Top 40 K.V. Rose Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “Lucifer might have ruled hell, but Lilith made it burn.”

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2. “Lucifer hadn’t been an angel. Not even a fallen one. He’d really, truly been the devil.”

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3. “You deserve the world. I’d burn it down before I let anyone give you less.”

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4. “It makes the thought of the future hurt that much more. I think I’d let him get away with anything at all, stabbing me over and over and over, if only he would beg me to come back, over and over again, just like this. The torture kind of makes life worth living. The power makes me feel loved.”

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5. “When he touches me, I light up. I want to melt into him. I want to burn with him. We can burn the whole world if we want. We can burn up hell if we have to. We can destroy everything we touch, and we can do it together, without burning each other.”

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6. “I think I want to keep you. I think I want to keep you and I think I don’t ever want to let you go, Zara Rose.”

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7. “You’ll be the most beautiful corpse I’ve ever buried, baby girl.”

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8. “I love you, Sid,” I whisper against her ear, “and I don’t need to hear it back. But I need you to know it. I might not be very good at it, but I love you, and I think I always have.”

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9. “I know what it’s like to feel alone even when you’re touching someone else. It’s like holding a ghost.”

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10. “The people with the biggest hearts always have the thickest armor.”

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11. “I know a devil when I see one.”

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12. “I’ve felt this before, the kind of depression that makes you indifferent. Lethargic. It’s not a sadness. It’s an emptiness.”

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13. “She’s not broken. She’s not looking for someone to save her. She’s looking for someone to drown with her.”

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14. “If you let people in, they can hurt you.”

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15. “Maybe because I know I’d never truly hurt her. As it is, I think she has the most power to hurt me. I’m just not sure she recognizes it yet.”

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16. “Why does everything always feel so heavy between us?” It takes me by surprise, her question. But it gets under my skin, too, because there’s nothing about it that isn’t true. “Because it’s the only way we can feel,” I answer her, my nails biting into her palm. “Deeply, or not at all.”

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17. “Because it’s the only way we can feel,” I answer her, my nails biting into her palm. “Deeply, or not at all.”

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18. “Knowing the root cause doesn’t change the disease where my mind is concerned.”

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19. “Don’t make me toss you off of this balcony.” She tightens her grip, her chest pressing closer to me. “You wouldn’t.” Her eyes find my mouth. “You’d miss me too much.”

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20. “We’re all addicted to something. Drugs just happen to be illegal.”

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21. “I’m not sure I want to know about that kind of pain, when she’s still clearly in so much.”

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22. “That I was wrong. Sick. Unlovable.”

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23. “Touch me, so I can see if I hate the way you feel like I do everyone else.”

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24. “I want to go upstairs, to Zara’s apartment. I want to fall into her arms. I want to tell her I’m scared. I want to tell her I don’t want her to become my mother. I want to tell her I think she already has.”

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25. “No matter how horrible we are, no matter what dirty deeds we hide in our skin, everyone has to sleep. And sometimes even monsters sleep like babies.”

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26. “Tempus edax rerum. Time devours all things.”

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27. “She is a mess, she’s decided, and no one wants a mess. Not a real one. Not an unromanticized version of one.”

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28. “This is not going to end well for one of us. Logically, I know that. But the thing about logic is that it has no effect on the heart at all.”

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29. “Do you not like taking hints or do you just enjoy me cutting myself open for you?” He smiles with the question, but there’s still an edge to the morbid words.”

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30. “Don’t thank people for things they don’t deserve thanks for.”

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31. “When he turns back to wave at me, my stomach flutters as he runs back over, kisses me again, slinging an arm around my neck.”

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32. “Anger over fear, because one makes you move and the other can freeze you.”

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33. “There’s no truth between us. I don’t know if there ever was.”

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34. “One of them doesn’t want you, Zara. One of them only wants to see if he can take you away from the other. That’s part of the appeal.” She levels me with her gaze, and I feel her next words like an arrow to the heart. “Once he gets you, he’ll drop you, and it’ll hurt like hell when he does.”

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35. “It’s amazing, how I want to kill her and save her all at the same time. I’m not sure which I’ll end up doing tonight.”

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36. “The idea of him being with me past college, past this week even, is unfathomable. And I don’t like it. People always leave.”

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37. “I think I’ll be a broke philosophy major without a job and a shitload of debt from student loans.”

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38. “I cut him off, even though it hurts. I have to cut him off.”

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39. “But she should know people don’t do what you want just because you beg them.”

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40. “I want to give you the best hgh, Zara. Better than those little pills you’ve been doing.” He places the needle over my vein. “This is the real thing, Za.”

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41. “I could feel their eyes on me like living things, no matter how far I used to pull my hood over my head.”

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42. “Our souls don’t know how to crawl closer. We run head on, seeing the impact up ahead, but we can’t stop. Or maybe we just don’t want to. We know the wreck will be worth it.”

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43. “I think about the therapist I went to when I was five. They let me play with blocks and assured me that my parents’ divorce wasn’t my fault. A lot of good that did for the empty hole in my chest that my father had left.”

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44. “They fight and they scream and in the end, they stay together because no one else would want them.”

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45. “Zara: You need a shoulder to cry on, Eli? Find someone else.”

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46. “No one wants to be the recipient of one of those disorders with no cure, no treatment, no understanding.”

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47. “You’re not weird, princess,” Alex says against my skin.”

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