Top 80 C.M. Stunich Quotes (2026 Update)
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51. “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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52. “This time, I’m not kissing the prince to become the princess, I’m tonguing the villain to guarantee the destruction of others.”

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

— C.M. Stunich

54. “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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55. “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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56. “When you exist in the ugly, you learn to live in the beautiful.”

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57. “As he passes Harper du Pont, he pulls something from his pocket, walks right up to her, and chops her ponytail off at the base.”

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58. “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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59. “What does a fool who doesn’t see the worth of others see in himself?”

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60. “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.”

— C.M. Stunich

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

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62. “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.”

— C.M. Stunich

63. “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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64. “With the tips of their swords – rapiers? I don’t know, sorry, just not a fencing expert – crossed, the boys stare at each other across the mat. Creed’s blue eyes bore into Windsor’s hazel ones.”

— C.M. Stunich

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

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66. “Now that I’m in the same position, I can see why he did it. Why he knew he needed to do it. The dark will always play by its own rules. It’s all well and good to want a superhero, but it’s impossible to expect someone made of light to fight the shadows; they might disappear when there’s a ray of sunshine, but they’re not gone. They’ve just retreated. The night always returns, after all.”

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67. “A seventeen-year-old guy covered in tattoos scrubbing up stray droplets of pee to keep a toilet clean? Unheard of.”

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

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69. “Nobody could ruin us, Vic; we’re already ruined.”

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70. “How can I save anybody when inside, I’m being drowned by my own demons? Swept away by my own sins. Haunted by ghosts and mistakes and what-ifs.”

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71. “I know love because I know the absence of it, you know what I mean? Like, I know black because I’ve seen white, something like that.”

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72. “He smelled sweet, sounded sinful, and burned like fire when he touched me.”

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73. “I’ve been staring at him with a filter over my vision.”

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74. “Methamphetamine? It’s called dope out on the streets, you know? Ice, clouds, crystal.”

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75. “Why wouldn’t the king let me use the Looking-Glass?” I ask and Rab laughs as Tee growls, low and menacingly behind me. “Because,” Rab says, looking at me over the rim of his cup and grinning, “he wants you to be his bride.”

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76. “Nobody listens when bad girls cry.”

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77. “Wondering’s the worst. it’s dreaming about something you never intend to explore. I hate it.”

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78. “Chin up, Bernadette. There is no rest for the wicked.”

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79. “When’s the last time you walked for eight hours straight? I’d so much rather be at home reading a book.”

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80. “Disbelief and denial are the tools of the ignorant and the uneducated.”

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81. “Why are guys in books so much less dickish than ones in real life? Cuter, too. Oh, and they never have pimples.”

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82. “That’s the problem with assumptions,” Dee says, whistling as he starts off down the path. “They make an ass out of you and shins – two of which we all have.” He pauses for a second before turning around to look at me. “Unless of course you’re an amputee which then you could have one shin or none shin and then the only person that’s an ass is you.”

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83. “Delusions are just illusions without any truth behind them.”

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84. “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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85. “I think monsters are beautiful, provided their monstrosity is on the outside. It’s the ones who keep their monsters hidden that you have to watch out for.”

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