Top 140 Raven Kennedy Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “There comes a point in your life when you have to choose between having regrets and the possibility of making mistakes. I’d rather make those mistakes than live without ever taking a chance, because I’ve missed out on too much already. Taking chances can be like walking through a mudslide, where every inch of you gets stained, but regrets are the stagnant pools of deprivation, and I’ve been wading in them for far too long.”

— Raven Kennedy

2. “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

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

— Raven Kennedy

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

— Raven Kennedy

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

— Raven Kennedy

6. “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

7. “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

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

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

— Raven Kennedy

11. “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.”

— Raven Kennedy

12. “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.”

— Raven Kennedy

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

— Raven Kennedy

14. “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

15. “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.”

— Raven Kennedy

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

— Raven Kennedy

17. “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.”

— Raven Kennedy

18. “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.”

— Raven Kennedy

19. “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.”

— Raven Kennedy

20. “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.”

— Raven Kennedy

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

— Raven Kennedy

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

— Raven Kennedy

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

— Raven Kennedy

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

— Raven Kennedy

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

— Raven Kennedy

26. “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.”

— Raven Kennedy

27. “Seeing the look in his eye, I shake my head. “Uh uh. I really am sleepy. No sexy times.” He laughs. “Sure.” I cross my arms. “I’m serious. My puss pearl is clammed up for the night. My tuna pot pie is already put away in the Tupperware. This fun hatch is closed for business, Evert.”

— Raven Kennedy

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

— Raven Kennedy

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

— Raven Kennedy

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

— Raven Kennedy

31. “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

32. “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.”

— Raven Kennedy

33. “Peonies for good health. A willow branch for luck. Cotton stems for prosperity. The fleshy leaf of a jade to bring harmony. And a lotus for resilience.”

— Raven Kennedy

34. “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.”

— Raven Kennedy

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

— Raven Kennedy

36. “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

37. “Listen,” she whispers. So I do. I thread my fingers through her own, and I listen. But my song of home doesn’t come from the sun. Mine comes from her.”

— Raven Kennedy

38. “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.”

— Raven Kennedy

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

— Raven Kennedy

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

— Raven Kennedy

41. “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.”

— Raven Kennedy

42. “I’m glad you’re choosing you,” he says quietly, and my lips part, like I want to swallow the rumble of his cadence. “You are?” I go completely still as he moves his hand and grips my chin, like he wants to make sure I’m paying attention. I am. “Yes, Goldfinch. Because I’m choosing you, too.”

— Raven Kennedy

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

— Raven Kennedy

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

— Raven Kennedy

45. “I’m sprouting black like an emo teenager and leaking Lust out of my mouth. It’s definitely not okay. I’m broken.”

— Raven Kennedy

46. “Midas gestures around the room. “Don’t be ungrateful for what I’ve already allowed.” I pin him with a look. “Don’t be ungrateful for what I’ve allowed, Midas.”

— Raven Kennedy

47. “Maybe I’m finally letting the words out because he breathed some of his unending confidence into me. Or maybe I feel bolder when I’m shadowed by night. I think some questions can’t bear to face the light. It’s easier for hesitant words and feared answers to be given in the dark. At least then, we can hide them in the shadows – hide ourselves from them.”

— Raven Kennedy

48. “My own good hated me, fought me, argued with me, but I didn’t care, because I watched her slowly come out of her shell, peeling back one layer at a time, and it was stunning.”

— Raven Kennedy

49. “Has King Ravinger always allowed women to serve in his army?” Her head snaps over as she pins me with a glare, eyes flashing in the dark, lip curled back. “Allowed? Like he’s doing us women a favor?” “No, I just – ” “He’s lucky to have women in his army,” she interrupts. “All the kingdoms in Orea would be smart to utilize their women, but they don’t. Which is why Fourth will always be superior.”

— Raven Kennedy

50. “Love changes things.”

— Raven Kennedy