Top 180 Brigid Kemmerer Quotes (2026 Update)
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101. “You are not a weapon, Grey.” “I can be.” His hand lifts from my waist to brush a lock of hair from my cheek. “But you are by far more dangerous.” I can hardly think with his fingers tracing a line down the side of my face. “Ah, yes, the most dangerous person at the party is always the girl sitting alone with a book.”

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102. “There is blood under my fingernails. I wonder how many of my people I’ve killed this time.”

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103. “Sometimes what’s right isn’t debatable, or a matter of opinion.”

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104. “I think desperate people do desperate things.”

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105. “The night wraps around us like a cloak, pooling all this emotion in the space between us. I know I build walls around myself, but I’ve never met someone whose own walls seemed equally impenetrable.”

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106. “Failure isn’t absolute.”

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107. “I’ve been too naive for too long. Too trusting of too many people may people. All I ever wanted to do was help the people around me, and all it’s ever lead to is pain and suffering.”

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108. “He looks like revolution. He looks like compassion. Blue eyes and gentle hands and quick feet and a core of strength and steel.”

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109. “Nothing is black and white. Nothing is simple and straightforward and easy.”

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110. “We’re both just a little broken.”

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111. “When there are calls for revolution,” I say to him, “we should be riding at the front, not hiding in the shadows.”

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112. “Because despite all outward appearances, I’m not cruel. I don’t delight in pain. I don’t delight in any of this.”

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113. “You’re in Emberfall. And acting like a prince generally means acting like an arrogant know-it-all, so you shouldn’t have any trouble at all.”

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114. “I think that very few people truly deserve what they get, Tessa.” He pauses, and for the briefest moment, sadness flickers through his eyes. “For good or for bad.”

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115. “All along the way, you could have made a different choice and this all could have ended up differently.” I pause. “Failure isn’t absolute. Just because you couldn’t save everyone doesn’t mean you didn’t save anyone.”

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116. “Scars mean you survived something terrible.”

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117. “And then, because fate seems content to surprise me this season, she steps forward, presses her face against my chest, and wraps her arms around my waist.”

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118. “I often find comfort in the thought that fate has already drawn a path beyond what seems impossible.”

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119. “Sometimes when trying to protect the people closest to us, doing the right thing doesn’t always look so clear.”

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120. “Fear makes people act in ways we’d never expect.”

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121. “I’ll never be free of this. Of who I am. This will be my life as King’s Justice: Cruel Corrick, the most feared man in the kingdom, and somehow also the most alone.”

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122. “Like shooting arrows, I’m dreading the moment this ends, because the memory will only be painful, when the experience itself is bringing joy.”

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123. “When he finally gave up, his dad said something like, ‘A real man would have gotten her number.’ And my dad, ‘A real man has no right to take what’s not offered.”

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124. “If I put a crystal goblet in this one’s hand, she’d likely smash it and use the shards to cut me.”

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125. “Instead of magic bringing fear and torment, the way Lillith did, or pain and death, the way my sword would, my magic brought healing and trust, and that is not a small thing at all.”

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126. “I’m confident in my strengths, but that doesn’t mean I don’t think about my weaknesses.”

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127. “I don’t know what made me ask, but I know I don’t want him to leave. Like every time life throws us together, this moment seems destined to end before I’m ready.”

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128. “He wasn’t your friend, Grey. He had an eternity to be your friend, and he wasn’t. Even when you were dragged back to that castle, even after everything, he treated you like a criminal.”

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129. “I don’t want fear and anger to be my legacy. I want to be... better.”

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130. “The girl is brave. Brilliant. Strong. Compassionate. The girl does more for Kandala than the spoiled consul standing in front of me.”

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131. “I do what I can. And every day, I regret that it’s never enough.”

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132. “If your heart tells you someone deserves your attention, listen to it.”

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133. “If there’s something you want, you have to be able to push past whatever is stopping you.”

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134. “You don’t get to decide who deserves to have what or who doesn’t, for that matter.”

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135. “You’re not distracted. You’re not reckless. If your heart tells you someone deserves your attention, listen to it.”

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136. “He stalked across the room like he wanted to wage war, but he kisses me like I’m the most delicate thing in the castle.”

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137. “But it took me a long time to forgive them. To reconcile that the good memories didn’t vanish just because there were bad ones in there, too. All those memories are a part of who I am. The good ones and the bad ones.”

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138. “I forget that the world can narrow down to two people, a moment of vulnerability and trust. To a moment of love that seems to outshine the rest.”

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139. “She’s not the type to swoon for pretty lies.”

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140. “Kindness leaves you vulnerable, Tessa. I learned that lesson years ago.”

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141. “One poor choice shouldn’t undo a thousand good ones.”

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142. “I’m not a killer. I heal people; I don’t harm them.”

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143. “He’s never been this close to me before, and he smells like spices and warmth and very dirty thought I’ve ever had.”

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144. “Fury and fascination wage war in my thoughts.”

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145. “He says the Internet makes too many people loud, and too many people silent, but the loud people are all we hear. We have to ask questions to hear the silent people.”

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146. “I know trust is not something you win once, but is instead something you must earn over and over again.”

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147. “Knowledge should not be greeted with scorn.”

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148. “I completely and wholeheartedly fail.”

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149. “Reading is not unproductive.”

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150. “It’s stupid, but I didn’t realise how lonely I was until I wasn’t.”

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