Top 140 Raven Kennedy Quotes (2024 Update)

2. “I’ve been in a cage of my own making.”

— Raven Kennedy

3. “You can pretend a lot of things in life. You can pretend so well that you even start to believe your own deceit. We’re all actors; we’re all on pedestals with a spotlight shining on us, playing whatever part we need to in order to make it through the day – in order to help ourselves sleep at night.”

— Raven Kennedy

4. “But I’ll be the villain for you. Not to you.”

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5. “I’ve been bending over backwards for so long that I forgot I even had a spine.”

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6. “You’re going to find out just how far you can be pushed until you’re tipped over. And when that happens, when you find your edge, just promise me one things. Don’t fall. Fly.” – King Slade Ravinger.”

— Raven Kennedy

7. “I’ve wanted you since the moment I laid eyes on you, Goldfinch. I was just waiting for you to catch up.”

— Raven Kennedy

8. “I’ll be the villain for you. He is the epitome of death and revenge. The personification of rage. He destroys everything and everyone in his vicinity without glance or thought, and through the chaos, through the massacre, I revel in it.”

— Raven Kennedy

9. “You’re not the villain in my story.” “I am,” he says without remorse, his sharp jaw tight with tension. “But I’ll be the villain for you. Not to you.”

— Raven Kennedy

10. “Find me in another life. Find me in them all.”

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11. “Finally, I can’t take it anymore. The silence, the scrutiny, the confessions lying at my feet like plucked fruit left to rot. “Are you going to say anything? I just admitted that I want you, and you’re just standing there.” Slade blinks. “I was processing.”

— Raven Kennedy

12. “Shove down weakness, and strength will rise.”

— Raven Kennedy

13. “I’ve been lonely for a long time, and I know that my loneliness, added together with my insatiable curiosity and general desire to participate in all things sexy, I perhaps have a skewed outlook. But no matter what I want, or how attracted I am to these guys, I would never jeopardize their future. Despite our rough start, I want the best for them. Most of the time. Usually. Nearly all the time.”

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14. “Oh, Goldfinch, I’d follow you to the end of the world and tip right off the edge, all because of a crook of your finger.”

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15. “You can’t cut off the strings of your puppet and still expect it to move for you.”

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16. “You can have all the gold in the world and yet lack everything of real worth.”

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17. “Love happens in all kinds of ways. Fast. Slow. In bits and pieces, or immediate. Filled with lust, one-sided longing, a snap realization never noticed before.”

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18. “Men ruin all of women’s best laid plans.”

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19. “Taking a deep breath, I compose myself, forcefully shoving away all my emotions into a little box where I can slam the lid closed. There’s no room for distractions. I have to cauterize the pieces of my bleeding heart, because I have plans to make.”

— Raven Kennedy

20. “There’s safety in loneliness, but there’s a lurking danger too. One that doesn’t come from anything other than yourself.”

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21. “He looks around at my plethora of empty plates on the floor and sees gluttony. I see success.”

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22. “People wish and the stars try to grant, but even as the stars sacrifice themselves and fall, so many wishes are wasted, just as so much love is lost.”

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23. “A life lived in shades of gold casts its own sort of shadow.”

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24. “My escort is forcing me into thiefdom.”

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25. “Oh, Goldfinch. I would’ve found you in whatever world you were in. In whatever life.” My lips tip up in a soft smile, because I believe him. “You would’ve found me in them all.”

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26. “Stop with the dramatics, Auren. Stop with this rebellion. It doesn’t suit you.” “No, the problem is that it doesn’t suit you.”

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27. “He may wear the crown, but I was the one who made it gold.”

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28. “I’m an oddity, a commodity, a rumor. I’m the king’s favored. His prized saddle. The one he gold-touched and keeps in a cage at the top of his castle, my body bearing the mark of his ownership and favoritism. The gilded pet. I’m the darling of King Midas, ruler of Highbell and the Sixth Kingdom of Orea. People flock to see me just as much as they come to look upon his gleaming castle worth more than all the riches in the entire realm. I’m the gold-plated prisoner. But what a pretty prison it is.”

— Raven Kennedy

29. “Dear John was a yawn But his trousers hung tight, So the frills would all smile And ask him home for a night, But poor frills, how they trilled – For it was only a pocket of pipe.”

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30. “Men making deals on the behalf of women never seems to go very well for the women.”

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31. “I don’t choose him. Not anymore. I’m choosing me.”

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32. “After all, I’ve been lying to myself for years. Pretty lies cover up a lot of ugly truths.”

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33. “The blindfold has been ripped from my sight. Now, my heart doesn’t squeeze. My stomach doesn’t flutter. He broke something inside of me far more than just my heart. He broke my will. My drive. My voice. He broke down my very spirit, and I let him.”

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34. “If only we could stop competing, stop the petty jealousies, stop letting men pit us against one another. Imagine what women could do if we started being loyal to each other?”

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35. “Are people so content in ignorance that they’ll believe every lie fed to them, despite what they see right in front of their eyes? Then again, perhaps it isn’t ignorance. Maybe it’s just... fear. They don’t want to even consider the alternative. It would make people uneasy, make it hard to sleep at night.”

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36. “A cage is a cage, no matter how gilded.”

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37. “Life takes you on paths you don’t have a map for.”

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38. “We tell ourselves twisted lies to tangle around our wicked truths, all so that we can get caught up in the bind and not have to face bare regrets.”

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39. “The problem with truths is that they’re like spices. Add a little, and it can enrich things, let you experience more layers. But if you pour out too much, it becomes unpalatable.”

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40. “Because worrying sucks the life right out of you. Worrying about something that might happen means you’re giving that scenario all of your time and energy and thought rather than simply enjoying the moment.”

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41. “One person’s pain doesn’t negate another’s. Our heartaches are not competition, but the bridge to empathy. So that we can look at one another and know that on some level, we understand.”

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42. “With the right person, there is power when you kneel. There is adoration with submission. There is balance with control.”

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43. “The world taught me that things could always be worse. I learned to always look up, to take what I could get, to settle. I became too blinded by my bright sides to see the truth. Sometimes, you look at the silver lining so much that you drift into denial about the clouds.”

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44. “But memory and time aren’t friends. They reject each other, they hurry in opposite directions, pulling the binding taut between them, threatening to snap. They fight, and we inexplicably lose. Memory and time. Always losing one as you go on with the other. I can’t recall what my mother’s face.”

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45. “Why is it that a man can make you feel like nothing, when you have given him everything?”

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46. “You are worth more than all the gold in this castle. But I still own you, and I will spend you any way I see fit.”

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47. “Her words make my duck freak out again, and images of crapping all over her blonde hair pops into our head. Yeah. Getting bird crap on our enemies’ heads is just as fulfilling as it sounds. Oh, and now my duck has spotted her car, and she wants to crap all over that, too. I fully support the idea. My duck tries to get out of Penn’s hold to mete out some serious bird poop punishment, but he just taps her beak with his finger.”

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48. “I’ll find you, Goldfinch. I swear to you. Now fly.”

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49. “We’ve all got a little rotten in us, and I wouldn’t change that for anything. It’s how we’ve survived.”

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50. “If you walk out now, I’m done. I will never forgive you. For any of it.” My voice is hard, enraged, pushed past the brink. He hesitates a moment and then says, “I love you, but I don’t need your forgiveness, Precious. I just need your power.”

— Raven Kennedy