Top 300 Julie Kagawa Quotes (2025 Update)
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151. “Ember pressed close, brushing my shoulder with hers, and my pulse spiked. I looked over, saw the fierce determination in her gaze and felt a defiant growl rumble in my throat as a hot, vicious rage spread through my veins. Ember was mine. The other half of me. And i would fight Talon, St. George and the entire damned world to keep her safe.”

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152. “But I’m going to do it. I just... want you to know that I’m coming, Tatsumi. And that I’ll fight for you, as hard as I can. I’ll free your soul from Hakaimono, one way or another.” My chest felt tight. No one in my seventeen years of existence had cared so much to try to save me. I was nothing; a weapon of the Kage, trained to kill and to obey.”

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153. “I wished I had told her what I was doing. I wished I had said more, argued more. Maybe then I wouldn’t have this hollow ache in my chest whenever I thought of our parting words. Had she already moved on, forgotten me? In her position, what she said made sense, but the thought of her with someone else made me wish I had something to fight, to kill, just so I could forget.”

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154. “So that left me. To save my hatchlings and my underground, even if I couldn’t be there anymore.”

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155. “They got married and, as humans do, began to drift apart.”

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156. “I was neither human nor dragon. Just me.”

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157. “Never did like the idea of meeting a god. Somehow, I get the feeling gods just don’t like me very much.”

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158. “Crazy Ash just doesn’t have the same ring as Don’t-bother-me-or-I’ll-kill-you Ash.”

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159. “If you’re done playing with will-o’-the-wisps and kelpies, I think we should continue. Oh, but do tell me the next time you want to have tea with an ogre. I’ll be sure to bring my club. -Puck.”

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160. “For a moment, unseen by condemning human eyes, I gave into my fascination and let myself look at her. Her pale skin seemed to glow in the moonlight slanting through the latticed windows, her hair an inky curtain across her back and shoulders. She breathed calmly, her face unguarded in sleep, as it was when she was awake. A jet-black strand of hair came loose to fall into her eyes, and I was filled with and incomprehensible urge to brush it back.”

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161. “If you’re not an expert at screwing people over, I’ll eat my head.”

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162. “But I wasn’t human anymore. And I wasn’t as afraid of them as I once was. I was part of their world now, part of the darkness.”

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163. “Remind me to kill Grimalkin next time we see him.”

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164. “Oh, isn’t that sweet,” came Jackal’s loud, mocking voice... “Let’s make goo-goo eyes at each other in the middle of a stinking corpse field, how very romantic.”

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165. “Well, I can answer that,” Jackal said breezily, and bared his fangs in a lethal grin. “He can die. Painfully. After I rip his other arm from the socket and shove it so far down his poetry-spouting piehole that he chokes on it. What I don’t understand is why we’re standing up here yapping away when we should be down there kicking in his door. So, come on, team.” Jackal’s gaze was mocking but dangerous. “Let’s go kill ourselves a psychopath.”

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166. “Observe and blend in,” he stated in his cool, unruffled voice. “Learn how to engage with humans, how to be human. Assimilate into their social structure and make them believe we are one of them.”

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167. “Riley was... a really good kisser.”

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168. “I swallowed, feeling something inside me respond, a rush of warmth spreading through my veins. My own dragon, calling to Riley’s, like he was her other half.”

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169. “If Puck was dead, my world would become as cold and lifeless as the darkest night in the Winter Court. And if I had let Ariella die a second time, it would’ve been better if the Wolf had left me to drown, because the pain would do more than crush me this time – it would kill me.”

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170. “I could see us sitting at the old piano, while he tried to explain how music worked. I could see the Iron glamour in the notes, the strict lines and rigid rules that made up the score, but the music itself was a vortex of song and pure, swirling emotion. They weren’t separate entities, creative magic and Iron glamour. They were one; cold logic and wild emotion, merged together to create something truly beautiful.”

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171. “Forward,” Ember replied. “Always forward. Its a new day, and anything is possible.”

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172. “Fear was the knowledge of pain, the awareness that you could be hurt, that you could die.”

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173. “Before Kanin Turned me, death was something I faced every day. People died, often; it was just how the world worked. I thought that, after the deaths of my old gang and Stick’s betrayal, I wouldn’t worry about anyone else. And yet, here I was, a vampire, wishing I could have saved the very person who hated me most.”

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174. “For the rest of my existence, if I lived to see the end of this world, there would never be another Ezekiel Crosse. There would never be another soul as bright as his. And that both terrified me and made me savagely – and maybe selfishly – determined to keep him. Zeke was mine now. Forever.”

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175. “Zeke’s snort sounded suspiciously like laughter. “Allie you’re a beautiful, exotic-looking vampire girl with a katana. Trust me, if anyone is going to attract attention, it’s not going to be me.”

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176. “His fingertips came to rest against the back of my hand, sending a zip of current through my whole body. “I’m done hiding,” he whispered. “Nothing has changed. I know we might not have a lot of time, but what we do have, I want to spend right here.”

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177. “I like all my characters in one way or another, or at least I understand them.”

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178. “I wanted to fly up beyond the clouds, where nothing would hear me but the stars.”

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179. “He didn’t know how to laugh, or smile, or have any fun. He didn’t know the pleasures of the simple things – laughing, dancing, finding beauty in the world. It seemed like a very boring existence.”

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180. “Tatsumi has been taught to resist pain, manipulation, seduction, even mind control and blood magic. But I neglected to warn him about the most dangerous emotion of all.” A bitter smile curled one corner of his mouth. “After everything we put him through, I honestly thought the boy incapable of it. Apparently, I can still be surprised, after all these years.”

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181. “Careful, human.” Grimalkin appeared on the corner of the stage, overshadowed by the dead chimera. “Do not lose your heart to a faery prince. It never ends well.”

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182. “My queen,” he said formally, “before Glitch sends out the knights and the hounds to drag us back to Mag Tuiredh, will you do me the honor of a last dance?”

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183. “Tie rock to tail and throw kitty in lake. Watch kitty sink, ha!”

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184. “Those eyes. I felt like they pierced right through me; that if I didn’t break away now, they would peel me open to see what lay beneath. Deep within, the dragon stirred, growling. She didn’t like this human, I realized. Maybe he scared her, or the intensity of his gaze reminded her of a predator. Or maybe she felt that, if I stared at him much longer, I would lose myself in those stormy eyes and forget all about a certain golden-eyed rogue, waiting for me in the darkness.”

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185. “Finally.” The cat sniffed and gave me a look of triumph. “I never thought I would see the day when a human said something sensible.”

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186. “You didn’t have to believe what you were saying; you just had to make others believe that you cared.”

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187. “Um, I guess you’re still mad about that whole harpy fiasco. I swear, I thought those caves were empty.” “How did you overlook a hundred harpies nesting in that cave? Did the giant carpet of bones not tip you off?” “Oh, sure, complain now. But we found the trod to Athens, didn’t we?”

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188. “Yeah, this is the psycho’s handiwork, but he could’ve done this just for the jollies. You sure he knows we’re coming?”

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189. “Rabids, the stranger had called them. It fit. I wondered where he was now, where he was going. I hoped, wherever it was, he would find his peace.”

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190. “You’re here, and the only dance I want is this one.”

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191. “How easy it is to forget grudges when someone has something you need.”

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192. “Ouch. You really know how to tear a guy’s heart out, don’t you, princess?”

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193. “But Jackal gave a low, humorless chuckle. ‘Oh you bastard.’ He smiled, shaking his head and staring up at the barn. ‘That’s cute. Let’s see if you’re as funny when I’m beating you to death with your own arm.”

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194. “One hand traced small circles against my back, and I pressed closer to him, listening to his heartbeat. “I used to think that having nothing to live for made you a better fighter,” he murmured. “Turns out I was wrong on a lot of fronts.”

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195. “You know we always travel in little skinny boats like this why can’t travel to the end of the world in a yacht -Puck.”

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196. “I sang and sang, until I died. And Sarren gave me a new purpose, a new song. But the requiem isn’t over yet.”

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197. “Okame groaned. “Hold on,” he growled as we turned toward the door. After pulling the sake gourd from his obi, he yanked off the top and tipped the container upside down into his open mouth, emptying it fully. He wiped his lips, then tossed the bottle at the headman and turned back to us with a grin. “Okay, now I’m ready.”

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198. “The only thing necessary for evil to conquer is for us and those like us to do nothing, and I will not sit by and let that happen!”

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199. “Let me give you your first and most important lesson, Allison Sekemoto – you are a monster.”

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200. “I’m a cat.”

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