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Karen Marie Moning is an American author. Many of her novels have appeared on the New York Times Bestseller List with Shadowfever reaching the number one position on multiple national best sellers lists. She is a winner of the prestigious Romance Writers of America RITA award for Best Paranormal Romance and is a multiple RITA nominee. Wikipedia  

✵ 1. November 1964
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Karen Marie Moning Quotes

“I'm sorry your pretty little world got all screwed up, but everybody's does, and you go on. It's how you go on that defines you.”

Karen Marie Moning

Source: Bloodfever

“Never underestimate a well-dressed bimbo.”

Karen Marie Moning

Source: Shadowfever

“Even I don't know what you're doing, and I know everything.”

Karen Marie Moning

Source: Bloodfever

“Lose the pessimism, Ms. Lane. It's a self-fulfilling prophecy.”

Karen Marie Moning book Darkfever

Source: Darkfever

“If I'm a little girl, then that makes you a serious pervert.”

Karen Marie Moning

Source: Shadowfever

“Life's a choice: you can live in black and white, or you can live in colour. I'll take every shade of the rainbow and the gazillion in between!”

Karen Marie Moning

Source: Iced

“I am going to love you now, slow and sweet, but when you come, I'm going to f*** you the way I need to. The way I've been dreaming about since the moment I saw you.”

Karen Marie Moning

Source: The Dark Highlander

“I lock eyes with my reflection and don’t look away. The day you look away you start to lose yourself. I’m never going to lose myself. You are what you are. Deal with it or change.”

Karen Marie Moning

Source: Iced

“Who and what we surround ourselves with is who and what we become. In the midst of good people, it is easy to be good. in the midst of bad people, it is easy to be bad.”

Karen Marie Moning

Source: Iced

“Bring it on, Tinker Bell.”

Karen Marie Moning

Source: Dreamfever

“Try a rocket launcher. Think maybe you could manage to hit me with that?”

Karen Marie Moning

Source: Shadowfever

“I miss her. I don't know how to live without her. There is a hole inside me that nothing fills.
If you don't find something to fill that hole, someone else will. And if someone else fills it, they own you. Forever. You'll never get yourself back.”

Karen Marie Moning

Source: Dreamfever

“There are two kinds of people in the world Ms. Lane: those who survive no matter the cost and those who are walking victims.”

Karen Marie Moning book Darkfever

Source: Darkfever

“We're translating the Kama Sutra," Barrons said, with interactive aids.”

Karen Marie Moning

Source: Shadowfever

“One day you may kiss a man you can’t breathe without, and find breath is of little consequence.”
“Right, and one day my prince might come.”
“I doubt he’ll be a prince, Ms. Lane. Men rarely are.”

Karen Marie Moning

Source: Bloodfever

“You're Mac," he says. "And I'm Jericho. And nothing else matters. Never will. You exsist in a place that is beyond all rules for me. Do you understand that?"
"I do.”

Karen Marie Moning

Source: Shadowfever

“He didn't just occupy space; he saturated it. The room had been full of books before, now it was full of him.”

Karen Marie Moning book Darkfever

Source: Darkfever

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

Karen Marie Moning book Darkfever

Variant: There are only really two positions one can take toward anything in life: hope or fear. Hope strengthens, fear kills.
Source: Darkfever

“there are three kinds of people in the world: those who don't know and don't know they don't know; those who don't know and do know they don't know; and those who know and know how much they still don't know.”

Karen Marie Moning

Source: Bloodfever

“Jericho Barrons was my poison now.”

Karen Marie Moning

Source: Dreamfever

“I didn’t hear him behind me. I felt him. Electric. Wild. One foot in the swamp. Never going to crawl all the way out.
And I wanted to have sex with whatever he was. Where was I supposed to put that in my head?”

Karen Marie Moning

Source: Faefever

“If he was winter, I was summer. If I was sunshine, he was night. A dark and stormy one.”

Karen Marie Moning book Darkfever

Source: Darkfever

“Dubh is do?" I was incredulous. It was no wonder I hadn't been able to find the stupid word. "Should I be
calling pubs poos?"
"Dubh is Gaelic, Ms. Lane. Pub is not.”

Karen Marie Moning book Darkfever

Source: Darkfever

“Barrons’ lips twitched. I’d almost made him smile. Barrons smiles about as often as the sun comes out in Dublin, and it has the same effect on me; makes me feel warm and stupid.”

Karen Marie Moning

Source: Faefever

“I have your word?”
“You trust my word?”
“You’re an idealistic fool. Of course.”

Karen Marie Moning

Source: Faefever

“If he’d been any other man and i'd been any other girl, I’d have called the narrowing of his heavy-lidded dark eyes lust. But he was Barrons and I was Mac, and a blossoming of lust was about as likely as orchids blooming in Antarctica”

Karen Marie Moning

Source: Bloodfever

“Safety is a fence, and fences are for sheep.”

Karen Marie Moning

Source: Shadowfever

“Since the moment I laid eyes on Jericho Barrons, I wanted him. I wanted him to do things to me that pink and clueless MacKayla Lane was shocked and appalled and… okay, yeah, well, utterly fascinated to find herself thinking about.”

Karen Marie Moning

Source: Shadowfever

“Just one time before I turn into the villain of this piece, just one time before I become the fourth and final Unseelie prince, I want to be her Highlander. And her hero.”

Karen Marie Moning

Source: Iced

“The bookstore was a wreck. much hadn't been a dream. I began to stand and stopped, realizing there was a sheet of paper taped to my coat. Dazedly, I pulled it off.”

Karen Marie Moning

Source: Shadowfever

“We will K‘Vruck the world.”

Karen Marie Moning

Source: Shadowfever

“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

Source: Faefever

“I'd never been turned on by the Ken doll—even before I looked down his pants and saw what was missing.”

Karen Marie Moning book Darkfever

Source: Darkfever

“Barrons had just given me the most carnal, sexually charged hungry look I'd ever seen in my life, and I was pretty sure he didn't even know he had done it.”

Karen Marie Moning book Darkfever

Source: Darkfever

“If she could have anything in the world, he'd asked her, what would it be?

She'd answered that one without hesitation: a best friend. She hastily added, He'd smiled faintly. he'd thought but not said.”

Karen Marie Moning

Source: Spell of the Highlander

“It's just another of Robin's sayings. Like, 'Holy strawberries, Batman, we're in a jam! Or, Holy Kleenex, Batman, it was right under our nose and we blew it!”

Karen Marie Moning

Source: Iced

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

Karen Marie Moning

Source: Bloodfever

“And there you have it… if I knew that I could only have a few nights in that man's arms or nothing, I would take those magic nights and use them to keep me warm for the rest of my life.”

Karen Marie Moning book To Tame a Highland Warrior

Source: To Tame a Highland Warrior

“The wound you refuse to dress is one that will never heal. You gush lifeblood and never even know why. It will make you weak at a critical moment when you need to be strong.”

Karen Marie Moning

Source: Iced

“I'm a bartender. I like recipes. They're concretes. Was the drink recipe for seduction one shot charm and two shots self-deception, shaken, not stirred?”

Karen Marie Moning

Source: Faefever

“Unpredictable as a hungry lion, he might be feared by everyone else, but he never ripped out my throat, only licked me, and, if his tongue was a little rough sometimes, it was worth it to walk beside the king of the jungle.”

Karen Marie Moning

Source: Shadowfever

“I know that when he has sex he laughs like the world is a perfect place. And when he did that, my hands curled into fists because I thought about touching his face like maybe I could catch joy in my hands and hold it.”

Karen Marie Moning

Source: Iced

“The kind of person that thanks another person never survives. Have you learned nothing?”

Karen Marie Moning

Source: Dreamfever

“I'm going to kill the kid. - Barrons says faintly.
Ryodan makes a burbling sound like a bodly laught. -Get in line”

Karen Marie Moning

Source: Iced

“Being touched by Jericho Barrons with kindness makes you feel like you the biggest, most savage lion in the jungle, lying down, placing your
head it its mouth and, rather than taking your life, it licks you and
purrs.”

Karen Marie Moning

Source: Bloodfever