Top 250 Kandi Steiner Quotes (2026 Update)
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201. “And in the quiet dark of that hotel room, I silently promised to never hurt her again, to never put her second to anything, to never let her push me away even when her defensive instinct told her to. I promised to do everything in my power to always make her stay, even when things got rough. Mary Silver was finally mine. It was the sweetest win of my life.”

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202. “I like them because they work hard for what they want and need in life. They don’t let the threat of waves thousands of times larger than them crashing down stop them. They persevere, and it’s not easy – but they do it.”

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203. “You are consequential,” he said, voice low and rasped. “You’d do well to realize that and use it to your advantage.”

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

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206. “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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207. “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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208. “I’d been at the bar all night, ever since she left. I’d sat there at the very last bar stool, staring at my hands, fighting the urge to call her phone, knowing she wouldn’t answer – knowing I wouldn’t have the right words to say even if she did. I never had the right words. My voice had been stolen by an abusive father before I hit middle school, and I’d struggled my entire life trying to find it again.”

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209. “This was the choice I had to make.”

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210. “Because I don’t want to come before the lesson is over.” I bit my lip, and Clay kissed my shy smile before rolling over to the right of me.”

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

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212. “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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213. “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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214. “You love to study so much, Kitten... study me.”

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215. “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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216. “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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217. “Calm your tits, bossy pants. I’ve got a plan.”

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218. “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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219. “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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220. “Look, what happens to me is none of your business.” “What if I want it to be?”

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

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222. “No one is the same once they lose someone they love.”

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223. “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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224. “Kitten,” he whispered in a pained breath.”

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225. “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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226. “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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227. “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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228. “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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229. “I’d been so focused on losing weight, on getting to a certain point where I thought I’d find happiness. It turned out that joy wasn’t made by the destination, but rather discovered in the journey. I looked forward to the next mile in mine.”

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230. “Clay, who was now holding up a small book for everyone to see.”

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231. “I threw a wave over my shoulder as I turned, trying to keep my smile calm and collected. But the way he stood with his hands in his pockets, one brow arched, told me he saw right through the act. It also told me he liked that he’d ruffled me.”

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

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233. “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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234. “The more I pretended like she was mine to tease like that, the more it felt like she really was.”

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

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236. “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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237. “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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238. “Leo: You’re right, school sucks. I miss summer days with you.”

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239. “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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240. “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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241. “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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242. “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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243. “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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244. “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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245. “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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246. “Funny, isn’t it, how often we fight what our hearts try to tell us.”

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247. “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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248. “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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249. “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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250. “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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