Kingdom of Shadow and Light Quotes

“Did you really think there was any version of me you could create, in any reality, in any universe that would not—first, foremost, and forever—be loyal to MacKayla Lane?”
― Karen Marie Moning, Kingdom of Shadow and Light

“I see the first flicker of warmth in his eyes, and I understand something then. At some point, if I continued using dark power and went fully dark— I’d join you in hell. Black eyes flash crimson. And I’d prefer not to. So, toe the motherfucking line, and don’t make me cross it, Ms. Lane.”
― Karen Marie Moning, Kingdom of Shadow and Light

“Each time I say, Thank you, I'm telling him he's my sun, moon, and stars. And each time Barrons replies, Always. Mac, I know what it means. His "always" is a pledge of love, a promise eternal, and a guarantee that while we may never live happily ever after for very long, we will live. Together. Vibrantly and passionately. Fire to his ice. Ice to my fever.”
― Karen Marie Moning, Kingdom of Shadow and Light

“You must be meticulous about the thoughts you send out into the universe. It’s listening.”
― Karen Marie Moning, Kingdom of Shadow and Light

“O ye of little faith. Why would you run? Do you still believe there's any incarnation of you I wouldn't want? Wouldn't go after determined to share a life with, to the end of space and time itself?”
― Karen Marie Moning, Kingdom of Shadow and Light

“Are you defending me in a premonition where I turned into a she-bitch from hell?" "I'll defend you everywhere.”
― Karen Marie Moning, Kingdom of Shadow and Light

“You must be meticulous about the thoughts you send out into the universe. It's listening. Argue for your limits and, sure enough, they're yours. You have to argue for your dreams.”
― Karen Marie Moning, Kingdom of Shadow and Light

“Death will come, grief will rain down again and again, and the only way to survive it and remain an alive, passionate being is to pay the price of pain every time, or you will become as barbarous and icy as the Fae. It’s always going to hurt. But as long as you’re still capable of suffering you’re still capable of joy. Better the depths of hell and heights of heaven than the horror of feeling nothing.”
― Karen Marie Moning, Kingdom of Shadow and Light

“He growls, “That fuck is dead. I burned what was left of him, poked around in the ashes, and waited to see if anything rose. It didn’t. I ate them.” I burst out laughing. “You did not eat Cruce’s ashes.” “The fuck I didn’t.”
― Karen Marie Moning, Kingdom of Shadow and Light

“Find a better balloon. One that's real. Life is messy, complicated, and difficult. Relish it as it is. Quit expecting it to change. You might find you feel, well, normal then," he mocks. "And realize life never was normal. You were just happy. Be it again. Your choice.”
― Karen Marie Moning, Kingdom of Shadow and Light

“This moment is perfect. And it's all we ever have. This moment, right now. We're fools if we fail to cram all the living and loving we can possibly do into each and every one.”
― Karen Marie Moning, Kingdom of Shadow and Light

“In Fae and mortal realms alike, he who controls the press controls the world.”
― Karen Marie Moning, Kingdom of Shadow and Light

“We’re the love we give and receive, the actions we take when the world is chaotic and hard, what we demand of ourselves, and how we take care of one another in the darkest of times.”
― Karen Marie Moning, Kingdom of Shadow and Light

“He's the ultimate plagiarist, copying what others do if it proves successful and putting his own spin on it, which really pisses me off, because it`s far more difficult to come up with the original idea than steal someone else`s and spruce it up a bit.”
― Karen Marie Moning, Kingdom of Shadow and Light

“I've become the most powerful stuff in the universe: love and hope wed to focused will.”
― Karen Marie Moning, Kingdom of Shadow and Light

“I have a sudden lump in my throat. I didn't know she felt that way about me. Most of the time I feel like I just bumble about and get lucky with the help of my amazing friends. The truth is, nothing I've ever done would have succeeded if I'd been alone. "It take all of us, Kat. Not just me.”
― Karen Marie Moning, Kingdom of Shadow and Light

“I feel what's in you, and there's nothing light about it. I know the dark side. I live there, for fuck's sake. Emotion shapes power. Terrible power comes at a terrible price. Shut it the fuck down and get your bloody emotions in check, Ms. Lane.”
― Karen Marie Moning, Kingdom of Shadow and Light

“Kindness and cruelty. He'll get that in bed next time. Dark laughter rolls. "Bring it on.”
― Karen Marie Moning, Kingdom of Shadow and Light

“from The Collected Works of Kahlil Gibran. Your children are not your children, They are the sons and daughters of Life’s longing for itself. They come through you but not from you, And though they are with you yet they belong not to you. You may give them your love but not your thoughts. You may house their bodies but not their souls, For their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, Which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams.”
― Karen Marie Moning, Kingdom of Shadow and Light

“How did you combat it?” I felt it rising up in him, answering my call. Yet coolly, remotely, he thrust it away. He could have joined me, adding fuel to my fire. “You choose. Hero or villain.” “You told me you’re not the hero.” “Not the villain either.” “What else is there?” “A person that gets up every day and tries as hard as she can to live up to what she believes in. Aims for the stars. Misses sometimes. Tries again. Harder. With more commitment to protecting others and less selfishness.”
― Karen Marie Moning, Kingdom of Shadow and Light

“Yet only abominations stalk, shamble, hulk, and scrabble through the Winter courtyard, most missing limbs, some split wide open like overripe, weeping plums, others turned inside out, wearing entrails for skin, blind eyes, deaf ears, and silenced mouths cocooned within, lying in raw, oozing heaps on the ground.”
― Karen Marie Moning, Kingdom of Shadow and Light

“Last I was here, Winter was a desolate, iced landscape with drift blasting across the terrain, fogging the air white, tumbles of stone and ice and statues barely visible. Today it’s clear, if not sunny. Sun doesn’t exist in Winter; there lurks only an intermittently glimpsed frost-bitten orb of wan blue.”
― Karen Marie Moning, Kingdom of Shadow and Light

“The Nine are my tribe now. And I'm keeping them.”
― Karen Marie Moning, Kingdom of Shadow and Light

“You can't just perch naked in front of a man, demand sex, and expect to get it. It doesn't work like that." "Of course it does." "Does not." She says blankly, "In what kingdom in what universe doesn't it work like that?”
― Karen Marie Moning, Kingdom of Shadow and Light

“Barrons gets my beast, thinks she's beautiful.”
― Karen Marie Moning, Kingdom of Shadow and Light

“You must be meticulous about the thoughts you send out into the universe. It’s listening. Argue for your limits and, sure enough, they’re yours. You have to argue for your dreams.”
― Karen Marie Moning, Kingdom of Shadow and Light

“There are no certainties but one. Death will come. My philosophy has always been: feckin’ A—all the more reason to ride the hell out of it! Milk life for all you can get. Howl with laughter, scream with fear. Get sloshed on every color of the rainbow.”
― Karen Marie Moning, Kingdom of Shadow and Light

“I like threatening, handling, and conquering and excel at it.”
― Karen Marie Moning, Kingdom of Shadow and Light

“And she doesn’t want company. I can’t fault her for that. We all must make our way alone before we’re much good at making our way together.”
― Karen Marie Moning, Kingdom of Shadow and Light

“This moment is perfect. And it’s all we ever have. This moment, right now. We’re fools if we fail to cram all the living and loving we can possibly do into each and every one.”
― Karen Marie Moning, Kingdom of Shadow and Light