Top 450 J.R. Ward Quotes (2026 Update)
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101. “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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102. “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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103. “Next time say my name. You’ll come more.”

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

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

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

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107. “I have dreamed of touching you.”

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108. “Okay, well... how’s that water feeling, then?′ ‘Excuse me?’ ‘The Nile warm this time of the year?”

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109. “He tasted each one of them. The raw power and majesty of Wrath. The vast strength of Rhage. The burning, protective loyalty of Phury. The cold savagery of Zsadist. The sharp cunning of Vishous.”

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110. “Yeah, but going by that cold tone of voice, she had to wonder whether the best-laid plans of mice and vampires, blah, blah, blah...”

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111. “But then this one time, at band camp.”

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112. “Because love, after all, was eternal and not subject to the whims of death.”

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113. “I’m not strong enough for this,” he whispered in her ear – like he didn’t want anyone to hear that coming out of his mouth. Ever. Running her hands up his powerful back, she held him just as hard. “But I am.”

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114. “The quick and the dead are all the same. Everyone’s just looking for home.”

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115. “Indeed, the human mind appeared to suffer from a crippling need to fabricate in the absence of concrete proof.”

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116. “I think not all things have to be spoken to be understood.”

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117. “Sometimes the fact that you were forced to be strong.”

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118. “V shook his head. “Remember what you saw in that clearing, cop? How’d you like that anywhere near a female you loved?” Butch put down the Bud without drinking from it. His eyes traveled over Rhage’s body. “We’re going to need a shitload of steel,” the human muttered.”

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119. “I could take you down on this sidewalk and be up that skirt of yours in a heartbeat. And you wouldn’t fight me, would you? No, she probably wouldn’t. Wrath and Beth.”

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120. “Are you wet for me, Mary? I think you are. I think you’re covered with honey.”

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121. “With his fantastic mane of multicoloured hair, Phury should have been in Hollywood’s league with the ladies, but he’d stuck with his vow of celibacy. There was room for one and only one love in his life, and it had been slowly killing him for years.”

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122. “I’m here. Where’s my chauffeur hat?” “Here, use mine,” Butch said, outing a B Sox cap and throwing it over. “It’ll help that hair of yours.” The angel caught the thing on the fly and stared at the red S. “I’m sorry, I can’t.” “Do not tell me you’re a Yankees fan,” V drawled. “I’ll have to kill you, and frankly, tonight we need all the wingmen we’ve got.” Lassiter tossed the cap back. Whistled. Looked casual.”

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123. “You’ve won the evolutionary lottery: You’re a vampire. Let’s go to Disneyland!”

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124. “Man, it was a good thing he fought like a nasty bastard or he might have been taken for a nancy.”

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125. “Too late Bella. Now, it’s too late. Show me.”

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126. “If sex were food, Rhage would have been morbidly obese.”

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127. “Lassiter,” Ad and Colin said together. At the sound of the name, even Devina rolled her eyes. “Oh, Christ. Him again.”

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128. “Still, good boys liked to make their moms happy, and Blay had always been a good boy. His.”

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129. “Looking at herself in the mirror. And for the first time in her life, she respected what she saw. Bowing to her reflection, she said softly, “Pleased to meet you.”

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130. “United by their clasped hands, they became again the two halves, the light and the dark. The Destroyer and the Savior. A whole.”

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131. “You like to be chased, nalla,” Z said in a voice so deep it distorted. Bella’s smile got even wider as she backed up into a corner. “Maybe.” “So run some more, why don’t you.”

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132. “Are you kidding me?” he blurted out loud as Howard Stern’s voice piped into his skull. “Eric the Actor is d – ” Selena’s brows tightened like she was considering waking up and he closed his piehole. But he couldn’t believe another wack packer had been lost. It just seemed cruel in light of everything he was going through.”

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133. “And God help them both, if it hadn’t been for Saxton, Qhuinn would have dropped the l-word right then and there, even though the timing was stupid.”

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134. “Z knew the fed EX-tinction package had arrived and wasn’t ready to take delivery.”

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135. “I’m coming back at the end of the night. Be naked.” “Wouldn’t you rather undress me?” “No, because I’d shred that shirt, and I want you sleeping in it every night until you’re in my bed with me. Be. Naked.” “We’ll see.” His whole body throbbed at the disobedience. And she knew it, her stare level and erotic. “God, I love you,” he said.”

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136. “But every once in a while, from out of the blue, someone reaches the quiet place where you spend your private time and changes the way you see yourself.”

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137. “Gallows humor is part of having a doctor in the house. Deal with it.”

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138. “Because when I looked at you across that table at the diner, no one else existed. And whether or not anything happens between you and me, it took meeting you to show me what I was missing.”

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139. “Love was worth sacrificing for, he thought as he left his room. Even if it wasn’t yours. -Phury’s thoughts.”

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140. “Strong relationships are not rocked by a truth that is grounded by resolute monogamy.”

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141. “It finally happened, he thought as he burrowed under his shirt and took hold of his heavy cross. All his life he’d wondered why he’d never fallen in love, and now he knew: He’d been waiting for this moment, this woman, this time. The female is mine, he thought. – Manny.”

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142. “This is the problem with lying, Axe. You do it once, and the other person has no idea what else you’ve been untruthful about. I come from a family of lies and silence. I can’t go into that shadow world with someone I’m intimate with. Moreover, I won’t do it. I told you in the beginning, honesty is the most important thing.”

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143. “Zebra print leggings. A black leather jacket. Boots as big as your head, a pink feather boa, blue jeans, Hanes T-shirts in white and black –.”

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144. “Tragedy, like love, makes people blind.”

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145. “Turned out Qhuinn was a snuggler. Who knew – and how fabulous.”

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146. “But of course, time didn’t work like that. And memory was but a television show of your own life, a movie screen you could play witness to, but not interact with, change the course of, redirect.”

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147. “As her eyes scanned his face, he feared that she saw everything, right down t the core of him. Where his obsession with her was the strongest. -Butch and Marissa.”

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148. “To his mind, free will was a privilege, not a right.”

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149. “You’ve got nothing to worry about. The righteous do not always right, but their souls remain pure. -Lassiter the Angel.”

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150. “Pigs flying. Hell freezing over. Miley planting her twerking ass in a chair and keeping it there as a public service.”

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