"One day you will kiss a man you can't breathe without, and find that breath is of little consequence."
— Karen Marie Moning (Bloodfever)

"If aught must be lost, ‘twill be my honor for yours. If one must be forsaken, ‘twill be my soul for yours. Should death come anon, ‘twill be my life for yours. I am Given."
— Karen Marie Moning

"She understood now why her friend Elizabeth, with her near-genius, analytical mind gave wide berth to murder mysteries, psychological thrillers, and horror stories, and read only romance novels. Because, by God, when a woman picked up one of those steamy books, she had a firm guarantee that there would be a Happily-Ever-After. That though the world outside those covers could bring such sorrow and disappointment and loneliness, between those covers, the world was a splendid place to be."
— Karen Marie Moning (Darkfever)

"I love books, by the way, way more than movies. Movies tell you what to think. A good book lets you choose a few thoughts for yourself. Movies show you the pink house. A good book tells you there's a pink house and lets you paint some of the finishing touches, maybe choose the roof style,park your own car out front. My imagination has always topped anything a movie could come up with. Case in point, those darned Harry Potter movies. That was so not what that part-Veela-chick, Fleur Delacour, looked like."
— Karen Marie Moning (Darkfever)

"You're leaving me, Rainbow Girl."
— Karen Marie Moning (Dreamfever)

"Every time I think I’m getting smarter I realize that I’ve just done something stupid. Dad says 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.

Heavy stuff, I know. I think I’ve finally graduated from the don’t-knows that don’t know to the don’t-knows
that do."
— Karen Marie Moning (Bloodfever)

"He raised a brow. 'Petunia, Ms. Lane?'
I scowled. "Ass, Barrons."
— Karen Marie Moning (Darkfever)

"The kiss....was not meant to seduce, it was meant to mark a woman's soul.

Chloe"
— Karen Marie Moning (The Dark Highlander)

"Oh ye of little faith. Not for IYD... But you didn't even try."
— Karen Marie Moning (Dreamfever)

"Our sex is fierce. We will both be bruised.

"I want it to always be like this," I tell him.

"Try holding onto that thought."

"I do not need to try. I will never feel differently."

His laughter is as dark and cold as the place of which I dream, "One day you will wonder if it's possible to hate me more."

"
— Karen Marie Moning (Dreamfever)

"Last night you said you wanted to know what to expect so you could better select your attire. I told you
we were going to visit a vampire in a Goth-den tonight. Why, then, Ms. Lane, do you look like a perky
rainbow?"
— Karen Marie Moning (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?"
"Dubhis Gaelic, Ms. Lane. Pub is not."
— Karen Marie Moning (Darkfever)

"Although love could grow in times of peace, it tempered in battle."
— Karen Marie Moning (Dreamfever)

"It's just that in the Deep South, women learn at a young age that when the world is falling apart around you, it's time to take down the drapes and make a new dress."
— Karen Marie Moning (Faefever)

"You hated my rainbows, now you don't like my leather. Is there anything you like on me?"
— Karen Marie Moning (Dreamfever)

"And you can tell Darroc that Ms. Lane is mine. If he wants her, he can bloody well come and get her"
— Karen Marie Moning (Dreamfever)

"Yesterday is skin on snake, to be shed many times."
— Karen Marie Moning (Beyond the Highland Mist)

"Home, Ms. Lane?” His deep voice was gently amused.

“I have to call it something,” I said morosely. “They say home is where the heart is. I think mine’s satin-lined
and six feet under."
— Karen Marie Moning (Bloodfever)

"Barrons laughed again. "And there, my dear Fio, you make one of Womankind's greatest mistakes: Falling in love with a man's potential. We so rarely share the same view of it, and even more rarely care to achieve it. Stop pining for the man you think I could be -- and take a good, long, hard look at the one I am.""
— Karen Marie Moning (Darkfever)

"One day you may kiss a man you can't breath without, and find breath is of little consequence.- Barrons"
— Karen Marie Moning (Faefever)

"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 (Darkfever)

"Burns from dropped matches, Ms. Lane? Matches one might have dropped while flirting with a pernicious
Fae, Ms. Lane? Have you any idea the value of this rug?”

I didn’t think his nostrils could flare any wider. His eyes were black flame. “Pernicious? Good grief, is English
your second language? Third?” Only someone who’d learned English from a dictionary would use such a word.

“Fifth,” he snarled. “Answer me."
— Karen Marie Moning (Bloodfever)

"The kind of person that thanks another person never survives. Have you learned nothing? (Jericho Z. Barrons)"
— Karen Marie Moning (Dreamfever)

""We're taking back the night""
— Karen Marie Moning

"Valhalla on the right. Paradise regained on the left. Stuck between a Godiva truffle and a chocolate eclair. Between a rock and a very hard place. Two very hard places from the looks of it."
— Karen Marie Moning (Beyond the Highland Mist)

"I see God in a sunrise, not in repetitious ritual."
— Karen Marie Moning (Bloodfever)

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

"Liminal sucks... you can't avoid the in betweens. You can only hand in there and get through them."
— Karen Marie Moning

"Nobody looks good in their darkest hours. But it's those hours that make us what we are. - Mac"
— Karen Marie Moning (Faefever)

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

-Mac"
— Karen Marie Moning (Darkfever)

"Although love could grow in times of peace, it tempered in battle. Daddy told me once - when I'd said something about how perfect his relationship with Mom was - that I should have seen the first five years of their marriage, that they'd fought like hellions, crashed into each other like two giant stones. That eventually they'd eroded each other into the perfect fit, become a single wall, nestled into each other's curves and hollows, her strengths chinking his weaknesses, her weaknesses reinforced by his strengths. "
— Karen Marie Moning (Dreamfever)