Top 350 Kiersten White Quotes (2026 Update)
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201. “Because I am in love with you. Because I cannot be around you for fear you will finally see what is written across my heart. Because the pain of you is one I cannot bear.”

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202. “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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203. “Weakness is an irresistible lure.”

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204. “That is your problem, then. Peace is not to be found in this city, or any city. Not even Mecca. Peace is to be found here.” He pointed to Radu’s heart.”

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205. “To let you stay here until everyone has forgotten you. Until your only legacy are the lurid woodcuts and terrifying nighttime stories of the Saxons. You will fade into a monster, a myth.”

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206. “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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207. “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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208. “It felt like fighting. It felt like falling. It felt like dying.”

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209. “Women truly were the stronger gender. All the subtle games they had to play, the way they teased power from those around them! She had much to learn there.”

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210. “Perhaps, looking out over it, Mehmed saw what the beginning of his legacy would eventually lead to. Whatever Mehmed did, whatever he built, the greatest city in the world was irrefutable evidence that all things died.”

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211. “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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212. “I did not repent my distance from God. If I wanted help, I would find it myself.”

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213. “Wait, so am I allowed to put my shirt back on? Or did you want me to remove my pants, too?”

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

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

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

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217. “Lada had always known exactly what shape she would take. She had never let it be determined by the people around her. But Radu could not escape the need for love, the need for people in his life to help him see what he should – and could – be. Lada shaped herself in spite of her environment. Radu shaped himself because of it.”

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218. “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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219. “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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220. “Maybe I shouldn’t mouth off to the elemental I kinda hoped was my future mother-in-law.”

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221. “You are the only real thing in my life.”

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222. “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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223. “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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224. “Lend’s dad, two werewolves, and a vampire. It was like the setup to a bad joke or something. A doctor, two werewolves, and a vampire walk into a bar. “What’ll you have?” the bartender asks. “We were thinking him,” the vampire answers, eyeing the doctor. Okay, jokes weren’t my strong point.”

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225. “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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226. “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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227. “It was easer to rage than to despair.”

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

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229. “Everywhere she went, no matter how many people surrounded her, she knew now she was alone. She may as well be alone in a place that was beautiful.”

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230. “The darkness isn’t going anywhere. But there’s a difference between walking through it and becoming it. It doesn’t control you. You got more of it than you should? Good. Use it. Use it all.”

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231. “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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232. “They revolved around her as though she were the Earth, and they were the adoring but distant sun and moon and stars. It was a type of magic in and of itself.”

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233. “This particular type of human carries weapons slightly more lethal than your beloved pink monstrosity.”

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234. “You’re pretty much everything I’ve thought of for a while now.”

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235. “The shelf Imogen is searching is technically off-limits, but since Buffy – the Slayer who single-handedly destroyed almost our entire organization – broke all magic on earth a couple months ago, it doesn’t matter anymore.”

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236. “It flopped into my leg, leaving a vile, dark smear of disgusting on my jeans. Brilliant.”

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237. “You bet I’m trouble.”

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238. “We can’t spend every moment afraid of what’s waiting for us. What’s waiting for us out in the world, or inside ourselves, as I’ve learned.”

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239. “I heard she is giving land to anyone. Can you imagine? No family name, no boyar line. She gives it to those who deserve it. So I hope she never marries. I hope she lives to be a hundred years old, breathing fire and drinking the blood of our enemies.”

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240. “Radu put one hand on her shoulder, felt Lada’s body contract with silent crying. “Get out,” she said again. He climbed onto the narrow bed and curled around her, holding her until she slept.”

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241. “Just as he reached for my neck, I tased him. I was there to bag and tag, not to kill. Besides, if I had to carry separate weapons for every paranormal I took out, I’d be dragging around a full luggage set. Tasers are a one-size-fits-all paranormal butt-kicking option. Mine’s pink with rhinestones. Tasey and I have had a lot of good times together.”

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242. “Wallachia was not her mother. Wallachia did not care what happened to her. And every single person who might have was either dead or trying to kill her.”

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243. “Pretending is another way of lying, and I am so good at both.”

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244. “I do not know how to live in a world where everyone is right and everyone is wrong.”

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245. “Biting into her fig, she trailed her fingers along the rough, waxy leaves of an untrimmed hedge and pretended she was in Wallachia. Radu heard it first. “Listen,” he whispered. “Someone is crying.” “And it is not you. What a wonder.”

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246. “Those same fists had always defied everything expected of her.”

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247. “You carry too much hope, and it will canker in your soul like an infection.”

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248. “I find myself in sudden dire need to increase the potency of my charm spelling.”

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249. “I do not want to imagine a world in which you are not you.”

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250. “What’s wrong? You look as though someone has died. Oh, no, someone has, haven’t they?”

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