Top 450 Nora Sakavic Quotes (2025 Update)
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201. “This is about you. This is about everything it took you to get to this point, everything it cost you, and everyone who laughed when you dared to dream of something big and bright. You’re here tonight because you refused to give up and refused to give in. You’re here where they all said you’d never be, and no one can say you haven’t earned the right to play this game.”

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202. “Here’s some honesty,” Neil said. “I don’t like you, and I don’t trust you.” “It’s mutual,” Andrew said. “That doesn’t change anything.”

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203. “We’re okay,” he said to the empty hall. “We’re going to be okay.” The Foxes would be okay, at least, and that was more than enough.”

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204. “Renee looked to Neil and said, “What do you need from us, Neil?” It didn’t take much thought. “Everything I needed, you already gave me. You let me stay.”

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205. “It sounded twisted and wrong in this suffocating space, but Neil couldn’t stop.”

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206. “If a bone isn’t healing straight, you have no choice but to break it. They’ll be fine.”

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207. “Keys meant Neil had explicit permission to be here and do what he liked. They meant he belonged.”

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208. “Neil, Wymack called him, even when he looked like this, even with his father’s face and his father’s eyes and the Moriyamas’ number on his face. Neil, Wymack called him, and more than anything Neil wanted it to be true.”

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209. “Let’s see the man who replaced Riko Moriyama at Kevin’s side. Introducing Neil Josten, the newest Palmetto Fox!”

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210. “Why does Roland think you’re tying me down?”

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211. “I hate you,” Andrew said, but it was hard to believe him when he sounded so bored by the concept. Andrew took a swig from the bottle and swiped his mouth clean with a thumb. The look he slanted Neil was both unimpressed and unconcerned. “Ninety percent of the time the very sight of you makes me want to commit murder. I think about carving the skin from your body and hanging it out as a warning to every other fool who thinks he can stand in my way.” “What about the other ten?” Neil asked. Andrew.”

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212. “Sometimes I think this job is going to kill me,” Abby said. “Seeing what people have done, what people continue to do, to my Foxes. I wish I could protect you, but I’m always too late. All I can do is patch you up afterward and hope for the best. I’m sorry, Neil. We should have been there for you.”

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213. “Take what he is giving you and make it your shield. It’s hard to kill a man when everyone’s eyes are on him.”

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214. “Liar. But that’s what makes you interesting. It’s also what makes you dangerous. I should know better by now. Maybe I’m not as smart as I thought I was. Should I be disappointed or amused?”

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215. “Running wasn’t easy, but it was easier than trusting Andrew. But Neil remembered the weight of a key in his palm, its metal soaked through with another person’s body heat. He remembered Andrew’s promise to see this year through with him.”

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216. “Your parents are dead, you are not fine, and nothing is going to be okay. This is not news to you. But from now until May you are still Neil Josten and I am still the man who said he would keep you alive.”

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217. “People talked about his trial and how it saved them from Andrew. No one said what they were doing to save Andrew from himself.”

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218. “You think this is hard? Look what I’ve been through. Surviving you is easy.” Nathaniel tipped his head to one side and fixed Towns with a cool look. “But can you survive me?”

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219. “Kevin was more demanding of himself than he was of anyone around him. He set his standards impossibly high and tried for them with everything he had, and he didn’t understand why others wouldn’t do the same.”

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220. “You make me uncomfortable because you don’t make sense. I don’t understand you.”

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221. “Neil watched it so he wouldn’t stare at Andrew, but if someone asked him later what it was about he wouldn’t be able to tell them. He was sure he still felt Andrew’s heartbeat on his skin when he went to bed a few hours later.”

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222. “Andrew was the Foxes’ freshman goalkeeper and their deadliest investment.”

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223. “Light glinted off a bright yellow racquet as the stranger took a swing, and Neil was going too fast to stop. Wood slammed into his gut hard enough to crush his lungs into his spine. He didn’t remember falling, but suddenly he was on his hands and knees, scrabbling ineffectually at the floor as he tried to breathe. He’d puke if he could only manage that first gasp, but his body refused to cooperate.”

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224. “Neil or Nathaniel or whoever,” Nicky said. “He’s ours, and we’re not letting him go. You want us to vote on it or something? Bet you it’ll be unanimous.”

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225. “Renee rarely said anything on their walks anymore, too intent on what was happening on her phone. The occasional unhappy twitch at the corner of her mouth said her text conversations with Jean weren’t going well.”

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226. “Don’t touch him, you understand?”

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227. “Damn it all to hell. Hemmick! You were supposed to wake them up ten miles ago.” “I don’t want to die,” Nicky said.”

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228. “If I could ban some of you from ever opening your mouth in public, I would, but this is out of my hands. Attempt to behave yourselves without sacrificing your confident image. Think you can do that?” “You’re no fun, Coach,” Nicky said. “I will be a lot less fun if you make us look like fools,” Wymack said. “But I’m not as worried about you as I am about our resident punching bag and his smart mouth. Anyone have ideas on how to make Neil look a bit less like a battered wife?”

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229. “When I prove it, it puts a target on Seth’s back and a paintbrush in your hands.”

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230. “Andrew was watching him, still perched on the edge like he had a death wish. Neil wasn’t sure why he did it, but he plucked Andrew’s cigarette off the sidewalk and stuck it between his lips. He tipped his head to meet Andrew’s unwavering gaze and tapped two fingers to his temple in Andrew’s mocking salute.”

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231. “He ended up in the dead center of the room, with Andrew on one side of him and Matt on the other. His thoughts should have kept him up all night, but with his friends this close Neil couldn’t worry about anything. Neil studied Andrew’s face until he couldn’t keep his eyes open anymore. He dreamed of facing his father on an Exy court, and in his dream the Foxes won.”

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232. “You wouldn’t,” Neil said. “Not in front of all these people.” “I do not care if they see,” Riko said. “A dog who bites his master’s hand deserves to be slaughtered. The location and audience are inconsequential.” “I am not a dog. I’m a Fox.”

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233. “I’ve never understood why he likes knives.”

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234. “The sight of Riko had set every one of Neil’s fading bruises to pounding, but now he barely felt a thing. The only thing that mattered was his team and the way they moved around him.”

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235. “Neil thought about Renee’s bruised knuckles, Dan’s fierce spirit, and Allison holding her ground on the court a week after Seth’s death. He thought about his mother standing unflinching in the face of his father’s violent anger and her ruthlessly leaving bodies in their wake. He felt compelled to say, “Some of the strongest people I’ve known are women.”

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236. “Being related doesn’t make us family.”

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237. “Neil worried for a moment what they’d do with Andrew’s rude brand of teamwork at their backs, but the next time he got a good look at Matt, Matt was grinning like this was the most fun he’d had in years. It.”

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238. “Oh, and sorry in advance about the press. In my defense, they started it.” “Christ alive,” Wymack said. “What did you do this time?”

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239. “If you always got what you deserved, you wouldn’t be a Fox.”

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240. “I brought you here, but you saved yourself. You’re the one who decided to stay. You’re the one who stopped being afraid long enough to realize you could get a grip here and a foothold there. You found your own way.”

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241. “There were twenty-one thousand people enrolled at Palmetto State University. Neil wasn’t playing for himself anymore; he was playing to represent them.”

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242. “The Foxes would be okay, at least, and that was more than enough.”

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243. “He knew what day it was; he knew how little time was left.”

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244. “Andrew told me to handle it. That’s the easiest way I knew how.”

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245. “Looking at them all, Neil was as sad as he was proud.”

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246. “The all-black ensemble Aaron wore did nothing to make him look any taller, and Neil wondered how he could stand wearing long sleeves in May. Neil felt hot just looking at him.”

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247. “The injury was Kevin’s to bear, but we all suffered for it.”

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248. “At this level it is supposed to be about skill, and your team is sadly lacking. You have no right to play with us.” “Then you shouldn’t have transferred districts,” Matt said. “No one wants you here.”

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249. “Neil meant to go after them, but he’d made the mistake of looking at Kevin. Once he met Kevin’s eyes, it was hard to look away again.”

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250. “Neil wondered what alternate universe he’d stumbled into. “Andrew hit you.”

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