Top 400 Karina Halle Quotes (2024 Update)
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201. “I really did love you,” he said softly. Then he straightened up and his eyes were unreadable. Blank. “But there are some things in this world more important than love. Some things that last longer. Empires. You build something great, something large, something that gets people’s attention, and you’re remembered forever. You love a girl, give her your heart, and you won’t be remembered six years later. Love doesn’t last. But empires do. They go on. And on. And on. Even if just in history books.”

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202. “It doesn’t really matter in the end. Most people I talk to don’t take writing seriously. If I tell them I’m an aspiring author, they get that “yeah right” look on their face, which is usually followed by “good luck with that.”

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203. “I don’t think I will ever be the same. No. I know I won’t be. I can’t be, not after this. There is no going back. And then I’m hit with a sledgehammer made of heart and truth that feels like its blowing me to smithereens. I don’t want to ever be with anyone else. I can’t be with anyone else. I want Linden and I want him forever. Tears spring to my eyes as I clamp them shut and think, You’re it, you’re it, you’re it. All this time you’ve been it.”

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204. “I didn’t just want Lachlan’s muscles, his lips, his endless skills beneath the sheets. I wanted him, every part of him. The dark bits that were hidden away and only hinted at by tattoos. I desired all of him, like a dying man desires one more breath.”

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205. “There is no pain, Javier,” I assured him. “Not anymore. I want you to finish your name. I am more yours than I am Salvador’s.”

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206. “You’re bad.” “You love that I’m bad.” She smiled serenely at me. “You know I do.”

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207. “Dedication For anyone who has ever taken a chance on uncertainty.”

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208. “He was once the man I loved more than anything in the world. But he was also the man who would never be mine.”

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209. “I love him with every part of me, all the whole parts and the broken parts and the parts that are still mending. I.”

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210. “Some would say karma, but Javier never much believed in that. What he did believe in was that sooner or later, everyone will be at the same level, everything will even out. It was just luck if you were alive to see it happen.”

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211. “Every decision to better your life has to come from within, not from anyone else.”

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212. “I’m stunned by the sight of him. No, floored. My knees actually feel weak, and I dig my heels down into the grass to try and keep upright.”

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213. “I guess when you expect the worst it’s always a pleasant surprise if everything ends up going smoothly.”

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214. “Maybe this wasn’t how we saw our lives going but right now, I can’t think of it going any other way. I know you have your reservations and you’re entitled to them. I have mine too. I know we’ve only known each other for a few weeks and I know we’re not in love. We’re barely in like. But I do know that I want to do this with you and I can only hope you’ll do it with me.”

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215. “She’s beautiful in a dramatic, romantic way. Her face could inspire gothic novels from long ago. If Helen of Troy’s face could launch a thousand ships, Violet McQueen’s face could launch a thousand stories, all filled with lust, heartache, and death.”

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216. “Let me in. Let me be here for everything, all the good, all the bad. All your light and all your dark.”

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217. “He grabs my chin lightly and holds my face, making sure I can’t break eye contact, can’t look away. It’s so intimate, the way his stare feels like he’s stripping me bare. But it’s Aksel. He can peer into my soul at any time. He’ll only see his own soul there. A home for his heart.”

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218. “It soothed me, coating my heart, making me forget everything I knew. Yes, I was drowning again, but this time for the right reasons. There was no better reason than love.”

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219. “Nine years. I’ve been waiting nine years for this. Nine years to finally have you the way I’ve always needed you.”

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220. “She was a dream that was seconds from becoming a nightmare, a present that was about to be taken back.”

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221. “We were Dex and Perry and our relationship seemed to thrive on the universe being out of order. Either that or our relationship actually caused the world to turn upside down. It was hard to say.”

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222. “If only, if only, if only. But hindsight has never done anyone any favors.”

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223. “Man, if looks could kill then I was trying to commit a triple homicide with mine.”

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224. “So that’s it. It has one ex-girlfriend of mine. And it’s not satisfied. It wants the only person left on this earth that I... that I’d do anything for. Just throw her into the pot, who cares. I lost her once, I cannot lose her again.”

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225. “I think I’m losing myself,” I whisper to her after we’ve come, our bodies naked, sweaty and sated, limbs draped over limbs, hands holding onto hands. My throat feels thick, my breath heavy, my words weigh a ton. “Every time I’m inside you, with you, I think I lose a little bit more.” I turn my head to the side to look at her. She’s staring at me with big, wet eyes so full of everything I could ever want from her. “In the end you might have all my pieces,” I tell her. “Please be gentle with them.”

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226. “No one should be judged for what they read, nor should authors by what they write.”

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227. “You were it for me. I gave my heart to you and I never got it back. I don’t even think I wanted it back.”

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228. “Get him to his cage!” Amanda yells. I’m naked, with Fluffy balancing on a magazine, and somehow I make my way down the hall, to the study, and place the entire magazine inside, my hands shaking nonstop.”

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229. “You ran toward me. You threw yourself into my darkness and you showed me the stars that I never knew were there. You were never afraid of what was in me, you wanted to see it all, you wanted to be there for me in every way that you could.”

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230. “No one would understand the truth. That she’s not just a nanny. She’s Aurora. She’s my reckoning and savior all at once. She’s her namesake, those northern lights that brighten the darkest winter skies. She’s my homecoming. And I’m in love with her.”

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231. “He’s also taller than I thought, maybe six feet, with a slim but athletic build. His pants hug his hips just enough to outline a bit of a visible bulge. Or maybe it’s just the lighting in here. Or maybe I’m just a pervert.”

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232. “The driver seems to have no regard for traffic lights, or other cars, or pedestrians, or roads, or even life itself.”

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233. “My past has such a hold on me, like I’m stopped at a red light that never changes, waiting for that green light that never comes.”

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234. “He lied. I lied. Any love that starts out under a lie is bound to kill you. I just didn’t want to die on my feet.”

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235. “Shut up, you Brony,” I said. He looked appalled while I heard Wayne whisper, “What’s a Brony?”

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236. “Isn’t that the best person to want? The person that knows you inside and out. The person who has seen you at your ugliest and most beautiful and still wants to be with you. The person who believes in you and has your back, no matter what.”

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237. “I wanted him, I wanted his thoughts and his fears and his feelings but I didn’t want to give away a single ounce of myself.”

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238. “I didn’t know what the future held. But I knew it held Dex. And that was more than good enough for me.”

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239. “It’s not like I’m one hundred percent pure evil. Just like forty percent. That’s less than half.”

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240. “It’s like if you’re not strong all the time, you’re not a real woman or something.”

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241. “This man is no longer just my friend. He’s no longer my Laz in that sense. He’s a man that I’m giving my heart over to, whether he knows it or not, whether I want to or not. There’s no reasoning, no deciding. It’s done.”

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242. “He was still a douchecanoe. The douchecanoe who was going to paddle me to safety.”

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243. “I can only hope she likes what she sees, that I’m enough for her. I’ll do anything to be her King.”

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244. “That’s the beauty of traveling. Haven’t you caught on yet? There are no strangers here, just friends you haven’t met yet.”

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245. “I know I only have you like this, in this moment right now, but even just a moment with you is enough. Anything more than that is too good for the likes of me.”

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246. “The surf was out of control and wild. The wind was powerful. So powerful it was hard to stand up. But I felt free. So damn free. It was beyond euphoric. It was practically cathartic. Spiritual. I remember so clearly the feeling of that wind sweeping off the Pacific, assaulting my face with brine and secrets from the deep. I closed my eyes, held my arms back like I was going to fly. The sun beat down on me, birds flew close to shore. I’d never felt so in tune and connected with the world before.”

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247. “Thanks for agreeing to watch Fat Rabbit. Hope you’re prepared for lots of farts in your future. From the dog, of course.”

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248. “Even if I only wrote erotica, I wouldn’t care what you have to say. I make people happy! Blake and I provide readers with fun and entertainment and an escape from their lives, which is a damn good thing because life is hard and really sucks sometimes. Life isn’t a fairy-tale and not everyone in gets a happily-ever-after, but in our book world they do.”

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249. “Losing love is lonely. Losing it because of something you did is deathly.”

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250. “I used to be so fearless. Then I met Ella. Then I realized how much I really stand to lose.”

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