Quotes by Karen Marie Moning

“I smack myself in the forehead. “Holy priceless collection of Etruscan snoods, they’re not moving!” I exclaim. There’s a choking noise over my head somewhere. “Etruscan snoods?” I glow quietly insi...”

“With the Book hitching rides, hiding on people, guess we’re all going to be dressing like skanks for a while, huh? Skintight or skin. Dude, everybody’s everything’s gonna be hanging out, and some o...”

“Fear and doubt are major stampeders.”

“Friends don’t build cages for each other.”

“I don’t know where dreams come from. Sometimes I wonder if they’re genetic memories, or messages from something divine. Warnings perhaps. Maybe we do come with an instruction booklet but we’re too ...”

“There are only two things to worry about in life: either you’re free or you’re not. If you’re free, there’s nothing to worry about. If you’re not, you kick the shit out of everything around you unt...”

“I said breathe. Not do a fish-out of-water imitation.”

“I would wear pink because I knew my future was anything but rosy. I would accessorize myself to the hilt, and I would wear flirty shoes because my world needed more beauty to counter all the ugline...”

“It's funny how, when things seem the darkest, moments of beauty present themselves in the most unexpected places.”

“Sheep are always looking for a new shepherd when the terrain gets rocky.”

“My city. I pondered that phrase, wondered why Barrons felt that way. He never said “our world.” He always said “your world.” But he called Dublin his city. Merely because he’d been in it so long? O...”

“If I entered a tropical beach, would I end up in Nazi Germany with my highly inconvenient black hair?”

“His coworker was velvety-skinned, a sexy boy-on-the-cusp-of man.”

“Attitude shapes reality.”

“I return my attention to the situation at hand and realize Reality—the impatient bitch—has made my decision for me. She does that a lot. You get busy planning your life, then it has the nerve to ju...”

“I like sex for breakfast, kid. I eat early and often.”

“Sex either blows your fucking mind, or it’s not good enough.”

“Driving a hot car is a lot like sex to me, or a lot like I keep thinking sex should be: A total body experience, overwhelming, to all the senses, taking you places you've never been, packing a punc...”

“As he fills me, I wonder if—in the same way that sex makes its own unique perfume—we don’t really “make” love. As in create, manufacture, evoke an independent element in the air around us, and if e...”

“He calls me his Queen of the Night. He shows me the wonders in this incredible city. He encourages me to find my own way, and to choose what I think is right or wrong.And the sex, God, the sex! I n...”