Top 500 Karen Marie Moning Quotes (2026 Update)
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401. “Why do they always ask for words? Why do they ever believe them?”

— Karen Marie Moning

402. “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

403. “Yes, I have loved, Ms. Lane, and although it’s none of your business, I have lost. Many things.”

— Karen Marie Moning

404. “Dunnottar? Edward? Dear God! She hadn’t merely traveled through time – she’d been dropped smack into the sequel to Braveheart!”

— Karen Marie Moning

405. “Sighing dismally, she acknowledged that some things just weren’t humanly possible – not even Martha Stewart could fold fitted sheets.”

— Karen Marie Moning

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

— Karen Marie Moning

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

— Karen Marie Moning

408. “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

409. “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

410. “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

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

— Karen Marie Moning

412. “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

413. “You are what you are. Deal with it or change.”

— Karen Marie Moning

414. “I love you, Dani Mega O’Malley,” Dancer said against my ear as he moved inside me. “More than the world is big. Deeper than the sky is blue. Truer than the universe is vast. I love you more eternal than pi.”

— Karen Marie Moning

415. “These are my rapists, the ones that turned me inside out, ripped my mind from my body and shredded it. They are also, unfortunately, hot as hell.”

— Karen Marie Moning

416. “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

417. “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

418. “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

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

— Karen Marie Moning

420. “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

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

— Karen Marie Moning

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

— Karen Marie Moning

423. “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

424. “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

425. “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

426. “When Barrons looks at me like that, it rattles me. Lust, in those ancient, obsidian eyes, offers no trace of humanity. Doesn’t even bother trying. Savage Mac wants to invite it to come out and play. I think she’s nuts. Nuts, I tell you.”

— Karen Marie Moning

427. “He said love is the willingness to put the happiness and evolution of the person you love before your own. Even if it means giving them up.”

— Karen Marie Moning

428. “I looked from one to the other, and realized that Barrons and my dad were having one of those wordless conversations he and I have from time to time. Though the language was, by nature, foreign to me, I grew up in the Deep South where a man’s ego is roughly the size of his pickup truck, and women get an early and interesting education in the not-so-subtle roar of testosterone.”

— Karen Marie Moning

429. “Accept that you’re outgunned? Stay on the floor and don’t even try to fight? What kind of life is that?”

— Karen Marie Moning

430. “I love books, they’re in my blood.”

— Karen Marie Moning

431. “Tonight, the sea was a shiver of dark glass, harboring secrets untold in her depths while on her tranquil surface stars glittered like diamonds.”

— Karen Marie Moning

432. “Ignoring it makes it irrelevant. No man wants his nudity to be irrelevant.”

— Karen Marie Moning

433. “Solitude and inaction are unraveling me right down to the core.”

— Karen Marie Moning

434. “Oh, God, Drustan, she thought, you didn’t go back in time. You sent me back to save you!”

— Karen Marie Moning

435. “He was still frowning at the cake, looking at it as if he expected it to sprout dozens of legs and begin scuttling toward him, thin-lipped, teeth bared.”

— Karen Marie Moning

436. “You would deceive me for a single kiss.” “I would raze worlds for a single kiss.” “Try saving one, for far more than that.”

— Karen Marie Moning

437. “You will most certainly scream. I promise you that.”

— Karen Marie Moning

438. “Have I told you, Chloe-lass, that you’re beautiful?” he said softly. She narrowed her eyes. If he thought a generic compliment would buy him a kiss, he was sadly mistaken.”

— Karen Marie Moning

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

— Karen Marie Moning

440. “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

441. “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

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

— Karen Marie Moning

443. “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

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

— Karen Marie Moning

445. “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

446. “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

447. “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

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

— Karen Marie Moning

449. “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

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

— Karen Marie Moning