Top 200 Kelley Armstrong Quotes (2026 Update)
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51. “Just show him that I didn’t need his apology, I guess. Show him that I was okay. Better than okay. I was happy, in spite of everything he’d done to me, and no, I didn’t forgive him. God help me, I would not forgive him.”

— Kelley Armstrong

52. “You think I led him on? For what? Kicks? I don’t have enough exictement in my life, so maybe I’ll tease a nice guy, get his hopes up, then laugh and skip away?”

— Kelley Armstrong

53. “Now I was standing in a forest grove with a witch, a half-demon, a vampire, and a shaman, planning to put an end to a nefarious plot to usurp our powers and alter the path of humankind. Talk about your conspiracy theories.”

— Kelley Armstrong

54. “Simon: Anyone ever tell you your sense of timing really sucks? Derek: That’s why I don’t play the drums. Now what’s up?”

— Kelley Armstrong

55. “Comfort and reassurance and a wordless understanding that there is always darkness. In some part of us, there is absolute darkness, as much as we wish otherwise. As much as we pretend otherwise. Anders shifts.”

— Kelley Armstrong

56. “His eyes met mine, and I looked into them and I felt... I don’t know what I felt. A strange nameless something I couldn’t even identify as a good something or a bad something, could only feel in my gut, jumping and twitching, until I turned away and looked out over the forest.”

— Kelley Armstrong

57. “I have to. I’ve been fighting it all night. I’m going to lose. My battle is as futile as a woman feeling the first pangs of labor and deciding it’s an inconvenient time to give birth. Nature wins out. It always does.”

— Kelley Armstrong

58. “The truth is, if a werewolf behaved like this psychopath it wouldn’t be because he was part animal, but because he was still too human. Only humans kill for sport.”

— Kelley Armstrong

59. “Derek lunged. He hit me in the shoulder and knocked me to the floor, landing on top of me. His body jerked, like he’d been hit with the spell, and I let out a yelp, struggling to get up, but he held me down, whispering “I’m okay, it’s okay” until the words penetrated.”

— Kelley Armstrong

60. “I envied it; not the idea of having so much money that you could throw it away, but the thought of growing up in a world where someone cared so much about your happiness and so little about what you accomplished in life.”

— Kelley Armstrong

61. “The rottweiler stood his ground and waited for me to take the next step in the dance of ritualized intimidation. Instead, I leaped at him. Screw ritual. Now was not the time to stand on ceremony.”

— Kelley Armstrong

62. “When you accept a leadership role, you take on extra responsibility for your actions toward others. If you shun someone, the effect will trickle down through those who value your opinion.”

— Kelley Armstrong

63. “You don’t pursue happiness. You pursue everything you need to have a fulfilled life, and then, if you achieve it, you’ll be happy some of the time. The rest of the time, you’ll be consent. One can’t sustain happiness forever.”

— Kelley Armstrong

64. “Storytelling is my passion, and it rises from a love of reading.”

— Kelley Armstrong

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65. “I’d been staring at the search term for at least five minutes. One word. Necromancer.”

— Kelley Armstrong

66. “Release the demon under promise that I’d be repaid handsomely, my enemies destroyed? Hmm, where had I seen this before? Oh, right. Every demon horror movie ever made. And the horror part started right after the releasing part.”

— Kelley Armstrong

67. “No”, Tori said, ” I kidnapped her and forced her to escape with me. I’ve been using her as a human shield against those guys with guns, and I was just about to strangle her and leave her body here to throw them off my trail. But then you showed up and foiled my evil plans. Lucky for you, though. You get to rescue chloe again and win her undying grattitude.”

— Kelley Armstrong

68. “I understand that I may make mistakes with characters who don’t share my own background, but I commit to doing my best.”

— Kelley Armstrong

69. “They found me at the kitchen table. Derek said, “There’s something we need to tell you,” and from the look on Andrew’s face, I think he expected Derek to say he’d gotten me pregnant.”

— Kelley Armstrong

70. “God, it’s like talking to a cyborg sometimes. You pretend to listen, but really, you’ve just gone on pause, waiting for me to stop so you can reiterate your original point.”

— Kelley Armstrong

71. “Other parents warn their kids not to talk to strangers. I had to warn mine not to eat them.”

— Kelley Armstrong

72. “There is no freedom from the prison of the mind.”

— Kelley Armstrong

73. “Who cared whether you could change motor oil when you could snap a rottweiler’s neck in 2.8 seconds? Now there was a practical skill.”

— Kelley Armstrong

74. “Bigger room, darling. Like I said, we need a bigger room.”

— Kelley Armstrong

75. “Demons are a very human creation. You look for ways to explain evil, and instead of seeing it in yourselves, you offload the responsibility onto monsters. The monstrous exists in the mirror, not in the sulfurous depths of some fantasy world.”

— Kelley Armstrong

76. “He smiled. Hesitant at first, then a blazing grin broke through that made my heart stop. I recovered and grinned back and went to throw my arms around his neck, then stopped, blushing. Before I could pull back, he caught my elbows and put my arms around his neck and pulled me into a hug.”

— Kelley Armstrong

77. “Never go easy on allies if you ahve to take them down. Especially allies. You’re already fighting the urge not to hurt them. Counteract that and hit them with everything you’ve got.”

— Kelley Armstrong

78. “My fourteen-year-old sister Lara is a brat. Unfortunately, no one sees it but me. To everyone else, she’s adorable. She’s tiny and blonde and sweet and as helpless as a kitten. Chloe reminded me of Lara, at first. The difference, as I discovered, is that Chloe really is as sweet as she seems and she isn’t as helpless as she looks.”

— Kelley Armstrong

79. “We spent the first half hour being escorted around the room, introduced to what seemed like every politician and business leader in the state. I know I should have been impressed, but I couldn’t help thinking that I was in the same room with quite possibly every person responsible for the Florida election snafu, and the subsequent election of George W. Bush, and somehow I couldn’t muster a proper feeling of awe.”

— Kelley Armstrong

80. “Suburbia: a place where they cut down trees and name streets in their memory.”

— Kelley Armstrong

81. “Night was her time. The Keeper. Bond-mate of the cat. Protector of the night. Daughter of the moon.”

— Kelley Armstrong

82. “And he says I have lousy timing.”

— Kelley Armstrong

83. “If a bird flies straight at you, prepare for a bad day.”

— Kelley Armstrong

84. “But was it wrong to put yourself first? That’s called survival, right? If you’re running for your life, you don’t get the luxury of being nice. They were going to learn that. It’s fine to wave the pompoms for teamwork – all for one and one for all – but when push came to shove, these guys wouldn’t be risking their lives for Chloe, maybe not even for each other. I was sure of it. Once things got worse, it would be every kid for himself. It always is.”

— Kelley Armstrong

85. “I want limits, damn it. I’ll accept omens and portents and second sight. I’ll accept giant black hounds and creepy ravens and magpies. I’m still working out the fae and Wild Hunt thing. But I draw the line at people disappearing into thin air.”

— Kelley Armstrong

86. “One second he was in my face, making me feel stupid and useless. The next he was like this: hovering, concerned, worried.”

— Kelley Armstrong

87. “Mommy forgot to warn the new babysitter about the basement.”

— Kelley Armstrong

88. “So why was his stomach tightening and twisting with every step up those stairs? Because hope was a dangerous thing. It said the failure would be his own fault alone.”

— Kelley Armstrong

89. “This was a doctor. Sworn to heal, not to judge. But judge she did, in the twist of her lips and the chill of her tone.”

— Kelley Armstrong

90. “I opted for the rear door, both as a courtesy and so she couldn’t freak out about me showing up on her front doorstep for all of East Falls to see. Being the village pariah does make social calls most trying. -Paige.”

— Kelley Armstrong

91. “He obviously needed more practice, but no matter how often I abandoned him out there, his sense of direction never seemed to improve.”

— Kelley Armstrong

92. “It was completely fifth garde and completely silly and I loved it, because he wasn’t afraid to be silly. It was like kissing him first – I could do whatever I wanted and not have to worry what he’d think of me.”

— Kelley Armstrong

93. “I got to eavesdrop at a window. As Clay said, I did have another option. I could wait in the car and let them fill me in later. So, eavesdropping it was.”

— Kelley Armstrong

94. “Some women just aren’t cut out to be mothers, and unfortunately it had taken Susanna three kids to realize she was one of them.”

— Kelley Armstrong

95. “Vechea mea viata mi se parea ca un vis- un vis in cea mai mare pate placut, lipsit de evenimente. Acum ma trezisem din ele si imi dadusem seama cine si ce eram, cu bune si cu rele. Nu exista nici o cale de a inchide ochii si a aluneca inapoi in acel fericit vis al normalului. Acesta era normalul meu acum.”

— Kelley Armstrong

96. “I don’t know what a hard-ass feminist is. I’m a feminist, which only means that I think men and women deserve equal treatment. Hardly a groundbreaking concept. But I’m sure you’re about to give an example of where I failed in that.”

— Kelley Armstrong

97. “A G-Rated story? About taking some deformed baby and locking him up? And if it was true, and this poor guy had been locked up in there for decades, and someone threw in a perfectly good woman, what the hell do you think he’d do with her? Play Parcheesi?”

— Kelley Armstrong

98. “Why is it that every time a girl says a guy is bothering her, it’s fluffed off with oh, he just likes you, as if that makes it okay?”

— Kelley Armstrong

99. “I could only stare, any sense that maybe I understood him evaporating as it always did. I’d glimpse something underneath, and he’d snatched it away so fast it left bruises that called me a fool for hoping for more.”

— Kelley Armstrong

100. “She’s useful to me, I’m useful to her. As long as that continues, Rowan Street is safe from an old-lady smack down of epic proportions.”

— Kelley Armstrong