Top 250 Kandi Steiner Quotes (2026 Update)
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101. “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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102. “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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103. “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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104. “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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105. “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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106. “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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107. “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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108. “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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109. “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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110. “I couldn’t eat,” he started, knee still bouncing. “Couldn’t train, couldn’t sleep, couldn’t do anything other than make myself sick thinking about him touching you.”

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111. “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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112. “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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113. “You gained my respect when you proved me wrong. And even more so moments ago when you brought joy back to my daughter’s face that I didn’t know could even exist anymore.”

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114. “I blame the dirty books.”

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115. “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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116. “He squeezed my hands in his own, kissing my chin until I tipped it up and allowed him access to my neck. “This isn’t fake,” he swore against my skin, kissing and nipping it along the way. “Nothing between us has ever been fake.” His mouth was on mine in the next breath, and then I was being carried through my apartment.”

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117. “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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118. “Stay. Stay with me. Live with me.”

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119. “It’s okay to love him.” “Even if he doesn’t love me back?” “That’s the thing about love,” he said, kissing my hair. “It doesn’t need to be reciprocated to be real.”

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120. “I love you, you idiot.”

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121. “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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122. “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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123. “Finding something beautiful in the chaos.” Rhodes.”

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124. “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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125. “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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126. “Because even though marriage brings us together as a unit, there are still two individuals who make that whole. And they need to be able to have their own things, their own time, their own privacy.”

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127. “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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128. “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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129. “You are the voice I’ve always been afraid to have.” Theo held me closer. “And you are the life I’ve been waiting to live.”

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130. “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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131. “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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132. “I learned the people we love usually turned out to be one of three things: a home, a holiday, or hell.” – Beau Taplin.”

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

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134. “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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135. “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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136. “You’re light. Don’t ever lose that. Don’t let the world weigh you down like them.”

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137. “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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138. “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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139. “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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140. “He was beautiful. Crazy? Maybe. Intimidating? Definitely. But, beautiful nonetheless.”

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141. “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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142. “That’s the thing about love,” he said, kissing my hair. “It doesn’t need to be reciprocated to be real.”

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143. “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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144. “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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145. “I had everything I’d ever wanted. All because I begged my parents to buy me Halo.”

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146. “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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147. “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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148. “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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149. “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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150. “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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