Top 500 Karen Marie Moning Quotes (2026 Update)
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401. “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

402. “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

403. “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

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

— Karen Marie Moning

405. “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

406. “Think you two puny Druids can hold this keep for a single night?”

— Karen Marie Moning

407. “I have lived behind walls that have made me alone.”

— Karen Marie Moning

408. “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

409. “There are only shades of gray. Black and white are nothing more than lofty ideals in our minds, the standards by which we try to judge things, and map out our place in the world in relevance to them. Good and evil, in their purest form, are as intangible and forever beyond our ability to hold in our hand as any Fae illusion. We can only aim at them, aspire to them, and hope not to get so lost in the shadows that we can no longer aim for the light.”

— Karen Marie Moning

410. “I’m gonna give one of ’em my virginity one day.” She preened. I was momentarily dumbstruck. I couldn’t begin to enumerate all the things that were appalling about that possibility. “We so have to talk,” I finally managed.”

— Karen Marie Moning

411. “When you live as long as we do, you find yourself in bed with women you watched get born. It’s weird and not at the same time.”

— Karen Marie Moning

412. “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

413. “Irony, perfect definition: that for which I want to possess it, I would no longer want once I possessed it.”

— Karen Marie Moning

414. “I’m not helping you, Ms. Lane. I’m entertaining the notion that you might be of use to me. If so, I need you alive.”

— Karen Marie Moning

415. “Some memories are worth the price. I’ll deal with it.”

— Karen Marie Moning

416. “You, Ms. Lane, are a menace to others! A walking, talking catastrophe in pink!”

— Karen Marie Moning

417. “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

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

— Karen Marie Moning

419. “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

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

— Karen Marie Moning

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

— Karen Marie Moning

422. “Naught will be done to you that you doona wish done. Dageus MacKeltar.”

— Karen Marie Moning

423. “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

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

— Karen Marie Moning

425. “You can discover just as much from what people don’t say to you, as what they do. It’s not enough to listen to their words. You have to mine their silences for buried ore. It’s often only in the lies we refuse to speak that any truth can be heard at all.”

— Karen Marie Moning

426. “My breathing was shallow and my hands were fists. ‘Oh, yes, I’m going to have to kill you Barrons.’ I said coolly, Partly because, for the most miniscule sliver of an instant, while looking at those handcuffs, I’d imagined myself climbing back into bed and pretending I wasn’t cured yet.”

— Karen Marie Moning

427. “I can either give in to fear and give up – or refuse to let it touch me and go on.”

— Karen Marie Moning

428. “I despised the world because I used to know who I was, and I used to be good, with no bad in me, or at least that’s what I thought and there really is a degree of bliss and charmed innocence in ignorance.”

— Karen Marie Moning

429. “Lists had become my anchors. They got me through the days. The oblivion of sleep got me through the nights.”

— Karen Marie Moning

430. “I hate cages. For most folks, they’re built from fear and they do it to themselves. Not me. Mine were forged of helplessness. Most kids’ are.”

— Karen Marie Moning

431. “Could words and symbols wield such power? Could mere scribblings on parchment unmake a person’s moral fiber? Weren’t we made of sterner stuff?”

— Karen Marie Moning

432. “Being threatened seems to being out the worst in me.”

— Karen Marie Moning

433. “Strong enough that I was no longer afraid to be gentle. Powerful enough that I could be vulnerable. Scarred enough that I could understand and tread lightly around the deepest scars of others.”

— Karen Marie Moning

434. “Since I’ve been on my own, I’ve been eating a lot of popcorn, cereal, instant noodles, and snack bars. I have a hot plate in my bedroom, a microwave, and a small fridge. That’s the kind of kitchen I know how to get around in.”

— Karen Marie Moning

435. “Your race devotes itself to justifying its errors, not correcting them.”

— Karen Marie Moning

436. “What we achieve at our best moment doesn’t say much about who we are. It all boils down to what we become at our worst moment.”

— Karen Marie Moning

437. “Powerful, often brilliant beyond comprehension, most of the time he was a wildly emotional hot mess.”

— Karen Marie Moning

438. “Gah, some chicks should be shot. Put out of everyone else’s reproduction pool.”

— Karen Marie Moning

439. “When insane things start to arrange themselves in sane patterns around you, you know you got problems.”

— Karen Marie Moning

440. “Keltar mates ne’er come easily to their men. Some travel distances too vast and strange to fathom, others travel but a short path, though a far distance in their hearts. Most resist every step of the way, yet for each Keltar, one woman will make that journey. ‘Tis up to the Keltar to claim her.”

— Karen Marie Moning

441. “I hate sentences that begin with my name followed by the claim – indubitably erroneous – that the speaker knows something about me. Those kinds of sentences rank right up there with the ones that begin with You know what your problem is? That’s always a doozy. Talk about a trick question. Nothing worth hearing ever follows that preface.”

— Karen Marie Moning

442. “Cease ceasing movement so abruptly! Christ, woman, must you catapult forward after each cessation? Are you certain you’ve strapped the mirror securely? We should stop and check it. By Danu, wench, try nudging this beast gently, not kicking it with both heels! A silence, a slew of choked curses, then: Horses! What the bloody hell is wrong with horses? Have they all been slain in battle?”

— Karen Marie Moning

443. “The illusions it had woven for me had taken place only in my head. The battle had been invisible to the naked eye, but the hard ones are.”

— Karen Marie Moning

444. “Anyone worth knowing breaks once. Once. No shame, no foul if you survive it. You did.”

— Karen Marie Moning

445. “Attitude shapes reality.”

— Karen Marie Moning

446. “Nothing touches her. To be touched is weakness.”

— Karen Marie Moning

447. “You tried to barter with the devil himself for me, you crazy woman. Bloody hell, doona you ever risk your life for mine. Ever! Do you hear me?”

— Karen Marie Moning

448. “That had taken enormous courage. To love someone you knew wanted someone else, too, but had, for whatever reason, chosen you.”

— Karen Marie Moning

449. “Rioting begets violence begets rioting. I sometimes think the entire human race is comprised of barely restrained animals, avid for any excuse to tear off their masks of civility. And here I am, always trying desperately to keep mine on.”

— Karen Marie Moning

450. “I have studied humans for a small eternity. Intent infuses their every movement. Road maps to their inner navigation, plastered all over their skin. Born to be slaves.”

— Karen Marie Moning