Top 400 Nalini Singh Quotes (2024 Update)
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51. “Heroes are often the quietest people in a room, the ones least willing to lay claim to the title. These men and women simply go about doing what needs to be done without any expectation of gratitude or fame. It is in their nature to protect and to shield and to fight against darkness, whatever form it may take.”

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52. “We cannot forget joy. No matter how deep our rage and pain.”

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53. “Don’t let immortality do that to you,” she whispered. “Don’t let it steal your soul.” Moss green eyes held her own. “It is, others tell me, far easier to stay human if you split your heart in two and give one part to another to keep.”

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54. “You can yell at me all you want. It makes me feel like I’m useful for something.”

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55. “A vow of celibacy was easy to hold when there was no temptation.”

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56. “A dark god. And she knew that thought was her own. Because the very thing that repelled her about Raphael also attracted her. Power.”

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57. “Love has many guises, Thea. Sometimes it’s a stroke of lightning as it was for your father, other times a slow building storm as it was for me, but the one thing that never changes is that it must be nurtured. You can’t kick a heart and expect it not to flinch.”

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58. “Jesus H. Christ. I have new respect for the female of the species suddenly.”

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59. “Fear is a thief that comes in the bright light of day, an intruder arrogant and assured.”

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60. “Because he, more than anyone, knew that sometimes, love wasn’t enough. Sometimes, people changed so deeply that the change broke love itself.”

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61. “Never again, he thought, would he be alone in the dark.”

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62. “Bridges are built over thin air. Someone must lay the first plank, the first brick, take the risk.”

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63. “A naked blade sheathed in velvet, that was Raphael’s voice.”

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64. “Then she lay silent as he moved his fingers over the strings with a grace that astounded and compelled. When he added his voice, keeping the volume low to avoid disturbing her neighbors, she felt her heart stop beating. A fallen angel might have a voice like that, she thought, hard and pure and with an unashamed sexuality to it that invited the listener into sin.”

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65. “It had never occurred to her that she might adore the adult Clay even more than she had the youth, but there it was. The man her friend had grown into – well, he enchanted her, brooding temper, dark kisses, animal protectiveness, and all. To her delight, the feeling seemed to be mutual. But the separation had scarred them both. What would it do to Clay if this disease succeeded in killing her?”

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66. “But the one thing she no longer had any question about was that they were an impregnable unit. The world might attempt to tear them apart, but the only way it would ever succeed would be through death.”

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67. “But sometimes, that depth of need – to save, to protect – can become a blinding fervor, one that destroys the very thing it thinks to safeguard.”

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68. “An hour of your life is worth more than a thousand people to me.”

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69. “Love is no rose. It’s a goddamn weed that digs its roots in so deep, there’s no hope of getting it out.”

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70. “The peacemaker must have the strongest heart and the toughest will in the room.”

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71. “You are here,” he said in a tone that made her heart thump wildly against her ribs, “because you belong to me.”

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72. “They weren’t just his most trusted warriors – the Seven were family.”

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73. “What she didn’t realize was that he’d go with her, making a clean, sharp cut of his own. He’d lived more than two hundred years already, and the best of them, the best of them, had been the four since she’d entered his life.”

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74. “In his two hundred and seventy-five years on this earth, he had walked in battle and bathed in blood, felt the hot kiss of a whip on his back, the cold thrust of a knife into his gut, but never had he been called an infant until this moment.”

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75. “And when it was over, he’d have destroyed the most beautiful thing he’d encountered, that he’d felt, in all eternity.”

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76. “If he was going to be held hostage to this unwanted compulsion, then she was damn well coming along for the ride.”

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77. “No power is worth you, Elena-mine. I would give up immortality for a single mortal lifetime with you.”

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78. “Love, she realized at that terrible moment of truth, could be incredibly unselfish, even when it hurt until she bled.”

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79. “Be with me.” Kit froze against him, a flesh and blood statue. “I can’t be what you need,” he whispered against the side of her head. “But be with me anyway.”

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80. “I think, to be missed is a gift. To be remembered an even bigger one.”

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81. “All changelings knew that, sometimes, touch could heal what words never could.”

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82. “What is it like to be mortal?” Startled, she took a second to think, to consider. “Life is much more immediate. When you have a time limit, every moment gains an importance that an immortal will never know.”

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83. “The man I was, the man I am, the man I will be, the man I want to be, they all belong to you. Always.”

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84. “None had had a chance to experience love in this way, to walk hand in hand with a man who would lay down his life for her. A day, a week, a month, a year – no matter how long she lived as a whole person, she would do it with an open heart and an unfettered spirit.”

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85. “I might be on the fence about this life, but I ’m not and will never be on the fence about you. I will fight for you.”

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86. “I felt him and didn’t resist the power draw. I knew Aden would never do something like that unless he was in danger.” And that, Zaira thought, was why she had always trusted Vasic. Even when she’d been jealous of him, she’d known he wouldn’t hesitate to stand with Aden against any threat.”

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87. “I don’t want to be in a world where he doesn’t get to survive. How is that in any way fair?”

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88. “He understands evil better than any other person I’ve ever known. We disagree in how to eliminate it, but we do not disagree that it exists.”

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89. “They had no idea her Valyusha wasn’t the real threat. Silver would annihilate anyone who dared hurt him again.”

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90. “Ms. Baird,” he said, using her formal title because it made her pay attention, “have I or have I not made it clear that I would like you in my bed?”

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91. “A smile that made his need to kiss her almost unbearable, his heart doing things inside his chest that he was sure weren’t in the least macho. He couldn’t find it in himself to care, because when Charlotte smiled that way, it destroyed him.”

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92. “Vaughn had never been this content. It was as if a missing part of him had come home, a part of that he’d been functionning without but, now that he’s found it, the loss of which he’d never survive. Faith was inside him, held in the core of his animal heart, protected by every ounce of strength he had.”

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93. “Trust is a fragile glass bird. Drop it once, and it will shatter into shards innumerable.”

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94. “Do you truly feel nothing?” she whispered. “Are you without fractures?” “It’s better this way.” His eyes kissed her with frost. “The day I feel is the day I die.”

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95. “Our mating,” she said, “was a thing of instinct. But it’s become so much more. We’ve become who mates should be to one another – lovers, friends, swords, and shields.” She held up the ring. “I want you to wear this so you never doubt who you are to me. My mate, my love, and my Ethan.”

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96. “Remember that there are those in this world who will cross every line and feel no guilt in doing so.”

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97. “You have the power to tear me to pieces, to wound me so deep and true that I’ll never recover. What Rissa’s death did to the boy I was? You have the ability to do a thousand times worse to the man I’ve become.”

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98. “We’re all as susceptible to the lure of power.”

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99. “And we live in a world of predators and prey,” Raphael repeated. “Remove the top predator from the chain and the entire chain collapses.”

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100. “If I am the menace, then you must be the trouble.”

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