Top 250 Kandi Steiner Quotes (2024 Update)
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151. “I rolled my eyes, but my heart was light as a bird, the wings of it fluttering in my chest and making it impossible not to smile. I’d never felt more at home.”

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152. “I haven’t been able to take my eyes off you since the moment you walked through that door tonight.”

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153. “I watched the love drain from his eyes for years...”

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154. “Insecurity was a tricky bastard. I’d gone from sailing on the highest of clouds to walking under one that was constantly drizzling on my head.”

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155. “That safe word was never meant to be used, never meant to be anything more than a joke between us.”

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156. “I wanted a real love, a real life, and I had to paint the way to get there. It killed me to let him go, and if I’m being honest I knew I would never let him go completely. A part of him would always live in me, but I wanted that part of me subdued, buried beneath a brighter version of myself who could move on and live her life.”

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157. “They’re both a little crazy, both a little messed up. But they’re choosing to be messed up together.”

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158. “Yeah well, you ever wonder why so many have an opinion about what you do with your life, though? Is it because they really think what you’re doing is wrong, or is it because they need to convince themselves that what they’re doing is right?”

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159. “I was still nervous to sit too close to Rhodes. I felt like he was a caged animal. One wrong move might send him running or cause him to attack. I wasn’t sure which was worse. But.”

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160. “I’m not sorry I kissed you,” he clarified, and my eyes found his then. “But I’m sorry I did it when you weren’t mine to kiss.”

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161. “I wrapped my arms fiercely around him, squeezing my eyes shut as we both exhaled in relief at finally being together again.”

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162. “And a man. A man who also belonged to me. A man I no longer wished to keep. A man who, no doubt, had not slept, though the sun was rising now. Because that house where he waited – that large, desolate, haunting house – was where I’d laid my head to rest every night for the last eight years. Until last night.”

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163. “Look, what happens to me is none of your business.” “What if I want it to be?”

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164. “Words don’t get written from a heart that’s never felt.”

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165. “I’ve missed you,” she breathed against my lips. “You saw me this morning. And all game.” “Shut up and tell me you’ve missed me, too.”

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166. “What are you doing?” he asked after a moment. I smiled. “Finding something beautiful in the chaos.”

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167. “When I heard certain songs, they transported me to another time, to another place, and sometimes, to another person.”

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168. “I don’t think my story will be as light as yours.” “So, let me sit in the darkness with you.”

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169. “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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170. “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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171. “I can give to the ones I love without sacrificing everything that brings me joy in the process.”

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172. “The house was once magical, once filled with love and joy and plans for the future. It was entirely too big for the young newlyweds who purchased it, both eager to fill the spare bedrooms with babies, to fill the expansive kitchen with little footprints and messy high chairs, to fill the walls with memories captured in sepia-tone photographs.”

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173. “The Scottish are the only ones who can technically spell whiskey as “whisky.” They claim more vowels wastes good drinking time, and I wish I could have realized that then, because that’s exactly what I was doing – wasting time. Letting days and weeks and months of incredible, soul-shattering love pass me by because I thought I knew the right way to spell out the path of my life.”

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174. “Oh, God. Bad?” I asked, panicked. Hadn’t the books said those were good? Clay heaved a laugh, shaking his head before he dropped his forehead to mine. “Good,” he breathed. “At least, for me.”

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175. “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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176. “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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177. “Our past has a funny way of becoming part of who we are in the future, and I think that’s the way it’s meant to be. Without the scars, without the pain, we wouldn’t be able to appreciate the times when everything is magical – the days when life is absolute bliss.”

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178. “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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179. “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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180. “Look at you.” He was wearing a Detroit Lions t-shirt.”

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181. “You can take anything out on me because you know what? I can handle it. I can take it. I can go to war for you, or with you, if it’s what you need.”

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182. “You love to study so much, Kitten... study me.”

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183. “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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184. “I felt an ending in that kiss. It was a period, a punctuation mark, and at the time I thought it was the end of the chapter. But later, I would mark it as the end of it all, the end of my addiction, my last taste of whiskey, my final dance with fire.”

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185. “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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186. “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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187. “The more I pretended like she was mine to tease like that, the more it felt like she really was.”

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188. “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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189. “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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190. “He’d fill me with life, even when I hadn’t asked for it.”

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191. “All you could do was ask yourself what you regretted, what you loved, and what you learned. Then, you moved forward.”

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192. “And it was the truth – there was nothing I was more afraid of than waking up one morning to find my heart belonged to the one man I knew could break it.”

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193. “I groaned, pinning her hips against the bed to stop her. “Woman,” I warned. “I’m fine,” she protested, fighting against my hold. “It’ll hurt for a second, yes, but I want it. I want you.” Jesus Christ.”

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194. “I’d choose losing it all over losing you for a lifetime.”

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195. “He wasn’t a tiny meowing kitten by any means, but he wasn’t the pit bull I’d become used to, either.”

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196. “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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197. “I will be here,” I said, tugging her hands to my chest again. “Every day. I’ll be right by your side reminding you that you matter, that you are needed, that there is a reason to have hope and a reason to live. I’ll be here reminding you that for me? You are that reason.”

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198. “It means something if it hurts you.”

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199. “I read romance because it’s fun to fall in love. And with romance books, I get to do it over and over. I get to be different types of lovers, I get to feel the heartbreak of love and the successes.”

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200. “I hated them both. But I loved them both, too. And for that, I hated myself.”

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