Karen Marie Moning - Darkfever (2006)

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Mac." He said my name and laughed. "What a name for something like you. Mac.

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Air ye deaf, lass?" I think. He might have called me a hairy jackass

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All my life, up until that moment, I'd had a warm, protective blanket wrapped around me, knitted of aunts and uncles, purled of first and second and third cousins, knot-tied with grandmas and grandpas and greats. That blanket had just dropped from my shoulders. I felt cold, lost and alone.

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Werewolves? Oh please, just plain stupid. Who wants to get it on with a man ruled by his inner dog?

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And then what? Said, 'Oh, I'm so sorry, Ms. Lane, I didn't mean to wrinkle your lovely blouse. May I press that for you?' Or perhaps you gouged it with one of your pretty pink nails?" I was really beginning to wonder what his hang-up with pink was, but I didn't resent the sarcasm in his voice.

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

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

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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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You want to believe in black and white, good and evil, heroes that are truly heroic, villains that are just plain bad, but I've learned in the past year that things are rarely so simple. The good guys can do some truly awful things, and the bad guys can sometimes surprise the heck out of you.

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Born in a generation that thinks cynical and disenchanted is cool, sometimes I'm a little off the beaten track.

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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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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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It's often only in the lies we refuse to speak that any truth can be heard at all.

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How will we get back up?" I worried. "I have a different route in mind for our return trip." "Does it involve stairs?" I asked hopefully. "No." "Of course not. How silly of me. And for our return adventure we will be scaling the side of Mount Everest, hiking boots to be provided by our trusty sponsor, Barrons Books and Baubles.

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There are three floors beneath the garage? Why on earth?" -Mac

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I hammered him with my fists. He just stood and took it. He didn't suffer graciously, he looked pissed off to no end. But he let me hit him. And he didn't hit me back.

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You need me as much as I need you. That makes us equal partners in my book. Well, your book is just wrong.

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Dubh is do?" I was incredulous. It was no wonder I hadn't been able to find the stupid word. "Should I be calling pubs poos?" "Dubh is Gaelic, Ms. Lane. Pub is not.

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No matter how people try to dispute it, perception is reality. Its what you choose to believe that makes you the person you are.

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I've spent enough time behind a bar that I've formed a few opinions about what people wear and what it says about them. Guys who wear black from head to toe fall into two categories: they want to be trouble, or they are trouble.

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When insane things start to arrange themselves in sane patterns around you, you know you got problems.

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If he was winter, I was summer. If I was sunshine, he was night. A dark and stormy one.

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Okay, Barrons, it's time." "I am not helping you shave your legs." he said instantly. "Oh please. As if I'd let you.

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He wasn't just masculine and sexual, he was carnal in a set-your-teeth-on-edge kind of way; he was almost frightning.

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I'd never been turned on by the Ken doll—even before I looked down his pants and saw what was missing.

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He wasn't handsome. That was too calm a word. He was intensely masculine. He was sexual. He attracted.

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Sometimes, Ms. Lane," he said, "one must break with one's past to embrace one's future. It is never an easy thing to do. It is one of the distinguishing characteristics between survivors and victims. Letting go of what was, to survive what is.

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