Top 80 Cate Tiernan Quotes
#1. But that's how Wicca was: ancient and gently permeating many facets of people's lives without their being aware of it.
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#2. I held a nail in place and slammed it with the hammer. Best. Chore. Ever.
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#3. Don't fight fair; don't worry what you look like," Joshua continued. "Do whatever you have to do to stop our enemy, no holds barred."
"Like a sale at Loehmann's," Brynne said.
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#4. You dress like that all the time. Like a man."My eyes widened. "I don't dress like a man," I said. "I dress practically. Because I live on a farm. And do icky, farmy things all the time."
Lorenz grinned, which was breathtaking. "A cute little man.
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#5. At that moment I remembered something Cal had told me: that there is beauty in darkness in everything. Sorrow in joy, life and death, thorns on the rose. I knew then that I could not escape pain and torment any more than I could give up joy and beauty
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#6. No, officer, I have no idea why I'm wearing this possum costume. I called you what? OH. My bad.
-Nastasya
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#7. Have you ever seen a god laugh? It makes you catch your breath and feel hopeful and shivery and excited all at the same time. That's how it was watching Cal.
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#8. There is beauty and darkness in everything. Sorrow in joy, life in death, thorns on the rose.
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#9. A woman's face, naked and unadorned, is as beautiful as the moon, and as mysterious.
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#10. What would it be like to care so little about what other people thought of you?
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#11. I don't love you. But I see the value of you, the incredible worth of you, more than anyone I've ever known.
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#12. Then what's the point of trying if you can't even win?"
"You win in lots of different ways," Asher said. "Lots of little wins. The point of this life is not to be good all the time. It's to be as good as you can. No one is perfect. No one does it right all the time. That's not what life is.
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#13. Men are natural warriors, but a woman in battle is truly bloodthirsty
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#14. It was part of what had made him so good at manipulating people - he could present them with what they wanted to see. And what made it so powerful was that at some level, it was real.
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#15. There is darkness in light, there is pain in joy, and there are thorns on the rose.
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#16. I'm here by choice, I reminded myself. I'm here because I can't bear to be not- here anymore. I'm here because I can't tell right from wrong, light from dark. I'm here because I can't stand being me. I'm here because I don't want anyone to know where I am.
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#17. I cared about them. I wanted them to feel better, to live better lives. And then it occurred to me - I cared about myself. I wanted me to live a better life, too Caring about myself was allowing me to care about others.
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#18. I'd once read somewhere that is takes about half as long to recover from a deep relationship as the relationship lasted.
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#19. There are no coincidences. And everything means something.
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#20. Tracy looked at me with affectionate pity. "You feel alive. Regular people feel dead."
"I have new batteries in.
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#21. No matter how dark you are, no matter what you think your heritage is or how inevitable your fall is, you can always make a choice in the next second to be different..
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#22. Being good is something that one must choose over and over again, every day, throughout the day, for the rest of one's life.
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#23. Drag all the skeletons out where we can see 'em," she said softly."That's the only way to get rid of them. They hate the sun light.
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#24. In fairy tales there's always one person who is made for one other, and they find each other and live happily ever after. Cal was my person. I couldn't imagine anyone more perfect. Yet what kind of sick fairy tale would it be if he was the one made exactly right for me and I wasn't right for him?
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#25. At the end of the summer the sea always seems to be railing against the thought of another long, fierce New England winter.
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#27. How much more satisfying to seduce an angel than a villain?
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#28. I turned off the griddle and shoved the heavy platter at Ottavio. "Carry these in for me, willya, Ott? And the ones on top are for you."
[ ... ]
The pancakes on top had been shaped like a certain part of the male anatomy that seemed synonymous with Ottavio, to my way of thinking.
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#29. Is that a hat?" I asked, pouring eight rounds of batter into the griddle.
She grinned at me. "A sweater." She held it up
it was triangular, made of speckled brown and white mohair.
"For ... a Muppet?" I asked.
"For the naked chicken," she said, and snickered.
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#30. Now he was kissing me, not in a scary way, not with hostility, but with warm, seductive intent. In a hayloft, in the barn, in the middle of the night. This scene brought to you by the letters W, T, and F.
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#31. You have to admit he's good looking," Bree pressed, leaning against my kitchen counter.
"Of course I admit it. I'm not blind," I said, busily opening cans.
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#33. You're not honey. Your'e wine. You're the deepest, darkest shadow under a tree on a blazing day. You're strong and hard, coursing like a current at the bottom of a river.
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#34. There's beauty and darkness in everything: Sorrow in joy, life in death, throns on the roses. You can't escape pain and torment anymore then you can give up joy and beauty ...
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#35. Let's here it for modern dentistry, eh? I said, and he grimaced. Actually, as much as people dislike going to the dentist now, try doing it two hundred years ago, when having a cavity meant some quack knocking it out with a chisel and a hammer in the market square. With no anesthetic.
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#36. Okay, welcome to Creepy Territory. Here's your map.
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#37. Over my dead body, I thought. Yes, even immortals use that phrase. It has extra oomph for us.
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#38. Most of the January firsts in recent memory have involved splitting headaches and roiling stomachs and often being
surprised about where I was waking up. ("No, Officer, I have no idea why I'm wearing this possum costume. I called you what? Oh. My bad.")
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#39. Actually, now that I thought about it, I couldn't place when our "bests" had been. When had either one of us been at our best? Hmm. There might be a message here somewhere. I'll let you know if I find it.
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#40. I felt an overwhelming gratitude in my life right now and wanted a chance to acknowledge it. I felt that any thanks given to any god all went to the same place, anyway, no matter what religion you were centered in.
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#41. I should have known the power-hungry slave drivers at River's Edge would see my five days of freedom only as a challenge to be filled.
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#43. It was all I could do to not knock him down right there in front of Asher and climb on him. If I stunned him with a frying pan first, he might not struggle too much. ...
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#44. My sister thought about it for a few moments. "Well, that's boring," she said finally. "Why can't you read porn of something fun that I could borrow?"
I laughed. "Maybe later.
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#45. Better stupid and safe that smart and dead.
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#46. Women are impossible, witches are worse, and women who are powerful witches are going to be the death of me.
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#47. Did I know any useful spells? Why no, I sure didn't. But go on, ask me the Latin name of, like, foxglove. Digitalis purpurea. You're welcome.
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#48. He seems so.. English sometimes, kind of distant or reserved, but then he'll look at me, and his eyes see right through to my soul..
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#49. Yes, word had gotten around about my amusing little defeathering trick (note: made the chicken naked). Apparently we couldn't just eat the poor thing and be done with it. Apparently we had to knit cunning lil' sweaters for it so it could squawk around the yard, feeling fancy.
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#50. Stay here! he commanded me, then he raced off after Cal.
I stopped for just a moment. Then I ran after them.
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#51. Yes. Reyn is our resident horse master. He has an excellent seat."
I grinned. "I've noticed."
Reyn's face tightened and Nell flushed, looking embarrassed. "It's an equestrian term."
"Really? I thought you were talking about his ass.
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#52. It happened again this afternoon. Just the way it did that other night. We were talking
talking about how to protect her, actually
and then, suddenly, I looked at her and it was as if I'd found an entire universe in her eyes.
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#53. But I also meant that loving someone really opening your heart to them is just asking to have your heart smashed and handed back to you in little pieces.
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#54. Because you are in the middle of becoming who you will be. It isn't going to be easy. You may need help. So feel free to ask us for it.
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#55. Bree smiled at me. "Don't worry about me. I think I can handle him. In fact, I want to handle him," she joked. "All over.
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#56. Come with me," Reyn said. "I want to show you something."
Frankly, I had expected something more original. "Really?" I asked, "That's it? That's what you came up with?
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#57. Years from now I'll look back and remember today as the day I met him. I'll look back and remember the exact moment my life began to include him. I will remember it forever.
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#58. If you can change things, change them, but don't waste time worrying about things you can't change.
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#59. Everything is fine and bright. Day must follow every night. My power keeps me safe from harm. The Goddess holds me in her arms.
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#60. You went to all that trouble just for my body?" I said, amazed and so grateful.
Reyn looked up, irritation on his face. "Yeah. We were going to have you stuffed, as an example to future students."
I grinned, "You could put me on wheels, move me from room to room.
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#61. I didn't know where this stuff was coming from - all of a sudden I was a little magickal sprite, bonding with my stone, feeling my earth roots, la la la ...
All I can is describe the way it felt. And that was how it felt. So sue me.
Was I swaying? I felt like I might be swaying.
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#64. The Goddess teaches us that every ending is also a beginning. May there be rebirth from this death.
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#65. The more you learn, the more you need to learn. That's what life is.
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#66. I feel like a fox in a henhouse full of Catholic girls.
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#67. Robbie turned to the house again. "Got a flashlight?"
"Of course not." I smirked. "That would make me too well prepared, wouldn't it?
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#68. I saw something last night-a flash of power from an unexpected source. I can't jump to conclusions - I've been looking and waiting and watching for too long to make a mistake. But in my guy I feel she's here. She's here and she has power. I need to get closer to her.
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#69. I woke up the next afternoon cotton-mouthed with a splitting, and I do mean splitting, headache. When I raised my head, I half expected to leave large chunks of it on my pillow, like a broken melon.
Sorry. It was a really bad headache.
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#70. Anytime you feel love for anything, be it stone, tree, lover, or child, you are touched by the Goddess's magick ...
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#71. Please, please be some sex-starved nutcase who wants to kidnap me and make me your love slave, I begged silently.
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#72. Nothing is static; things always change. The best you can do is change along with them and work with what you have.
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#73. I said honestly. "You can only be formed by your society." I came up with a quote I had heard once: " 'Nothing is good or bad, but thinking makes it so.'
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#74. Don't say I never gave you anything," he said. " I gave you the stars. Good night, little sister.
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#75. Fire is a fragile lover, court her well, neglect her not; her faith is like a misty smoke, her anger is destructive hot.
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#76. Don't be ridiculous. Heritage does not equal destiny.
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#77. I was of the "When life gives you lemons, make lemonade, then wonder why life didn't give you freaking sugar so you could drink the stuff" school of thought.
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#78. Please, ground, just open up and let me fall into an endless crevasse till I hit the center of the earth and combust. Please. Is that too much to ask?
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#79. Oh my God, can you see me? I thought I was wearing my invisibility cloak.
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#80. Good Lord, if Incy could be helped ... then I was a freaking picnic.
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