Top 40 A.C. Gaughen Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “Because we always have a choice, even when it feels like we don’t.”

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2. “To me, true love is about finding someone who not only sees and accepts your demons but also is willing to step up and fight them when you stumble.”

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3. “We do what we do because there’s something we can do about it. Things like ‘how long’ and ‘what if’ aren’t part of that. It’s about the hope, not the horror.”

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4. “I am a Dragon of the desert, and nothing will slake my thirst for vengeance.”

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5. “More people care about you than you know, Scarlet. No matter how you got your scars.” I covered my cheek, looking at her. “Not just those scars. The ones that make you think you’re unlovable.”

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6. “There’s a funny thing about light and darkness – like hope, you can never blot out either one completely. They always exist, side by side, bright light making shadows darker, darkness making the light more beautiful, a tempting siren call. I can’t hate the dark parts of myself. They are the things that showed me how special and rare the bright flames of trust, loyalty, friendship, and love were. My darkness showed me how to love Rob. But now I choose light and fire and love. No I choose freedom.”

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7. “I will not be broken or diminished or belittled by the choices of men around me.”

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8. “Our love filled the broken bits and made me whole again. There weren’t a perfect time to love him, not ever, and it had always been with the threat of death and hurt hovering round us. And we’d love each other anyway. Sure, and true.”

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9. “You see the world as fixed and finite, and it is not. It is liquid and ever moving, and one act can change everything.”

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10. “Your power, your great gift, is that you never give up. When something fails you make a new plan, and another, and another. You never accept defeat. You never give up.”

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11. “Don’t let a few silly truths muddle up a good story.”

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12. “I think life becomes a fabric of choices, interwoven, all related... I split my life into these two things, thief and lady.”

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13. “I will always return to him. I can deny it all I like,” I told her in a whisper, “but when someone holds your heart, its impossible to stay away.”

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14. “My bones were shaking so hard I thought they’d tear straight out.”

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15. “Stories are told to make you feel something, and they can tell ours over and over again, and every time it will be something different.”

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16. “I’m saying that some girls slap, but I’ve got knives.”

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17. “I wouldn’t fix a broken thing only to see it shatter before my eyes a moment later.”

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18. “There is a difference between peace and submission.”

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19. “Perhaps it was only this, the things that I could change for the future, helping to create a day when more people would live than die. Maybe that’s all I could ever do. Maybe it was enough.”

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20. “I want to stand beside you. I want to learn to fight with you. I won’t accept you as a protector. But I will accept you as something else. Something far greater. Because with whatever scraps of my heart are left, I love you...”

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21. “But now I knew the terrible price of the crown on my head, and I couldn’t forget that. And if I did, I feared it would mean sacrificing my humanity.”

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22. “True power does not force others to make themselves smaller.”

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23. “Sometimes it’s harder to be bright when you feel the darkness inside you. Sometimes the very hardest thing is to let the pain go.”

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24. “He were handsome, God knows that. All soft wet-wheat hair, eyes that were gray blue like the English Channel, and a jaw that were strong enough to take a few punches.”

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25. “We were supposed to have time. We’d paid dear, in blood and promises that took my soul with them. It was all supposed to have meant something.”

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26. “Rob tended to see the bit of bright in all of us.”

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27. “Ain’t got so much moral ground to stand on.”

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28. “Small men will always hurt things that are weaker than them.”

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29. “Of a band with three actual boys, why is it that all the maids lust after the fake one?”

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30. “He taught me so much about strength and power. That the man who is truly powerful has the option to forgive, to pardon, to forgo vengeance and violence. It’s the weak man that must prove himself such.”

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31. “I am a daughter of the desert, and my feet will never fail me.”

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32. “He put his hand to my cheek, just touching the fingertips to my skin before pulling away. “You are.”

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33. “It didn’t seem right to cry while you prayed. It seemed selfish to talk to God in such misery.”

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34. “A knight,” Allan muttered. “As if I would ever be a knight. I’m far too handsome to be a knight.”

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35. “There are poor men out there. And rich ones. Rich men never wait for nothing, so why would they be good? Good men are poor, because they have to count on others’ kindnesses.”

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36. “I wouldn’t never bathe with him or pass water when he were near. He got suspicious quick. Seems real boys are awfully eager to parade their bits around.”

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37. “But as I shuddered against the cold, I sent a dark wish out over the sea that I would never grow to love my husband.”

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38. “Every day we lived, and every day it felt like we had a little less to live for.”

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39. “Peace wasn’t a thing that came swift and easy. Peace took courage and faith, and I had those.”

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40. “I’ve heard this is what you do,′ he said. ‘Stealing to feed people.’ His head went to the side. ‘It’s so... strange.”

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41. “I won’t teach my daughter that her only choice is to be sheltered by the men around her.”

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42. “It seems a precious thing, for someone to know the very worst part of you and love you anyway.”

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43. “You used to be afraid to get so close to me,” I told him, and he met my eyes. “That was a good instinct.”

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44. “One day, we’ll all be free.” I sighed, looking at the glowing tongues of the fire. “Or we’ll be dead. But then, I suppose that’s a kind of freedom too.”

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