Top 50 Kristi Ann Hunter Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “Remember that your pride isn’t as valuable as you think it is. Keeping it might cost you more than you could imagine.”

— Kristi Ann Hunter

2. “He loved her hair. It was like sunshine. Not the sunshine he saw here in England, but the all-consuming sun found on the open water, traveling between England and France. The vast spread of waves magnified the glory of the sun by reflecting it back on you until the golden glow swallowed you whole. That was her hair.”

— Kristi Ann Hunter

3. “Are you daft, man? It takes only a moment to tell her head is filled with fashion and frippery. I’d rather court your parlor maid.”

— Kristi Ann Hunter

4. “He bowed over her hand and kissed the knuckles. He’d never despised a glove more in his life.”

— Kristi Ann Hunter

5. “Griffith didn’t like losing to his younger brother.”

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6. “I’ve learned a funny thing about the past,” she finally said. “The ghosts that haunt you the most are the ones you refuse to acknowledge. The past you try to bury has the most power to hurt you.”

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7. “Yes, this was a family, here in this room, but every last one of them was aware that it was a family they’d had to create, a family of necessity. It wasn’t the same as a family with parents and siblings and a future that extended beyond preparing them to work for a living.”

— Kristi Ann Hunter

8. “He thought that appeasing his curiosity would be enough to make him willing to forget her, but the opposite was happening. Every answer unearthed three more questions about a girl born into his world, yet different than any other woman he’d ever met.”

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9. “He was attempting to prove to himself and God that he was indeed the new creation the Bible said he was.”

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10. “She was listening differently, now that she’d realized how important it was to seek God in the quiet times in order to know what to cling to in the chaos.”

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11. “While he knew he could count on her discretion in public, all was fair when it came to family.”

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12. “Her impending spinsterhood must be bothering her more than she realized if a servant was catching her attention in such a way. Of course, he was a very nicely put together servant.”

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13. “Next time he pretended to die, he would do so on his stomach. It would be much easier.”

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14. “A Good man sees what he’s been given and does the best he can to earn it.”

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15. “Honestly, of all the unnecessary things her mother had taught her in the last eighteen years, she couldn’t have found two minutes to say, “A lady always brings something to occupy herself while she waits”?”

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16. “Grace doesn’t work like that, Kit. I know my life’s been pretty easy, and my list of sins wouldn’t make anyone blush, but I’m not perfect and I’ve read the Bible enough to know that grace doesn’t come because of anything you can do. Jesus didn’t die and rise again so you could crucify yourself with guilt.”

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17. “He’d come to get Miranda’s advice on how to most quickly win over Miss St. Claire, and instead he was dissecting a mere walk as if it were the latest measure to come before Parliament.”

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18. “He would likely either leave engaged or unconscious, depending on how things went with Lady Miranda and her brothers. Women weren’t usually forgiving when they learned they’d been fooled, and men were rarely restrained when a sister felt her honor had been slighted.”

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19. “You,” Lady Blackstone finally said, “are not eleven years old.”

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20. “And maybe that was what God wanted her to remember. That there was good and bad in this world, and she could choose which she focused on, which she wanted to be a part of. She could push back the shadows without living in them herself.”

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21. “It is never a happy day when an eight-year-old girl’s cheesecake lands in the dirt, and she certainly doesn’t take kindly to the laughing little boy who put it there.”

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22. “Isabella made a conscious effort to keep from her facial features the thought that her cousin had a few attics to let.”

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23. “Something was disturbing the normally unflappable duke, and being the good friend that he was, Colin couldn’t wait to hold it over the other man’s head.”

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24. “A lady never posted letters to an unrelated male. But the very writing of his name made her feel dangerous.”

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25. “By morning, Adelaide was beginning to understand why she’d never completely understood how God worked. Given that He had made the bewildering, maddening, incomprehensible species that was man from His own image, it stood to reason that the Creator would be a complicated mass of logic never meant to be understood by the female mind. That, or the fall of man in the Garden of Eden had taken them even further off the path than she’d ever realized.”

— Kristi Ann Hunter

26. “Marshington is here.”

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27. “You are no more responsible for what that man said than I am. You cannot take the blame for another’s actions.”

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28. “I knew it.” “You know nothing.” “You don’t know what I know.” Isabella huffed. “Oh, I know what it is you think you know, but I also know that what you think you know isn’t nearly everything.”

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29. “Colin tried to remember if he’d prayed for the Lord to teach him patience recently because he could think of no other reason why God would constantly be throwing Lady Georgina into his path.”

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30. “If he didn’t know better, he would be convinced that there were actually two women of like name and appearance, switching places at will for the express purpose of driving him mad.”

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31. “Miranda was proud of the smile she wore. It felt almost genuine.”

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32. “More out of alarm than inspiration, she flung the cloth she’d been using on the bookcases toward his head. The marquis snatched the fabric as it connected with his nose. A puff of dust settled in his hair as one corner of the cloth slapped against his forehead. The stunned look on his face was the last thing Amelia saw before she shoved Jane down the corridor.”

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33. “Sticking her tongue out at a piece of paper was the definition of useless, but it made Miranda feel better anyway.”

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34. “I find myself drawn to her, even though she’s an entirely illogical choice.” Georgina coughed. “I wouldn’t lead with that. It doesn’t even work for fictional men.”

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35. “Did God miss her as much as she missed Him?”

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36. “Amazing how such a little bit of light made the pathway so much easier to navigate.”

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37. “If you’ll excuse me, I have an alternate personality to resume.”

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38. “He looked like a pleasant gentleman and he irritated Georgina, so Miranda was inclined to like him.”

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39. “Never mail the blue ones.”

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40. “Were you a horse I would bid until I won you.”

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41. “As her mother frequently told her, a lady never makes her family suffer because she is in a bad mood.”

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42. “Then focus on thruth, not logic. Stop trying to figure out why and look for what is.”

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43. “I would hate to see the state of my house if I had displeased Amelia under my roof. The servents would revolt. No doubt I’d have gruel for dinner, holes in my shirts, and the most foul-smelling tallow candles they could find.”

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44. “A Lady never sits on the floor.′ A lady probably wasn’t supposed to crawl on her belly through the dirt either.”

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45. “She stood in the middle of the room, wringing her hands, trying to hold back the tears and losing the fight. Yes, she had been mad at him. Yes, she had wanted to cause him bodily harm. But she hadn’t wanted him killed!”

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46. “The safest of disguises were the consistent ones.”

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47. “It was a shame, really, that one couldn’t go to the store and buy a play to watch at home like one could purchase a book.”

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48. “Perhaps that’s what he needed in this situation. A new perspective, particularly on from God. Yes, some time alone with God was exactly what this situation needed.”

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49. “It was a rare man who could effectively threaten a bloke and tease a brother in the same breath.”

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50. “It was time to start over. That was what Haven Manor was about, wasn’t it? A fresh start? A life where your mistakes didn’t define you? It was time she took that for herself.”

— Kristi Ann Hunter