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

402. “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

403. “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

404. “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

405. “Dude, you are one sick feck.” “Och, Dani, my love,” he says, gliding toward the bed, “you’ve really no idea.”

— Karen Marie Moning

406. “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

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

— Karen Marie Moning

408. “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

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

— Karen Marie Moning

410. “Those who were so long imprisoned in ice and darkness seem to find the sunlight jarring, painful. The longer I walk around with this grief inside me, the more I understand that. It’s as if sunshine is a slap in the face that says, Look, the world’s all bright and shiny! Too bad you’re not.”

— Karen Marie Moning

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

— Karen Marie Moning

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

— Karen Marie Moning

413. “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

414. “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

415. “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

416. “You weep for me, woman?”

— Karen Marie Moning

417. “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.”

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

— Karen Marie Moning

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

— Karen Marie Moning

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

— Karen Marie Moning

421. “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

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

— Karen Marie Moning

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

— Karen Marie Moning

424. “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

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

— Karen Marie Moning

426. “Sometimes when really bad things happen, you put them in a box and never look at them again because they’ll cost you the rest of your life. Some wounds never heal. You excise the savaged flesh and become the next thing.”

— Karen Marie Moning

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

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428. “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

429. “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

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

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431. “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

432. “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

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

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

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435. “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

436. “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.”

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437. “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

438. “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

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

— Karen Marie Moning

440. “Attitude shapes reality.”

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441. “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.”

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442. “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?”

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443. “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

444. “I’m obsessed and addicted and ripped-down-raw in love with Jericho Barrons.”

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445. “To one who stopped living a millennium ago, I say, “Show me how to live.”

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446. “Maybes are anchors you chain to your own feet. Right before you leap off the boat into the ocean.”

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447. “I contemplate the notion that maybe regrets are a process of accumulation of time, as unavoidable as a closet full of clothes and more bags of them in the attic. Is accumulated baggage what makes people get old? If so, they need to clean out their fecking attics, send the stuff to consignment shops and remember how to walk around naked like kids, little bellies sticking out, always ready for a good laugh.”

— Karen Marie Moning

448. “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

449. “Lies roll off us. It’s the truths we work hardest to silence.”

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450. “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