Top 250 Kandi Steiner Quotes (2025 Update)
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151. “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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152. “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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153. “And I don’t want to die before I’ve even had the chance to live.”

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154. “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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155. “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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156. “Calm your tits, bossy pants. I’ve got a plan.”

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157. “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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158. “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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159. “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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160. “If fate is what brought you to me, I’m not only a believer – I’m a worshiper.”

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161. “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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162. “You brute,” she teased, smacking my chest. “You love it.”

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163. “I’m still the same girl he dumped less than three weeks ago. Plus, he saw me yesterday when I’m pretty sure I looked like a sweaty walrus.” She.”

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164. “Leo: You’re right, school sucks. I miss summer days with you.”

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165. “One more promise,” he said, wiggling the digit. “That you will do whatever makes you happy from this moment on. Regardless of what you think you should do, or what you think other people think you should do.” He paused. “You’ve given a lot to the people you love. Let us return the favor.”

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166. “I didn’t have to answer. Giana buried her face in my chest and I kissed her hair as Zeke and Riley walked by.”

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167. “You need to rest after last night.” She pouted, sagging in my arms. “Trust me,” I assured her. “You’re going to be more sore there than you realize.”

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168. “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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169. “Do you want to know what I thought the first time I saw you?” His hands fisted in my dress at my hips, hiking the fabric just an inch higher, but I felt the cool air of the room sweep in like a whispered warning. “Mine.”

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170. “Marry me,” I repeated, swiping the fresh tears away. “And I will spend the rest of my life loving you. No matter how long that is. Every minute I am here on Earth is yours. And after that, too.”

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171. “I liked that he was thinking of me, and that he was making an effort to let me know that he was. I liked that he called me things like beautiful and said good morning, gorgeous every single day.”

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172. “The truth was I read about a book a day, so they all blurred together after a while.”

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173. “Why does that feel so good?” I breathed, my eyes still closed as Clay’s tongue lashed out against mine again. “Do you want the science of it, or the layman’s terms?” I bit my lip against a smile as he kissed down my neck, and his hips rolled between mine, striking me with that hot spark of electricity again. “Both.” A low rumble of a laugh vibrated at my throat.”

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174. “I don’t know what Clay’s keeping from me, why he did this, but all that really matters is that he did it.”

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175. “You thought I would wait, and I thought you changed your mind.” Jamie moved to me then, slowly, as if he was waiting for me to stop him. Then, he bent at the knee to meet me at eye-level. “I could never change my mind about you.”

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176. “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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177. “You’re the only one for me and you know it.”

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178. “They needed a home, and we had one to give. It’s just that simple.”

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179. “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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180. “I wanted her. I wanted her so badly my chest had a gaping hole in it whenever I wasn’t with her.”

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181. “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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182. “No, it does matter. Because I’m getting married.” “No, you’re not.” “Yes, I am!” Jamie stood, jaw tight. “You’re not marrying anyone but me.”

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183. “Everyone thinks if they achieve this or that, then they’ll be happy. Then they can start living. But what they fail to see is that this is it.” He bent down and thumped the ground before raising both hands up to the sky. “This is life. It’s happening right now. And if you don’t stop and soak it in, you’ll miss it.”

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184. “Like I’d waste my time on a book without spice.”

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185. “Finding something beautiful in the chaos.” Rhodes.”

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186. “We should have known it could never stay that way.”

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187. “There are some sights in life, some little moments, that never look as pretty in a picture as they do in real life.”

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188. “Um. I mean, the school spirit, of course. Not the body paint. Or the body. Not that I wouldn’t like to see your body. I mean, not that I would – ” Shawn just smiled, letting me ramble on, no trace of any intention to stop me from embarrassing myself further. So I clamped my mouth shut, burying my face in my hands.”

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189. “After a quick clean up, I flopped back into my bed, staring at where I’d left that scene bookmarked and closed in the center of the bed. I wanted that so badly – the passion, the need, the heat. I wanted Shawn to look at me that way, with possessive desire rolling off him in plumes. I wanted him to kiss me the way Clay had, for it to not be a joke or a pretense, but real.”

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190. “Wherever we go, whatever we do, you belong to me,” I said, kissing along her jaw. “And I belong to you.”

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191. “Something about that wrinkled my nose – mostly because I absolutely loathed the you’re not like other girls line. It felt divisive and like more of an insult to womanhood than a compliment to me.”

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192. “And he’s not going to kill me,” I added, scrunching my nose. “I don’t think.” “Real comforting.” “At least, if he does, you’ll know where to find the body.”

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193. “Pack my schedule with more than a normal human being can handle and I’ll show you the impossible.”

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194. “Again, thank you for reading my book, for continuing on long enough to read this note, too. I hope as you file this book away on the “read” shelf, you take a piece of it with you and hold it close to your heart, as I hold all of you close to mine.”

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195. “Clay moved my hand to my stomach, pushing it down under the hem of my sweatpants as my eyes fluttered at the sensation. He wasn’t even touching me yet. It was my own damn hand. But his was on top of it.”

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196. “You love him,” she whispered. My throat constricted. “I do.” “Isn’t it the worst?” I choked on a laugh at that. “Yes,” I agreed. “It really, truly is.”

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197. “If my life was to be a story, I wanted to take control of the pen. I wanted to change the paper, crumple up what had been written so far and start over. I.”

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198. “I think I’d almost forgotten how badly he’d broken me until I heard his voice saying my name the way he used to.”

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199. “She watched me like I had all the answers, like I was her lifeline. Like she trusted me with everything that she was.”

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200. “Kitten,” he whispered in a pained breath.”

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