Top 70 Amanda Foody Quotes (2026 Update)

1. “Your guilt makes you a good person,” Harrison told Sophia. “But the world isn’t black and white, and goodness can’t be quantified.”

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2. “I never claimed not to be despicable, too.”

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3. “Are you happy now, you terrible excuse for a rival?” she choked, tears blurring her vision. ” you better hope this kills me because otherwise, I will heal you and then torture you in ways even your twisted mind can’t imagine.”

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4. “Gavin had once agonized over whether the real Alistair Lowe was more boy or monster, but now he understood that Alistair was both. And even though neither canceled the other out, he didn’t think that made Alistair beyond redemption.”

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5. “Maybe your soul didn’t break like a bone. Maybe it broke like a promise.”

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6. “They say pressure can turn even a grain of sand into a pearl under the right circumstances.”

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7. “Heroes are just villains with worse survival instincts and moral superiority complexes.”

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8. “Survival could make villains of any of us.”

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9. “There’s magic in a kiss.”

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10. “That was the problem with loving someone. Once you let someone into your heart, they could take a sledgehammer to it.”

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11. “Once upon a time, we were burned to the ground. But we did not die. Instead we kept burning, kept moving, kept growing. The smoke surrounds us, even if we no longer burn.”

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12. “It’s children who fight the wars their parents cause.”

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13. “Unpleasant people always had a way of finding one another.”

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14. “It was never your responsibility to save him.”

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15. “The nightmares had not taught him to fear the dark. The nightmares had taught him to become it.”

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16. “She was a pistol wrapped up in silk. She was a blade disguised as a girl.”

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17. “Luck was a mechanism to be devised, and luck and destiny were merely two sides of the same coin.”

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18. “I don’t believe in happy endings. Whoever is peddling them is a crook. Whoever trusts them is a fool.”

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19. “You want to know something funny?′ he asked. “In a choice between staying here or going home, I’d still choose here. With you.”

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20. “If I’m going to die either way, I’d rather be a casualty in a good story than a terrible one. And that’s what I want for you, too. A good story.”

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21. “In this story, the princess slayed the dragon.”

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22. “Truth can be buried, but it is never destroyed.”

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23. “Everything has a price, but you cannot pay for goodness in blood.”

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24. “What is buried is not always dead.”

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25. “I think it takes more strength to be vulnerable than it does to appear invincible.”

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26. “I think all people, some way or another, are marked by the place they come from.”

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27. “She had crawled her way inside him and buried herself there, and that meant every one of her words could wound or cut. He didn’t know how to force her out – and he didn’t want to.”

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28. “Freak may be the only word to describe a misfit in an entire city’s worth of misfits.”

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29. “Desire fame, and the city will make you a tragedy.”

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30. “Because in all her research, she’d overlooked a vital truth – people changed, for better and for worse. Sometimes the ones you loved abandoned you. Sometimes they came back.”

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31. “Love always carved the deepest wounds.”

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32. “When the fairy tales spoke of butterflies, I didn’t anticipate it feeling more like hornets.”

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33. “It didn’t matter whether she decked herself in knives or pearls. The world would always demand that a girl apologize for herself, but she would apologize for nothing.”

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34. “She was the girl who’d come afraid to the city that could smell your fear. She’d faced the witch. She’d poisoned the wolf. She’d strolled into the land of death with her head held high and left it a lord. She was an impossible player in a fixed game, the only person not playing to win.”

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35. “Kill or be killed. It was a somber affair.”

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36. “Death would always haunt the space between them, and any of Levi’s other desires for her felt buried beside all those he had lost.”

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37. “Killing is easy,” Alistair murmured. “It’s the afterward that’s harder.”

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38. “There’s more to every tournament than just who wins... Every champion has a reason to compete, and they deserve to win. Even if they they don’t make it out alive.”

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39. “You’ll be a weapon to whoever owns you.” “I’m just a girl,” Enne countered. “And no one owns me.”

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40. “I think deep down, some people don’t want their stories yo have happy endings.”

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41. “Remember – don’t do anything sinful here. This is a holy place after all,” Narinder warned him. “Even the lords of the North Side can behave themselves in a church.” “Can you?” Levi asked, turning around, his eyebrow raised. Narinder answered with his gaze fixed on Levi’s lips. “I haven’t decided if I want to.”

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42. “I don’t need anyone to worry about me.” She said it like she meant it, but Levi couldn’t help but think that everyone needed someone to worry about them once in a while.”

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43. “Now, as she held her breath and desperately searched the faces of strangers around her, she felt that she was more broken than not. One exhale, one sob, and all her pieces would shatter.”

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44. “My family is proof that even depressing stories need a punchline.”

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45. “People do not play this game to win, my dear. They play this game not to lose.”

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46. “The Lamb’s Sacrifice is invincible, and an invincible curse demands an unthinkable price. This is how we always win.”

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47. “Forgiveness is not sought – it’s built, stone by stone, over whatever it is you’ve broken.”

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48. “Lola didn’t even like boys, but they still found a way to break her heart.”

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49. “Gavin had glared at Alastair Lowe and his brother from the back of the pub and wondered what it would be like to have someone in his life like that. Someone who knew him. Someone who saw him. Someone who would celebrate when, not if, he came home.”

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50. “A Mark is where a Beast dwells when it isn’t out in the world.”

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