Top 100 Charlie N. Holmberg Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “Time is the best healer, my grandmother used to say, but it is a cruel master that takes pleasure in my torment and withholds its salve.”

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2. “Everyone has a dark side! But it’s their choice whether or not they cultivate it.”

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3. “Her spirit felt too big for her body, blooming like a wild rose.”

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4. “But she still had time. Surely she still had time. Stories like this one weren’t meant to end badly.”

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5. “What about my mistakes? I think about them, too, but where would I be if I thought of nothing else? What sort of person would I be if I drowned in them?”

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6. “Without a soul, she doesn’t have a will.”

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7. “How many men can honestly say a woman has walked their heart?” he asked. “But I can. And if you’ll have me, I’d like you to stay there.”

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8. “I feel capable of achieving anything, for nothing worldly can possibly hold me back from my ambitions now.”

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9. “You’re a candle that won’t be snuffed, and now the darkest parts of this world can see you. And they don’t tolerate the light.”

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10. “I smiled, feeling more peaceful than I had in years. My curse had become another’s blessing. How wonderful, to give this to them.”

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11. “I don’t know how many women can claim to have walked a man’s heart, but I’ve walked yours, Emery Thane. And I like the dog.”

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12. “I love you like a nephew – a nephew, mind you, not a son – but so long as you’re involved in the things you’re involved with, you can’t keep coming to my door.”

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13. “The textbook industry must be doing remarkably well.” “Textbooks?” “Last I heard, that was Prit’s specialty. Enchanted textbooks that rewrite themselves depending on the student’s reading level, diagrams that pop off the page, and the like. Very popular in America.”

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14. “It’s like you have a checklist for dangerous criminals tucked into your pocket, and you won’t be satisfied until you’ve had a personal encounter with each.”

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15. “Once a secret spread to too many minds and mouths, anyone could learn it.”

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16. “Sometimes I wonder if it’s better to be informed or ignorant. Or, rather, informed and depressed, or ignorant and happy.”

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17. “Threats on your well-being are poor excuses for missing homework!”

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18. “For happiness has wings, and when burdened by the things a man should want, Garen could not reach it.”

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19. “I guess I’ve just taken what bits and pieces I felt were right for me and made my own faith with them. Faith is a very personal thing, really. Just because you don’t meet with a group of people once a week who believe everything exactly the way you do doesn’t mean you don’t believe in something.”

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20. “Why else would one read unbelievable stories but in hopes of believing? I always saw novels as an outlet for which the mind can escape this world, not be tethered to it.”

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21. “The heart had the dark to balance out the light, the uncertainty to balance dreams.”

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22. “But even beautiful things must end, for even most of a soul cannot change what Maekallus is.”

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23. “How many does she own?” “Four.” “I think that’s two cats too many for anyone,” Ceony said.”

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24. “I kiss him, and another piece of myself breaks. In its wake, I’m left cold and hollow.”

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25. “Her entire body became a heartbeat.”

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26. “A double-edged sword was more useful than no weapon at all.”

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27. “He wore normal clothes, but his dark skin contrasted with the rest of the bystanders.”

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28. “The clouds looked like ethereal creatures, sky-fish swimming across the blue expanse, following the sun to the other side of the world.”

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29. “But a man doesn’t have to have dark magic to do dark things.”

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30. “Ceony nodded, feeling an unseen band of rubber stretch between her and Emery as he turned to go.”

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31. “I’ve been shot to hell, haven’t I?” “Language, love.”

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32. “He finally had something worth going home to.”

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33. “I just need to find some old rich man to marry.” “And that’s not a handout?” Her sister smirked. “To suffer through a marriage like that? I’d be earning my allowance.”

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34. “You and I, we’ll always be different. There will always be something wild in us. Others will see what they want. It’s always been that way.”

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35. “Could you please not be tender while I tell you what a terrible person I am?”

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36. “Monsters are only ever fascinating from afar.”

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37. “I’ve eaten meat only once, and when I learned of it, I emptied my stomach into the latrine. Behind.”

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38. “Never dismiss the value of entertainment, Ceony. Good-quality entertainment is never free, and it’s something everyone wants.”

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39. “Secrets make friendships fonder, no?”

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40. “The mind and heart are two separate entities, and one cannot control the other.”

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41. “Stop thinking like a fictional character.”

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42. “She thought her ears would light with fire, her cheeks burn to ash, but the moment passed, as even the worst moments do.”

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43. “He was still as an oak trunk, silent as a candle.”

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44. “Curse Emery Thane for being such a difficult man to rescue!”

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45. “Mad Olia had a lot to say, and most of it was nonsensical, if it could be understood at all. Like bad poetry spoken underwater.”

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46. “Or maybe it’s a madness that I can learn to appreciate.”

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47. “I suppose after you see so much, the extraordinary starts to become more ordinary.”

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48. “When one believes in oneself, even the extraordinary is possible.”

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49. “Her head full of clouds, but not in the dreamy sense. Just the empty one.”

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50. “Sometimes, darling, you don’t have to say it out loud.”

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