Top 250 Kandi Steiner Quotes (2024 Update)
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201. “I watched the love drain from his eyes for years...”

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

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

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205. “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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206. “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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207. “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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208. “Look, what happens to me is none of your business.” “What if I want it to be?”

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

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

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

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213. “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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214. “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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215. “I can give to the ones I love without sacrificing everything that brings me joy in the process.”

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216. “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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217. “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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218. “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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219. “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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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. “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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222. “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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223. “Look at you.” He was wearing a Detroit Lions t-shirt.”

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

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226. “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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227. “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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228. “The more I pretended like she was mine to tease like that, the more it felt like she really was.”

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

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230. “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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231. “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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232. “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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233. “I’d choose losing it all over losing you for a lifetime.”

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234. “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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235. “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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236. “It means something if it hurts you.”

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

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238. “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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239. “This was the choice I had to make.”

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

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242. “Whatever you choose, make sure it makes you happy.”

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243. “You’re light. Don’t ever lose that. Don’t let the world weigh you down like them.”

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

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

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247. “Try, Emery. That’s all I’m asking. Let me in on the bad days, in here,” I said, tapping his temple before my fingers trailed down over his chest. “And maybe, in time, here, too.”

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248. “I choose you,” I repeated. “Just like I did the night we made our vows, just like I should have done when we faced our first challenge. The truth is, you make me forget I even have a choice at all. Like the writer who cannot live without the reader, and the rose that cannot exist without the rain, I am bound to you, to your love, and I cannot go on without it.”

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

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250. “It’s you who brings me pain. It’s you who is killing me. It’s you, and us,” I added motioning between us. “It’s this thing that never was, but always is, that never will be and will never not be.”

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