Home > Work > Feversong (Fever, #9)

Feversong (Fever, #9) QUOTES

Feversong (Fever, #9) QUOTES

41 " This lion that I'd sauntered up to wearing my flashy peacock feathers hadn't snapped the head off my skinny, brilliantly colored neck, he'd only licked me and waited for me to grow claws. I had neither flashy feathers nor claws now. I'd become yet another thing.
A steel fist inside a velvet glove.
Strong enough that I was no longer afraid to be gentle. Powerful enough that I could be vulnerable. Scarred enough that I could understand and thread lightly around the deepest scars of others. "

― Karen Marie Moning , Feversong (Fever, #9)

42 " What's the surest way to be victimized? Believe yourself a victim. To win? Believe yourself a champion. "

― Karen Marie Moning , Feversong (Fever, #9)

43 " When one begins at the bottom, ascendance is a given. "

― Karen Marie Moning , Feversong (Fever, #9)

44 " The most critical, defining battles we wage in life, we wage alone. Against ourselves. "

― Karen Marie Moning , Feversong (Fever, #9)

45 " Strong enough that I was no longer afraid to be gentle. Powerful enough that I could be vulnerable. Scarred enough that I could understand and tread lightly around the deepest scars of others. "

― Karen Marie Moning , Feversong (Fever, #9)

46 " R-E-G-R-E-T. I can spell that word now. Raw. Endless. Grief. Raining. Eternal. Tears. That’s what regret is. "

― Karen Marie Moning , Feversong (Fever, #9)

47 " There were the cages you could see and those that weren't so easy to spot before you were lured into them with sweet promises and lies until you were stuck like a fly on sticky tape with only your shattered innocence for company. "

― Karen Marie Moning , Feversong (Fever, #9)

48 " Often, it was only the bold, fearless, risky action that had any hope of circumventing impending doom, as if Fate was amused by the colorfully unexpected, and while she was laughing, one might slip changes past the pernicious bitch. "

― Karen Marie Moning , Feversong (Fever, #9)

49 " I loved him. I hadn’t wanted to, but I did, and it was too late to change because once my heart went somewhere, I couldn’t pull it back. It’s a glitch in my wiring. "

― Karen Marie Moning , Feversong (Fever, #9)

50 " He’d brought out the best and worst in me, the most of everything. And when you got to have someone like that, anything less was empty, pointless. "

― Karen Marie Moning , Feversong (Fever, #9)

51 " That which we fear, we somehow beckon near and engage in a dance, as toxically intimate as a pair of suspicious lovers...we're magnetized waltzers and our hopes and fears emit some kind of electrical impulses that attract all that we dream, and all that we dread. We live and die on a dance floor of our own making. "

― Karen Marie Moning , Feversong (Fever, #9)

52 " He believes the world populated by obvious monsters. The most dangerous of us are the least obvious. He relies on his skill as a lie detector, reading and judging the conflicting emotions of others. "

― Karen Marie Moning , Feversong (Fever, #9)

53 " When people have absolutely no control over the things that really matter to them, they tend to do one of three things: devolve into animals and prey on others, indulging their base instincts (wolves); huddle in herds for comfort and safety from the chaos (sheep); or invoke a rigid daily routine, effecting control over those few things they can while endeavoring to change what seems an inevitable fate (sheepdogs). Over "

― Karen Marie Moning , Feversong (Fever, #9)

54 " Bold. Ruthless. Energy. Action. Tenacity. Hunger. That was what B-R-E-A-T-H was. "

― Karen Marie Moning , Feversong (Fever, #9)

55 " my hair was a mass of tangled curls just like the old days, minus "

― Karen Marie Moning , Feversong (Fever, #9)

56 " The most critical, defining battles we wage in life, we wage alone. Against ourselves. It "

― Karen Marie Moning , Feversong (Fever, #9)

57 " Relax. Live. Keep your eyes open. See what comes. "

― Karen Marie Moning , Feversong (Fever, #9)

58 " I’d simplified and objectified our relationship into one of lust and boundaries, and while both were necessary for a good relationship, it took a lot more than that to make it an epic one. Things we had, like respect and trust, but also freely expressed desires and accountability to whatever degree it took to make both people happy. It took work, a willingness to fight passionately and fairly—out of bed, not just in it—commitment and honesty. It took waking up and saying each day, I hold this man sacred and always will. He’s my sun, moon, and stars. It took letting the other person in; a thing I’d stopped doing. It took being unafraid to ask for what you wanted, to put yourself on the line, to risk it all for love. We "

― Karen Marie Moning , Feversong (Fever, #9)

59 " I can either give in to fear and give up—or refuse to let it touch me and go on. "

― Karen Marie Moning , Feversong (Fever, #9)

60 " You can’t unkiss a man you’ve kissed. I "

― Karen Marie Moning , Feversong (Fever, #9)