Immortal Beloved Quotes

“Yes. Reyn is our resident horse master. He has an excellent seat."
I grinned. "I've noticed."
Reyn's face tightened and Nell flushed, looking embarrassed. "It's an equestrian term."
"Really? I thought you were talking about his ass.”
― Cate Tiernan, Immortal Beloved

“I-just want you. I want you so bad, all the time. I know I shouldn't, I know I can't, I know it's wrong... but even when you're pissing me off, when you're reminding me of pain and despair and torture-it's there, the wanting. I'm tired of fighting it. I fight so many things, all the time, every day. I don't want to fight this. Not anymore.”
― Cate Tiernan, Immortal Beloved

“Being good is something that one must choose over and over again, every day, throughout the day, for the rest of one’s life.”
― Cate Tiernan, Immortal Beloved

“Over my dead body, I thought. Yes, even immortals use that phrase. It has extra oomph for us.”
― Cate Tiernan, Immortal Beloved

“Now he was kissing me, not in a scary way, not with hostility, but with warm, seductive intent. In a hayloft, in the barn, in the middle of the night. This scene brought to you by the letters W, T, and F.”
― Cate Tiernan, Immortal Beloved

“Please, ground, just open up and let me fall into an endless crevasse till I hit the center of the earth and combust. Please. Is that too much to ask?”
― Cate Tiernan, Immortal Beloved

“Please, please be some sex-starved nutcase who wants to kidnap me and make me your love slave, I begged silently.”
― Cate Tiernan, Immortal Beloved

“It was all I could do to not knock him down right there in front of Asher and climb on him. If I stunned him with a frying pan first, he might not struggle too much.…”
― Cate Tiernan, Immortal Beloved

“I held a nail in place and slammed it with the hammer. Best. Chore. Ever.”
― Cate Tiernan, Immortal Beloved

“Being good is something that one must choose over and over again, every day, throughout the day, for the rest of one's life," Asher said. "A day is made of a thousand decisions, most small, some huge. With each decision you have the chance to work toward light, or sink toward darkness.”
― Cate Tiernan, Immortal Beloved

“He gave a hard smile and the oxygen in my lungs evaporated. “We
both know I’m not a gentleman.”
“Yeah. Okay, let me out. I’m tired.”
“There’s something else,” he said, and I groaned.
“What now?”
“This.” He stepped closer to me, so close that the containers were
sandwiched between us. His eyes
looked down into mine, intent and golden, like a lion.
“Oh, no, you don’t!” I hissed, dropping everything. I pushed hard
against his chest; it was like shoving
a tree.
“Yes,” he said very softly, leaning down. “Yes, I do.”
― cate tiernan, Immortal Beloved

“I cared about them. I wanted them to feel better, to live better lives. And then it occurred to me - I cared about myself. I wanted me to live a better life, too Caring about myself was allowing me to care about others.”
― Cate Tiernan, Immortal Beloved

“Then what's the point of trying if you can't even win?"
"You win in lots of different ways," Asher said. "Lots of little wins. The point of this life is not to be good all the time. It's to be as good as you can. No one is perfect. No one does it right all the time. That's not what life is.”
― Cate Tiernan, Immortal Beloved

“My face is not that expressive!”
― Cate Tiernan, Immortal Beloved

“I didn't know where this stuff was coming from - all of a sudden I was a little magickal sprite, bonding with my stone, feeling my earth roots, la la la...
All I can is describe the way it felt. And that was how it felt. So sue me.
Was I swaying? I felt like I might be swaying.”
― Cate Tiernan, Immortal Beloved

“I should have known the power-hungry slave drivers at River's Edge would see my five days of freedom only as a challenge to be filled.”
― Cate Tiernan, Immortal Beloved

“I'm here by choice, I reminded myself. I'm here because I can't bear to be not- here anymore. I'm here because I can't tell right from wrong, light from dark. I'm here because I can't stand being me. I'm here because I don't want anyone to know where I am.”
― Cate Tiernan, Immortal Beloved

“Maybe what River had meant was that time itself was like a river, moving steadily forward, and you got to be in a new river every day, every hour. All my life I'd felt like a lake. A lake where everyhting was contained, forever. All my experiences, all the different people I'd been, everything I'd had, everything I'd lost...I carried them around with me, all the time”
― Cate Tiernan, Immortal Beloved

“A woman's face, naked and unadorned, is as beautiful as the moon, and as mysterious.”
― Cate Tiernan, Immortal Beloved

“Lo bueno de ser inmortal es que no puedes beber literalmente hasta caerte muerto, como lo hacen los niñatos universitarios de vez en cuando. Lo malo de ser inmortal es que no puedes beber hasta caerte muerto; y entonces, al despertar a la mañana siguiente o incluso un día más tarde, te toca comerte la resaca que te habrías ahorrado si hubieras tenido la suerte de morir.”
― Cate Tiernan, Immortal Beloved

“—... Ahora, vamos: dibuja un círculo, tan redondo como puedas. Tenía un mal presentimiento acerca de todo aquello. A pesar de ello, obedecí: así soy yo, siempre confiada y obediente. Ja.”
― Cate Tiernan, Immortal Beloved