Top 60 Emily A. Duncan Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “One last fight, my love. Together, this time.” she whispered.”

— Emily A. Duncan

2. “Don’t be a martyr. We have no use for yet another saint.”

— Emily A. Duncan

3. “Truth is never kind.”

— Emily A. Duncan

4. “Bodies, so fragile, so mortal, but so resilient under pressure. They did not want to break.”

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5. “Let them fear her.”

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6. “If she tore out her own heart would this stop? If that was the thing betraying her, then she would be rid of it. Anything to stop from being pulled to this terrible boy.”

— Emily A. Duncan

7. “Where he was heat, she was ice and winter and cosmic fury.”

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8. “Blood and blood and bone. Magic and monsters and tragic power.”

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9. “What happens when a monster tries to become a god?”

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10. “He was a nightmare but he was gentle.”

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11. “Oh, is this how it goes? I’m murdered and everyone has orders to kill me on sight? Just to rub it in?”

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12. “You have plunged yourself into the dark where the monsters dwell; now you must fight them off before you’re consumed.”

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13. “We’re all monsters, Nadya.” Malachiasz said, his voice gaining a few tangled chords of chaos. “Some of us just hide it better than others.”

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14. “Are we so different, Nadya?” He lifted his hand, fingers tipped with long claws, and pressed his thumb against her lips. “We both long for freedom. For power. For a choice. We both want to see our kingdoms survive.”

— Emily A. Duncan

15. “Two thrones, two kings, two boys to plunge the world into darkness for the sake of saving it.”

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16. “Can you love someone and ask them to shatter themselves for you?”

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17. “Symbols fell from her lips like glowing glimmers of smoke and every star in the sky winked out.”

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18. “Dazzle the monsters, Nadya.”

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19. “You could be exactly what these countries need to stop their fighting. Or you could rip them apart at the seams.”

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20. “She looked at him just as he glanced down at her. She was in a thousand broken pieces and she didn’t know what to do.”

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21. “Mourn the loss later, survive now.”

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22. “Blood was not to be spilled for the sake of power.”

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23. “I wanted to show you peace.”

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24. “She wanted to, though. Cry like a village maid who’d had her heart broken, not a girl touched by the gods who fell for a monster and was devoured.”

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25. “This was going to kill her. This, right here, this beautiful boy and his monstrous power and his lies and the knowledge that nothing mattered, they would always betray each other in the end.”

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26. “Maybe you were never meant to save the world, daughter of death, maybe you are doing exactly what you were supposed to. You danced on the edge of darkness and light and you fell. You were always going to fall. The darkness was always going to have you. There has never been any escape from it. It was exactly what you were born for.”

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27. “Some scars aren’t so visible.”

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28. “A boy who is mortal and maybe a little divine.”

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29. “Once there was a boy who was shattered into pieces and put back together in the shape of a monster. Once there was a boy who clutched at the remnants of what he had left as it fell through his fingers. Once there was a boy who destroyed what little there was remaining because it wasn’t enough.”

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30. “We’re all monsters, Nadya, some of us just hide it better than others.”

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31. “He closed his eyes and his face was pleasant, peaceful. A monster king, feral and beautiful.”

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32. “Is she powerful enough to take the stars out of the sky?”

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33. “Things won’t seem as bleak in the morning. Morning is wiser than evening.”

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34. “She was only one girl; she didn’t want the fate of nations resting on her decisions.”

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35. “She would bring this country to its knees.”

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36. “They were cursed, thrown together by chance in Kalyazin, drawn together by circumstance but fated for opposite paths.”

— Emily A. Duncan

37. “You are a creature of darkness and chaos and starlight.”

— Emily A. Duncan

38. “Darkness was something he was intimately used to; darkness was nothing to him. He has lived and toiled and learned in darkness. This was both more than that and yet something else entirely.”

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39. “But this is who I am. It’s a blessing, not a curse.”

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40. “She wondered if that was what she had become, the thing that would cause this monster king to stumble away from his throne.”

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41. “Dazzle the monsters, Nadya. You’ve already charmed the worst of the lot; the rest should be easy.”

— Emily A. Duncan

42. “Then we can come to a different understanding.”

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43. “Intentions were not always kind nor just.”

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44. “How many false realities has he constructed for himself?”

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45. “This monstrous king could be undone by the touch of her lips.”

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46. “He was everything; he was nothing. She was torn apart in a thousand directions but there was only one and it was forward. There was nothing else but this.”

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47. “Monsters are real, and I am their king.”

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48. “When he stepped past her, a smile flickered at the edges of his lips. There was darkness at the corners, something evil just underneath the surface, sinister. He turned and grinned at her, monstrous but beatific, holding out his hand, darkness gone. Maybe she’d just imagined it. She took his hand.”

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49. “Less a boy, more a monster. Was that all he was? The silly boy who smiled too much and felt too deeply just a mask for the monster underneath?”

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50. “How does a human girl become something divine and feared by the gods that gave her the power she wields?”

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