Cate Tiernan > Quotes

“There is darkness in light, there is pain in joy, and there are thorns on the rose.”
― Cate Tiernan

“Yes. Reyn is our resident horse master. He has an excellent seat."
I grinned. "I've noticed."
Reyn's face tightened and Nell flushed, looking embarrassed. "It's an equestrian term."
"Really? I thought you were talking about his ass.”
― Cate Tiernan, Immortal Beloved

“Fire is a fragile lover, court her well, neglect her not; her faith is like a misty smoke, her anger is destructive hot.”
― Cate Tiernan

“I-just want you. I want you so bad, all the time. I know I shouldn't, I know I can't, I know it's wrong... but even when you're pissing me off, when you're reminding me of pain and despair and torture-it's there, the wanting. I'm tired of fighting it. I fight so many things, all the time, every day. I don't want to fight this. Not anymore.”
― Cate Tiernan, Immortal Beloved

“Being good is something that one must choose over and over again, every day, throughout the day, for the rest of one’s life.”
― Cate Tiernan, Immortal Beloved

“Anytime you feel love for anything, be it stone, tree, lover, or child, you are touched by the Goddess's magick...”
― Cate Tiernan, Book of Shadows

“There are no coincidences. And everything means something.”
― Cate Tiernan, Sweep: Volume 1

“Over my dead body, I thought. Yes, even immortals use that phrase. It has extra oomph for us.”
― Cate Tiernan, Immortal Beloved

“Now he was kissing me, not in a scary way, not with hostility, but with warm, seductive intent. In a hayloft, in the barn, in the middle of the night. This scene brought to you by the letters W, T, and F.”
― Cate Tiernan, Immortal Beloved

“Women are impossible, witches are worse, and women who are powerful witches are going to be the death of me.”
― Cate Tiernan, Seeker

“Please, ground, just open up and let me fall into an endless crevasse till I hit the center of the earth and combust. Please. Is that too much to ask?”
― Cate Tiernan, Immortal Beloved

“Please, please be some sex-starved nutcase who wants to kidnap me and make me your love slave, I begged silently.”
― Cate Tiernan, Immortal Beloved

“It happened again this afternoon. Just the way it did that other night. We were talking--talking about how to protect her, actually--and then, suddenly, I looked at her and it was as if I'd found an entire universe in her eyes.”
― Cate Tiernan, Awakening

“But I also meant that loving someone really opening your heart to them is just asking to have your heart smashed and handed back to you in little pieces.”
― Cate Tiernan, The Calling

“Everything is fine and bright. Day must follow every night. My power keeps me safe from harm. The Goddess holds me in her arms.”
― Cate Tiernan, Full Circle

“Oh my God, can you see me? I thought I was wearing my invisibility cloak.”
― Cate Tiernan, Darkness Falls

“It was all I could do to not knock him down right there in front of Asher and climb on him. If I stunned him with a frying pan first, he might not struggle too much.…”
― Cate Tiernan, Immortal Beloved

“You went to all that trouble just for my body?" I said, amazed and so grateful.
Reyn looked up, irritation on his face. "Yeah. We were going to have you stuffed, as an example to future students."
I grinned, "You could put me on wheels, move me from room to room.”
― Cate Tiernan, Darkness Falls

“Better stupid and safe that smart and dead.”
― Cate Tiernan, Sweep: Volume 1

“I was of the “When life gives you lemons, make lemonade, then wonder why life didn’t give you freaking sugar so you could drink the stuff” school of thought.”
― Cate Tiernan, Eternally Yours

“I feel like a fox in a henhouse full of Catholic girls.”
― Cate Tiernan, Sweep: Volume 2

“Men are natural warriors, but a woman in battle is truly bloodthirsty”
― Cate Tiernan, Book of Shadows

“Heritage does not equal destiny.”
― Cate Tiernan, The Calling

“I held a nail in place and slammed it with the hammer. Best. Chore. Ever.”
― Cate Tiernan, Immortal Beloved

“I don't love you. But I see the value of you, the incredible worth of you, more than anyone I've ever known.”
― cate tiernan, A Feather of Stone

“I'd once read somewhere that is takes about half as long to recover from a deep relationship as the relationship lasted.”
― Cate Tiernan, Sweep: Volume 1

“In fairy tales there's always one person who is made for one other, and they find each other and live happily ever after. Cal was my person. I couldn't imagine anyone more perfect. Yet what kind of sick fairy tale would it be if he was the one made exactly right for me and I wasn't right for him?”
― Cate Tiernan, Book of Shadows

“Being good is something that one must choose over and over again, every day, throughout the day, for the rest of one's life," Asher said. "A day is made of a thousand decisions, most small, some huge. With each decision you have the chance to work toward light, or sink toward darkness.”
― Cate Tiernan, Immortal Beloved

“At that moment I remembered something Cal had told me: that there is beauty in darkness in everything. Sorrow in joy, life and death, thorns on the rose. I knew then that I could not escape pain and torment any more than I could give up joy and beauty”
― Cate Tiernan, Awakening

“There's beauty and darkness in everything: Sorrow in joy, life in death, throns on the roses. You can't escape pain and torment anymore then you can give up joy and beauty...”
― Cate Tiernan, Awakening