Karina Halle > Karina's Quotes

“Somehow, by dealing with the dead, I had never felt so alive.”
― Karina Halle, Darkhouse

“Sometimes it felt like looking at his face and just accepting the way things were between us was the hardest thing in the world.”
― Karina Halle

“If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.”
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

“Writing is one of the few careers for which you essentially train yourself, the other two major ones being juggling and pickpocketing.”
― Maureen Johnson

“Substitute 'damn' every time you're inclined to write 'very;' your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be.”
― Mark Twain

“To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Writing is like prostitution. First you do it for love, and then for a few close friends, and then for money.”
― Moli

“Good books don't give up all their secrets at once.”
― Stephen King

“Envy is when you want what someone else has. Jealousy’s when you also don’t want them to have it.”
― Kirsten Hubbard, Wanderlove

“He was still a douchecanoe. The douchecanoe who was going to paddle me to safety.”
― Karina Halle, On Demon Wings

“Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.”
― Anton Chekhov

“Nobody dies a virgin... Life fucks us all.”
― Kurt Cobain

“Dex isn't a big guy by any means. He's on the short side and toned but still thin. But he has unpredictable pit-bull tactics and one hell of a lippy attitude with strangers. For heaven's sake, never give that man a shovel.”
― Karina Halle, Lying Season

“She's waking up. Get the bat." Not exactly the best words to wake up to.”
― Karina Halle, On Demon Wings

“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

“Sage shifted beneath me. I put one of my hands back into his thick hair and left it there, pretending I needed to hold him. It took all my willpower not to start playing with it.

“I guess you don’t do this very often,” I told him, my voice cracking slightly.

I couldn’t see his face but I could feel him smile. “No. Usually my head’s turned the other way around.”
― Karina Halle, The Devil's Metal

“Those bands, you plan your life around them. You plan vacations around concert dates. You save babysitting money for records. You live for those days when Creem magazine arrives in your dusty mailbox and you frantically flip through it for any information on your favorites. The bands, the musicians that you love, they love you back. And when they quit, when they fall apart, when they die—they ruin that future you thought they’d always be a part of.”
― Karina Halle, The Devil's Metal

“Okay,” she drew out. “Let me rephrase that. Did you sleep with Sage yet?”

I blushed furiously.

She smacked my leg and exclaimed, “I knew it! I could smell it on you.”

“You can smell it on me?”

She grinned. “When I was hugging you, yeah. Your chest smelled like cologne and man tongue.”
― Karina Halle, The Devil's Metal

“No matter what happened, he was Dex and I was Perry and that combination only led to trouble.”
― Karina Halle, Into the Hollow

“He backed away from me, clutching the phone to his chest. “What?”

“Gimme the phone,” I commanded, holding out my hand.

His head dropped solemnly. “I am on a very important call.”

“Yes, about me,” I said, reaching for it. “Now give it.”

He shrank away and eyed the room anxiously. “Damn, I knew I should have kept a spare roll of duct tape somewhere.”
― Karina Halle, Into the Hollow

“I shot him an unimpressed look. “Do you really think you’ll win me over by having sex with me?”

He scratched at the side of his chin. “Well, they say the way to a woman’s heart is through her vagina.”
― karina halle, Into the Hollow

“I feel like I’m a disappointment to mankind,” he remarked woefully as he placed the shirt through my arms and began to pull it down over my breasts. “Someone this gorgeous should be on display in a museum.”
― Karina Halle, Into the Hollow

“You’re the light in all this madness. You’re my light. I should have been with you...” The thought hit him as his face crumpled in amazement. “Oh God, why am I not with you?”
“Because you’re an idiot,” I said.”
― Karina Halle, Lying Season

“Another snowball, this time it impacted on my shoulder.

I dusted the snow off my coat with my free hand and gave him the biggest stinkeye I could muster.

“How old are you again? Twelve?”

He grinned, teeth white as the snow he gathered.

“Old enough to make you come, young enough to make you hate me for it.”

“Oh jeez,” I muttered, shaking my head, and turned around.

Bam.

Snowball to the back of my head.”
― Karina Halle, Into the Hollow

“No time for foreplay?” I teased breathlessly.

His smile was sly. “Oh, we’ve had nothing but foreplay from the day we first met.”
― Karina Halle, Into the Hollow

“Readers have the right to say whatever the fuck they want about a book. Period. They have that right. If they hate the book because the MC says the word “delicious” and the reader believes it’s the Devil’s word and only evil people use it, they can shout from the rooftops “This book is shit and don’t read it” if they want. If they want to write a review entirely about how much they hate the cover, they can if they want. If they want to make their review all about how their dog Foot Foot especially loved to pee on that particular book, they can."

[Blog entry, January 9, 2012]”
― Stacia Kane

“You're a bad person, Ellie," he said without a trace of irony.

"I'm not bad. The world is bad and I'm just trying to survive in it.”
― Karina Halle, Sins & Needles

“I cleared my throat and spoke into his kiss. “Sorry, it’s been a while.”

“You should expect to hear the same thing from me in about five minutes,” he murmured.

“Five minutes, huh?”

“I’ll make it the best five minutes of your life.”

I bit his lip, hard, then released him and looked into those intense blues. “Clock’s ticking.”
― Karina Halle, Sins & Needles

“You're a con artist. A liar. A thief. An unredeemable soul. You can't be reformed. You can't be saved. You'll die trying to make the world pay for what it did to you. And you'll die alone.”
― Karina Halle, Sins & Needles

“You know how I feel about your scars. They only make you more beautiful.”
― Karina Halle, Sins & Needles