Top 200 Kelley Armstrong Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “I want you to have big dreams, big goals. I want you to strive to achieve them. But I don’t want to see you beating yourself up every time you make a mistake.”

— Kelley Armstrong

2. “Demon, angel, all the same thing if you go back far enough, or cut deep enough.”

— Kelley Armstrong

3. “I screwed up. Again. You’re shocked, I’m sure.”

— Kelley Armstrong

4. “A name is so important. A surname connects you to your past, to your family. Even a given name has meaning – why did your parents pick that particular one?”

— Kelley Armstrong

5. “Maturity is highly overrated.”

— Kelley Armstrong

6. “Remembering. Forgetting. I’m not sure which is worse.”

— Kelley Armstrong

7. “Dearly departed, scarcely lamented, deeply demented...”

— Kelley Armstrong

8. “We’re not naked, we’re skyclad!”

— Kelley Armstrong

9. “I love you. I’m not sure if it’s the way you want me to. I think it might be. But I know that I love you. I absolutely love you.”

— Kelley Armstrong

10. “He liked women with little butts and big tits? Someone had played with one too many barbie dolls as a kid.”

— Kelley Armstrong

11. “Stuffing people into boxes is for those who have issues about their own box.”

— Kelley Armstrong

12. “A stereotype becomes a stereotype when a significant percentage of the population appears to conform to it.”

— Kelley Armstrong

13. “It’s because when we sneeze, our soul flies out our nose and if no one says ‘bless you,’ the devil can snatch it.”

— Kelley Armstrong

14. “Maybe my expectations for honesty are too high.”

— Kelley Armstrong

15. “We had one gun, one werewolf, one poltergeist, one supercharged spell-caster, one not-so-supercharged spell-caster, and one perfectly useless necromancer, though Liz was quick to remind me that she needed me to relay her words. – Chloe.”

— Kelley Armstrong

16. “Don’t be stupid. I have a gun.” He reached into his pocket and pulled out the .45. “Which will knock you on your ass if you try firing with a bad leg. Sit down before you fall.”

— Kelley Armstrong

17. “First you buy me a mocha. Then you let me help you hide a body. Now you take me to a biker clubhouse. Best. Day. Ever.”

— Kelley Armstrong

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18. “That’s what we all want, isn’t it? Power without price.”

— Kelley Armstrong

19. “We scarified a mosquito. I bet that’s what did it. It was probably a virgin too.”

— Kelley Armstrong

20. “Here I had a wonderful man who cared for me and I was screwing around with a self-absorbed, conniving monster who’d betrayed me in the worst possible way.”

— Kelley Armstrong

21. “My past was a private obstacle, not a public excuse.”

— Kelley Armstrong

22. “There was no closing my eyes and sliding back into that blissful dream of normal. This was my normal now.”

— Kelley Armstrong

23. “After the woman left, I set my coffee down and opened the bag. Two muffins-double-chocolate and blueberry bran. I texted Adam a thank-you. I’d just started eating the chocolate muffin when he texted backPut that one down and eat the bran. It’s better foryou.”

— Kelley Armstrong

24. “I don’t read much of what I write because I worry about unintentionally borrowing something.”

— Kelley Armstrong

25. “That’s what being crazy was, wasn’t it? You thought you were fine. Everyone else knew better.”

— Kelley Armstrong

26. “I spend the day running on a treadmill while madly juggling a half dozen grenades. It’s a solid day of absolutely zero progress, and the best I can say, at the end of it, is that nothing exploded.”

— Kelley Armstrong

27. “He said “cool” like I say a Spanish word when I’m not sure of the pronunciation.”

— Kelley Armstrong

28. “When I glanced at the chair, it started to shake. I’d like to think it was scared of me, but I rarely invoked that response in living things, let alone inanimate objects.”

— Kelley Armstrong

29. “If you say ‘we’re in this together,’ I’m going to hurl.”

— Kelley Armstrong

30. “When I leaned a little too close to the doorway, my inner voice piped up, telling me not to be stupid. The guy with the bionic senses was better equipped for this.”

— Kelley Armstrong

31. “Tori joined us for dinner – in body, at least. She spent the meal practicing for a role in the next zombie movie, expressionless, methodically moving fork to mouth, sometimes even with food on it.”

— Kelley Armstrong

32. “Wow. The guy can make me feel stupid even when he’s telling me I don’t have to let him make me feel stupid.”

— Kelley Armstrong

33. “Einstein theorized that time travel was possible, but he was looking at it as unidirectional, going forward. Traveling into the past is much more problematic, as countless stories have demonstrated!”

— Kelley Armstrong

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34. “Love and hate. Same passion. Same impulse.”

— Kelley Armstrong

35. “Common courtesy dictates that we never drain the lifeblood of anyone to whom we’ve been formally introduced.”

— Kelley Armstrong

36. “No. Harsh truth was better than comfortable lies. It had to be.”

— Kelley Armstrong

37. “When you accept a leadership role, you take on extra responsibility for your actions toward others.”

— Kelley Armstrong

38. “Stray cats are like two-timing men. He got tired of you and took off. He doesn’t find anyone new? He’ll come slinking back. By then, if you’re smart, you’ll have decided you’re better without him.”

— Kelley Armstrong

39. “What am I? Let’s just say I won’t fetch a stick for you. I won’t beg for treats. And, no matter how nicely you ask, I will not roll over and play dead.”

— Kelley Armstrong

40. “Clearly it was time to consider rescheduling that optometrist appointment I’d missed last fall.”

— Kelley Armstrong

41. “Kids who don’t eavesdrop on adult conversations are doomed to a childhood of ignorance.”

— Kelley Armstrong

42. “Tell her to be quiet, and she got louder. Tell her to stay back, and she pushed me into the line of fire. Tell her to watch for our pursuers, and she hovered at my shoulder instead. Open the door to listen, and she wanted to drag me back inside. Ah. The beginning of a beautiful friendship.”

— Kelley Armstrong

43. “Derek? Derek!-Chole Chole! what are you doing out here? i said we will check it out later. key word WE-Derek oh, yeah I decided to come out on my own. thats why i was calling your name repeatively- Chole.”

— Kelley Armstrong

44. “Curiosity is what lets a young mind grow and keeps an old mind young.”

— Kelley Armstrong

45. “Urban survival rule 22: Never annoy an armed man.”

— Kelley Armstrong

46. “I had a stupid crush on a guy who barely tolerated me most of the time. Was that the kind of girl I was? Pick the jerk over the nice guy?”

— Kelley Armstrong

47. “To distract myself from thoughts of my father, i decided to check out the dead body.”

— Kelley Armstrong

48. “I had to take responsibility, even if it meant saying no to an authority figure, because I was the authority on me.”

— Kelley Armstrong

49. “So I was right, wasn’t I? It’s still you, even in wolf form.? He grunted. No sudden uncontrollable urges to go kill something?? He rolled his eyes. Hey, you’re the one who was worried.? I paused. ‘And I don’t smell like dinner, right?’ I got a real look for that one. Just covering all the bases.”

— Kelley Armstrong

50. “Remember when we met? Before you left, you said you were going to make a fool of yourself over me. That’s still what you’re worried about. That you’ll find yourself doing things you never dreamed of doing, things you laughed at in others, and you’ll make a fool of yourself.”

— Kelley Armstrong