Top 500 Karen Marie Moning Quotes (2026 Update)
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451. “Gah, some chicks should be shot. Put out of everyone else’s reproduction pool.”

— Karen Marie Moning

452. “When insane things start to arrange themselves in sane patterns around you, you know you got problems.”

— Karen Marie Moning

453. “Keltar mates ne’er come easily to their men. Some travel distances too vast and strange to fathom, others travel but a short path, though a far distance in their hearts. Most resist every step of the way, yet for each Keltar, one woman will make that journey. ‘Tis up to the Keltar to claim her.”

— Karen Marie Moning

454. “I hate sentences that begin with my name followed by the claim – indubitably erroneous – that the speaker knows something about me. Those kinds of sentences rank right up there with the ones that begin with You know what your problem is? That’s always a doozy. Talk about a trick question. Nothing worth hearing ever follows that preface.”

— Karen Marie Moning

455. “Cease ceasing movement so abruptly! Christ, woman, must you catapult forward after each cessation? Are you certain you’ve strapped the mirror securely? We should stop and check it. By Danu, wench, try nudging this beast gently, not kicking it with both heels! A silence, a slew of choked curses, then: Horses! What the bloody hell is wrong with horses? Have they all been slain in battle?”

— Karen Marie Moning

456. “The illusions it had woven for me had taken place only in my head. The battle had been invisible to the naked eye, but the hard ones are.”

— Karen Marie Moning

457. “Anyone worth knowing breaks once. Once. No shame, no foul if you survive it. You did.”

— Karen Marie Moning

458. “Attitude shapes reality.”

— Karen Marie Moning

459. “Nothing touches her. To be touched is weakness.”

— Karen Marie Moning

460. “You tried to barter with the devil himself for me, you crazy woman. Bloody hell, doona you ever risk your life for mine. Ever! Do you hear me?”

— Karen Marie Moning

461. “That had taken enormous courage. To love someone you knew wanted someone else, too, but had, for whatever reason, chosen you.”

— Karen Marie Moning

462. “Rioting begets violence begets rioting. I sometimes think the entire human race is comprised of barely restrained animals, avid for any excuse to tear off their masks of civility. And here I am, always trying desperately to keep mine on.”

— Karen Marie Moning

463. “I have studied humans for a small eternity. Intent infuses their every movement. Road maps to their inner navigation, plastered all over their skin. Born to be slaves.”

— Karen Marie Moning

464. “I’m obsessed and addicted and ripped-down-raw in love with Jericho Barrons.”

— Karen Marie Moning

465. “To one who stopped living a millennium ago, I say, “Show me how to live.”

— Karen Marie Moning

466. “Maybes are anchors you chain to your own feet. Right before you leap off the boat into the ocean.”

— Karen Marie Moning

467. “I contemplate the notion that maybe regrets are a process of accumulation of time, as unavoidable as a closet full of clothes and more bags of them in the attic. Is accumulated baggage what makes people get old? If so, they need to clean out their fecking attics, send the stuff to consignment shops and remember how to walk around naked like kids, little bellies sticking out, always ready for a good laugh.”

— Karen Marie Moning

468. “He’d brought out the best and worst in me, the most of everything. And when you got to have someone like that, anything less was empty, pointless.”

— Karen Marie Moning

469. “The bottom line is we choose our epitaphs.”

— Karen Marie Moning

470. “The inspector ate only two of my tiny sandwiches: the first because he hadnt expected it to taste so awful; the second, I think, because hed thought surely the first must have been a mistake.”

— Karen Marie Moning

471. “I’ve come to acknowledge the turd”.”

— Karen Marie Moning

472. “Gazelles didn’t lie down with lions, at least not unbloodied and alive.”

— Karen Marie Moning

473. “Time will scar my wound and I’ll emerge from my fugue tougher, if not healed.”

— Karen Marie Moning

474. “Pretty girl and all. Asking. Gotta love that. Stuff of heroes. Don’t get the role too often.”

— Karen Marie Moning

475. “Lust is absurd. It strikes in the strangest places at the oddest times. She doesn’t even realize she’s feeling it. She’s erected a barricade of propriety and lies between us. I despise the type of woman she is. I loathe her soft pink innocence. My body doesn’t concur. I wonder why her?”

— Karen Marie Moning

476. “Woman, you are a thousand kinds of fool.”

— Karen Marie Moning

477. “That sounds suspiciously like faith in me,” he mocks. “You see faith where only a challenge has been issued. Will you fail?”

— Karen Marie Moning

478. “Pushy, that’s what brunettes are. Even the dainty, fragile-looking ones.”

— Karen Marie Moning

479. “I’ll never get laid trying to keep you safe. You’re a train wreck on steroids.”

— Karen Marie Moning

480. “His face was in my neck and he was breathing hard. Was he grieving me? Already? Would he miss me? Had I, in some tiny way, come to matter to this enigmatic, hard, brilliant, obsessed man? I realised he’d come to matter to me. Good or evil, right or wrong, he mattered to me...”

— Karen Marie Moning

481. “You and I more than anyone else in the universe are perfect for each other.”

— Karen Marie Moning

482. “The two of you are getting downright chatty, aren’t you, Ms. Lane? When did you last see him? what else did he tell you? I’m asking the questions tonight. If an illusion of control comforts you, Ms. Lane, by all means, cling to it.”

— Karen Marie Moning

483. “Life is short. At the buffet of it, who doesn’t want the best dessert?”

— Karen Marie Moning

484. “Womankind’s greatest mistakes: falling in love with a man’s potential. We so rarely share the same view of it, and even more rarely care to achieve it.”

— Karen Marie Moning

485. “I’d vowed years ago to go to the grave the same way I’d been born, just a lot more wrinkly.”

— Karen Marie Moning

486. “You don’t grieve love; you celebrate that you had it.”

— Karen Marie Moning

487. “I stare at him through the dim light as instant lust eclipses anger, will, time, place.”

— Karen Marie Moning

488. “Kid, you might just annoy me into killing you.”

— Karen Marie Moning

489. “The single greatest advantage anyone can take into any battle is hope.”

— Karen Marie Moning

490. “No way. I’m not going in there. I draw the line at grave-robbing, Barrons. It’s not your pen.”

— Karen Marie Moning

491. “He moves in, standing close without touching. He doesn’t need to. I sometimes think our atoms are so glad to see each other that they send little messengers back and forth, ferrying desire, strength, and love between the islands we are.”

— Karen Marie Moning

492. “I’m not a woman who often looks back. I measure actions by results, and peering into the past rarely yields any.”

— Karen Marie Moning

493. “He made a lousy passenger, barking instructions I ignored.”

— Karen Marie Moning

494. “Lose the pessimism, Ms. Lane,” Barrons said when I informed him of my thoughts. “It’s a self-fulfilling prophecy.”

— Karen Marie Moning

495. “Is there worse than insane?”

— Karen Marie Moning

496. “Oh, the cockiness of youth. How I missed mine.”

— Karen Marie Moning

497. “I see God in a sunrise, not in repetitious ritual.”

— Karen Marie Moning

498. “He didn’t just occupy space; he saturated it. The room had been full of books before, now it was full of him.”

— Karen Marie Moning

499. “That part of his body was simply uncontrollable, apparently functioning in accordance to a single law of nature: She existed – he got a hard-on.”

— Karen Marie Moning

500. “When you treated things badly, things behaved badly.”

— Karen Marie Moning