Top 140 Adrienne Young Quotes (2026 Update)
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101. “The first time I’d seen his darkness and every time he’d seen mine. We were salt and sand and sea and storm.”

— Adrienne Young

102. “If I had anyone skilled enough to make it, I wouldn’t have commissioned you, Ezra.”

— Adrienne Young

103. “I may not have known how to find him, but he’d known where I was. He’d always known. August wasn’t lost. He wasn’t taken away or waiting for me somewhere. He never came back. He had never come back for me.”

— Adrienne Young

104. “I had only one ambition in my simply built life, and that was to be sure the Farrow curse would end with me. It was as good a place as any to end a story. I wasn’t the first Farrow, but I would be the last.”

— Adrienne Young

105. “The Spinners were wise, but they weren’t always kind. Sometimes fate was a tangled knot. Sometimes it was a noose. Or a net. But sometimes, it was the rope that pulled you from the sinking deep.”

— Adrienne Young

106. “I wasn’t sure anymore which were memories and which were dreams. I’d lost track of that a long time ago.”

— Adrienne Young

107. “I didn’t care that this crossed the line of keeping my distance or confusing boundaries. In that moment, I needed there to be no space between the three of us. I needed to feel us together, with no beginning and no end.”

— Adrienne Young

108. “He looked at me with a hundred stories lit behind his eyes.”

— Adrienne Young

109. “I know you don’t know how to love me. I know you’re not built for it.”

— Adrienne Young

110. “It wasn’t the kind of kiss that lovers shared, but there were a hundred secrets in the way that they looked at each other.”

— Adrienne Young

111. “All that time, she remembered me, she was just waiting for me to remember her.”

— Adrienne Young

112. “I could still see a young Eelyn standing on the beach turned into the wind, a sword in one hand and an axe in the other. I hadn’t lost her. I hadn’t buried her. I’d only let her change into something new.”

— Adrienne Young

113. “Now I was the girl who’d found her own way. And I also had something to lose.”

— Adrienne Young

114. “We were standing only inches apart, but I could feel the canyon that stretched between us. We’d ripped open the seams of a years-old wound, and it didn’t matter how much time had passed, it would never heal. I was beginning to understand that now.”

— Adrienne Young

115. “My life had been decided by a deal. So had Ezra’s. But I was finished letting other people decide for me. The power of Henrik Roth was no more than lifting smoke. He was the sum of beliefs and myths and tales told. I was ready to tell my own stories.”

— Adrienne Young

116. “Both of us had always been trying to capture moments and keep them. Him with the camera, me with my pen. But in the end, we somehow always saw things differently.”

— Adrienne Young

117. “Home felt an entire world away.”

— Adrienne Young

118. “I sat down on the cot, curling up on my side and tried to stay quiet as I wept. But the thing writhing inside me was too angry to be calmed. It was too hurt to be hushed. It was a living, breathing thing and it was trying to swallow me whole. And maybe it would. I cried until I couldn’t cry anymore and only the sound of the fire remained.”

— Adrienne Young

119. “I’d always wanted to hear him say he loved me. I’d wanted to hear the words so many times. But in that moment, I was suddenly frightened he would. I was terrified to know how badly they would hurt me.”

— Adrienne Young

120. “There was an ocean of lies dragging behind this ship. They’d killed their dredger and another helmsman’s stryker. Whatever they’d done in Sowan was spreading in rumors across the Narrows. And if that wasn’t enough they were running side trade under the nose or their own employer.”

— Adrienne Young

121. “They fit together like puzzle pieces, and the thought made a pain erupt inside of me that I could hardly bear. This was the field that I had planted. With my very own hands. And then I’d left it all to rot.”

— Adrienne Young

122. “Night fell over the sea, painting the Marigold black except for the white sails stretched against the dark, clouded sky. The stars and moon hid, giving no sign of where the sea ended and the sky began, and I liked the feeling. Like we were floating in the air. The west wind was warm, finding its way onto the ship before it ran back to the wake on the water behind us.”

— Adrienne Young

123. “They weren’t afraid of battle. They were afraid of losing what they loved. And that’s what made them brave in battle.”

— Adrienne Young

124. “I didn’t know if it was this ship or the sea or the strange look of the sky that made my blood hum in my veins. I hoped it was. I hoped it was anything but him.”

— Adrienne Young

125. “I’d learned the hard way that wishing things were different only drove deeper how unfair it was that they weren’t.”

— Adrienne Young

126. “It was the end. And at the end, life becomes precious.”

— Adrienne Young

127. “I pulled her hand toward me to secure the straps of her shield onto her arm by memory. We’d been fighting mates for the last five years and I knew every piece of her armor as well as she knew every badly mended bone in my body.”

— Adrienne Young

128. “I wouldn’t change any of it. If I could walk through a door and undo all of this, I wouldn’t. Do you understand?”

— Adrienne Young

129. “I’d envied Iri my whole life for his open heart, and now mine had been pried open too.”

— Adrienne Young

130. “My mother looked at me then, with something in her eyes I’d never seen before. A reverence. As if something marvelous and at the same time harrowing had just happened. She blinked, pulling me between her and Saint, and I burrowed in, their warmth instantly making me feel like a child again.”

— Adrienne Young

131. “She was a prism that colored me and my world with a story. We were the limbs of a broken tree with poisoned roots.”

— Adrienne Young

132. “What he was saying-the things he told me-was his way of showing me he trusted me. It was also his way of giving me the match. If I wanted to, I could burn him down. But if we were going to do this, I would have to be his safe harbor and he would have to be mine.”

— Adrienne Young

133. “And I think I’ve loved you since the first time we anchored in Jeval.”

— Adrienne Young

134. “I’d grown up feeling like the trees had eyes, each tangle of roots like a brain that held memories. I could feel, even now, that they remembered me.”

— Adrienne Young

135. “The Lark. the place my mother’s story ended. Any in many ways, the place where mine began.”

— Adrienne Young

136. “It was an easy silence. A comfortable one. All the questions I ever wanted to ask him swirled in my head, spinning so fast that I could hardly untangle them from one another. But they never found their way to my tongue. Suddenly, it seemed, I didn’t need to ask them. Suddenly, none of it mattered.”

— Adrienne Young

137. “You can’t change your blood Eelyn! You can’t just erase all the Aska the Riki have killed!” Her voice was raw and I knew she was thinking about her sister.”

— Adrienne Young

138. “I loved her with a love that broke me.”

— Adrienne Young

139. “The rope slipped, and I fell flat on my back, hitting the ground so hard that the impact made my lungs curl like fists.”

— Adrienne Young

140. “I had loved Mason for who he was, but also because he was the only one who’d ever chosen me. But this – this was a home I’d built with my own two hands. I’d made this. It was mine. There was a life on the other side of the door. A history. A strange disappearance. But in this life, I had something that I’d never had before.”

— Adrienne Young

141. “When he was gone, I reached into my pocket and pulled my idol of Iri free. The wood was smooth and shining where I’d held it in prayer under every moon that rose in the sky. I carried it against my heart as I fought. I slept with it beside me. We became warriors together. And long before that, we were friends.”

— Adrienne Young

142. “Like everything I’d ever been taught didn’t fit into the shape of this world.”

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143. “I loved her long before that. I don’t really remember a time that I didn’t love her.”

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144. “There was something knowing in the way he looked at me. Something that pulled at the knots in the net of lies we’d both told.”

— Adrienne Young

145. “It loomed over me, an infinite number of forgotten moments living beneath its roof. But forgotten wasn’t the right word, was it? How could I forget something if I hadn’t lived it yet?”

— Adrienne Young

146. “If we’re going to fight, we have to know that we are still who we are. If we’re going to die, we have to know that we’re dying for something.”

— Adrienne Young

147. “It was also his way of giving me the match. If I wanted to, I could burn him down. But if we were going to do this, I would have to be his safe harbor and he would have to be mine.”

— Adrienne Young

148. “The only thing I really know about you, June – ” My fingernails bit my palms. “Is that I never really knew you at all.”

— Adrienne Young