Top 500 Karen Marie Moning Quotes (2025 Update)
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201. “How could they let me grow up like that – happy and pink and stupid?”

— Karen Marie Moning

202. “I’ve always known what you need. Someone to rage at who’s strong enough to take all the pain and fury you have to dish out until you’ve burned it out of your system and nothing is left but a pile of ashes from which the Phoenix rises. Kid, woman, whatever the hell you are – I want to see you rise. Even if you have to hate me.”

— Karen Marie Moning

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

— Karen Marie Moning

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

— Karen Marie Moning

205. “We will K‘Vruck the world.”

— Karen Marie Moning

206. “I make a new discovery that totally blows; dying is the easy part. It’s coming back to life that sucks.”

— Karen Marie Moning

207. “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

208. “I am the law.” “Apparently. Heil.” I click my heels together and salute.”

— Karen Marie Moning

209. “Joy, that elusive, priceless commodity, was once again his.”

— Karen Marie Moning

210. “Things never stop going wrong. Life isn’t about waiting for peace to arrive, it’s about learning to thrive in the midst of war. There’s always another one on the way.”

— Karen Marie Moning

211. “If he was winter, I was summer. If I was sunshine, he was night. A dark and stormy one.”

— Karen Marie Moning

212. “You don’t get to make my decisions for me. It’s my life and only I know what I need and what I’m willing to go through. I don’t want to live without you. I felt that once. I never want to feel it again.” I’d been lost, purposeless, denied Heaven. It was as if his frequency and my frequency made such an exquisite song together that without it I wasn’t alive.”

— Karen Marie Moning

213. “And you can tell Darroc that Ms. Lane is mine. If he wants her, he can bloody well come and get her.”

— Karen Marie Moning

214. “I’m Pri-ya again. I always will be with this man.”

— Karen Marie Moning

215. “I’m a bartender. I like recipes. They’re concretes. Was the drink recipe for seduction one shot charm and two shots self-deception, shaken, not stirred?”

— Karen Marie Moning

216. “Jericho Barrons was my poison now.”

— Karen Marie Moning

217. “I was adrift in a sea of questions and if answers were lifeboats, I was in imminent danger of drowning.”

— Karen Marie Moning

218. “The sun’s nearly level with the horizon, right behind his head, making this weird halo effect around his face – as if! I’m surprised he doesn’t smell like brimstone. He probably has a red pitchfork and hides horns under his hair.”

— Karen Marie Moning

219. “The corners of his mouth twitched then he gave up the ghost and just flashed me one of those rare, full-on smiles that always made me catch my breath and stare. He’s so damn beautiful and his smiles are sunshine in a black velvet sky, improbable and stunning.”

— Karen Marie Moning

220. “You’re Mac, and I’m Jericho. And nothing else matters.”

— Karen Marie Moning

221. “Safety is a fence, and fences are for sheep.”

— Karen Marie Moning

222. “His coworker was velvety-skinned, a sexy boy-on-the-cusp-of man.”

— Karen Marie Moning

223. “Gwen Cassidy needed a man. Desperately. Failing that, she’d settle for a cigarette.”

— Karen Marie Moning

224. “I don’t convince nobody of nothing. You take me or leave me just the way I am! But I ain’t changing for you or nobody else and I ain’t faking either, and if you think breaking my bones one by one is going to accomplish a thing besides, like, breaking my bones, good luck with that!”

— Karen Marie Moning

225. “The man was a walking dichotomy. Those powerful neck-snapping, knife-throwing hands that did murder without pause were equally capable of tenderness and delicacy.”

— Karen Marie Moning

226. “She glanced rapidly between them, blinking and hoping her double vision would go away. They were glaring at each other. Would they fight? If she saw her own double she probably be tempted to punch it once or twice. Especially today. For being so stupid.”

— Karen Marie Moning

227. “Kahlil Gibran says Your joy can fill you only as deeply your sorrow has carved you. If you’ve never tasted bitterness, sweet is just another pleasant flavor on your tongue.”

— Karen Marie Moning

228. “Moth to a flame I follow.”

— Karen Marie Moning

229. “Bloody hell, she wants respect. Which I’m all about giving. I respect them the entire time they’re sharing my bed and I treat them great when they’re not, flirting them up, telling them how beautiful they are, while pointing them at the next man to help them get over me.”

— Karen Marie Moning

230. “Appearances to the mind are of four kinds. Things either are what they appear to be; or they neither are, nor appear to be; or they are, and do not appear to be; or they are not, and yet appear to be. Rightly to aim in all these cases is the wise man’s task. – Epictetus.”

— Karen Marie Moning

231. “This isn’t what I wanted. This isn’t what I would have chosen. You must know that. It’s important you know that.”

— Karen Marie Moning

232. “Love? Can I even feel it anymore? I’ve hated everyone and everything around me since the moment I began to change. I ran from those who cared about me. I concede it’s possible my hatred hastened the changes, fed the wrong things, starved the right ones. But love? To feel it here and now? I’m not sure it’s even possible. Och, but of course it is.”

— Karen Marie Moning

233. “I’d teach them to read and to dream and to look at the stars and wonder. I’d teach them the value of imagination. I’d teach them to play every bit as hard as they worked. And I’d teach them that all the brains in the world can’t compensate for love.”

— Karen Marie Moning

234. “People had to want to stay, choose to be with you, or it meant nothing. There were physical cages and there were emotional ones. Holding onto someone too tightly made it hard for them to breathe, and eventually, inevitably, they’d do one of two things: suffocate or run, leaving you feeling like hell either way.”

— Karen Marie Moning

235. “There are legends. You used to be one.” She says coolly, “I am legend.”

— Karen Marie Moning

236. “Theories are a fluid road map for solving a mystery and, if broached with an open mind and scrupulous attention to detail, they grant the answers you seek.”

— Karen Marie Moning

237. “When man thinks he knows God’s course better than God himself is when hundreds die –.”

— Karen Marie Moning

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

— Karen Marie Moning

239. “I have found there to be little distance between the unlatching of a chain and the spreading of a woman’s legs. As if they can never unbar only a single entrance. It’s a disease called hope. Women suffer from it greatly.”

— Karen Marie Moning

240. “It was a land of shadows and ice. Of gray. And grayer. And black. -The Unseelie prison of Aedan.”

— Karen Marie Moning

241. “I’m restless, bored, and invisible. A dangerous thing for any woman to be.”

— Karen Marie Moning

242. “I’m a moth to his flame and it frightens me how willingly I’d burn my wings off for him. Destroy the world. Follow him to Hell. It’s scary to feel like you can’t breathe without someone.”

— Karen Marie Moning

243. “Oh, for heaven’s sake, she thought with droll exasperation, this certainly explains a lot. It’s no wonder I haven’t been able to keep my hands off the blasted man since the day I met him. He’s an artifact! A Celtic one at that!”

— Karen Marie Moning

244. “To be a protector, you can’t think like a protector. You must always think like a conqueror first.”

— Karen Marie Moning

245. “Don’t celebrate yet, Ms. Lane. Don’t believe anything is dead until you’ve burned it, poked around in its ashes, and then waited a day or two to see if anything rises from them.”

— Karen Marie Moning

246. “I didn’t hear him behind me. I felt him. Electric. Wild. One foot in the swamp. Never going to crawl all the way out. And I wanted to have sex with whatever he was. Where was I supposed to put that in my head?”

— Karen Marie Moning

247. “She understood now why her friend Elizabeth, with her near-genius, analytical mind gave wide berth to murder mysteries, psychological thrillers, and horror stories, and read only romance novels. Because, by God, when a woman picked up one of those steamy books, she had a firm guarantee that there would be a Happily-Ever-After. That though the world outside those covers could bring such sorrow and disappointment and loneliness, between those covers, the world was a splendid place to be.”

— Karen Marie Moning

248. “Problem is, I want to make breaking up Jo and Ryodan number one on my list, which is stupid because there’s nothing but personal satisfaction I’d gain from it, and while I’m all about personal satisfaction, I’m beginning to see a pattern: jumping on the short-term-gratification train always seems to wreck me off the rails somehow.”

— Karen Marie Moning

249. “Failure is always new information, and those who are willing to suffer it repeatedly make it a stepping-stone to success.”

— Karen Marie Moning

250. “Humor is a girl’s best friend. The world’s a funny place.”

— Karen Marie Moning