Top 500 Karen Marie Moning Quotes (2024 Update)
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301. “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

302. “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

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

— Karen Marie Moning

304. “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

305. “Just one time before I turn into the villain of this piece, just one time before I become the fourth and final Unseelie prince, I want to be her Highlander. And her hero.”

— Karen Marie Moning

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

— Karen Marie Moning

307. “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

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

— Karen Marie Moning

309. “I was a twenty-two-year-old single white female alone in a strange country where my sister had been killed.”

— Karen Marie Moning

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

— Karen Marie Moning

311. “Hate eats the hater.”

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312. “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

313. “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

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

— Karen Marie Moning

315. “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

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

— Karen Marie Moning

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

— Karen Marie Moning

318. “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

319. “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

320. “One thing I do know is things can always get worse, most often at the precise moment you’ve decided they can’t.”

— Karen Marie Moning

321. “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

322. “There’s a fine line between being stupid and knowing you have to test your limits if you want to do any real living at all.”

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323. “That which we fear, we somehow beckon near and engage in a dance, as toxically intimate as a pair of suspicious lovers... we’re magnetized waltzers and our hopes and fears emit some kind of electrical impulses that attract all that we dream, and all that we dread. We live and die on a dance floor of our own making.”

— Karen Marie Moning

324. “I think that’s what love is; holding someone sacred, honoring them, protecting them, living up to the very best of them.”

— Karen Marie Moning

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

— Karen Marie Moning

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

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

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328. “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

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

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

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

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332. “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

333. “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

334. “Sometimes when all hell’s breaking loose the only thing to do is to break more hell loose.”

— Karen Marie Moning

335. “Beginnings are fragile things.”

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336. “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

337. “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

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

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

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340. “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

341. “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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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348. “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.”

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

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350. “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