Top 300 Carissa Broadbent Quotes (2026 Update)
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201. “You agreed to play a game with high stakes. You do not get to waste your time as the cards are drawn.”

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202. “That is the bravest act in this world. To feel. I am often too afraid to do it myself.”

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203. “Because you make me ravenous.”

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204. “I wasn’t going to let you fall. But more importantly, I knew you weren’t going to let you fall.”

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205. “This is the tale of how a chosen one falls. She does it screaming, clawing for her old life with broken fingernails. She does it slowly, over the course of decades. And in the end, she takes the whole forsaken world with her.”

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206. “For every lost soul who just needs someone to listen.”

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207. “Stars exploded over my vision. His name fell from my lips in a gasp. Every muscle coiled, and then released. Nothing existed but him. Him and everything that I still wanted.”

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208. “I remember all of it, and I hate them more for that than any two-thousand-year-old betrayal. The death of one woman, one woman who was better than all of them, who had given everything until she had nothing left, was worth more than all of it. But I’m patient. I’m determined. I have plenty of time to think about Mische and what I will offer her when – not if – I find her again.”

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209. “Does nothing bother you?” he said. “You seem totally unmoved that you almost died.”

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210. “All of it was true at once. That he had saved me. That he had crippled me. His selfishness and his selflessness. 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. And he would still be dead.”

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211. “He was on his knees, staring up at me. And that – the way he looked at me – was the first thing that felt real.”

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212. “Yours,” I ground out. “It’s yours.” My blood. My body. My soul. I had given her all of that a long time ago. I even had given her my life. And I’d do it all again.”

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213. “I’ve saved your life twice now and presented you with the head of your enemy, and this isn’t enough? You’re a demanding little thing, aren’t you?”

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214. “But I’d know her anywhere. I’d memorized her soul. I’d pressed her final moments into my heart like preserved rose petals.”

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215. “What is it that you want? In life.” Only a very brief pause, and then he muttered, “Mostly, I just want everyone to leave me alone.”

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216. “This kiss was not like our battle from before. This was an apology, a plea, a greeting, a goodbye, a million words rolled into several endless seconds in which time died between us.”

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217. “The kiss was like a thunderstorm over the summer desert – a torrent that swept in all at once, obliterating the heat, so all-consuming that suddenly you remember nothing but the rain. All at once, he was everywhere.”

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218. “That us the bravest act in this world. To feel.”

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219. “He could have had any woman. And yet his heart was so hungry for her that he let it devour the world for a fleeting taste.”

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220. “May I write to you?” he asked.”

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221. “My father who had taught me how to survive, how to kill, how to feel nothing. Perhaps I didn’t share his blood, but I was his child in every other sense of the word, and he loved me the only way he knew how. At the edge of a blade.”

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222. “I wanted to memorize every sound she made, every expression, every freckle or mole, like I was a cartographer tattooing a map of her onto my soul.”

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223. “As a human, I’d loved the stories because I loved fantasies. And that’s what they had been to me: fantasies. Myths and legends.”

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224. “Nessanyn mattered. And the difference between nothing mattering and one thing mattering is a big one.”

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225. “Because if I let you go, I’m committing treason against my own throne. Because if I let you go, I’ll have no choice but to fight against you out there. Because if I let you go, you become my enemy in earnest. And I can’t kill you, princess. I’ve tried. I can’t.”

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226. “You’re lucky,” he said, “that I have a soft spot for caged birds.”

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227. “I love you. I loved you from the first moment.′ Bubbles of blood formed at the corners of his mouth. His gaze drifted past me, to the night sky. Then it dragged back to me- the movement slow, laborious, like he was working very hard to make sure I was the last thing he saw. ‘So many mistakes in the end,’ he choked out. ‘Never you.”

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228. “Sadness was a futile, weak emotion. At least anger was useful – a sharp edge to cut another’s heart, or a hard shell to protect your own.”

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229. “There are moments in one’s life that remain permanently distilled in memory. Some wither within minutes, and others are carved forever into our souls. This image, of the boy she loved begging her for mercy, would follow her for the rest of her life.”

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230. “But I was used to being judged – too used to it to realize when judgment became dangerous.”

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231. “I knew death even before I could name it.”

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232. “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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233. “Some things were fated. Some things were divine. The gods were playing a bigger game than any of us could see.”

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234. “I’ve got to believe in love, Raihn. The world is sad enough.”

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235. “Two sinners on the edge of something we both knew would change everything, here upon an altar of all that had destroyed us.”

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236. “Loss still hit her deep. But then, I supposed it hit us all deep. We just learned how to cover the wounds with other things. Stitch it up with the threads of our next task.”

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237. “As a young man, I used to think that bravery was the absence of fear. No. I’d learned since then that the absence of fear was only stupidity.”

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238. “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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239. “Love was a sacrifice at the altar of power.”

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240. “I’m patient,” he murmured. “A man can’t rush worship.” And gods, that was what he was doing. Worshipping.”

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241. “No one loves you more than someone who has no one else.”

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242. “It’s impossible not to notice everything, with you.”

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243. “The young woman had learned to numb herself to this. She had been taught relentlessly to view the beings that surrounded her as deadly monsters. It was only as she grew older that she began to view them as dangerous not for all the ways they were monstrous, but for all the ways they were not.”

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244. “One honest thing.”

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245. “I love you,” he said, in a single, urgent breath. “I just – I need you to know that. I love you, Oraya.”

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246. “Loving Oraya was terrifying. It required me to see things I didn’t want to see. Face things I didn’t want to face. Allow another soul to witness parts of myself I didn’t even want to acknowledge.”

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247. “I won’t let you die here because you’re too ashamed to live, Mische,” he said. “You are so much more than this. And it would be a waste to throw all that magnificence away – for what? Because the sun told you to hate yourself? No. I won’t allow that.”

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248. “You cannot accomplish anything in this world without power,′ he said. ‘And power requires sacrifice, focus, and ruthlessness.”

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249. “The world had just lost an incredible force. And my presence here was not enough to make up for that.”

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250. “I realized, as my fading vision took in his tear-streaked face, that Asar would never let me go. Not in life, and not in death. He would shatter it all for me.”

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