Top 500 Karen Marie Moning Quotes (2026 Update)
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301. “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

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

— Karen Marie Moning

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

— Karen Marie Moning

304. “Pain distills. The clarifying emotion.”

— Karen Marie Moning

305. “A fecking flamethrower! Why didn’t I think of that? Best I came up with was a measly hair dryer.”

— Karen Marie Moning

306. “His heavy-lidded gaze reflected a languor that had nothing to do with having just awakened, and there was no doubt what was on his mind. But this is no safe cherry picker, Gwen thought, growing more concerned by the moment. This man looks like a cherry tree chopper-downer.”

— Karen Marie Moning

307. “You can’t do damage control dead.”

— Karen Marie Moning

308. “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.”

— Karen Marie Moning

309. “Superglue after duct tape a girl’s best friend.”

— Karen Marie Moning

310. “I will rue for all eternity every moment of suffering I’ve caused you. The entire time I’m burning in Hell, I’ll regret each tear I made you weep. But if Hell were the price for twenty days with you, I’d condemn myself again and again.”

— Karen Marie Moning

311. “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

312. “He stepped into the morning feeling more alive than he’d felt in months. Hold fast and believe in me, love, he whispered across the centuries. Because love and belief were serious magic in and of themselves.”

— Karen Marie Moning

313. “He wasn’t just masculine and sexual, he was carnal in a set-your-teeth-on-edge kind of way; he was almost frightning.”

— Karen Marie Moning

314. “Surrounded by alpha males that know more magic than all the teachers at Hogwarts, I’m about to ask who’s going to do what to get us through the gate, when it becomes a moot point.”

— Karen Marie Moning

315. “But Band-Aids for my disease aren’t what I’m after. I want a surgeon to perform an operation that leaves a deep incision where something nasty used to be, followed by a scar to remind me every day that it’s over and I survived.”

— Karen Marie Moning

316. “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.”

— Karen Marie Moning

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

— Karen Marie Moning

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

— Karen Marie Moning

319. “I found it impossible to strive for a goal I couldn’t fathom, to re-create a thing of which I’d no knowledge, like a blind man trying to paint a picture of sky and clouds and sun.”

— Karen Marie Moning

320. “He’d surely been spawned by some cataclysmic event of nature, not born.”

— Karen Marie Moning

321. “The power of thought is far greater than most people ever realize.”

— Karen Marie Moning

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

— Karen Marie Moning

323. “Even now, my back was still arched with sensual invitation, my bottom was questing up like a cat in heat, and my every move was supple, sinuous. I was one great big come-hither.”

— Karen Marie Moning

324. “Try a rocket launcher. Think maybe you could manage to hit me with that?”

— Karen Marie Moning

325. “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

326. “Beginnings are fragile things.”

— Karen Marie Moning

327. “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

328. “Dishonesty increases disorder exponentially. It’s hard enough to communicate when you’re telling the truth.”

— Karen Marie Moning

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

— Karen Marie Moning

330. “We justify our heartless calls by our commitment to one day defeat all our enemies so the people can live the remainder of their days in peace and prosperity. We’ve become politicians.”

— Karen Marie Moning

331. “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.”

— Karen Marie Moning

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

— Karen Marie Moning

333. “A dutiful soldier, I retreated to the ditches as ordered and hunkered down there. In those ditches, I had an epiphany. People treat you as badly as you let them treat you.”

— Karen Marie Moning

334. “I hope they change my drugs soon. Whatever I’m on isn’t working.”

— Karen Marie Moning

335. “I’m not here to argue for the world. That’s not in my job description. I’m just trying to save it.”

— Karen Marie Moning

336. “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.”

— Karen Marie Moning

337. “I wondered what one wore to visit a vampire. The chic red sweater set didn’t go so well with my darker hair, and I was afraid it might be construed as a flirtatious invitation to color me bloodier.”

— Karen Marie Moning

338. “Hate eats the hater.”

— Karen Marie Moning

339. “You can’t unkiss a man you’ve kissed. I.”

— Karen Marie Moning

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

— Karen Marie Moning

341. “There were the cages you could see and those that weren’t so easy to spot before you were lured into them with sweet promises and lies until you were stuck like a fly on sticky tape with only your shattered innocence for company.”

— Karen Marie Moning

342. “Nuns? They’d take one look at Barrons and decide the devil himself had come knockng. He not only looked dangerous, he emanated something that made even me feel like crossing myself sometimes, and I’m not religious.”

— Karen Marie Moning

343. “I snicker at my joke. Dude, if ya can’t crack yourself up, ain’t never gonna crack anybody else up.”

— Karen Marie Moning

344. “Chicks. Christ. They just don’t get it sometimes.”

— Karen Marie Moning

345. “What the feck?” Dani snapped when I answered. “You sleep like the fecking dead up there! I been calling you for five fecking minutes!”

— Karen Marie Moning

346. “I’d never been turned on by the Ken doll – even before I looked down his pants and saw what was missing.”

— Karen Marie Moning

347. “I’ve spent enough time behind a bar that I’ve formed a few opinions about what people wear and what it says about them. Guys who wear black from head to toe fall into two categories: they want to be trouble, or they are trouble.”

— Karen Marie Moning

348. “Who and what are you?” “You called my name when you released me the first time,” he said impatiently. “ ‘Tis Cian MacKeltar. As for the what of me, I’m but a man.”

— Karen Marie Moning

349. “Kid, you just never give up.” “I’m like, alive. How could I?”

— Karen Marie Moning

350. “All those ‘bloodys’ was a veritable cornucopia of emotion for Barrons.”

— Karen Marie Moning