Top 350 Kiersten White Quotes (2025 Update)
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201. “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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202. “Can’t he be lonely and unbalanced around someone else’s girlfriend?”

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203. “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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204. “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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205. “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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206. “Being a Dracul had cost him so much. He had thought he was done paying for the blood that ran through his veins. But he would never be done. The price of being in his family was everything he held dear, taken from him over and over again. They were the dragons. The devils. There was no mercy in them or for them.”

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207. “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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208. “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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209. “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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210. “If I cannot trust myself to love the right person, what can I trust?”

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

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212. “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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213. “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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214. “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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215. “It had felt unavoidable at the time, but how many unavoidable choices of his had resulted in unforgivable consequences?”

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216. “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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217. “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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218. “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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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. “It flopped into my leg, leaving a vile, dark smear of disgusting on my jeans. Brilliant.”

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222. “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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223. “A true conversion is always only between a man and God.”

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224. “The central aspect I wanted to explore was the path a person takes to get to the point where they can justify doing terrible things in the name of good. What motivations sway them? What stones laid in childhood become the foundation legacies are built on?”

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

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

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227. “They are less than the mud. You do not get angry at the mud for clinging to your shoe. You wipe it off and never look at it again.”

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228. “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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229. “Love and life. Things that could be given or taken away in a heartbeat, all in the pursuit of power.”

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

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

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234. “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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235. “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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236. “Pretending is another way of lying, and I am so good at both.”

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237. “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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238. “It was easer to rage than to despair.”

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239. “I have tried so hard to escape this, but my path was always leading here. I took every turn I could. I found faith and God. I found a new home and country, even new tongues and a new name. But I cannot escape becoming a Dracul. The cruelty, the willingness to destroy everything else in pursuit of a goal. I know what she would do. I know what I need to do. But I do not want to do it.”

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240. “Christmas Eve is my favorite... I think the anticipation is more fun than anything else. I kind of lost that. The idea that something – food, traditions, an arbitrary date on the calendar – can be special because we decide it should be. We make it special. Not just for ourselves, but for others.”

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241. “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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242. “So we stand, occupying the space, watching as ordinary ingredients combine into something we hope will be magic.”

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

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

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

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

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247. “This is how it starts. This is how I set myself up for pain and tragedy and endings where I want eternities.”

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248. “And part of him, a compact, dark lump of meanness buried deep in his chest, had been glad. Let her feel useless. Let her feel like a failure. Let her see that he could do things she never could.”

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249. “I have been stuck in the business of books for so long, I forgot how much fun being a part of a story can be.”

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250. “The door opens with a rusted jingle, and an animatronic Santa insults my moral virtue three times. Ho, ho, ho.”

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