Meghan Doidge > Meghan's Quotes

“A child has no trouble believing the unbelievable, nor does the genius or the madman. It’s only you and I, with our big brains and our tiny hearts, who doubt and overthink and hesitate.”
― Steven Pressfield, Do the Work

“Lugh shines like the sun.
That must of made it easy fer them to find him.
All they had to do was follow his light.”
― Moira Young, Blood Red Road

“Our story opens where countless stories have ended in the last twenty-six years: with an idiot -- in this case, my brother, Shaun -- deciding it would be a good idea to go out and poke a zombie with a stick to see what happens.”
― Mira Grant, Feed

“The opposite of fear is love - love of the challenge, love of the work, the pure joyous passion to take a shot at our dream and see if we can pull it off.”
― Steven Pressfield, Do the Work

“I had received a t-shirt from my best friend Veronica at my police academy graduation. It reads, ‘Throw your donut in the opposite direction and the cops won’t get you.’ I love wearing that t-shirt.”
― Suzie Ivy, Bad Luck Officer

“Another note to self; turn cellphone to silent when you’re trying to be sneaky.”
― Suzie Ivy, Bad Luck Officer

“Even sentenced to twenty-five years in prison Ted didn’t get what he deserved. Maybe his prison mates would give it to him.”
― Suzie Ivy, Bad Luck Officer

“One day you will kiss a man you can't breathe without, and find that breath is of little consequence.”
― Karen Marie Moning, Bloodfever

“You will do great and terrible things, Bethany Rudan. Just make sure you know the difference before you choose to act. And look to the boy, the tracker. He anchors you.”
― Meghan Ciana Doidge, Time Walker

“Time … I will never run out of it.”
― Meghan Ciana Doidge, Time Walker

“Life made you get your hands dirty; life was vengeful if you tried an easy route.”
― Meghan Ciana Doidge, After The Virus

“I might be able to walk away from sexy, dangerous shifters, but chocolate had me at its beck and call.”
― Meghan Ciana Doidge, Trinkets, Treasures, and Other Bloody Magic

“I could never rule out my own inability to focus on things that didn’t interest me.”
― Meghan Ciana Doidge, Cupcakes, Trinkets, and Other Deadly Magic

“Well, if that wasn’t the kettle talking smack about the pot, I don’t know what was.”
― Meghan Ciana Doidge, Cupcakes, Trinkets, and Other Deadly Magic

“Never is a boring word.”
― Meghan Ciana Doidge, Treasures, Demons, and Other Black Magic

“It had been an expensive lesson. Don’t break up with people when they’re in your home and holding onto fragile, expensive stuff.”
― Meghan Ciana Doidge, Cupcakes, Trinkets, and Other Deadly Magic

“I was going to die and I’d just saved his freaking life. No good deed goes unpunished.”
― Meghan Ciana Doidge, Cupcakes, Trinkets, and Other Deadly Magic

“There always was blood in the deep, dark depths of despair and tragedy, wasn’t there?”
― Meghan Ciana Doidge, Cupcakes, Trinkets, and Other Deadly Magic

“It doesn’t help that your idiom is all at once playful, esoteric, and, at times, bemusing.”
― Meghan Ciana Doidge, Shadows, Maps, and Other Ancient Magic

“It was utterly egotistical of me to take the blame for everything bad that ever happened around me. I wasn’t a god. I wasn’t the devil or some minion of evil.”
― Meghan Ciana Doidge, Shadows, Maps, and Other Ancient Magic

“So, all I could do was what everyone else did — cherish the good relationships and attempt to avoid the bad. I didn’t have a great track record doing either, but I was sure as hell trying.”
― Meghan Ciana Doidge, Shadows, Maps, and Other Ancient Magic

“I’m not attracted to grumpy older men. Yeah, I’d just keep telling myself that.”
― Meghan Ciana Doidge, Shadows, Maps, and Other Ancient Magic

“Too bad he was such an asshole. Why did assholes have the best chests?”
― Meghan Ciana Doidge, Cupcakes, Trinkets, and Other Deadly Magic

“As far as I’d seen, most adults tried to pretend they didn’t have parents. Except my shrink, who’d tried to invite me for Christmas dinner last year. As if I wanted to be trapped next to a huge turkey carcass with twenty people I didn’t know. Twenty strangers who all knew exactly who I was.”
― Meghan Ciana Doidge, I See Me

“You know, if rabid koalas went around giving hugs. I gurgled a laugh at the ridiculous ways my mind kept me from going into shock or freezing up.”
― Meghan Ciana Doidge, Maps, Artifacts, and Other Arcane Magic

“Sorcerers, as the name seemed to suggest, needed a source for their magic such as a written spell or magical object.”
― Meghan Ciana Doidge, Trinkets, Treasures, and Other Bloody Magic

“I could feel the weight of his gaze. 'Witches don't run with wolves,' I said, though I was slightly pained to do so.

He dropped his grin, suddenly serious and sexier for it. 'I'm big on firsts.'

I raised my chin. 'What about lasts?'

'Those too.' He whispered quietly enough that the words were nearly lost in the din of the street. I just had to smile at his utter sincerity.”
― Meghan Ciana Doidge, Cupcakes, Trinkets, and Other Deadly Magic

“I plan on bedding you, well and often.”
― Meghan Ciana Doidge, Trinkets, Treasures, and Other Bloody Magic

“No, I chided myself — scary monster men are not sexy.”
― Meghan Ciana Doidge, Cupcakes, Trinkets, and Other Deadly Magic

“Monsters slid in and out of the dark all around me … how the hell did I get here again?”
― Meghan Ciana Doidge, Cupcakes, Trinkets, and Other Deadly Magic