Top 500 Karen Marie Moning Quotes (2024 Update)
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151. “Lust is a thing of the blood. Doesn’t need head or heart.”

— Karen Marie Moning

152. “My philosophy is pretty simple – any day nobody’s trying to kill me is a good day in my book.”

— Karen Marie Moning

153. “What is trust, sidhe-seer, but expectation that another will behave in a certain fashion, consistent with prior actions?”

— Karen Marie Moning

154. “Ego and superego were dispatched with a single swift, killing blow and in swaggered my new ruler – that primitive little hedonistic bastard, the id.”

— Karen Marie Moning

155. “What no one tells you is that when someone you love dies, you lose them twice. Once to death, the second time to acceptance, and you don’t walk that long, dark passage between the two alone. Grief takes every shuffling, unwilling step with you, offering a seductive bouquet of memories that can only blossom south of sanity. You can stay there, nose buried in the petals of the past. But you’re never really alive again.”

— Karen Marie Moning

156. “Life’s an ocean, full of waves. All are dangerous. All can drown you. Under the right circumstances, even the gentlest swell can turn tidal. Hopping waves is for the weekend warrior. Choose one, ride it out. It increases your odds of survival.”

— Karen Marie Moning

157. “Keep hoping to see the light in her eyes. Even knowing it’ll mean she’s saying good-bye.”

— Karen Marie Moning

158. “Basque and Celt. Criminals and barbarians. I didn’t think there could be a more primitive pairing of genes.”

— Karen Marie Moning

159. “All my life, up until that moment, I’d had a warm, protective blanket wrapped around me, knitted of aunts and uncles, purled of first and second and third cousins, knot-tied with grandmas and grandpas and greats. That blanket had just dropped from my shoulders. I felt cold, lost and alone.”

— Karen Marie Moning

160. “The kiss he gave her was not meant to seduce, it was meant to mark a woman’s soul, and it was working. Dominant like the man, hungry, demanding. Beckoning forth the secret Chloe that harbored hunger every bit as deep as his. He was a dark, seductive shadow, all around her, and she was drowning in him.”

— Karen Marie Moning

161. “Familiar routine is balm to a fragmented soul.”

— Karen Marie Moning

162. “The four Keltar Druids brought their wives and children. They breed like it’s their personal mission to populate their country in case somebody attacks again, as if anybody wants the bloody place.”

— Karen Marie Moning

163. “If you control the cause you own the effect. If you don’t, events will unfold like dominoes toppling and you will have no one to blame but yourself.”

— Karen Marie Moning

164. “Please tell me we don’t grow up and turn into the adults that drive us crazy.”

— Karen Marie Moning

165. “I love you more eternal than pi.”

— Karen Marie Moning

166. “My world we humans we’re just pawns on an immortal chessboard.”

— Karen Marie Moning

167. “A woman who’s lived in a cage all her life. And hates it. Bored in there, aren’t you. Waiting for life to happen. And when it finally does, it steals from you what you loved most. So take back. Explode. Lash out. Blow up.”

— Karen Marie Moning

168. “I wake up wating you. I fall asleep wanting you. I watch a magnificent sunrise and can think only of sharing it with you. I glimpse a piece of amver and see your eyes. Jillian, I’ve caught a disease, and the fever abates only when I’m near you.”

— Karen Marie Moning

169. “Kiss me as if you remember me. Inspire this wild god as once you did. Incite poetry and fire with your passion and perhaps I’ll find a way.”

— Karen Marie Moning

170. “He knows what I’m thinking. Always. We’re connected. The atoms between us ferry messages back and forth.”

— Karen Marie Moning

171. “Lies are horny little buggers, they breed like rabbits and bound around just as insanely and then you have to try to keep track of them.”

— Karen Marie Moning

172. “Let me be your anchor. I’ll never let you be lost again.”

— Karen Marie Moning

173. “I know part of what turns me on so hard, makes me so violent with lust, is that he’s dangerous. I fell for the bad guy. I’m crazy about the one who’s trouble. The alpha that doesn’t play well with others and doesn’t take orders from anyone.”

— Karen Marie Moning

174. “Being nearly naked around Barrons felt a lot like going to a shark convention lightly basted in blood.”

— Karen Marie Moning

175. “A little blood never bothers me.”

— Karen Marie Moning

176. “Four: If you try to force yourself into my head, I will force myself into your pants.”

— Karen Marie Moning

177. “Time does not define the act. Time is impartial; it neither condemns nor absolves. The action contains intent, and intent is where the definition lies.”

— Karen Marie Moning

178. “Holy water at my wrists and behind my ears; my version of Eau de Don’tbiteme.”

— Karen Marie Moning

179. “I want to be Jericho Barrons when I grow up.”

— Karen Marie Moning

180. “Each morning we wake up, we get to choose between hope and fear and apply one of those emotions to everything we do.”

— Karen Marie Moning

181. “Love, once given, is forever. It canna simply go away.”

— Karen Marie Moning

182. “Put me down. I can walk.” “Nay. I’ve no desire for you to be master of your destiny in any manner, however small. You are too unpredictable.” “I’m unpredictable?” “Aye.” She was speechless a moment. Then she pinched his butt, hard. “Ow!” He smacked her bottom. “Ow!” she yelped. “Behave,” he growled. “Tit for tat, lass. Remember that.”

— Karen Marie Moning

183. “Life equaled love plus passion squared. Loving and being passionate about what one did was what made life so precious.”

— Karen Marie Moning

184. “If V’lane were a signpost, it would read Abandon All Personal Will, Ye Who Tread Here.”

— Karen Marie Moning

185. “How dare the embodiment of her worst nightmare come packaged as her hottest fantasy?”

— Karen Marie Moning

186. “Did he think I would beg him to stay? Never. People had to want to stay, choose to be with you, or it meant nothing.”

— Karen Marie Moning

187. “Fact: you can never know another person completely. Fact: you are born alone and die alone. Fact: there is no such thing as safety. Only vigilance, determination to survive, and a willingness to be ruthless about it. Fact: love is not perfect. Fact: neither am I.”

— Karen Marie Moning

188. “I have a black sense of humor. You try living my life, see what color yours turns.”

— Karen Marie Moning

189. “If I’m a little girl, then that makes you a serious pervert.”

— Karen Marie Moning

190. “How could they let me grow up like that – happy and pink and stupid?”

— Karen Marie Moning

191. “If he were any other man, I might have suspected him of substance abuse, of being coked up or something. But Barrons was too much a purist for that; his drugs were money, power, and control.”

— Karen Marie Moning

192. “Ryodan made me question myself and pushed me to be the most I could be.”

— Karen Marie Moning

193. “There’s nothing I can’t live with. Only things I won’t live without.”

— Karen Marie Moning

194. “Her absence in my life was so painful that it was a presence.”

— Karen Marie Moning

195. “Jericho Barrons just told me he loves me.”

— Karen Marie Moning

196. “A lamb in a city of wolves.”

— Karen Marie Moning

197. “I don’t smile. My smiles don’t make people relax.”

— Karen Marie Moning

198. “Bring it on, Tinker Bell.”

— Karen Marie Moning

199. “Life-giving, life-stealing, beautiful, a challenge to handle, worth learning to ride, full of fresh wonders every day – if he’d had a woman like the ocean in his bed, he’d still be there.”

— Karen Marie Moning

200. “I know why I’m obsessed with her. She’s the innocence I’ve lost. As I was going dark, she was getting nothing but brighter.”

— Karen Marie Moning