“One day, kid, you'll be willing to mortage your fucking soul for somebody.” — Karen Marie Moning Copy Share Image
You might be able to thrash your way out of a spiderweb, but thrashing in quicksand doesn’t work. The harder you fight,… — Karen Marie Moning Copy Share Image
“You both talk too much,” the kid says. “Shut up. Don’t make me tell you again.” We shut up, which I find… — Karen Marie Moning Copy Share Image
-I'm going to kill the kid. - Barrons says faintly. Ryodan makes a burbling sound like a bodly laught. -Get in line — Karen Marie Moning Copy Share Image
You'll never be just anything. A tsunami can never be just a wave (...) Waves are banal. Tsunamis reshape the Earth — Karen Marie Moning Copy Share Image
“See things for what they are. Drop your blinders and raise the sewer to eye level. Admit that your swimming in shit.… — Karen Marie Moning Copy Share Image
Dude, the bush is ready. Why you still beating around it?” “I’ve lived a long time, kid, and I’ve never heard anyone… — Karen Marie Moning Copy Share Image
Turn it off," Ryodan says without even looking at me. "You're distressing Dani. No one distresses Dani but me. — Karen Marie Moning Copy Share Image
The wound you refuse to dress is one that will never heal. You gush lifeblood and never even know why. It will… — Karen Marie Moning Copy Share Image
“You’ll never be just anything. A tsunami can never be ‘just’ a wave.” “Get off my chin.” “I like that about you.… — Karen Marie Moning Copy Share Image
Some of us are born more than once. Some of us recreate ourselves many times. Ryodan says adaptability is survivability. Ryodan says… — Karen Marie Moning Copy Share Image
“I know that when he has sex he laughs like the world is a perfect place. And when he did that, my… — Karen Marie Moning Copy Share Image
“I thought you were disgusted by the people that come to my club.” “They’re still people.” He presses the button again. “If… — Karen Marie Moning Copy Share Image
“I look up but don't spot him. "I take care of myself. I ain't living with nobody. Got my own digs. What… — Karen Marie Moning Copy Share Image
“I hear a guttural sound followed by a weak sigh and look back at the bodies. "I'm going to kill the kid,"… — Karen Marie Moning Copy Share Image
“I look down. Ryodan’s dick is as big as mine. “Why the bloody hell don’t you wear underwear?” To an Unseelie prince,… — Karen Marie Moning Copy Share Image
Dude. Post-apocalyptic world. Who does job applications anymore?” “I do.” I squint at it, then him. “What are you paying me?” I… — Karen Marie Moning Copy Share Image
Velvet looks horrified. “If you are fool enough to address King R’jan, you will do it thus and in no other manner!… — Karen Marie Moning Copy Share Image
“Kid, let me tell you something. Most people spend their short time in this world less than half alive. They wander through… — Karen Marie Moning Copy Share Image
“Stop. Vibrating." Ryodan plucks a paper out of the air and slaps it back down on his desk. I wonder if he… — Karen Marie Moning Copy Share Image
“Lor blows in like he was plastered to the other side of the door. "Escort the kid to clean the fuck up… — Karen Marie Moning Copy Share Image
“Sloppy, Mega,” I mutter. I still can’t see. I wipe my bloody nose on my sleeve and reach out to feel what… — Karen Marie Moning Copy Share Image
“A Seelie. A fucking prince,” Lor said. “He’s got a couple hundred more Seelie from a dozen different castes waiting outside. Threatening… — Karen Marie Moning Copy Share Image
“Dani: Crank it up. Lets get this party started. *I hand Dancer my iPod.* Lor: What is this crap. Where the hell… — Karen Marie Moning Copy Share Image
“I smack myself in the forehead. “Holy priceless collection of Etruscan snoods, they’re not moving!” I exclaim. There’s a choking noise over… — Karen Marie Moning Copy Share Image
“What does somebody like you want? More power? More toys? More sex?" "All of the above. All the time." "Greedy bugger." "Kid,… — Karen Marie Moning Copy Share Image
“Ryodan doesn’t like Mac. He never has. She got between him and his best boy-bud. I give him a look. “I’ll tell… — Karen Marie Moning Copy Share Image
“A man steps out. Strong. Brilliant. Controlled. Predator. Unbreakable. He's everything I admire plus things I can't even put into words. I… — Karen Marie Moning Copy Share Image
“Kid, when will you learn.” “You’d be amazed the things I know.” “You might be able thrash your way out of a… — Karen Marie Moning Copy Share Image
“The more excited I get, the more I vibrate." "Now there's a thought," Lor says. "If you mean what I think you… — Karen Marie Moning Copy Share Image
“Leave it alone, I'm handling this," Barrons told Ryodan. "I suggest you do a better job." "And I suggest you go fuck… — Karen Marie Moning Copy Share Image
“There are only two things to worry about in life: either you’re free or you’re not. If you’re free, there’s nothing to… — Karen Marie Moning Copy Share Image
“He looks at me, looks at my head, and his lips twitch like he's trying not to bust out laughing. "You don't… — Karen Marie Moning Copy Share Image
“I'm not going anywhere until you're safe," Christian says to me, real quiet. "Isn't that quaint. The chivalrous Unseelie prince with the… — Karen Marie Moning Copy Share Image
Dani, Dani, Dani." I flinch. I've never heard anyone say my name so gently. It creeps me all kinds of out. He's… — Karen Marie Moning Copy Share Image
“One day, kid, you'll be willing to mortgage your fucking soul for somebody.” “I don't think you should say fucking around me.… — Karen Marie Moning Copy Share Image
“Why did you laugh right before you lost consciousness.” “Death’s an adventure. I lived big. Rigor mortis makes your face stick. So,… — Karen Marie Moning Copy Share Image
“Every morning he comes to the top of the stairs and looks down over the club and he stands there, so big… — Karen Marie Moning Copy Share Image
“I look at Ryodan and he looks at me and for a second I think we might both kill the kid. Ryodan's… — Karen Marie Moning Copy Share Image
“I can either be a victim—or a winner. Fuck victimhood. I don’t wear it well; it clashes with my wardrobe.” — Karen Marie Moning Copy Share Image
Ancient eyes had stared at me, filled with ancient grief. And something more. Something so alien and unexpected that I'd almost burst into tears.… — Karen Marie Moning Copy Share Image
Some things are sacred. Until you act like they're not. Then you lose them — Karen Marie Moning Copy Share Image
Sometimes, Ms. Lane," he said, "one must break with one's past to embrace one's future. It is never an easy thing to do. It… — Karen Marie Moning Copy Share Image
“I think I’m under control, that I’ve stripped away all weaknesses. That committing to my mission has made me impervious. I’m wrong. The thought… — Karen Marie Moning Copy Share Image
Desire makes life happen. Makes it matter. Makes everything worth it. Desire is life. Hunger to see the next sunrise or sunset, to touch… — Karen Marie Moning Copy Share Image
“Finally, someone had seen him. And what had he done? Let her get away. Undermined by his disgusting human anatomy. It had just been… — Karen Marie Moning Copy Share Image
“Our sex is fierce. We will both be bruised. "I want it to always be like this," I tell him. "Try holding onto that… — Karen Marie Moning Copy Share Image
Keep hoping to see the light in her eyes. Even knowing it'll mean she's saying good-bye. — Karen Marie Moning Copy Share Image
Strength wasn‘t about being able to do everything alone. Strength was knowing when to ask for help and not being too proud to do… — Karen Marie Moning Copy Share Image
“He swapped the fistful of my shirt for one in my hair, and ground his mouth against mine.” — Karen Marie Moning Copy Share Image
