Karen Marie Moning Quotes (304 quotes, page 5)

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Karen Marie Moning Quotes

“You can't save people from themselves. You can only try to wake them up.”

Source: Shadowfever

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

Source: Burned

“I’ll give you a choice. Kill me.”
“By definition ‘choice’ mandates a minimum of two possible avenues of action.”
“I wasn’t done. Or kiss me. But do one or the other. Before I do one or the other to you.”

Karen Marie Moning

Source: Burned

“You are what you are. Find a way to live with it.”

Karen Marie Moning

Source: Burned

“I can smell you, Ms. Lane," he said, even more softly. "The only blood on you is from your veins, not your womb."
My head whipped to the left and I stared at him. Ok, that was one of the more disturbing things he'd ever said to me.”

Karen Marie Moning

Source: Faefever

“Whether I see the Fae, or whether I’m a man. I believe I’ve laid your mind to rest on the former; shall I relieve it on the latter?” He reached for his belt.
“Oh, please.” I rolled my eyes. “You’re a leftie, Barrons.”
“Touché, Ms. Lane,” he murmured.”

Karen Marie Moning

Source: Bloodfever

“Let me be your anchor. I'll never let you be lost again.”

Karen Marie Moning

Feverborn

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

Karen Marie Moning

Source: Dreamfever

“Nobody home but She for Whom I Am the World. Can't go on like this, can't keep doing it.- Jericho Barrons”

Karen Marie Moning

Source: Shadowfever

“I'll never be her first.
But one day I'll be her last.”

Karen Marie Moning

Source: Feversong

“Keeping vigil over her are two monsters of very different breeds but monster just the same.
Death on her left.
Devil on her right.”

Karen Marie Moning

Source: Iced

“I don't believe Barrons is out to destroy mankind. I don't think he particularly cares much for mankind, but I don't think he has any deep-seated desire to see us all wiped out.”

Karen Marie Moning

Source: Bloodfever

“Why have you chosen to spare me?”
“I want us to be…what is your word? Friends.”
“Psychotic rapists don’t have friends.”
“I was unaware you were a psychotic rapist or I would not have offered.”
“Ha.” I’d set myself up for that one.”

Karen Marie Moning

Variant: I want us to be... what is your word? Friends."
"Psychotic rapists don't have friends."
"I was unaware you were a psychotic rapists or I would not have offered."
(Mac & V'lane)
Source: Bloodfever

“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

Source: Faefever

“Sheep are always looking for a new shepherd when the terrain gets rocky.”

Karen Marie Moning

Source: Iced

“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 hardest ones are.”

Karen Marie Moning

Source: Shadowfever

“You've been doing something bad since the moment you met me, lass.”

Karen Marie Moning

Source: The Dark Highlander

“Life's not linear at all. It happens in lighting flashes. So fast you don't see those lay-you-out cold moments coming at you until you're Wile E. Coyote, steamrolled flat as a pancake by the Road Runner, victim of your own elaborate schemes.”

Karen Marie Moning

Source: Dreamfever

“Gazelles didn't lie down with lions, at least not unbloodied and alive.”

Karen Marie Moning book Darkfever

Source: Darkfever

“Holy borrowing bibliophile, let's book!”

Karen Marie Moning

Source: Iced

“Omnipotent not omniscient. We are frequently blinded by how much we see.”

Karen Marie Moning

Source: Bloodfever

“She's thirteen.
Time will remedy that.”

Karen Marie Moning

Source: Dreamfever

“Hope is a critical thing. Whithout it, we are nothing. Hope shapes will. The will shapes the world.”

Karen Marie Moning

Source: Bloodfever

“raking a hand through his hair, he forced his attention to the text she'd left on the coffee table, refusing to dwell on the disconcerting fact that a part of him had taken one look at the lass in such proximity to his bed and said simply: Mine”

Karen Marie Moning

Source: The Dark Highlander

“If he killed her I’m going to beat him bloody and eat him piece by piece, slowly, with steak sauce.”

Karen Marie Moning

Source: Iced

“I told him. He inclined his head. we said, and it was a vow far more powerful and binding than any ring or piece of paper.”

Karen Marie Moning

Source: Feversong

“In my experience, anybody besides your mom that feeds you is going to want something in exchange for it.”

Karen Marie Moning

Source: Iced

“Sometimes the small pleasures in life are the sweetest.”

Karen Marie Moning

Source: Bloodfever

“A wing or a thigh? Ah, I'm afraid we don't have any thighs left.”

Karen Marie Moning

Source: Bloodfever

“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.
(Mac about Barrons)”

Karen Marie Moning book Darkfever

Source: Darkfever

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

Karen Marie Moning

“The good guys and bad guys aren’t as easy to tell apart as I used to think they were. You can’t look at someone with your eyes and take their measure.
You have to look with the heart.”

Karen Marie Moning

“Oh, for heaven's sake, she thought with droll exasperation, this certainly explains a lot. It's no wonder I haven't been able to keep my hands off the blasted man since the day I met him. He's an artifact! A Celtic one at that!”

Karen Marie Moning

Source: The Dark Highlander

“All those 'bloodys' was a veritable cornucopia of emotion for Barrons.”

Karen Marie Moning

Source: Bloodfever

“Sometimes, Ms. Lane,” he said, “one must break with one’s past to embrace one’s future. It is never
an easy thing to do. It is one of the distinguishing characteristics between survivors and victims.
Letting go of what was, to survive what is.”

Karen Marie Moning book Darkfever

Variant: Sometimes, Ms. Lane," he said, "one must break with one's past to embrace one's future. It is never an easy thing to do. It is one of the distinguishing characteristics between survivors and victims. Letting go of what was, to survive what is.
Source: Darkfever

“Mac reflected on the Unseelie King and his concubine:

He’d loved her for all time
After he’d believed she was gone
Sunshine to his ice.
Frost to her fever.
I wished them forever. The Unseelie King was gone.”

Karen Marie Moning

“I never thought there might be one like you out there. Unaware, untrained.
Unbelievable. You have no idea what you are, do you?”
“Crazy?”

Karen Marie Moning book Darkfever

Source: Darkfever

“There are three floors beneath the garage? Why on earth?"

-Mac”

Karen Marie Moning book Darkfever

Source: Darkfever

“Nuns? They'd take one look at Barrons and decide the devil himself had come knockng. He not only looked dangerous, he emanated something that made even me feel like crossing myself sometimes, and I'm not religious.”

Karen Marie Moning

Source: Bloodfever

“What are you?
"A man with a rope?"
"Ha-ha.”