Top 40 Kelly Creagh Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “You can touch me, but you can’t hurt me.”

— Kelly Creagh

2. “Death always wins.”

— Kelly Creagh

3. “When there is no way, you must make a way.”

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4. “You never give up, even when you should.”

— Kelly Creagh

5. “In love. In love with the stoic, the sullen, the eternally morose Varen Nethers? He would never allow it.”

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6. “They know you lied.”

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7. “There is always that fine line between doing what we want and doing what we’re told.”

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8. “Just because I live in the sunlight, enjoy being blond, and wear a cheerleading uniform, that doesn’t mean I’m stupid. I’m so sick of that.”

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9. “My beautiful, my Isobel. My Love. You ask me to wait. And so I wait. For all of this, I know, is but a dream. And when, in sleep, at last we wake, I will see you again.”

— Kelly Creagh

10. “Dreaming aside,” he went on, “how can you be so sure your world is the real one?”

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11. “Holy granola. He’s coming over here.”

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12. “Just because I wear black and keep a private journal, that doesn’t mean I’m going to blow up the school. Or terrorize mindless cheerleaders, for that matter.”

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13. “You need to just drop dead, okay?”

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14. “And keep a watch out at the garage door, because you’ll be back by the stroke of seven thirty and in time for dinner or else you’ll turn back into an alien and be deported to your home planet.”

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15. “As much as he was different from other guys, he still had that stupid male pride thing.”

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16. “It is naught but pain and regret when we think of the things and people we will never have, the opportunities we may never get. But to pine for those we have had and loved and once held but will never clasp again, it is torture of an unbearable degree. It is the worst pain possible. Enough to drive you away from yourself...”

— Kelly Creagh

17. “The more this guy talked, the more he sounded like a fortune cookie.”

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18. “You yourself could be nothing more than a shadow, someone else’s dream who is, themselves, someone else’s.”

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19. “It is naught but pain and regret when we think of the things and people we will never have, the opportunities we may never get.”

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20. “Demons... they don’t just waltz into your life and take over for no reason,” she said, her voice going soft again. “They might knock on the door, but ultimately, you have to be the one to invite them in.”

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21. “A tiny sound of alarm escaped her. She pulled back. He gripped her, though, and pulled her to him. Did he think that she might slip through his arms or vanish? Or was his fear that he might? He raised both hands to cup her face, to hold her lips against his own. It was as though the moment was a stolen one, as though every second counted, as though this first kiss was doomed to be their last.”

— Kelly Creagh

22. “He brushed his thumb across her lips. “I guess you’re not as easy to forget as we’d hoped.”

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23. “Though Isobel could recall only a few specifics regrading the appearance of Poe’s wife-a handful of vague characteristics picked up during her study with Varen, retained from the one or two glimpses she’d had for her portraits- Scrimshaw, it seemed, had forgotten nothing.”

— Kelly Creagh

24. “He clutched the watch hard in his fist, determined to destroy it, to prove that it couldn’t be real. That she hadn’t come here because of him, for him. That he hadn’t done what he knew he had.”

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25. “Not anymore, though,” he said. “And I guess that’s the one perk of loving a dead girl. She never changes.”

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26. “She edged away from him, trying to put a greater distance between herself and Creepy McCreeperson. She bent down, careful not to let her eyes leave him, and plucked up a hairbrush from where it had fallen on her floor. She held it at arm’s length in front of herself, a stupid weapon feeling better than no weapon at all. At the very least, she could give him style.”

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27. “Like a serpent, this demon had coiled and nested into those empty and cavernous spaces of his heart. Like a harpy, she had preyed on his absolute aloneness.”

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28. “In some way, he had belonged to the deepest essence of Varen’s being. All the broken pieces of himself that Varen had buried, all those bits that terrified his own mind, all accumulated into one beast, a deranged creature born out of everything he knew he wasn’t supposed to do or feel. An entity made of desires and emotions and all the longings Varen could never admit to anyone – not even himself.”

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29. “Words, Isobel, have always held the dangerous power to conjure things into being. Remember that.”

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30. “He hated himself,” Gwen said. “You just got caught in the cross fire.”

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31. “It was here that Isobel first felt the twinge of an inward pull on her mind. Slowly the words started to get out of the way and let images of courtiers revolve, in slow motion, through her mind’s eye. It was as though she had somehow adapted to the density of the language. Soon the words smudged away from the page, and in their place, she was left with the sensation of gliding through the scene, like she’d become a movie camera, sweeping through the sets of rooms and over the heads of costumed actors.”

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32. “She could just hear her little brother asking all sorts of stupid questions, like if his underwear was black too.”

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33. “She’d never been kissed like that before – like the shell of her soul had evaporated.”

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34. “Don’t let the elegance act fool you,” Varen said, drawing out his notepad. “She farts.”

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35. “Isobel’s heart crashed against the cage of her chest, beating against his.”

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36. “Her fingertips reached to trace the damage, but he grasped her hand with his own. He leaned down, far enough that the dark ends of his hair brushed feather-light against her face, caught in her lashes.”

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37. “She had just enough time to take in a breath, to blink, to part her lips before he took them with his own.”

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38. “Please,” she murmured at her burger, her voice no more than a squeaky whisper, “Don’t do this.”

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39. “Isobel looked down at her lap, at her hands. She turned her left one over, remembering where Varen had written his number on her that first time. Those numbers were gone now, but in hindsight, he may as well have tattooed the moment onto her soul.”

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40. “Oh come now. It’s no fun if you don″t know why I’m gutting you when I’m gutting you. Think!”

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41. “Isobel, this was the only way I knew how to reach you. After tonight it will all go away. I never meant for you to be pulled into any of this-ever. Please believe that. Somehow I’ve lost control of everything. I only wish I could see you again. I wish I could tell you everything that I couldn’t before. Most of all, I wish there was a way we could start over. Whatever happens now, please believe that I didn’t mean for it to end this way. Yours always. – V.”

— Kelly Creagh

42. “Oh, sure. Let me just ask my geek brother to stop slaying zombie ninjas for a few hours so I can borrow the PC and catch up on my Victorian horror lit.”

— Kelly Creagh