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“He pulls me around and kisses me. "You're Mac," he says. "And I'm Jericho. And nothing else matters. Never will. You exist in a place that is beyond all rules for me. Do you understand that?"
I do.
Jericho Barrons just told me he loves me.”
― Karen Marie Moning, Shadowfever

“Dying is overrated. Human sentimentality has twisted it into the ultimate act of love. Biggest load of bullshit in the world. Dying for someone isn't the hard thing. The man that dies escapes. Plain and simple. Game over. End of pain...Try living for someone. Through it all-good, bad, thick, thin, joy, suffering. That's the hard thing.”
― Karen Marie Moning, Shadowfever

“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 is one of the distinguishing characteristics between survivors and victims. Letting go of what was, to survive what is.”
― Karen Marie Moning, Darkfever

“Four: If you try to force yourself into my head, I will force myself into your pants.”
― Karen Marie Moning, Dreamfever

“Stop staring at my dick," he growled.

Oh, yes it was definitely an illusion. "Barrons loved me staring at his dick,"I informed it. "he would have been happy if I'd stared at his dick all day long, composing odes to its perfection.”
― Karen Marie Moning, Shadowfever

“I'm sorry your pretty little world got all screwed up, but everybody's does, and you go on. It's how you go on that defines you.”
― Karen Marie Moning, Bloodfever

“Punch me."
"Don't be absurd."
"Come on, punch me, Barrons."
"I'm not punching you."
"I said, punch--OW!"
He decked me.”
― Karen Marie Moning, Bloodfever

“And here we go. She's bristling and my hackles go up. Bloody hell, I feel fangs coming on. Tell you what, Ms. Lane," Barrons said softly, "Anytime you want to have a conversation with me, leave the myriad issues you have with wanting to fuck me every time you look at me outside my cave, come on in, and see what you find. You might like it.”
― Karen Marie Moning, Shadowfever

“Even I don't know what you're doing, and I know everything.”
― Karen Marie Moning, Bloodfever

“Try a rocket launcher. Think maybe you could manage to hit me with that?”
― Karen Marie Moning, Shadowfever

“We're translating the Kama Sutra," Barrons said, with interactive aids.”
― Karen Marie Moning, Shadowfever

“If he’d been any other man and i'd been any other girl, I’d have called the narrowing of his heavy-lidded dark eyes lust. But he was Barrons and I was Mac, and a blossoming of lust was about as likely as orchids blooming in Antarctica”
― Karen Marie Moning, Bloodfever

“For what other reason would you have me save you? Because I like you? Better to be useful than liked.”
― Karen Marie Moning, Bloodfever

“The four Keltar Druids brought their wives and children. They breed like it's their personal mission to populate their country in case somebody attacks again, as if anybody wants the bloody place.”
― Karen Marie Moning, Shadowfever

“Why did the Lord Master take one look at you and leave? What are you, Barrons?��

“The one who will never let you die, and that’s more, Ms. Lane, than anyone in your life has ever been able to say to you. More than anyone else can do.”
― Karen Marie Moning

“I’m obsessed and addicted and ripped-down-raw in love with Jericho Barrons.”
― Karen Marie Moning, Burned

“Leave it alone, I'm handling this," Barrons told Ryodan.
"I suggest you do a better job."
"And I suggest you go fuck yourself.”
― Karen Marie Moning, Shadowfever

“Like is an emotion. Emotions”—he raised a hand, made a fist, clenched it tightly—“are like holding water. You open your hand, there’s nothing there. Better to be a weapon than a woman.”
― Karen Marie Moning

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“The only question of any significant emotive content is: can you live without it?”
― Karen Marie Moning, Shadowfever

“All myths contain a grain of truth, Ms. Lane. I’ve handled books and artifacts that will never find their way into a museum or library, things no archaeologist or historian could ever make sense of. There are many realities pocketed away in the one we call our own. Most go blindly about their lives and never see beyond the ends of their noses. Some of us do.”
― Karen Marie Moning, Darkfever

“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

“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

“Fear is more than a wasted emotion. It's the penultimate set of blinders. If you can't face the truth of your reality, you can't be a part of it, can't control it. You may as well throw in the towel and yield to the whims of anyone with a stronger will.”
― Karen Marie Moning, Shadowfever