Top 120 Carissa Broadbent Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “You were the one who wanted to save the world,” he said, quietly. “I just wanted to save you.”

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52. “My last thought, as sleep took me, was that I wouldn’t mind at all if I was tethered to his harbor forever.”

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53. “You are the most stunning thing I’ve ever seen, Oraya.”

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54. “I hate you because I don’t.”

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55. “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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56. “Never trust. Never yield. Always guard your heart.”

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

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58. “Your father, Oraya, felt all those things, too. He was just as broken as the rest of us, and he was so determined not to acknowledge it that he flayed you with those sharp edges and then berated you for having skin instead of steel.”

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59. “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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60. “We joked about death because we had to. But it wasn’t a joke. It was real, and it was coming for us. And the thought of death getting anywhere near Raihn made me feel sick.”

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61. “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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62. “People like me have always had to fight,” I said. “It’s easy to abandon the dream of easy victory when it was never an option at all.”

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63. “But dreams were so good at filling in memories moth-eaten by time. It was a smear of sensations, like paints too-watered-down. A little clay house with cracked floors.”

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64. “Maybe one day you’ll stand where I do. You’ll cut away every weakness. You’ll make every sacrifice. And then the world will look at you and sneer at your inhumanity, as if you didn’t just become everything they told you to be.”

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65. “I was, after all, a well-practiced, world-renowned expert in denial. I was good at magic, good at fighting, good at gardening. But I was excellent at avoiding inconvenient truths.”

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66. “A dancing smile glinted in his eyes. “I think,” he said, “that you are breathtakingly functional.”

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67. “Here’s the thing about the God of Abundance. Abundance wears many faces. The god of plenty is also the god of decay. There can be no life without death, no feast without famine.”

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

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

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70. “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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71. “I see you, Max. You are no great question.”

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72. “To die, rather than killing you?” he said quietly. “Yes. That would have been worth it. Even I had to draw a line somewhere. And you’re the line, Oraya.”

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73. “I liked anger. It was tangible, and strong, and it made me feel powerful.”

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74. “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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75. “Reshaye?” he said, quietly. “That’s what she calls herself?” “She?” Max said. “Does it mean something?” I murmured. A wince flickered across the man’s face. “It means, ‘No one.”

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76. “Maybe I just imagined that the entire world stopped when my wife walked into the ballroom.”

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77. “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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78. “Max had never been a cynic. He was a wounded optimist trying desperately to return to his natural state.”

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79. “He did not fear my darkness, nor pity my compassion. And the truth was, the idea of dying without knowing him completely was torturous.”

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80. “Nothing matters but this, Oraya. Nothing. Step over temporary barriers. Once you win, the world is yours. That is the time for dreaming. But this? This is the time for conquering.”

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81. “No, logic doesn’t matter in the face of fear and emotion. Logic falls to its knees before hatred, and hatred flourishes in fear –.”

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82. “Throwing all kinds of words back at me today.” He looked pleased with himself, even if he was trying to hide it. “I don’t recall saying you could stop.”

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83. “I was too young to know the truth then. That victory meant another’s defeat, and sometimes our own defeat. That winning meant sacrifices, and sometimes ones that even our own people were not willing to make. That in war, someone always paid.”

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84. “Because I want only you, Lilith. Whatever of you I can have. I’ll take one night. One hour. One minute. Whatever you want to give me. I’ll have it.”

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85. “Vincent had ruined me. He had saved me. He had loved me. He had stifled me. He had manipulated me. He had made me everything that I was. Everything that I could be.”

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86. “This, I knew, was Vincent telling me that he loved me. No one had ever said those words to me – at least, not that I could ever remember. But he communicated it a thousand ways over the years, most of them coated in death. I love you. Here’s how you stay alive. Here’s how you make sure that no one can hurt you. For vampires, that was the ultimate gift.”

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87. “Time, Vale,” I said. “Time is the most valuable resource of all, and some of us are perpetually short.”

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88. “I had spent the night cutting myself up into little pieces for consumption, forcing people to acknowledge me, thrusting my pain into their faces.”

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89. “He didn’t want me to jump because he didn’t want me to find out I could catch myself.”

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90. “Maybe he was used to being cowered at. I did not cower. Why should I? I’d already met death three times now. So far, the fourth was a bit of a disappointment.”

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91. “He had done nothing but be kind to me. But I only knew how to fight.”

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92. “I know how greedy tragedy is. It consumes everything. It consumes hope; it consumes faith. And in the absence of hope, the only thing that seems worth doing is nothing. The only perfect action. The only path forward.”

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93. “In that moment, I didn’t care what any of them thought – all of these people who, my entire life, had used me as a part of their stories, had assumed that I was a set piece in their lives.”

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94. “The past was jagged glass. But I was drunk on the way it tore me up.”

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95. “You might destroy me anyway.”

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96. “You don’t have to live this way, my love,” she had said. “I made this choice, but you didn’t. You can choose another life, in another world, where you’d be just a person.”

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97. “I would beg for him, too. Break for him. Cut myself open like an animal for dissection. He held me open that way, not just my body but my soul, too.”

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98. “The ghost of that girl still lived inside me somewhere. She had what it took to survive, and I had what it took to live.”

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99. “I don’t like creatures that don’t have the common decency to have limbs like the rest of us.”

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100. “I loved her for her strength, for her beautiful brute force, for seeing what no one else did. I loved her for everything the world constantly used against her. I loved her for continuing anyway.”

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