Top 500 Karen Marie Moning Quotes (2024 Update)
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51. “I am a kite in a tornado but I have a long string. There is tension in my line. Somewhere, someone is holding onto the other end and, although it cannot spare me this storm, it will not let me be lost while I regain my strength. It is enough.”

— Karen Marie Moning

52. “The wisest man is the silent one. Examine his actions. Judge him by them.”

— Karen Marie Moning

53. “I miss her. I don’t know how to live without her. There is a hole inside me that nothing fills. If you don’t find something to fill that hole, someone else will. And if someone else fills it, they own you. Forever. You’ll never get yourself back.”

— Karen Marie Moning

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

— Karen Marie Moning

55. “No matter how people try to dispute it, perception is reality. Its what you choose to believe that makes you the person you are.”

— Karen Marie Moning

56. “I’m sorry your pretty little world got all screwed up, but everybody’s does, and you go on. It’s how you go on that defines you.”

— Karen Marie Moning

57. “I’d rather live a hard life of fact than a sweet life of lies.”

— Karen Marie Moning

58. “It‘s funny how, when things seem the darkest, moments of beauty present themselves in the most unexpected places.”

— Karen Marie Moning

59. “It’s not the hand you’re dealt that matters. It’s how you play the cards.”

— Karen Marie Moning

60. “There are only shades of gray. Black and white are nothing more than lofty ideals in our minds, the standards by which we try to judge things, and map out our place in the world in relevance to them.”

— Karen Marie Moning

61. “Liminal sucks. You can’t grasp it with your hands and shape it. You can’t make midnight come faster, or grow up sooner, or avoid the in-betweens. You can only hang in there, and get through them.”

— Karen Marie Moning

62. “She’s too young. Too innocent. Too human. For what I’m becoming.”

— Karen Marie Moning

63. “He was sexual in a way that made women think of deeply repressed fantasies therapists and feminists alike would cringe to hear tell of.”

— Karen Marie Moning

64. “Fire to his ice, frost to her flame.”

— Karen Marie Moning

65. “The battle had been invisible to the naked eye, but the hardest ones are.”

— Karen Marie Moning

66. “The currency of life is passion, and as with any coin, it has two sides: pleasure, pain, joy, sorrow. Impossible to slip a single side of that coin into your pocket. You take all or nothing.”

— Karen Marie Moning

67. “I must be dreaming. Bring that sweet ass over here and I’ll show you what God made women and well-hung Scotsmen for.”

— Karen Marie Moning

68. “Caring is love. And love fights! Love doesn’t look for the path of least resistance.”

— Karen Marie Moning

69. “Every time I think I’m getting wiser, more in control of my actions, I go slamming into a situation that makes me excruciatingly aware that all I’ve succeeded in doing is swapping one set of delusions for a more elaborate, attractive set of delusions.”

— Karen Marie Moning

70. “Yesterday was a memory. Tomorrow was a hope. Today was another day to live and do one’s best to love.”

— Karen Marie Moning

71. “Unpredictable as a hungry lion, he might be feared by everyone else, but he never ripped out my throat, only licked me, and, if his tongue was a little rough sometimes, it was worth it to walk beside the king of the jungle.”

— Karen Marie Moning

72. “Never underestimate a well-dressed bimbo.”

— Karen Marie Moning

73. “Some people fall apart when they get hurt. Puddle into apathy and despair and never recover. They wait all their lives for someone to come along and rescue them.”

— Karen Marie Moning

74. “Fire isn’t good or bad. It just burns.”

— Karen Marie Moning

75. “It’s a strange new world out there and the rules have changed: It’s every princess for herself.”

— Karen Marie Moning

76. “Once you start splitting hairs, trying to convince yourself some things are more acceptable to destroy, you’ve already lost the most important war.”

— Karen Marie Moning

77. “She loves. And she doesn’t know how to pull it back when you have to, because sometimes you sure as feck have to. Got to grab it up with both hands and pull it back before somebody turns into knives and uses it to cut you to pieces.”

— Karen Marie Moning

78. “Bold. Ruthless. Energy. Action. Tenacity. Hunger. That was what B-R-E-A-T-H was.”

— Karen Marie Moning

79. “Beautiful women rarely possess sufficient depth of character to survive without their pretty feathers.”

— Karen Marie Moning

80. “Perspective is a funny thing. You think your back is to the wall, then something worse corners you, and the first threat looks puny in comparison.”

— Karen Marie Moning

81. “Regardless of how many people I surrounded myself with, no matter how many friends and family I loved and was loved by in return, I was alone at the moment of being born and at the moment of dying. Nobody came with you and nobody went with you. It was a journey of one.”

— Karen Marie Moning

82. “Lose the pessimism, Ms. Lane. It’s a self-fulfilling prophecy.”

— Karen Marie Moning

83. “It occured to me that adaptability was more than survivability; it was the foundation of love. We were all changing, every day, and those relationships that endured were the ones that rode the waves together, grew and allowed each other to evolve. Encouraged it, even when it was frightening. Adaptability in relationships was the polar opposite of a cage. It was necessary commitment wed to necessary freedom.”

— Karen Marie Moning

84. “And when he did that, my hands curled into fists because I thought about touching his face like maybe I could catch joy in my hands and hold it.”

— Karen Marie Moning

85. “Devil and Angel: he, seduced by her lightness; she, tempted by his darkness. Each drawn to what they lacked.”

— Karen Marie Moning

86. “I’m his locomotive and he’s my shield.”

— Karen Marie Moning

87. “You were firing questions at me today, trying to get inside my head. You asked if I believe in God. I told you of course I do – I’ve always had a strong sense of self.”

— Karen Marie Moning

88. “You can’t look at someone with your eyes and take their measure. You have to look with the heart.”

— Karen Marie Moning

89. “I have enormous respect for our military men and women, the everyday heroes who provide the security the rest of us enjoy. I don’t like them in front of that door.”

— Karen Marie Moning

90. “The devil is in the details. So, sometimes, is salvation.”

— Karen Marie Moning

91. “Everything is negotiable if the correct pressure is applied.”

— Karen Marie Moning

92. “I love re-creating myself. Change means you get to choose again. Become something new. -Dani.”

— Karen Marie Moning

93. “She knew what she wanted: the best. He knew what he was: the best. They enhanced each other’s finest qualities, as true love will.”

— Karen Marie Moning

94. “Even I don’t know what you’re doing, and I know everything.”

— Karen Marie Moning

95. “Because I know a priceless truth: when someone has done everything in their power to mangle your wings beyond recognition, to slice them to shreds so that they can never be used, there is only one way to win. Fly.”

— Karen Marie Moning

96. “I like sex for breakfast, kid. I eat early and often.”

— Karen Marie Moning

97. “There is a monster inside me. And she’s beautiful.”

— Karen Marie Moning

98. “He didn’t just kiss, he claimed ownership. Took her mouth with urgency, as if his life depended on his kissing her.”

— Karen Marie Moning

99. “She’s my baby girl, Quinn. I want love for her. Real love. The kind that makes a man crazy inside. -Gibraltar to Quinn.”

— Karen Marie Moning

100. “The heart has its own mind, measures its own time, and if it consults with the brain, doesn’t always heed the advice. My brain was screaming – stop hurting already. To a deaf audience.”

— Karen Marie Moning