Top 350 Kiersten White Quotes (2024 Update)
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51. “I know it’s been rough on her – it’s been rough on everyone, having the entire world change yet again. But we do what Watchers do: We keep going.”

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52. “Broken things healed thicker and stronger than they were before, assuming one survived long enough to heal.”

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53. “Some victories are merely defeat wearing the wrong clothing.”

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54. “Survival instincts are one of those things that never die.”

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55. “The trap was set and I was both bait and poison.”

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56. “I had just lot my best friend, barely escaped having my life sucked out by a psychotic burning girl, committed treason and nearly gotten the guy I liked killed by a crazy faerie. What were hairy legs compared to that?”

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57. “Being dead wasn’t supposed to hurt. Where was the fairness in that? If I was dead, the least the universe could do was make it painless.”

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58. “It is easier to build than to destroy.”

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59. “I guess I can’t blame him for feeling bitter. Going from being the terror of Bulgarian nights to a janitor would kinda suck.”

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60. “Hope was an arrow that never ceased piercing his heart.”

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61. “Into every generation a Slayer is born: one girl in all the world, a Chosen One. She alone will wield the strength and skill to fight the vampires, demons, and forces of darkness; to stop the spread of their evil and the swell of their number. She is the Slayer.”

— Kiersten White

62. “They’re crystal blue, a shade that shouldn’t exist on the human body, I shade I immediately crave, a shade that makes my heart beat a little bit faster – almost as if I recognize it. I want to steal it, paint it, throw it into every room I ever decorate. It’s the most perfect blue I’ve ever seen. Even from this distance his eyes are simply remarkable.”

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63. “They had stripped us of everything we were taught made us women, and then told us we were mad.”

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64. “There is no such thing as cheating. There is only winning or losing.”

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65. “What a luxury honesty was.”

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66. “If you are too weak to stand being hit and too stupid to avoid it, then you deserve more pain.”

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67. “Shadows go in front of you leading into your future, and trail behind you, leaving a part of you in the past. They are clearest when we are in the light, and disappear when we lose ourselves in darkness. When a shadow elects to jump to another person, it is an indication that they are your your present and your future, that in light you will find them, in darkness you will lose them. It is highly unusual and very important and, might I add, extremely dangerous for the owner of the shadow.”

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68. “Evie-you-GAH!” Lend shouted, and I looked up at him, surprised.”

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69. “Yeah I know you’re a creature of the night. Bringer of death, sucker of blood, needer of tans, so on and so forth. And oddly enough, I’m still unimpressed.”

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70. “Shadows go in front of you, leading into your future, and trail behind you, leaving a part of you in the past. They are clearest when we are in the light, and disappear when we lose ourselves in darkness.”

— Kiersten White

71. “Mehmed?” Radu called, his voice muffled and indistinct, as if Lada’s head were still underwater. She and Mehmed paused their mouth-to-mouth combat, and Lada realized her legs were wrapped around his waist, his hands around the backs of her thighs, their chests pressed together. She pushed him away, dropping beneath the water and swimming to the other side just as Radu appeared from the trees and jumped into the pool between them.”

— Kiersten White

72. “She plucked a rose and held it to her face. She hated the way roses smelled, their sweetness too fragile. She wanted a garden of evergreens. A garden of stones. A garden of swords.”

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73. “But there are many ways to be powerful. There is power in stillness. There is power in watching, waiting, saying the right thing at the right time to the right person. There is power in being a woman – oh yes, power in these bodies you gaze upon with derision.”

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74. “Not being blameless is not the same as being guilty.”

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75. “I will make wherever I am my home. Or I’ll have no home at all. Either is better than living in a past and future where I don’t belong.”

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76. “I’m already going to lose myself. I never want to have to deal with losing someone else, too.”

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77. “All she had was how she felt, and that was such a mixture of anger, bitterness, jealousy, desire, and affection that she knew she would never untangle it to see what was at the center.”

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78. “Yo soy carne muerta.”

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79. “He sighed heavily. “Girls are mean. At least faeries simply kill you if they don’t want you around.” He put a hand on the wall, leaning against it and tapping his foot impatiently.”

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80. “The world will destroy her in the end. Too much spark leads to explosions. But your sister will destroy as much as she can before she goes out. She will go down in flames and blood.”

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81. “They are soldiers. They depend upon routine, and anything out of the ordinary will give them pause. And they are men. They hate to be insulted, but they love to hear others mocked. And they are fools, because they cannot imagine that a woman alone in the woods would be a threat.”

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82. “A dragon did not crawl on its belly in front of its enemies... A dragon burned everything around herself until it was purified in ash.”

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83. “So the question becomes, Daughter of the Dragon, what will you sacrifice? What will you let be taken away so that you, too, can have power?”

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84. “I, however, was perfectly aware of my beauty. I considered it a skill, alongside speaking French, English, Italian and German. It was a language of its own, in a way. One that translated well in different circumstances.”

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85. “Mary Shelley changed the whole world.”

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86. “He winked at her. She giggled. And I threw up a little in my mouth.”

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87. “You know, they say when someone keeps making excuses to say your name it means they like you.”

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88. “Please know my deep respect for humans and human life. Such beautiful, fragile animals, so fleeting and easily broken and yet powerful beyond anything faeries can ever hope to be. We cannot create but live forever, unchanging. You change with every breath, dying even as you live, but your thread to eternity and immortality is reborn with every new generation.”

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89. “A well-wielded pen is a woman’s best weapon.”

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90. “I’ve got a nine iron that says otherwise.”

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91. “She was tired of being in control all the time, tired of worrying, tired of waiting. Tired of making hard decisions and wondering if they were the right ones.”

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92. “His lips are soft and warm and fit mine like the answer to an equation I didn’t know I was trying to solve.”

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93. “I hate the vamp jobs. They think they’re so suave. It’s not enough for them to slaughter and eat you like a zombie would. No, they want to be all sexy, too. And trust me: vampires? Not. Sexy.”

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94. “Time, the moon, arguments, and, most of all, coins. All good things are circular.”

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95. “Watchers were meant to guide Slayers – the Chosen Ones specially endowed to fight demons – but over the centuries we evolved to be more hands-on. Watchers have to make the hard decisions, and sometimes the hard decisions include weapons. Swords. Spells. Knives.”

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96. “Sometimes we were strangers even to ourselves.”

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97. “Why must I always be a man’s servant?” Lada demanded. “If anything, I should be partners with the devil, not his servant.”

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98. “Your father was a fool and a coward, but his choices shaped you into the fearsome creature you are. I do not want to imagine a world in which you are not you.”

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99. “I am the ocean we lived on for two months. I am empty. I am nothing.”

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100. “Maybe I’m weird, but watching Lend drive was sexy.”

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