Karen Marie Moning Quotes

313 Sourced Quotes

When he kisses me again, the last part of me that could stand myself dies.

Karen Marie Moning
He pulls me around and kisses me. "You're Mac," he says. "And I'm Jericho. And nothing else matters. Never will. You exist in a place that is beyond all rules for me. Do you understand that?" I do. Jericho Barrons just told me he loves me.

Karen Marie Moning
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
How could they let me grow up like that—happy and pink and stupid?

Karen Marie Moning
Lies are horny little buggers, they breed like rabbits and bound around just as insanely and then you have to try to keep track of them.

Karen Marie Moning
Gah, some chicks should be shot. Put out of everyone else's reproduction pool.

Karen Marie Moning
You could ask me to teach you. Huh? This night is getting weird in a hurry. Teach me like you're teaching a class or something? What are you going to call it: 'You Too Can Be a Sociopath 101'? It would be more like a graduate-level class. I start to snicker. His sense of humour sneaks up on you. Then I remember who's talking and bite it off.

Karen Marie Moning
Feelings, emotions - they are neither right nor wrong. They cannot be assigned a value. Feelings *are*. By labeling a feeling wrong, you force yourself to ignore that feeling. And what you most need is to feel it, let it burn through you, then get on with life.

Karen Marie Moning
It's a strange new world out there and the rules have changed: It's every princess for herself.

Karen Marie Moning
As she lifted the glittering strand of diamonds from the box, a small slip of paper fell out. She caught it as it wafted toward the floor. Four words in ancient script, an arrogantly slanted scrawl. Accept these, accept me. Well, she thought, blinking, that was certainly direct and to the point. -Adam's note to Gabrielle

Karen Marie Moning
That part of his body was simply uncontrollable, apparently functioning in accordance to a single law of nature: She existed—he got a hard-on.

Karen Marie Moning
You've been doing something bad since the moment you met me, lass.

Karen Marie Moning
Werewolves? Oh please, just plain stupid. Who wants to get it on with a man ruled by his inner dog?

Karen Marie Moning
I would wear pink because I knew my future was anything but rosy. I would accessorize myself to the hilt, and I would wear flirty shoes because my world needed more beauty to counter all the ugliness in it. I would wear pink because I hated gray, I didn't deserve white, and I was sick of black.

Karen Marie Moning
And then what? Said, 'Oh, I'm so sorry, Ms. Lane, I didn't mean to wrinkle your lovely blouse. May I press that for you?' Or perhaps you gouged it with one of your pretty pink nails?" I was really beginning to wonder what his hang-up with pink was, but I didn't resent the sarcasm in his voice.

Karen Marie Moning
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
You're early. I give him a mutinous look. Of course he thinks my being early is about him. It's not. Mac was at Chester's last night at eight. I think she's hunting me. Since I can't be late to avoid her, I have to be early. Watch broke. Thought I was on time. You don't wear a watch. See? I knew I had a problem. I'll just dash out and get one. Be back tomorrow. On time.

Karen Marie Moning
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
Are you decent?" a woman's voice called, pushing the door cautiously ajar. "Nay, but we're clothed," Cian purred.

Karen Marie Moning
Although it may not seem like it, this isn't a story about darkness. It's about light. Kahlil Gibran says Your joy can fill you only as deeply your sorrow has carved you. If you've never tasted bitterness, sweet is just another pleasant flavor on your tongue. One day I'm going to hold a lot of joy.

Karen Marie Moning
There are really only two positions one can take toward anything in life: hope or fear. Hope strengthens, fear kills.

Karen Marie Moning
Then you will simply have to see for yourself. Touch me, lass. Feel my...sock." His silver gaze sizzled with challenge, as he unzipped his zipper. Uh-uh." She shook her head for added emphasis. Then find me a pair of trews that doona threaten to sever my manparts.

Karen Marie Moning
Some things are sacred. Until you act like they're not. Then you lose them

Karen Marie Moning
There was no lifeboat here in these deep, killing waters, not even a lighthouse, marking the way back to shore with its soft amber promise. There was only the storm of Barrons and the one I seemed to be, and if there were dark shapes moving in the waters beneath my feet that I should probably take a good hard look at and possibly reconsider trying to swim here, I didn't care.

Karen Marie Moning
If I entered a tropical beach, would I end up in Nazi Germany with my highly inconvenient black hair?

Karen Marie Moning
Do you think a woman can give a man everything while still withholding her heart? We are not made that way! - Fiona

Karen Marie Moning
The inspector ate only two of my tiny sandwiches: the first because he hadnt expected it to taste so awful; the second, I think, because hed thought surely the first must have been a mistake.

Karen Marie Moning
There are a few absolute no-brainer rules in my world. Real close to the top of this list is: if an Unseelie prince runs from it, I'm going to run from it, too.
Dani speaking

Karen Marie Moning
Keep hoping to see the light in her eyes. Even knowing it'll mean she's saying good-bye.

Karen Marie Moning
When he comes, he makes a noise deep in his throat that is so raw and animal and sexual that I think if he merely looked at me and made that noise, I might explode in an orgasm.

Karen Marie Moning