Top 250 Kandi Steiner Quotes (2024 Update)
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101. “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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102. “Suddenly, the air in his room thickened, heating like the sun itself was inside it.”

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103. “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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104. “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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105. “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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106. “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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107. “Words don’t get written from a heart that’s never felt. They come from pain, from love, from unspeakable depths – and they were my only release.”

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108. “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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109. “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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110. “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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111. “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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112. “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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113. “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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114. “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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115. “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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116. “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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117. “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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118. “I blame the dirty books.”

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119. “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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120. “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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121. “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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122. “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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123. “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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124. “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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125. “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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126. “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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127. “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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128. “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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129. “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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130. “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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131. “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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132. “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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133. “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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134. “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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135. “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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136. “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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137. “And I don’t want to die before I’ve even had the chance to live.”

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138. “I’m just scared, Willow. He was my best friend. He was my everything.” Saying the words out loud made my chest sting. Willow threw her arm around my shoulder, steering me back toward Hay Stacks. “I know, babe. And maybe that’s part of the issue, you know? If you give your all to someone else, realize you may one day have to change all you know about yourself.” I.”

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139. “Another tip you picked up from my books?” “Those things are like a treasure map. Just follow the tabs and highlights to find the pot of gold.”

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140. “One thing I knew for sure, I wasn’t going down without a fight. If I truly lost her, if he was to have her, he’d have to beat me in a fair fight. So, as the bartender slid me my check and I made my way back into the cold night, I cracked my knuckles and prepared for war.”

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141. “She was so strange, and intelligent, and curious, and full of wonder. She was like a child and a grown ass woman somehow wrapped up in one.”

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142. “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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143. “Books aren’t meant to be in perfect shape,” she said when we reached her room. “They’re meant to be read, to be inhaled like oxygen.” Her fingers ran over the spine again, and she smiled. “This book has been breathed. It’s been loved.”

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144. “If fate is what brought you to me, I’m not only a believer – I’m a worshiper.”

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145. “Sometimes, we have to trust the ones we love, the ones who love us, even when it’s hard to do.” Her eyes skirted to my tent, to the journal, before they found mine. “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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146. “You brute,” she teased, smacking my chest. “You love it.”

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147. “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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148. “Calm your tits, bossy pants. I’ve got a plan.”

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149. “My next breath was shaky and shallow, and Clay pressed a feather-light kiss to the skin just beneath my ear. “Okay?” he asked, simple and soft. That one word seemed to ground me, to bring me back to the room, to reality, to him. I think I nodded. I think I gave some sort of murmur of affirmation before his tongue licked along my jaw line and back to my mouth. He pressed his forehead against mine, and when my lids flickered open, I found his emerald eyes blazing down at me.”

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150. “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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