Top 500 Karen Marie Moning Quotes (2025 Update)
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351. “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

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

— Karen Marie Moning

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

— Karen Marie Moning

354. “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

355. “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

356. “Kids. Pain in the ass. Don’t know why I ever made them. Hell on relationships.”

— Karen Marie Moning

357. “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

358. “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.”

— Karen Marie Moning

359. “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

360. “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

361. “And there my dear Fio, you make one of Womankind’s greatest mistakes: falling in love with a man’s potential. We so rarely share the same view of it, and even more rarely care to achieve it. Stop pining for the man you think I could be – and take a good, long, hard look at the one I am.”

— Karen Marie Moning

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

— Karen Marie Moning

363. “When she’d finally cranked up her favorite Godsmack CD in an effort to tune him out, he’d let out a roar that had rattled the windows in her car: By all that’s holy, woman, what is that hideous noise? Cease and desist! A battlefield at full charge could be no more cacophonous!”

— Karen Marie Moning

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

— Karen Marie Moning

365. “I resent being cued. It makes me not want to know.”

— Karen Marie Moning

366. “Holy psychotic PCs, Robin, we’ve a murderous MacBook on the loose!”

— Karen Marie Moning

367. “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

368. “Why do they always ask for words? Why do they ever believe them?”

— Karen Marie Moning

369. “Gwen started to speak, but he laid a finger to her lips. “Please, lass, just kiss me. No more words. There have been enough of them between us.” He paused before adding quietly, “If you have aught to say to me, let your heart speak now.”

— Karen Marie Moning

370. “He can deal with not being able to control you as long as you let the world believe he does. He’s king here, honey. Kings can’t be challenged publicly.”

— Karen Marie Moning

371. “You weep for me, woman?”

— Karen Marie Moning

372. “Face says one thing. Body says another. I listen to the body. Keeps me alive.”

— Karen Marie Moning

373. “Were not there you, I’d be not too.”

— Karen Marie Moning

374. “It seemed Barrons had finally gotten his cake and eaten it too.”

— Karen Marie Moning

375. “I always thought fainting showed an inherent weakness of character, but I understood it now. It was an act of self-preservation. Confronted by emotion too extreme to handle, the body shuts down to keep from running around like a chicken with its head cut off, potentially injuring itself.”

— Karen Marie Moning

376. “Whatever happened to the good old days when books just got along, cozied up together on bookshelves, hanging out, waiting to be read?”

— Karen Marie Moning

377. “Sometimes the most heroic action you can take looks a lot like inaction to the rest of the world. Sometimes the hardest, longest walk is the one the white-hat takes offstage.”

— Karen Marie Moning

378. “Flames of another kind. Hellfire. You will believe you canna possibly endure the agony.”

— Karen Marie Moning

379. “She scowled as the possibility occurred to her that she’d actually made herself ill merely by planning to pretend she was.”

— Karen Marie Moning

380. “He wasn’t handsome. That was too calm a word. He was intensely masculine. He was sexual. He attracted.”

— Karen Marie Moning

381. “Life is not black and white. The closes we ever get to either of those colors is wearing them.”

— Karen Marie Moning

382. “I began peering into the corners of the room, making sure all the shadows were cast by objects and obeying known laws of physics.”

— Karen Marie Moning

383. “There’s only one question that matters, Ms. Lane, and it’s the one you never get around to asking. People are capable of varying degrees of truth. The majority spend their entire lives fabricating an elaborate skein of lies, immersing themselves in the faith of bad faith, doing whatever it takes to feel safe. The person who truly lives has precious few moments of safety, learns to thrive in any kind of storm. It’s the truth you can stare down stone-cold that makes you what you are. Weak or strong. Live or die. Prove yourself. How much truth can you take, Ms. Lane?”

— Karen Marie Moning

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

— Karen Marie Moning

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

— Karen Marie Moning

386. “Drustan didn’t tell me either. He regretted that later, when I kissed Dageus because I thought he was Drustan. Drustan didn’t care for it one bit. They’re possessive about their women, but I’m sure you know that. I’m Gwen, by the way, Drustan’s wife.”

— Karen Marie Moning

387. “Barrons knows virtually everything about me. I wouldn’t be surprised if somewhere he has a little file that encompasses my entire life to date, with neatly mounted, acerbically captioned photos – see Mac sunbathe, see Mac paint her nails, see Mac almost die.”

— Karen Marie Moning

388. “The most critical, defining battles we wage in life, we wage alone. Against ourselves.”

— Karen Marie Moning

389. “All myths contain a grain of truth, Ms. Lane. I’ve handled books and artifacts that will never find their way into a museum or library, things no archaeologist or historian could ever make sense of. There are many realities pocketed away in the one we call our own. Most go blindly about their lives and never see beyond the ends of their noses. Some of us do.”

— Karen Marie Moning

390. “He didn’t just occupy space; he saturated it. The room had been full of books before, now it was full of him.”

— Karen Marie Moning

391. “He’d made her feel what Barrons made me feel. Bigger than I could possibly be, larger than life, on fire with possibilities, ecstatic to be breathing, impatient for the next moment together. She’d been happy in those last months, so alive and happy.”

— Karen Marie Moning

392. “As I moved deeper into the room, his gaze dropped to my feet, and worked its way back to my face. I was wearing faded jeans, boots, and a snug pink Juicy T-shirt I got on sale at TJ Maxx last summer that said I’m a Juicy girl. “I bet you are,” he murmured.”

— Karen Marie Moning

393. “For what other reason would you have me save you? Because I like you? Better to be useful than liked.”

— Karen Marie Moning

394. “I wanted to walk beside this man for a long time, and to do that I’d have to be able to be completely myself.”

— Karen Marie Moning

395. “I had a sudden dismal view of my future, of being led around and asked incessantly, like one of those Verizon commercials, Do you feel sick now?”

— Karen Marie Moning

396. “It’s a sponge and I’m a sponge and for a second there all our sponge parts are one and I don’t just have square pants, everything about me is squarish because I’m part of a wall.”

— Karen Marie Moning

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

— Karen Marie Moning

398. “He just didn’t look like the kind of creep that would messily murder a woman in her hotel room; he looked like the kind of creep that could line her up in the sights of an assassins rifle without a shred of emotion.”

— Karen Marie Moning

399. “Life is a gift. You fight to keep it. You never quit. Never.”

— Karen Marie Moning

400. “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