Karsten Knight > Quotes

“Without missing a beat he said, “This year, Santa, I’d like a pony and an Easy-Bake Oven.”
Raja grunted and pushed him off to the side. “You’ll be getting coal in a place where it hurts if you ever attempt to sit in my lap again.”
― Karsten Knight, Wildefire

“Colt has the subtlety of a car alarm.”
― Karsten Knight, Wildefire

“The look she gave him in reply would have petrified Medusa.”
― Karsten Knight, Wildefire

“Jackie patted her on the shoulder, "you know what you need?"
Ash peeked out from between her fingers."Eight hours of rest before tomorrows exam? Bug spray that repels assholes?”
― Karsten Knight, Wildefire

“Ash sighed after he left, feeling somehow even more exhausted than she had when she'd crawled into bed the night before. She climbed back under the covers and closed her eyes.
Just in time for more knocking on the door.
"I hate everybody," Ash mumbled into her pillow...”
― Karsten Knight, Wildefire

“Don't get me wrong—he's hot as hell, and in another life I would have liked to wear him as a mink coat. But when your first thought about someone is wondering whether they're some sort of handsome woodland serial killer, it's hard to build an attraction.”
― Karsten Knight, Wildefire

“Ashline Wilde was a human mood ring.”
― Karsten Knight, Wildefire

“Seductive pull of the forest, an open canvas for trouble.”
― Karsten Knight, Wildefire

“This may be impossible for you to believe," Colt said in a hushed voice, "but as recently as last year, I was a hyper, naive-albeit extremely good-looking-minor myself."
"And now you're a persistent, outdoorsy, unshaven man-boy who cavorts with clones of your former self?"
Colt plucked a round stone out of the water. "I prefer boy-man, but the rest of the sentence sounded fairly accurate.”
― Karsten Knight, Wildefire

“Ash, you’re my sister and I love you. But some days you can be about as bright as a black hole.”
― Karsten Knight, Wildefire

“Dad always says, 'If you can't stand out, then you should just sit down.”
― Karsten Knight, Wildefire

“Do you ... still believe?'

'Our very presence here, a Polynesian goddess sitting next to a Zulu thunder god, listening to the song of a Greek siren, should be proof enough that religions can and do coexist.' He looked back at the cross over the entryway. 'And I still do not know.”
― Karsten Knight, Wildefire

“We're all just marionettes, Ashline," Eve said softly. "Dangling, dancing, waiting. You can pretend like you pull your own strings, but in the end your only hope is that you've landed in the hands of someone who knows what the hell they're doing.”
― Karsten Knight, Wildefire

“It must be hard," Ash said, "living half your life without someone."

..."Everyone says that." Kalama stared thoughtfully at the lemon that was floating in her iced tea. "But picture that man you love. Now ask yourself: Would you rather live half your life with him? Or all of it without him, with someone else instead? When you look at it that way, the choice is much easier than you think.”
― Karsten Knight, Afterglow

“None of us are only one thing.”
― Karsten Knight, This Eternity of Masks and Shadows

“With awesome power unfortunately comes an escalated potential for corruption.”
― Karsten Knight, This Eternity of Masks and Shadows

“Until the dream killer was dead, even sleep wasn't safe anymore.”
― Karsten Knight

“And then there were the gods with a vendetta to settle ...”
― Karsten Knight, This Eternity of Masks and Shadows

“The girl they pulled from the water that day was just a wispy, fragile husk of the one who dived in.”
― Karsten Knight, This Eternity of Masks and Shadows

“One horrible deed doesn't make a person evil. When it's time to be judged at the end of our lives, it's the sum of our actions that ultimately defines us.”
― Karsten Knight, This Eternity of Masks and Shadows

“He looked as surprised as I was about the kiss and more than a little guilty. "I ..." he started. "I'm sorry. That was wrong. You're my dead roommate's little sister, and I'm here to protect you, not to ..." He trailed off, lost for words.

When I finally regained control of my tongue, I said, "It's depraved and you should be ashamed of yourself." I dropped the bottle into the snow and walked determinedly toward him. "Do it again.”
― Karsten Knight, Nightingale, Sing

“The elements has punctured a constellation of holes in the roof, allowing pinpricks of daylight to illuminate random patches.”
― Karsten Knight, This Eternity of Masks and Shadows

“The cairns are always there to help them find their way back.”
― Karsten Knight, This Eternity of Masks and Shadows

“She seemed to have been drawn in watercolours, her outline bleeding into the air around her.”
― Karsten Knight, This Eternity of Masks and Shadows

“You're never too young to do what you love. Or to profit from it.”
― Karsten Knight, This Eternity of Masks and Shadows

“Justice comes in many shapes and sizes.”
― Karsten Knight, This Eternity of Masks and Shadows

“If there are no dragons to slay, you create your own.”
― Karsten Knight, This Eternity of Masks and Shadows

“The deities from every world mythology are reincarnated every century or so with no memories of their previous lives,”
― Karsten Knight, This Eternity of Masks and Shadows

“They bleed and die just like us - it's just less permanent.”
― Karsten Knight, This Eternity of Masks and Shadows