Top 120 Carissa Broadbent Quotes (2024 Update)

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

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

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

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6. “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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7. “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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8. “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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9. “In a dark world, eyes naturally find the light. She becomes the brightest thing in his.”

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

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11. “How much does a memory weigh?”

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12. “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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13. “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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14. “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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15. “You don’t know what it feels like to watch yourself die.”

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

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

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

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

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

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23. “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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24. “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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25. “It began with a whisper and it will end with a scream. What comes between is still to be seen.”

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

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

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

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

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30. “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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31. “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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32. “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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33. “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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34. “You are the most stunning thing I’ve ever seen, Oraya.”

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35. “Every Nightborn King, after all, was crowned on a throne of corpses.”

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36. “It must be hard,” he murmured. “To bear the weight of so much affection in a life so short.”

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37. “The king knew, in this moment, that his greatest love would also be his ruination, and that both would come in the unlikely form of a young human woman.”

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38. “I’d always admired Raihn’s skill as a warrior. He wielded a sword the way an artist wielded a paintbrush, each stroke an exercise in grace and beauty. Now, it awed me, the elegance of his instincts and movements, all these new angles of his brutality visible only as its target. Perhaps I could only appreciate every brushstroke of death once I was the canvas.”

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39. “And he whispered, “There she is.” All at once, I realized what he had been doing.”

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

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

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42. “I am the Nightborn King,” I said, voice low and deadly. “Do you think I’m going to beg for your respect? I don’t need your respect. Your fear will do. Bow.”

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

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44. “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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45. “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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46. “Men want power because it makes them feel good. Women want power because it lets us do things.”

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

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48. “When Max believes in something, he gives it his whole self. It’s his greatest strength and greatest weakness. And you, Tisaanah, were the first thing he had believed in for a long, long time. It takes more than four walls to break that kind of faith.”

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49. “I always liked you,” he panted. “Me too,” I said, and twisted my left arm just enough to bury the blade in his gut.”

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50. “Whatever you wish to give me,” he repeated, slowly, like he wanted to make sure I understood. “I’ll have it.”

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