Top 350 Kiersten White Quotes (2025 Update)
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151. “Lada amused herself by lying on her back, throwing a knife straight up to try to snag an apple. Sometimes she did. Sometimes the knife came back down and nearly stabbed her. She was equally entertained by both outcomes.”

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

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

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154. “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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155. “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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156. “Arthur was carved from the same stuff as Camelot – regal and majestic. But Mordred belonged out here, with her.”

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157. “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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158. “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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159. “I’d tell him, though. Soon. Soonish. Eventually.”

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160. “Why’s the faerie so obsessed with you anyway? You’re not that cute.”

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161. “I think,” Guinevere said, making her voice as light and breezy as the summer day around them, “I have found my new preferred form of transportation. I will never walk again. Nor shall I ride horses. I want to be carried everywhere by a king.”

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162. “I have to keep you safe,” he whispered, Arthur once again.”

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163. “Streams of melting snow.”

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164. “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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165. “I let my face go blank and nodded slowly. “Yes. The trolls. Back. With me. Cannot form. Complete sentences.” I shook my head. “Yeah, so not happening.”

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166. “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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167. “A heart did not have to be stone to be strong.”

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

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

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

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175. “I am the ocean. I am the yacht in the middle of the ocean. I am nothing. I am flames.”

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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. “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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180. “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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181. “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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182. “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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183. “Weakness is an irresistible lure.”

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

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185. “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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186. “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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187. “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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188. “The flock of birds always living in her chest these days had been startled. They flund themselves against the confines of her ribs, beating and flapping in a frenzy inside of her.”

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

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

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

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193. “Souls and thrones are irreconcilable.”

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

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195. “The Lady of the Lake... ” His voice went distant, and a spike of jealousy pierced Guinevere. Because here, finally, she saw what Arthur looked like when he longed for something.”

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196. “He had imagined Constantinople, had wanted it for Mehmed. It had been simple and straightforward. But now he knew the true cost of things, the murky horrors of the distance between wanting something and getting it.”

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197. “I have found that one can either keep secrets or keep servants.”

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198. “Arthur nodded, slipping his arm around her and stroking her hair with a movement so soft she wondered if he realized he was doing it.”

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199. “We live in the darkness. Fight it or embrace it. But accept that even in a world of powers and gods and Slayers, nothing is going to magically heal you and make you the person you used to be. And would you want it to, if it meant sacrificing everything you’ve learned and become?”

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200. “What a lovely balance. Lend shows whatever he wants the world to see and you see through whatever the world wants to show you.”

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