Top 300 Carissa Broadbent Quotes (2026 Update)
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251. “Death is what happens when you stand still,” I said. “Don’t stand still. Not for anything.”

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252. “Sometimes, you need to act on nothing but gut feeling. And sometimes, no matter what you do, you lose the battle. Healing is more difficult than killing in every way. But that’s how it always is. I’ve walked both roads. Destroying is easy. Creating is hard.”

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253. “The real gift was not the necklace. The gift was a home to come back to.”

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254. “When I died, it was with my god’s blood on my hands, my lover’s pleas in my ears, and the oblivion of eternal darkness – not eternal dawn – seared into my eyes.”

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255. “Even then, a part of me was afraid of death. I knew only want, and death is the end of wanting.”

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256. “What I mean is, he’s no great conversationalist, but he’s excellent at climbing trees.”

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257. “In times of great darkness, humans crawl to light like flies to the gleaming silver of a spider’s silk. These are the souls that gods feast upon. No one loves you more than someone who has no one else.”

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258. “Apologies imply that you have accepted some form of responsibility. It implies that you have remorse, and plan to do better.”

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259. “I hated them all so much, and I loved that I felt that way.”

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260. “Words. Such infuriatingly clumsy tools to communicate such important things.”

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261. “I am victory. I am vengeance. And now, I am nowhere. But soon, I will be with you.”

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262. “I let my eyelids flutter closed. Let myself be surrounded by him, as he kissed the dawn off my skin. My husband. My ally. My lover. Facing a new day beside me.”

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263. “One honest thing. The most terrible honest thing of all was that with Raihn, it was all honest – it always had been. He saw too much of me. Understood every complexity and senseless duality. I was honest even when I didn’t mean to be. He did not fear my darkness, nor pity my compassion. And the truth was, the idea of dying without knowing him completely was torturous.”

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264. “Words were nothing, compared to that. It would be like trying to move the sea with a spoon.”

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265. “But that’s what happens when one person gets to shape your entire world. They can make it into whatever they want, and you’re stuck inside those walls, whether they’re real or not.”

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266. “It was worth something to know you weren’t alone.”

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267. “I liked to watch Asar smile. It felt like a victory every time. I traced its path across his face now and wondered when I’d memorized the shape of it.”

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268. “And if you’ll take it, Mische Iliae, you will have me, too.”

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269. “I tried not to think about the fact that he felt beneath me exactly how I’d imagined he would. Tried not to think about how good, how right, it felt to feel the warmth of his body pressed against mine, my inner thighs, my stomach. And I tried not to notice that he clearly noticed all these things, too.”

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270. “Stay,” I murmured. He hesitated. “Do you want me to?”

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271. “His eyes softened as they flicked back to me. I really did try not to notice, or care, that they drank me in the same way he drank in sunshine.”

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272. “I’d burn with you till the end of it all, Dawndrinker.”

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273. “We crashed together into beautiful damnation.”

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274. “Humans may believe that vampires don’t understand what powerlessness feels like. And for many, maybe that’s true. But those that follow me do. We understand loss. And we know that it is the worst kind of powerlessness.”

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275. “His heart is what truly lit the fires of war, and the fire burns because of you. The decision was for all of us, yes. But the vengeance? The vengeance is for you.”

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276. “He was decoding me, solving me, the way I had solved him. I was being projected onto the wall like I had projected his blood, and I knew with a strange, terrible kind of certainty in this moment that he found me just as remarkable. He wasn’t the only one. Because even though he had let go of my chin, I didn’t look away from him, either.”

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277. “I’m dead, I thought. I’m dead. This is death. Or is it life? Maybe, a voice said, it’s something in between, mouse.”

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278. “She looked at him like he was the sun. And he looked at her like she was the moon.”

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279. “You are everything,” he choked out, voice ragged. “Everything. So go, Oraya. Go.”

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280. “He smelled like the sky – he tasted like falling. His lips met mine like he’d been waiting his entire life for this kiss and had known exactly what he would do when he got it. We kissed like we fought together, responding to each touch, each movement. We understood each other by now.”

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281. “Billions of threads,” she murmured, “and not a single one where you say no.”

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282. “So maybe,” he whispered, “I could be made for this.”

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283. “Maybe he was used to being cowered at. I did not cower. Why should I? I’d already met death three times now. So far, the fourth was a bit of a disappointment. “I brought a gift for you,” I said. His brows lowered slightly. “A gift,” he repeated. “A gift.” He cocked his head, a slow curl brushing his lips. “Is the gift you?”

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284. “So many mistakes in the end,” he choked out. “Never you.”

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285. “Humans will follow a sweet lie to the ends of the earth. They will die for it, and they will kill for it.”

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286. “Take me to her,” I said. Acaeja smiled as she straightened. Her wings went dark as fate shifted. “Billions of threads,” she murmured, “and not a single one where you say no.”

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287. “We both knew it. He knew I knew it. He hated that I knew he knew it.”

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288. “A woman alone in this world sometimes needs to perform to make men take her seriously.”

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289. “Aja saraeta. Take my truth.”

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290. “And who the hell are we,” he finally said, voice low and thick, “to carry something so precious?”

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291. “To give someone that much of yourself. To give someone the power to destroy you.”

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292. “We all feel the same things, and we will still die trying to kill each other for it.”

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293. “We all have our regrets. Don’t follow yours to the grave.”

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294. “You think my life is worth nothing, but I can still leave a stain on you that can’t be washed out.”

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295. “If you can do it, I can do it.”

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296. “I was done hating myself for all my human weaknesses. No, I hated them for it.”

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297. “Finally, he received the very thing that his mentor had promised him that night – illumination into every dark corner of the world, power beyond anything he ever could have imagined. And he cared about none of it, because he was losing the love of his life.”

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298. “Whatever you need,” he said. “My blood. My books. My knowledge. Anything. It is yours.”

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299. “I am queen just as much as he is king. When we’ve reclaimed our kingdom, I intend to rule beside him as such.”

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300. “Mische Iliae, Dawndrinker or Shadowborn, living or dead, I will never let you go.”

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