Karina Halle Quotes & Sayings

It wasn't the opening day of my dreams but it was the opening day of the start of my dreams. — Karina Halle

There are tons of those shiteous shows on TV, — Karina Halle

The Dex Foray special involves two lubed fingers, a lot of tongue and a cigarette for afterwards. — Karina Halle

Sorry," he said, not sounding very sorry at all. "I ... well, nevermind."
"Nevermind?" I couldn't help but sneer. "You just broke into my uncle's lighthouse. Don't you tell me to nevermind. — Karina Halle

Some would say karma, but Javier never much believed in that. What he did believe in was that sooner or later, everyone will be at the same level, everything will even out. It was just luck if you were alive to see it happen. — Karina Halle

I was fucked and I knew it. I had stupidly wandered into some epic rape palace run by meth-addicted hobos and bald men with beards who recently escaped nearby jails and had taken over this place for their torture sessions with hapless young women they found exploring the coast. Even worse, I was going to be the hapless woman who decided to infiltrate their headquarters. — Karina Halle

All for a girl. But she wasn't just any girl.
She was mine.
And I was hers.
Until the bitter end. — Karina Halle

True love doesn't have a sick desperation to it, and undercurrent of doom. People who burn that brightly still get burned in the end. — Karina Halle

She's smart, she's funny and she's not afraid to take risks. Not to mention that she's beautiful, sexy and charming. You know it, I know it, and soon everyone else will know it. The only person who doesn't know it is her because of archaic fuckheads like yourself telling her otherwise. — Karina Halle

You're bad." "You love that I'm bad." She smiled serenely at me. "You know I do. — Karina Halle

As usual, he skirted the line between sexy as hell manbeast and being absolutely adorable. — Karina Halle

I believe in God. Or some great power beyond what we can imagine. But I think religion is a manmade prison. — Karina Halle

...seeing ghosts and demons just lends itself to listening to White Zombie and Slayer and Fantomas on repeat. One Direction and Selena Gomez are for the girls who don't see dead people every fucking day. — Karina Halle

I knew that I was falling in love.
I just didn't think I'd already hit it.
But I have.
I've smashed into it, like falling from a building twenty-five stories up. They call it falling in love because eventually you hit the ground and this is where I am. On the pavement, blasted to smithereens. — Karina Halle

Don't worry, Eve, whatever we end up doing, I'm not leaving you. Not until I teach you how to fire a gun, anyway." Jake snorted loudly. Avery lifted his head and gave him a dirty look. "Do you think that's funny? Eve needs to know how to protect herself." His smile twisted. "A woman with a gun is a bad idea, boy. You'd be putting all our lives at risk." "Only your life," I muttered under my breath. From the way his lips twitched further, I knew he had heard me. — Karina Halle

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

I used to dream big. It seemed like somewhere along the way I had forgotten about that. And gave up. — Karina Halle

I want you," he says with a gruff tenderness. "I want more of you. And I don't care how I get it."
I search his eyes, greener now than they have ever been. They're bright and burning and I know he wants me. I can feel it in my bones, and the thrill is like a million bombs going off at once. How did this even happen? I'm absolutely spellbound by him.
I clear my throat, but even so my words are quiet. "You have me. — Karina Halle

I quickly remember that I had put a condom in my satchel because I figured that pretending to be a ripped, violent warrior might just be walking lady porn. — Karina Halle

Dinner was a lonely affair. Funny how you could be surrounded by your family, your blood, and yet feel totally alone. Even with the sun shining on the sparkling shores of English Bay and Josh at my side, I felt like I was invisible, and in a dark, dark place. — Karina Halle

We're so undefined, so fleeting and fragile and new, but I don't think he could belong to anyone else, and I couldn't belong to anyone else but him. — Karina Halle

What if I really am alone?"
"Baby, you aren't alone. I'm here. — Karina Halle

I'm meant to hold this man's hand. I'm meant to kiss him. — Karina Halle

A gorgeous, sensual, Spanish god. That's what he looked like to me. — Karina Halle

As we drove back up to the school, I asked him, "You're not doing this because of me, are you?" "Ending the show? Of course, I am," he said seriously. "You're my world, Perry, that's all there is to it. There are bigger and better things out there for us. Something legit, or, as you said earlier, meaningful." I know I said it, I just didn't really think Dex had been listening to me. I hated the idea of the show ending just because he was scared for me, just because I wanted something more. I didn't want to live with that ball of guilt. "Don't feel guilty," he said, his mouth twitching into a smile. "This is what I want. And now I know it's what you want too. — Karina Halle

My love for you sings, and it's a song that will never stop playing. It will play through our deaths and beyond that. And this I know. — Karina Halle

You can talk the talk but you can't walk the walk."
His eyes narrowed in challenge. "Oh, I can walk the walk. I can walk the walk so hard that you'll be sore for days. — Karina Halle

Am I supposed to be your submissive?" ...
He chuckled good-naturedly. "Submissive? I'm sorry to disappoint you my angel, but I don't run with that crowd. Perhaps you'll submit to me tonight, but after that, I'll be the one submitting to you. — Karina Halle

No matter how badly you push it away and ignore it, the pain of loss never really goes away. — Karina Halle

Losing love is lonely. Losing it because of something you did is deathly. — Karina Halle

He sighed and rolled his eyes. "Unbelievable. I leave you alone for two hours and you fall off a cliff, get attacked by a crow and a snake explodes all over you." "Pretty — Karina Halle

Good people do bad things," I tell her. "All the time. It's called being human. — Karina Halle

Shut up, you Brony," I said. He looked appalled while I heard Wayne whisper, "What's a Brony? — Karina Halle

He sucked in his breath as his saw me, his eyes traveling from my toes to my hips, as if he hadn't seen it all before.
"Jesus," he whispered, gaze lingering everywhere. "I keep forgetting that you're art already." ... — Karina Halle

You taught me about everything I had forgotten and things I'd never known. And the only way I can repay you is with my heart. You one hundred percent have my heart. It may not be worth much coming from a troubled man like me, but it's real and it's yours. Ti amo, mia leonessa. — Karina Halle

He slowly turned around. "What is love? In English." I raised my brows. "Love, in English, is love?" "What is it in Spanish?" I was so enthralled by his hypnotic eyes, I could barely remember. "Amore?" He shook his head ever so slightly. "No. Love in Spanish is you. — Karina Halle

There's no use dwelling on the things you could have changed. Believe me. Too much reflection on all the could-haves and should-haves will only hold you in your past. — Karina Halle

Because the past makes you who you are. I want to know why you're this way. — Karina Halle

People can be a pain in the ass. — Karina Halle

It's funny how your mind can be open, expansive, to almost anything but when there's a hard limit, something your brain can't make that extra leap for, it all shuts down. — Karina Halle

There have been many risks that were worth taking and many times that we have fallen, but we always fall together. Our journey has never been easy. The only thing easy in all of this is my love for her. It is pure, it is simple, and it is true. — Karina Halle

If he truly wanted me to let everything go, I'd flip over and ride him right there on the range. Screw golf, I'd screw him instead. — Karina Halle

My love for him was hitting me like a brick and along with it came my insecurities and the desperate need for his love in return. I hoped I hadn't come up for air only to drown again. — Karina Halle

some of my layers had started to peel away. — Karina Halle

Why are you so pissed off? he asked, sounding genuinely surprised. Sometimes I wondered if Dex actually had any recollection of 90% of the conversations he was involved with. — Karina Halle

Design your own universe, make your own stars, write your own stories, and create your own destiny. — Karina Halle

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

Because he was so, so wrong about hearts and buildings being different. They are the same. They are structures that keep us safe, that shield us from the elements. And the minute they start to falter, everything else is at risk. A heart can be condemned, just as a building can be. A heart can be destroyed by a sledgehammer disguised as rejection, by a bulldozer masquerading as a careless word. A heart can be blasted to pieces and ruined to the ground. — Karina Halle

How pathetic this town must be to find a fuckup like me as their savior. — Karina Halle

Don't go all mushy on me," I warn him, half-kidding. "Baby," he says, kissing my chin and pressing his weight on me. "Have you felt how hard I am? There ain't a mushy bone in me. — Karina Halle

I can see all your cracks and your darkness and your flaws and I fall in love with it all. And I hope you can fall in love with everything that I am, all that lurks in my dark, all that shines in my light. I want you to love every little piece of me, because it all belongs to you. — Karina Halle

My idea of vacuuming is borrowing someone's dog for the day and having them eat all the crap off the floor. — Karina Halle

You're saying we can write our own destiny," I said, feeling too jaded and stubborn in the moment to believe it.
"I am saying," he said carefully, "that this is not the end of the story. Not the way I am writing it. — Karina Halle

I love you Camden. I love you so damn, fucking much and it's so right and it's so wrong because people are dying, and we're almost dying and Gus is out there and my mother and we can't trust anybody and all I can think about is you. All I can think about is how much I love you and how badly I fucked everything up and I I don't deserves you but I need you." I made a fist with my hands and pounded it against his chest, hard, my tears flowing. "I fucking need you and I need you to forgive me. I need that more than anything in the world! I need you to make me good."
He swallowed hard, letting me hit him, his fingers strong on my jaw. "Ellie, Ellie, Ellie. You are good, deep down you always have been. You don't need me for that. — Karina Halle

Baby, the first chance I get, I'm going to fuck the shit out of you," I growled.
She smiled coyly, her eyes twinkling. "I think it's called making love now."
"Then I'm fucking making love the shit out of you. — Karina Halle

The last thing I remember from last night was blabbing to Penny about how much I love Michael Keaton as Batman before someone must have ushered me off to bed. — Karina Halle

Poor Twatwaffle. Thank God all good llamas go to heaven. — Karina Halle

My knowledge stretches as far as those ghost hunters on YouTube, like that crazy guy with the mustache and the girl who screams a lot, who never really seem to solve anything. — Karina Halle

Justin Beiber exists because he is the anti-Christ and no one would ever suspect the anti-Christ came from Canada. — Karina Halle

Life doesn't always hand you things in a neat package. — Karina Halle

There is no pain, Javier," I assured him. "Not anymore. I want you to finish your name. I am more yours than I am Salvador's. — Karina Halle

I don't want to lose you."
He reaches for my hand and pulls me to him. "You are not going to lose me," he says, peering down at me. "I promise."
I want to believe him so badly. I need to believe him. "What if you lose me?"
He smiles at me, his grip hard. "Then I'll just hold on tighter. — Karina Halle

Do you think because you can't see my scars that they don't exist? ...
Most People have their pain deep inside them, in places no one ever goes. Not until it's too late. — Karina Halle

Do you know why I freaked out? Because I realized I'd fallen in love with my best friend. The very same person who had just told me she didn't love me. Call me an asshole for overreacting but that's what happened. You're not the only one who is hurting here, Perry. At least I didn't do it deliberately. — Karina Halle

No one should be judged for what they read, nor should authors by what they write. — Karina Halle

I want a bibimbap wrap (honestly I just like saying "bibimbap"), — Karina Halle

Every moment we have, we end up spending it together. Like gravity is pulling us into each other's orbit and there's no choice but to either collide or keep rotating around each other. — Karina Halle

When I'm travelling, I feel like the secret to my life, to myself, to really becoming, is one step ahead. It's in the next destination, the next town I get lost in, the next stranger I talk to. It's always next but never here ...
I like having hope. And I hope I find what I'm looking for before I have to leave. — Karina Halle

He stared at the woods for a moment before he looked up at me and frowned. "After all that's happened, I'm surprised you're not leaving me out here to die."
"I'm not a savage."
He smiled handsomely and with a shake of his head, said, "No. You aren't. And you're not a lady either. I reckon you just might be perfect. — Karina Halle

So, what would you like to drink?"
"Aside from you?"
I laughed anxiously. "You can't drink me."
He leaned forward, his eyes running up and down my body, causing my skin to heat. "Yes, I believe I can. And I believe I will. But for now, I'll just have a Bombay and tonic. — Karina Halle

Each step toward love. Each step toward revenge. I walked toward the end of something, maybe the end of everything. And it was all in my hands. — Karina Halle

Dex isn't a big guy by any means. He's on the short side and toned but still thin. But he has unpredictable pit-bull tactics and one hell of a lippy attitude with strangers. For heaven's sake, never give that man a shovel. — Karina Halle

He had such a lovely smile when he was using it for good and not evil — Karina Halle

You're a bad person, Ellie," he said without a trace of irony.
"I'm not bad. The world is bad and I'm just trying to survive in it. — Karina Halle

sometimes life gives you what you want while taking another piece away. The — Karina Halle

I don't even really know who you are."
"I'm the one who has your back," he says. "And I've been watching you for a very, very long time. — Karina Halle

I knew what song was next and I knew who I was dancing with. My wife. — Karina Halle

I am Dex Foray, the only penis involved in the show. And who might you be? — Karina Halle

I'm pretty sure there are some things in the dark that we're not meant to see. — Karina Halle

My darling. You're going to be my undoing. — Karina Halle

I am anger reborn and frustration unjustified. I am brutal hate and cold, dead winter. I am turning, tumbling in despair and there is no light, no warmth, no world, no heart. — Karina Halle

We've all got our own people. Somewhere out there there's someone who is part of your tribe, who belongs to you, who should be with you. You have always been my people, Veronica. From the moment we first met till now, through all of those years where we were both lost and stolen. — Karina Halle

Coffee would be great," I say. Dick would be better, though. He leans forward and kisses me softly on the lips. "See you soon, love." Fucking. Swoon. — Karina Halle

Sometimes it felt like looking at his face and just accepting the way things were between us was the hardest thing in the world. — Karina Halle

In my experience, love is a destructive force, tearing hearts to shreds and forcing people to pick up the pieces. Even the best love stories are violent tales. — Karina Halle

You think she's hot, don't you?" she asked. I shrugged. "Of course." Because Kayla is hot. Fit and tiny with creamy — Karina Halle

They say you're only as old as you feel but try telling that to a ninety-year-old on their deathbed, just wishing he could do all the bloody things he wants to do. — Karina Halle

I would do anything for you, at any time of the day. — Karina Halle

Even if you lose love, it's never really gone. It stays in you forever. The risks of love are always worth it. — Karina Halle

He stared at me for a moment, his rugged face looking torn, before he quickly put his arm around me and led me toward the cabin. There was something so wonderfully solid about the gesture, the feeling of him behind me, that it made me momentarily forget who this was. He may have just "saved" me, but it was still Indian-hating Jake McGraw, and we mixed about as well as oil and vinegar. — Karina Halle

I cleared my throat and spoke into his kiss. "Sorry, it's been a while."
"You should expect to hear the same thing from me in about five minutes," he murmured.
"Five minutes, huh?"
"I'll make it the best five minutes of your life."
I bit his lip, hard, then released him and looked into those intense blues. "Clock's ticking. — Karina Halle

Hell, if a neighbour were to stick their head out their window and see a tattooed god ramming a chick in the neighbour's backyard all lit by romantic lights, they'd probably watch. I'd watch too. — Karina Halle

Lauren is a bicycle — Karina Halle

Like I was in a helicopter crash, I tell her. — Karina Halle

I'd always hoped that love would be enough. Otherwise it's just a Nine Inch Nails song. — Karina Halle

Life isn't a linear journey. Sometimes it's one step backwards, two steps forward and then a jump out to the side. It's kind of like the "Time Warp", when you think about it.
Life follows many directions and hopefully, eventually, your mind and body and life and love, all catch up with each other. — Karina Halle

Life leaves scars. Sometimes you don't see them until later. Sometimes you don't know where they've come from. Sometimes they fade before your eyes. But the world leaves its mark on us. — Karina Halle

I'm nowhere but I'm somewhere and it's not where I want to be. I don't really know what I want. But I know I don't have it. — Karina Halle

It's okay to need me. I need you. I need you more than I can possibly tell you, Jackie. There's no shame in it. It's part of loving someone. You need their heart to help complete yours."
"You love me?" I whisper, the emotions rising up my throat, choking me.
The room seems to pause with my breath.
"Of course I love you. I've only loved you. There was no before or in-between for me," he says softly as he holds onto my hand. "All in. I've always been all in with you. — Karina Halle

It's true what they say about red-headed chicks, you know, they all have a wee bit of crazy in them. — Karina Halle