Karen Chance Quotes

“Prevarication, how divine! I always did get along better with sinners.”
― Karen Chance

“A gentleman would have announced himself!” I told him, pressing against the side of the tub.

“And a scoundrel would have joined you.”

-- Kit Marlowe to the witch Gillian (shortly before joining her in the tub!)”
― Karen Chance

“You look furious,” Pritkin said, watching me.

“I just—I can’t understand not fighting for your life— for what you want. Just giving up—”

A corner of his mouth quirked. “No. You would not understand that. You never stop trying, do you?”

“What else is there?”

“Despair. Hopelessness. Anger. Depression.”

“But those don’t get you anywhere.”

He huffed out something that might have been a laugh, only it didn’t sound happy. “No. They don’t.”
― Karen Chance

“There are a thousand ways to die,” he told me quietly. “There are so few really to live. I would gladly risk the former for the latter, and it is my choice, is it not? To risk whatever I must, my heart, my body, my soul, in order to be with you. Is that not what love is? – Louis-Cesare”
― Karen Chance, Shadow's Bane