Karen Marie Moning
Some people bring out the worst in you, others bring out the best, and then there are those remarkably rare, addictive ones who just bring out the most. Of everything.Collection: People
It's often only in the lies we refuse to speak that any truth can be heard at all.Collection: Lying
The most confused we ever get is when we're trying to convince our heads of something our heart knows is a lie.Collection: Confused
Anyone worth knowing breaks once. Once. No shame, no foul if you survive it. You did.Collection: Knowing
Nobody looks good in their darkest hours. But it's those hours that make us what we are.Collection: Looks
The only reality you can control is the one you're willing to face.Collection: Reality
I'd learned a thing or two. Hope strengthens. Fear kills.Collection: Two
One day you will kiss a man you can't breathe without, and find that breath is of little consequence.Collection: Romantic
I am a kite in a tornado but I have a long string. There is tension in my line. Somewhere, someone is holding onto the other end and, although it cannot spare me this storm, it will not let me be lost while I regain my strength. It is enough.Collection: Long
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.Collection: Hero
You are what you are. Deal with it or change.Collection: Deals
Dying is overrated. Human sentimentality has twisted it into the ultimate act of love. Biggest load of bullshit in the world. Dying for someone isn't the hard thing. The man that dies escapes. Plain and simple. Game over. End of pain...Try living for someone. Through it all-good, bad, thick, thin, joy, suffering. That's the hard thing.Collection: Pain
No matter how people try to dispute it, perception is reality. Its what you choose to believe that makes you the person you are.Collection: Believe
There are two kinds of people in the world Ms. Lane: those who survive no matter the cost and those who are walking victims.Collection: Two
There aren't many sins in my bible. Giving up is the greatest one of all.Collection: Giving Up
There are moments in my life when I feel like I’m exactly where I’m supposed to be, doing exactly what I’m supposed to do. I pay attention to them. They’re my cosmic landmarks, letting me know I’m on the right path. Now that I’m older and can look back and see where I missed a turn here and there, and know the price I paid for those oversights, I try to look sharper at the present.Collection: Trying
See me when you look at me.Collection: Looks
Its our actions that define us. What we choose. What we resist. What we're willing to die for.Collection: Our Actions
Time heals. No, it doesn't. At best, time is the great leveler, sweeping us all into coffins. We find ways to distract ourselves from the pain. Time is neither scalpel nor bandage. It is indifferent. Scar tissue is not a good thing. It is merely the wound's other face.Collection: Pain
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.Collection: Sweet
When insane things start to arrange themselves in sane patterns around you, you know you got problems.Collection: Insane
Truth hurts. But lies can kill.Collection: Hurt
Some things are sacred. Until you act like they're not. Then you lose themCollection: Sacred
Words can be twisted into any shape. Promises can be made to lull the heart and seduce the soul. In the final analysis, words mean nothing. They are labels we give things in an effort to wrap our puny little brains around their underlying natures, when ninety-nine percent of the time the totality of the reality is an entirely different beast. The wisest man is the silent one. Examine his actions. Judge him by them.Collection: Life
Evil is a completely different creature, Mac. Evil is bad that believes it's good.Collection: Believe
But then we so rarely understand the value of what we possess until it's gone.Collection: Gone
Your race devotes itself to justifying its errors, not correcting themCollection: Errors
In that you're wrong. I choose, I adhere, I pursue, I commit, I attain. That - that, my errant friend - is an absolute." - HawkCollection: Hawks
If you weaken, I'll be strong. If you get lost, I'll be your way home. If you despair, I'll bring you joy. I will love you until the end of time.Collection: Strong
I hope they change my drugs soon. Whatever I'm on isn't working.Collection: Drug
Some of us are born more than once. Some of us recreate ourselves many times. Ryodan says adaptability is survivability. Ryodan says a lot of stuff. Sometimes I listen, All I know is, every time I open my eyes, my brian kicks on. Something wakes up deep in my belly, and I know I'll do anything it takes... To. Just. Keep. Breathing.Collection: Eye
But he didn't need to seek visual confirmation of what he'd just heard to know she had. And the truth was, he couldn't blame her. He'd not have let her die, either. He'd have moved mountains. He'd have battled God or Devil for his wife's life. She'd betrayed him. He smiled faintly.Collection: Wife
I go inside my head and become that other me, the one I don't tell anybody about. The observer... I live in terror that one day I won't get to be Dani again.Collection: One Day
Are you decent?" a woman's voice called, pushing the door cautiously ajar. "Nay, but we're clothed," Cian purred.Collection: Doors
Lust is a thing of the blood. Doesn't need head or heart.Collection: Heart
It's why I laugh so much. If my face is going to stick, I'm going to like looking at it.Collection: Laughing
A fecking flamethrower! Why didn't I think of that? Best I came up with was a measly hair dryer.Collection: Thinking
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.Collection: Dream
I'm here. You're safe now. It's okay to remember. They can never hurt you again.Collection: Hurt
He's treating her like she's fourteen and he's a normal adult, acting like he's taken her under his wing. Like he needs her detecting skills, same as Barrons did to Mac, and she's falling for it, same as Mac. He's lining up his dominoes, so they fall more easily when he feels like pushing them over, conserving energy so he doesn't have to hunt her when he's ready to kill her.Collection: Taken
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. [said Dani]Collection: Running
I make a new discovery that totally blows; dying is the easy part. It's coming back to life that sucks.Collection: Blow
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.Collection: Christian
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.Collection: Hair
Turn it off," Ryodan says without even looking at me. "You're distressing Dani. No one distresses Dani but me.Collection: Distress
Holy borrowing bibliophile, let's book!Collection: Book
When Christian pushes into the brick wall of the building catty-corner to the rear of BB&B—first left on the Dark Zone side—and disappears, I melt down in a fit of the giggles. I toss a rock at the spot where he vanished. It bounces off the brick and clatters to the cobblestone. I'm feeling twenty shades of Harry Potter's train station, especially when he pokes his head out of the wall and says impatiently, "Come on, lass. This is hardly my favorite place to be.Collection: Christian
The White Mansion isn't boring, lass. Never boring. It's the grand demesne the Unseelie King built for his concubine. It's a living, breathing love story, testament to the brightest passion that ever burned between our races. You can follow the scenes through if you've time enough and are willing to risk getting lost for a few centuries.Collection: Kings
He is my vulnerabilityCollection: Vulnerability
All I need is a badly mangled, irate sentence stalking me.Collection: Stalking Me