Top 500 Karen Marie Moning Quotes (2025 Update)
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301. “It was like being owned.” “Some women like that.” “Not me.” “Perhaps it depends on the man doing the owning.” “I doubt it. I couldn’t breathe with him kissing me.” “One day you may kiss a man you can’t breathe without, and find breath is of little consequence.”

— Karen Marie Moning

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

— Karen Marie Moning

303. “Barrons: “He got upset it wouldn’t shut up and tore its head off.” Mac: “The child?” I gasped.”

— Karen Marie Moning

304. “I was stunned to see that he looked stunned himself, which was an exorbitant display of emotion for Barrons.”

— Karen Marie Moning

305. “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

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

— Karen Marie Moning

307. “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

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

— Karen Marie Moning

309. “Pain distills. The clarifying emotion.”

— Karen Marie Moning

310. “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

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

— Karen Marie Moning

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

— Karen Marie Moning

313. “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

314. “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

315. “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

316. “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

317. “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

318. “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

319. “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

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

— Karen Marie Moning

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

— Karen Marie Moning

322. “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

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

— Karen Marie Moning

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

— Karen Marie Moning

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

— Karen Marie Moning

326. “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

327. “R-E-G-R-E-T. I can spell that word now. Raw. Endless. Grief. Raining. Eternal. Tears. That’s what regret is.”

— Karen Marie Moning

328. “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

329. “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

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

— Karen Marie Moning

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

— Karen Marie Moning

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

— Karen Marie Moning

333. “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

334. “Do you, Gavrael Roderick – ” “I do.” Jillian nudged him. He arched a brow and frowned. “Well, I do. Must we go through all this? I do. I swear a man has never ‘I do’d’ more fervently than I. I just want to be married to you, lass.”

— 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. “Everything else falls away except for the family you’re born into, choose, or make; the circle of love you’ll die to protect and keep near you. The only thing that keeps us rooted in the past is our refusal to embrace the present.”

— Karen Marie Moning

337. “Hate eats the hater.”

— Karen Marie Moning

338. “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

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

— Karen Marie Moning

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

— Karen Marie Moning

341. “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

342. “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

343. “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

344. “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

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

— Karen Marie Moning

346. “Fools and the dead are not governed by logic. Survivors are.”

— Karen Marie Moning

347. “I’d take some peace and quiet. A beautiful girl.” He laughed. “A good book.”

— Karen Marie Moning

348. “Using some of your own time to make someone else’s life better is, like, the nicest thing you can do for anybody. I almost can’t stand it, it makes me so happy.”

— Karen Marie Moning

349. “Yes, you do, lass, and entirely too much,” he interrupted, his hooded gaze mocking. “So stop thinking for a moment, will you? Just feel.”

— Karen Marie Moning

350. “I would have bargained with the devil for you, too, lass,” he said softly. “I’d have done anything too. I love you, Jessica. You are my one true mate, lass. Never forget that.”

— Karen Marie Moning