Top 500 Karen Marie Moning Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “Assume’ makes an ‘ass’ out of ‘u’ and ‘me’.”

— Karen Marie Moning

2. “Some people bring out the worst in you, others bring out the best, and then there are those remarkably rare, addictive ones who just bring out the most. Of everything. They make you feel so alive that you’d follow them straight into hell, just to keep getting your fix.”

— Karen Marie Moning

3. “If you are not with me, you are against me. I have no mercy for my enemies.”

— Karen Marie Moning

4. “Truth hurts. But lies can kill.”

— Karen Marie Moning

5. “Bedevil the devil and devil be dammed. I fear no devil and bow to no man. – Adam Black.”

— Karen Marie Moning

6. “I love books, by the way, way more than movies. Movies tell you what to think. A good book lets you choose a few thoughts for yourself.”

— Karen Marie Moning

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7. “You can’t save people from themselves. You can only try to wake them up.”

— Karen Marie Moning

8. “The most confused we ever get is when we’re trying to convince our heads of something our heart knows is a lie.”

— Karen Marie Moning

9. “Strength wasn‘t about being able to do everything alone. Strength was knowing when to ask for help and not being too proud to do it.”

— Karen Marie Moning

10. “I lock eyes with my reflection and don’t look away. The day you look away you start to lose yourself. I’m never going to lose myself. You are what you are. Deal with it or change.”

— Karen Marie Moning

11. “Your feet will bring you to where your heart is.”

— Karen Marie Moning

12. “Who and what we surround ourselves with is who and what we become. In the midst of good people, it is easy to be good. in the midst of bad people, it is easy to be bad.”

— Karen Marie Moning

13. “Hope strengthens. Fear kills.”

— Karen Marie Moning

14. “Its our actions that define us. What we choose. What we resist. What we’re willing to die for.”

— Karen Marie Moning

15. “If you weaken, I’ll be strong. If you get lost, I’ll be your way home. If you despair, I’ll bring you joy. I will love you until the end of time.”

— Karen Marie Moning

16. “Regret is poison that kills the soul.”

— Karen Marie Moning

17. “Life is too hard, too much to handle. Nobody told me there’d be days like these. How could nobody tell me there’d be days like these? How could they let me grow up like that – happy and pink and stupid?”

— Karen Marie Moning

18. “There’s no point in fighting the tide. It ebbs. It flows. You ride it.”

— Karen Marie Moning

19. “I’m here. You’re safe now. It’s okay to remember. They can never hurt you again.”

— Karen Marie Moning

20. “Nobody looks good in their darkest hour. But it’s those hours that make us what we are. We stand strong, or we cower. We emerge victorious, tempered by our trails, or fracture by a permanent, damning fault line.”

— Karen Marie Moning

21. “Time heals. No, it doesn’t. At best, time is the great leveler, sweeping us all into coffins. We find ways to distract ourselves from the pain. Time is neither scalpel nor bandage. It is indifferent. Scar tissue is not a good thing. It is merely the wound’s other face.”

— Karen Marie Moning

22. “The entire time I’m burning in Hell, I’ll regret each tear I made you weep. But if Hell were the price for twenty days with you, I’d condemn myself again and again. – Cian MacKeltar.”

— Karen Marie Moning

23. “There are really only two positions one can take toward anything in life: hope or fear. Hope strengthens, fear kills.”

— Karen Marie Moning

24. “Some things are sacred. Until you act like they’re not. Then you lose them.”

— Karen Marie Moning

25. “Love knows no right or wrong. Love is. Only is.”

— Karen Marie Moning

26. “Don’t lose yourself to anger. It’s gasoline. You can burn it as fuel, or you can use it to torch everything you care about and end up standing on a scorched battlefield, with everybody dead, even you-only your body doesn’t have the good grace to quit breathing.”

— Karen Marie Moning

27. “One day you will kiss a man you can’t breathe without, and find that breath is of little consequence.”

— Karen Marie Moning

28. “Desire makes life happen. Makes it matter. Makes everything worth it. Desire is life. Hunger to see the next sunrise or sunset, to touch the one you love, to try again. “Hell would be waking up and wanting nothing,” he agrees.”

— Karen Marie Moning

29. “I’m not afraid of Hell. I lived there once. And if I have to go back again, I’ll swagger through those gates with fire in my blood and war in my heart. And I’ll. Take. No. Prisoners.”

— Karen Marie Moning

30. “Occam’s razor: The simplest explanation that accommodates all variables is most likely the truth.”

— Karen Marie Moning

31. “Fire to my ice. Ice to my fever.”

— Karen Marie Moning

32. “Grief shared was grief lessened.”

— Karen Marie Moning

33. “Good and evil are merely opposite sides of a coin. Get tossed in the air enough, it’s easy to come down on the wrong side.”

— Karen Marie Moning

34. “You’re leaving me, Rainbow Girl.”

— Karen Marie Moning

35. “You believe in God? Dude. Only God could have created physics.”

— Karen Marie Moning

36. “People treat you as badly as you let them treat you. Key word there: let.”

— Karen Marie Moning

37. “See me when you look at me.”

— Karen Marie Moning

38. “Sometimes my dreams feel so real it’s hard to believe they’re just the subconscious’s stroll across a whimsical map that has no true north.”

— Karen Marie Moning

39. “Evil is a completely different creature, Mac. Evil is bad that believes it’s good.”

— Karen Marie Moning

40. “Nobody looks good in their darkest hours. But it’s those hours that make us what we are.”

— Karen Marie Moning

41. “There’s no such thing as a dirty fight when you’re fighting to win.”

— Karen Marie Moning

42. “But then we so rarely understand the value of what we possess until it’s gone.”

— Karen Marie Moning

43. “Once, long ago in her world, a sunny day in spring was her favorite, but now a sunny day in winter delights her more. It is the perfect metaphor for their love. Sunshine on ice. She warms his frost. He cools her fever.”

— Karen Marie Moning

44. “He pulls me around and kisses me. “You’re Mac,” he says. “And I’m Jericho. And nothing else matters. Never will. You exist in a place that is beyond all rules for me. Do you understand that?” I do. Jericho Barrons just told me he loves me.”

— Karen Marie Moning

45. “It’s often only in the lies we refuse to speak that any truth can be heard at all.”

— Karen Marie Moning

46. “You can’t go forward if you’re looking backward. You run into walls that way.”

— Karen Marie Moning

47. “The wound you refuse to dress is one that will never heal. You gush lifeblood and never even know why. It will make you weak at a critical moment when you need to be strong.”

— Karen Marie Moning

48. “Safety is a fence, and fences are for sheep. I would rather die at twenty-two, knowing the truth, then live in a cage of lies for a hundred years.”

— Karen Marie Moning

49. “Love is funny. Even though you don’t have that person anymore, you still have the feeling. You didn’t lose your LOVE. You lost the tangible, tactile, sense-sational ability to experience the person or animal you lost.”

— Karen Marie Moning

50. “You hated my rainbows, now you don’t like my leather. Is there anything you like on me?”

— Karen Marie Moning