Top 250 Kandi Steiner Quotes (2025 Update)

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

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

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4. “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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5. “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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6. “My mom always told me to never give my heart to a girl with a guy best friend, because her heart isn’t really hers to give in return.”

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

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8. “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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9. “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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10. “I’ve watched enough Breaking Bad that I think I could help you get rid of the body.”

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11. “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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12. “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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13. “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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14. “I’m yours,” I promised her. “I’m not going anywhere.”

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

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17. “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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18. “No matter what life throws at us, what you throw at me – we will make it. Just stay,” he said, kissing me again. “That’s all I need. Stay, and I promise, no matter what happens, I’ll make it right.”

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19. “I don’t know how this is going to work. I don’t know if this is forever or for a year or maybe even just for another week,” he said. “But I know that whether it’s seasonal or for life, this – our love – I will fight for it, Wren. Until I have no breath left to fight.”

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20. “But ours is better.”

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

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

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

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26. “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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27. “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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28. “You’ve given a lot to the people you love. Let us return the favor.”

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29. “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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30. “I think it’s important to love yourself – even in the selfish way – because you’re the only person truly looking out for yourself. Even if someone cares about you, a friend or family member, at the end of the day?” He shook his head. “Their life goes on, regardless of how you choose to live yours.”

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

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

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34. “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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35. “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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36. “Because I miss you. Because I have missed you, ever since the day you left. Because it kills me to be around you and not touch you, laugh with you, to not be engulfed with everything that you are.”

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37. “I’m not sorry I kissed you,” he clarified, and my eyes found his then. “But I’m sorry I did it when you weren’t mine to kiss.”

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38. “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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39. “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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40. “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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41. “I couldn’t have gotten through all these years without you.”

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42. “For a moment, I let myself believe I was beautiful – just like he’d said.”

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43. “I don’t expect you to ever forgive me. And I don’t expect to ever have the chance to hold your heart in my hands again. But I need you to know this,” I said, stepping toward her. “You hold mine. You own mine. For now, forever, regardless of what happens next. And even if you hate me for the rest of your life, I need you to know that I love you.”

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44. “If you give your all to someone else, realize you may one day have to change all you know about yourself.”

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

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

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

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49. “I read romance because it’s fun to fall in love. And with romance books, I get to do it over and over. I get to be different types of lovers, I get to feel the heartbreak of love and the successes.”

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50. “It feels like my entire life I’ve been aching to grow up and move on and now that it’s all here, I’m dreading it. It’s too soon. I’m not ready.” He swallowed, taking a left turn and steering us toward the beach. “I’m scared.” “It’s.”

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