Top 450 J.R. Ward Quotes (2025 Update)
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301. “You are the male I might have been. You are the potential I had and lost. You are the honor and the strength and the kindness she needs. You’ll take care of her. I want you to take care of her.”

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302. “I’m prepared to be a very patient man when it comes to you. I will seduce you for however long it takes – give you space if you need it or follow you tight as sunshine on your shoulder if you’ll let me.” His eyes locked on hers. “I lost my chance with you once, Lizzie King – that is not going to happen again.”

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303. “Time was way too finite: no matter how much of it you had with someone you loved, when the end came, it wasn’t nearly enough.”

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304. “If anyone ever wanted to sense the infinity of time and existence, all they had to do was look at the night sky and feel their precious dead staring back at them. It was the great duality of union and separation.”

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305. “Pride was an unattractive trait, even if it was well-placed.”

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306. “Remember, forgiving doesn’t mean forgetting, hiding isn’t a long-term strategy, and distraction isn’t your friend.”

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307. “Dear God. Her eyes didn’t match the gentle lilt of her voice at all. They belonged to a warrior. Gunmetal gray, surrounded by lashes the color of her hair, they were grave, serious, reminding him of males who had fought and survived battle. They were staggeringly beautiful in their strength.”

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308. “The Destroyer has arrived and you are he.”

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309. “Man, it was a good thing vampires didn’t get cancer. Lately he’d been chain-smoking like a felon.”

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310. “The thing was all mortals were going to lose the ones they loved. It was the way life worked. But for the most of the time, that reality was so far off in the mind that it had no more weight than a mere hypothetical. There were reminders, however, and the almost’s, the near-misses, the oh-God-please-no’s, snapped your chain and got you to stop and feel what was in your heart.”

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311. “Destiny was like the passage of time, however, immutable and unforgiving and uninterested in the personal opinion of those who breathed.”

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312. “That which cannot go on will not.”

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313. “It felt odd to realize she was frightened more by what he might know, and not of what he might be.”

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314. “Excuse me,” she cut in. “Is that a grenade?” Ehric looked at the compact, palm-sized bomb in his hand. “Why, yes. It is.”

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315. “The entire restaurant moved around the center core of the elevator shaft and what must have been the kitchen space.”

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316. “Hell, any plan that added “and then we pray” is not a trip to Disneyland.”

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317. “After all, tragedy didn’t discriminate, so everyone was subject to the same whims of fate. No matter what your skin color was or how much money you had, whether you were gay or straight, or an atheist or a true believer, from where she stood, everyone was equal. And loved by someone, somewhere.”

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318. “Sometimes the only way to know how far you’d come was to return to where you once had been.”

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319. “Life has gotten in the way of our life.”

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320. “The strong do not wallow. They move forward.”

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321. “Ivie froze at the sound of the deep, low voice. Later, much later, she would remember most clearly not the moment she looked into his eyes, but rather the split second before she did. And that was because, when you were falling from a great distance, spinning and turning in mid-air, uncertain of your chances of surviving the landing, the thing that was even more vivid than when you hit was the last moment before consequence owned you.”

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322. “You’re not half the male you could be because of what was done to you. You’re twice what anyone else is because you survived.”

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323. “Qhuinn gave in immediately, as he was categorically incapable of denying the female anything – most certainly not one of her hugs. They were even better than her lasagna.”

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324. “Rhage glanced over in the relative silence. “You are a genius.” “Harold Ramis is.” “I’m sorry?” “You ever see Stripes? My favorite movie of all time. I based this thing on Bill Murray’s ride.”

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325. “The brain has a way of confirming its own hypotheses. It’s how we function in our world. That which fits within our definition and perspective of our existence is retained, if not amplified. That which does not is either rationalized or cast aside until an event so great or profound occurs that we must rethink everything.”

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326. “We were always every age we had ever been.”

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327. “Sometimes strength rested not in resistance, but in the release of arms against a foe of one’s own creation.”

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328. “Mary, you can’t second-guess yourself. Listen, you go to war in your own way, and the worst thing a soldier can do is have his confidence fried before he hits the field. Not everything is going to end up in victory, but you’ve got to start it all off, every time, knowing that your training and your instincts are sound. You didn’t do anything wrong. You didn’t hurt Bitty on purpose.”

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329. “His heart was as empty as her stare.”

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330. “But that was life: Nobody got a guided tour to their own theme park. You had to hop on the rides as they presented themselves, never knowing whether you would like the one you were in line for... or if the bastard was going to make you throw up your corn dog and your cotton candy all over the place.”

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331. “Payne nailing him in the face woke him up. George brought him back his independence. But Beth handed him his crown.”

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332. “Phury laid a hard one on the male’s mouth, the kiss a punch between faces, not anything even remotely sexual. And he did it only to wipe the expression off the bastard’s face. It worked. The Reverend stiffened and growled, and Phury knew he’d called the guy’s bluff. But just to make sure the lesson was learned, he clipped the male’s lower lip with a fang.”

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333. “Trez looked at his hands. “I didn’t ask for this.” “No one asks for life.” The executioner hiked iAm’s body up higher. “And sometimes they do not ask for death.”

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334. “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. And gifts did come from the sky, like spring rain and summer breezes and fall sun and winter snow.”

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335. “The nurse stared at him with such shock, it was clearly the first time anyone had not provided her with a safe, supported, emotionally aware and nurturing, micro-aggression-free educational platform.”

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336. “Indeed, this was the problem with lying to intimates, he thought. The untruths always came home to roost and never in a way that justified the falsity, however small or large it had been. Because, in fact, there was never a justification to lie to someone who loved you.”

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337. “Please,” Eddie implored. “Not Lassiter. Anybody but Lassiter – he could be anywhere on the planet, doing anything.”

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338. “It was always better to follow a bumpy course of one’s own than a smooth but intractable trail set by another.”

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339. “The guy was cracking down on the Brotherhood, organizing shifts, trying to turn four loose cannons like V, Phury, Rhage, and Z into soldiers. No wonder he always looked like his head hurt.”

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340. “No matter what it takes, I’m going to prove that I love you and I need you and I want you – and that those kids are yours.” With.”

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341. “You couldn’t soar if you didn’t leap.”

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342. “He came into her life wearing a Syracuse ball cap and blue jeans that had holes in them.”

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343. “Easy, son,” Wrath said. “Jesus Christ – ” “Actually it’s Lassiter,” the man said, “in case you forgot.”

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344. “The mid-stride step, never to be completed, was the worst regret anyone could have.”

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345. “He had a weakness, though. All of us do, and those of us who think they do not are not being honest.”

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346. “Nothing bubbled up from the depths. For once, the present was so alive and captivating that the past was not even an echo or a shadow-she was, in this moment, wiped clean.”

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347. “Wrath to Butch : I always knew you were a royal; just didn’t think it went past the pain-in-the-ass part is all.”

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348. “Butch came around in front, twisting the shirt he’d taken off into a rope. Thanks to all the lifting they’d been doing, the male’s chest and arm muscles were thickening up, and he hadn’t been small to begin with. He couldn’t pull the kind of iron Rhage did, but for a human, the guy was a bulldozer. “You’re getting into some kind of shape, cop.” “Aw, come on, now.” Butch grinned. “Don’t let that shower we took go to your head.”

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349. “I don’t do farm animals. Can’t stand hay in your leathers? Or wool in my teeth.”

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350. “And why had those prayers been focused heavenward? Well, it kind of made sense, didn’t it? 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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