Top 400 Karina Halle Quotes (2024 Update)
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301. “We have no idea how important this is,” I find myself whispering, my voice feeling rough and raw. “The sunrise?” Daisy asks. She’s in awe as the colors change before our eyes. I swallow the lump in my throat. “To see the dawn of the new days. Sometimes it feels like the world around us is collapsing. Sometimes it’s the world inside us. But the sun always rises. It always promises that we can start again. It’s the one thing we can count on when we can’t count on anything else.”

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302. “You’re my everything. And there’s nothing that will change that.”

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303. “If it’s wrong to occasionally ogle your best friend, I don’t want to be right.”

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304. “God, he can alpha me anytime he wants.”

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305. “My path in life leads right into your arms.”

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306. “There was something kind of nice about operating out of the safe house – it was basic and simple, like camping for kingpins.”

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307. “You can choose fear. Or you can choose love.”

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308. “I know you’ve been burned. But I’ve been burned too. Maybe our ashes can make something beautiful together.”

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309. “I want the woman that will wow me, knock me off my feat, make me come after her over and over again just for another second of her time.” He takes a step away from me, hurt and disgust livid on his brow.”

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310. “I’m drunk. Everything is comfortable. Except I wish I had a cheeseburger. I would eat it and use it as a pillow. Or maybe use it as a pillow and then eat it.”

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311. “He greeted the twins like they were all from the same hood in Compton and gave Dex and me the head nod.”

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312. “Loss of love is the most terrifying feeling in the world.”

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313. “You feel everything. You make me feel everything.”

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314. “If you don’t believe you’re worthy of love you’ll never know what to do with love when you get it.”

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315. “It’s not exactly polite to keep saying hell, but you can always do what I do and make up a word. Like, twatwaffle. Or douchecanoe.”

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316. “Too many times I’ve heard stories of people being attacked in front of others, people who yell for help, and no one comes to their aid. People these days are too afraid to stick their neck out and help each other. There are too many guns, too many crazies, too many criminals. Even in the most liberal city in America, I wonder how many San Franciscans would take the chance. But I can’t think like that. I have to believe in the good in people, even as the world spins to an even worse future.”

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317. “It’s true what they say about red-headed chicks, you know, they all have a wee bit of crazy in them.”

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318. “Love is fire,” he.”

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319. “Eventually you would have woken up,” Natasha says. “The human heart isn’t meant to be caged by someone who doesn’t feed it.”

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320. “When you con for revenge, you might not know when you’ve won.”

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321. “Our love was a mistake from the start. A beautiful, life-rendering mistake.”

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322. “In another world, a merciful world, it wouldn’t be the first time and it wouldn’t be the last. All these nights would stretch on and on and on, and she would fall asleep in my arms with all my darkness and all my demons and all my ugliness stored safely in her heart.”

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323. “You don’t need to justify what I do. I do what I have to do to survive because that’s all I know. I don’t make excuses, I own it. This is me, this is who I am, this is my life. It shames me but not enough to stop. At one point, this was all about revenge; it was about getting the men who got my father and my mother. But somewhere along the way, I forgot about the beast. Vengeance is a beast, you know. It can be tamed. I just stopped feeding it.”

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324. “Because the past makes you who you are. I want to know why you’re this way.”

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325. “I have your back, OK? Don’t forget that. I won’t let you.”

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326. “Some have patience. I do not.”

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327. “I think sometimes when you love something too much, you’re that much more aware of how much you have to lose.”

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328. “I want to be the only man who witnesses that look. I want it to be mine forever.”

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329. “He’s staring at me, almost in awe. “What?” I ask him. “Your face.” I’m breathing hard, my face hot from orgasm. “What about my face?” “I’ve just never seen you come before,” he says. “It’s more beautiful than I thought.”

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330. “A bulletproof vest under everything else. I couldn’t do anything to protect my head, but at least my hair looked good. I.”

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331. “Did I look like crap because I felt like crap, or did I feel like crap because I looked like crap? Ah, the mysteries of life.”

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332. “I’ll tell you what,” he says, running his thumb over my lips. “I’ve been wanting to kiss you for a long time. And I’ve been wanting to do a hell of a lot more.”

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333. “You must feel your soul is dirty then.” He gave me a wry smile. “Oh, my darling. No,” he said, opening the French doors for me. “I don’t even have a soul.”

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334. “Once you have a Dex in your lap, you can’t go back,” I said. I looked over at Perry. “Ain’t that right, kiddo?”

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335. “Humans can get used to anything. We’re nothing if not adaptable. It’s probably how we’ve survived on this planet for so long. With each wrench the world tries to throw at us, whether it be sabertooth tigers, or famine, or disease, or Facebook, we have found ways to adapt and learn and come out better for it.”

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336. “We gazed at each other for what seemed like ages, so lost but so found.”

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337. “It takes me a moment to realize it’s Depeche Mode playing and I shake my head. Of course they’d be music for vampires.”

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338. “Please. If you find yourself falling in love with me, don’t stop it. Don’t hold back. Don’t deny yourself that. Let yourself love me.”

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339. “I decide to give them names. The pit bull is Ed. The terrier is Emily. I like giving human names to dogs. It’s more respectable that way. It tells them they’re one of us and reminds us of the same.”

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340. “As an author, you notice it. It’s always overlooked for literary fiction, whatever that means. People always thumb their nose at the genre, even though romance finds its way into every good story, every good movie or TV show.”

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341. “Love can bring you to your knees. When your heart decides on what it wants, nothing can stop it. Nothing.”

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342. “What feeds your soul?”

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343. “We all carry this yearning in our hearts for a place for us to truly belong. Somewhere here we can be ourselves and give love and receive love and never have to worry about the cost.”

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344. “Well he’s my weirdo,” Marina tells him with a proud smile. “That’s why we work so well together. If I have a bit of advice for you Noah, it’s you need to find your weirdo. Once you do, everything else falls into place.”

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345. “The only dilemma now is whether I should wear my shorts or not. Yes, shorts. Not just for unexpected breezes but to protect against chub rub. My thighs are gapless and if there’s a lot of walking, they can create enough friction to start a fire.”

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346. “You’re my weakness, Lenore,” he says gently against my skin. “I never had one until now. Until you.”

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347. “Give me your heart, Ruby. Give me your heart, because you already have mine.”

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348. “It’s better to be in a state of becoming than to be in a state of being.”

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349. “Maybe we’re born whole and polished and unscathed, and then life slowly chips away at us. Some of those chips are deep, some are just surface scratches, but we carry them with us as we walk through life, becoming more and more worn. Yet the flaws make us who we are. What we’ve been through make us who we are. This life, it’s trial by fire. If we didn’t go through it, we wouldn’t be the people we are today, and we wouldn’t fit like we do right now.”

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350. “Of all the battles we fight, grief is the one that we cannot win. There is no winning and there is no losing. Grief makes a home within your bones so that you’ll carry it for all time.”

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