You want to believe in black and white, good and evil, heroes that are truly heroic, villains that are just plain bad, but I’ve learned in the past year that things are rarely so simple. The good guys can do some truly awful things, and the bad guys can sometimes surprise the heck out of you.

—Karen Marie Moning in Darkfever

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About Karen Marie Moning

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Karen Marie Moning (born November 1, 1964) is an American author. Many of her novels have appeared on The New York Times Best Seller list with Shadowfever reaching the number one position on multiple national best sellers lists. She is a winner of the prestigious Romance Writers of America RITA...

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I wasn't prepared for death. Nobody is. You lose someone you love more than you love yourself, and you get a crash course in mortality. You lie awake night after night, wondering if you really believe in heaven and hell and finding all kinds of reasons to cling to faith, because you can't bear to believe they aren't out there somewhere, a few whispered words of a prayer away.

—Karen Marie Moning in Shadowfever

You never knew what you could get away with until you tried.

—Karen Marie Moning in Darkfever

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Some people bring out the worst in you, others bring out the best, and then there are those remarkably rare, addictive ones who just bring out the most. Of everything. They make you feel so alive that you'd follow them straight into hell, just to keep getting your fix.

—Karen Marie Moning

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The good life, as I conceive it, is a happy life. I do not mean that if you are good you will be happy—I mean that if you are happy you will be good.

—Bertrand Russell

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Because life is like that, isn't it? If you thought of all the tiny things that divert your path one way or another, some good, some bad, you'd never do anything ever again. And some people don't. Some people go through life not really deciding to do much, not wanting to, always too fearful of the consequences to try something new. Of course, that in itself is also a decision.

—Jenny Colgan in The Bookshop on the Corner

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I can't seem to be a pessimist long enough to overlook the possibility of things being overwhelmingly good.

—John Corey Whaley in Where Things Come Back

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Sometimes the risk of what bad things could happen keeps us from experiencing all the good things life has to offer.

—Vi Keeland in Rebel Heir

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I believe in the inherent good of people. I believe that someone can make a mistake and live to redeem themselves another day.

—Carsen Taite in Beyond Innocence

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