Top 450 J.R. Ward Quotes (2024 Update)
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201. “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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202. “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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203. “Weight carried, whether it was physically, mentally, or emotionally, slowed you down.”

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204. “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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205. “Fear of change was a weakness.”

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

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207. “I always root for the monster.”

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

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

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

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212. “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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213. “When a plate was put in front of him, he glanced up. “No veggies? Not that I’m looking a gift horse in the mouth.” “Vegetable matter is a waste of porcelain space.” Phury pushed a knife and fork across the butcher block. “Ask yourself, would I sacrifice the surface area of mashed or stuffing for peas?” “I love you.”

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

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216. “Sometimes words were less valuable than the air that carried them when it came to getting close.”

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

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

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220. “If you’re going to insist on being reasonable, I’m going to stop hanging with you.”

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

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

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223. “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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224. “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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225. “All kings are blind. The good ones see this and use more than their eyes to lead.”

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

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227. “Vishous, could you stop grinning like that? You’re beginning to freak me out.”

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

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229. “As far as he was concerned, there were only two good positions for a human. A female on her back. And a male facedown not breathing.”

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230. “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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231. “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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232. “Love can conquer everything but reality.”

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

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

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

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236. “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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237. “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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238. “I love you, she mouthed in the shadows. “Let’s go,” she said roughly.”

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

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240. “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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241. “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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242. “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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243. “Blay was the closest thing to an angel Qhuinn had ever come near.”

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244. “You should always know who you are, he thought. And who you aren.”

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245. “The conviction was as solid as the bones beneath her skin: Even the powerful needed protection sometimes.”

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246. “And as he held his first true lover against him, feeling that familiar difference in their heights and smelling that wonderful cologne, part of him wanted to debate this break up until they both gave in and kept trying. But that wasn’t fair.”

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247. “And the truth was, the details didn’t matter. Just like shared blood didn’t matter. Family was so much more than DNA.”

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248. “Sometimes in life, from out of a myriad of prosaic decisions like what to eat and where to sleep and how to dress, a true crossroads is revealed. In these moments, when the fog of relative irrelevancy lifts and fate rolls out a demand for free will, there is only left or right – no option of four-by-fouring into the underbrush between two paths, no negotiating with the choice that has been presented. You must answer the call and pick your way. And there is no reverse.”

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249. “Butch came in from the kitchen, Bud in one hand, sandwich in the other. “Hey, big man. S’up?” “I want the two of you to chain me to my bed.”

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250. “Whether you have sight or not, I see the future in your eyes” – Beth.”

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