Top 250 Kandi Steiner Quotes (2026 Update)
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201. “When I heard certain songs, they transported me to another time, to another place, and sometimes, to another person.”

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202. “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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203. “One thing I knew for sure, I wasn’t going down without a fight. If I truly lost her, if he was to have her, he’d have to beat me in a fair fight. So, as the bartender slid me my check and I made my way back into the cold night, I cracked my knuckles and prepared for war.”

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

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205. “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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206. “Another tip you picked up from my books?” “Those things are like a treasure map. Just follow the tabs and highlights to find the pot of gold.”

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

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

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209. “I wasn’t sorry the first time I kissed you, even when you weren’t mine, and I’m not sorry I kissed you the other night, even when I wasn’t yours. Because the truth is you’ve always been mine, and I’ll always be yours, and that’s just the way it is.”

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210. “I was spinning, tipsy, teetering on the edge of being wasted on Whiskey. I’d dreamed of kissing Jamie so many times, but nothing could compare to how it really felt – his hands on me, so strong, his mouth skilled and passionate.”

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211. “I was going to need a chiropractor for the whiplash. Rhodes.”

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

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213. “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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214. “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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215. “You wanna be chivalrous?” she asked, spinning to face me as she continued walking backward. Her ponytail swung with the motion, and something tightened in my chest at the sight of her so light and carefree. “Go to a women’s march. Vote for a female to take office. Read a book on feminism.”

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216. “A new life had started for me when I’d met her. She’d opened my eyes, shared her light, and pulled me from the shadows.”

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

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219. “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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220. “One day, whether you are 14, 28, or 65, you will stumble upon someone who will start a fire in you that cannot die. However, the saddest, most awful truth you will ever come to find – is they are not always with whom we spend our lives. – Beau Taplin.”

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221. “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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222. “This was the choice I had to make.”

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223. “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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224. “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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225. “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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226. “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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227. “You’re the only one for me and you know it.”

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

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230. “An insecure man would rather laugh with the hyenas than chance failing a run with the lions.” I.”

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231. “Calm your tits, bossy pants. I’ve got a plan.”

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232. “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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233. “I saw him first, but it didn’t matter. Because he saw her.”

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234. “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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235. “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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236. “Look, what happens to me is none of your business.” “What if I want it to be?”

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

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238. “His heart belonged to me, just like mine would always belong to him.”

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239. “And maybe that’s what love was, giving someone the power to shatter you and trusting that they wouldn’t.”

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

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242. “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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243. “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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244. “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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245. “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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246. “Kitten,” he whispered in a pained breath.”

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247. “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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248. “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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249. “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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250. “Clay, who was now holding up a small book for everyone to see.”

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