Top 40 K. Ancrum Quotes (2026 Update)

1. “Diversity is a flower that blooms with greater beauty and greater strength each time it is cross-pollinated.”

— K. Ancrum

2. “She was suffering from a Great Big Sad that she chased away with pills and sleep and game shows. Everything was hard for her. Getting up was hard, getting dressed was hard. Sometimes eating or even sitting up was hard.”

— K. Ancrum

3. “Don’t... take time for granted. You have all this freedom and opportunity and people around who love you. Make sure you use the time you have to love them back.”

— K. Ancrum

4. “I remember the attic of your house. The way the sun shone gold through the slats in the windows. The dust on the floor and the crowns we wore. I remember your throne, the Wicker Throne, and mine, the Wooden Throne. I remember sitting on them, hands clasped between us. You were always the better king.”

— K. Ancrum

5. “Love is not about holding people where you want them. It is about doing what’s best for them because you need them to be okay.”

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6. “Every story has many sides, depending on where you’re standing when it happens.”

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7. “My mom once told me that being alone makes you feel weaker every day, even if you’re not.” he said quietly. “But it’s not as bad if you’re with other people who are alone, too. We can hold each other up like a card tower.”

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8. “They were only seventeen. The world was so big and they were very small and there was no one around to stop terrible things from happening.”

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9. “You couldn’t nice some people open. Ryann knew that well. Sometimes the only way to pry your arms away from tightly holding yourself together is when you’re given a reason to hold up your fists. Fighting for yourself is another way of loving yourself.”

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10. “For some reason, thinking about what’s far away helps prioritize your feelings about what’s all the way down here.”

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11. “She knew what she lookd like, and she looked like trouble.”

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12. “If you drop the weight you are carrying, it is okay. You can build yourself back up out of the pieces.”

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13. “I never said I didn’t feel the same,” Jack said harshly. “Just because I don’t see the kingdom doesn’t mean it doesn’t still exist,” Jack said furiously. “As long as one of us remembers it, it still counts. We decide the end of the game, not them. Not anyone else. You’re so stupid, August. You’re so stupid and I love you so much.”

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14. “This book is for all of us who looked up at the sky in wonder, and then cried when we learned how much calculus separated us from the stars.”

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15. “Four light-years from the second largest pulsar, past the black dust and the white. In a small circle of golden light, made by a careful teenage star, I found you,” Aexandria said seriously. “No matter what I did or said, there you stood. Like a fixed point, and the Earth moved around you.”

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16. “Cause the stars are beautiful, but I’d give them up for good to see your face.”

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17. “Hey.” August coughed. “How are you doing?” Jack sniffed and covered his eyes. A thousand needles prickled behind them and threatened to fall down his cheeks. “Don’t ask me that,” he whispered, his voice catching on the words. August reached up and pulled Jack’s hands down. Curling his fingers weakly around Jack’s wrist. “I have to.” August breathed. “I always will.”

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18. “Fighting for yourself is another way of loving yourself.”

— K. Ancrum

19. “Ryann opened her eyes and turned to face Alexandria – and God she wished she hadn’t – because Alexandria had eons in her eyes. But it was too late to look away.”

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20. “They send word on the wing of a bird but faces are my currency, and till i’m paid in full, they may as well send nothing.”

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21. “I was yours before we even met and I’ll be yours until we die.”

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22. “No one is born knowing how friends work. You figure it out as you go along.”

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23. “Love is never a sin, and the rules of men who don’t understand that don’t matter.”

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24. “Take my eyes; take my voice; take my hands; take it all. If the stars exist behind the night and there is a king who grants the wishes of kings, if hope is a tether that binds to the light, I’d pay all the years I have left in darkness, please don’t take him.”

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25. “He wanted Jack’s clawlike fingers back on the nape of his neck. He wanted it to hurt so he could still feel it later. He wanted it so bad he could hardly breathe.”

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26. “Meeting him feels like learning about a part of myself that I haven’t been allowed to understand until now.”

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27. “Helios stopped talking and stared up at the ceiling. ‘I’ve always been a disappointment.’ Icarus couldn’t say that Helios wasn’t, he couldn’t say it was going to be okay because he didn’t know if it would be, he didn’t have a paragraph of loving words that he’d rehearsed the way Helios did. He only had the truth. ‘I want you anyway.’ Then, softer, ‘I’ll want you still, all the same.”

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28. “We should really make a Horrible Dads club. I’m sure it won’t be hard to find members.”

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29. “You think I’d know art, and not know this?” Icarus said. He pressed closer, still. “There have been men like you before we had words for it.”

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30. “Why are you rebuilding the tragedy that built me?”

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31. “Jack lit his cigarette, holding it between strong white teeth before passing it over. Like a secondhand kiss on a breath of ash.”

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32. “Is anything ‘just’ anything? After all these months? Even dressed in my colors? Even with your favor at my feet? Even as the sky falls and the only thing I can hear besides your voice is the screams of the dying and the thundering of horses?”

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33. “She was in love with him, quietly, I think.’ Icarus continued. ‘Because there is no art of your mother in my house, but there are a thousand paintings of mine.”

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34. “I wish that I could hate you. I wish that I could. But I can’t and that makes it worse. Understanding you has been the hardest thing I’ve ever had to do.”

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35. “The rafe was gone now. It had served its purpose.”

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36. “Do you like our house? Is there a garden for your roses? Do you want to paint my fences white?”

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37. “I was made for you; I was born for you, and you’re still standing before me acting like you’re not worthy.”

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38. “There are so many books written about the weak learning to be strong and not many about the strong opening themselves up to weakness and vulnerability.”

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39. “He wondered at the picture they made. Icarus dark and small, in the water, head tilted back in devout wonder. Helios, red like the sun, gold in the light, standing above him.”

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40. “All that I am is a terribly brave small thing, with a terribly brave small life, and a terribly brave love that spans eons.”

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41. “His father liked to keep his eyes closed. Icarus needed to keep his eyes open to stay tethered to faith.”

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42. “Is anything ‘just’ anything?”

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