Top 450 J.R. Ward Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “Even when there were no more options for the body, the heart’s wishes find a way out, and as with all warmth, love rises. Besides, the will to fly was in the nature of the soul, so its home had to be up above.”

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52. “Man, life was complicated. But the truth was simple. He was her home. He was where she belonged.”

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53. “We don’t have to talk about Zsadist. That’s okay. He’s the most interesting part of me.”

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54. “I’m on the benevolent side of antisocial. I don’t mind people, but I’d prefer not to have a lot of them around.”

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55. “Time keeps on... slippin’... slippin’... slippin’ into the future.”

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56. “Humans are threatened by anything different, and their response is to fight. They’re bullies, picking on the weak, cowering from the strong.”

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57. “Vampire porn does not go out of style.”

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58. “When she orgasmed, she said his name. Twice. And didn’t it make him glad that even though he had no voice, his ears worked just fine. –JM.”

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59. “Those deep hazel eyes held his and didn’t blink. “You’d be amazed what I would do to keep you alive.” Abruptly, V’s mouth opened, his breath growing tight. And as the two of them stood chest-to-chest, he knew every inch of his body, felt it all at once.”

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60. “I wish I were whole. I wish I could have given you youngs, if you’d wanted them and I could conceive them. I wish I could have told you it killed me when you thought I had been with anyone else. I wish I had spent the last year waking up every night and telling you I loved you. I wish I had mated you properly the evening you came back to me from the dead.”

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61. “Hello, Doctor. It’s your man.”

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62. “A book unopened alters not the ink on it’s pages.”

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63. “Some bridges you crossed on your own, no matter who drove you to the edge.”

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64. “I would hold you up. I will ever hold you up and hold you dear, lover mine.”

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65. “As much as we have free choice, absolute destiny is immutable. What is meant to happen does, through one measure or another.”

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66. “Even the powerful needed protection sometimes.”

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67. “Sometimes the fact that you were forced to be strong was enough to actually turn you into what you had to be.”

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68. “Way too many people cloaked themselves in the mantle of victimhood, creating a vacuum of identity that they expected the world to rush in and fill with compassion that was undeserved.”

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69. “Life is short, no matter how many days you are granted. People are precious, each and everyone, no matter how many your are lucky enough to have in you life. Love... Love is worth dying for.”

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70. “Voy a amarte tanto, y durante tanto tiempo, de que te vas a convencer de que ninguna cosa terrenal pudo haber unido nuestros destinos.”

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71. “In that moment, Xcor thought of each of his fighters. Zypher, the sexual conqueror. Balthazar, the thief. Syphon, the assassin. And the other one who had no name, and too many sins to count. So he was referred to as Syn.”

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72. “Saxton glanced at Ruhn. The male was likewise examining the portrait, and for some reason, whatever opinion he was forming seemed terribly important. Did he find her attractive? Did he want to meet her? As an unattached male, with an invitation from the head of the household, it would not be inappropriate for him to engage in a supervised meeting. He was not an aristocrat, and neither were Minnie and her clan, but there were still rules of conduct to be considered.”

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73. “The smile he gave her was wistful, just a little lift to his mouth. “You are a fighter.” “”Yes. Always. And sometimes I’m a whole army.”

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74. “Loneliness was just like winter, he decided. Cold and pervasive, trapping you inside your own head because what was outside was so inhospitable. Was he never going to be warm again?”

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75. “Vengeance was one hell of a roommate.”

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76. “When I want you to beg, I’ll tell you.”

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77. “Great rationalizations. All of which her adrenal gland middle-fingered and then carried right on.”

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78. “Bienvenido al maravilloso mundo de los celos. Por el precio de su entrada, obtiene un maldito dolor de cabeza, un deseo casi irresistible de cometer un homicidio. Y un complejo de inferioridad. Yupi.”

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79. “God does not give us more than we can handle.”

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80. “He wanted her nails in his back and her tongue in his mouth and her hips rocking under his until he came so hard he saw stars. Then he wanted to sleep with her in his arms afterward. And wake up and eat and make love again. And talk in the dark about things both stupid and serious – Oh, God. He was bonding with her. The bonding thing was happening.”

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81. “Next time you think of me like that, say my name when you come. It’ll get you off even better.”

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82. “In the oh-my-God-this-has-to-be-Christmas silence that followed, he struggled to reorder the last six months, to catch up with this reality they’d somehow missed. He wanted her. She wanted him. Was it true?”

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83. “The impending separation from love, more than the ending of life, had kept all that faith alive. It was the hope of having a little more time to love that had made her mother hold crosses, and look to the faces of statues, and cast words up into the air.”

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84. “I’m going to love you so good and so long you’re gonna be convinced no earthly thing could have brought us together.”

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85. “Though she remained earthbound, the freedom in her soul made her fly.”

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86. “Phury glanced at John and thought that sometimes it took only a hairbreadth between cars to avoid a mortal accident. Sometimes your whole life could hinge on a fraction of an inch. Or the beat of a nanosecond. Or the knock on a door. Kind of made a male believe in the divine.”

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87. “The half-human was the hottest thing he’d ever gotten anywhere near. And he’d cozied up to a lightning strike once or twice before.”

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88. “To her, saving grace meant you got to live out your life like a normal person: You were healthy and strong, an the prospect of death was just some far-off, barely acknowledged hypothetical. A debt to be paid off in a future you couldn’t imagine.”

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89. “It was Zsadist. His eyes closed, his head back, his mouth wide open, he sang. The scarred one, the soulless one, had the voice of an angel.”

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90. “Otherwise, three little words would have leaked from his mouth. And undoubtedly doomed him in ways he couldn’t even guess at. Bad time. Bad place. For that kind of thing. Forever.”

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91. “Jane: Focus is important. V: Only if you’re a microscope.”

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92. “Here.” She held out her stuffed tiger. “This is Mastimon. He has always protected me. You can hold him now.”

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93. “The past is safe because it is indelible.”

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94. “Love’em or hate’em, by blood or by heart, family was a kind of oxygen. Necessary for the living.”

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95. “Man, that did his ego good. Matter of fact, she hit him with anything like that again, he was going to feel like he could bench-press a city bus. With a jet plane on its roof.”

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96. “You can trust me, Novo. I’m not going to hurt you. I promise.”

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97. “After all, tragedy didn’t discriminate, so everyone was subject to the same whims of fate.”

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98. “The thing with true family, from everything he’d learned? Sometimes they shared DNA with you. Sometimes they didn’t. And given that the blood connection only went so far, the friends you chose were what made up the slack when your relatives sucked.”

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99. “He knew he was being overbearing as hell, but he couldn’t help it. He was a bonded male. With his pregnant female. There were few things on the planet more aggressive or dangerous. And those bastards were called hurricanes and tornadoes.”

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100. “With all of my black and withered heart, I love you, my female.”

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