Quotes From "Iced" By Karen Marie Moning

It's just another of Robin's sayings. Like, 'Holy strawberries, Batman, we're in a jam! Or, Holy Kleenex, Batman, it was right under our nose and we blew it! Karen Marie Moning

And Mega has a crush on Chester.""I do not! "" Do too, Mega.""He's like, old! "" How old, Christian says."" Like at least thirty or something." Lor laughs. " Fucking ancient, ain't it, kid?"" Dude, " I agree. I like Lor. Karen Marie Moning

You can’t give somebody faith. They either got it or they don’t. Karen Marie Moning

I smack myself in the forehead. “Holy priceless collection of Etruscan snoods, they’re not moving! ” I exclaim. There’s a choking noise over my head somewhere. “Etruscan snoods?” I glow quietly inside. Some accomplishments mean more than others. I am officially the Shit. Now and forever. “Dude, watch your question marks. I just pried one out of you.” “I have no idea what you’re talking about.” “Admit it, you lost your eternal fecking composure.” “You have an obsession with a delusion about how I end my sentences. What the fuck are Etruscan snoods?” “Dunno. It’s just another of Robin’s sayings. Like, ‘Holy strawberries, Batman, we’re in a jam! ’ ” “Strawberries.” “Or, ‘Holy Kleenex, Batman, it was right under our nose and we blew it! ’ . Karen Marie Moning

There are only two things to worry about in life: either you’re free or you’re not. If you’re free, there’s nothing to worry about. If you’re not, you kick the shit out of everything around you until you are. Karen Marie Moning

Sheep are always looking for a new shepherd when the terrain gets rocky. Karen Marie Moning

I return my attention to the situation at hand and realize Reality–the impatient bitch–has made my decision for me. She does that a lot. You get busy planning your life, then it has the nerve to just go ahead and happen to you before you’re ready. Before you even get the chance to aim yourself right! Karen Marie Moning

I like sex for breakfast, kid. I eat early and often. Karen Marie Moning

The wound you refuse to dress is one that will never heal. You gush lifeblood and never even know why. It will make you weak at a critical moment when you need to be strong. Karen Marie Moning

You both talk too much, ” the kid says. “Shut up. Don’t make me tell you again.” We shut up, which I find hysterically funny. Karen Marie Moning

I lay my head on his chest and listen to his heart beating, solid and sure...he reads me so well. He's known about my emotional empathy since we were children. Nothing disturbs him.. Few can lie to me.. I don't know the truth, only that there is a lie. It takes a scrupulously honest man to love me. That's my Sean. We learned to trust each other completely before we were old enough to have learned suspicion. Karen Marie Moning

In my experience, anybody besides your mom that feeds you is going to want something in exchange for it. Karen Marie Moning

She loves. And she doesn't know how to pull it back when you have to, because sometimes you sure as feck have to. Got to grab it up with both hands and pull it back before somebody turns into knives and uses it to cut you to pieces. Karen Marie Moning

Fine. Okay. I killed her. But I didn’t mean to. And I didn’t kill her, kill her.”“ Oh, I see. As long as you didn’t kill her, kill her, then that’s okay. Karen Marie Moning

Velvet looks horrified. “If you are fool enough to address King R’jan, you will do it thus and in no other manner! ‘My King, Liege, Lord, and Master, your servant begs you grant it leave to speak.’”“ Wow. Totally delusionary there.”“ Good luck with that, ” Ryodan says. “She doesn't beg to speak, or do anything else. You can lock her up, down, and sideways and it’s never going to happen.” I beam at him. I had no idea he thought so highly of me. Karen Marie Moning

Why did you laugh right before you lost consciousness.”“ Death’s an adventure. I lived big. Rigor mortis makes your face stick. So, who knew how to thaw me?”“ Death’s an insult.”“ At least an affront, ” I agree. Karen Marie Moning

I’ve never paid any attention to time. Dancer says I’ve enjoyed a luxury most people never have. He hates clocks and watches and everything that has to do with time. He says people already have too many lost days and that most folks live in the past or the future but never the present, always saying stuff like “I’m unhappy because ‘X’ happened to me yesterday, or I’ll be happy again when ‘Y’ happens to me tomorrow.” He says time is the ultimate villain. . Karen Marie Moning