Top 180 Kelly Moran Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “Beauty like hers had no place in his life.”

— Kelly Moran

52. “Maybe he was going to hell. Except, he could’ve sworn that was where he’d been the past ten years.”

— Kelly Moran

53. “There’s a lot of frogs to kiss before you realize they’re all frogs.”

— Kelly Moran

54. “We’ll build our own world in the shape of us.”

— Kelly Moran

55. “The building had been sold and the new owners wanted to convert it into high-end condos. Oh, please. Chicago needed more high-end condos like they needed another baseball franchise.”

— Kelly Moran

56. “First thought? Romance movies were bad for her psyche.”

— Kelly Moran

57. “An hour in her presence, and he was ready to hit his knees, submit to her every whim.”

— Kelly Moran

58. “I want you. And I usually get what I want. I had to wait too long to have you already.”

— Kelly Moran

59. “Matters of the heart were important, but people tended to put too much stock in the particular organ when, in retrospect, it was only tissue. It pumped blood and the body couldn’t live without it, sure, but it had no actual bearing on love. The soul was what made a person distinct – the part that lived on after death, how one being connected to another, and what bound essence.”

— Kelly Moran

60. “I loved you as a boy and fell in love with you as a man. You’re in here so deep that there is no you, no me. Only us.”

— Kelly Moran

61. “People can hold things back without outright lying, Kerry. People can care about each other without wanting something in return. No doubt, he had good reasons for not making a move.”

— Kelly Moran

62. “This was where she belonged. Right here with him. Forever. “I love you,” she whispered. She’d burst if she didn’t tell him, die painfully if he let her go. Emotion clogged her throat.”

— Kelly Moran

63. “Damn, but that made him want to put on a straightjacket.”

— Kelly Moran

64. “Maybe pulling her emotions out and inserting in his logic would change this morbid course. But damn if he’d joke about it like she did.”

— Kelly Moran

65. “Turned out, monsters were capable of love after all. But it didn’t mean they should.”

— Kelly Moran

66. “It took a pair of ghosts to open my eyes.”

— Kelly Moran

67. “I swore I’d never fall for her again.”

— Kelly Moran

68. “She needed to come with an instructional manual. And one not written in Spanish.”

— Kelly Moran

69. “She cast her gaze over him, pausing on the pink, sparkly backpack slung over his shoulder. The sexy, adorable man. “I don’t think you bat for my team, sheriff.”

— Kelly Moran

70. “They knew nothing about one another, yet he would recognize her even if deaf or blind. She was that much a part of him.”

— Kelly Moran

71. “He was nose-diving way past in like with her and headed straight toward Faceplantville.”

— Kelly Moran

72. “You look like a Photoshopped version of Thor with Iron Man’s flirtation skills and Captain America’s values.”

— Kelly Moran

73. “Lord, but did he grow up nice.”

— Kelly Moran

74. “Redemption was asking too much, but he could hope. Something told him he’d still be seeking absolution when he took his last breath on some distant day.”

— Kelly Moran

75. “This was his punishment. An everyday reminder of his sins. He finally looked on the outside how he felt on the inside.”

— Kelly Moran

76. “Death carves holes in your soul, and love fills them.”

— Kelly Moran

77. “Translation: She’s too good for you.”

— Kelly Moran

78. “A city full of eight million people. It was all rather lonely sometimes.”

— Kelly Moran

79. “She bypassed the junk food aisle altogether. “Okay, Faith. Hold up.” He grabbed the end of her cart and pulled it down the aisle. Snagging a bag of potato chips, he tossed them in her cart. “Better. Let’s find you some Twinkies.”

— Kelly Moran

80. “His voice was cracking and hoarse with fear. Unshed tears shimmered in his eyes.”

— Kelly Moran

81. “People of Redwood Ridge always referred to themselves as victims when they were found in the path of Cupid’s arrow, wielded by the sisters. They ran. They hid. They resisted. In the end, they succumbed. He was the sheriff. He got around. He saw and heard things most didn’t. And the truth was, not a solitary “victim” was unhappy after The Battleaxes were through with them.”

— Kelly Moran

82. “Love is a gift. One that doesn’t need to be returned, just accepted.”

— Kelly Moran

83. “This wasn’t the first time she saw past his facade. It probably wouldn’t be the last. Yet the intimacy of having this woman know him so damn well was unnervingly welcome.”

— Kelly Moran

84. “He slid the photo out and raised it. The sun washed out any distinguishable characteristics. All except her eyes. He didn’t need a picture to remember those. As turquoise as the waters near Cozumel, and just as warm.”

— Kelly Moran

85. “Considering she’d just blown his gray matter into the ether, he was screwed.”

— Kelly Moran

86. “When you want me for real, not because you need release or because you think you’re going to die, but when you actually want me, Kerry, you come find me. We’ll finish this.”

— Kelly Moran

87. “You knew me before I made my millions, and you were nice to me when you didn’t have to be. That’s the kind of person I want in my corner.”

— Kelly Moran

88. “Life Lessons According to Camryn: Some people are like Slinkies. They’re only good for a smile when you push them down the stairs.”

— Kelly Moran

89. “The woman got to him. Deeply. If she wasn’t spitting fire she was driving him to his knees with her kindness. Such an endearing contradiction she was.”

— Kelly Moran

90. “Born with a silver spoon in his mouth, he was going out with a rifle in his hand.”

— Kelly Moran

91. “He could be doing quantum physics in his head or undressing her in his mind – she’d never know the difference.”

— Kelly Moran

92. “At this rate, he’d be able to spend quality time with her for a whole day without flipping his gourd when he was ninety. Something to look forward to.”

— Kelly Moran

93. “Considering I’m a writer, you leave me strangely bereft of words.”

— Kelly Moran

94. “Lifetime called. They want their movie of the week back.”

— Kelly Moran

95. “He’d known it would be good between them, he just wasn’t prepared for how good. Like the-bloody-earth-moved good.”

— Kelly Moran

96. “What exactly do you think is going to happen to me in Redwood Ridge? A Halloween display falling on me? Blown over by the force of someone waving hello? No, no, I got it. I’ll get diabetes after I’m forced to eat a cookie from the free sample display by the bakery. I hear sugar calling to me now. Dangerous stuff.”

— Kelly Moran

97. “Say yes. Open your eyes, see that it’s me, and say yes.”

— Kelly Moran

98. “There. Let the gods of friendship and common sense strike him dead.”

— Kelly Moran

99. “Six years, Kerry. I followed the rules. In six years, I haven’t touched you.” He paused, staring at the beautiful face he knew as well as his own, and laid himself bare. “But I’ve wanted to.”

— Kelly Moran

100. “He was not thinking of Maddie I-Live-To-Make-Your-Life-Miserable Freemont in terms of sexuality. He was not attracted to her in the least. Period and exclamation point.”

— Kelly Moran