Top 120 Carissa Broadbent Quotes (2024 Update)
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51. “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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52. “You were the one who wanted to save the world,” he said, quietly. “I just wanted to save you.”

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53. “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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54. “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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55. “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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56. “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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57. “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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58. “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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59. “Maybe our skin doesn’t scar the same as yours, but our hearts do. Sometimes they never heal.”

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60. “I hate you because I don’t.”

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

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62. “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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63. “Never trust. Never yield. Always guard your heart.”

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

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

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68. “You might destroy me anyway.”

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69. “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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70. “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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71. “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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72. “I liked anger. It was tangible, and strong, and it made me feel powerful.”

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73. “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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74. “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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75. “I don’t like creatures that don’t have the common decency to have limbs like the rest of us.”

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

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

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

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

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82. “But anger was good. Anger was better than guilt. Anger was a reminder of why I was doing any of this in the first place.”

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83. “You will never be free, Sylina, until you let go of the hold your past has on you,” she said. “The past cannot dictate the future.”

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84. “What makes you think, Maxantarius, that nightmares are not real? Perhaps it is all real, and that is the greatest nightmare of all.”

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85. “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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86. “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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87. “I have learned that there are few certainties in life or death, but one of them is that bones do not speak. Dust does not sing.”

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88. “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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89. “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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90. “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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91. “Instead, they’d strip us for parts until there was nothing left to take.”

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

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94. “And this is not for me. This is for decency. You already denied thousands of people help. You said it was too much. Now I ask for one person. Is that still too much? Or are the Orders less powerful than they say to be?”

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95. “We remained there, locked together, both panting. Just like it had been in the Kejari. Like fighting a mirror.”

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96. “That idiot was fighting this thing.”

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97. “Maybe he loved her in a way. But he could never love her for what she really was. Loving everything in her but her humanity wasn’t loving her at all.”

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98. “In any other moment, I might have wished I could freeze time there. He looked like a painting. Beautiful, but also interesting, every expanse of skin whispering of another story, another past.”

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99. “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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100. “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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