Top 40 Faith Hunter Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “You don’t have to shout from the mountaintops. Sometimes power comes in a soft, calm, compassionate way, like a quiet warrior.”

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2. “But nothing in life was set in stone and nothing in life is promised us. Not happiness, not joy, not love. Everything was variable and mutable and inconstant.”

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3. “Never admit you’re wrong when silence lies that you’re right.”

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4. “For a reason or a season,′ he said. ‘For a year or a lifetime. For a poem or a song. For a victorious battle or a bloody death. For honor. I would stand by you for as long as I might live.”

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5. “The man was so smooth he wouldn’t slide on an oil slick.”

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6. “Crap was not a bad word. It was the shortened name of the marketing genius of the best known flush toilet, John Crapper. Really.”

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7. “Walk softly and carry a big stick. Or stomp loudly and carry enough firepower to start a small war. Whatever worked.”

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8. “Really sucked the red off of all my candy.”

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9. “You hurt her and I’ll skin you alive and feed your carcass to the wild boars in the swamps. You copy?”

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10. “New beginnings often started with the broken bits and shattered pieces of the old.”

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11. “Chicken, yeah, that’s me. I’d rather fight an old rogue-vamp in my underwear, with my bare hands, than deal with relationship problems.”

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12. “I figured even the most jaded and cynical inhabitant might report a bloody girl in a party dress carrying a severed head by its hair.”

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13. “We don’t poison. We shoot, stab, cut, slice and dice, eviscerate, disembowel, and decapitate. Sometimes shoot and blow up our enemies. We’ve been known to bury our dead in the swamp. But we don’t poison. Poison is wussy.”

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14. “How can you stay worried when someone gives you warm chocolate chip cookies?”

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15. “Your hands are clean. Not stained with blood. You need not carry the blood of your men. Only their memories.” Eli.”

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16. “I love you, Nell, sugar. I love you with no demands. Nothing held back. I love you to the exclusion of all others. I love you now, when you are the most beautiful woman I’ve ever seen. I loved you when you were a tree. I will love you when you grow gray haired and your leaves are brittle and brown. I want to make love to you. When you happen to be ready. When you know you love me that exact same way.”

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17. “As a vamp killer for hire, I travel light.”

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18. “You deserve someone who will honor you first and last. And if you choose a man who dishonors you, then you are not the woman I believe you to be.”

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19. “I chose these things because they seemed to speak to the heart of you. To the deep darkness that is part of you. That still, lightless, solemn place where, I think, no one has ever gone.”

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20. “I have a daughter who is a lesbian and married to her witch partner for the past fifteen years. My wife and I lost her years ago through misunderstanding and judgmental attitudes and sheer, blind stupidity. I am no longer so foolish to think God sees her lifestyle with greater ire than he does my judgments.” “The.”

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21. “Nothing so good as bein’ right with Jesus, my sister.” I was being evangelized by an ex-con.”

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22. “Thank you, Sabina. Oh. One more thing. Tonight, a white werewolf stuck in wolf form, one who met the angel Hayyel, ran up and bit the foot of Joses Bar-Judas. Should I be worried?”

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23. “Beast had once informed me that humans were hunters only by luck and because they had opposable thumbs.”

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24. “Vamps who are dying, or think they are, give a piercing, eardrum-bursting shriek, like the love child of a screech owl and a mountain lion on crystal meth, amplified like a seventies rock band.”

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25. “They go in a vase. On the nighstand by your bed. Or on the kitchen table. Or on the coffee table in the living room. They go where you can see them most often, and, seeing them, remember that you deserve flowers.”

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26. “Alarm stole over me on little kitten feet.”

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27. “Admitting that Katie had taken too much blood was on par with saying an adult human had pooped their pants or eaten their own boogers!”

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28. “I could be patient. I could. If they’d hurry up.”

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29. “I didn’t need protecting and men seemed to sense that. It bothered a lot of them.”

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30. “From upstairs Molly shouted down, “You try carrying a baby for nine months while chemicals and hormones run through your body making you nutso and fat and swollen and then push an eight-pound lump of squalling human out through an opening big enough to fit a straw in and see if you don’t react from time to time. Until then, shut your trap.”

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31. “Silly thing, kissing. Licking better.”

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32. “Holy Necrophilia, Batman.”

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33. “I stopped humans to talk about the weather. I wasn’t the chatty type, but their surprise at my noticing them seemed odd. I always noticed – the way they moved, the way they smelled – I just didn’t engage in useless conversation. Even now. This convo about the weather was important because the weather was not acting like itself.”

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34. “There is no going back. There is no revival of our humans. There is no erasure of our horrors. No healing except of time and she is a vengeful mistress, leaving scars that are forever. But there also is no proof of foreknowledge, only of twenty-twenty hindsight. You guessed. You did not know. Knowing is only for God.”

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35. “Do you cook too?” he asked, the tone teasing. “ ‘Cause any woman who does a weapon striptease, handles a Benelli like she knows how to use it, and can cook, pushes all my buttons.”

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36. “Seemingly useless bits of knowledge often were the difference between success and failure.”

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37. “If I accepted, Edmund would be our vampire servant.” “Come to think of it, that sounds all kinds-a classy. He could clean our toilets. See you soon, babe.”

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38. “And did you find the safe Leo mentioned? Is it already open?” Eli’s lips twitched. “Yes. And not yet. I thought about blowing it up, but it might make a mess of the room.”

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39. “The aroma of tea mixed with the scent of old books, leather chairs, and wool from the carpet in a soothing fusion.”

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40. “I figured Katie was likely swimming in blood. Ick. I looked at the moon and judged that the bloodletting took over two hours before Sabina called a halt by saying words I didn’t understand, in French, or Latin, or Mandarin for all I knew.”

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41. “Jodi in tactical gear was something to behold. Pert, a lot shorter than I am, blond hair tucked under a helmet, cinched into body armor never intended to mold to the body of a curvy woman. Ugly but efficient attire. Someone needs to talk to armor designers about female body shapes and style.”

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42. “Hey, my brother,” Eli said, sounding friendly and casual. “Let’s chat about this first, before I hafta kill you and then figure out where to bury the body. Though I’m thinking out in a bayou, somewhere close to gators, you dig?”

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43. “Dang ninja vamp. Eli.”

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44. “After a time, old pain became like a living being, with breath and self-determination.”

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45. “Once means happenstance, twice means coincidence, three times means enemy action.”

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46. “This is your fear,” Aggie said to me, her voice like the breath of the cave, slow and low. “Being chained. But you are skinwalker. You cannot be chained.”

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47. “Money didn’t buy happiness, but it did let me have pretty things.”

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