Camila (previously the opinionated Catruler) > Camila (previously the opinionated Catruler)'s Quotes

“Assume' makes an 'ass' out of 'u' and 'me'.”
― Karen Marie Moning, Darkfever

“And than suddenly he was there, charging down the hallway like death in a cowboy duster.”
― Richelle Mead, Vampire Academy

“Who and what we surround ourselves with is who and what we become. In the midst of good people, it is easy to be good. in the midst of bad people, it is easy to be bad.”
― Karen Marie Moning, Iced

“Even I don't know what you're doing, and I know everything.”
― Karen Marie Moning, Bloodfever

“Laugh as much as you choose, but you will not laugh me out of my opinion.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

“Mercy laughed. “You have to excuse them—boys suffer from an incurable disability.”

“What?”

“Testosterone.”
― Nalini Singh, Branded by Fire

“Have you ever had one of those moments when time just freezes? You
know, when the world suddenly goes deathly still, and you could hear a
pin drop, and the squishing sound your heart makes is so loud in your
ears you feel like youre drowning in blood, and you stand there in that
suspended moment and die a thousand deaths, but not really, and the
moment passes and dumps you out on the other side of it, with your
mouth hanging open, and an erased blackboard where your mind used to
be?”
― Karen Marie Moning, Bloodfever

“Sometimes I worry that there’s not enough room in my brain for both my dreams and reality that I’m a hard drive with limited gigabytes and one day I won’t be able to maintain the firewall between them. I wonder if that’s what senility is.”
― Karen Marie Moning, Shadowfever

“His kiss held his heart. It broke hers.”
― Nalini Singh, Slave to Sensation

“Nobody can tell what I suffer! But it is always so. Those who do not complain are never pitied.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

“Good and evil are merely opposite sides of a coin. Get tossed in the air enough, it's easy to come down on the wrong side.”
― Karen Marie Moning, Dreamfever

“She was his and he was hers. They had under-the-skin privileges.”
― Nalini Singh, Slave to Sensation

“Revenge. They took too much. You give up and die, or learn how to take back.”
― Karen Marie Moning, Dreamfever

“There are only two things to worry about in life: either you’re free or you’re not. If you’re free, there’s nothing to worry about. If you’re not, you kick the shit out of everything around you until you are.”
― Karen Marie Moning, Iced

“Human women have been slapping men for being bastards for centuries. You were doing what comes naturally.”
― Nalini Singh, Visions of Heat

“He has no right to threaten my boyfriends. I'm eighteen. An adult. I don't need his help. I can threaten my boyfriends myself.”
― Richelle Mead, Spirit Bound

“Some people fall apart when they get hurt. Puddle into apathy and despair and never recover. They wait all their lives for someone to come along and rescue them.”
― Karen Marie Moning, Iced

“It isn't against the Law to be an idiot.”
― Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Angel

“You're leaving me, Rainbow Girl.”
― Karen Marie Moning, Dreamfever

“You think you’re going to chain me to a wall then stand here and tell me why it’s okay that I am the way I am? That because of all the crap folks put me through when I was young it’s all right that I turned out like this?
Dude, I don’t have a problem with how I turned out. I like me.”
― Karen Marie Moning , Iced

“Life, unfortunately, doesn't seem to care what we want.”
― Richelle Mead, Last Sacrifice

“Just saying, things ain't always bad just 'cause you don't understand 'em or ain't like 'em. That's like thinking anybody who's smarter or faster is dangerous just 'cause they got more brains or quicker feet. Ain't fair. Peeps can't help how they're born.”
― Karen Marie Moning, Shadowfever

“Barrons breaks heads. Ryodan turns them inside out. Barrons fucks you up. Ryodan makes you fuck yourself up. He pushes buttons and rearranges things according to his own private, coolly sociopathic plan.”
― Karen Marie Moning, Iced

“In my experience, anybody besides your mom that feeds you is going to want something in exchange for it.”
― Karen Marie Moning, Iced

“Fire isn’t good or bad. It just burns.”
― Karen Marie Moning, Bloodfever

“You trying to make me crazy?”
“Everyone needs a hobby.”
― Nalini Singh, Branded by Fire

“See things for what they are. Drop your blinders and raise the sewer to eye level. Admit that your swimming in shit. If you don't acknowledge the turd heading down the drain towards you; you can't dodge it.”
― Karen Marie Moning, Iced

“There’s only one question that matters, Ms. Lane, and it’s the one you never get around to asking. People are capable of varying degrees of truth. The majority spend their entire lives fabricating an elaborate skein of lies, immersing themselves in the faith of bad faith, doing whatever it takes to feel safe. The person who truly lives has precious few moments of safety, learns to thrive in any kind of storm. It’s the truth you can stare down stone-cold that makes you what you are. Weak or strong. Live or die. Prove yourself. How much truth can you take, Ms. Lane?”
― Karen Marie Moning, Dreamfever

“The power of thought is far greater than most people ever realize.”
― Karen Marie Moning, Darkfever

“You're distressing Dani. No one distresses Dani but me.”
― Karen Marie Moning, Iced