Top 180 Brigid Kemmerer Quotes (2025 Update)
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101. “He looks like revolution. He looks like compassion. Blue eyes and gentle hands and quick feet and a core of strength and steel.”

— Brigid Kemmerer

102. “True strength is not determined by how brutal you can be,” she says, and her tone is still quiet, but full of steel. “True leadership is not determined by killing those who oppose you.”

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103. “Failure isn’t absolute.”

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104. “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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105. “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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106. “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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107. “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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108. “Scars mean you survived something terrible.”

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

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

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113. “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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114. “Nothing is black and white. Nothing is simple and straightforward and easy.”

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115. “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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116. “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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117. “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.”

— Brigid Kemmerer

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

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

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

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121. “Reading is not unproductive.”

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

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

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124. “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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125. “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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126. “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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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. “Fury and fascination wage war in my thoughts.”

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

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

— Brigid Kemmerer

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

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136. “People love finding the weak link that makes them feel superior.”

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137. “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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138. “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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139. “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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140. “Sometimes what’s right isn’t debatable, or a matter of opinion.”

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141. “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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142. “Jake glances over. “Penny for your thoughts.” “We don’t have pennies here, Jake.” “Whatever.”

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143. “In matters of the heart, I am clearly hopeless.” He puts down his final card – a prince. A wild card. I stare at him, stunned. It didn’t matter what I played. He would have won anyway. “In matters of strategy,” he finishes, “I am not.”

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144. “Something has changed about him, and it takes me a moment to discern what it is. He’s fully armed, from his long dagger to his throwing knives to the steel-lined bracers guarding his forearms. Grey hasn’t been fully armed in ages. We so rarely leave the castle grounds, and there’s certainly no one here to pose a threat. I smile as I pour. “Does this girl have you spooked, Commander?” “No, my lord.” His voice is even, unaffected. He never lets me bait him.”

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145. “Then we step out of the snow, into cursed warmth and dappled sunlight.”

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146. “I would have given you ten times as much.” I think of the moment Harper plunged a dagger into Lilith’s chest. I have to put a hand against my midsection to shake off the sudden emotion. “For Harper, I would have given you everything.”

— Brigid Kemmerer

147. “I shift on the windowsill and keep my eyes off the ground. This is the most reckless thing I’ve ever done. Wait. No. The most reckless thing I’ve ever done was attack a guy on the street with a tire iron. So I guess this is fine.”

— Brigid Kemmerer

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

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149. “She craved the permanence and precision of the old-fashioned. Handwritten letters.”

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150. “There’s little use dwelling in self-doubt.”

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