High Voltage Quotes

“Love doesn't build cages. It builds stairways to the stars.”
― Karen Marie Moning, High Voltage

“Christ. Women. I don't get you. I protect you, you get pissy. I don't protect you, you get pissy. I open doors, I'm patronizing. I don't open doors, I'm a caveman, wich by the way, I am. What the bipolar fuck? Beginning to think you babes don't have any clue what you want, or change your mind constantly just to dick with us.”
― Karen Marie Moning, High Voltage

“Choose the men you take to your bed by these criteria: they see the finest in you, enhance and defend it. When you fuck a man you are giving him A. Motherfucking. Gift. Be certain he deserves it. And bloody hell, don't have one-night stands. Commit to the action. Make it matter. Feel it and ride it all the way through.”
― Karen Marie Moning, High Voltage

“Because I know a priceless truth: when someone has done everything in their power to mangle your wings beyond recognition, to slice them to shreds so that they can never be used, there is only one way to win.
Fly.”
― Karen Marie Moning, High Voltage

“I’d rather be fearless and criticized than fearful and approved of.
That’s the bloody choice sometimes.”
― Karen Marie Moning, High Voltage

“He said love is the willingness to put the happiness and evolution of the person you love before your own. Even if it means giving them up.”
― Karen Marie Moning, High Voltage

“Love is funny. Even though you don't have that person anymore, you still have the feeling. You didn't lose your LOVE. You lost the tangible, tactile, sense-sational ability to experience the person or animal you lost.”
― Karen Marie Moning, High Voltage

“People had to want to stay, choose to be with you, or it meant nothing. There were physical cages and there were emotional ones. Holding onto someone too tightly made it hard for them to breathe, and eventually, inevitably, they’d do one of two things: suffocate or run, leaving you feeling like hell either way.”
― Karen Marie Moning, High Voltage

“At fourteen, I’d vowed, one day, I’d be the woman making him laugh, making joy blaze from his face, so tangible it seemed I might catch it in my hands.”
― Karen Marie Moning, High Voltage

“You don't grieve love; you celebrate that you had it.”
― Karen Marie Moning, High Voltage

“You crazy, beautiful, maddening woman, that's because you trained yourself to live that way. And wisely so. It's what kept you alive. It's been your saving grace. You learned young the necessity of leaving the pain behind and embracing the next good thing. Few people ever achieve that clarity. Prolonged grief is self-mutilation; a blade you turn on yourself. It doesn't bring them back and only keeps you trapped in misery. You were healing the way people should heal but they punish themselves instead. For what—being the one who lived? Those we love will die. And die. And die. Life goes on. You choose how: badly or well.”
― Karen Marie Moning, High Voltage

“It occured to me that adaptability was more than survivability; it was the foundation of love. We were all changing, every day, and those relationships that endured were the ones that rode the waves together, grew and allowed each other to evolve. Encouraged it, even when it was frightening. Adaptability in relationships was the polar opposite of a cage. It was necessary commitment wed to necessary freedom.”
― Karen Marie Moning, High Voltage

“Tonight, the sea was a shiver of dark glass, harboring secrets untold in her depths while on her tranquil surface stars glittered like diamonds.”
― Karen Marie Moning, High Voltage

“Furthermore, if I lost my soul, I’d adapt. I always do. Adaptation is my specialty. I practically invented the word.”
― Karen Marie Moning, High Voltage

“Did he think I would beg him to stay? Never. People had to want to stay, choose to be with you, or it meant nothing.”
― Karen Marie Moning, High Voltage

“If I were a character in a novel, I'd snipe the bitch who wrote my life this way.”
― Karen Marie Moning, High Voltage

“Life-giving, life-stealing, beautiful, a challenge to handle, worth learning to ride, full of fresh wonders every day—if he’d had a woman like the ocean in his bed, he’d still be there.”
― Karen Marie Moning, High Voltage

“I learned young that moments of comedy during the horror show can be a life raft, enough to keep you bobbing in a violent, killing sea.”
― Karen Marie Moning, High Voltage

“Because I know a priceless truth: when someone has done everything in their power to mangle your wings beyond recognition, to slice them to shreds so that they can never be used, there is only one way to win. Fly.”
― Karen Marie Moning, High Voltage

“I think that's what love is; holding someone sacred, honoring them, protecting them, living up to the very best of them.”
― Karen Marie Moning, High Voltage

“I'd keep an open mind, consider all possibilities. That's all any of us can do. Life is a box you don't get to open all at once. You can touch it, pick it up, shake it even, but you can only guess at the contents. There's a hole in the top of the box where things come out, on their own timetable, on their own terms. You think you have things figured out" he said, with a note of bitterness in his voice, "only to find you saw everything completely wrong, didn't understand a bloody bit of it. So, you wait to see what pops out next. And you go on living in the meantime.”
― Karen Marie Moning, High Voltage

“That had taken enormous courage. To love someone you knew wanted someone else, too, but had, for whatever reason, chosen you.”
― Karen Marie Moning, High Voltage

“When you refuse to think about an issue, it remains unchanged, in precisely the same state as you tucked it away."
"Precisely the point of boxing it. The issue dies. Can no longer affect you. It's a damned effective tactic."
"Short-term yes. Long-term, a recipe for disaster. When you next encounter whatever you boxed your feeling about, you're ambushed by repressed, unresolved emotion.”
― Karen Marie Moning, High Voltage

“Argue for your limitations, you make them yours. Together, we’re going to argue for your possibilities”
― Karen Marie Moning, High Voltage

“Love is funny. Even though you don’t have that person anymore, you still have the feeling. You didn’t lose your love. You lost the tangible, tactile, sense-sational ability to experience the person or animal you lost. Grief is all about not being able to touch anymore. Not being able to use your senses to experience them on a physical level. They’ve moved beyond an impenetrable veil, beyond your hands and mouth and eyes.”
― Karen Marie Moning, High Voltage

“The heart has its own mind, measures its own time, and if it consults with the brain, doesn’t always heed the advice. My brain was screaming—stop hurting already. To a deaf audience.”
― Karen Marie Moning, High Voltage

“Cages were funny things.
Although I'd escaped with my body long ago, only recently had my heart finally broken free.
Healed by the love of a man who'd been willing to sacrifice everything, even give me up if he had to, just to see me rise.”
― Karen Marie Moning, High Voltage

“That's why I remember every single thing I've done, stare at myself in a mirror and meet those eyes that have screwed up, fully aware of my failings, because the day I let myself forget them is the day I could start doing them all over again.”
― Karen Marie Moning, High Voltage

“Acts done by my body against my will are not my acts.”
― Karen Marie Moning, High Voltage

“I’m not afraid of Hell. I lived there once. And if I have to go back again, I’ll swagger through those gates with fire in my blood and war in my heart. And I’ll. Take. No. Prisoners.”
― Karen Marie Moning, High Voltage