Laura > Laura's Quotes

“Its our actions that define us. What we choose. What we resist. What we're willing to die for.”
― Karen Marie Moning

“Yes, I see that you are behaving like a prince but that doesn't mean you won't behave like a devil at the first opportunity.”
― Deborah Harkness, A Discovery of Witches

“In the end, it only comes down to one thing: choosing the one you can’t live without.”
― Rachel Vincent, Alpha

“I hate fate. I don’t believe in her. Unfortunately, I think the bitch believes in me.”
― Karen Marie Moning, Shadowfever

“No one can make you feel inferior without your permission.”
― Lorelei James, Branded as Trouble

“Hope strengthens. Fear kills[...] That simple adage is master of every situation, every choice. Each morning we wake up, we get to choose between hope and fear and apply one of those emotions to everything we do. Do we greet things that come our way with joy? Or suspicion?”
― Karen Marie Moning, Shadowfever

“Those who don't believe in magic will never find it.”
― Roald Dahl

“Desire makes life happen. Makes it matter. Makes everything worth it. Desire is life. Hunger to see the next sunrise or sunset, to touch the one you love, to try again.

'Hell would be waking up and wanting nothing,' he agrees.”
― Karen Marie Moning, Shadowfever

“Silence isn't golden, it's deadly. It's a vacuum that fills up with ghosts.”
― Karen Marie Moning, Shadowfever

“You can’t look at someone with your eyes and take their measure.
You have to look with the heart.”
― Karen Marie Moning, Shadowfever

“No one's place in this world is guaranteed. Not everyone is going to get a happy ending. But life isn't about how it ends. It's about the moments between. It's about the small things. The way our loved ones laugh. The sight of a butterfly in the sunlight after a year or two in the darkness.
The love and support of an old friend. They might not be with us in body, but they are with us in spirit.
...
Because every day, on this planet, people are born and people die and stranger things happen.(Armintrout, All Souls' Night, 367)”
― Jennifer Armintrout, All Souls' Night

“Strength isn't about bearing a cross of grief or shame. Strength comes from choosing your own path, and living with the consequences.”
― Jennifer Armintrout

“If you're afraid of something, face it. Fear is irrational. The only way to conquer your fear is to stand next to it.”
― Jennifer Armintrout, The Turning

“Life isn't finding shelter in the storm. It's about learning to dance in the rain.”
― Sherrilyn Kenyon, Acheron

“When you can live forever what do you live for?”
― Stephenie Meyer

“Nobody looks good in their darkest hours. But it's those hours that make us what we are.”
― Karen Marie Moning, Faefever

“I was about to look away when he reached across the seat, touched my jaw with his long, strong, beautiful fingers, and caressed my face.
Being touched by Jericho Barrons with kindness makes you feel like you must be the most special person in the world. It’s like walking up to the biggest, most savage lion in the jungle, lying down, placing your head it its mouth and, rather than taking your life, it licks you and purrs.”
― Karen Marie Moning, Bloodfever

“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.”
― Karen Marie Moning, Shadowfever

“One day you do meet a man who kisses you and you can’t breathe around it and you realize you don’t need air. Oxygen is trivial. Desire makes life happen. Makes it matter. Makes everything worth it. Desire is life. Hunger to see the next sunrise or sunset. To touch the one you love. To try again.”
― Karen Marie Moning, Shadowfever

“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.”
― Karen Marie Moning

“I love books, by the way, way more than movies. Movies tell you what to think. A good book lets you choose a few thoughts for yourself.”
― Karen Marie Moning, Darkfever

“Jericho Barrons was my poison now.”
― Karen Marie Moning, Dreamfever

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

“I love books, by the way, way more than movies. Movies tell you what to think. A good book lets you choose a few thoughts for yourself. Movies show you the pink house. A good book tells you there's a pink house and lets you paint some of the finishing touches, maybe choose the roof style,park your own car out front. My imagination has always topped anything a movie could come up with. Case in point, those darned Harry Potter movies. That was so not what that part-Veela-chick, Fleur Delacour, looked like.”
― Karen Marie Moning, Darkfever

“He pulls me around and kisses me. "You're Mac," he says. "And I'm Jericho. And nothing else matters. Never will. You exist in a place that is beyond all rules for me. Do you understand that?"
I do.
Jericho Barrons just told me he loves me.”
― Karen Marie Moning, Shadowfever

“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.
They make you feel so alive that you'd follow them straight into hell, just to keep getting your fix.”
― Karen Marie Moning, Shadowfever

“Oh ye of little faith. Not for IYD... But you didn't even try.”
― Karen Marie Moning, Dreamfever

“No matter how people try to dispute it, perception is reality. Its what you choose to believe that makes you the person you are.”
― Karen Marie Moning

“Some people wouldn't see a traitor when they looked at me. Some people would see a survivor. Call me anything you like—I sleep fine at night. But you will look at me when you say it. Or I'll get so far in your face you'll be seeing me with your eyes closed. You'll be seeing me in your nightmares. I'll scorch myself on the backs of your eyelids. Get off my back and stay off it. I'm not the woman I used to be. If you want a war with me, you'll get one. Just try me. Give me an excuse to go play in that dark place inside my head.”
― Karen Marie Moning, Shadowfever

“What are you" -Mac

"I don't follow" -Jericho

"You dropped 30 feet in that warehouse. You should have broken something. What are you?" -Mac

"A man with a rope." -Jericho”
― Karen Marie Moning, Darkfever