Top 120 Carissa Broadbent Quotes (2024 Update)
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101. “We had carved out these small, intimate spaces for each other in our lives, and by some miracle of human denial, neither of us had thought about what that would inevitably mean. Now, for the first time, I realized the breadth of the gaping absence we would leave in each other.”

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102. “That he had tried. That he had failed. And that he had loved me, anyway. And I would carry all of that forever, for the rest of my life.”

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

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104. “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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105. “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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106. “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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107. “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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108. “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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109. “Instead, they’d strip us for parts until there was nothing left to take.”

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

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112. “That idiot was fighting this thing.”

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113. “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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114. “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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115. “We’ll rip apart the worlds that subjugated both of us, and from the ashes we’ll build something new.”

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116. “This dawned on me as I watched him yank his sword from the chest of a limp vampire corpse. He glanced over his shoulder at me, brow quirked. “What? Like what you see?” “Do you do that on purpose?”

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117. “He offered his daughter no comfort, no tenderness. Why would he? The world would offer her none, either. She should learn this.”

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118. “Your soul is my soul. Your blood is my blood. Your heart is my heart.”

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119. “You don’t give an inch, do you?” My eyes flicked coldly up his body. “Do you? Or is an inch all you have to offer?”

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120. “You want more than I can give you,” I whispered. “I can’t imagine that ever being true,” he murmured. “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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121. “But isn’t having built something worth more than the fear of it being destroyed?”

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122. “I find myself curious, do you think about her the way she thinks about you?”

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123. “But I was powerless now, just as I was then. A human in a world of vampires. An Heir with no teeth. A daughter with no way to avenge her father.”

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124. “How poetic, after all: to wear Esmaris’s sigil as I exposed every terrible thing that he did to me. As if I were carrying him with me, hissing to his ear: “Look. Look at everything you failed to destroy. Look at what your cruelty created.”

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125. “To be reminded of everything I had already lost while looking into the eyes of everything I had left to lose.”

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126. “Maybe the king always knew that his greatest love would be his ruination. Maybe he knew it the moment he met her. He’d know it the second time he died, too.”

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127. “He was offering me everything I needed to destroy him.”

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128. “Death was like a lost lover. We circled each other. I craved more with every brush of its touch. All I wanted was for it to take me to its bed and never let me leave.”

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129. “A performance shows people a pleasant lie,′ I replied. ‘Tonight I shoe them an ugly reality.”

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130. “Stories are always useful. Life is more than a series of acts of violence. And while I respect our king and his commitment to teaching you practical skills, he is not always the most emotionally intelligent person.” Meajqa flashed another smile. “Perhaps because he doesn’t read enough romances.”

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131. “Anger made things easy. Love made things complicated.”

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132. “It began with a whisper and it will end with a scream. What comes between is a dance of fate’s tangled threads.”

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133. “I had forgotten that people could be that way. I had forgotten that someone, somewhere, was painting terrible pictures of their wife in a garden. I was so far gone that I didn’t even remember that that kind of mundane contentment actually existed, least of all in the same moments as such terrible things.”

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