Top 250 Kandi Steiner Quotes (2026 Update)
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101. “You have owned my heart since the first fake kiss, Kitten.”

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102. “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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103. “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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104. “If there’s anything you’d like to hear, I’m taking requests. But for now, let’s start with a little Harry Styles.” Butterflies flitted in my stomach as the first chords of “Cherry” smoothed over the crowd, and I found myself singing along, feet bopping under the table.”

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105. “The corner of my mouth crept up watching her in her element. Nothing amped her up the way discovering something new did, and I marveled at how curious she was, at how she was like an endless encyclopedia of fun facts, not because she’d studied and committed anything to memory, but because she simply loved learning that much.”

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106. “Suddenly, the air in his room thickened, heating like the sun itself was inside it.”

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107. “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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108. “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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109. “You’re light. Don’t ever lose that. Don’t let the world weigh you down like them.”

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110. “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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111. “It’s you who brings me pain. It’s you who is killing me. It’s you, and us,” I added motioning between us. “It’s this thing that never was, but always is, that never will be and will never not be.”

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

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113. “He needed me. I didn’t know why – I didn’t need to know why – because the truth was I needed him too.”

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114. “Life doesn’t exactly give us what we need when it’s the perfect time. It’s not a pitching machine straight over the plate. Life throws curve balls – hard and fast, unpredictable. But you still have to hit that sucker or strike out swinging.”

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115. “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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116. “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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117. “So, I guess the biggest thing I want you to take from this is that you are not alone – and you will be okay, even if it doesn’t feel like it right now.”

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118. “It reminded me of all that was, all the powerful emotions I’d felt with Clay in the time our lives were tangled together. I never wanted to lose those stinging lashes of pain, never wanted to forget how it felt to be held by him, touched by him, kissed by him. Loved by him. Maybe I didn’t get to have him forever. But I’d hold on to every little piece of him that he gave me for the rest of my life. And after, too.”

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119. “I had everything I’d ever wanted. All because I begged my parents to buy me Halo.”

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120. “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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121. “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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122. “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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123. “Because that’s what life’s about. It’s about paddling out and fighting the waves until you find the perfect one to ride home on.”

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124. “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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125. “Oh, GOD!” I balked, panicking when I realized the same crimson liquid that covered my fingers also covered Clay’s. “Hey, it’s okay,” he said, holding up that bloody hand as if to soothe me. “It happens. It’s natural.”

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126. “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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127. “Sometimes we’re okay, sometimes we’re not, and the truth of the matter is that in both times – we are human.”

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128. “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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129. “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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130. “It didn’t matter if it was true or not. When you said something enough, you started to believe it. And when you believed it, you became it.”

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131. “I shook my head, looking at Beth. “I left him. Again.” A sniff. “I am so, so stupid.” “You’re not,” she insisted, squeezing my leg. “You were just lost, Eliza. And sometimes that can be easier than being found.”

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132. “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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133. “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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134. “I’m sorry,” she whispered, fixing her glasses. “I just, I saw them, and I saw you, and I thought – ” I cut off the rest of her words with my hand behind her head, guiding her into me for another bruising kiss. This time, I pinned her against the wall, and she gasped when my abdomen rubbed along her center.”

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135. “Once upon a time, there was a beautiful PR princess named Giana,” he said, showing the stick figure with glasses and curly hair with a headpiece on. He licked his thumb and flipped the page. “And a dumb safety named Clay.” The crowd laughed at the next drawing, which was a.”

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

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138. “Mary, do you know where the – ” I handed a fresh bottle of black ink to Tray before they could finish their sentence, and they chuckled, taking it out of my hand. “Don’t know where we’d be without you,” they said, the light gleaming off their turquoise hair.”

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139. “Those legs were covered in black mesh tights, see-through but for the areas where the fabric was thicker, creating a polka-dot pattern. The corner of my mouth curled in amusement when those tights ended at the hem of a black skirt with a cat nose and whiskers stitched into the front.”

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140. “It took too long for me to realize I’d dropped that beautiful bottle of whiskey. Too long to realize I’d broken it. By the time I figured it out, too long turned to too late, and I remembered all-too-well the other way Whiskey can burn.”

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141. “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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142. “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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143. “I don’t stand a chance, I’m complete putty in his hands. He could mold me into whatever he wants, whoever he wants. He could play with me, hold me, love me. Or he could completely destroy me.”

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144. “I was surprised how easy it was, how effortless it felt to kiss along her neck, to whisper in her ear and elicit a wave of chills over her skin. It was amusing at first, a permanent smile on my face as I found which buttons I could push to make her gasp, or sigh, or arch into me, or dig her nails into my flesh.”

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145. “The bitter wind swept over my already-chilled face, making my eyes water as a hundred more colorful leaves were swept from tree limbs and blown across the park.”

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146. “She didn’t cower or back down. She didn’t shy away. She didn’t take it back. She looked me right in the eye and asked again, silently, for me to be the one to take something I knew was more precious to a woman than I would ever understand as a man.”

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147. “It was me, after all, who had shown my wife the dance, the moves, the steps and turns of infidelity. It was me who’d betrayed her first. And it was my fault she was in his bed right now.”

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148. “Try, Emery. That’s all I’m asking. Let me in on the bad days, in here,” I said, tapping his temple before my fingers trailed down over his chest. “And maybe, in time, here, too.”

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149. “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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150. “I was water, he was whiskey, and I couldn’t dilute him – not now that I knew he loved me enough to let me. I needed to be stronger, to be ice the next time I melted with him.”

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