82 Quotes by Cate Tiernan

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...

Could he actually be my muirn beatha dan?

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.

Over my dead body, I thought. Yes, even immortals use that phrase. It has extra oomph for us.

Oh my God, can you see me? I thought I was wearing my invisibility cloak.

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.

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.

I feel like a fox in a henhouse full of Catholic girls.

Fire is a fragile lover, court her well, neglect her not; her faith is like a misty smoke, her anger is destructive hot.