Top 500 Karen Marie Moning Quotes (2026 Update)
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451. “The bottom line is we choose our epitaphs.”

— Karen Marie Moning

452. “When Barrons looks at me like that, it rattles me. Lust, in those ancient, obsidian eyes, offers no trace of humanity. Doesn’t even bother trying. Savage Mac wants to invite it to come out and play. I think she’s nuts. Nuts, I tell you.”

— Karen Marie Moning

453. “He said love is the willingness to put the happiness and evolution of the person you love before your own. Even if it means giving them up.”

— Karen Marie Moning

454. “Irony, perfect definition: that for which I want to possess it, I would no longer want once I possessed it.”

— Karen Marie Moning

455. “I looked from one to the other, and realized that Barrons and my dad were having one of those wordless conversations he and I have from time to time. Though the language was, by nature, foreign to me, I grew up in the Deep South where a man’s ego is roughly the size of his pickup truck, and women get an early and interesting education in the not-so-subtle roar of testosterone.”

— Karen Marie Moning

456. “I’m not helping you, Ms. Lane. I’m entertaining the notion that you might be of use to me. If so, I need you alive.”

— Karen Marie Moning

457. “Accept that you’re outgunned? Stay on the floor and don’t even try to fight? What kind of life is that?”

— Karen Marie Moning

458. “I love books, they’re in my blood.”

— Karen Marie Moning

459. “Tonight, the sea was a shiver of dark glass, harboring secrets untold in her depths while on her tranquil surface stars glittered like diamonds.”

— Karen Marie Moning

460. “Some memories are worth the price. I’ll deal with it.”

— Karen Marie Moning

461. “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

462. “I despised the world because I used to know who I was, and I used to be good, with no bad in me, or at least that’s what I thought and there really is a degree of bliss and charmed innocence in ignorance.”

— Karen Marie Moning

463. “My breathing was shallow and my hands were fists. ‘Oh, yes, I’m going to have to kill you Barrons.’ I said coolly, Partly because, for the most miniscule sliver of an instant, while looking at those handcuffs, I’d imagined myself climbing back into bed and pretending I wasn’t cured yet.”

— Karen Marie Moning

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

— Karen Marie Moning

465. “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

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

— Karen Marie Moning

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

— Karen Marie Moning

468. “Powerful, often brilliant beyond comprehension, most of the time he was a wildly emotional hot mess.”

— Karen Marie Moning

469. “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

470. “What we achieve at our best moment doesn’t say much about who we are. It all boils down to what we become at our worst moment.”

— Karen Marie Moning

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

— Karen Marie Moning

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

— Karen Marie Moning

473. “You are what you are. Deal with it or change.”

— Karen Marie Moning

474. “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

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

— Karen Marie Moning

476. “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

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

— Karen Marie Moning

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

— Karen Marie Moning

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

— Karen Marie Moning

480. “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

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

— Karen Marie Moning

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

— Karen Marie Moning

483. “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

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

— Karen Marie Moning

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

— Karen Marie Moning

486. “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

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

— Karen Marie Moning

488. “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

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

— Karen Marie Moning

490. “Is there worse than insane?”

— Karen Marie Moning

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

— Karen Marie Moning

492. “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

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

— Karen Marie Moning

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

— Karen Marie Moning

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

— Karen Marie Moning

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

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

— Karen Marie Moning

500. “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