Top 180 Ann Aguirre Quotes (2025 Update)
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101. “This creature was evil and monstrous because we made him that way; it wasn’t like he got to pick his origin story.”

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102. “Beyond, the unknown lay before us once more, and another impossible task. The four of us emerged from the earth and turned our steps west, toward the last hope for Salvation.”

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103. “I’m sure she felt rejected by Fade, but she hadn’t spent long nights in the tunnels with him, or guarded his back when Freaks were determined to eat him. All she had to offer were maps, and he didn’t need those forever.”

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104. “We shattered, but we put the pieces back together, and I love the way your fractures shine.”

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105. “My heart hurt when I remembered him, but the alternative was forgetting, and that was the final kind of death – when nobody told your story anymore.”

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106. “If so, I couldn’t imagine how the opposite gender managed to get out of bed in the morning. They might be lovely to look at, but clear thinking wasn’t their strong point.”

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107. “I should’ve realized I needed to go all the way to hell to find my soul.”

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108. “My heart shifted a little in my chest; it seemed to swell and beat against my bones until I couldn’t hear.”

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109. “No history is ever unbiased.”

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110. “I swept down the stairs to find Fade waiting for me at the bottom. His dark eyes widened, and for the first time since I’d known him, he was speechless. He stared up at me like I was everything he ever wanted.”

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111. “Funny, how the human body can heal trauma in a matter of weeks whereas scars on the heart and mind can last for years.”

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112. “People were mirrors turned inward to infinity, where all choices and roads not taken led to an endless shifting of self.”

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113. “His face held a certain impassivity; you see it in all waiters and valets. They might want to jam a knife through your left eye socket, but you’d never know it from their expression. Working retail, I’ve acquired a similar look myself.”

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114. “Did you ever try to stop that girl when she’s running? I’d have more luck roping the wind.”

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115. “I’m as forgiving as the wall you hit at two hundred kilometers an hour.”

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116. “To my mind, modern life just offers too many numbers that we’re supposed to keep track of.”

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117. “As it turns out, being intrepid is terrifying.”

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118. “So where are we headed?” “Since the near-death portion of the evening is over, I thought I’d take you out.” He risked a quick glance at me. “That’s okay, right?” I.”

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119. “Because it takes more courage to heal the world’s hurts than to inflict them.”

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120. “I think it says, ‘Color will not fade.”

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121. “Sometimes you meet your partner too soon, but love persuades you to leap, trusting that he’ll catch you. Life is real and it’s right now. Life is fireflies in your palm, gleaming gold, and then setting them free. In the best moments, life is fireworks. Sometimes life is having the rug pulled out from under you and the one you love helping you up. But most of all, life is what happens when you open the door and let beauty in, even if it doesn’t fit according to your plans.”

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122. “I’d never known it was possible to love as he did – with complete devotion yet devoid of promises.”

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123. “There are none so blind as those who will not see.”

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124. “Being numb is good for a while, until it’s not anymore.”

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125. “I admired Stalkers style. He was incredibly fast using two small blades strapped to the backs of his hands. Slash slash slash. Fighting him you wouldn’t die of one great wound but instead bleed out slowly surprised to find yourself weak and dying after a thousand cuts.”

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126. “As the combatant fell, she shouted, “This is Sparta!” Because obviously.”

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127. “The whole world is like Whitewall’s razors I burst out. It cuts us, and we bleed but there’s no purpose to it.”

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128. “I felt like the blonde in every horror movie who hears a noise in the basement and goes to investigate alone. Sometimes you smell the stupid all around you, but you step in it anyway.”

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129. “I think people can be trusted to know what makes them unhappy. Maybe we don’t always know what we want exactly, but we can usually say what we don’t with a fair amount of specificity.”

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130. “Men always want to be remembered whereas women realize that requires being dead.”

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131. “Dying in our sleep won’t solve anything in the long run, even if a nihilist would argue it’s coming down the pike at some point anyway, so we might as well embrace it.”

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132. “When people stop writing down their stories, the soul of the world is lost.”

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133. “There was no hiding my ignorance this time. They should be used to it by now.”

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134. “It’s not like sorrow has a kill switch.”

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135. “I refused to show my fear. Lock it down, Huntress.”

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136. “At this point, she would slap a nun for a ham sandwich.”

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137. “Not just when its easy. All the time.”

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138. “A dress or a hairstyle wouldn’t change a lifetime of indifference.”

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139. “If there had been another female for him since we arrived in Salvation, I needed to cut off all her hair and beat her half to death. The strength of that impulse scared me, and I took a step back. Deuce the girl was every bit as vicious as the Huntress, it seemed.”

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140. “We find heroes, not on battlefields, but in hospitals that tend the injured. Sometimes I think it’s easier to fight than it is to heal.”

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141. “The human heart defies such boundaries sometimes. It just does what it’s meant to do, and gives love where it receives it. Sometimes.”

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142. “You think a man doesn’t fall down, son? A real man falls down nine times and gets up ten. You think real men don’t get scared? We do, all the time, especially when the people we love can be taken away from us. The key to manhood is being there, every morning when she wakes up, every night before she goes to bed. That’s what a man does. It has nothing to do with how good you are with some shiny knives. And if you let her do this thing alone, then by God –.”

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143. “It doesn’t matter where we’ve been,” I tell him. “Only where we’re going.”

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144. “She carries chaos like an overcoat.”

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145. “There are quiet ways to die where the body just doesn’t notice that the heart is gone.”

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146. “Some questions had no right answers, only shades of wrong, and people couldn’t live in black-and-white. Sometimes there were pops of glorious color, and on other occasions, gray was the only visible hue.”

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147. “He went in, lean and deadly, and ended the creature with a lightning-fast spike of his blade. It shrieked, likely altering the rest. The death call carried like a mournful song.”

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148. “At least you’re taking action. Every big thing starts small.”

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149. “I missed you.” I didn’t mean to tell him so, even if it was true. Admitting need felt like weakness; it demonstrated dependence and vulnerability.”

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150. “The smile kindles in his dark eyes before it reaches his mouth. With a wonder that actually steals my breath, I watch its genesis like a mini-sunrise lighting his whole face.”

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