Top 40 Alethea Kontis Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “Sometimes ‘Hmm’ is the wisest thing to say.”

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2. “The curse of an interesting life: there are either very good times or very bad times.”

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3. “Normal is all relative.”

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4. “You cannot call yourself a proper warrior if you refuse to use all the weapons in your arsenal.”

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5. “We only keep the scars we choose to keep.”

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6. “I have lived a life full of love and pain, of Joy and Sorrow, and I live on still. i have many, many years ahead of me, each day with the potential to be filled to the brim with trials to face and challenges to overcome.”

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7. “May we all be doomed to a happy life.”

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8. “Dream of me, my beloved family, happy in my plundering and adventuring, for when the waves rock me to sleep tonight, I will be dreaming of you.”

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9. “All of us heal in time. The strongest are born again. We only keep the scars we choose to keep.”

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10. “Quit dwelling on other people’s stories and make up some of your own.”

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11. “It can’t be ‘true’ love without the truth.”

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12. “Somethings were meant to be and somethings were just meant to be good stories.”

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13. “She needed him to keep her sane, to make her laugh, to feel complete.”

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14. “Everything to lose, nothing to lose, someone’s taken it, or you’ve lost it.”

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15. “We are all fools blessed with the knowledge that certain events will come to pass no matter what path we take to get there. The wise ones follow their angels while they may.”

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16. “Child, no one is ever ready for anything. I would never doom you to that. What sort of adventureless life would that be?”

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17. “For some heroes, nothing is impossible.”

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18. “Instead of batting their eyes at idiots, young girls will start taking up stick swords to slay a dragon and save the prince.”

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19. “If you did not indulge in fantasies, how else would you know if you were living an interesting life?”

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20. “Friday had always considered herself to be equal among her siblings, but by the time the ship finally came to rest in the harbor, she felt she had finally lived up to the Woodcutter name.”

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21. “It was like walking: if Rumbold didn’t concentrate too hard on it, the illusion took care of itself.”

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22. “A few of my sisters have the ability to anticipate catastrophe. When the ground beneath your feet turns to mud, you might find a stepping stone they put there years earlier, for no particular reason at the time.”

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23. “If you want anything to work, Sunday, you’re going to have to believe it.”

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24. “Saturday’s goal was swordsmanship decent enough to get her hired on the first caravan out of this magic-drenched insanity.”

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25. “Kindred’s tale is a romantic, mature, and lyrical collage of heaven, hell, and a magical royal legend. The combination is divinely – and demonically – inspired.”

— Alethea Kontis

26. “And because he had food, she followed him.”

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27. “A kiss does not make the future. Love alone does not make a life.”

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28. “I think I liked you better when you were a raging idiot.”

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29. “Mama says I spend too much time in little fantasy worlds and not enough in this one.”

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30. “Her sister?” Erik asked. “Weekday or weekend?”

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31. “Can I just fight you now? Please? I’d rather die than continue this conversation.”

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32. “Gifts, like words, carried with them a great deal of power. They bestowed good fortune just as powerfully as they could curse; the could bind people together or tear them apart.”

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33. “She saw no harm in letting a handsome, powerful man adore her for a while.”

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34. “Trouble was, they didn’t have much faith to begin with. Their dreams had gone from the beaches of Arilland to the palace ballroom and no further. Faith was a thing sewn into the patchwork skirts of a girl on another shore.”

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35. “The only way to keep a secret is not to repeat it.”

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36. “He could not change the man he had been, but these hands would make him the man he could be.”

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37. “Everything in the world was about creativity: belief and creation. Storytelling was the essence of both.”

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38. “She had that way of looking at him that made him feel like he’d built the world for her and given it to her as a gift just that morning.”

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39. “Your fey cousin here has the miraculous ability to hold his liquor – and mine, and yours, and the king’s, and half the country’s, I expect.”

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40. “Coming back was part of the price.”

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41. “You have ruined me. I didn’t realize how much I longed for the company of others until I had your words. When they are gone, the nights are darker. The silence is loud and bottomless, and I am empty. I miss them, my beloved Sunday, and I miss you.”

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42. “Do you still look at each other like you once did, back at the beginning of the story when everything was a question you were too afraid to find the answer to?”

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43. “Love, despair, anger, or insanity.” Erik counted them off on his fingers. “Everything to lose, nothing to lose, someone’s taken it, or you’ve lost it.”

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