Mourning Grey Quotes

“Your realm? This is the Guardian’s and you’re just playing in his. You are nothing but a fragment of his world. A piece of it.”
― Marie Montine, Mourning Grey: Part Two

“Feast upon your enemies to give you life. This, too, shall give me mine as I savor the destruction of flesh and blood off the children of the Light. Their souls will cry out to me, my own soul singing with its tune until one day the true power of my Realm will exist in all dimensions.”
― Marie Montine, Mourning Grey: Part One: The Guardians Of The Temple Saga

“Which side are we really on? We are in the grey.”
“Just for tonight,, I want to discover the way I feel when I am with you, for I both want to exceed and disappoint my expectations. For the sake of both of us, I hope it is disappointment.”
― Marie Montine, Mourning Grey: Part Three The Guardians Of The Temple Saga

“I know you yearn for him, and for one last time you shall have him. But please, let go of him after this.”
― Marie Montine, Mourning Grey: Part Three The Guardians Of The Temple Saga

“I was born into wealth, so I wouldn’t be. Anyway, the treasure I seek is not for greed.”
― Marie Montine, Mourning Grey: Part Three The Guardians Of The Temple Saga

“You should have come the minute you suspected anything. You tell me you would not betray me, and yet your actions challenge your words.”
― Marie Montine, Mourning Grey: Part Two

“He will lead us all to hell.”
― Marie Montine, Mourning Grey: Part Two

“But let me ask you this: what do you think would have happened that night in the woods had I not come? You claim to want to save her now when I was the one that has saved her…from you.”
― Marie Montine, Mourning Grey: Part Two

“I have been forced to acknowledge fate, over and over again. While it exists outside of my realm, it finds ways to penetrate mine. Instead of trying to outnumber, outdo, or out strength fate, I must outwit it by playing into its game instead of against it.” His conviction was icier than the sliver flecks in his eyes. “And that is why we will win this time.”
― Marie Montine, Mourning Grey: Part One: The Guardians Of The Temple Saga

“You’re the one who said nothing is over yet, that nothing has been determined, so don’t say we can’t! We didn’t write that prophecy with our hands; we didn’t put down on paper what we will do! We have a choice!”
― Marie Montine, Mourning Grey: Part Three The Guardians Of The Temple Saga

“But I’m not going to as long as I can help it, as long I’m breathing I will not stop the breath of another, Kins or humans or whoever. Words don't make us do what we’re supposed to do. My actions are my own, I don’t care who wrote them. So I’m going along with this journey to find my own path.”
― Marie Montine, Mourning Grey: Part Two

“What am I doing here? The same thing all of you men are: getting prepared for the final war with the Empians.”
― Marie Montine, Mourning Grey: Part One: The Guardians Of The Temple Saga

“I just worry you may pay too much attention to what you’re running from to see what you’re running to.”
― Marie Montine, Mourning Grey: Part One: The Guardians Of The Temple Saga

“The gems are worth more on the island than off it.”
― Marie Montine, Mourning Grey: Part Three The Guardians Of The Temple Saga

“I think the desert heat has melted the meat in your head!”
― Marie Montine, Mourning Grey: Part Three The Guardians Of The Temple Saga

“The longer you live by the dark, the better you come to understand its dark nature. It takes darkness to see darkness. Maybe they are suspicious for a reason, or for no reason other than they know what the Dark has a tendency to be. Maybe their human side trusts you more than their dark side trusts him.”
― Marie Montine, Mourning Grey: Part Three The Guardians Of The Temple Saga

“The heart belonging to the man of my dreams still belongs to a woman who died decades ago.”
― Marie Montine, Mourning Grey: Part Three The Guardians Of The Temple Saga

“I cannot go about killing people that do not know me or know of me. I do not kill for pleasure, or on impulse, but for survival and for necessity. That is what the wolf has taught me, and that is the way of all living things.”
― Marie Montine, Mourning Grey: Part One: The Guardians Of The Temple Saga

“Dear, my life is just as confined as yours, but I am all right with it. Who knows what’s out there. We are all meant for different things. But if something piques your interest, then perhaps you are one of those to find out what can still your heart.”
― Marie Montine, Mourning Grey: Part One: The Guardians Of The Temple Saga

“I am sorry, Lharkin told them, but I cannot: I no longer have the power of the Light. To bring Spyrel back, Cila, would mean to lose my own life, as that would be the price a Night Empian would now pay.”
― Marie Montine, Mourning Grey: Part Three The Guardians Of The Temple Saga

“I am torn by duty and desire.”
― Marie Montine, Mourning Grey: Part Two

“Well, we are still the created, no matter how dark we’ve become. We are no more trespassers than the jaguar that had been trailing us. We all belong, because we all live, as simple as that.”
― Marie Montine, Mourning Grey: Part Two

“It cannot be your child one day; once you became a Kin, you became immortal like a Night Empian, and lost the ability to create life.”
― Marie Montine, Mourning Grey: Part Two

“Only pay attention to your own silence, nothing around you exists. And then, listen.”
― Marie Montine, Mourning Grey: Part Two

“I just wanted to hear you beg. You’re almost as pitiful as those useless bodies on the floor.”
― Marie Montine, Mourning Grey: Part Two

“I know a little more about you now, Audray, or whoever you really are. The New Year is near, and my son’s resolution will not include you. Or I could make your life very uncomfortable after I tell James about you.”
― Marie Montine, Mourning Grey: Part One: The Guardians Of The Temple Saga

“Come on, Wind Dancer, it’s time to go. It’ll be just you and me asking for the night’s companionship.”
― Marie Montine, Mourning Grey: Part One: The Guardians Of The Temple Saga

“It enables me to survive and to think of tomorrow. You cannot survive in my world if you will care too much for the ones today who could perish tomorrow. I only speak of experience. You still have time before it is too late. Just consider the consequences. Do us all a favor by not letting us all suffer from it”
― Marie Montine, Mourning Grey: Part One: The Guardians Of The Temple Saga

“Raesha was of great wonder and irony; she did not need the Dark Guardian’s help to become like us. She became worse than us. I am certain that somehow the Guardian knew of this, and that was why he did not change her in the first place; why diminish something that was already so potentially dangerous; what is worse than someone being changed to darkness? Someone who on their own free will becomes darkness.”
― Marie Montine, Mourning Grey: Part Three The Guardians Of The Temple Saga

“You are a difficult woman, Cassandra. I should give you back to the humans. They deserve you.”
― Marie Montine, Mourning Grey: Part Three The Guardians Of The Temple Saga