Marie Montine > Quotes

“Your realm? This is the Guardian’s and you’re just playing in his. You are nothing but a fragment of his world. A piece of it.”
― Marie Montine, Mourning Grey: Part Two

“Feast upon your enemies to give you life. This, too, shall give me mine as I savor the destruction of flesh and blood off the children of the Light. Their souls will cry out to me, my own soul singing with its tune until one day the true power of my Realm will exist in all dimensions.”
― Marie Montine, Mourning Grey: Part One: The Guardians Of The Temple Saga

“Which side are we really on? We are in the grey.”
“Just for tonight,, I want to discover the way I feel when I am with you, for I both want to exceed and disappoint my expectations. For the sake of both of us, I hope it is disappointment.”
― Marie Montine, Mourning Grey: Part Three The Guardians Of The Temple Saga

“I know you yearn for him, and for one last time you shall have him. But please, let go of him after this.”
― Marie Montine, Mourning Grey: Part Three The Guardians Of The Temple Saga

“I was born into wealth, so I wouldn’t be. Anyway, the treasure I seek is not for greed.”
― Marie Montine, Mourning Grey: Part Three The Guardians Of The Temple Saga

“But let me ask you this: what do you think would have happened that night in the woods had I not come? You claim to want to save her now when I was the one that has saved her…from you.”
― Marie Montine, Mourning Grey: Part Two

“You should have come the minute you suspected anything. You tell me you would not betray me, and yet your actions challenge your words.”
― Marie Montine, Mourning Grey: Part Two

“I have been forced to acknowledge fate, over and over again. While it exists outside of my realm, it finds ways to penetrate mine. Instead of trying to outnumber, outdo, or out strength fate, I must outwit it by playing into its game instead of against it.” His conviction was icier than the sliver flecks in his eyes. “And that is why we will win this time.”
― Marie Montine, Mourning Grey: Part One: The Guardians Of The Temple Saga

“He will lead us all to hell.”
― Marie Montine, Mourning Grey: Part Two

“You’re the one who said nothing is over yet, that nothing has been determined, so don’t say we can’t! We didn’t write that prophecy with our hands; we didn’t put down on paper what we will do! We have a choice!”
― Marie Montine, Mourning Grey: Part Three The Guardians Of The Temple Saga

“Dear, my life is just as confined as yours, but I am all right with it. Who knows what’s out there. We are all meant for different things. But if something piques your interest, then perhaps you are one of those to find out what can still your heart.”
― Marie Montine, Mourning Grey: Part One: The Guardians Of The Temple Saga

“I just worry you may pay too much attention to what you’re running from to see what you’re running to.”
― Marie Montine, Mourning Grey: Part One: The Guardians Of The Temple Saga

“The heart belonging to the man of my dreams still belongs to a woman who died decades ago.”
― Marie Montine, Mourning Grey: Part Three The Guardians Of The Temple Saga

“But I’m not going to as long as I can help it, as long I’m breathing I will not stop the breath of another, Kins or humans or whoever. Words don't make us do what we’re supposed to do. My actions are my own, I don’t care who wrote them. So I’m going along with this journey to find my own path.”
― Marie Montine, Mourning Grey: Part Two

“What am I doing here? The same thing all of you men are: getting prepared for the final war with the Empians.”
― Marie Montine, Mourning Grey: Part One: The Guardians Of The Temple Saga

“I cannot go about killing people that do not know me or know of me. I do not kill for pleasure, or on impulse, but for survival and for necessity. That is what the wolf has taught me, and that is the way of all living things.”
― Marie Montine, Mourning Grey: Part One: The Guardians Of The Temple Saga

“The gems are worth more on the island than off it.”
― Marie Montine, Mourning Grey: Part Three The Guardians Of The Temple Saga

“I don’t think we know what kind of enemy we are really dealing with.”
― Marie Montine, Mourning Grey: Part One: The Guardians Of The Temple Saga

“I think the desert heat has melted the meat in your head!”
― Marie Montine, Mourning Grey: Part Three The Guardians Of The Temple Saga

“The longer you live by the dark, the better you come to understand its dark nature. It takes darkness to see darkness. Maybe they are suspicious for a reason, or for no reason other than they know what the Dark has a tendency to be. Maybe their human side trusts you more than their dark side trusts him.”
― Marie Montine, Mourning Grey: Part Three The Guardians Of The Temple Saga

“Blue light streamed out from her hands and pounded into the desert. An enormous mass of sand flew into the air, leaving behind a gaping hole. The officers closest to it fell back on the ground from the energy pushing up into the air as if the earth was exhaling a breath held for hundreds of years.”
― Marie Montine, Arising Son: Part Two

“Night Realm. He is the one who had the power to change the Empians: the Dark Descent.” She turned to him. “The fact he’s beckoning you means a lot. For one: you are not on his side, and he wants you to be.”
― Marie Montine, Arising Son: Part Two

“I know a little more about you now, Audray, or whoever you really are. The New Year is near, and my son’s resolution will not include you. Or I could make your life very uncomfortable after I tell James about you.”
― Marie Montine, Mourning Grey: Part One: The Guardians Of The Temple Saga

“Ryan’s passion towards Stephanie surged around the restaurant like lightning from the love-gods and re-ignited her own dormant feelings for Lharkin.”
― Marie Montine, Arising Son: Part One

“Well, we are still the created, no matter how dark we’ve become. We are no more trespassers than the jaguar that had been trailing us. We all belong, because we all live, as simple as that.”
― Marie Montine, Mourning Grey: Part Two

“Pain seared through Cassandra as if the Gods answered by slicing her belly with a serrated knife, wanting to extract the horror from inside of her before she could let it loose into the world.”
― Marie Montine, Arising Son: Part One

“You are a difficult woman, Cassandra. I should give you back to the humans. They deserve you.”
― Marie Montine, Mourning Grey: Part Three The Guardians Of The Temple Saga

“A perverse sensation glided across his skin. It wanted to search deeper until Ryan understood that this presence wanted to do more than that: it wanted him. Normally he was the one that could touch and get to know objects or people. But this temple was also exercising the same gift on him.”
― Marie Montine, Arising Son: Part Two

“It enables me to survive and to think of tomorrow. You cannot survive in my world if you will care too much for the ones today who could perish tomorrow. I only speak of experience. You still have time before it is too late. Just consider the consequences. Do us all a favor by not letting us all suffer from it”
― Marie Montine, Mourning Grey: Part One: The Guardians Of The Temple Saga

“He held his head back to let the rain fall on his face with a small grin. When he opened his eyes, he looked across the crowd, straight at Cassandra. All the rain in the world could not wash down the growing heat of her passion for him.”
― Marie Montine, Arising Son: Part Two