Top 350 Kiersten White Quotes (2024 Update)
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151. “I wish many things, but I wish I had been able to tell you that I love you, in so many more ways than that word can convey in Alben.”

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152. “He would die on the wall tonight, between his brothers and his enemies, because he could no longer distinguish between the two. They had finally come to the end. Whichever side won, neither would triumph.”

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153. “I wanted more time with the books. I wanted to spend the day in a quiet corner, sitting against a window, lost in words and worlds I had never been given access to.”

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154. “This is the tragedy of knowing my fate: I have seen how it ends, and I will walk right into it, and nothing will change.”

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155. “Radu had practiced the poem so often he could recite it in his sleep. He had stolen shiny bits from famous Arabic poems, gathering them like a raven to line his own nest. The language was dense and flowery, hyperbolic in the extreme. Murad listened, enraptured, as his reign was likened to the ocean and his posterity a mighty river.”

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156. “I don’t dislike them, nor do I like them. I’ve never understood why one must love children simply because they are children. I don’t love people because they are people; in fact, I rarely like any people at all. If a child is somehow deserving of admiration, I certainly won’t deny it, but why hand it out like candy on Queen’s Day?”

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157. “If I fail, then it is over. My dream is dead. I have nothing to build a future around. And if I succeed... I step past everything I have known into everything I have wanted.”

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158. “It felt like fighting. It felt like falling. It felt like dying.”

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159. “She would never be able to stop fighting. Even victories that should be hers would be taken from her by faithless men. They would forever choose each other instead of her – choose treaties and tradition over a genuine chance for change.”

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160. “There’s a secret room?′ I ask, at the same time Rhys says, with genuine hurt, ‘There are more books I didn’t know about?”

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161. “Sometimes I wanted to take a memory – one perfect memory – curl up in it, and go to sleep.”

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162. “There are other ways to beat someone than with fists.”

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163. “Oh, glorious, glorious caffeine and sugar. I can make it through anything as long as I have enough of those two.”

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164. “She flew at him like a wild boar, all fury and animal instinct.”

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165. “In this room I have picked which gun was unloaded out of ten options. And then they pulled the trigger on me. I have picked stocks that went on to skyrocket. I have picked which pencil I would shove into Ms. Robertson’s ear until she kicked me out for thinking about it.”

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166. “There was good, and there was evil, but there was so much space between the two.”

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167. “Your name is who you are, what defines you. Ancient Egyptians even believed names themselves had power. You take away someone’s name, or change it, you’re taking away a part of them. You are your name.”

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168. “I am never in the dark when I am protecting you.”

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169. “Well, are you ready, Lada Dragwlya, daughter of the dragon?” Fire burned in her heart, and her wounded soul spread out, casting a shadow like wings across her country. This was hers. Not because of her father. Not because of Mehmed. Because the land itself had claimed her as its own. “Not Dragwlya,” she said. “Lada Dracul. I am no longer the daughter of the dragon.” She lifted her chin, sights set on the horizon. “I am the dragon.”

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170. “To Radu, my brother, I do not acknowledge your new title, nor Mehmed’s. Tell the lying coward I send no congratulations. He sent none to me when I took my throne in spite of him. You did not choose right. Tell Mehmed Wallachia is mine. With all defiance, Lada Dracul, Prince of Wallachia.”

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171. “Mordred ever seemed to burn.”

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172. “Planning is not my friend. Impulse is.”

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173. “But the past holds her secrets dear, and try as I may, I cannot coax them out of her.”

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174. “I like her. The pixie is going to be my friend. I know it like I know I’m not going to see Mr. Keane today. I will be her friend, while plotting to either betray her if she’s untrustworthy for the company, or be betrayed by her if I slip up and she sees thoughts she shouldn’t. Best friends.”

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175. “Leave it to a boy to make the Faerie Realms look like a dump.”

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176. “Fire burned in her heart, and her wounded soul spread out, casting a shadow like wings across her country.”

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177. “Radu had never really noticed Cyprian’s mouth before, but for some reason he could not look away from it now. With.”

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178. “Bogdan screamed as Lada – Ladislav, now five, refused to answer to her full name – bit down on his thigh. He punched her. She bit harder, and he cried for help. “If she wants to eat your leg, she is allowed,” the nurse said. “Quit screaming or I will let her eat your supper, too.”

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179. “No one will be more brutal than me. No one will be more ruthless. And I will never stop fighting.”

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180. “Do not thank me. All I did was teach them to fear me. How does that help you? Next time you hit first, you hit harder, you make certain that your name means fear and pain. I will not be here to save you again.”

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181. “Arthur was carved from the same stuff as Camelot – regal and majestic. But Mordred belonged out here, with her.”

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182. “Guinevere realized with a start that what she missed most about Mordred was the sense that he saw her. In every room, in every situation, he had seen her first and foremost.”

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183. “It was wrong, this weighing and measuring lives as though they were coins that could be spent or saved. He longed to be free of it all, to live among men seeing everyone as his brother, to view no one as his enemy.”

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184. “She had always thought getting married would be the death of her. She had not expected that fear to be realized quite so literally.”

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185. “You are a different person when you are outside,” Mordred said.”

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186. “If I cannot trust myself to love the right person, what can I trust?”

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187. “I so owed Arianna, that undead little genius.”

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188. “That’s more like it. You’re much prettier when you aren’t talking. True of most people, I’ve found.”

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189. “If Lada was the spiky green weed that sprouted in the midst of a drought-cracked riverbed, Radu was the delicate, sweet rose that wilted in anything less that the perfect conditions.”

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190. “Radu wondered if Kumal was capable of cruelty. He hoped so, actually. It gave him hope to think that men like Kumal were the same as everyone else – they simply chose to be better.”

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191. “I opened the door and Lend smiled. ‘They look better on you.’ ‘Wow, they must look just awful on you then.’ I smiled back.”

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192. “It had felt unavoidable at the time, but how many unavoidable choices of his had resulted in unforgivable consequences?”

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193. “Lada made her face stone, her heart a mountain. A mountain that would never be pierced to let cold, clear water flow. “Nothing holds me here.”

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194. “And if her expression looked as though she were plotting to murder her partner, well, Radu was used to that. He had missed it, actually.”

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195. “We saw everything that was not ours, and we hungered. Do not lose that hunger. You will always have to fight for everything. Even when you already have it, you will have to keep fighting to maintain it.”

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196. “Guinevere had never actually attended a Christian church service before. Merlin had no use for the Romans’ castoff. But Arthur had taken to it, and Guinevere could see why. Everyone was gathered in the same large wooden building. The ceiling soared overhead. It was simple but elegant. Clean. They all sat on the same level. Everyone listened to the same prayers, performed the same actions. It was an equalizer. And it gave the people something in common with each other. Something to unify them.”

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197. “How unfortunate that nature was both the most peaceful and the most dangerous place possible. But that was its duality. It gave life and it took it, provided and withheld, offered beauty and danger in equal measure. Camelot was safe and ordered and structured, so many things put in place to separate people from nature. Roofs and walls. Pipes for water. Swords with men to wield them. The separation was a protection but also a loss.”

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198. “Faeries and vampires were glittery now? Honestly.”

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199. “Souls and thrones are irreconcilable.”

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200. “I’d been fighting for this relationship since the day I first saw his water eyes.”

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