Top 250 Kandi Steiner Quotes (2024 Update)
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51. “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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52. “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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53. “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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54. “You’ve given a lot to the people you love. Let us return the favor.”

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55. “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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56. “How could a seemingly ordinary girl from Colorado who wasn’t even supposed to be on my boat at all, become the center of my focus and attention, of my every waking thought and every sleepless night?”

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57. “I’d learned that if a move in life didn’t make you feel like singing and throwing up all at once, it wasn’t big enough.”

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58. “Those marks on your stomach, while they are forever a part of you, they do not define you. They are not a sign of your weakness or of your failure.” I smiled then, rubbing the pad of my thumb along her cheek. “They are a reminder of your strength, of your love, and of the miracle of life.”

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59. “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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60. “Stop trying to laugh me off,” he said, voice reverberating through my ribcage. “And look at me when I tell you how enamorating you are.” “That’s not a word.” “It is now,” he argued. “And it was made for you.”

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61. “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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62. “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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63. “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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64. “I blame the dirty books.”

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65. “He kissed me like the horizon kisses the sun as it sets – tenderly, with the blinding promise that another day would come. With that kiss, we sealed our choice. With that kiss, we shut the door on the past. And with that kiss, with my hands over his, and his over our child, we began a new chapter in our story – together. And I knew this one would be brighter than the last.”

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66. “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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67. “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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68. “Maybe it was about finding love in the one person who loved you before you had the chance to love yourself.”

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69. “It’s a promise that I’ll always help you feel beautiful when you don’t on your own, that I’ll hold you when you need to cry and spin you in my arms when you need to celebrate.”

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70. “Emery was like a firework with the fuse burnt all the way down to the end, momentarily paused, temporarily safe – and I didn’t know if he would remain in tact or blow to bits if I took even one step closer.”

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71. “No matter what I do,” Clay whispered in the shell of my ear. “Keep your eyes on him.” The song ended and another began, and I learned that stamina was another of Clay’s attributes. He never tired of touching me, teasing me, kissing along every bit of exposed skin he could find.”

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72. “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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73. “I know enough to tell you that you’re a momma’s boy through and through, because you were even looking for her in the girl you wanted to marry.” He scoffed. “Thank God you dodged that bullet.”

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74. “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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75. “It was possessive, the way he cradled me, the way he pulled me in tighter, kissed me harder, his hand slowly pushing up under the hem of my skirt.”

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76. “It was heaven. It was hell. It was wrong and right and I wished I’d never started yet I never wanted to stop.”

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77. “I don’t want to be just comfortable, Mom. I want a love that makes me everything but comfortable. If it doesn’t drive me mad, if it doesn’t break my heart at the thought of losing it, if it doesn’t push me to new places and force me to grow – what kind of love is it, really?”

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78. “A touch. A sigh. A man. A woman. Fingertips and lips. Moans and breaths. Old longings brought to life with new fervor, new discoveries uncovered with old, shaking hands. Freedom. Passion. Pain.”

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79. “So. I see you’ve figured out how to wrangle Clay Johnson,” Charlotte had said, not so much as looking at me from where she was typing away on her computer. I’d merely pushed my glasses up my nose, knowing a response wasn’t warranted. “Be careful,” she’d warned, but then her lips had tilted into a smile as her eyes met mine. “And have fun.”

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80. “Marry me, Julep. Marry me, and I promise to take you to every yard sale we can find in every state we go to. Marry me, and I will grow a garden in your name. Marry me, and I promise to set up a chrome pole in the middle of every piece of property we own.”

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81. “But the truth is we’re just humans. We’re just animals. And when we die, we become food for the earth and the bugs. The circle of life.”

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82. “You can hold true on all your threats,” I continued. “You can take everything else away from me. But you can’t take her.”

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83. “But if I was a river, and he was the ocean, then Cameron was the storm that raged over the point where we met. And lightning was about to strike.”

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84. “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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85. “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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86. “Because he’s a good, Christian man,” she said, almost defensively.”

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87. “Let me find myself in you.”

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88. “Do you need me to break under someone else’s hands so you don’t have to be the one to do it first?”

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89. “I want that kind of love that leaves you breathless when it hits you, and makes you want to throw up at the thought of losing it. The kind that makes you so happy that it hurts at the same time, like it’s painful to think that out of all the people in the world, you somehow found the one meant for you.”

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

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91. “Leo: I’m really glad I met you.”

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92. “They have three hearts, which I thought was pretty rad. But I think the connection I really made was with the fact that with three organs pumping blood into them, and eight arms that essentially all have a mind of their own – they must feel pulled in so many different directions, you know? Like they’re made up of too much to be confined into one little being.”

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93. “He was beautiful. Crazy? Maybe. Intimidating? Definitely. But, beautiful nonetheless.”

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94. “Truth or dare?” I asked, voice cracking with the question. “Truth.” “Did you ever miss me, after I left?” He shook his head, the muscles of his jaw ticking, nose flaring, hands still pulling me in, closer, closer. “Only every day, Eliza,” he whispered, his brows bending together. “Every hour. Every minute. Every second you’ve been gone.”

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95. “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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96. “You really are like a book boyfriend, you know?”

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97. “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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98. “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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99. “Rhodes had a way of bringing out someone inside me who had never existed before. I was bold around him – unabashedly bold. It felt strange and incredible at the same time. Rhodes.”

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100. “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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