Top 250 Kandi Steiner Quotes (2026 Update)
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51. “You know, they say that Bill Wilson asked for whiskey as his dying wish. The man was dying, at the end of the line, and he wanted the one vice he’d been fighting all his life. Even the co-founder of Alcoholics Anonymous wanted whiskey on his deathbed.”

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52. “This is where the difference is made – input versus output-based success. Sometimes, you do everything right and the result isn’t what you want. But, if you keep doing all the right things instead of letting one bad result make you question everything, that’s where the consistency comes in. And,” he added with a wink. “It doesn’t leave room for you to beat yourself up the way I know you love to do.”

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53. “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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54. “I didn’t have main character energy. I was more of the quirky, cute best friend with all the sage advice.”

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55. “As much as life hurt like hell, those painful lessons somehow seemed to have beautiful ramifications, like everything that happened was for a reason we could never fully see or understand until years down the line.”

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56. “I’m sorry that up until now, I saw you as something I should quit instead of something I should fight for. My.”

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57. “I lost you three years ago, I told myself I’d never let that happen again. It’s important to me to be with you, B. But I can’t be if you don’t let me.”

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58. “It’s simple. I take care of your mom,” he said. “And you take care of my girl. It’s as easy as that.”

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59. “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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60. “And I regret that mistake,” he said firmly, his feet carrying him toward me. I wanted to move. God, how I wanted to back away, but I was rooted in place. “I have every minute since the one where I lost you. But I loved you, Eliza,” River croaked when he was just inches from me. “I loved you. So I let you go.” His hands reached out, framing my face, his eyes searching mine as he shook his head like every word was the most horrible truth. “And damn it if I don’t love you still.”

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

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62. “It was a kiss I felt all the way down to my toes. It stirred my desire as much as it soothed my aching heart. It was the feeling of coming home after a long trip. It was Christmas morning and a sunset on the beach. It was a night spent between the sheets and a day of perfect sunshine. It was Leo, and it was me. It was us.”

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63. “Losing him hurt like hell, but in the end I still smiled, because at least I’d got to have him.”

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64. “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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65. “Yeah well, you ever wonder why so many have an opinion about what you do with your life, though? Is it because they really think what you’re doing is wrong, or is it because they need to convince themselves that what they’re doing is right?”

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66. “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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67. “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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68. “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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69. “You really are like a book boyfriend, you know?”

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70. “But the most important thing is that we keep loving. We have to believe that at the end of the day, the love we have is worth all the bad stuff, because all the good stuff is what makes it so amazing.”

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

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

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73. “Because the truth is you’ve always been mine, and I’ll always be yours, and that’s just the way it is.”

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74. “I will be here,” I said, tugging her hands to my chest again. “Every day. I’ll be right by your side reminding you that you matter, that you are needed, that there is a reason to have hope and a reason to live. I’ll be here reminding you that for me? You are that reason.”

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75. “You have owned my heart since the first fake kiss, Kitten.”

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76. “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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77. “I’m a virgin.” I blinked, shocked, unsure I heard her correctly. But when she stared up at me unwavering, sorrow and shame coloring her cheeks, I knew I hadn’t misheard.”

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78. “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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79. “This is the real thing, Stig. You and me, right here, right now. I want it. I want us.”

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80. “There was no way to sugarcoat it, to explain it or make an excuse for the way he’d walked away from me when I was literally stripped bare for him. It was the most vulnerable I’d ever been with him, with anyone, and he’d turned me down.”

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81. “And making a decision based on possible negative outcomes only puts fear in the driver’s seat of your life, my girl.”

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82. “I choose you,” I repeated. “Just like I did the night we made our vows, just like I should have done when we faced our first challenge. The truth is, you make me forget I even have a choice at all. Like the writer who cannot live without the reader, and the rose that cannot exist without the rain, I am bound to you, to your love, and I cannot go on without it.”

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83. “I am not sorry that i kissed you, I am only sorry that i kissed you when you were not mine to kiss!”

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84. “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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85. “Let me find myself in you.”

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

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87. “It’s hard to find words to explain why you love someone, they don’t make words with that much passion. And even if they did, there isn’t a perfect combination of syllables and sounds to create a word strong enough to explain love. Love is just a filler word, a useless word that tries to do a job that no word can.”

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88. “I always loved that, the first sight of him, the first hit. It was a little jarring, like a slight burn, but the aftertaste was smooth, welcoming, like an old friend calling me home.”

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89. “Like I’d waste my time on a book without spice.” “I’ll admit, the one you gave me about the high fae bat-winged dude was pretty hot,” I conceded.”

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90. “I wanted a real love, a real life, and I had to paint the way to get there. It killed me to let him go, and if I’m being honest I knew I would never let him go completely. A part of him would always live in me, but I wanted that part of me subdued, buried beneath a brighter version of myself who could move on and live her life.”

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91. “We only have so much time to be, Natalie. So be wild, be crazy, be spontaneous, and be passionate. Never be sorry. And when someone tells you you’ll regret your choice later, be confident in the fact that you won’t.” I.”

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92. “She was like a Rubik’s Cube in a blind man’s hand – impossible to figure out. And yet I was the blind man determined to try.”

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93. “It was then that I realized my life was my own. I could do anything, be anyone, if I only had the courage.”

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94. “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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95. “I have never seen more clearly than I do in this moment, Julep Lee. And I meant what I said. I am not walking away from you. I never could.”

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96. “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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97. “We may mean them in the moment the words leave our lips, but as time goes on, good intentions get rubbed raw by failed expectations.”

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98. “Leo: I’m really glad I met you.”

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99. “He could leave. I could leave. We could both end up heartbroken, sitting on the floor of our souls and trying to piece together our lives again. But, we could also find forever. We could take the next steps together – toward a year, five, or maybe, forever. And that was a game worth playing.”

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100. “Because he’s a good, Christian man,” she said, almost defensively.”

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