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" At the very last moment, just before its lips claimed hers, its grip on her face relaxed slightly and she did the only thing she could think of: She head-butted it. Snapped her head back, then forward again, and bashed it square in the face as hard as she could. So hard, in fact, that it made her woozy and gave her an instant migraine, making her wonder how Jean-Claude Van Damme always managed to coolly continue fighting after such a stunt. Obviously, movies lied. "
― Karen Marie Moning , The Immortal Highlander (Highlander, #6)
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" I gained everything. Or at least I'll think so," he growled, suddenly impatient, anxious, "when you give me a bloody answer to my bloody question. How many times are you going to make me ask you? Will you marry me, Gabrielle O'Callaghan? Yes or yes? And in case you're still managing to miss the point, the correct answer is 'yes.' And, by the way, anytime you'd like to tell me you love me, I wouldn't mind hearing it. "
― Karen Marie Moning , The Immortal Highlander (Highlander, #6)
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" She glanced pointedly at the flopping tadpole.
"What?"
"Take it back."
"You're kidding, right?" he said disbelievingly.
"Do we have time?"
He considered that. "Yes, but--"
"Then, no I'm not."
"That lake was three hops ago," he said impatiently.
"If you don't take it back it's going to die, and while you may think it's just a pathetic little thing with an abbreviated little life that hardly even signifies in the fairy scheme of things, I'll bet in the tadpole scheme of things it's really looking forward to becoming a frog. Now take it back. A life is a life. I don't care how tiny an almighty fairy thinks it is."
One dark brow arched and he inclined his head. "Yes, Gabrielle." Scooping up the tadpole in one big hand, gently enough that it gave her pause, he popped out.
-Gabrielle and Adam Black "
― Karen Marie Moning , The Immortal Highlander (Highlander, #6)
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" The Tuatha De do not speak of Tuatha De matter to"--he gave her an icy sneer--"mere mortals."
"Well, mister-mere-mortal-yourself," she bristled right back at him, "maybe you'd better get used to it, because whether or not you like it, you need at least one of us 'mere mortals' to help you become a pompous-asshole-fairy-thing again."
He tried to maintain his icy stare, but his lips curved despite his efforts and he shook with silent laughter. A pompous-asshole-fairy-thing. The indignity of it. Had any of his race ever been called such a thing? Nothing cowed the woman. Nothing. "Point made, ky-lyrra," he said dryly.
-Gabrielle and Adam "
― Karen Marie Moning , The Immortal Highlander (Highlander, #6)
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" She understood now why her friend Elizabeth, with her near-genius, analytical mind gave wide berth to murder mysteries, psychological thrillers, and horror stories, and read only romance novels. Because, by God, when a woman picked up one of those steamy books, she had a firm guarantee that there would be a Happily-Ever-After. That though the world outside those covers could bring such sorrow and disappointment and loneliness, between those covers, the world was a splendid place to be. She "
― Karen Marie Moning , The Immortal Highlander (Highlander, #6)
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" Choć przez większość czasu patrzyła na Adama i czuła po prostu zachwyt i pokorę, że ten wielki, wspaniały mężczyzna oddał tak wiele, żeby ją kochać, czasami nienawidziła tego, że nie miał duszy i czasem chciała nienawidzić Boga.
I miała marzenie, być może głupie, ale było to marzenie, którego się trzymała.
Dożyją stu lat, długo po tym jak dorosną ich dzieci i wnuki, a pewnego dnia położą się w łóżku, twarzami do siebie i tak umrą, w tej samej chwili, w swoich ramionach.
I to było jej marzenie: że może, jeśli będzie kochała go wystarczająco mocno, wystarczająco prawdziwie i głęboko, jeśli będzie trzymać go dość mocno, gdy umrą, będzie mogła zabrać go ze sobą, gdziekolwiek wędrują dusze. A tam zrobi to, co ma we krwi, do czego wiedziała, że się urodziła, stanie przed Bogiem, jako brehon i poprowadzi największą i najważniejszą sprawę w swoim życiu.
I wygra. "
― Karen Marie Moning , The Immortal Highlander (Highlander, #6)