Top 500 Karen Marie Moning Quotes (2025 Update)
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251. “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

252. “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

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

— Karen Marie Moning

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

— Karen Marie Moning

255. “Try living for someone. Through it all – good, bad, thick, thin, joy, suffering. That’s the hard thing.”

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256. “Flirtation doesn’t have to go somewhere; it certainly doesn’t need to end up in bed. I like to think of it as a little friendlier than a handshake, a little less intimate than a kiss. It’s a way of saying hi, you look great, have a wonderful day. A tasteful flirtation, played out people who understand the rules, leave everyone feeling good and can perk up the bluest mood.”

— Karen Marie Moning

257. “Depression gets you nowhere but tangled in an overgrown garden that can choke the life out of you.”

— Karen Marie Moning

258. “My point is you can’t believe only in Voldemort. You have to believe in Dumbledore, too.”

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259. “A woman had to be kissed by Dageus MacKeltar to fully understand how devastating it was. How it could bring a woman to her knees.”

— Karen Marie Moning

260. “After an eternity of grief and regret, he held the only thing he’d ever wanted as much as he wanted to be God. A second chance.”

— Karen Marie Moning

261. “When he kisses me again, the last part of me that could stand myself dies.”

— Karen Marie Moning

262. “Last night you said you wanted to know what to expect so you could better select your attire. I told you we were going to visit a vampire in a Goth-den tonight. Why, then, Ms. Lane, do you look like a perky rainbow?”

— Karen Marie Moning

263. “Question: When you’re one of the few people who can do something to fix a problem, just how responsible does that make you for it? Answer: It’s how you choose to answer that question that defines you.”

— Karen Marie Moning

264. “We’re taking back the night.”

— Karen Marie Moning

265. “When we’re kids,” Dancer said, “we’re made of steel. And we think we’re invincible but stuff happens and that steel gets stretched and pulled and twisted into impossible shapes. Most people are torn apart by the time they’re married and have kids of their own. But some people, the few, figure out how to let that steel heat and bend. And in all the places other people break, they get stronger.”

— Karen Marie Moning

266. “When Drustan reached the bottom step, she flung herself into his arms. He swung her up into his embrace and kissed her hungrily. By the time he’d finished, she was gasping for air and laughing. “My turn?” Dageus teased.”

— Karen Marie Moning

267. “A wing or a thigh? Ah, I’m afraid we don’t have any thighs left.”

— Karen Marie Moning

268. “Boundaries were necessary for a successful relationship. Most relationships aborted in the boundary-defining stage. Not because people demanded what they needed. But because they didn’t, then got resentful about it.”

— Karen Marie Moning

269. “I can, and am. ‘Tis a dying man’s last request,” he said roughly. “I want you to remember me as a man, lass, as your man. Not as a prisoner of Dark Magycks. I doona want you to watch me die. Promise me you won’t, Jessica. Promise me and mean it.”

— Karen Marie Moning

270. “Self-pity is wasted emotion. It merely prolongs whatever trauma you suffered by keeping it alive in your head. Dude, you survived it. Move on.”

— Karen Marie Moning

271. “He is my vulnerability.”

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272. “Churches crack me up. They’re like money, a conspiracy of faith. Like everyone agreed to believe that not only is there a God, but he comes down and checks on folks, so long as they hang in certain places, put up alters, burn lots of candles and incense, and perform sit-stand-kneel and other wacky rituals that’d make a coven of witches not look OCD.”

— Karen Marie Moning

273. “You got me a birthday cake. It was pink. I smashed it into the ceiling.”

— Karen Marie Moning

274. “By the time you work your way down the hierarchy to a brunette, you got yourself a woman who knows who she is, likes it enough that she ain’t gonna change, and is probably gonna try to change you, if push comes to shove. Pushy, that’s what brunettes are. Even the dainty, fragile-looking ones.”

— Karen Marie Moning

275. “But he didn’t need to seek visual confirmation of what he’d just heard to know she had. And the truth was, he couldn’t blame her. He’d not have let her die, either. He’d have moved mountains. He’d have battled God or Devil for his wife’s life. She’d betrayed him. He smiled faintly.”

— Karen Marie Moning

276. “You’d do a Highland husband proud, lass,” he whispered.”

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277. “I kept it to remind me that although there is evil, there is sometimes beauty and light. You, Jillian. You were always my light.”

— Karen Marie Moning

278. “Born in a generation that thinks cynical and disenchanted is cool, sometimes I’m a little off the beaten track.”

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279. “If I entered a tropical beach, would I end up in Nazi Germany with my highly inconvenient black hair?”

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280. “You need me as much as I need you. That makes us equal partners in my book. Well, your book is just wrong.”

— Karen Marie Moning

281. “Hope builds a stairway to Heaven. Fear opens an abyss to Hell.”

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282. “Pain distills. The clarifying emotion.”

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283. “What the bloody hell are you, Ms. Lane?”

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284. “Goor or evil, right or wrong, he mattered to me.”

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285. “Ryodan says softly, “Holy strawberries, Dani, we’re in a jam.”

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286. “I stepped inside and stopped, blinking in astonishment. From the exterior I’d expected a charming little book and curio shop with the inner dimensions of a university Starbucks. What I got was a cavernous interior that housed a display of books that made the library Disney’s Beast gave to Beauty on their wedding day look understocked.”

— Karen Marie Moning

287. “I feel stronger in the chapel. Here, the divine defies the devil at our door. Faith is an unquenchable flame in my heart.”

— Karen Marie Moning

288. “We take care of each other like two monkeys picking each other’s nits. Folks underestimate a good nit-pick.”

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289. “Vows, like wishes, are dangerous things. Precision matters.”

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290. “No lips,” Drustan warned. “Unless you wish me to be kissing Chloe.”

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291. “I think dating courtesies are common courtesies that should be practiced in most all civilized encounters. I pine for the days of good, old-fashioned manners.”

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292. “Do your thing, Ms. Lane. you might be criminally young, but the night is not.”

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293. “Women enjoy doing things they excel at, praise guarantees repeat performances, every repeat performance is more practice for the woman, which guarantees the next man even better head. Given how long I’ve been at this, and on how many continents, I’m pretty sure I’ve single-handedly improved the quality of head around the world.”

— Karen Marie Moning

294. “A stolen touch can never compete with a voluntary touch of hunger, passion, desire. The aria of choice is joyous, the cacophony of force brutal, ugly, and cold.”

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295. “He’s trying not to laugh. I tell him I would have doomed mankind for him, and he’s trying not to laugh.”

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296. “I stood staring at myself in the mirror trying to reconcile dual images. I was hunting the monster that had killed my sister. I was the monster that had killed his brother.”

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297. “Turn your head for me and I’ll kiss you as a woman should be kissed.”

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298. “The nerve. Threatening you and not being precise about it.”

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299. “I don’t know about you, but I call impromptu vomiting harm.”

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300. “No simple cherry picker for me, she thought. I get a time-traveling genius who comes with a world of problems and sends me back through time to fix them.”

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