Top 500 Karen Marie Moning Quotes (2024 Update)
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101. “Valhalla on the right. Paradise regained on the left. Stuck between a Godiva truffle and a chocolate eclair. Between a rock and a very hard place. Two very hard places from the looks of it.”

— Karen Marie Moning

102. “Life’s a choice: you can live in black and white, or you can live in colour. I’ll take every shade of the rainbow and the gazillion in between!”

— Karen Marie Moning

103. “I’m not the hero, Mac. Never have been. Never will be. Let us be perfectly clear: I’m not the antihero, either, so quit waiting to discover my hidden potential. There’s nothing to redeem me.”

— Karen Marie Moning

104. “God Said: Let there be light! I said: Say please.”

— Karen Marie Moning

105. “Fear translates to hesitation, and hesitation kills.”

— Karen Marie Moning

106. “I get off on a man with strong moral fiber. The closest Barrons ever gets to fiber is walking down the cereal aisle at the grocery store.”

— Karen Marie Moning

107. “It’s so easy to lie. What’s even worse is how we cling to those lies. We beg for the illusion so we don’t have to face the truth, don’t have to feel alone.”

— Karen Marie Moning

108. “Sky above, earth below, fire within.”

— Karen Marie Moning

109. “Then we’re on the same page. Same paragraph, same sentence,” I snapped. “Same bloody word,” he agreed flatly.”

— Karen Marie Moning

110. “When you love too hard, you can lose the will to live without them. Everywhere you look is a great big sucking absence of what you once had and will never have again. And life gets weirdly flat and too sharp and painful at the same time, and nothing feels right and everything cuts.”

— Karen Marie Moning

111. “How could a peacock lust for a lion?”

— Karen Marie Moning

112. “It’s just that in the Deep South, women learn at a young age that when the world is falling apart around you, it’s time to take down the drapes and make a new dress.”

— Karen Marie Moning

113. “Almost only counts in hand grenades and horseshoes.”

— Karen Marie Moning

114. “All I need is a badly mangled, irate sentence stalking me.”

— Karen Marie Moning

115. “He lives. I breathe. I want. Him. Always. Fire to my ice. Ice to my fever. -Mac.”

— Karen Marie Moning

116. “When he’d pushed inside me and I’d feel him begin to penetrate, it had turned me into a wild thing-hot, wet, and desperate for more of him. With every kiss, every caress, every thrust, I’d just needed more. He’d touched me, I went nuts. The world dwindled down to one thing: him.”

— Karen Marie Moning

117. “My heart has jet lag.”

— Karen Marie Moning

118. “Sheep are always looking for a new shepherd when the terrain gets rocky.”

— Karen Marie Moning

119. “Sometimes the small pleasures in life are the sweetest.”

— Karen Marie Moning

120. “On the lips of my enemy, my sister’s lover, my lover’s killer, I taste the punishment I deserve. I taste oblivion.”

— Karen Marie Moning

121. “What is the greater good but tyranny’s chameleon?”

— Karen Marie Moning

122. “Omission or commission – the end result is the same.”

— Karen Marie Moning

123. “I was no longer sexually vulnerable to the death-by-sex Fae Prince. Jericho Barrons was my poison now.”

— Karen Marie Moning

124. “Sometimes I worry that there’s not enough room in my brain for both my dreams and reality that I’m a hard drive with limited gigabytes and one day I won’t be able to maintain the firewall between them. I wonder if that’s what senility is.”

— Karen Marie Moning

125. “I’ve never been nonplussed before but I know the definition and I imagine this must be what it feels like. It’s not quite flummoxed, or bewildered. Words have subtle nuances. A year or two ago I might have been flabbergasted. This is a slightly different kind of stymied. Yes. I think it’s nonplussed.”

— Karen Marie Moning

126. “When one begins at the bottom, ascendance is a given.”

— Karen Marie Moning

127. “I am a kite in a tornado, but I have a long string.”

— Karen Marie Moning

128. “Love can grown among the rocks and thorns of life.”

— Karen Marie Moning

129. “Life’s not linear at all. It happens in lighting flashes. So fast you don’t see those lay-you-out cold moments coming at you until you’re Wile E. Coyote, steamrolled flat as a pancake by the Road Runner, victim of your own elaborate schemes.”

— Karen Marie Moning

130. “Abruptly, she knew that after this night she was never going to be the same again. Nothing was ever going to be the same. Oh, yes, the man could define himself as the dawning of an epoch if he wanted to. There was, quite simply, before Adam and after Adam.”

— Karen Marie Moning

131. “When you know who I am. Let me be your man.”

— Karen Marie Moning

132. “The worst part about losing someone you love – besides the agony of never getting to see them again – are the things you never said. The unsaid stalks you, mocks you for thinking you had all the time in the world. None of us do.”

— Karen Marie Moning

133. “Women have been repeating the same mistake since time began: falling for a man’s potential. We rarely see it the same way, and even more rarely care to achieve it.”

— Karen Marie Moning

134. “Nobody home but She for Whom I Am the World. Can’t go on like this, can’t keep doing it.- Jericho Barrons.”

— Karen Marie Moning

135. “You exist in a place that is beyond all rules for me. Do you understand that? – JZB.”

— Karen Marie Moning

136. “Silence isn’t golden, it’s deadly. It’s a vacuum that fills up with ghosts.”

— Karen Marie Moning

137. “You want to believe in black and white, good and evil, heroes that are truly heroic, villains that are just plain bad, but I’ve learned in the past year that things are rarely so simple. The good guys can do some truly awful things, and the bad guys can sometimes surprise the heck out of you.”

— Karen Marie Moning

138. “Change requires an admission of error. Your race devotes itself to justifying its errors, not correcting them.”

— Karen Marie Moning

139. “Holy borrowing bibliophile, let’s book!”

— Karen Marie Moning

140. “I would wear pink because I knew my future was anything but rosy. I would accessorize myself to the hilt, and I would wear flirty shoes because my world needed more beauty to counter all the ugliness in it. I would wear pink because I hated gray, I didn’t deserve white, and I was sick of black.”

— Karen Marie Moning

141. “You like me.” “I do not,” she lied. “But I didn’t mean to hurt your feelings.” He was undaunted. “Aye, you like me, lass. I can tell. You called me by my given name and you are frowning, with dewy eyes. I forgive you for being cruel and thoughtless.”

— Karen Marie Moning

142. “Using your own time to make someone else’s life better is, like, the nicest thing you can do for anybody.”

— Karen Marie Moning

143. “I’m going be that n-n-nail in your coffin.”

— Karen Marie Moning

144. “Hard. Fast. Deep. When I’m done you’ll know you’re mine.”

— Karen Marie Moning

145. “There are two kinds of people in the world Ms. Lane: those who survive no matter the cost and those who are walking victims.”

— Karen Marie Moning

146. “There was pain, but there was also joy. It was in the tension between the two that life happened. Imperfect as it was, this world was real. Illusion was no substitute. I’d rather live a hard life of fact than a sweet life of lies.”

— Karen Marie Moning

147. “I love music because it’s so fecking brilliant. Music is math, and math is the structure of everything and pretty much perfect.”

— Karen Marie Moning

148. “Pretty girls don’t have ugly mouths.”

— Karen Marie Moning

149. “Keeping vigil over her are two monsters of very different breeds but monster just the same. Death on her left. Devil on her right.”

— Karen Marie Moning

150. “I can’t help but see myself in them. The Seelie are who I was before my sister died. Pink, pretty, frivolous Mac. The Unseelie are who I’ve become, carved by loss and despair. Black, grungy, driven Mac.”

— Karen Marie Moning