Feverborn Quotes

“Silver eyes met hers and locked. “I didn’t like Dani.”
“At least you’re consistent,” she said coolly.
His silver eyes were ice. “I loved her.”
― Karen Marie Moning, Feverborn

“Let me be your anchor. I'll never let you be lost again.”
― Karen Marie Moning, Feverborn

“What we achieve at our best moment doesn’t say much about who we are. It all boils down to what we become at our worst moment.”
― Karen Marie Moning, Feverborn

“For fuck's sake, you vanished and I couldn't find you. Do you really think I'm going to let that happen again? If you believe nothing else, concede it will work for that reason alone. I don't lose things that are mine.”
― Karen Marie Moning, Feverborn

“I want to be Jericho Barrons when I grow up.”
― Karen Marie Moning, Feverborn

“Pessimists are only pessimists when they’re wrong. When we’re right, the world calls us prophets.”
― Karen Marie Moning, Feverborn

“Maybes are anchors you chain to your own feet. Right before you leap off the boat into the ocean.”
― Karen Marie Moning, Feverborn

“I see you, Yi-yi.”
She smiled. Everything she knew about love she’d learned from this pudgy, cranky, manic-depressive, binge-eating beast that had been her companion through hell and back, too many times to count. He alone had protected her, loved her, fought for her, taught her to believe that life was worth living, even if there was no one there to see you living it.
“I see you, too, Shazam.”
― Karen Marie Moning, Feverborn

“When you love too hard, you can lose the will to live without them. Everywhere you look is a great big sucking absence of what you once had and will never have again. And life gets weirdly flat and too sharp and painful at the same time, and nothing feels right and everything cuts.”
― Karen Marie Moning, Feverborn

“Boundaries were necessary for a successful relationship. Most relationships aborted in the boundary-defining stage. Not because people demanded what they needed. But because they didn’t, then got resentful about it”
― Karen Marie Moning, Feverborn

“Tramp stamp or get the fuck out.”
― Karen Marie Moning, Feverborn

“You want to fight or fuck, Mac?"

I bounced from foot to foot, wired with fury and sexual energy. I may never understand why I always feel them together around him but I sure as hell can enjoy it. "Both."

"Think you can take me?"

"Going to damn well try."

"Think you'll survive it?"

I stabbed a finger in his chest and smiled up at him. "I think I'm gonna own it. Jericho."

He growled low in his chest. "Bring it the fuck on, Mac."

I brought it.”
― Karen Marie Moning, Feverborn

“Bloody talk about bloody orgasms with your own bloody woman not mine,” Barrons said tightly. “You don’t know a thing about her orgasms and never will.”
― Karen Marie Moning, Feverborn

“You’re ashamed of me. Because I’m fat. That’s why you don’t want them to see me.”
She slit her eyes open just barely, lids heavy. “I’m not ashamed of you. And you’re not fat.”
“Look at my belly,” he said tearfully, clutching it with both paws and jiggling.
She smiled. “I like your belly. I think it’s a perfectly wonderful belly, all soft and round.”
― Karen Marie Moning, Feverborn

“Sonofamotherfuckinggoddamnbitch! JaysustiittyfuckingChrist!"

That was Lor. Man of few words.”
― Karen Marie Moning, Feverborn

“Ryodan growled. “For fuck’s sake, you don’t stalk an orgasm, you enjoy its arrival.”
― Karen Marie Moning, Feverborn

“Odd way to dress for an investigation," Barrons murmured.

"She's not Dani anymore," Ryodan clipped.

"Would you rather she had on jeans and sneakers?" I said.

"I'd rather she had on a fucking suit of armor," Ryodan said cooly.

And a chastity belt if I could read the looks in a man's eyes. And I could. "She's a woman, Ryodan," I said softly. "Get used to it. Dancer was right. We need to accept her."

(Mac, Barrons and Ryodan as Dani/Jada walks into Chesters)”
― Karen Marie Moning, Feverborn

“I want this world. I want you.”
― Karen Marie Moning, Feverborn

“Easy, wild thing.”
― Karen Marie Moning, Feverborn

“That’s what you’re after? Establishing new case
precedence? Never going to happen. Not on this point. You
want to turn Dani. Assuming she’s ever Dani again.”
“Nobody’s turning my fucking honey,” Lor muttered
darkly.
“You took the Highlander, as your test case,” Barrons
said.
Ryodan said nothing.
“Kas doesn’t speak. X is half mad on a good day,
bugfuck crazy on a bad one. You’re tired of it. You want your
family back. You want a full house, like the old days.”
― Karen Marie Moning, Feverborn

“She says, all serious like, Lor, you’re a really sweet guy
(who the bloody fuck is she talking about? I’m looking
around the bed but it’s only me and her)...”
― Karen Marie Moning, Feverborn

“Feathers. Bloody hell, he hadn’t seen that one coming when he’d considered his future. Like a goddamn chicken.”
― Karen Marie Moning, Feverborn

“Who shit in your coffee this morning?”

“And you don't say things like that. You're Ryodan”
― Karen Marie Moning, Feverborn

“A wise woman indiscriminately picked up all the tools others left lying around.”
― Karen Marie Moning, Feverborn

“Right. And soon sentient beings will stop destroying one
another and themselves. Not. We’re all going to die. Alone
and miserably. With lots of pain. That’s the way life goes.
People make promises and don’t keep them. They say they
care about you and forget you.”
“I didn’t forget you. I never forget you”
― Karen Marie Moning, Feverborn

“My point is you can’t believe only in Voldemort. You have to believe in Dumbledore, too.”
― Karen Marie Moning, Feverborn

“I didn’t have time to change.”
“Then you’ll make it now. I’m not working on you with that
much death on your skin.”
― Karen Marie Moning, Feverborn

“I wanted to walk beside this man for a long time, and to do that I'd have to be able to be completely myself.”
― Karen Marie Moning, Feverborn

“sorry was worthless. It changed nothing. Merely coerced the victim to offer forgiveness for what you shouldn’t have done to begin with.”
― Karen Marie Moning, Feverborn

“Breath was everything. When nothing else could be done: one could breathe and shape and infuse that breath with strength and purpose.”
― Karen Marie Moning, Feverborn