Quotes from The Dark Highlander

“The kiss....was not meant to seduce, it was meant to mark a woman's soul.

Chloe”
― Karen Marie Moning, quote from The Dark Highlander

“I am going to love you now, slow and sweet, but when you come, I'm going to f*** you the way I need to. The way I've been dreaming about since the moment I saw you.”
― Karen Marie Moning, quote from The Dark Highlander

“Hard. Fast. Deep. When I'm done you'll know you're mine.”
― Karen Marie Moning, quote from The Dark Highlander

“She smiled radiantly at the shield, pretending it was Dageus. The three simple words just didn't seem like enough. Love was so much larger than words.

"I love you, I love you, I love you. I love you more than chocolate. I love you more than the whole world is big." She paused, thinking, searching for a way to explain what she felt. "I love you more than artifacts. I love you so much it makes my toes curl just thinking about it."

Pushing her hair back from her face, she donned her most sincere expression. "I love you."

"You can have the confounded shield if you love it that much, lass," Dageus said, sounding utterly bewildered. Chloe felt all the blood drain from her face.”
― Karen Marie Moning, quote from The Dark Highlander

“Chloe-lass:
If I'm not here with you now, I'm beyond this life, for 'tis the only way I'll ever let you go.
...
I hoped I loved you well, sweet, for I know even now that you are my brightest shining star. I knew it the moment I saw you. Ah, lass, you so adore your artifacts. This thief covets but one priceless treasure: You.
Dageus

-In a letter”
― Karen Marie Moning, quote from The Dark Highlander

“You've been doing something bad since the moment you met me, lass.”
― Karen Marie Moning, quote from The Dark Highlander

“raking a hand through his hair, he forced his attention to the text she'd left on the coffee table, refusing to dwell on the disconcerting fact that a part of him had taken one look at the lass in such proximity to his bed and said simply: Mine”
― Karen Marie Moning, quote from The Dark Highlander

“Oh, for heaven's sake, she thought with droll exasperation, this certainly explains a lot. It's no wonder I haven't been able to keep my hands off the blasted man since the day I met him. He's an artifact! A Celtic one at that!”
― Karen Marie Moning, quote from The Dark Highlander

“Oooh! Stop that. When you smile at me I want all of it."
"What?" He looked confused”
― Karen Marie Moning, quote from The Dark Highlander

“He even moved like an animal, fluid strength and surety. And all the devil ever wants in exchange, a small voice said warningly, is a soul.
Oh, puh-lease, Chloe rebuked herself sternly. He's a man, nothing more. A big, beautiful, sometimes scary man, but that's all.
Graceful as a stalking tiger, the big, beautiful, scary man dropped into a crouch on the ground before her, his dark eyes glinting in the shadowy night. They knelt mere inches apart. When he spoke, his words were painstakingly articulated, as if speaking was an immense effort. His words were carefully spaced, tight, coming in rushes, with
pauses between.
"I will give you. Every. Artifact I own. If you kiss. Me and ask no. Questions."
"Huh?" Chloe gaped.
"No questions," he hissed. He shook his head violently, as if trying to scatter something from it.”
― Karen Marie Moning, quote from The Dark Highlander

“As he closed the door he said over his shoulder, "Because you're a good lass." A heavy sigh. "And I'm no' a good man.”
― Karen Marie Moning, quote from The Dark Highlander

“He was sexual in a way that made women think of deeply repressed fantasies therapists and feminists alike would cringe to hear tell of.”
― Karen Marie Moning, quote from The Dark Highlander

“Life isn't always fair, lass, but that doesn't mean it can't still be sweet."- Dageus”
― Karen Marie Moning, quote from The Dark Highlander

“He didn't just kiss, he claimed ownership. Took her mouth with urgency, as if his life depended on his kissing her.”
― Karen Marie Moning, quote from The Dark Highlander

“He kissed like no man she'd ever known. There was something about him, a rawness, an earthy sensuality that bordered on barbaric, something she'd never be able to explain to someone else. A woman had to be kissed by Dageus MacKeltar to fully understand how devastating it was. How it could bring a woman to her knees.”
― Karen Marie Moning, quote from The Dark Highlander

“Then her eyes narrowed. The sun was spilling in the window behind her and Dageus's eyes were golden, dappled with darker flecks. Smoky and sensual, fringed by thick dark lashes, but gold nonetheless.
"What is with your eyes?" she exclaimed. "Is it part of being
a Druid?"
"What color are they?" he asked warily.
"Gold."
He flashed her another unguarded smile. It was like basking in the sun, she thought, tracing her fingers over his beard-shadowed jaw, smiling helplessly back.”
― Karen Marie Moning, quote from The Dark Highlander

“Chloe kept her expression bland. He looked immensely pleased with himself this morning, and there was no way
she was letting him know she'd had even one nocturnal thought about him. "I can't remember," she said, blinking
guilelessly. "In fact, I slept so deeply I don't think I dreamt at
all."
"Indeed," he murmured. When he moved forward, she nearly jumped out of her skin, but he simply reached behind
her and pulled the door to her bedchamber shut.
Then backed her against it.
"Hey," she snapped.
"I sought but to give you a good morrow kiss, lass. 'Tis a Scots custom."
She craned her neck, scowling up at him, and gave him a look that said Yeah, right, nice try.
"A wee one. No tongue. I promise," he said, his lips curving faintly.
"You never give up, do you?"
"I never will, sweet. Doona you know that by now?"
Oooh, that was beginning to take on shades of her dream.
And he'd called her "sweet," a little endearment. She damped her mouth shut and shook her head.”
― Karen Marie Moning, quote from The Dark Highlander

“The legendary Tuatha De Danaan had come! And what did the grand Keltar laird do?
Fainted like a willy-nilly peahen.”
― Karen Marie Moning, quote from The Dark Highlander

“I always want you, Chloe-lass,” he murmured suddenly in a low voice, for her ears only. “There’s no’ a moment that I doona.”
― Karen Marie Moning, quote from The Dark Highlander

“Have I told you, Chloe-lass, that you’re beautiful?” he said softly. She narrowed her eyes. If he thought a generic compliment would buy him a kiss, he was sadly mistaken.”
― Karen Marie Moning, quote from The Dark Highlander

“That sounds as if you’re telling me you plan to keep me, lass.” His eyes narrowed and he went very still.”
― Karen Marie Moning, quote from The Dark Highlander

“A woman had to be kissed by Dageus MacKeltar to fully understand how devastating it was. How it could bring a woman to her knees.”
― Karen Marie Moning, quote from The Dark Highlander

“She loved him. She’d said it. Of course she’d shouted it at him, but a man could deal with that when the woman loved him more than the whole world was big. He laughed exultantly, turned sharply on his heel, and hurried off to catch her. And to tell her that, since he was bigger, he was fair certain he loved her more.”
― Karen Marie Moning, quote from The Dark Highlander

“He may not have yet seduced her into his bed, but he’d succeeded in seducing her into his life in countless other ways, each an invisible, silken knot, binding her to him as he lured her deeper into his world.”
― Karen Marie Moning, quote from The Dark Highlander

“Keltar mates ne’er come easily to their men. Some travel distances too vast and strange to fathom, others travel but a short path, though a far distance in their hearts. Most resist every step of the way, yet for each Keltar, one woman will make that journey. ’Tis up to the Keltar to claim her.”
― Karen Marie Moning, quote from The Dark Highlander

“You son of a bitch. You hurt my woman,” Dageus growled,”
― Karen Marie Moning, quote from The Dark Highlander

“No lips,” Drustan warned. “Unless you wish me to be kissing Chloe.”
― Karen Marie Moning, quote from The Dark Highlander

“The kiss he gave her was not meant to seduce, it was meant to mark a woman’s soul, and it was working. Dominant like the man, hungry, demanding. Beckoning forth the secret Chloe that harbored hunger every bit as deep as his. He was a dark, seductive shadow, all around her, and she was drowning in him.”
― Karen Marie Moning, quote from The Dark Highlander

“Mayhap you’d prefer to spend this eve with me at an inn, rather than going straight to my brother’s,” he suggested with a seductive smile. Chloe scowl deepened. “One eve is no’ enough?” he teased, though his eyes were distant. “Greedy lass, would you be wishing a week?”
― Karen Marie Moning, quote from The Dark Highlander

“His eyes flared dangerously. Did the lass think to share such intimacies with him and then rescind them? Och, nay, Dageus MacKeltar didn’t go backward. She would find that out soon enough.”
― Karen Marie Moning, quote from The Dark Highlander

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