Darkfever (Fever, #1)

by Karen Marie Moning

Movies tell you what to think. A good book lets you choose a few thoughts for yourself.

2The Tuatha Dé Danaan were said to possess eight ancient relics of immense power: four Light and four Dark. The Light Hallows were the stone, the spear, the sword, and the cauldron. The Dark were the mirror, the box, the amulet, and the book (Sinsar Dubh).

if you’re making sense, you’ve just unmade confusion.” “Huh?” My confusion hadn’t been unmade. In fact, I could feel it deepening. “In order to make something, Ms. Lane, you must first unmake what is in the process. Should you begin with nothing, even nothing is unmade when it is replaced with something. To the Tuatha Dé there is no difference between creating and destroying. There is only stasis and change.”

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.

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

There are really only two positions one can take toward anything in life: hope or fear. Hope strengthens, fear kills.