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“-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, Iced

“Dani: Crank it up. Lets get this party started. *I hand Dancer my iPod.*
Lor: What is this crap. Where the hell is Hendrix on this thing?
Jo: Did you get any Muse?
Dani: Muse is something you do
Jo: Distrubed is something you are
Dancer: And Godsmacked is something you get
Lor: Don't you have any Motley Crue or Van Halen?
Christian: How about some Flogging Molly?
Ryodan: Whats the deal with all the Linkin Park, for fuck's sake.
Dancer: Mega has a crush on Chester
Jo: You got any Adele?
Dani: Got some Nicki Minaj.
Ryodan: Somebody kill me now.”
― Karen Marie Moning, Iced

“You could ask me to teach you.â€�
“Huh?� This night is getting weird in a hurry. “Teach me like you’re teaching a class or something? What are you going to call it: ‘You Too Can Be a Sociopath 101�?�
“It would be more like a graduate-level class.�
I start to snicker. His sense of humour sneaks up on you. Then I remember who’s talking and bite it off.”
― Karen Marie Moning, Iced

“I smack myself in the forehead. “Holy priceless collection of Etruscan snoods, they’re not moving!â€� I exclaim. There’s a choking noise over my head somewhere. “Etruscan snoods?â€� I glow quietly inside. Some accomplishments mean more than others. I am officially the Shit. Now and forever. “Dude, watch your question marks. I just pried one out of you.â€� “I have no idea what you’re talking about.â€� “Admit it, you lost your eternal fecking composure.â€� “You have an obsession with a delusion about how I end my sentences. What the fuck are Etruscan snoods?â€� “Dunno. It’s just another of Robin’s sayings. Like, ‘Holy strawberries, Batman, we’re in a jam!â€� â€� “Strawberries.â€� “Or, ‘Holy Kleenex, Batman, it was right under our nose and we blew it!â€� ”
― Karen Marie Moning, Iced

“Velvet looks horrified. “If you are fool enough to address King R’jan, you will do it thus and in no other manner! ‘My King, Liege, Lord, and Master, your servant begs you grant it leave to speak.’â€�
“Wow. Totally delusionary there.�
“Good luck with that,� Ryodan says. “She doesn't beg to speak, or do anything else. You can lock her up, down, and sideways and it’s never going to happen.�
I beam at him. I had no idea he thought so highly of me.”
― Karen Marie Moning, Iced

“Keeping vigil over her are two monsters of very different breeds but monster just the same.
Death on her left.
Devil on her right.”
― Karen Marie Moning, Iced

“I pinch the sentence's butt with my other hand and tug it from my skin like a leech, smack it back on the page and clamp the book shut. Part of it's hanging out, and it waves jerkily at me with what appears to be blatant hostility. I stick the book back on the upside-down shelf over my head, pissed off sentence first, counting on the gluey base to hold it in. All I need is a badly mangled, irate sentence stalking me.”
― Karen Marie Moning, Iced

“Imagine a delicious glass of summer iced tea.

Take a long cool sip. Listen to the ice crackle and clink.

Is the glass part full or part empty?

Take another sip.

And now?”
― Vera Nazarian, The Perpetual Calendar of Inspiration

“I hear a guttural sound followed by a weak sigh and look back at the bodies.
"I'm going to kill the kid," Barrons says faintly.
Ryodan makes a burbling sound like a bloody laugh. I don't think he even has the parts left to laugh with. "Get in line.”
― Karen Marie Moning, Iced

“Rule #1 in the Universe: the crap always hits the fan. It's the nature of crap. It's a fan magnet.”
― Karen Marie Moning, Iced

“You'll never be just anything. A tsunami can never be just a wave (...) Waves are banal. Tsunamis reshape the Earth”
― Karen Marie Moning, Iced

“I know a thing about resentment: it is a poison you drink yourself, expecting others to die.”
― Karen Marie Moning, Iced

“I look up but don't spot him. "I take care of myself. I ain't living with nobody. Got my own digs. What are you doing up there?"
"Tracking the Hag. Trying to devise a way to trap her. She's fast but she's not a sifter."
I jerk, and look around warily. That's all we need right now. "Is she here?"
"If you brought that crazy bitch near me again." Ryodan doesn't finish his sentence. He doesn't need to.”
― Karen Marie Moning, Iced

“Fine. Okay. I killed her. But I didn’t mean to. And I didn’t kill her, kill her.â€�
“Oh, I see. As long as you didn’t kill her, kill her, then that’s okay.”
― Karen Marie Moning, Iced

“I return my attention to the situation at hand and realize Reality—the impatient bitch—has made my decision for me. She does that a lot. You get busy planning your life, then it has the nerve to just go ahead and happen to you before you’re ready. Before you even get the chance to aim yourself right!”
― Karen Marie Moning, Iced

“You both talk too much,â€� the kid says. “Shut up. Don’t make me tell you again.â€�
We shut up, which I find hysterically funny.”
― Karen Marie Moning, Iced

“Every morning he comes to the top of the stairs and looks down over the club and he stands there, so big and powerful and beautiful and..." She swallows hard like her mouth just went totally dry. "Sexy. God, so unbelievably sexy." Her eyes get a weird, intense look like she's remembering something, then she makes a soft noise and doesn't say anything for a second.”
― Karen Marie Moning, Iced

“Dude. I go all soft and melty inside and swallow a dreamy sigh. Robin to his Batman! Superhero partners. There are lots of versions where Robin gets way stronger. He could have had me at hello if he’d said that first. “You don’t want me to work for you. You want a superhero partner. That’s a whole different story. Why didn’t you just say so?”
― Dani O'Malley

“I’ve never paid any attention to time. Dancer says I’ve enjoyed a luxury most people never have. He hates clocks and watches and everything that has to do with time. He says people already have too many lost days and that most folks live in the past or the future but never the present, always saying stuff like “I’m unhappy because ‘Xâ€� happened to me yesterday, or I’ll be happy again when ‘Yâ€� happens to me tomorrow.â€� He says time is the ultimate villain.”
― Karen Marie Moning, Iced

“Honeysuckle iced petals,' scoffed one John Bull, spying my menu. 'I should as soon eat a bouquet of flowers. You must serve me solid belly timber, madame, nothing else.' Yet in one week I had tempted the old duffer with a restoring quintessence of veal. Then at dessert I caught him licking his spoon like a schoolboy as he scooped up a flower of my own exquisite honeysuckle ice.”
― Martine Bailey, An Appetite for Violets