Top 100 Kit Rocha Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “Almost nobody knows what they really want. Figure it out before they do, and you own them.”

— Kit Rocha

52. “Caring. Once you let go and let yourself do it, it got to be a habit.”

— Kit Rocha

53. “People who wanted to challenge the status quo didn’t get to have temper tantrums. They had to be smarter, and calmer, and faster, and better. Beyond reproach, beyond critique. As perfect as a human being could be, because you could whine about fair and unfair all you wanted, but at the end of the day, you did the extra work or you failed.”

— Kit Rocha

54. “He wasn’t a cold, aloof god anymore, but a flesh-and-blood man who could bleed, hurt. Want.”

— Kit Rocha

55. “There was no keeping any of them safe. The best he could do was keep them together.”

— Kit Rocha

56. “Trained to spin ecstasy into the sweetest trap, to kneel as a prelude to conquest. She wanted to please tonight.”

— Kit Rocha

57. “Innocence had never gotten him going. Not like this.”

— Kit Rocha

58. “Of course. I know my own vices. It’s allowed, you know – to have a vice or two just for yourself.”

— Kit Rocha

59. “She wasn’t the desert or the flowers. She wasn’t ice or steel. She was a goddamn diamond, formed under terrible pressure, as hard and unforgiving as the rock Logan had put on her finger.”

— Kit Rocha

60. “It was that simple, need converging until there could be nothing but pleasure.”

— Kit Rocha

61. “The place where he’d kissed her awake, taught her to feel – the place where she’d taught him how to be loved.”

— Kit Rocha

62. “But the thing about heroes is that they’re just people.”

— Kit Rocha

63. “Agony. There was no other word for it, not just the pain but the craving. The bone-deep knowledge that she’d die without the drugs, the moments where she would have done anything to end the torment.”

— Kit Rocha

64. “Love was something else. Dangerous. Terrifying. Powerful.”

— Kit Rocha

65. “Who the hell did that – just sat around, sharpening his knife collection like it was no big deal?”

— Kit Rocha

66. “If it had only been fear, she could have managed – fear was vital, the basis for survival.”

— Kit Rocha

67. “Despair was no different than drugs or booze or gambling – it could become a habit, just as easily as anything else.”

— Kit Rocha

68. “She felt hollowed out and hungry. This was the curiosity that had led her to make friends with the wrong girls at school, the interest that had brought her to a dark room with a young man who’d pretended to know what he was doing. He’d fumbled under her dress with clumsy fingers for twenty minutes without getting her as hot as Jasper’s voice tickling over her ear.”

— Kit Rocha

69. “We spark, angel. We spark so bright, and I always thought I’d woo you nice and slow and you’d adore me. But you only ever see the worst in me, and there’s so much worst to see.”

— Kit Rocha

70. “Nothing was quite as unfair as a world where the right choice was the one that hurt the one person he needed to protect.”

— Kit Rocha

71. “No one could survive so much heat after a lifetime of ice.”

— Kit Rocha

72. “It wasn’t her fault that all he had to share were horror stories.”

— Kit Rocha

73. “They’re saying that O’Kane is tired of crumbs, and you’re the one he’s sent to steal dinner.”

— Kit Rocha

74. “You’re pretty easy to love. But I’m not.”

— Kit Rocha

75. “She had rules, good ones. No men with brains. No men with power. No men who might find themselves on the opposite side of the O’Kanes for any reason that mattered. And, most especially, no men who made her feel things that might make her forget the reasons she needed those rules. Nessa.”

— Kit Rocha

76. “His heart was still pounding strongly, and every beat was life. Not just his, but hers. Even the cold floor of a supply closet could be home, if he was there with her.”

— Kit Rocha

77. “This was what it felt like, giving someone else pleasure. It felt like power.”

— Kit Rocha

78. “So much for our pretensions. If this is how we’re defining democracy now, I’m ready for a little anarchy.”

— Kit Rocha

79. “Love, or loyalty. Maybe there wasn’t a difference.”

— Kit Rocha

80. “Your body is waking up, learning what it wants. What it needs.” “You.”

— Kit Rocha

81. “Quitting is for people who’ve never been hungry.”

— Kit Rocha

82. “A new emotion stirred inside her, nothing so gentle as affection or even as vulnerable as love. It was dark, dangerous, something that made her tighten her fingers as satisfaction overtook them both. Mine.”

— Kit Rocha

83. “It’s easy to lose yourself when you’re always playing a role. I’ve never had someone I didn’t have to pretend with, ever.”

— Kit Rocha

84. “It’s easy to forget that promises can mean something.”

— Kit Rocha

85. “If love is trust and need and always feeling better when I’m with you... I love you.”

— Kit Rocha

86. “But sometimes I feel like a soldier who’s won a war. It’s time to go home, and I don’t even know what that means.”

— Kit Rocha

87. “I don’t know how many busted bones he had, but he felt like a bag full of broken glass when Bren and I went to move him.”

— Kit Rocha

88. “That’s why they’re all terrified of Dallas, isn’t it? Because his people love him.” Wasn’t that stronger than loyalty born of fear and violence?”

— Kit Rocha

89. “Fight night, the night the O’Kanes stepped down from their holier-than-thou pedestals and punched each other in the face for giggles.”

— Kit Rocha

90. “She’d always known she could tolerate pain. Now she knew she could survive pleasure.”

— Kit Rocha

91. “That much he understood now – the compulsion born of secrecy, how silence was its own sort of prison. The relief that came with being able to tell someone, anyone, all those things you were supposed to keep locked up.”

— Kit Rocha

92. “I don’t have to be gentle. But maybe I want to be.”

— Kit Rocha

93. “I’ve been training my whole life to be something no one here wants.”

— Kit Rocha

94. “Do you want me enough to let me love you?” That was the real question, wasn’t it? The only one that mattered. “Yes.”

— Kit Rocha

95. “Somehow, it always came down to blood. They lived for it, fought for it. Sometimes, they died for it.”

— Kit Rocha

96. “Through a solid wall, maybe.” Bren patted the backpack slung over his shoulder. “But that’s where I come in.” Finn raised an eyebrow. “I always heard you were a sniper, not an explosives nut.” “Nut is such a strong word. I prefer enthusiast.”

— Kit Rocha

97. “Don’t think about what’s easy, or even what’s possible. Tell me what you’d want if you could have anything in the damn world.”

— Kit Rocha

98. “Sweet women who just needed a little tenderness to wake them up. Making them feel good made him feel good, and everyone walked away with fond, pleasant memories and mild feelings. Mild wasn’t always satisfying, but intensity was complicated.”

— Kit Rocha

99. “I always do the same thing. Love everyone who crosses my path. Love ’em as much as I can, for as long as they need.”

— Kit Rocha

100. “No one could ever be her.”

— Kit Rocha