Top 120 Carissa Broadbent Quotes (2024 Update)
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101. “Time, Vale,” I said. “Time is the most valuable resource of all, and some of us are perpetually short.”

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

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103. “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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104. “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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105. “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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106. “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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107. “He didn’t want me to jump because he didn’t want me to find out I could catch myself.”

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108. “Home. The word caught and settled, deep in my chest. But home wasn’t Korvius, or the Towers, or even a cottage in the middle of nowhere, surrounded by flowers. Home was a pair of mismatched eyes, an accented voice, and a heartbeat that followed the same cadence as mine. And I was so, so homesick.”

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

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

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

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112. “Power is sitting here alone in a room with four people who want to kill me, and knowing I’ll walk out alive.”

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113. “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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114. “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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115. “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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116. “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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117. “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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118. “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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119. “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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120. “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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121. “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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122. “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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123. “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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124. “Your soul is my soul. Your blood is my blood. Your heart is my heart.”

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

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

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

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