Top 100 Quotes About Kiernan
#1. Kiernan reaches to pull out my chair, but I beat him to it and then nudge the chair across from me out about six inches with my foot.
He pulls it out the rest of the way and says, "Thank you, dearest," in a droll tone before retreating behind the menu.
Rysa Walker
#2. I'm not sure why he's flustered until I realize there are now five of us and the table is set for four.
Pru waves her hand dismissively. "Don't bother. The dark-haired one is just my bodyguard. He can stand."
Kiernan seems entirely unfazed by the comment, but her tone pisses me off.
Rysa Walker
#3. I pull my T-shirt over my face and am about to plunge in when it occurs to me that I'm approaching this, as Kiernan would say, far too linearly.
Rysa Walker
#4. Well, I'm expecting great things from you, young man!"
"Th-thank you, Brother Cyrus." As soon as he released my shoulders, I hurried over to the glass wall where Kiernan was sitting, frowning out at the ocean like it had done something to piss him off.
Rysa Walker
#5. So what'd we miss?" Jade pulled a chair from the next table and wedged it between Kale and Dax.
"We were just about to vote you off the island," I said, stirring my coffee.
"You've got my vote," Kiernan said enthusiastically, glaring at Jade.
Jus Accardo
#6. Hold out for the best there is, Kiernan. You should have it. Make sure that there's fire. Maybe there'll be ice, too, but hold out for the extremes, for the best, the brightest. Don't accept anything lukewarm. Because you're fire and ice, and you're the brightest and the best, Kiernan.
Heather Graham
#7. Kiernan leans forward. "I'm guessing that's because you can make it work, Mr. Houdini. Maybe that's how you manage . . ." He pauses when my kick lands on his shin, but finishes the sentence anyway. ". . . some of your more elaborate escapes.
Rysa Walker
#8. So why didn't he vanish?" Charlayne nods toward Kiernan. "After Max took his key, he should have disappeared, right?"
"I would have," Kiernan says, "except someone was wise enough to give me a backup when I was eight. This isn't the first time it's saved me.
Rysa Walker
#9. He said he doesn' have it. Pick on someone your own size." You could really hear the Irish in Kiernan's voice back then. I mean, you can still hear it, but it's more of a lilt when he's older. Back then, it was a full-on brogue.
Rysa Walker
#10. I warned you before not to marry him if he couldn't kiss you as I did. Now I can warn you that you'll never have anything like you had tonight with him. Not in a thousand years, Kiernan.
Heather Graham
#11. I looked around. Kale was glaring daggers at Alex, who was staring at me like I'd lost my mind. Jade was eye-humping Kale like a lovesick puppy while Kiernan looked ready to kick her ass.
Seriously. Worse-timed drama ever.
Jus Accardo
#12. It is always Dark. Light only hides the Darkness. - DANIEL KIAN MC KIERNAN
Al Sarrantonio
#13. Charlayne is in front of me, holding a rifle identical to the one in my hand, raised to shoulder height and pointed at Kiernan, who's sitting on the bed. He looks more bored than afraid.
Rysa Walker
#14. Kiernan, the less you know, the better. You're always telling me to just trust you and do what you're asking, and I do - "
He snorts. "When it suits you."
"Okay, but I do when it seems important. And this is really, really important.
Rysa Walker
#15. Kiernan. I had a sudden memory of the small, scuffed-up shoe I'd seen just before I fell. He must have snatched the bracelet when the crowd gathered around me. If I managed to get out, I resolved to give him every last penny I had and cover his little face with kisses.
Rysa Walker
#16. I didn't start the war, Kiernan." "But we're on opposite sides." "So fight me!" he warned her softly.
Heather Graham
#17. Kiernan doesn't answer. He just turns toward the door and walks out, limping. He bangs both the cabin door and the porch door on his way out. Pretty sad for someone who seems to think he's being the adult here.
Rysa Walker
#18. Kiernan spins around nervously, eyes flicking between the door we just entered and one at the other end of the room. "You forgot to mention the guards. Kind of important, Pru!"
"Why? You've got a gun. And Evie says your friend there is a baby ninja.
Rysa Walker
#19. Hello, Miss Mackay. It's been a while, hasn't it? But then, a man never knows quite when he'll run into you, eh, Kiernan?
Heather Graham
#20. He swallows a soothing mouthful of Jim Beam and rubs at his face, trying to rub away the familiar regret, that he can't take back words that are already history, that have found their mark and already done their damage.
Caitlin R. Kiernan
#21. Give him a crowd, a gallery worthy of his best effort, and the old warrior will put on his show ... He isn't what he use to be. But pack the stands, turn up the lights, and who is it brings down the house with his act? The Babe!
John J. Kiernan
#22. You know, it's a sad and unfortunate state of affairs that you have to live in a world where eight-year-olds refuse to believe in anything that they cannot touch or measure, and anyone who happens to see a thing that is invisible to most people is immediately branded a lunatic.
Caitlin R. Kiernan
#23. Originality is the most deadly mirage in all of art. You can chase it from now until doomsday, and you'll only find yourself lost and dying of thirst.
Caitlin R. Kiernan
#24. When we've decided to tell the truth in a story, we should tell good, strong versions of it, proper versions that kids can do something with.
Celine Kiernan
#25. little cottage in a far-flung spot on the coast of Ireland is an international incident that leaves the family stranded and dependent on themselves for their survival. Facing starvation,
Susan Kiernan-Lewis
#26. The writing of a novel or short story or poem or whatever should elevate the audience, not drag the writer down to some level beneath herself. And she - the author - should fight always to prevent that dragging down, especially when the only possible benefit of allowing it to happen is monetary.
Caitlin R. Kiernan
#29. What can I do? She's here to help Kale."
"Sure she is. And I'm Ke$ha.
Jus Accardo
#30. I certainly know quite a few kid actors, but I'm not really friends with them. They're all very nice people, but I just don't run in the same circles.
Kiernan Shipka
#31. Julia follows the beach, the sand that is so white it makes her doubt the beaches in Heaven could possibly be any whiter, the water like peacock feathers lapping at the shore, vivid green blue going hyacinth out where the sea starts getting deep.
Caitlin R. Kiernan
#32. Ghosts are those memories that are too strong to be forgotten for good, echoing across the years and refusing to be obliterated by time.
Caitlin R. Kiernan
#35. All too infrequently do I encounter a new voice as delightful, compelling, and intelligent as that of Molly Tanzer.
Caitlin R. Kiernan
#36. It is as though the human race is always only waiting for permission to hate.
Celine Kiernan
#37. Stop it," Chance says out loud, angryraw, scornful voice that she hardly recognizes, "Jesus, just fucking stop it," but she's crying again, and her eyes burn, and she's so goddamn sick of the sound, the smell and saltbland flavor of her own useless tears.
Caitlin R. Kiernan
#38. A YA heroine does not have to pick up a weapon nor wear men's clothing to be equal to her male counterparts.
Celine Kiernan
#40. What makes us brave isn't lacking the good sence to be afraid; it's looking back at what we've lived through and seeing if we've faced it well.
Caitlin R. Kiernan
#41. YA heroines can choose to have sex & they can choose not to without either decision becoming the focus of their story.
Celine Kiernan
#42. I hate a messy closet. I totally freak out when my closet is messy and I can't find anything.
Kiernan Shipka
#43. I am a part of everything that I have read.
John Kiernan
#44. Maybe I just have everything backwards. Maybe it's a problem of perspective. In this Post-Modern Age perhaps it is the digital experiences we ought to cheer as "genuine " and not those troublesome and inconvenient analog ones.
Looking at it all fucking backwards.
Caitlin R. Kiernan
#45. I don't know if I've ever screamed or cried for a band.
Kiernan Shipka
#46. There is no way to bring back what is lost, but maybe telling a tale of beauty is a form of mourning.
Stephen Kiernan
#47. It's the last residue of our closeness with God, I reckon, the ability to see the wonder of things.
Celine Kiernan
#49. Dancy can hear rain beginning to fall on the tar-paper roof of the cabin. Fat summer raindrops, and it's the sweetest sound, almost, sweet as the end of a fever, as ripe as red apples.
Caitlin R. Kiernan
#50. A dictator decrees," she later wrote, "a president asks Congress for permission to organize.
Denise Kiernan
#51. Dancy closes her eyes, remembering all the times that have been so much worse than this, all the horror and shame and sorrow to give her strength. The burning parts of her no one and nothing can ever touch, the fire where her soul used to be.
Caitlin R. Kiernan
#52. I have a Twitter, but I'm not a tweeter ... if that really makes sense.
Kiernan Shipka
#54. Just because something is hard to do doesn't mean you gotta do it.' Homer Simpson
Thomas Kiernan
#55. They fought to smile through the lines and the mud and the long hours, dancing under the stars and under the watchful eyes of their government, an Orwellian backdrop for a Rockwellian world.
Denise Kiernan
#56. I loved this place when I was a kid. I still love it, but when I was a kid I'd take the bus down here and spend all day long reading in this room.
Caitlin R. Kiernan
#57. YA heroines can have romances that are subplots: can have goals other than getting/keeping a man: can put their lovers second. JUST LIKE YAheroes DO!
Celine Kiernan
#58. You think one's any different from the next? I mean, when it comes right down to brass tacks, people killing each other since they figured out how, that's all. Give them pretty names and numbers, but it's all the same to the worms.
Caitlin R. Kiernan
#60. It's a myth that crazy people don't know they're crazy. Many of us are surely as capable of epiphany and introspection as anyone else, maybe more so. I suspect we spend far more time thinking about our thoughts than do sane people.
Caitlin R. Kiernan
#63. A phenomenon that might seem only backwards or silly when expressed at a social level becomes madness at the individual level.
Caitlin R. Kiernan
#65. I could never stand to be a writer. Not a real writer. It's entirely too awful, having thoughts that refuse to become sentences.
Caitlin R. Kiernan
#66. No one we knew ever believed that there was anything between us but the sex and some virulent allure, my dirty dishwater circling the drain of you. Not a pretty comparison but maybe it's the best we'll ever deserve, either of us.
Caitlin R. Kiernan
#67. Simple, easy actions can protect the health of our water resources and help save drinking water supplies. There is not one individual who cannot help to make a difference to the health of the environment
Ian Kiernan
#68. That's another sort of being haunted: starting something and never finishing it.
Caitlin R. Kiernan
#69. Eva was only a slut. She never had the requisite motivation to be anything so useful or lucrative as a whore.
Caitlin R. Kiernan
#70. The horse is dead," she says and squeezes Soldier's hand. "From here we walk."
"Anyone ever told you you're sort of a creepy kid?" Odd Willie asks.
"All the damn time," Emmie tells him. "I don't bother keeping count anymore.
Caitlin R. Kiernan
#72. The "hillbilly" girls were generating more enriched Tubealloy per run than the PhDs had...The District Engineer understood perfectly. Those girls...had been trained like soldiers. Do what you're told. Don't ask why.
Denise Kiernan
#73. It is possible for YA heroines to go an entire book without discussing their love lives.
Celine Kiernan
#74. ... but that was a long time ago, a long story everyone's tired of repeating, or a short story simply not worth repeating again.
Caitlin R. Kiernan
#75. I need a world filled with wonder, with awe, with awful things. I couldn't exist in a world devoid of marvels, even if the marvels are terrible marvels. Even if they frighten me to consider them.
Caitlin R. Kiernan
#76. Are you with the Resistance?" "No. I am simply trying to survive, and to help those I can." Fleur
Stephen P. Kiernan
#77. I am a huge fashion fan. It's a really cool way to express yourself.
Kiernan Shipka
#78. You could have kept on driving and never looked back. No one's ever had to stop for me. Or even hear me. Anyway, you did, and now I'm afraid the time for choice is behind us both.
Caitlin R. Kiernan
#79. You love someone. You don't leave her to drown. And you don't tell her she's crazier than she already knows that she is!
Caitlin R. Kiernan
#80. Some stories don't have endings," she says. "In some stories, there aren't even answers.
Caitlin R. Kiernan
#81. No sound here but the river lapping hungry at the edge of the forest, the sigh of the wind in the leaves and the rasping drone of insects.
Caitlin R. Kiernan
#82. I wish I could play fiddle by firelight.
That last one had been the wish of a guy named Nero. Just went to show that you had to be careful what you wished for.
Kiernan Kelly
#83. Think of it." Now he is speaking to you, no one but you. "It may not matter what we want for science, or what we think is ethical. All we must do is provide the right environment, and let the heart do what it desires. The heart wants to beat.
Stephen Kiernan
#84. We were watching telly the night Nan burnt the house down.
Celine Kiernan
#85. Listen: Love your fiction, even if you hate the act of creating that fiction, love the stories to a fault. Cry at your tragedies, laugh at your jokes, rejoice at your character's victories - or give it all up and go knit a damned sweater, instead.
Caitlin R. Kiernan
#87. I love organization, so I split my clothes into two closets according to seasons.
Kiernan Shipka
#88. I realize how arrogant it is to claim I can sort what is relevant from what is irrelevant.
Caitlin R. Kiernan
#89. A book may only be judged for what it is, not what you'd like it to be.
Caitlin R. Kiernan
#90. Art should never be a slave to commerce, but for all working artists that's exactly what it must be.
Caitlin R. Kiernan
#91. Ordinary people need to lead and not sit there and think that governments are going to spoon-feed them and look after them and look after the country, because they won't.
Ian Kiernan
#92. Language is a poor enough means of communication as it is. So we should use all the words we have.
Caitlin R. Kiernan
#93. I am usually at my most brutally forthright when making shit up. That's the paradox of me.
Caitlin R. Kiernan
#94. That tug against my heart, the painless, invisible cord trying to pull me forward, rips something from me like the shirt being torn from my back, and I scream as part of me is left behind.
Celine Kiernan
#96. Her words, her jumbled, mad thoughts tamed or simply broken, made language, and she took another drag off the Lucky, exhaled, and read the last sentence aloud.
Caitlin R. Kiernan
#98. I don't like remembering the way that hurt her. Hurts her. I'm sure it still does; I'm just not around to see, and I don't like dwelling on that, either. That's only normal. Missing people you still love, and not wanting to see them in pain and angry and humiliated.
Caitlin R. Kiernan
#99. I always try to read at night, because it gets me kind of tired.
Kiernan Shipka
#100. There are new smells on the wind, the healthy scent of green and growing things, the way a summer day can smell, or a greenhouse, sugarsmooth aroma of budding trees and water flowing free across coarse and sparkling sand.
Caitlin R. Kiernan
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