Top 100 Annette Marie Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “It was worth a shot, and as the saying around here goes, you miss one hundred percent of the shots you don’t take.”

— Annette Marie

2. “Luck is for those with nothing else. I wish you strength and courage.”

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3. “I wish I could see in your head again.” “What if you see I am something different than you want me to be?”

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4. “Focus on the now and the next, not the distant future of maybe and if. Even those of the strongest faith can falter when the eyes focus too far in the distance.”

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5. “There are two kinds of girls: those who’ve fantasized about a threesome with a pair of hot guys, and liars.”

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6. “Don’t forget me, Shiro,” she said hoarsely. “You’re not allowed to forget me.”

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7. “The five-inch heels on her thigh-high boots looked like they should require a liability waiver to wear.”

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8. “Actions change our course, influence our futures, but intentions define us, empower us. Without intent, we are nothing.”

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9. “I like to think I’m a pretty chill person, but right now? I was fretting worse than a granny with her best china in a room of hyperactive toddlers.”

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10. “Some problems aren’t fixable, but that doesn’t mean you should stop. That sense that you can’t move forward... that’s the trap. It’s better to take the best future you can manage with what you have, than to put your life on hold trying to fix everything in the hopes of a perfect future that might never come.”

— Annette Marie

11. “Independence is an admirable trait, but it can be rooted in pride, insecurity, and fear as easily as it can stem from strength, confidence, and self-reliance. Be sure you know what drives yours.”

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12. “Would it look bad if I hid behind Zylas? He was my demon. I was allowed to use him as a shield, right?”

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13. “I would have kept you forever, little miko.” His words were soft, almost soundless. “I would have taken you with me wherever the tides of time carried us, and I would have loved you until the very end.”

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14. “Trembling, she rose to her feet, shuffled a few cautious steps closer, and stared down at him. Snow-white hair, as soft-looking as the fox’s fur, brushed across his forehead in a tousled mess – and poking out of his hair was a pair of white fox ears. His body was otherwise human, but he’d kept the ears.”

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15. “Piper is something he needs. And yeah, it’s gonna hurt him, and sometimes it’s the hardest damn thing, but love is like that.”

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16. “Lilith,” Piper said cautiously. “That’s it,” Randy whispered loudly. “Piper officially knows every daemon in the city. What the actual hell?”

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17. “You realize the only way he’ll stop trying to keep you alive is if you make him hate you, right?” Her heart shriveled in her chest. “I don’t want him to hate me.”

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18. “There was something distinctly anticlimactic about trying to save the world.”

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19. “They didn’t have peanuts!” I interrupted shrilly. “There were nuts on top.” “Pecans!” I exclaimed, my hands curling around the hem of my sweater and squeezing.”

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20. “Zak pulled me over to my one bar stool. Twenty minutes ago, I’d owned two bar stools, but the other one was in pieces. Poor stool. So much life to live, snatched away too soon by an angry sea serpent.”

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21. “She felt a lot like a tree in autumn: all her hopes and dreams, desires and comforts, drying up and falling away one by one until all that remained was the bare bones of her soul. She wasn’t sure how much she liked her bare-bones self.”

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22. “Aaron slumped at a table, his head in his arms, while Kai and Ezra watched him sulk with the caring sympathy of close friends. Nah, just kidding. They looked entertained as hell, zero sympathy in their smirks.”

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23. “So you’d rather pretend you don’t want me?” His hands slid around her waist then down over her backside. He pulled her hips hard into his and his mouth dropped closer again, lips brushing against hers as he spoke. “Because I don’t want to pretend anymore.”

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24. “Ash’s coldness was like a poison in her blood that burned through her. She couldn’t stand it, but neither could she fix it. She just had to endure.”

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25. “But maybe it wasn’t that he didn’t value his life. Rather, he had long ago become comfortable with the idea that his life was a temporary gift that could end at any moment.”

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26. “Ancient power thickened the air, tingling in her lungs as she finally managed to draw a breath. Shinryu had answered her call.”

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27. “Ash moved faster, spinning through the steps of his deadly dance as he pushed Samael to keep moving, moving, moving. She flowed in and around Ash like a fish darting through racing waters, her blade seeking where Samael would appear. Together, they drove Samael around the dome. They moved together, synchronized and flawless, all his experience and all her instincts melding into deadly perfection. Samael.”

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28. “His expression didn’t soften. “Death is easy. Living is difficult.”

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29. “Most people couldn’t have ignored a demon sharing the library with them, but most people didn’t love books as much as I did.”

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30. “I can’t lose you. I can’t survive it.” “Yes, you can,” he murmured, his fingertips touching her cheek. “You can survive anything. Loss can be like chains holding you in place or a fire pushing you onward. We each choose every day what it will be to us.”

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31. “Are you ready to die?” “No,” she whispered. “Then rise and take up your sword.”

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32. “I jumped off a cliff after you were stabbed,” she said, managing a weak smile. “The least you can do is sit here while I’m stabbed.”

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33. “Aw,” I said, “look at this guy. He’s never even seen a girl before.” Fenton’s gaze jerked from my chest to my face, confusion twisting his eyebrows. “What?” “Only a basement-dwelling loser would stare like that.” “What?” I looked sadly at Aaron. “And he’s deaf too! Poor thing.”

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34. “My heart is yours. No other woman has every touched it, an no one but you ever will.”

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35. “He’d shut down his emotions so fast she was surprised she hadn’t heard his mental doors slamming closed.”

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36. “You can’t control your daemon side yet,” he told her, “but you’re only stuck if you let yourself be. Life is short, there and then gone. Don’t waste it waiting for a solution that might not even exist.”

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37. “What about death is to be feared? The burdens of life can be so great that it would be a comfort to know that someday it will end... that someday, we will have earned final rest.”

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38. “Ezra gave his friends a long, hard stare, his expression inscrutable. “You know, the fact that I’m the sanest one in this house is extremely alarming.”

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39. “If she had to, she would do it – but that didn’t mean she wasn’t afraid of dying. Everyone was afraid of dying.”

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40. “She strode past her father, uncle, and the others, Ash following. As she passed them, Kindra shot her a sly grin and gave her a double thumbs-up and another wink.”

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41. “No,” he murmured, his voice smoother and deeper and somehow older. “You came back for me. I do owe you, and I will not accept your refusal.”

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42. “The only one,” he murmured, his deep voice sliding down to her bones, “I want to belong to is you.” She turned her head and blindly found his lips with hers, sinking her fingers into his hair. He locked their mouths together. As her blood heated with need, she pressed into him. His hands slid down her back and then lower, and he pulled her hips against him. She gasped and kissed him harder.”

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43. “He loved the shower. I was pretty sure he’d save the shower before he’d save me, contract or no contract.”

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44. “I guess it worked out. In face, minus your out-of-control tornado of death you had everything handled pretty well.”

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45. “Maybe they could fight through their issues. Maybe they couldn’t. She didn’t know the future, but she realized now she might not even get a future. All she had for sure was the present.”

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46. “Must I keep you from all hurt?” he mused, as though there’d been no pause in our terse exchange. “Or only keep you alive?”

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47. “Eventually, you realize that people are a better home than a place.”

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48. “Yes, I’d firmly and clearly told everyone I wasn’t planning an event of any kind, but had they listened? Did they care? No. I was now hosting the guild’s biggest party of the year, all because I’d wanted to carve a damn pumpkin.”

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49. “Sharpie? You named your sword Sharpie?” “We’re supposed to be incognito, Tori. What if someone overheard me talking about my Fiery Deathbringer or Warblade of Murderous Doom?” “They’d probably think you were talking about a video game.”

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50. “His tail snapped impatiently. “If you could go in the infernus, this would be easier.”

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