Top 50 Amy A. Bartol Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “Don’t worry about me. I’ll be fine. I’m used to holding on to nothing as tight as I can.”

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2. “This is temporary. Everything changes, whether you will it to or not. What you feel now will eventually fade and you will cease to remember it, until you need the information that you learned from it to survive, then it will be there for you.”

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3. “I’m the light to his darkness. There’s no escape; he’s a part of me.”

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4. “You’re my air, Evie. Without you, I drown in breathless sky.”

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5. “I have a paper heart and he has written notes all over it.”

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6. “She’s a loner. She pays her own way. She is someone who doesn’t know her place, or if she does, she doesn’t abide by the rules. She’ll see right through your lies. She’ll steal your heart without even trying. She’ll blink at you with a million whispers in the night while she holds your hand as if she’s the only one who fits it right. You’ll want to carry her bones inside your bones.”

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7. “Oh, I’m so going to put a knife in the other side of your chest, I think, feeling stabby.”

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9. “You’re what I want. No other angel, or man, will ever stand above you in my esteem, in my regard, or in my love.”

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10. “You’re so adorable sometimes. I almost don’t regret not killing you.”

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11. “Hold onto the string, love, until the current shifts and we can be together again.”

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12. “Sometimes, I think I have made you up just to torture myself- and there are other times that I know you must be real because I couldn’t have dreamed such perfection.”

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13. “War sounds romantic, heroic even, until everyone you know starts dying.”

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14. “May what lies ahead of this warrior or behind him never take from me what is inside of him, for it is mine.”

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15. “It’s when the crickets stop singing that you know the enemy is near and the battle is about to begin.”

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16. “You killed Kenny,” I groan with my lips chattering, “you bastard .”

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17. “You’ve changed me. I want to be the favorite taste that touches your lips.”

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18. “I will never want anything as much as I want you. I will never love anything as much as I love you.”

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19. “Trey, I thought that the Znou was beautiful and I wanted to keep it,” I say, explaining myself to him. “I wasn’t trying to kill myself. If I get suicidal, you’ll know ’cuz I’ll be dead. The only thing I’m feeling right now is homicidal, so watch your back.”

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20. “No one has ever worn my clothes before.” “No one would dare,” I murmur. “You’re a scary beast.” “You dared.” “I did, but I have a problem with authority.” He.”

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21. “My desire for him is insane. He’s not sentimental – neither of us is – and yet he says things to me that strike at the core of my being and speak to the fighter in me. He makes me crave him in the most vulnerable way. I can’t lose him – ever.”

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22. “You. Must. Chill. Do you know what that means?” He looks at me in exasperation. “I never know what you’re trying to say. I have no idea what being cold brings to this situation.” For.”

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23. “Whatever it is that’s making you cry, look away from it. It doesn’t have you. I do.”

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24. “It looks great on her because she has a bangin’ body.”

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25. “Drunken people make me nervous. I dislike their predictable unpredictability – the emotions that are so intense and seem to turn on a dime.”

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26. “My only hope for survival lies in the knowledge that you are somewhere in this world, under the same sky, the same sun, the same stars.”

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27. “I’m stone, nothing touches me-nothing.”

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28. “Ye have ta ask me dat? Ye do na know dat ye are all dat madders ta me?”

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29. “I think I’m the most hurt by the fact that I’m not like him. I would’ve chosen him over everything else. The whole world could’ve burned down and I would’ve pulled him from the wreckage of it.”

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30. “Reed, I should’ve protected myself against you, but I didn’t and now you live here, inside of me,” I say, pointing to my heart. “I won’t ever be able to run from the love I have for you. Your name is written on my heart. I can’t hide from it and it will wreck me if something happens to you –.”

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31. “I’m just a collection of sad stories, Kyon.” “I.”

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32. “Okay, you must have forgotten that I know when someone’s lying-it’s one of my special, freaky priestess gifts, remember-the one you love to use until it becomes inconvenient for you? You can try to throw me off, but even half truths ring false with me.”

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33. “What’s up with hotness? I wonder. He looks like someone definitely broke his crayons.”

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34. “Even swimming in sorrow, he won’t let me drown.”

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35. “My lips twitch at the mental image of him as a “queen.”

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36. “Can’t someone please tell me what that little, lacy thing is that I keep catching a glimpse of when she bends down?” Wayra asks. “I don’t know, but I have to say that I like it more than I should.” Jax replies, sounding amused.”

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37. “He has an equal stack of pancakes on his plate. He picks up his fork and says, “You know these aren’t very good for Pretty Town.”

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38. “I’m not in love with him. I would never call it that. It’s more of a growing fascination with him. He’s unlike anyone I’ve ever known, but he’s maladjusted and broken – unpredictable and frightening.”

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39. “I’m the dark secret that he can’t keep hidden – his crossed fingers – his hold-my-breath-to-keep-from-feeling. But I make him feel everything.”

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40. “I should love her like there is an ache that won’t go away unless I’m with her.”

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41. “From an early age, you’ve learned never to trust anyone but yourself. You let almost no one help you, but the ones you do allow into your life have special significance to you: you love them, even when sometimes you wish that you didn’t. Because when you love someone, Kricket, it means you’re completely loyal to that person, you’ll sacrifice anything for him – even your life. How am I doing so far?”

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42. “It’s no good hating them. They can’t feel it, and it will only turn you bitter.”

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43. “I ask God to bind my life to your life so that my mind will be one with your mind,” I repeat the words Phaedrus says while I gaze at Reed and hold his hand. “My heart may be one with your heart,” I recite it with a small smile on my face, “and my body may be one with your body,” I blush a little when I say this part, seeing desire register in Reed’s eyes. “From this moment through eternity, so let it be.”

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44. “Then you might have to kill everyone.” “So be it.” “Why are you so crazy?” I ask as I gently rest my forehead against his chest.”

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45. “Instead of asking yourself how you can change that aspect of you, maybe you should be asking yourself why you were created that way. For what purpose do you exist the way that you are?”

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46. “What do you want to risk to get away?” he asks. I swallow past the bile corrupting my throat. “Everything,” I reply. “I’ll risk everything to stay with you.”

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47. “You never have had much luck, have you, Roselle?”

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48. “I do what I always do when the day has shown me its worst: I make do.”

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49. “He becomes a thief, wiping away my tears with the back of his hand, trying to steal my sorrow from me.”

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50. “Don’t you ‘Kitten’ me!”

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