Top 450 J.R. Ward Quotes (2024 Update)
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201. “What’s up with the statue routine?” Trez muttered. “Someone move your My Little Pony collection again?”

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202. “Letting go meant you accepted what couldn’t be changed. You didn’t try to hold on to hope in order to coerce a change in fortune... nor did you battle against superior forces of fate and try to make them capitulate to your will... nor did you beg for salvation because you assumed you knew better. Letting go meant you stared at what was before you with clear eyes, recognizing that unfettered choice was the exception and destiny the rule.”

— J.R. Ward

203. “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.”

— J.R. Ward

204. “I fell in love with one. And he fell in love with me.” And then I died and his mother brought me back to life – it’s great to have demigods as in-laws.”

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205. “Uh-huh, right. Let me count all the ways you and I aren’t going there.”

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206. “A leader gathered his thoughts before he spoke; he did not rush to the podium to be adored. Ego, after all, was the root of evil.”

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207. “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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208. “When she didn’t say anything more, he frowned, thinking this was the pair of them in a nutshell: Standing three feet away from each other and being separated by miles.”

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209. “Right? That’s exactly what I think. He’s a tough number, aren’t you, Rhamp? Also poops out toxic waste. You’ll learn that later.”

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210. “Stuff was nice. Love was better. Refocusing on Novo, he said, “I would rather be in a hovel with you than a castle with anybody else.”

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211. “Whoa. Fangs. She had fangs. She leaned in, prodded them a little. Eating with those puppies was going to take some getting used to, she thought. On impulse, she brought up her hands, turned her fingers into claws. Hissed. Cool.”

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212. “You sure about this?” he asked in a guttural voice. “I get down on that mattress right now, I’m not stopping until I’m inside of you.”

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213. “Fear of change was a weakness.”

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214. “That scent she threw off was not anything by Chanel. Unless they’d recently added a Tragedy line.”

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215. “Lassiter had been the wild card, and he had not lasted. Distracted by physical yearnings, he had gotten into epic trouble and been banished, lost to a destiny and destination of which Colin was only vaguely aware.”

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216. “I always root for the monster.”

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217. “Did television execs have souls? Now, that was an existential question and a half.”

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218. “You don’t have to be searching to find what you need.”

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219. “My buddy’s just being an ass. It’s his life’s work.” “Everyone needs a purpose.”

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220. “She didn’t question the need to have him inside of her. She only knew that she was going to die if he didn’t take his pants off. Now.”

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221. “Nothing that passes between us will ever be wrong. Come back to me.”

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222. “Got a problem.” “I can’t fix your personality, sorry.” Lassiter laughed, the sound ringing through the house like church bells. “No. I like myself just as I am, thank you.” “Can’t help your delusional nature, either.”

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223. “As Jane stared at Vishous and felt his body against hers, she knew she was never letting him go. Ever. And she also knew that if they could make it through the past week, they had the staying power that good marriages – or matings – required.”

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224. “He thought about all the holes in him, the blank places, the voids where others felt things. When it came down to it, he was really just a screen, more empty than solid, his emotions blowing through him, only angry catching and holding.”

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225. “V tired to imagine giving up his proclivities. “My monster needs to get out. Especially now.”

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226. “Among the problems with shame was that it in fact did not make you shorter or quieter or less visible. You just felt like you were.”

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227. “You don’t know this yet,” he said grimly. “But you are mine.”

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228. “Butch didn’t live in his own place. He didn’t spend his own money. He had no job, no future. He was a well-kept pet, not a man.”

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229. “And I will always be your warrior, Mary mine. Always and forever.” Mary.”

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230. “As the vampire trailed a fingertip along the girl’s collarbone, she appeared to fall into a trance. It was not mind games on Zypher’s part. Females of both races couldn’t help themselves around him.”

— J.R. Ward

231. “After a moment the king said, “So be it.” Zsadist cursed. Butch whistled low. Rhage bit into a Tootsie Pop.”

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232. “I don’t bite,” Saxton whispered darkly. “Unless you ask.” Blay.”

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233. “She nodded, wondering why couldn’t she have been named Mary. Or Sue. Butno, she had to be nine-letter Elizabeth.”

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234. “An overwhelming, possessive instinct flashed through him. With dread, he realized he wanted to mark her. Mark her as his. He wanted that special scent all over her so no other male would come near her. So that they would know whom she belonged to. So that they would fear the repercussions of wanting to possess her for themselves. Except.”

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235. “Still, he forced himself to think of what Mary always said about emotions. You weren’t responsible for them and you couldn’t control them, but you were in charge of your response to them.”

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236. “All kings are blind. The good ones see this and use more than their eyes to lead.”

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237. “And he’d cozied up to a lightning strike once or twice before.”

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238. “As always, Blay was the anchor who kept him from being swept away.”

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239. “There was a reason for rituals. When you were lost in your own life, they provided a false structure, like paper walls for your house of cards, the illusion that things were predictable and safe sometimes the only thing that got you through.”

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240. “Love can conquer everything but reality.”

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241. “Without his mate to share his life, he was but a screen for events and circumstances to pass through. He was npt even empty, for he was no vessel to hold even the thinnest of air. He lived, though was not truly alive.”

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242. “Besides, the mhis that surrounded the compound could scramble anything from GPS to Santa Claus.”

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243. “Is it my turn yet?” Lassiter asked over the earpiece. “I was born ready for this.”

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244. “Jeez, you go rogue once and slaughter a bunch of humans after they torture your girlfriend, and suddenly you’re a leaper.”

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245. “But the ignition did, in fact, occur. And it changed everything.”

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246. “Even if I’m defending the rights of women?” “Until you grow a set of ovaries, you can shut the hell up about our rights!”

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247. “I love you, she mouthed in the shadows. “Let’s go,” she said roughly.”

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248. “For him, life was a coin that had disaster on one side and waiting for disaster on the other.”

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249. “The pair of them were staring at the computer screen like two dogs watching animal planet: very focused, but incapable of turning up the volume or changing the channel. -Manny and Butch.”

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250. “It was such a shame, John thought to himself, that it took death to make him appreciate the living so much.”

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