Top 120 Carissa Broadbent Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “Death isn’t frightening when weighed against an insignificant existence.”

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2. “I could practically hear her saying it, too: There he is.”

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3. “This was the stare of a creature who understood she was confronting death itself, and still chose to spit in its face.”

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4. “I’d spend a lifetime at the tip of your blade, and it would have been worth it.”

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5. “Max,” I breathed, touching my heart with exaggerated awe, “you think I’m functional?” A dancing smile glinted in his eyes. “I think,” he said, “that you are breathtakingly functional.”

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6. “One hundred and eighty thousand days, and I thought of you in every one.”

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7. “And then I realized. I realized that fear, when embraced, hardens and sharpens. That it becomes rage. That it becomes power. I would not die here.”

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8. “Oraya of the Nightborn,” he murmured. “I give you my body. I give you my blood. I give you my soul. I give you my heart. From this night until the end of nights. From daybreak until our days are broken. Your soul is my soul. Your heart is my heart. Your pain is my pain. I bind myself to you.” I wanted it to all be a lie. But it was not a lie.”

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9. “Because if I allow myself to be angry, I will never stop.”

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10. “I love you did not say enough. I love you did not say, thank you for being my home. I love you did not say, thank you for being my future.”

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11. “Vincent wanted me in the Kejari, wanted me to become his Coriatae, because it was the only way to turn me into something acceptable for him to love.”

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12. “Perhaps I didn’t share his blood, but I was his child in every other sense of the word, and he loved me the only way he knew how. At the edge of a blade.”

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13. “I am a daughter of no worlds, and all worlds. And I am not done yet.”

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14. “And love, understand, is sharper than any stake.”

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15. “I wanted him in so many ways. As a friend, as a kindred soul, as a fierce teammate. As skin and lips and teeth. As a hitched breathless moan in the darkness or a lazy embrace in the sunrise. I wanted that. I wanted it all.”

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16. “If I become lost, I will never be found again.”

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17. “I could hate Vincent the king, who had slaughtered whatever family I had left, who had overseen the torture of my people, who had relentlessly killed and destroyed. But how could I hate Vincent, my father, who looked at me that way? My anger made everything certain and easy. My love made everything complicated and difficult. I allowed myself to be distracted.”

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18. “Good question, princess,” he said. “Depends on who wins.” There he is, I thought.”

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19. “The crowd shrieked with amusement with every clash of steel. I barely heard them. My blood pumped in my ears, roaring. This was agonizing. Agonizing. I needed it to hurt more everywhere else, so it hurt less in my heart.”

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20. “In a dark world, eyes naturally find the light. She becomes the brightest thing in his.”

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21. “My grief for him. My love for him. My hatred of him. My anger. My confusion.”

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22. “How much does a memory weigh?”

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23. “Did you know that when caterpillars make a cocoon, their bodies totally dissolve? They become nothing, before they become something else.”

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24. “You don’t know what it feels like to watch yourself die.”

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25. “Once, many years ago, he had told me that his grandfather used to say that every moment in life was a coin with one dark side and one light. They fell on the ground with one side facing up, but the other always lay beneath it, there, but hidden. Serel always saw both sides of the coin, even when fate handed him nothing but darkness.”

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26. “I drank up Raihn’s touch like one last gulp of wine. A secret, shameful vice.”

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27. “The young woman thought she was in love, or something like it. To be young and in love is an incredible thing. It teaches one so much.”

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28. “It began with a whisper and it will end with a scream. What comes between is still to be seen.”

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29. “Tell me, little butterfly, what would you do for love?”

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30. “Oraya didn’t need to be saved. She just needed a soul beside her on the dark walk to her own potential.”

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31. “A dead lover can never break your heart.”

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32. “Men want power because it makes them feel good. Women want power because it lets us do things.”

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33. “Do not fear death, my daughter. We all walk with one foot in each world. There is beauty in impermanence. And what sad lives we would live, if we never loved anything we would lose.”

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34. “I suppose that once someone has seen my bare ass, we can drop the titles.”

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35. “You are going to die. But do not fear death. Death is a door, and though none of us can follow you through it today, you will cross its threshold knowing that the mark you have left behind will be a worthy one. This is not an end.”

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36. “I hope that whoever did that to you died a terrible, painful death,” he said at last, words hissing like steam. “And I hope that if there is an underworld, they suffer there forever.”

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37. “Self control made a soul tired, I was sick of it.”

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38. “It is a privilege to do nothing, Max. So many people do not have that gift.”

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39. “Many people do terrible things. But we can either eat our anger and make it fuel us or we can let it eat us alive.”

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40. “Humans mourn time, because it’s the only currency that really matters in a life so short.”

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41. “Hundreds of years later, historians and scholars would look back upon this moment. This decision that, one day, would topple an empire. What a strange choice, they would whisper. Why would he do this? Why, indeed. After all, vampires know better than anyone how important it is to protect their hearts. And love, understand, is sharper than any stake.”

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42. “Maybe our skin doesn’t scar the same as yours, but our hearts do. Sometimes they never heal.”

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43. “Don’t be so quick to throw away your humanity, Oraya,” he said. “You might find you miss it once it’s gone.”

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44. “So, mysterious snake man–” “Ascended above, give me a minute, demanding rot goddess.”

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45. “There are moments in one’s life that remain permanently distilled in memory. Some wither within minutes, and others are carved forever into our souls.”

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46. “Destroying is easy. Creating is hard.”

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47. “Home. The word caught and settled, deep in my chest. But home wasn’t Korvius, or the Towers, or even a cottage in the middle of nowhere, surrounded by flowers. Home was a pair of mismatched eyes, an accented voice, and a heartbeat that followed the same cadence as mine. And I was so, so homesick.”

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48. “Power is sitting here alone in a room with four people who want to kill me, and knowing I’ll walk out alive.”

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49. “You make me selfish. You make me want. And nothing has ever been enough, except for you.”

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50. “I’m already more afraid than I ever have been. Afraid of you and what you could do to me. Afraid of the world that could kill you so easily. Afraid of myself, gifted with another fragile heart that I know I cannot keep. But, my little serpent, it is the most wonderful fear. Every minute with you is, even if I already regret all the mistakes I know I will make.”

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