Top 350 Kiersten White Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “And I’d choose you; in a hundred lifetimes, in a hundred worlds, in any version of reality, I’d find you and I’d choose you.”

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2. “I notice everything.”

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3. “Some things, the best things, do last forever.”

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4. “I can’t seem to keep my heart from leaking out of the cracks, like sand clutched in a fist.”

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5. “Ah, stupid, you know I love you, too.”

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6. “You can’t handle the pain and anger inside you? Welcome to the club. You’re so much more than that, though. Maybe you messed up. You’ll mess up again. But you’re doing the best you can, and that’s not nothing, you know?”

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7. “I get that you’re scared and that you’ve been hurt. But doing what is easy and safe is no way to live, and a life without passion and love is so far beneath what you deserve.”

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8. “Boys suck. Even when they have perfect blue eyes and ridiculously cool trucks. Maybe especially then.”

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9. “You will always have to fight for everything. Even when you already have it, you will have to keep fighting to maintain it. You will have to be more ruthless, more brutal, more everything. Any weakness will undo everything you have accomplished. They will see any crack as evidence that they were right that a woman cannot do what you do.”

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10. “Love was a weakness, a trap.”

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11. “Women are strongest when bearing one another’s pain. We each take a little on ourselves. No one dies, and we all heal together.”

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12. “This was not the behavior Lada expected from Vlad Dracul. From her father. From a dragon. A dragon did not crawl on its belly in front of its enemies, begging for their help. A dragon did not vow to rid the world of infidels, and then invite them into its home. A dragon did not flee its land in the middle of the night like a criminal. A dragon burned everything around herself until it was purified in ash.”

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13. “You stink like a faerie, all flowers and sunshine and evil manipulation.”

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14. “My heart is sand and Orion’s cruel tide has washed it away from me, scattered it, lost it.”

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15. “Yo soy carne muerta. Translation: I am dead meat.”

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16. “Soap operas got nothing on my family history.”

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17. “The more Radu knew the women around him, the more he wondered if any of them were not secretly terrifying.”

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18. “The only life I want is one with you.”

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19. “After all, fire and blood and death were nothing to a country led by a dragon.”

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20. “I love Wallachia. It belongs to me, and I belong to it. It is my country, and it should always be mine, and I hate any king or sultan or god or prophet that proclaims anyone else has any right to it.”

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21. “Arthur was building something new. Something good. Something truly noble. And it drew those who could find that nowhere else. That was why most of his knights came. They could not find the justice and fairness they longed to defend in their own countries.”

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22. “The fear of death can grow so large we let it keep us from living.”

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23. “I still had an irrational desire to do an interpretive dance about rainbows, but it was a small price to pay for being healed.”

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24. “The more pliable the prince, the more power they had. And who could be more pliable than a simple girl, playing at the throne?”

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25. “The dark queen knows darkness, but in the black, the claustrophobic fear of the dreamer snags her, tries to overtake her. She is the darkness, though. She has nothing to fear there. She cannot be trapped.”

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26. “I will fill myself with the desert and the sky. I will be stone and stars, unchanging and strong and safe. The desert is complete; it is spare and alone, but perfect in its soltitude. I will be the desert.”

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27. “I’ll be fine. I’m always fine.”

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28. “There’s a reason cats were near deity in ancient Egypt. Dogs may be loyal, but cats are smart. This one must recognize our bond. You can take the cat ouf of Egypt, but you can’t take Egypt out of the cat. Wow, I should have that embroidered on a pillow or something.”

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29. “Eyes like streams of melting snow, cold with the things she does not know. Heaven above and Hell beneath, liquid flames to hide her grief. Death, death, death with no release. Death, death, death with no release.”

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30. “That is the thing with giving your heart. You never wait for someone to ask. You hold it out and hope they want it.”

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31. “I should curl up in a ball and cry. Instead i think about everything in the whole entire world that makes me angry – There is a lot, oh, there is a lot – and I start singing Justin Bieber at the top of my lungs.”

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32. “Her spine was steel. Her heart was armor. Her eyes were fire.”

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33. “Wallachia needs you, and you deserve Wallachia. Let your loyalty be only where your heart is. Everything else can fall by the road and be trodden underfoot as we pass to our home. My fierce little girl. You can do anything.”

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34. “On our wedding night,” she said, “I will cut out your tongue and swallow it. Then both tongues that spoke our marriage vows will belong to me, and I will be wed only to myself. You will most likely choke to death on your own blood, which will be unfortunate, but I will be both husband and wife and therefore not a widow to be pitied.”

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35. “We are both of us made of the things we have lost.”

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36. “I open my eyes to see Ry staring at me, and my desert soul erupts with turquoise water, floods and cascades and waterfalls rushing in around my rocky parts, pushing and reshaping and filling every hidden dark spot.”

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37. “Sometimes we have to hide from what others see in order to be what we know we are.”

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38. “He saved me. He freaking electrocuted himself to save me. I’m gonna be there when he wakes up so I can tell him thanks.”

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39. “I could have melted ice, my smile was so bright.”

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40. “I hate that I feel scared in a place where I should feel safe.”

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41. “But you always have a choice. You can choose to find comfort and solace in God. You can choose to be brave and compassionate. And you can choose to find beauty and happiness wherever they present themselves.”

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42. “He smiled at my reaction, the stupid smile of his that was like he knew something you didn’t. And he knew something I didn’t pretty much all the time, so it was pretty much every smile on his face.”

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43. “While I saw the destruction of the tree as nature’s beauty, Victor saw power – power to light up the night and banish darkness, power to end a centuries-old life in a single strike – that he cannot control or access. And nothing bothers Victor more than something he cannot control.”

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44. “Carve out a life for yourself however you can. No one will do it for you.”

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45. “You’ll be fine, just some minor burns and hypothermia, which was kind of hard to explain.”

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46. “I’ll see you in your dreams, okay, stupid?”

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47. “If he wakes up, I swear I’ll do anything. I’ll open gates, I’ll help all the paranormals, I’ll never judge people wearing Crocs again. Just let him wake up. Please.”

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48. “We linked hands – my ex-boyfriend, my boyfriend, and my former friend-then-enemy-then friend and I – and walked through a door to see if maybe empty carbs were good for something after all.”

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49. “I sought to puncture Heaven and instead discovered Hell.”

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50. “With a large enough number, a single digit will not have any impact. It’s when you isolate the numbers, set them apart, that they become important on their own.”

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