Top 100 Nenia Campbell Quotes (2024 Update)
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51. “There it is,” he breathed. “That’s how you looked the night you came to me. Hot and golden, with that black dress all but falling off your body. You looked at me just like that.”

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52. “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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53. “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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54. “For what is magic, but passion freed from reason?”

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55. “I thought crime was a game,” he said. “But if it is, it’s one I don’t think anyone can win.”

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56. “Valys also didn’t think I was good enough for him. He made that clear every time he acted like a martyr forced to settle. But what he didn’t understand was that if he thought I might not be good enough for him, he definitely wasn’t good enough for me. I was well aware of my flaws, but I knew my merits, too; I shouldn’t have to be anyone’s second-best. Least of all, his.”

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57. “Poor little sparrow,” he whispered, almost tenderly. “It only hurts because I want you so much.”

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58. “He was wild, like her, with the kind of profile sculptors liked to cast in bronze: a fiery young god chiseled from the elements. Even in moments of icy repose, she could sense that menace clawing just beneath the surface. The knowledge of its presence drew her, even as she knew that it should have repelled.”

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59. “I believe you are familiar with my stance on handcuffs, shape-shifter. Particularly when you’re the one wearing them.”

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60. “There was no pleasure in possessing something of value if it came in shattered fragments.”

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61. “As if I’d had time to drug it in the two milliseconds she’d let me out of her sight.”

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

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63. “He frightened her, and yet she couldn’t stay away.”

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64. “He smelled like alcohol and a bad dream.”

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65. “I didn’t understand what it was about men – not all men, but a good portion of them – that turned a good, solid “NO” into an “I’m just playing coy; try harder.”

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66. “Knives and candlelight,” he said, “how romantic.”

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67. “She had tried to lock her sins up in the attic of her psyche as if they were a mystical portrait forced to bear the demonic scars upon her soul. But her actions had caught up to her at last, coming for their pound of flesh, and she could feel the burn of her transgressions on her skin like a half-healed tattoo.”

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68. “People love beautiful things, but it isn’t enough to simply love them from afar. They want to possess them, own them. Even if – in the case of living things – the cost of ownership is that it can no longer be alive.”

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69. “What was it about us, as humans, that drove us to make apologies for beautiful things?”

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70. “Sometimes evil didn’t need an excuse. Sometimes evil just was.”

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71. “All lines are gray in the dark.”

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72. “She pressed herself to him willingly, opening his mouth with her lips. He’d been expecting a fight, and a heartbeat before he kissed her back she felt all the tension melt from his body and he yielded to her fully, bending to her like a blade of grass against the wind.”

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73. “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.”

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74. “I always saw her. I knew her better than anyone. So if my colleague is right and we’re doomed to write what we know, then I’ve condemned myself to a thousand lifetimes with this woman, because for me, there’s never been anyone else.”

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75. “This is what he likes – violence and rebellion. But only when he can control it.”

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76. “When we mated I felt your heart stop beating and it was as if the world had stopped turning. It was only while surrounded by death that I realized I had never felt more alive.”

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77. “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.”

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78. “The man standing in front of her was not the man he had been ten years ago. He had been hardened by violence, and she could see the glints of that menace winking out from every facet of his being like diamonds bursting under pressure. And she was as much a captive to that vicious brilliance as a moth was to a killing flame.”

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

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80. “That’s why all humans are so afraid to die. Nobody wants to think they don’t matter.”

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81. “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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82. “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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83. “Is that something you fantasize about? Being held down and taken against your will until you come? It’s in all the books you asked me to buy for you. Every single one.”

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84. “If you don’t cut it out, I’m pulling this car over and everyone in the parking lot at Sizzler’s is going to know my name.”

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85. “You may have bought my body, you may even have the papers to prove it, but don’t fool yourself into thinking for a moment that my heart and mind were included in the purchase.”

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86. “Gavin had thought tragedy suited her: a young Miss Havisham, wearing the moth-eaten tatters of her frayed hopes like a ravaged bride. She had thought at first that it was the chase he craved, or the thrill of conquest, but while both of those might have been true, it was her humiliation that got him off. Physical, psychological, sexual – his favorite games were the ones he played with her head.”

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87. “There were things one could do, things so terrible, Val was certain they could make someone stop loving you. She was equally certain that she had done some of these things, and as desperate as she was to be proven otherwise, she was equally afraid that she was right. That she had become as awful as the rest of the world seemed to think she was. That she was unlovable.”

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88. “I’m sorry it hurts, Nadine,” he whispered, gently stroking her face. “But this is all I have to give you, and I love seeing you try to take it.”

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

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90. “Knowledge is a rope, and you’re weaving a noose out of it. Leave some slack for the enemy.”

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91. “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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92. “Time can be as fluid as water, and never in the way you’d like; it slows down to a standstill when you wish you could get things over with, and rushes by in a blur when you wish things would last.”

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93. “You’re like one of those stars that explodes inward and sucks everything around it into darkness. You’re not living to live – you’re living for death.”

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94. “I’m not asking you to be bad, I’m asking you to be bad for me.”

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95. “Fear could drive one to violence as quickly as anger could.”

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96. “Some people are born to fandom, others have fandom thrust upon them.”

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97. “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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98. “You came to my room in the middle of the night to show me your swords? And they say romance is dead.”

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99. “I don’t know how many nights remain to us, but I know I want to spend them all with you.”

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100. “This was what happened to girls who played dark games; they lost to the men who played them better.”

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