Mackayla Lane Quotes

“He places the last pillow on the pile and looks at me. He jerks his head to the pile of pillows.
“I watched you die. I need to fuck you Mac.”
The words slam into me like bullets taking my knees out. I lean back against a piece of furniture-an armoire I think. I really don’t care. It holds me up. It wasn’t a request. It was an acknowledgement of a requirement to make it from this moment to the next like I need a transfusion my body has been poisoned.
“Do you want me to ” There is no purr or coyness or seduction in his voice. There is a question that needs an answer. Bare bones. That’s what he’s after. That’s what he offers.
“Yes.”
― Karen Marie Moning, Shadowfever

“Cat got your tongue? And what a lovely tongue it is. I know. It licked every inch of me. Repeatedly. For months," He purred but with steel in the velvet”
― Karen Marie Moning, Dreamfever

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

“I get it the whole idea of willingly going to hell for someone. Living there insane if you have to because you’d rather be insane with them than endure life without them.”
― Karen Marie Moning, Shadowfever

“Sometimes I worry that there’s not enough room in my brain for both my dreams and reality that I’m a hard drive with limited gigabytes and one day I won’t be able to maintain the firewall between them. I wonder if that’s what senility is.”
― Karen Marie Moning, Shadowfever

“My heart has jet lag.”
― Karen Marie Moning, Shadowfever

“On the lips of my enemy, my sister’s lover, my lover’s killer, I taste the punishment I deserve. I taste oblivion.”
― Karen Marie Moning, Shadowfever

“Moth to a flame I follow.”
― Karen Marie Moning, Shadowfever

“He’s disturbingly sexual to men and women alike in a way that sets your teeth on edge. With Barrons you aren’t sure if you’re going to get fucked or turned inside out and left a new unrecognizable person adrift with no moorings on a see with no bottom and no rules.”
― Karen Marie Moning, Shadowfever

“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

“My world we humans we’re just pawns on an immortal chessboard.”
― Karen Marie Moning, Shadowfever

“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

“I’m no coward. But I’m no fool, either. I know when to fight, and I know when to survive to fight another day.
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I will not cease to exist. I will not die, no matter how much pain there is. I made a promise to someone. Someone who is my highest star, my brightest sun. Someone I want to be like. I wonder who it is.
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Inside that hollowed-out woman, there’s a place they can’t touch. There’s more to me than I thought there was. Something that no one and nothing can take away from me.”
― Karen Marie Moning, Dreamfever

“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

“Did you fuck him?”
“Ah!” I yelled. “Of course not!” I rubbed my face with both hands and kept it buried there a minute. “Wouldn’t I be an addict if I did?” I raised my face.
Barrons studied me, dark eyes cold. “Not if he protected you.”
“They can do that? Really?”
“Try not to sound so intrigued, Ms. Lane.”
― Karen Marie Moning, Bloodfever

“This moment is perfect. And it's all we ever have. This moment, right now. We're fools if we fail to cram all the living and loving we can possibly do into each and every one.”
― Karen Marie Moning, Kingdom of Shadow and Light

“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

“Why have you chosen to spare me?”
“I want us to be…what is your word? Friends.”
“Psychotic rapists don’t have friends.”
“I was unaware you were a psychotic rapist or I would not have offered.”
“Ha.”
― Karen Marie Moning, Bloodfever

“Nobody looks good in their darkest hour. But it’s those hours that make us what we are. We stand strong, or we cower. We emerge victorious, tempered by our trials, or fractured by a permanent, damning fault line.
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It’s not fiction, and there’s no escape. The walls between the human world and Faery are coming down—and I hate to break it to you, but these fairies are so not Tinkerbells.
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I’ve seen things that would make your skin crawl. I’ve done things that make my skin crawl.”
― Karen Marie Moning, Faefever

“Through the annals of history, women have paid a price for protection. One day, I won’t have to.”
― Karen Marie Moning, Faefever

“Barrons gets my beast, thinks she's beautiful.”
― Karen Marie Moning, Kingdom of Shadow and Light

“I must have stood there for five minutes trying to talk myself into opening it. The unknown is a vast paralyzing limbo. I’d like to tell you that the monster under the bed is rarely as bad as your fear of it, but in my experience it’s almost always worse.”
― Karen Marie Moning, Bloodfever

“I’m heir to the “sex is just sex” generation and I hate it. Not only friends have sex, people who don’t like each other have sex. I’d once caught Natalie and Rick, two people I know for a fact can’t stand each other, banging away in the bathroom at The Brickyard. When later I’d asked her what had changed, she’d said nothing, she still couldn’t stand him, but he’d sure looked hot tonight. Doesn’t anybody get that sex is what you make it, and if you treat it like nothing, it is?”
― Karen Marie Moning, Bloodfever

“It’s our actions that define us. What we choose. What we resist. What we’re willing to die for.
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I may have been forced into this war, but I’m learning to choose my battles.<...>
People treat you as badly as you let them treat you.”
― Karen Marie Moning, Bloodfever