Top 90 C.L. Stone Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “Family is a choice... Parents and siblings are your relations. Family takes care of one another and helps each other.”

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2. “Shikata ga nai.” It can’t be helped. It.”

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3. “Avoiding heartbreak by never giving out my heart was the best solution.”

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4. “Kimi ga ite shiawase. Koi ni ochite shimatta.”

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5. “Parents and siblings are your relations. Family takes care of one another and helps each other. When each side is working together, when everyone wants it, that makes the difference.”

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6. “Family is a choice. We help those who want our help. Don’t make yourself responsible for someone who won’t do the same for you. Blood can make a bond stronger, but it doesn’t make the bond.”

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7. “Nothing is ever good enough,” he said. He combed my hair with his fingers. “I feel like I’m putting rags on porcelain. I barely tolerate the things you do wear.”

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8. “There will always be people better, stronger, faster, as well as people who are weaker and slower. It doesn’t make you better or worse. You are who you are.”

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9. “I am not your doormat to lay out your problems on and then vanish without a word.” “Huh?”

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10. “I’d found the door to Narnia.”

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11. “I’ve never heard of anyone waiting to be nervous until after.”

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12. “What happened to her now?”

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13. “You’ve got to be the best sort of sweet devil, or one hell of an angel. I haven’t decided which, yet.”

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14. “Fainting wasn’t nothing that they shouldn’t worry about.”

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15. “Heard you missed me”, he said, half turning and looking down at me. The smile on his lips broadened. “And that you’re beating up the boys at school in protest to get me to come back. Couldn’t let that happen.”

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16. “When was the last time we talked? Before we moved? Even now, when we had time to talk, he walked off to make phone calls. I thought I should be disappointed or sad but I wasn’t. I was empty. Strangers in a strange family.”

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17. “I’ll stay,” I said. “As long as I’m wanted.”

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18. “And she hit me for cursing.” “You’ve been slipping a lot more lately. I told you once you make it a habit, you might not be able to control it. Not everyone sees them as just words.”

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19. “You study enough to get the answers right and then forget it again to study another test. Really hard to learn anything when it’s short term memorization.”

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20. “When is it enough?” he asked. “We’re told to let go of the ones that don’t want help. How long do we try before we step back and let them do what they want? Before it’s hurting everyone else around you to keep that person around?”

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21. “I froze, finding myself in the middle of an entire display of delicate paper animals. I’d found the door to Narnia.”

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22. “We may need to get her off the radar before that happens.”

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23. “Ninety-six is my normal,” I said. Had this not come up before? Maybe not, since I hadn’t really been sick around them before. “If my temperature is ninety-eight, I’m uncomfortable and if it’s ninety-nine, I’m feeling really sick.”

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24. “Holy crap, I’m a dead girl.”

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25. “No matter what, though, I’m staying with you. If you’ll let me. If you want me to.”

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26. “Oh, I shouldn’t do that,” she said. “I wouldn’t want to impose.” Within Japanese culture, it was really hard for her to do anything but politely decline at first and make him insist she stay.”

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27. “If you let her eat,” Raven said, “she gets nice.” “What?” Marc asked, relaxing his hand. “What do you mean?” “I mean if you feed her, she stops hitting you. She won’t even be angry anymore.”

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28. “How much worse trouble could I get into now?”

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29. “I was hunting a thief, and I found a beautiful wreck.”

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30. “Don’t sport it unless you plan to use it.” Raven stuck his tongue out, his eyes narrowing with intention. The ring on his lip protruded out.”

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31. “Will you buckle in? It’s bad enough we kidnapped you.”

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32. “They didn’t have guns in school. It was ludicrous.”

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33. “She fell over,” Nathan said. “Yeah,” Gabriel said. “I thought fainted all graceful. She just crashed.”

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34. “I hated pickpocketing. I hated feeling like a thief.”

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35. “He took a road past a sign that said Folly Beach.”

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36. “Good thing I left my Godzilla in Virginia.”

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37. “Why can’t you sleep?” “I can’t stop watching you.” I blinked against his chest, squeezing my arms around his neck. “You watch me?” “When you sleep,” he said. He flattened his cheek against my forehead. “I watch you breathing. Unless you’re next to me where I can feel you, I end up awake all night watching, just to make sure. ” No.”

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38. “Blood can make a bond stronger, but it doesn’t make the bond.”

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39. “We were never destined to be normal, anyway.”

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40. “Mr. Blackbourne seemed to understand me completely, reading my thoughts. “I tried to deny it before, too. I can’t any more. You belong with us.” He reached out, his finger catching the tear on my cheek, cleaning my skin. Mr. Blackbourne, the perfectionist. He leaned down, his voice a soft whisper in my ear. “Stay with us. Always.”

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41. “You know what’s the best part about running?” “What?” “The stopping.”

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42. “He ducked his head a bit. “I might have seen you around the neighborhood a few times before that night.”

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43. “How does Kota know so much?” “Sometimes I think he’s not human,” Victor said.”

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44. “But oh, she felt weak, too.”

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45. “It’s called the Placebo effect.”

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46. “Was I that mean? Yes, I was. Was this the time? Probably not, but who cares.”

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47. “That’s usually how his father chose to fight. Blocked you in. Made you back up.”

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48. “Moments later, I was sitting on a clean sofa in a library. I’d never been in a formal library in a home before. This one was better than I’d ever dreamed to have for myself.”

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49. “I didn’t care if he was Russian and huge. I’d kill him for a fry.”

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50. “Luke chuckled. “Did anyone mention you fall like an angel?” “Or a bag of rocks?” I asked. “That’s what it feels like. I’m good at crash landings.”

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