“We are all imperfect creatures, love. I don't want perfect. I just want you.”
― Kristen Callihan, quote from Moonglow
“My mind is filled.'
'With what?' she whispered.
'You. All the time. You.' He sighed. 'Daisy has taken up residence here.' Yet it was to his heart he pressed her hand, to feel its pounding. 'How to keep you safe. How to keep you out. How to keep... you.”
― Kristen Callihan, quote from Moonglow
“Perhaps there are some things we can't let go of, but simply accept as over.”
― Kristen Callihan, quote from Moonglow
“Lord above, was there a better sight than a woman flush with passion, her skin dewy and pink, her breasts bouncing from the force of his thrusts?”
― Kristen Callihan, quote from Moonglow
“I won't be a substitute for what you cannot have. Especially not if it is my sister's shadow you mean to place me in.”
― Kristen Callihan, quote from Moonglow
“Things must be done, life must go on. Life would go on, even if every breath she took hurt, even if her joints ached when she moved. Sorry and loneliness were an insidious evil, for they lived in the mind. One could not take a tonic and see them dissipate.”
― Kristen Callihan, quote from Moonglow
“Dirt!" she shouted, no longer able to contain her ire. "Of all the gifts I could have received, I am left with dirt.”
― Kristen Callihan, quote from Moonglow
“I could love you, you know."
"I could love you, too.”
― Kristen Callihan, quote from Moonglow
“You know very well." Daisy ignored the way her breath hitched when he got too near. "You get riled up and off you go, throwing that Highland accent about as if to intimidate." She dropped her voice in an imitation of his. "Ye will do as I say or I will take ye overr me knee an' stroop yer backside!”
― Kristen Callihan, quote from Moonglow
“She paused as she took in Mrs. Bean's monstrously ugly evening bonnet. "What a wonderful bonnet. That quail looks as though it shall take flight at any moment." And perhaps be shot down by hunters.
Mrs. Bean's eyes narrowed. "It is a dove."
"Oh?" Daisy peered closer. "Yes, it is. My mistake. I'm rather dismal at categorising fowl. Even when it is right before me.”
― Kristen Callihan, quote from Moonglow
“I can turn into anything," he said with emphasis. "Even another werewolf."
When Daisy blinked back at him, too dumbfounded to speak, Talent laughed, heartily. She'd been correct. He was devastating when he truly smiled. "Haven't you learned, woman? You've fallen off the map. Here there be monsters.”
― Kristen Callihan, quote from Moonglow
“Randal is a lad of about twenty and two, curly-haired and distressingly cherubic in appearance."
"Distressingly? Really, Northrup, I cannot see what could be distressing about a cherub."
His brows drew in a scowl. "They're baby angels, for God's sake." As if this explained all.”
― Kristen Callihan, quote from Moonglow
“You never made me weak," he said, giving her a little shake. "You make me strong." His big hands smoothed up her arms. "Just knowing you're in this world makes me want to live in it, makes me want to fight.”
― Kristen Callihan, quote from Moonglow
“But he knew full well that marriage vows were not a guarantee, nor a promise, of everlasting happiness.”
― Kristen Callihan, quote from Moonglow
“I'm intrigued. If not by beauty, how then does one spot the garden-variety nobleman?"
"Easily," she said. "One need only look for the promise of beauty not quite fulfilled, a nose too large, eyes a bit too closer together, or ears ready to set sail.”
― Kristen Callihan, quote from Moonglow
“There is a fine line between persistence and being a pest, my lord.”
― Kristen Callihan, quote from Moonglow
“Does she make the risk worth it?"
Despite the years they'd been at odds, they still understood each other perfectly. Ian didn't hesitate to answer.
"It isn't a matter of choice, Benjamin."
The other man sighed. "It never is.”
― Kristen Callihan, quote from Moonglow
“I am nature, the universal Mother, mistress of all the elements, primordial child of time, sovereign of all things spiritual, queen of the dead, queen of the ocean, queen also of the immortals…”
― Kristen Callihan, quote from Moonglow
“Said he would not turn into me. Wouldn’t become a thing destined to be alone.”
― Kristen Callihan, quote from Moonglow
“You are the gift I never saw coming.”
― Kristen Callihan, quote from Moonglow
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“The crowd's murmuring rose to a roar, and for the first time in a week the agony of worry for my son was drowned out as his father strode out onto the sand.
Arius.”
― Kate Quinn, quote from Mistress of Rome
“Perhaps our deepest love is already inscribed within us, so its object doesn't create a new word but instead allows us to read the one written.”
― Anthony Marra, quote from A Constellation of Vital Phenomena
“Curse him for being all tight muscle, with ivory skin and a mouth as soft as rose petals. Curse him for having hair as fair as the sun, and eyes as black as night. Curse him for having the grace of a cat and deft, cool hands.
And now I am having the same argument on paper that I have in my own head on too many nights. I know my choice is sensible, but it isn't my common sense I think with, those times Rosto's stolen a kiss from me.”
― Tamora Pierce, quote from Bloodhound
“I'd rather die fighting to keep us free to do as we wish, fighting to be free to come and go as we please, fighting so we no longer need to hide. Fighting the fear that all of you were programmed since birth to have. Fighting against Quill's bigotry, which says brains and brawn are better, or more important, than creativity.
Marcus Today”
― Lisa McMann, quote from The Unwanteds
“No.” Kanin’s voice was suddenly hard, terrifying. “You are simply using your demon to hide from what you really feel. Because you are afraid of what that means, that it might be painful. It is far easier to be a monster than to confront the truth.”
― Julie Kagawa, quote from The Forever Song
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