Shannon Mayer > Quotes

“The devil will tell you nine truths, so that you’ll believe one lie.”
― Shannon Mayer, Shadowed Threads

“You sure?” “Nope.” “Excellent, I was worried you suddenly had a plan.”
― Shannon Mayer, Tracker

“Within all the darkness of my life, I had found the brilliant spot of light that pushed away the shadows
-Rylee Adamson in reference to Liam OShea”
― Shannon Mayer, Shadowed Threads

“Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me. Fool me a third time, and i'm going to run you the fuck through.”
― Shannon Mayer, Raising Innocence

“They are always with you, the ones you love. They never leave you. They fight for you even after they’re gone.”
― Shannon Mayer, Wounded

“bravery wasn’t being unafraid, it was doing what had to be done even if you were terrified.”
― Shannon Mayer, Veiled Threat

“This better be good,” he grumbled, sleep heavy in his words, the sound of static belying the fact he was a supernatural using a phone. I snorted. “Doran, I need ride.” The phone was so damn sensitive I heard the slide of sheets over his body as he moved around. Unreal. “Do you know how long I’ve waited to hear you say that?” Doran all but purred into the phone, all trace of sleepiness gone.”
― Shannon Mayer, Tracker

“It’s the choices we make after those mistakes that count.”
― Shannon Mayer, Rising Darkness

“Silence was its own power sometimes. I didn’t use it often enough.”
― Shannon Mayer, Tracker

“The world will beat the hell out of you if you let it, I know from experience. But I wouldn’t trade any of the choices I’ve made. Because in the end, I have to live with myself. Same as you have to live with yourself. Always follow your heart. No matter who tries to convince you otherwise.”
― Shannon Mayer, Elementally Priceless

“Be easy, she loves no one but you. I do not think her heart has it in it to love anyone but you. She is not like other women I have known. She gives her heart freely to her friends and those she would protect, but you… you hold the keys to her deepest pieces, and she loves you beyond her own life. I do believe she would die for you, without a question, without a thought.”
― Shannon Mayer, Veiled Threat

“Never trust someone that throws money at you, Tank. People like that have more money than sense, and more sense than morals. Think fast, and make friends slow, or not at all.”
― Shannon Mayer, The Culling Trials

“I don’t think love is ever wrong, even if it hurts, even if it scares you. You learn from it, become a better person, use what you’ve learned for the next time around.”
― Shannon Mayer, Ninety-Eight

“No big deal. What’s life without a little poison now and then?”
― Shannon Mayer, Tracker

“Sometimes the world pushes us in a direction we think is wrong, because it is not of our choosing. That does not mean it is taking us to the wrong destination, just that the path is one we didn’t foresee.”
― Shannon Mayer, A Court of Honey and Ash

“Blessed are those who find love, for it shall lead them home.”
― Shannon Mayer, Guardian

“What the hell?” I screamed the words into the wind as I flopped up and down and sideways on the back of an undead horse, an animated skeleton holding me in my seat as we raced after a fairy who did nothing but laugh at me. That sentence should have only applied if I’d been eating magic mushrooms.”
― Shannon Mayer, Midlife Fairy Hunter

“Beauty I couldn’t control, but kicking him in the head to prove my dominance was well within my skill level.”
― Shannon Mayer, The Culling Trials

“Women always find a man’s lies, no matter how well he thinks he’s hidden them.”
― Shannon Mayer, Dark Fae

“In a game of survival, there are no rules,” my mother had always said. “Play to your God-given strengths, Wild, and don’t feel bad for it.”
― Shannon Mayer, The Culling Trials

“Behold, the field in which I grow my ducks. Lay thine eyes upon it and see that it is barren. Autocorrect might like it to be ducks, but we all know it wasn’t a row of quacking fowl.”
― Shannon Mayer, Grave Magic Bounty

“For all intents and purposes, I was invisible. I mean, a forty-year-old woman often was, but this was taking it to a whole new level.”
― Shannon Mayer, Midlife Fairy Hunter

“I had to set the bitchface free.”
― Shannon Mayer, The Culling Trials

“I swallowed hard. “You shouldn’t do that.” “Why not?” I went with complete honesty. “My clothes will fall off.”
― Shannon Mayer, Midlife Demon Hunter

“We weren’t exactly Barbie and Ken living in the pink dream house. No, more like Morticia and Gomez running with monsters, and with moments of passion that burned us both to the core.”
― Shannon Mayer, Tracker

“Madness is a place where I hide from those who would silence me.”
― Shannon Mayer, Recurve

“Fear is a tool, one that often tells us that what we are doing is the right path. The easy path is the one of least resistance, the one that is all light and goodness.”
― Shannon Mayer, Dark Fae

“I was always good at the bitch eyes—you know, the drop-dead and leave me alone eyes that every girl acquires at some point or another”
― Shannon Mayer, Priceless

“Every girl needs a girlfriend to drink with who won’t tell your stage-whispered secrets to anyone else. Sometimes that girl is your own age, and sometimes she isn’t.”
― Shannon Mayer, Midlife Ghost Hunter

“I don’t need protecting. Guys think I’m weak ’cause I’m a girl. But I’ll kick them in the balls and take all their money if they mess with me.”
― Shannon Mayer, The Culling Trials