Quotes by Karen Marie Moning

And there you have it...if I knew that I could only have a few nights in that mans arms or nothing, I would take those magic nights and use them to keep me warm for the rest of my life.

I kept it to remind me that although there is evil, there is sometimes beauty and light. You, Jillian. You were always my light.

He is my vulnerability

One of the first lessons a warrior is taught is that denial of ones circumstances only results in failure to recognize real danger.

I wept for me, for my sister, for things I couldnt even begin to put into words, and might never be able to explain. But it felt something like this: I used to walk on my feet. Now all I knew how to do was crawl. And I wasnt sure how long it was going to take for me to get up off my knees and regain my balance, but I suspected that when I did, I would never walk the same way again.

Id never understood why anyone would want to live forever. It had always seemed to me that death lent life a certain poignancy, a necessary tension.

The single greatest advantage anyone can take into any battle is hope.

Women fight differently from men. You couldn’t get me to hurt a woman’s breasts for anything. I know how tender my own are when I’m PMSing. Besides, we feed babies with them.

“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.”

“Its often only in the lies we refuse to speak that any truth can be heard at all.”

“Is anyone whos supposed to be dead actually dead?”

“Dying is overrated. Human sentimentality has twisted it into the ultimate act of love. Biggest load of bullshit in the world. Dying for someone isnt 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. Thats the hard thing.”

“there are three kinds of people in the world: those who dont know and dont know they dont know; those who dont know and do know they dont know; and those who know and know how much they still dont know.”

“One day you will kiss a man you cant breathe without, and find that breath is of little consequence.”