Top 300 Carissa Broadbent Quotes (2026 Update)
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101. “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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102. “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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103. “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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104. “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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105. “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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106. “Maybe I just imagined that the entire world stopped when my wife walked into the ballroom.”

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107. “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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108. “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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109. “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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110. “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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111. “Instead, they’d strip us for parts until there was nothing left to take.”

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112. “Strange, that these Marks supposedly branded us as innate enemies. And yet, they were obvious mates to each other.”

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113. “He’d raised me to look at the bars of my cage and call them trees.”

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114. “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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115. “That idiot was fighting this thing.”

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

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118. “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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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. “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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121. “Anger made things easy. Love made things complicated.”

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

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

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125. “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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126. “But isn’t having built something worth more than the fear of it being destroyed?”

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127. “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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128. “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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129. “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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130. “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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131. “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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132. “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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133. “He was offering me everything I needed to destroy him.”

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134. “There is no light without darkness. There is no life without suffering.”

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135. “Men from upper-class families were welcome to be openly delighted by their craft. It made them interesting and eccentric, committed and passionate. When women did it, it made us vapid.”

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136. “You should be afraid, a voice whispered in the back of my mind. But I’d never been afraid of death.”

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137. “I think,” Raihn said softly, “this is your mother.” A part of me already knew it. And still, the words cracked open my chest, releasing a wave of emotion I wasn’t prepared for. Vincent had drawn this. It was his hand – I recognized that drawing style. Vincent had drawn her.”

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138. “His last words were not, You have beautiful eyes. His last words were, “End it.”

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139. “He said my name like it was the answer to a crucial question.”

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140. “Because here, in this moment, with me on the right side of death and her on the right side of living, lost in a tearful embrace hello instead of goodbye, we met each other on level ground.”

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141. “Let me defile you, Dawndrinker,” he murmured. “Please.”

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142. “I was desperate to have something to love. Something to care about when I didn’t give a damn about myself.”

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143. “He’d smashed through the stone of hell itself to get to me. My heart stirred.”

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144. “I knew we were united in that – in the terror of our own mortality.”

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145. “Even I had to draw a line somewhere. And you’re the line, Oraya.”

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146. “It’s not all that hard to keep yourself sane, so long as you’re flexible with your definition of the term.”

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147. “Sometimes they only see you for the first time when you force them to.”

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148. “It felt good to have the ability to disregard the opinion of a man.”

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149. “I love you,” she whispered. “I love you, Asar Voldari, Warden of Morthryn, king of the underworld, heir of Alarus. I love you, and in this life or the next, worlds mortal or divine, I will never let you go.”

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150. “They wanted to ignore me? Fine. I’d show them what they were ignoring. I’d show them what their complacency meant.”

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