Top 70 Amanda Foody Quotes (2024 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. “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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3. “Maybe your soul didn’t break like a bone. Maybe it broke like a promise.”

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

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5. “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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6. “Survival could make villains of any of us.”

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7. “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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8. “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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9. “There’s magic in a kiss.”

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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19. “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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20. “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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21. “People do not play this game to win, my dear. They play this game not to lose.”

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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29. “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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30. “Look at all the places the author says not to visit. Hundreds! We’ll have to go on a tour.”

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

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32. “You’ll have the advantage, because I’m an Elsie?” Barclay finished for him and smirked. “Is it that hard for you to win otherwise? That’s just sad.”

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33. “He squeezed the iron arm of the bench in his fist, hard enough to make it bend. She smacked him. “Stop destroying property with your toxic masculinity.”

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

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

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36. “What do I look like?” she asked. Jac grinned. “Like a Sinner.”

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37. “It didn’t matter what cards you were dealt. The City of Sin was a game, and the only way to win was to stack the cards in your favor.”

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38. “If someone is terrible to everyone but you, that doesn’t make them secretly a good person.”

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

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40. “Turns out there’s no way of dying that’s romantic. Turns out tragedy is always tragic.”

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

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

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43. “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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44. “I’m never going to be healthy – I don’t even know if it’s possible for me to be better. So if I’m broke, fine. Then call me shattered. Call me beyond repair.”

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

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46. “And he would tell her that, even after losing everything he’d ever wanted, he still desperately wanted her.”

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47. “Now, she was poisoning him for the girls who hadn’t known better. For all the girls fed to the wolves.”

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48. “And no tale was ever heard of him again.”

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49. “His mother had always told him that evil collected evil.”

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50. “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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