Top 400 Karina Halle Quotes (2024 Update)
Page 7 of 8

301. “We have no idea how important this is,” I find myself whispering, my voice feeling rough and raw. “The sunrise?” Daisy asks. She’s in awe as the colors change before our eyes. I swallow the lump in my throat. “To see the dawn of the new days. Sometimes it feels like the world around us is collapsing. Sometimes it’s the world inside us. But the sun always rises. It always promises that we can start again. It’s the one thing we can count on when we can’t count on anything else.”

— Karina Halle

302. “You’re my everything. And there’s nothing that will change that.”

— Karina Halle

303. “If it’s wrong to occasionally ogle your best friend, I don’t want to be right.”

— Karina Halle

304. “God, he can alpha me anytime he wants.”

— Karina Halle

305. “There was something kind of nice about operating out of the safe house – it was basic and simple, like camping for kingpins.”

— Karina Halle

306. “You can choose fear. Or you can choose love.”

— Karina Halle

307. “My path in life leads right into your arms.”

— Karina Halle

308. “I know you’ve been burned. But I’ve been burned too. Maybe our ashes can make something beautiful together.”

— Karina Halle

309. “You don’t need to justify what I do. I do what I have to do to survive because that’s all I know. I don’t make excuses, I own it. This is me, this is who I am, this is my life. It shames me but not enough to stop. At one point, this was all about revenge; it was about getting the men who got my father and my mother. But somewhere along the way, I forgot about the beast. Vengeance is a beast, you know. It can be tamed. I just stopped feeding it.”

— Karina Halle

310. “I want the woman that will wow me, knock me off my feat, make me come after her over and over again just for another second of her time.” He takes a step away from me, hurt and disgust livid on his brow.”

— Karina Halle

311. “I’m drunk. Everything is comfortable. Except I wish I had a cheeseburger. I would eat it and use it as a pillow. Or maybe use it as a pillow and then eat it.”

— Karina Halle

312. “He greeted the twins like they were all from the same hood in Compton and gave Dex and me the head nod.”

— Karina Halle

313. “Loss of love is the most terrifying feeling in the world.”

— Karina Halle

314. “You feel everything. You make me feel everything.”

— Karina Halle

315. “If you don’t believe you’re worthy of love you’ll never know what to do with love when you get it.”

— Karina Halle

316. “It’s not exactly polite to keep saying hell, but you can always do what I do and make up a word. Like, twatwaffle. Or douchecanoe.”

— Karina Halle

317. “Too many times I’ve heard stories of people being attacked in front of others, people who yell for help, and no one comes to their aid. People these days are too afraid to stick their neck out and help each other. There are too many guns, too many crazies, too many criminals. Even in the most liberal city in America, I wonder how many San Franciscans would take the chance. But I can’t think like that. I have to believe in the good in people, even as the world spins to an even worse future.”

— Karina Halle

318. “It’s true what they say about red-headed chicks, you know, they all have a wee bit of crazy in them.”

— Karina Halle

319. “Love is fire,” he.”

— Karina Halle

320. “Eventually you would have woken up,” Natasha says. “The human heart isn’t meant to be caged by someone who doesn’t feed it.”

— Karina Halle

321. “When you con for revenge, you might not know when you’ve won.”

— Karina Halle

322. “Our love was a mistake from the start. A beautiful, life-rendering mistake.”

— Karina Halle

323. “In another world, a merciful world, it wouldn’t be the first time and it wouldn’t be the last. All these nights would stretch on and on and on, and she would fall asleep in my arms with all my darkness and all my demons and all my ugliness stored safely in her heart.”

— Karina Halle

324. “Because the past makes you who you are. I want to know why you’re this way.”

— Karina Halle

325. “I have your back, OK? Don’t forget that. I won’t let you.”

— Karina Halle

326. “Some have patience. I do not.”

— Karina Halle

327. “I think sometimes when you love something too much, you’re that much more aware of how much you have to lose.”

— Karina Halle

328. “I want to be the only man who witnesses that look. I want it to be mine forever.”

— Karina Halle

329. “He’s staring at me, almost in awe. “What?” I ask him. “Your face.” I’m breathing hard, my face hot from orgasm. “What about my face?” “I’ve just never seen you come before,” he says. “It’s more beautiful than I thought.”

— Karina Halle

330. “A bulletproof vest under everything else. I couldn’t do anything to protect my head, but at least my hair looked good. I.”

— Karina Halle

331. “Did I look like crap because I felt like crap, or did I feel like crap because I looked like crap? Ah, the mysteries of life.”

— Karina Halle

332. “I’ll tell you what,” he says, running his thumb over my lips. “I’ve been wanting to kiss you for a long time. And I’ve been wanting to do a hell of a lot more.”

— Karina Halle

333. “You must feel your soul is dirty then.” He gave me a wry smile. “Oh, my darling. No,” he said, opening the French doors for me. “I don’t even have a soul.”

— Karina Halle

334. “Once you have a Dex in your lap, you can’t go back,” I said. I looked over at Perry. “Ain’t that right, kiddo?”

— Karina Halle

335. “Humans can get used to anything. We’re nothing if not adaptable. It’s probably how we’ve survived on this planet for so long. With each wrench the world tries to throw at us, whether it be sabertooth tigers, or famine, or disease, or Facebook, we have found ways to adapt and learn and come out better for it.”

— Karina Halle

336. “We gazed at each other for what seemed like ages, so lost but so found.”

— Karina Halle

337. “Please. If you find yourself falling in love with me, don’t stop it. Don’t hold back. Don’t deny yourself that. Let yourself love me.”

— Karina Halle

338. “As an author, you notice it. It’s always overlooked for literary fiction, whatever that means. People always thumb their nose at the genre, even though romance finds its way into every good story, every good movie or TV show.”

— Karina Halle

339. “It takes me a moment to realize it’s Depeche Mode playing and I shake my head. Of course they’d be music for vampires.”

— Karina Halle

340. “You’re my weakness, Lenore,” he says gently against my skin. “I never had one until now. Until you.”

— Karina Halle

341. “Sometimes I want nothing more than to grab her, kiss her, ask her if she remembers what it was like to love me, to want me.”

— Karina Halle

342. “Well he’s my weirdo,” Marina tells him with a proud smile. “That’s why we work so well together. If I have a bit of advice for you Noah, it’s you need to find your weirdo. Once you do, everything else falls into place.”

— Karina Halle

343. “I decide to give them names. The pit bull is Ed. The terrier is Emily. I like giving human names to dogs. It’s more respectable that way. It tells them they’re one of us and reminds us of the same.”

— Karina Halle

344. “Love can bring you to your knees. When your heart decides on what it wants, nothing can stop it. Nothing.”

— Karina Halle

345. “Rachel, I love you. I loved you then, I love you now, and I loved you in all the light and darkness in-between. I love you with a wildness I can’t tame.”

— Karina Halle

346. “Tell me more of the truth.” She twists in her swing so she’s facing me, wrapping her ankle around mine to keep her in place. “Tell me why this, and everything between us, is so complicated when it’s the only thing that makes any sense.”

— Karina Halle

347. “What feeds your soul?”

— Karina Halle

348. “We all carry this yearning in our hearts for a place for us to truly belong. Somewhere here we can be ourselves and give love and receive love and never have to worry about the cost.”

— Karina Halle

349. “Maybe we’re born whole and polished and unscathed, and then life slowly chips away at us. Some of those chips are deep, some are just surface scratches, but we carry them with us as we walk through life, becoming more and more worn. Yet the flaws make us who we are. What we’ve been through make us who we are. This life, it’s trial by fire. If we didn’t go through it, we wouldn’t be the people we are today, and we wouldn’t fit like we do right now.”

— Karina Halle

350. “It’s just an odd feeling sometimes to have so many memories wrapped up with one person, a person that’s no longer part of your life. It’s unfair. If they don’t exist in your life, they shouldn’t exist in your memories.”

— Karina Halle