Top 100 Nenia Campbell Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “The Lord teaches forgiveness, but some things are unforgivable.”

— Nenia Campbell

2. “Maybe make sure you don’t live in a glass house before you start throwing woke stones.”

— Nenia Campbell

3. “There’s a saying that you can’t put a price on a human life, but that saying is a lie because we have. We have, and it’s so much lower than you would think. Yes, human life has its price like anything else, and will continue to do so for as long as it doubles as a commodity.”

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4. “Hate me, then,” he breathed. “Break yourself into a thousand pieces and deny me each and every one of them. Because I am never letting you go.”

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5. “I bask in that sympathy because it’s nice to have somebody who cares, even if it’s the wrong person for the wrong reasons.”

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6. “The first kill is the one you remember – but the hundredth? That is what history will.”

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7. “You can lie in any language on earth, and body language is no exception.”

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8. “Be careful what you wish for. Especially out loud.”

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9. “She shattered through her horror as if it were a mirror and her sanity were the glinting fragments of broken glass.”

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10. “I used to think I was afraid of being lost, but then I realized I was afraid of who might find me.”

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11. “I don’t care if you see yourself as broken. I’ve been chasing your reflection in a ruin of jagged shards for the last ten years.”

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12. “I’m as lucky as a bed of oysters on cioppino night.”

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13. “When they figure out how to bottle up orgasms and sell them as a food additive, I’ll be first in line.”

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14. “It’s like being numb most of the time,” she tried to explain, tried to calm herself down by putting words to feelings. “Everything feels gray, but when I do feel something, it’s like I feel it more than most people and it hurts – it hurts me, personally, like the pain was made for me in mind. And suddenly – numb doesn’t feel so bad.”

— Nenia Campbell

15. “I’d rather have you hating me than not have you at all.”

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16. “One doesn’t need to be taught fear when one is the hunted.”

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17. “It’s hard to give up something once you’ve already decided it’s yours. It’s like picking up a rock at the beach and seeing it in the light for the first time. Maybe at first, it looks dull and flat. But then you notice that spark, that flare of color. And now that it’s in your hand, blazing with fire, you can’t bring yourself to throw it away because you’re not sure you’ll be able to find it again if you lost it. Or if it’ll even be the same.”

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18. “Nobody had ever looked at her like that – as if she were filled with such lethal sweetness that craving could be synonymous with ruin.”

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19. “We all have doors inside us that should never be opened. God help us all when we find the keys to unlock them.”

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20. “The heroes without hope of redemption are the ones we root hardest for because in our own unshakable faith in romance, we cannot fathom a heart so deep or dark that it cannot be turned.”

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21. “Only the cruelest hunters set their traps with terror and trepidation.”

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22. “I participate in BDSM, but I wasn’t abused as a child. I don’t hate women, or particularly enjoy hurting women. Sometimes I make them feel pain, but it’s consensual, it serves a purpose – to get them off – and they can indicate that they wish me to stop at any time. I do like the power I get from total submission, and the trust that my partner puts in me to give me everything, from her mind to her body, while expecting nothing in return – except the understanding that I won’t violate that trust.”

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23. “Ice could sear and burn – sometimes far more intimately than fire – and he had scorched her with a savagery sheathed in only the merest pretense of restraint.”

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24. “Maybe that was why the French called orgasms “las petites morts”: because the things that bring us passion tend to slip past our defenses, to creep insidiously into every facet of our consciousnesses and kill us as ruthlessly, and efficiently, as any drug.”

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25. “Maybe in a way all living things are like flickering flames in a precarious night, always on the verge of being extinguished. Whether we kindle slowly but steadily, or go out in a brilliant burst of light and color, is our choice. Perhaps the most important choice we’ll ever have.”

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26. “People say hate is like a poison – but they’re wrong. It’s like a drug. You never forget your first hit, how it seduces you with its strength and power, and takes you completely by storm. It colors your world in light and meaning, until you wonder how you ever managed to get by without it. And then, eventually, you get to a point where you can’t. It takes over your life, until hating becomes your reason for living.”

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27. “I wanted you the moment I saw you run. You’re everything I want. Not a rose, but a desert flower, enduring scorching heat to flower in darkness with a rare and singular beauty. My night-blooming cereus, bristling with spines.”

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28. “Subjugation requires vigilance; if you relax your brutality even for a moment, the people you’re oppressing will revolt at the first sign of weakness. That’s why dictatorial regimes are always a slippery slope of cruelty doomed to end in failure.”

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29. “There’s a certain madness that comes from wanting something you can’t have. It can lead to violence, if left unchecked. Better to possess the object of your desires in pieces than to see it in the hands of someone else.”

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30. “I finally understood what could drive kids to show up with guns and shoot up their schools.”

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31. “Humanity was a precipice and she was standing on the edge of it, staring into the wild and yawning void that encompassed all things bestial and frightening. It would be so easy to jump, to let go and fall in – but once she started falling, her fear was that she would never stop.”

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32. “She was full of fire and he had never wanted to burn so badly.”

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33. “In the absence of deliberate cruelty, the harshness of his face and the fullness of his mouth just looked sullen and a little wicked. An angel frozen into a tableau of marmoreal perfection as he contemplated his imminent fall from grace.”

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34. “There was something devastating about being handled gently by a cruel man. Maybe because it felt so intentional, so excruciatingly deliberate.”

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35. “Satisfied he had made his point, he left me there to cough up blood and bile and impotent rage. And fear.”

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36. “There is no playacting in this court. If you stay your hand, they will cut it off.”

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37. “My book sales are way down today. Also, I’ve received two scathing reviews. One of them calls me “a purveyor of insipid wet-dreams.”

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38. “Let me tell you what I want. You, screaming my name, telling me how much you love being Daddy’s slutty little girl while you beg me to go harder.”

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39. “Fairytales by nature only talk about the victors. The survivors. Nobody speaks about what happens to those who failed, except in the abstract: as cautionary tales to guide others onto the path to success. How many brave knights fell to the dragon before he was slayed by the noble prince? How many children burned to a crisp and eaten before the wicked witch received her due? These stories are lost, but the lesson behind them is not: it is not enough to be merely pure and good.”

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40. “Men who thought of themselves as gods fell the farthest, and the hardest.”

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41. “Identities were like teeth: hard to maintain and easy to lose, but people tended to look at you funny when you were missing one.”

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42. “You were the most beautiful thing that I’d ever seen. I couldn’t decide whether to pluck you out of the sky and cage you, or simply break your wings.”

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43. “A geas was a contract with the goddess of Fate. Sometimes one was born indentured, other times it was bestowed upon one as a curse. Because if one did not fulfill the terms of one’s geas, one died. It was old magic, the magic of the gods, spoken in the tongues of those who controlled the dragons – and it was supposed to be extinct.”

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44. “Everyone needs to escape sometimes, and retreating into somebody else’s fantasy isn’t nearly as satisfying as slipping into your own.”

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45. “Young girls chased after bad boys for the same reason that riders broke wild horses; they wanted the rush of taming something, of bringing that raw energy to heel.”

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46. “She seemed like the kind of woman who would fall in love with the sky.”

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47. “She let out the breath she knew full well she’d been holding.”

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48. “All lines are gray in the dark.”

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49. “There was nothing that fascinated the public quite like a beautiful man with an ugly soul.”

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50. “Words were the bane of her existence. She drowned in them when all she wanted was silence, only to have them recede when one desperately-sought phrase would be the key to her salvation. Most things were like that: excess in times of abundance, and shortages in times of dearth. Life, she realized, was an unbalanced scale, and would never weigh in one’s favor, struggle as one might.”

— Nenia Campbell