Karen Marie Moning Quotes

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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.

Karen Marie Moning
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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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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Oh, please," I rolled my eyes, "You're a leftie, Barrons." "Touche, Ms. Lane," he murmured.

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I hope when I'm ninety-five the only things I want are free: love, family, a good home-cooked meal.

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He stepped into the morning feeling more alive than he'd felt in months. Hold fast and believe in me, love, he whispered across the centuries. Because love and belief were serious magic in and of themselves.

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As he closed the door he said over his shoulder, "Because you're a good lass." A heavy sigh. "And I'm no' a good man.

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Holy water at my wrists and behind my ears; my version of Eau de Don'tbiteme

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Strength wasn't about being able to do everything alone. Strength was knowing when to ask for help and not being too proud to do it.

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And when he did that, my hands curled into fists because I thought about touching his face like maybe I could catch joy in my hands and hold it.

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I'd vowed years ago to go to the grave the same way I'd been born, just a lot more wrinkly.

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I don't make sonic booms. I want a whip. I like the idea of walking around making sonic booms everywhere.

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

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

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There's no point in fighting the tide. It ebbs. It flows. You ride it.

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It's just another of Robin's sayings. Like, 'Holy strawberries, Batman, we're in a jam! Or, Holy Kleenex, Batman, it was right under our nose and we blew it!

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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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