Top 100 Nenia Campbell Quotes (2024 Update)

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

— 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.”

— Nenia Campbell

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.”

— Nenia Campbell

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

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

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

— Nenia Campbell

10. “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.”

— Nenia Campbell

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

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12. “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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13. “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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14. “Be careful what you wish for. Especially out loud.”

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15. “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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16. “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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17. “Only the cruelest hunters set their traps with terror and trepidation.”

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18. “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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19. “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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20. “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.”

— Nenia Campbell

21. “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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22. “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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23. “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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24. “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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25. “I’d rather have you hating me than not have you at all.”

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

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

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

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

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31. “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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32. “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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33. “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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34. “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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35. “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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36. “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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37. “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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38. “Men who thought of themselves as gods fell the farthest, and the hardest.”

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39. “I wasn’t a complete bastard. If she liked to think she saw good in me, if she wanted to take credit for it, I’d let her. She deserved that much.”

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40. “Nothing is as deadly as the love of a powerful man.”

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41. “When your whole foundation fractured well past the point of repair, all you could do was glue the pathetic, jagged shards of your life back together and try not to bleed on them.”

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42. “Death was not the scariest thing out there; no, the denial of it could be far worse.”

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43. “Some plants were pyrophytic and only germinated when ravaged by fire. Gavin had scorched her with the savagery of his cruel passions until she had been conditioned to bloom in the flames.”

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44. “I guess we don’t get to fight for the fate of the world in t-shirts.”

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45. “What will you do to me, my little sparrow? Beat your hands against my chest? Scratch me up? Shout at me in that sweet, trembling voice? If that’s the case, you tempt me to villainy, simply by making me crave the punishment.”

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46. “Phineas Riordan was exactly what came to mind when someone imagined a cruel prince from a fairytale: the kind that ruined maidens instead of saving them.”

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47. “Jay had forgotten how good it could feel to be consumed – so good that you didn’t feel the pain of it until you were already long gone.”

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48. “Keep calm. You have the forest in your blood.”

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49. “He wanted a fight, yes – but he wanted her willing, not besieged, with his name shattering from her lips like a broken shield as she surrendered.”

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50. “And so the wolf lay with the lamb.”

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