Top 250 Kandi Steiner Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “I want to meet the love of my life, marry her, fill our house with kids and do what I need to do to give them everything they need.” “You.”

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2. “I think it’s important to put yourself first sometimes. Do what makes you happy. Say no when you don’t want to do something. Say yes to whatever you love, even if others don’t understand or support it. Choose yourself every now and then, because if you don’t, then who else will?”

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3. “It was just a normal Monday. Until it wasn’t.”

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4. “Sometimes we’re more terrified of the good things in life than we are of the bad. We feel we don’t deserve them, or that they aren’t real, that they’ll disappear quickly and easily and we’ll be left in the ruins.”

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5. “It was the first letter, the first word, the first sentence with no punctuation mark in sight. It was a beautiful, messy beginning, an honest truth written in script, in a handwriting with loops and curves only we could decipher. It was real. It was painful. It was healing. And most of all, it was ours.”

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6. “I’ve watched enough Breaking Bad that I think I could help you get rid of the body.”

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7. “I love you, Wren,” he said, voice strong and smooth as the river. “For everything that you are and everything that you aren’t.”

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8. “I hated him, I loved him, I hated myself for loving him. I hated myself for letting him go, for letting him find someone else. I was furious, but the truth was nearly everything he’d said about me was true.”

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9. “Just like in the cafeteria, she wrapped her legs around my waist, breath whooshing out of her at the contact. Her arms threaded around my neck and my hands caught her ass – her bare ass under the skirt she wore. It was apparently something she hadn’t thought about before jumping, because shock washed over her, face paling at the feel of my warmth against her.”

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10. “Charlie Reid was married, she was Charlie Pierce now, and still, it didn’t matter. I loved her, anyway.”

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11. “I’m worth more than what they think I am.” My.”

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12. “You realize you don’t want the fake friends, or the toxic relationships, or the people telling you how you should live your life when they can’t even run their own. Some find it in their thirties. Some in their forties.”

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13. “I’m yours,” I promised her. “I’m not going anywhere.”

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14. “But ours is better.”

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15. “The way the sun always manages to come back, no matter how dark the storm, made me happy.”

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16. “Somebody who betters you,” I started. “Somebody who inspires and encourages you in love and in life, who pushes you toward dreams and goals you’d otherwise ignore, who selflessly sacrifices their time to help you become a more courageous, well rounded and happy human being. That’s sacred,” I said, swallowing before I finished. “You hold on to a love like that.”

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17. “Thinking back on it now, I loved the way it felt that night. My heart was broken – completely, utterly shattered – and I liked the way that pain felt. It reminded me I was alive, filled me with hope that what we had was real – even if it had technically never truly existed.”

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18. “With every hopelessly optimistic beat of my heart.”

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19. “Sometimes, the darkness is where you find yourself.”

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20. “Uncomplicate it. Don’t make excuses. Some of life’s biggest heartaches come from missed opportunities and lame excuses. Don’t miss out on what could be the best chapter in your life because you’re too busy rereading the last one.”

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21. “You’re weightless. The world hasn’t touched you yet. You’re not heavy with the weight of pain, and guilt, and selfishness.”

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22. “Prepare for the worst, fight for the best. That was my motto.”

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23. “Life isn’t supposed to be safe,” she added with a laugh. “If it was, they wouldn’t call it living. They’d just call it existing. And you’ve existed long enough, baby girl. It’s time to live.”

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24. “Their love in the real kind – the raw, unfiltered, honest and true kind of love that makes your chest hurt a little when you see it up close, because it’s just so damn beautiful, it takes your breath away.”

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25. “Every experience is an opportunity, no matter how trivial it may seem.”

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26. “She’s not a rebound. She’s not the kind of girl you fool around with to make yourself feel better.”

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27. “But if the thought of losing him forever makes you lose your breath, if living without him seems impossible now, then don’t let him go. Don’t walk away so easily. There are no rules when it comes to life and love, and even if there were they would only exist to be broken. There’s no methodology, no equation, no right or wrong or guided path of light. Stop asking yourself what other people will think or what you should do and listen to your heart.”

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28. “Every life-altering change stems from a series of small, seemingly meaningless amendments.”

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29. “Death changes us. It takes everything we thought we knew about our lives and fast pitches it out the window, shattering the glass in the process. Wind whips in, hard and cold, and throws everything we’d had neatly in place flying around the room. No one is the same once they lose someone they love. They just have to learn to exist in the new world, no matter how messy it is.”

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30. “I don’t deserve you, I’ll never be good enough for you, but I love you nonetheless.”

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31. “He smelled like fall – not like pumpkin and freshly fallen leaves, but like fall in Florida – salty like the beach air, earthy like the palm trees, with a sweet spiciness that reminded me of the honey whiskey my dad always drank after Thanksgiving dinner.”

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32. “It isn’t death that’s scary. It’s living without actually living at all, breathing without purpose, existing without essence.”

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33. “She had my number on her chest. And my heart in her hands.”

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34. “If I am a river, you are the ocean. It all comes back to you in the end.”

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35. “As long as it’s okay with you, Daddy.” Kyle and Braden exchanged looks, and Leo grinned. “I’ll allow it, since you’ve been such a good girl.”

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36. “And I remember it hurt that first time he touched me. Not because it was painful, but because it was everything but. It hurt from somewhere deep inside my gut that told me I would never get to have him, to keep him, or to feel the way I felt with his hands on me with anyone else for as long as I tried. “Where.”

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37. “You can bench me if that’s what you feel you need to do, but I love this girl,” I said, squeezing her hand. “And I’m not backing down.”

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38. “Do you know how intimidating it is to approach a girl when she’s reading a book? That’s like trying to pet a cat’s belly. It might work out great, but more than likely you’ll get claws to the face for assuming they wanted anything to do with you.”

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39. “But it was nothing compared to when he tilted my chin like a cinnamon roll hero would and kissed me.”

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40. “Before you can win, you have to believe that you are worthy.” – Mike Ditka, Chicago Bears Head Coach 1982-92.”

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41. “But sometimes, even when we know something is bad for us, we do it anyway. Maybe for the thrill, maybe to cure our curiosity, or maybe just to lie to ourselves a little longer.”

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42. “I’d take every stolen moment, every fake kiss, every lesson she let me teach her.”

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43. “They say there are two sides to every story, and I suppose in most cases, that’s true. But the one I lived inside of? It had three. On the northeast side of Mount Lebanon, Pennsylvania, there was a house. But there was no longer a home.”

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44. “I couldn’t have gotten through all these years without you.”

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45. “I hadn’t been a good husband. I’d buried myself in work to try to forget about our boys instead of remembering them the way I should have. In turn, I’d found myself with more responsibilities at work than ever before, simply because I never said no. I’d left my wife at home to grieve alone, without her partner, without the one who loves her more than anyone. I’d been forgetful and selfish.”

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46. “Love is wild and unruly and it does what it wants with our hearts without us having any say in it. It’s beautiful and paralyzing and breathtaking. And it kills us because it’s the only thing that keeps us alive. Love doesn’t play our games because love is a completely different game in and of itself.”

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47. “However, if you were mine?” His eyes traced their way over my collarbones, down the line of my cleavage, to my waist, my hips, my thighs, and back up again. “You wouldn’t have even made it to that top stair before I was dragging you back to the room for my eyes only.”

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48. “To the voyagers, looking for answers in the shadows of the darkest of nights. May the promise of the sun on the horizon always bring you back home.”

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49. “Maybe I wasn’t broken after all, maybe I was only learning to walk on a new kind of path, a gravel road my tender feet had yet to master.”

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50. “I love your daughter, Coach Lee,” I said, though my eyes didn’t leave her. “I love her, and I don’t care what you or anyone else thinks about it. My heart used to belong to football, but now it belongs to her. And none of this,” I added, throwing my hands up. “None of it means a damn thing without her.”

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