Karen Marie Moning Quotes

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Chloe-lass: If I'm not here with you now, I'm beyond this life, for 'tis the only way I'll ever let you go.... I hoped I loved you well, sweet, for I know even now that you are my brightest shining star. I knew it the moment I saw you. Ah, lass, you so adore your artifacts. This thief covets but one priceless treasure: You. Dageus -In a letter

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The sun's nearly level with the horizon, right behind his head, making this weird halo effect around his face—as if! I'm surprised he doesn't smell like brimstone. He probably has a red pitchfork and hides horns under his hair.

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Gazelles didn't lie down with lions, at least not unbloodied and alive.

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Och, Dani my darling, you're not giving me a single reason to wait for you to grow up. You're giving me a thousand reasons not to." It's Christian! I'm so glad it's him, not one of the other princes! I turn around in his arms and tip my head back. "Hi, Christian!" I beam at him. He's hotter than the other princes. I'm glad I got him. I'll take the others, too, but I want him first. "I want to grow up. Now. Hurry.

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He's so beautiful, she said wistfully. He's like an angel. Yep, I agreed flatly. The one that fell.

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I'm asking the questions tonight. One day I was going to write a book: How to Dictate to a Dictator and Evade an Evader, subtitled How to Handle Jericho Barrons.

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Now you know how I justify my addictions—if I can pay less for it than I would at Wal-Mart, I get to have it.

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I was adrift in a sea of questions and if answers were lifeboats, I was in imminent danger of drowning.

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Nobody home but She for Whom I Am the World. Can't go on like this, can't keep doing it.- Jericho Barrons

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Barrons' lips twitched. I'd almost made him smile. Barrons smiles about as often as the sun comes out in Dublin, and it has the same effect on me; makes me feel warm and stupid.

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Don't accuse me of being morbid when I'm merely the product of a culture that buries the bones of the ones they love in pretty, manicured flower gardens so they can keep them nearby and go talk to them whenever they feel troubled or depressed. That's morbid. Not to mention bizarre. Dogs bury bones, too.

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Sometimes my dreams feel so real it's hard to believe they're just the subconscious's stroll across a whimsical map that has no true north.

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He was sexual in a way that made women think of deeply repressed fantasies therapists and feminists alike would cringe to hear tell of.

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I hope they change my drugs soon. Whatever I'm on isn't working.

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Oh, drop the act, Tinkerbell, and get rid of my problem. Then we'll talk.

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Good and evil are merely opposite sides of a coin. Get tossed in the air enough, it's easy to come down on the wrong side.

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He didn't just kiss, he claimed ownership. Took her mouth with urgency, as if his life depended on his kissing her.

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Every time I think I'm getting smarter I realize that I've just done something stupid. Dad says there are three kinds of people in the world: those who don't know, and don't know they don't know; those who don't know and do know they don't know; and those who know and know how much they still don't know. Heavy stuff, I know. I think I've finally graduated from the don't-knows that don't know to the don't-knows that do.

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Life isn't always fair, lass, but that doesn't mean it can't still be sweet."- Dageus

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What are you? I said irritably. In the Serengeti, Ms. Lane, I would be the cheetah. I'm stronger, smarter, faster, and hungrier than everything else out there. And I don't apologize to the gazelle when I take it down.

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Dude, the bush is ready. Why you still beating around it? I've lived a long time, kid, and I've never heard anyone mutilate the English language quite like you.

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The two of you are getting downright chatty, aren't you, Ms. Lane? When did you last see him? what else did he tell you? I'm asking the questions tonight. If an illusion of control comforts you, Ms. Lane, by all means, cling to it.

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Evil is a completely different creature, Mac. Evil is bad that believes it's good.

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Barrons laughed again. "And there, my dear Fio, you make one of Womankind's greatest mistakes: Falling in love with a man's potential. We so rarely share the same view of it, and even more rarely care to achieve it. Stop pining for the man you think I could be — and take a good, long, hard look at the one I am.

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I began peering into the corners of the room, making sure all the shadows were cast by objects and obeying known laws of physics.

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No way. I'm not going in there. I draw the line at grave-robbing, Barrons. It's not your pen.

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Do your thing, Ms. Lane. you might be criminally young, but the night is not.

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There are only shades of gray. Black and white are nothing more than lofty ideals in our minds, the standards by which we try to judge things, and map out our place in the world in relevance to them.

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I flash him number seventeen of my thirty-five Looks of Death.

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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? Or had Barrons, like me, been beguiled by her tawdry grace, fallen for her charm and colorful dualities? I looked around my bookstore. That was what I called it. Did we call the things of our heart our own, whether they were or not?

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