Top 200 Cynthia Hand Quotes (2025 Update)
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101. “My fortune read, It’s never too late to become what one could have been.”

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102. “Do any of us have a choice where destiny is concerned?”

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103. “Who on earth could feel comfortable enough to sleep in a room with no books? Edward.”

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104. “He’s not meeting my eyes anymore. “We’re young,” he says. “We’ve got lots of time to fall in love.”

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105. “But my anger was a slippery thing, like a fish I was trying to keep hold of, and it wiggled out of my grasp.”

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106. “This man, this impostor of a man, can kill my body but he can’t touch my soul.”

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107. “The whole place seemed like the look-don’t-touch kind of home. Perfectly manicured. Never enjoyed.”

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108. “When a man hits a target, they call him a marksman. When I hit it, they call it a trick. Never did like that much. – Annie Oakley I figure, if a girl wants to be a legend, she should just go ahead and be one. – Calamity Jane.”

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109. “I’m glad we will not be forced to live by your quill, because I am rather used to having food on the table. But, I appreciate the effort behind those words.”

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110. “Even though he knew the Shadow King would trap them both, he couldn’t just leave her to her fate. There’s such a beauty in that. Choosing love, no matter what it costs.”

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111. “Clara,” he says, my name sounding different somehow when it passes through his lips. “I’ll miss you.”

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112. “Of course I’ve been lying. I’m a politician.”

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113. “A radiant girl with red hair caught Charlotte’s eye. She was dressed in a gorgeous embroidered, jewel-encrusted gown and Elizabethan headdress. In her hand she held a book. She smiled sweetly at Jane, and reached for the man beside her, who, to Charlotte’s total astonishment, suddenly turned into a horse.”

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114. “It takes my breath away. Well, that, and I just climbed all those stairs.”

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115. “If it’s all about desire, why do you not desire to be a man?”

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116. “I see something like fear on his face. What if I’m an alien invader trying to lure him to a secluded place so I can suck his brains out? Or a vampire, ravenous for his blood?”

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117. “Don’t be sorry for how you feel. Feel what you need to feel. Own your feelings.”

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118. “Public poetry readings were known to be a rough business, especially when presenting new material. A man could lose a lot more than just his pride.”

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119. “Tucker doesn’t see me right away. He smiles the way he does when he delivers the punch line for a joke, a wry, knowing little flash of teeth and dimple. I melt seeing that smile, remembering the times when it’s been aimed at me.”

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120. “Okay, that was, I have to say, about the cheesiest thing I ever heard in my life,” I say to Angela as we’re milling around afterward. We hug, so Billy can take our picture. “I mean, seriously. Just be? You should write ads for Nike.”

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121. “No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of it for anyone else’?”

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122. “We are each a part of the universe.”

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123. “I’ve read all the books we have.” She wrinkled her nose. “Armies aren’t very good about carrying libraries with them. I can’t imagine why. We’d fight so much less if everyone would just sit down and read.” Gifford’s.”

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124. “A string of very un-angelic curse words come to mind.”

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125. “I’ve seen the future all my life,′ she says. ‘It tends to work as a paradox, in my experience. You find out something is going to happen, and then you do it because you know that’s what happens. It’s a chicken-or-the-egg scenario.”

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126. “I shouldn’t have concerned myself with whether he’d keep his promise. I should have thought about whether I’d keep mine.”

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127. “You should try to be nicer to the other horses. You’re herd animals. Who will you run with if he goes back to tell the others of your two-faced personality? Who will you compare apple notes with? Soon you won’t have any friends but me.”

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128. “The key to a successful dance is to make it seem like you can’t help yourself. You look into your partner’s eyes, as if that gaze binds you while your body moves to the music.”

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129. “He still had a sense of wonder that gets shamed out of the majority of the teenage population by the time we turn 18. He still loved things about the world.”

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130. “Everybody feels pain.”

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131. “A word is not simply a word.”

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132. “Never in any Jane Austen novel did the love interest pretend to be a fortune-teller,” Helen said, “Why would someone do that?”

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133. “Behold, Tucker Avery,” she says to me, gesturing up at him.”

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134. “A light comes on in his eyes. “Sure, why not? A date with Queen Elizabeth.” He smiles.”

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135. “Just because we’re girls doesn’t mean you have to coddle us.”

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136. “Fox Creek Road. Such a simple, unassuming name for this place where destiny’s going to go down. Now I know the where. And the who, and the what. All I have to figure out is the when. And the why.”

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137. “Sometimes it had taken her hours or days to recover from a particularly emotional book, but there’d always been another to take her mind off the anguish.”

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138. “I don’t particularly want Kay to be a good person. I’m perfectly comfortable thinking about her as the wicked witch.”

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139. “He wanted to tell her she’d have more room if she’d just get rid of her books, but he supposed that in her case, it would be like telling a mother she’d have more room if she threw out her children.”

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140. “Love is a choice I’ve made. A verb. And that, because I believe in it, because I act on it is real. Love is a very real thing to me.”

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141. “Firstly, bears are always hungry. So when you encounter the bear, don’t act like food.”

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142. “On everyone’s lap rested a book. Any book. In case the wedding got boring. As the priest droned on in the same manner as last time, Jane was both pleased and annoyed that no one was taking advantage of her thoughtfulness.”

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143. “On everyone’s lap rested a book. Any book. In case the wedding got boring.”

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144. “What my wife desires – and what you should have guessed, had you paid attention – is bookcases. And books, of course, to fill them. Not more decorations or useless items. She wants books.”

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145. “Even the wind had died.”

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146. “Words were good. But sometimes they were simply inadequate.”

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147. “Edward couldn’t imagine his cousin Jane with a husband and a child, even though she was sixteen years old and sixteen was a bit spinsterish, by the standards of the day.”

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148. “One of my maids forgot the fruit with my breakfast. I became a skunk and sprayed her.”

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149. “Brave isn’t something you are. It’s something you do.”

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150. “But she was a writer, so while she did get this moment of thinking herself somewhat brilliant, it would soon be offset by a crippling doubt that she had a gift of words at all. Such is the way with all writers. Trust us.”

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