Top 140 Danielle L. Jensen Quotes (2026 Update)
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51. “Dying was and easy thing to accomplish, effortless in its agony. It was living that was hard, requiring endless toil and labor, and for all one’s efforts, it could be stolen in an instant.”

— Danielle L. Jensen

52. “She knew he was right, but still she said, “I love you.” Aren only walked toward the door. He paused with his hand on the latch, before turning to look at her. “I’m sorry.” Then he disappeared into the night.”

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53. “Everything you’ve said, everything you’ve done, everything between us has been a damned lie.”

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54. “Killing was her specialty.”

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55. “I do want to remake the world so that I can be with you. So that I can get down on my knees and ask you to be my wife. So that I can put a crown on your head and make you my queen. So I can build a shrine and worship you as my goddess. I want all of these things, yet I face a future with none of them, and I don’t know whether I want to fall on my own blade or burn everything to ash because I do not want to let you go.”

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56. “They aren’t ugly.” I bit my lip, trying to find the right words. “more like beautiful things that have had the misfortune of being broken.”

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57. “And do us all a favor and keep your cock in your trousers and your eyes on the enemy for the rest of War Tides.”

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58. “She was right, and he knew it. But in his heart, he knew that even if he never saw her again for the rest of his life, it would never be over. She would always be his queen.”

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59. “The days grow darker, Killian,” she said. “And I think it will be in the absence of light that we all see who we truly are.”

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60. “And she didn’t deserve it. Didn’t deserve him.”

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61. “How am I supposed to get back to shore?” “You have a paddle,” he shouted back, a wild grin on his face as the wind caught at his hair. “Use it!”

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62. “You’re mine, Born-in-Fire,” he answered, reaching out to take my hand. “And I’m yours, even if only the two of us know it.”

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63. “Her fate is inked in her blood,” Harald said, giving a wry shake of his head. “It’s carved in her bones. This power is Freya’s destiny.”

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64. “Again, I was rendered nameless. Just a tool, just a weapon to be wielded by al the men around me. But I’d had enough.”

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65. “Having your back doesn’t mean agreeing to every wild scheme you come up with.”

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66. “Not all scars we earn are skin-deep, Freya Born-in-Fire. There is no less honor in them.”

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67. “Ithicana – and its king – bent to nothing and no one. But he bent for her.”

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68. “Alive isn’t living.”

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69. “What? Too good to scrub the skids from an old woman’s drawers?”

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70. “Failure always has a price, Freya. But it isn’t always paid by the one who fails.”

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71. “I didn’t know you were squeamish,” she said, and he noticed a slight tremor in her voice. “I’m not.” He fought the urge to pull away from her. “But I’m spectacularly vain.”

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72. “Matters of the heart do not bow to logic or reason. Anyone who does not understand that has either never lived or is devoid of a heart themselves.”

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73. “You hurt me but earned my forgiveness, and to deny it only makes the pain worse. Forgiving you frees me to feel things other than pain. I’m forgiving you for myself.”

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74. “This was how it was supposed to feel. Like standing on a cliff high above a turquoise sea, terrified to jump but desperate for the thrill of the fall.”

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75. “You will not die today, Born-in-Fire, because I will slaughter anyone who comes near you. That is a promise.”

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76. “Yet my fear faded to longing as I stared at the dark water. It whispered words promising relief from the grief that clawed at my heart. From the rage that plagued my soul. From the loneliness that hollowed my insides, for I had lost everything that mattered to me, including my purpose.”

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77. “Love makes men into fools.”

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78. “The sea reached for me, and my fingers slackened, my broken heart yearning for the respite from the pain. To be drawn down down down into the darkness.”

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79. “I’m not a good man, Keris. And if you insult Lara again, you’ll find out just how bad I can be.”

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80. “I wanted you the moment I first set eyes on you. I wanted you in Fjalltindr. I want you now, and tomorrow, and all the tomorrows, Freya.”

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81. “There is nothing I wouldn’t give you,” he said softly. “Nothing I wouldn’t do for you.”

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82. “You cannot vanquish my soul and steal my life, because they are bound to him. Just as his are bound to me.”

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83. “It was the wanting that made my life hard. If I could only stop wanting, perhaps I might find some happiness in what I had.”

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84. “Vengeance is a circle without end.”

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85. “They belonged with each other. To each other. Even if the rest of the world would never understand and would do everything it could to separate them.”

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86. “I love the whole of you!” he shouted back. “Even when you are as mean as a feral cat and say things that break my heart, I still love you!”

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87. “Then kill me now. He was across the room in a flash, scooping up a fallen dagger as he went, forcing it into her hand. Gripping her fingers tight over the hilt and then pressing it to his throat. Do it,” he repeated azure eyes liquid bright. “But know that my father will lift a cup of wine in your honor for ridding him of me.”

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88. “Come out and fight like your balls didn’t rot off decades ago!”

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89. “You told me once that if you truly believe in something, you should be willing to suffer for it. To die for it. Well, I think that if you truly believe in something, you should live for it.”

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90. “They changed the way I thought – once I could read, especially, it seemed the world grew in leaps and bounds with every passing day. There was so much I wanted to talk about, but no one wanted to listen.”

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91. “If one only knows one’s own mind on things, does one really know anything at all?”

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92. “Lara was a spy. The woman he’d goddamned fallen in love with was a spy.”

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93. “And the shock that blossomed on his face as she sank her knife into his chest.”

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94. “All of me is yours, Freya. It may not be equal measure to your value, but it’s all I have.”

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95. “I love you,” he said, and I turned my head, feeling my temple brush against the stubble of his chin as I whispered, “You have my heart.”

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96. “We can choose where we go and what we do, and no one, not even the gods, can stop us, because we are the undated. We make our own destiny. Together.”

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97. “But I wanted to do more than just survive. I wanted my days to be more than time I needed to endure. I wanted to live them, to relish them.”

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98. “You will not die tonight, she silently chanted. Not tonight.”

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99. “He was ever and always the rock at my back. My love. My life.”

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100. “So many of those in my life were content to take and take from me, leaving me a barren well. Bjorn alone had taken nothing, asked for nothing, but given me so much. Around him I felt so full, so alive, and I burned with the need to give all of myself to him. To hold nothing back, not my heart, not my soul.”

— Danielle L. Jensen