Top 70 C.M. Stunich Quotes (2025 Update)

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

— C.M. Stunich

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

— C.M. Stunich

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

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

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

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

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

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

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10. “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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11. “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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12. “As Alice once said, there’s no use going back to yesterday; I was a different person then.”

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

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16. “I have to go and learn my fate.”

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17. “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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18. “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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19. “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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20. “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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21. “Vulnerability leaves a person open to endless pain.”

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

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

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

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

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30. “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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31. “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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32. “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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33. “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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34. “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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35. “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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36. “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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37. “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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38. “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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39. “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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40. “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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41. “This book has awoken something in me. I don’t know what it is, but it feels good.”

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

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44. “I haven’t been afraid since I was five and here you come, sauntering in and shattering everything. That’s what you’ve done, Bernie, you’ve ruined me.”

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45. “They used to be my tormentors, but now they’re my dark angels.”

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46. “I’ll tell you which demons to avoid.” She pauses and gives me another critical look. “Mostly though, you’ll want to stay away from the devils.”

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47. “If it was so, it might be; and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn’t, it ain’t. That’s logic.”

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48. “Sometimes, when I’m reading a book, I get so into it that when I look up, I have to blink several times to remember where I am, who I am, what my life is really like. There have been so many times that I’ve wished I never did wake up, that I died in a dream of words and sentences and characters and romances.”

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49. “Some men sleep and dream. Some men have nightmares. You’re a nightmare, Bernadette, a beautiful nightmare.”

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

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