Karen Marie Moning Quotes

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I get off on a man with strong moral fiber. The closest Barrons ever gets to fiber is walking down the cereal aisle at the grocery store.

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You're early. I give him a mutinous look. Of course he thinks my being early is about him. It's not. Mac was at Chester's last night at eight. I think she's hunting me. Since I can't be late to avoid her, I have to be early. Watch broke. Thought I was on time. You don't wear a watch. See? I knew I had a problem. I'll just dash out and get one. Be back tomorrow. On time.

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Since I've been on my own, I've been eating a lot of popcorn, cereal, instant noodles, and snack bars. I have a hot plate in my bedroom, a microwave, and a small fridge. That's the kind of kitchen I know how to get around in.

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Are you decent?" a woman's voice called, pushing the door cautiously ajar. "Nay, but we're clothed," Cian purred.

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Although it may not seem like it, this isn't a story about darkness. It's about light. Kahlil Gibran says Your joy can fill you only as deeply your sorrow has carved you. If you've never tasted bitterness, sweet is just another pleasant flavor on your tongue. One day I'm going to hold a lot of joy.

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There are really only two positions one can take toward anything in life: hope or fear. Hope strengthens, fear kills.

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Then you will simply have to see for yourself. Touch me, lass. Feel my...sock." His silver gaze sizzled with challenge, as he unzipped his zipper. Uh-uh." She shook her head for added emphasis. Then find me a pair of trews that doona threaten to sever my manparts.

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Some things are sacred. Until you act like they're not. Then you lose them

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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.

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

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Do you think a woman can give a man everything while still withholding her heart? We are not made that way! - Fiona

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The inspector ate only two of my tiny sandwiches: the first because he hadnt expected it to taste so awful; the second, I think, because hed thought surely the first must have been a mistake.

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There are a few absolute no-brainer rules in my world. Real close to the top of this list is: if an Unseelie prince runs from it, I'm going to run from it, too.
Dani speaking

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Keep hoping to see the light in her eyes. Even knowing it'll mean she's saying good-bye.

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When he comes, he makes a noise deep in his throat that is so raw and animal and sexual that I think if he merely looked at me and made that noise, I might explode in an orgasm.

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Safety is a fence, and fences are for sheep. I would rather die at twenty-two, knowing the truth, then live in a cage of lies for a hundred years.

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Yes, I have loved, Ms. Lane, and although it's none of your business, I have lost. Many things.

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For what other reason would you have me save you? Because I like you? Better to be useful than liked.

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There should be a vaccine against Adam Black. And all women should be given it at birth.

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I didn't say, You are such a stuffy asshole. And he didn't say, If you ever burn one of my quarter-of-a-million dollar rugs again I'll take it out of your hide, and I didn't say, Oh, honey, wouldn't you like to? And he didn't say Grow up, Ms. Lane, I don't take little girls to my bed, and I didn't say I wouldn't go there if it was the only safe place from the Lord Master in all of Dublin.

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Get back on the bike and tell me where to go." "I'll tell you where to go," I muttered sourly, and he laughed.

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Nuns? They'd take one look at Barrons and decide the devil himself had come knockng. He not only looked dangerous, he emanated something that made even me feel like crossing myself sometimes, and I'm not religious.

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I don't believe Barrons is out to destroy mankind. I don't think he particularly cares much for mankind, but I don't think he has any deep-seated desire to see us all wiped out.

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Barrons had just given me the most carnal, sexually charged hungry look I'd ever seen in my life, and I was pretty sure he didn't even know he had done it.

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I want you to go to the Ancient Languages Department at Trinity College tomorrow morning, Ms.Lane.

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He closes his hand around mine and I hold on. I like his hand. It's big and holds easy but sure. It's the kind of hold that says, I got you if you want me, but I'll let you go if you feel like running for a while.

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Oooh! Stop that. When you smile at me I want all of it." "What?" He looked confused

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I'm sorry your pretty little world got all screwed up, but everybody's does, and you go on. It's how you go on that defines you.

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Basque and Celt. Criminals and barbarians. I didn't think there could be a more primitive pairing of genes.

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

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