Top 500 Karen Marie Moning Quotes (2026 Update)
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301. “The power of thought is far greater than most people ever realize.”

— Karen Marie Moning

302. “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

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

— Karen Marie Moning

304. “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

305. “Beginnings are fragile things.”

— Karen Marie Moning

306. “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

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

— Karen Marie Moning

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

— Karen Marie Moning

309. “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

310. “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

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

— Karen Marie Moning

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

— Karen Marie Moning

313. “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

314. “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

315. “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

316. “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

317. “Hate eats the hater.”

— Karen Marie Moning

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

— Karen Marie Moning

319. “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

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

— Karen Marie Moning

321. “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

322. “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

323. “There aren’t many sins in my bible. Giving up is the greatest one of all.”

— Karen Marie Moning

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

— Karen Marie Moning

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

— Karen Marie Moning

326. “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.”

— Karen Marie Moning

327. “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

328. “Lass, doona fear me. No matter what happens, promise me you will not fear me. I am a good man, I vow I am.”

— Karen Marie Moning

329. “I will never again permit myself to forget that isolation is the first step to defeat.”

— Karen Marie Moning

330. “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

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

— Karen Marie Moning

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

— Karen Marie Moning

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

— Karen Marie Moning

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

— Karen Marie Moning

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

— Karen Marie Moning

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

— Karen Marie Moning

337. “Pain distills. The clarifying emotion.”

— Karen Marie Moning

338. “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

339. “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

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

— Karen Marie Moning

341. “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

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

— Karen Marie Moning

343. “Love doesn’t build cages. It builds stairways to the stars.”

— Karen Marie Moning

344. “Relax. Live. Keep your eyes open. See what comes.”

— Karen Marie Moning

345. “I don’t make sonic booms. I want a whip. I like the idea of walking around making sonic booms everywhere.”

— Karen Marie Moning

346. “We were watching Barrons. Why were you watching Barrons? Barrons needs watching.”

— Karen Marie Moning

347. “Ah, the painful truth: Fate was a cosmic toilet. It was the nature of the universe to flush sluggish things that failed to exercise free will. Stasis was stagnancy. Change was velocity. Fate – a sniper that preferred a motionless target to a dancing one.”

— Karen Marie Moning

348. “Any man who reads is a fine one.”

— Karen Marie Moning

349. “He had a come-and-get-me-baby-I’m-pure-trouble-and-you’re-gonna-love-it kind of attitude.”

— Karen Marie Moning

350. “Breath was everything. When nothing else could be done: one could breathe and shape and infuse that breath with strength and purpose.”

— Karen Marie Moning