Top 40 Cole McCade Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “She was a lioness, fierce in her roar.”

— Cole McCade

2. “It’d been a long time since she’d met a guy who could bring her down to earth – or follow her into the stars.”

— Cole McCade

3. “Life is just a series of new beginnings, my dear. Sometimes to move on, we have to be willing to let go.”

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4. “Do you want to die, Gabriel?” “No.” His hand fell to cover hers, heated and rough. “I just want that moment when the choice to live or die isn’t my responsibility. Not my life, or anyone else’s.” Pale eyes fixed on her. “More than anything, I want a reason to keep living.”

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5. “Someone else’s personal fantasy may well be your personal nightmare.”

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6. “We only define others by the value they have to us, and once they no longer provide that value, we let them go.”

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7. “We find beauty in poison, and we love the bitter taste.”

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8. “I’ve always had a thing for men with large hadron colliders.”

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9. “He was a single captured moment, a stillness amidst the chaos and noise, a dark ghost in the world of the living. Monochrome in his paleness and dark clothing, standing poised as if the crow would take flight – or the spirit would fade away, as dead as the boy lying blank and empty on the pavement.”

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10. “When looking across the horizon the world had a way of expanding, broadening beyond the tight narrow confines of the little boxes of pain humans tended to wall themselves into.”

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11. “You think you’ve forgotten how to dream,” he said, “but really... you’re just waiting for the right dream.”

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12. “All around us are complex people trying to live simple lives,” she said. “Wanting simple things with tangled hearts.”

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13. “But she looked for the emotions and they weren’t there; just scraps and tatters, clinging to the empty place where they belonged. She had no feeling left, hollowed out and lost and wondering how she’d ended up.”

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14. “I wanted to be the hero of my own story. Not the damsel. Heroically lost, heroically found.”

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15. “Letting go of the ring felt like letting go of that. Of that little girl’s daydream, one that had turned less into a nightmare and more into one long and dreamless night.”

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16. “He was in so many ways a stranger to Imre now; the boy he had been, that child who’d followed Imre everywhere, wasn’t in this young man who moved as though his body were made of music and laughter, who carried his hurts inside as if they were jewels to be hoarded, small and shining things that belonged to him and only him.”

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17. “As long as Imre was here with him, he was home.”

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18. “Maybe we are lost, and some of us just don’t want to be found.”

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19. “He does not know me. He does not know my background, or what culture or privilege I have experienced, or my tastes, or my education. That he judges based on my occupation and clothing is his problem, not mine.”

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20. “We’re all one form of addict or another.”

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21. “Have you ever felt like a train desperate to jump the tracks? I guess that’s me. I wanted to be a train wreck.”

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22. “That moment was when she realized that every woman is a broken goddess. Every last one.”

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23. “All because he knew how to use her in just the right way to make her feel loved.”

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24. “She’d always hated that. People who thought they knew her, who loved to tell her who she was and what she wanted, who swore they knew better than her own inner heart when she said No. No, that’s not me at all.”

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25. “Happiness is impossible,” he murmured. “We’ve just been conditioned to seek it. Pop culture and television promise it’s out there, some ideal if we just play our cards right. But it’s not real. It’s not true. Happiness isn’t something we’re genetically programmed for. We’re programmed to want – and the more we want, the farther we go.”

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26. “Not knowing someone is no reason not to help.”

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27. “Maybe she wasn’t on a path toward anything so dramatic as self-destruction, but hers was still a slow wasting, fading day by day, becoming more of a ghost with every breath she expelled and didn’t draw in again. Ghosts only haunted people, powerless to do anything. She’d made herself powerless, and didn’t know how to feel about that.”

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28. “Maybe I’m addicted to dissatisfaction and no matter how good I have it, I’ll never be happy.”

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29. “Sometimes it feels like everything in my head is fleeting and impermanent. I change from one minute to the next. I’m a different person every other day. And maybe that person doesn’t think the same things as the person she was two days ago, but there are some things she still doesn’t want to forget.”

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30. “Break me... and put me back together bright.”

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31. “There was something in Ashton. A quiet and aching need, a wordless plea that seemed to have gone unanswered for years. A question, searching in those dark blue eyes, and raising a buried and hungry thing inside Brand that whispered an answer.”

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32. “Nearly everyone I loved was taken from me in an instant, young Master Ashton. Is it so strange that what I should want most in the world is to keep the people I care for comfortable and safe?”

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33. “I don’t like when stories end.” “Why?” “Because it means that nothing that comes after seems to matter.”

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34. “He needed a story to go with her wildness, her coldness, her hollowness. The real story was that she’d had everything and hadn’t deserved it, when she’d still wanted something else to sate a broken twisting emptiness that couldn’t be filled.”

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35. “Do you know how it feels to be fire wrapped in a woman’s skin, but always feel like you’re drowning?”

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36. “It’s all right not to know what you want, little mouse. Some of the most interesting lives are led while trying to figure out just that.”

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37. “You skitter and flinch and run away.” His lips twitched. “This small thing living on the fringes, never wanting to be seen.”

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38. “Seong-Jae? Have you ever heard the term nice-nasty?” “I was raised by Asian parents.”

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39. “Sometimes those dark eyes were as black and forbidding as ebon blades – but sometimes they were the darkness and warmth of a deep and quiet night, looking out over the expanse of the heavens and a vast blackness full of mysteries and stars. Those stars in Seong-Jae’s eyes drew Malcolm to him, now, beckoning him with glimmering hints of emotion and sweetness and breathless unspoken things.”

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40. “Complexities only happen when we are indecisive, dear child.”

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