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1 " We've a bit of a problem, Kat. Have you someone to watch the wee lass?"His second use of the word "lass" finally penetrated a brain of concrete. Kat blinked, as slow comprehension dawned. "Christian?" she exploded softly. "Is that YOU?"His lips drew back in a silent snarl. Then "Och, Christ, tell you didn't think I was Cruce! Do I look that bad?"She nodded vehemently, "Yes.""Bloody hell," he growled. "
― Karen Marie Moning , High Voltage (Fever, #10)
2 " Love is funny. Even though you don't have that person anymore, you still have the feeling. You didn't lose your LOVE. You lost the tangible, tactile, sense-sational ability to experience the person or animal you lost. "
3 " Christ. Women. I don't get you. I protect you, you get pissy. I don't protect you, you get pissy. I open doors, I'm patronizing. I don't open doors, I'm a caveman, wich by the way, I am. What the bipolar fuck? Beginning to think you babes don't have any clue what you want, or change your mind constantly just to dick with us. "
4 " Choose the men you take to your bed by these criteria: they see the finest in you, enhance and defend it. When you fuck a man you are giving him A. Motherfucking. Gift. Be certain he deserves it. And bloody hell, don't have one-night stands. Commit to the action. Make it matter. Feel it and ride it all the way through. "
5 " At fourteen, I’d vowed, one day, I’d be the woman making him laugh, making joy blaze from his face, so tangible it seemed I might catch it in my hands. "
6 " Furthermore, if I lost my soul, I’d adapt. I always do. Adaptation is my specialty. I practically invented the word. "
7 " You don't grieve love; you celebrate that you had it. "
8 " Find the silver lining. Throw that head back and belly up a laugh. It’s just another adventure. Greet it, master it. "
9 " Love doesn't build cages. It builds stairways to the stars. "
10 " I’d rather be fearless and criticized than fearful and approved of.That’s the bloody choice sometimes. "
11 " People had to want to stay, choose to be with you, or it meant nothing. There were physical cages and there were emotional ones. Holding onto someone too tightly made it hard for them to breathe, and eventually, inevitably, they’d do one of two things: suffocate or run, leaving you feeling like hell either way. "
12 " Because I know a priceless truth: when someone has done everything in their power to mangle your wings beyond recognition, to slice them to shreds so that they can never be used, there is only one way to win.Fly. "
13 " He said love is the willingness to put the happiness and evolution of the person you love before your own. Even if it means giving them up. "
14 " It occured to me that adaptability was more than survivability; it was the foundation of love. We were all changing, every day, and those relationships that endured were the ones that rode the waves together, grew and allowed each other to evolve. Encouraged it, even when it was frightening. Adaptability in relationships was the polar opposite of a cage. It was necessary commitment wed to necessary freedom. "
15 " You crazy, beautiful, maddening woman, that's because you trained yourself to live that way. And wisely so. It's what kept you alive. It's been your saving grace. You learned young the necessity of leaving the pain behind and embracing the next good thing. Few people ever achieve that clarity. Prolonged grief is self-mutilation; a blade you turn on yourself. It doesn't bring them back and only keeps you trapped in misery. You were healing the way people should heal but they punish themselves instead. For what—being the one who lived? Those we love will die. And die. And die. Life goes on. You choose how: badly or well. "
16 " Tonight, the sea was a shiver of dark glass, harboring secrets untold in her depths while on her tranquil surface stars glittered like diamonds. "
17 " Did he think I would beg him to stay? Never. People had to want to stay, choose to be with you, or it meant nothing. "
18 " Life-giving, life-stealing, beautiful, a challenge to handle, worth learning to ride, full of fresh wonders every day—if he’d had a woman like the ocean in his bed, he’d still be there. "
19 " If I were a character in a novel, I'd snipe the bitch who wrote my life this way. "
20 " I learned young that moments of comedy during the horror show can be a life raft, enough to keep you bobbing in a violent, killing sea. "
