Top 300 Carissa Broadbent Quotes (2026 Update)
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151. “I remembered the first time I’d heard Raihn laugh, and it had struck me because I didn’t know it was possible for anyone to laugh like that – so freely. He smiled like that too. Totally un-vampiric. I couldn’t help but return it.”

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152. “Maybe they want some part of me I have already given to someone else.”

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153. “Because I knew, firsthand, that having someone to love could help someone survive impossible situations.”

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154. “We all have ghosts in our pasts, Iliae. We can’t give them the power to define our futures, too.”

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155. “I didn’t like feeling things. Emotions were ever-shifting and devoid of logic, and they gave me no way to sink my blade into them.”

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156. “I’m giving credit to its rightful owner. I did not kill Atroxus. Mische Iliae did, and she deserves to have her name painted in the stars for it.”

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157. “My queen. My light. My darkness. My future. The answer to every question. The ending to every sentence.”

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158. “And they were pretty, but they had nothing on Tisaanah’s lively beauty, the kind that changed a little each time I looked at her, as if I were discovering a new breathtaking facet with each of her expressions.”

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159. “I loved it – really, truly loved it – when they underestimated me.”

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160. “What are you doing?” I asked. “Praying with you,” he said. As if it were obvious. “I thought you didn’t believe in prayer.” “I don’t,” he said. “But you do.”

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161. “This, I realized, was love. Love was worth destroying for.”

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162. “This is the moment that changes it all. This is the moment I fall in love.”

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163. “My heart. I couldn’t make myself say the words. My heart. My weak human heart. Scarred and broken and bleeding. The one thing I had always been taught to protect above all. And yet, whatever things struggled along within my ribcage now, far beneath the Mark that my dead father left on me, was anything but protected. It had been torn apart and ripped open... How had I ever thought Vincent had given me a vampire heart. This was human.”

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164. “Hm,” he said. “To think I let such a dangerous creature sleep beside me every night.”

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165. “Run, a voice inside me whispered. Stay, another begged.”

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166. “Seeing, as always, more than I wished he did. Seeing, as always, me.”

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167. “I can’t take credit for everything that you’ve become, Oraya. Even if sometimes I wish I could. But if I’m responsible for just one small piece of that, it will have been the greatest accomplishment of my life.”

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168. “There was nothing so terrible as to be so alone.”

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169. “I understood now. It always happened this way. Love was a sacrifice at the altar of power.”

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170. “She was so hungry – for warmth, for food, for love, for light, for the moon, for the stars.”

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171. “Don’t you dare stop fighting, princess. It would break my damned heart.”

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172. “No war can be fought with clean hands,” he said. “Not even the ones waged for the right reasons. Not even the ones you win.”

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173. “Do you think that I don’t know what darkness is?” I said. “Why? Because I smile too much? Because I talk too much? It’s my choice to be the way that I am. A choice that I make even when it’s hard. That doesn’t make me weak, Asar.”

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174. “It doesn’t make the love worth less,” I said quietly, “just because you can’t help her the way you wish you could.”

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175. “I told you that together we would find a way to do this, and I meant it. But I stand with you until the end. You, Tisaanah. If you wanted to run, I swear we’d find a way out. And if it all goes up in flames, I’ll burn right beside you and it will still be the best thing I –.”

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176. “You had to bend, with people like Vincent. Reach for what they wouldn’t give you themselves.”

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177. “You are the best of men, Maxantarius Farlione, no matter how much you try to convince the world otherwise. Promise me that you’ll keep fighting your battles even if I lose mine.”

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178. “Raihn has a lot of flaws, Oraya,” she murmured, “but he knows how to love.”

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179. “It was amazing, the mental somersaults minds and hearts could do to justify their actions in the name of love.”

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180. “She had experienced so much pain. But this love was the greatest torment of all.”

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181. “But I never ran away. Not even when I should. Instead, I did what I always did: I gave that bastard the biggest, brightest smile.”

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182. “Where does one go to find forgotten things? The place where people go to be forgotten.”

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183. “Stay, stay, stay.”

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184. “Tell me my ashen son, do you know how much a million memories weigh? How about one? It weighs enough to break a spine. It weighs enough to break a soul.”

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185. “Perhaps we didn’t need gods to find our place in something larger. Perhaps it already existed in us.”

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186. “Creating is harder than destroying. In the end it’s always worth it.”

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187. “It is an injustice, Mische, that this is what you got when you asked for love,” he murmured. “This isn’t what love should feel like.”

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188. “Mische Iliae would be remembered by the bones of time itself, and I knew it because I would write her story there with my blood if I had to.”

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189. “But in this moment, I came to the horrifying realization that I would never be able to carve Raihn from my heart. He had embedded too deep. Roots through stone.”

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190. “A life I couldn’t live. A heart I couldn’t free. A role I couldn’t play.”

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191. “In any other moment, I might have wished I could freeze time there. He looked like a painting.”

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192. “It’s easy to die for someone,” I said, “but it is so much more valuable to live. I do not give you permission to fail if I fail.”

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193. “A story is the thing that proves something existed between life and death.”

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194. “You aren’t my prisoner,′ he said. ‘You’re my queen.”

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195. “Crack. Twenty-five. Esmaris was going to kill me. That bastard. A fire lit within me. As I heard the whoosh of Esmaris raising his arm over his head, I flipped myself over, ignoring the agony that ignited as my back touched the ground. “If you want to murder me,” I spat, “you’re going to look me in the eye as you do it.”

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196. “The vines wound around us both, encircling our intertwined bodies. Their leaves were red and violet, splashes of human and Fey blood that quickly withered into blackened husks. And yet, they pulled us into such a comforting embrace, the three of us – me, Caduan, and death.”

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197. “His voice didn’t startle me. He didn’t sneak up on me anymore. I felt it the moment he awoke, like our souls were now fish in the same pond, ripples of his movements eternally shared with mine.”

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198. “And there she is,” he chuckled.”

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199. “There is no use in dreaming of realities that do not exist,” I said – echoing my father’s words before I even realized it. “Not unless we follow such dreams with action.”

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200. “Humans left little marks of their lives everywhere. Flowers in window boxes, toys left in yards, a series of shoes on the doorstep that painted the image of a family. I had never noticed these things before, and certainly never found beauty in them. Now, I tucked each one away like little secret gifts.”

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