Top 250 Kandi Steiner Quotes (2026 Update)
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201. “Funny, isn’t it, how often we fight what our hearts try to tell us.”

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202. “You see love just the same way that you see the wind – by the way it moves other things. Love has moved me, it’s changed me, and I can see it more clearly than the sun in the sky.”

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203. “But I knew Charlie. I loved her – truly loved her – not for who she used to be or whatever fantasy Reese had of her in his head. I’d seen her sick. I’d danced with her on her best days and helped her stand on the days she couldn’t bear the thought of it. I’d built a home with her, built a life with her, and neither hell nor high water could keep me from keeping the vows I’d made to her the day we were married.”

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204. “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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205. “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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206. “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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207. “Left or right. It was as simple as that, except it wasn’t simple at all.”

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208. “I was like my father. And that was okay. I had always said I was a combination of him and my mother, and it was true. I had his selfish tendencies, but they were balanced out by my mom’s giving heart.”

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209. “Anyway. Want to smoke a joint and order a pizza, or are you going to strip for our neighbors all night?”

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210. “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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211. “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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212. “I’d choose losing it all over losing you for a lifetime.”

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

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

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215. “Because living a life where what you put in isn’t reciprocated is no life at all.”

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

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

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219. “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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220. “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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221. “Look at you.” He was wearing a Detroit Lions t-shirt.”

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222. “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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223. “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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224. “You brute,” she teased, smacking my chest. “You love it.”

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225. “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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226. “There’s always this fear that even though I may know what I want, I may never actually make it a reality.”

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

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228. “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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229. “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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230. “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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231. “He kissed me like it was a privilege, like he didn’t want to rush, like we had forever. I think I knew even then that we didn’t.”

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232. “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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233. “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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234. “Pack my schedule with more than a normal human being can handle and I’ll show you the impossible.”

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235. “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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236. “Ignorance is a blessing as much as it is a curse. You can’t crave what you don’t know exists.” The.”

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237. “But me and Charlie? We were magic. We were made for each other, plain and simple.”

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238. “She gave him this dance. Now, I could only hope she’d give me the last one.”

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239. “Years of waiting, of wanting, of wrong decisions and longing regrets. They all floated to the surface and yet drowned in the depths all at once.”

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240. “There’s more courage in admitting you love someone and fighting for them than letting them go because it hurts less.”

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241. “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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242. “Love is the most powerful and real emotion we feel, and I think it’s sort of magical that we can experience some of the greatest loves of all time through books.”

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243. “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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244. “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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245. “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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246. “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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247. “When I heard certain songs, they transported me to another time, to another place, and sometimes, to another person.”

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248. “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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249. “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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250. “And I don’t want to die before I’ve even had the chance to live.”

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