Top 70 C.M. Stunich Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “Little by little, a little becomes a lot.” Oscar.”

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2. “You can’t escape your past by running from it.”

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3. “When you’ve been lied to by everyone around you, when you have nothing else, you realize the one currency you can carry is truth. So a single word does have meaning. A promise does hold importance. And a pact is worth carrying to the grave.”

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4. “Sometimes, the only way to go forward, is to take a few, careful steps back.”

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5. “Every step closer to the grave is one step further away from this hell we call life.”

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6. “Some things break when you put too much pressure on them, but those shards they break into can be twice as deadly.”

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7. “I’ve never stopped loving you; I just thought you should know that.”

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8. “Virginity is an abstract patriarchal social construct that has zero validity and exists for the sole purpose of commoditizing young women but go on, I’ll wait.”

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9. “When times get tough, I get tougher.”

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10. “The past isn’t something you run from; it’s something you walk slowly past, taking pictures, making memories. You learn from the bad times and treasure the good ones, but you leave that view firmly entrenched in the rearview mirror. All I want to see out the windshield is my future.”

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11. “There’s nothing more frightening than dead silence; I can’t stand it. When it’s quiet, that’s when the bad memories and the awful thoughts ring loudest. I’d rather not hear their sinful soliloquies just now, thank you.”

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12. “Men have selfish motivation, want, and desire tainting their vision; little girls have dreams, ambition, and honesty turning theirs crystal clear.”

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13. “As Alice once said, there’s no use going back to yesterday; I was a different person then.”

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14. “My happy ending is rending my heart; I don’t want it to end. Take me back, back, back to the beginning again.”

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15. “Vulnerability leaves a person open to endless pain.”

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16. “Look into his eyes and say goodbye; never let another day go by; don’t miss the quiet moments in between; never love and never leave again.”

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17. “I love that girl with everything I have, but I also want her. Beneath me, above me, surrounding me. Is that wrong? Somehow it feels like I’m betraying her just by thinking that.”

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18. “We’re going to rule this city together, Bernadette. You and me, king and queen.”

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19. “Is that my life outside of these walls was already a living hell. This is just another level of Dante’s inferno, and I’m not afraid – not of any of you.”

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20. “Sometimes, you just want to be left alone inside your fantasy.”

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21. “I turn around and glare at Dee as he leans over and puts his head between his knees. If I hadn’t seen the look of genuine concern on Tee’s face, I might’ve thought they did it to me on purpose, drugged me up like that. Lucky them I don’t think that anymore or balls. would. roll. And by balls, I don’t mean sports equipment.”

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22. “His hold on me is endless and eternal; it isn’t unbreakable because the possibility of being broken was never even an option. It just is. A fact. As sure as the moon rises.”

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23. “The threat is over, erased with violence and tiny porcelain hands so used to abuse they can stand innocent no longer.”

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24. “What they don’t know is that the hardest hearts are forged in fire. With their cruelty and their jokes and their laughter, they’ve forged me into something spectacular.”

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25. “Always remember: hug like you mean it, love with your whole heart, and naked-bake something every once in a while.”

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26. “Revenge is wicked sweet, but forgiveness is a virtue. Too bad I’ve never been holy.”

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27. “Sometimes, it feels almost impossible to see past one’s own hurt, like looking directly into the sun. The brilliance of it is blinding. But if we close our eyes, we can feel the warmth of those rays on our skin.”

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28. “I take another drag on the cigarette, certain that they’re stolen, positive that they taste better because they were obtained with crafty fingers and tomfoolery.”

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29. “This book has awoken something in me. I don’t know what it is, but it feels good.”

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30. “The past doesn’t matter except as a history lesson, a series of mistakes to be learned from. It’s the present that defines us, and the future we look toward with hope.”

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31. “If you live your whole life in the darkness, then you don’t have any trouble recognizing the light.”

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32. “Confucius says dig two graves before embarking on a journey of revenge. But what if that revenge is the only thing keeping you alive? And what if the people you’re seeking revenge on deserve it? If Batman had just killed the Joker from the get-go, how many more people would still be alive?”

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33. “True. But it’s not always the ending that’s the most important. Sometimes, the journey to get there is just as good.”

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34. “I’m independent and fierce, but I’m not stupid. To actually be a strong character, you have to have more than snark and stubbornness – you have to have brains. And I am beyond determined to be better than half the girls I read about.”

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35. “The monsters come anyway – whether you wear short skirts or sweats.”

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36. “When you exist in the ugly, you learn to live in the beautiful.”

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37. “Regrets are the most important tools in the world. If we didn’t regret then mistakes will be nothing but a series of unstoppable accidents.”

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38. “Now I’m already trying to figure out how to get away from Brandon, so I can read. Why are guys in books so much less dickish than ones in real life? Cuter, too.”

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39. “When love takes hold of you and bites down, you may as well just surrender because if you fight it, you’re fighting the one thing on this earth that’s worth living for.”

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40. “Later that night, I end up in Zayd’s bed with Zayd and only Zayd, and he shows me he’s just as capable of going slow as he is fast.”

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41. “I love him fuckin’ fierce, but he’s an idiot extraordinaire.”

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42. “See, that’s the thing with pain. Once it finds you and grabs hold, it doesn’t let go easily. It’s always there, a demon with reaching claws.”

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43. “Our past isn’t an anchor that keeps us tied to a shipwreck beneath the sea; it’s the sail that we can collect wind in so that we can soar.”

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44. “Melancholy is a private thing. It’s not something you just show to everybody.”

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45. “Turner screeches for me in full on devil mode. There are no angels here. We are all full of sin and it is beautiful.”

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46. “Havoc. They create it. They revel in it. They dispense it.”

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47. “Hot fingertips trail along the back of my neck, and I jump, whirling around to find an identical looking boy with an EAT ME sign around his neck.”

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48. “Why is that always the salvation of the wicked, to pray? God doesn’t want to hear their lies anymore than I do.”

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49. “Pity does nothing for the one being pitied. It’s an empathetic agony to the one doing the pitying.”

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50. “I’m surrounded by my monsters now, but at least I hold the leash of some very pretty ones.”

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