it and you realize you don't need air.”

“The wound you refuse to dress is one that will never heal. You gush lifeblood and never even know why. It will make you weak at a critical moment when you need to be strong.”

“I'm the one who will always watch over you. Always be there to fuck you back to your senses when you need it, the one who will never let you die. I pull my shirt over my head and kick off my shoes....”

“A lamb in a city of wolves.”

“Anyone worth knowing breaks once. Once. No shame, no foul if you survive it. You did.”

“She loves. And she doesn't know how to pull it back when you have to, because sometimes you sure as feck have to. Got to grab it up with both hands and pull it back before somebody turns into knive...”

“We stand strong, or we cower. We emerge victorious, tempered by our trials , or fractured by a permanent, damming fault line.”

“She shrugged, looking as baffled by it as he felt. "I don't know. I wonder sometimes if people even know what love is anymore. Some days, when I'm watching my friends change lovers as unperturbedly...”