Top 60 Kate Canterbary Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “I have enough patience to wait for what I want and enough sense to know when it’s worth waiting for.”

— Kate Canterbary

2. “His arms wrapped around me, strong and warm and safe, and I didn’t push him away. How could I? How could I find the strength to protest when my heart required this, when I’d spent the week stewing in my anger but wanting nothing more than this, when I’d spent months numbing myself to the memories of this.”

— Kate Canterbary

3. “I want you and I’ve known it for a long time, and I don’t want to wait anymore. I can’t. I can’t wait anymore.”

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4. “I love you, too, and I’m not listening to any opening remarks or qualifications on the matter. You are my fire and ice, my calm and chaos, my everything, and I can’t remember life before loving you.”

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5. “I didn’t have the time to deal with man-children who owned a singular set of sheets and still called their hometown pediatrician for every sore throat.”

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6. “There was room on the rainbow for everyone.”

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7. “I am going to marry you so hard you won’t remember your maiden name. I’m going to love you and protect you, and I’m going to put up with your brothers and the violent citrus-throwing, too. You better get used to it because I’m here to stay.”

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8. “I needed to lick him, bit him, kiss him, hold him, claim him. I needed to fill my hands with every little thing I could offer, and beg him to take me as I came and promise to give him anything, everything.”

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9. “The world makes sense when you let me hold you, and I can only imagine holding you naked would bear similar, if not better, results.”

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10. “She flew with her own wings, and I had to let her. She’d come back to me in due time, and she’d come home, too.”

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11. “I understand that you’re not ready,” he replied. “But know this: I’m not going anywhere. I’m right here, waiting for you.”

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12. “Mentoring Andy would be the cruelest form of punishment.”

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13. “I’m not like most people,” I said carefully. “I don’t feel the need to post all of my thoughts and experiences on the internet, or see anyone else’s thoughts and experiences. I’d rather take my time to understand someone piece by piece. I don’t want to condense anyone down to a blurb or caption. I want to hold and treasure every piece, and I want someone to do the same to me.”

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14. “Fear is a choice,” I said. “Danger is real, but you decide whether or not you allow fear into your mind.”

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15. “He was everything to me, and I was dying to be everything to him.”

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16. “There are moments when I’m lost in my own life.”

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17. “I’m gonna eat this while I try to make sense of you. I need a quiet moment with the muffin. Okay?”

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18. “Inside five days, she became my left hand, and she loved it. It was a good thing she had no idea what I was doing with my left hand when she wasn’t around.”

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19. “You might leave, but I’m not letting go of you. If that’s what you want, you’ll have to fight me.”

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20. “If I had known I’d have a hot architect balls deep inside of me before the end of the weekend, I’d have made time for a pedicure.”

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21. “If I could hold on to her, I’d be okay.”

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22. “I loved her, fully and completely, and she brought out the best version of me.”

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23. “I love judging men,” Shannon mused. “Objectification is an essential element in taking down the patriarchy.”

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24. “When it broke us, it wasn’t the kind of break that healed neatly. It was the quiet shattering of a frozen-over pond protesting too much weight, all tiny fissures racing out from the impact site until the ice dropped out and chilled emptiness rushed in.”

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25. “His hands shifted to my face and he kissed me, fast and hard. It felt like a punishment and tasted like a promise.”

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26. “There is neither happiness nor misery in the world; there is only the comparison of one state with another, nothing more. He who has felt the deepest grief is best able to experience supreme happiness.” I.”

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27. “I wouldn’t be against finding a dark corner in the next five minutes, but you’re a bit of a screamer.”

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28. “I wanted the right to go to her, to be with her, to call her mine.”

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29. “All I want to call you is mine,” he said against my breast. “You’re mine, and I’m yours.”

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30. “It’s details. It’s the way itsy bitsy sounds bend around each other and create magic. It’s pressing your mouth to someone’s neck because you can’t imagine living another minute without feeling her skin on your lips. Fingertips digging into hips until they bruised. Reaching for someone in the night. Knowing her taste in your soul but never feeling fulfilled. Awakening all the beasts you’ve kept hidden inside, and letting them grow and breathe because she wants to know them. That’s passion.”

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31. “If all I wanted was for Cal to take me to Pound Town, we would’ve checked that box earlier this morning. Right there in the back of his SUV, nice and proper like the goddamn lady I was.”

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32. “This was the kind of chivalry I wanted: open my door, smack my ass.”

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33. “I felt like I’d been waiting a very long time for someone who knew how to shatter me and also wanted to pick up all the pieces.”

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34. “Good little girls who grew up into people-pleasing women didn’t get that way through any innate altruism or feminine urge to keep the peace. We got there because we learned, at some point, that our needs were a problem best kept to ourselves. We were most worthy when our existence didn’t bother anyone.”

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35. “Why hasn’t anyone thrown me over their shoulder?” she asked. “I’m down for that. Pick me up, toss me around, treat me like a rag doll. Yes, sir. Give me some of that.”

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36. “Because my wife was alone and upset in a strange bar and speed limits don’t apply in those situations.”

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37. “Being obsessively obedient and helpful was another. Everyone loved the kid who was so damn mature for her age. They never saw it as the outward manifestation of inner stress. They never stopped to ask how that kid got to be so mature. They never asked why she couldn’t just be a kid. They only reaped the benefits.”

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38. “And yes, feminists could enjoy acts of chivalry. I could open my own doors but I could also appreciate a man opening one for me when it was done out of deference rather than some old-fashioned concern over my skirts being too big for me to reach on my own.”

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39. “Just fuckin’ take me, woman. Have me, flaws and failures and all.”

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40. “I wish I loved something enough to know I wanted to spend my life doing it but loving stuff is scary. It’s a goddamn danger to my health. These things that people love, they often turn around and destroy them.”

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41. “There was no one else for me. My world started and ended with her sitting beside me on those dark morning rides to school, and it started up all over again when I found her on my farm.”

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42. “Wait.” I reached for him but he gathered my hands and looped them around his neck. “What do I taste like?” He nuzzled into the crook of my shoulder and replied with a soft growl. “My wife.” “That’s not a taste.” “Mmm. It is now.”

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43. “In truth, I needed to go to a pink glass and teal velvet apartment and wrap myself around a heartbeat that I wanted more than my own.”

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44. “It takes nothing at all to convince ourselves that we know someone’s values and their intentions. That we know their heart. And it’s devastating when they show us who they really are.”

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45. “I couldn’t wipe the sloppy grin off my face for the rest of the day. My third-year residents thought I was having a stroke.”

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46. “Don’t mourn the loss of people who don’t deserve you.”

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47. “I wanted to take a sample of his tone and study it under a microscope because I couldn’t see how someone could be both bored and confrontational inside a handful of words. It was art.”

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48. “Shay had always had one of those faces meant for smiling. Not every face was meant for smiling but Shay’s was one of them.”

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49. “If I wasn’t forgettable, people wouldn’t be able to leave me so easily and go on with their lives like nothing was different. And it just keeps happening. That’s how I know it’s true.”

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50. “I felt like I’d been waiting a very long time for someone who knew how to shatter me and also wanted to pick up all the pieces. And I felt an unpleasant sense of relief in discovering that person was my husband.”

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