Top 70 Kerrigan Byrne Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “All I’m asking is for you to have mercy on me, wife. If there is a battle to fight, a villain to face, I beg you to allow me the honor. Because the cruelest thing you could do, is sentence me to a world without you in it.”

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2. “If you love no one, no one can hurt you,” she whispered.”

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3. “When the guilty escape justice, it is denied the innocent, as well.”

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4. “Of course it’s all-consuming, but love- real love- doesn’t destroy or smother. It’s the very opposite of a weakness. Love strengthens. It liberates. It molds itself to every fiber of your being and fortifies you where where you may be broken.”

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5. “Most people need much stronger fortification than a strawberry tart before facing me,” he said wryly. “Yes, well, I’ve found that a well-made dessert can do anyone a bit of good in a bad situation.”

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6. “You deflowered a Baron’s daughter, no, a Commissioner’s daughter – your boss’s daughter – before her wedding and got her to pay you for it? Christ, Morley, I’ve misjudged you all this time. Color me bloody impressed.”

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7. “He clutched her to him with a desperate strength that almost hurt. “I will love you for your light, if you can love me through the dark times. And that love will be like the clear night sky when the moon is full. Not like the sun... but beautiful and bright enough to find our way.”

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8. “Most women are trained to act like simpering fools,” she scoffed. “Is that what you want from me?” She pressed the back of her hand to her forehead, enjoying that he watched how her breasts lifted with the gesture. “Oh, do allow me a moment to swoon here in virginal protestation so I might feel less guilty for succumbing to the seduction of this large and dangerous rogue who is intent upon ravishing my pure and virtuous person. I am an innocent, harmless girl caught in his dastardly web –.”

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9. “Secrets were always covered up and, once revealed, could never again find the darkness.”

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10. “Real knowledge is to know the extent of one’s ignorance.” The man quoted Confucius?”

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11. “Intuition was just the brain processing information more quickly than one’s consciousness could comprehend.”

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12. “I don’t want to go without ravishing you at least once.”

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13. “His thoughts became as scattered and aimless as the rivulets sluicing down her lush curves. She was a goddess rising from the water. Like Botticelli’s Birth of Venus, except with heavy silvery hair darkened by her bath that, unlike Venus, she didn’t use to hide her feminine secrets. She stood with her chin held at an obstinate angle, her shoulders straight in an observance of good posture, those soft gray eyes staring at him with a mixture of resolution and expectation.”

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14. “All that is or ever was good in me begins and ends with you” he breathed. “Every time I said you were mine, I meant that I was yours. Always. Always, Lorelai, I’ve been yours. I’d go through everything I’ve suffered in my nearly forty years on this earth if it brought me to this moment.”

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15. “To distract himself from the pain, he focused his blurring vision on the droplets of moisture collecting like diamonds in her abundant curls. Instead of making her hair heavy and straight, the rain seemed to coil the ringlets tighter and anoint the silvery strands with a darker gloss of spun gold.”

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16. “Lock your doors.” Coming from a man she’d never met face to face, this ought to sound creepy instead of panty-dampening and protective in a John Wick meets Mr. Darcy kind of way.”

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17. “Miss Felicity, if my manhood could be threatened by learning something from a woman, then I wasn’t much of a man to begin with.”

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18. “Tell me you doona want this. Tell me that ye didna feel this storm brewing between us since the very first day we met. That a part of ye didna know that this was an inevitability. I knew from the first time I saw ye that it was my destiny to claim ye here in the mists. And ye must take me, Mena... all of me. Make demands of yer own. Lay claim to the pleasure I’m willing to offer ye.”

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19. “I don’t know about heaven, but I know hell exists. I’ve spent most of my life there.” He ignored her soft sound of distress. “But through all that. Through everything that’s been done to me, I’ve only ever believed in one thing.” “What’s that?” she whispered. “That the sun would set in the west, and that I would come for you.”

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20. “It wasn’t the many slashes and scars marring his chest that caused her sudden gasp, though she felt the pain of each one. It was the unparalleled beauty of his physique that stole her breath. Dorian’s body was rendered by some ancient god of war. No Greek sculpture could compare, no artist could re-create the sleek, predatory masculinity rippling through the complex landscape of his torso.”

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21. “All that is or ever was good in me begins and ends with you. Every time I said you were mine, I meant that I was yours. Always. Always.”

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22. “Still pleasant as a cornered hedgehog, and as well mannered as a badger, I see.”

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23. “Experience should have taught ye by now that denying me what I want only makes me more relentless.”

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24. “Touch me,” she demanded once more, her breath hot and sweet against his mouth as her fingers twined into his hair. “This time, do not leave me wanting.” Her nails scored against his scalp until she curled her fingers and pulled. The pain drew a pleasured groan from him as it seared all the way to his cock. His vision blurred until her skin, her face, was the only thing he could see.”

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25. “Kiss me like you never meant to kill me.”

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26. “I don’t mind battling a few demons when I’m living with their king.”

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27. “Lorelai turned to Veronica and kissed her cheek. “I’ll be all right. Every time we’re broken, we get back up and limp along. Isn’t that what we’ve always said?”

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28. “I’m not asking ye to like me, lass, only to marry me.”

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29. “He was The Demon Highlander, elder brother to the Blackheart of Ben More. These monikers, they were not granted by the happenstance of birth or marriage, like a Marquess or an Earl, they were earned by means of ruthless violence and bloodshed. It was easy to forget that fact beneath the grand chandelier of this lofty keep. That was, until the fire in the hearth ignited the amber in his eyes, lending him a ferocity that even his expensive attire couldn’t tame.”

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30. “Rich as Midas, they said, powerful as a Caesar, and ruthless as the devil. So he didn’t have a pretty face for the ladies to coo over, but a man such as Dorian Blackwell drew feminine notice wherever he prowled. Fear and fascination proved to be powerful tools of seduction, and women reacted one way or the other toward the dark giant.”

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31. “So does it still count if he doesna kiss the bride?”

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32. “It occurred to Gavin that the first thought a groom had upon spying his bride shouldn’t be to wonder whether or not she wore knickers.”

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33. “Then ye must go to her, claim her, right away.” She stood, as though ready to shoo him from her house. “Ye make it sound so easy.” He stood as well, feeling large and encumbered in her dainty room. “Nothing worthwhile is easy,” she quipped. “Ye helped to dismantle the East India Company. Ye’ve stormed castles and replaced entire regimes. Should she resist ye, lay siege to her defenses and scale her walls, Lieutenant Colonel, it’s not as if ye doona ken how to do that.”

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34. “He walked in such a way that people parted for him, and Farah couldn’t stop herself from thinking that added to his attraction.”

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35. “The last thing he heard was the sound of his Fairy, his wife, screaming his name. His last thought was he had failed her. He had lost her forever.”

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36. “If I’ve learned anything in my life, it’s that there is no darkness so absolute that it cannot be dispelled by the faintest of light.”

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37. “I can’t,” she cried, feeling her knees melt. His lips left her with a wet, wicked sound. “Ye will,” he breathed against her most intimate flesh. “I’m going to fall,” she warned weakly, her hips undulating toward his mouth with mortifying wantonness. “Fall apart in my arms, lass,” he soothed, his hands caressing around to fill his palms with the flesh of her backside, making a cradle of her hips. “I’ll not let ye go.”

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38. “His eyes touched every part of her. Even parts that may never have been touched before. They flashed with lightning, singing along her nerves with electric currents of heat. A sultry, answering thunder whipped through her, calling forth a storm so unexpected, she almost felt betrayed by her own body.”

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39. “In a world where men paint the ground with blood, the stars gave me a reason to look up. They’re a map when ye’re lost, and points of light when all is dark. I ken why you think it makes them seem friendly.” “Yes,” she agreed. “I suppose that they remind me that the world always turns. That things are constantly changing. This moment, every moment, whether good or terrible, will pass into oblivion and so I must live it. I must see it through. And, eventually, a new day will come again.”

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40. “The man quoted Confucius? How unfair that a man such as he could be so clever, dangerous, rich, powerful, and well read. Farah stifled a sigh, then, alarmed by her reaction to him, straightened her spine and took up her quill, ready to swipe the efficient shorthand across her paper.”

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41. “Dig two graves, Fiona. One for your enemy... And one for yourself.”

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42. “Cole stilled when his feral eyes found her, roaming every inch as though searching for a wound. The doorway framed him like a portal to purgatory, and he stood like an avenging archangel come to wreak a wrath no less than biblical. The swells of his powerful chest heaved against the white of his shirtsleeves now blotched and stained with blood. The blade on his prosthesis was extended past the motionless metal fingers, and blood dripped from it into a thick crimson puddle on the marble floor.”

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43. “It is an easy thing to commit a sin and say that ‘the devil made me do it,’ and then cast that sin on him. But this life has taught me that we make ourselves into the monsters that we are. That the blood we spill is on our own hands.”

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44. “Dougan had almost completely forgotten about the food, for his entire body was suffused with the most intense and exquisite sensation he’d ever known. It was something like hunger, and something like fulfillment. It was wonder and awe and yearning and fear encapsulated in a tender bliss.”

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45. “Alison’s gaze gentled. “Tell me, Samantha, have you ever been to Scotland?”

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46. “I knew from the moment I brought you into this world that, like the dragon, you would have fire nourishing your heart.”

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47. “I don’t think I believe in villains. Heroes either. Just people. People with agendas and the things they’re willing to do to get what they want.”

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48. “Kiss me, Mena,” he moaned against her mouth, his hot, sweet breath fanning over the moisture on her lips. “Touch me. Teach me to keep the demon at bay.”

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49. “As much as I approve of your change in tactics, Morley, dangling this tasty piece in front of me still won’t have the desired effect.” Blackwell’s voice reached out to her like the first unwelcome tendrils of frost in winter. Deep, smooth, caustic, and bitter cold.”

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50. “Farah gaped, unable to fathom his brutality. She shouldn’t be shocked, she’d been around the worst sort of criminals for more years than she’d care to admit. But, somehow, it astounded her that one so cultured, so relaxed and wealthy and tailored, could issue such a threat with a civil tongue. The criminals of her acquaintance were dirty and foul with explosive tempers and crude language. Blackwell threatened violence as though discussing the price of Irish potatoes.”

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