Top 180 Raven Kennedy Quotes (2026 Update)
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51. “Even the most powerful can be made to feel powerless.”

— Raven Kennedy

52. “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

53. “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

54. “I stare at him, not in fear, but in recognition as the beast in me rises up and answers to the beast inside him.”

— Raven Kennedy

55. “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

56. “Love changes things.”

— Raven Kennedy

57. “I kept taking it and taking it, convincing myself that this was the way it needed to be. Lying to myself because I loved him, because he manipulated me. I’ve been bending over backwards for so long that I forgot I even had a spine.”

— Raven Kennedy

58. “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.”

— Raven Kennedy

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

— Raven Kennedy

60. “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?”

— Raven Kennedy

61. “I want to be so strong that I never have to fear anyone else in this world. That if I need to, I can make them all fear me.”

— Raven Kennedy

62. “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

63. “There it is, Goldfinch,” he purrs, and that dark caress is back in his voice. “You’ve finally found your fight.”

— Raven Kennedy

64. “There comes a point in your life when you have to choose between having regrets and the possibility of making mistakes.”

— Raven Kennedy

65. “If you insist on lying, at least be better at it.”

— Raven Kennedy

66. “It’s time to start choosing me.”

— Raven Kennedy

67. “I’m glad for the anger I see on his face. Misery may love company, but anger thrives on it.”

— Raven Kennedy

68. “People rarely change their opinions when they’re argued with. They only tend to listen to the voices of those they already agree with.”

— Raven Kennedy

69. “I’ve found that some smells are strings tied around memories. When you catch certain scents, those strings pull taut.”

— Raven Kennedy

70. “I wish I could string up the sun and keep it tied in the sky, but wishes are for stars, and I hardly get to see any of those anyway.”

— Raven Kennedy

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

— Raven Kennedy

72. “Are you a princess?” an older girl asks, but I smile and shake my head. “No. Are you?” The children all scoff together, trading looks. “You think princesses live in the shanties like street urchins?” I lower my hood and give her a conspiratorial smile. “Maybe hidden princesses do.”

— Raven Kennedy

73. “Because that’s what he always does for me. He finds every aching part and helps me work through it. Even when I don’t want to.”

— Raven Kennedy

74. “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

75. “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

76. “That’s the thing with trauma to the body – it shows up instantly. In breaks and bruises, in burns and in blood. But the trauma on the inside, that’s harder to see. It creeps around your mind, poisons you with disquiet. It can hit you out of nowhere, debilitating and ruinous. There are no marks visible for those. None, save the shadows in your eyes.”

— Raven Kennedy

77. “I’m so upset on their behalf that I can’t even finish my dinner. The horror of that alone was enough to push me over the edge.”

— Raven Kennedy

78. “She is everything I don’t deserve. But I’m going to keep her anyway.”

— Raven Kennedy

79. “Sooner or later, every troubled thought and aching bitterness is going to come pouring out and demand I face them.”

— Raven Kennedy

80. “Bravo!” I yell to the actress who played the part of making two guys fall in love with her and then leaving them both for another female.”

— Raven Kennedy

81. “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.”

— Raven Kennedy

82. “One should never decide something as serious as bangs when they have a bottle of wine in their stomachs.”

— Raven Kennedy

83. “But a simple friendship. Just two people who enjoy talking to each other, who can share stories and meet in laughter, conspiring only for one another’s amusement.”

— Raven Kennedy

84. “Before, I would’ve melted at this. I would’ve leaned forward like a flower bending in his presence. But I don’t curl into his touch, and my lips don’t lift up in a forgiving smile. My lashes don’t flutter closed, and a sigh doesn’t pass my lips. Because... it’s too late.”

— Raven Kennedy

85. “Mouth dribbles red life, breath like choked water. Blue-tinged lips to match his eyes as they rain. My heart shatters itself against my ribs. He looks at me, my teardrops landing on his. I sob. He shudders. “It’s okay, it’s okay,” I cry. Lying for him, as he did for me. And with his last breath, he nods.”

— Raven Kennedy

86. “This guy is higher than the waistband on mom jeans.”

— Raven Kennedy

87. “You forced truths out of me while concealing yourself. You don’t think that’s hypocritical?”

— Raven Kennedy

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

— Raven Kennedy

89. “But the trauma on the inside, that’s harder to see. It creeps around your mind, poisons you with disquiet. It can hit you out of nowhere, debilitating and ruinous. There are no marks visible for those. None, save the shadows in your eyes.”

— Raven Kennedy

90. “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. Deeply. Thoroughly. Love is a whisper we didn’t hear or a sound that drums in our ears and drowns out everything else.” Slade edges toward me, though I barely notice.”

— Raven Kennedy

91. “Because that’s what men did. They took and they hurt and no one ever stopped them.”

— Raven Kennedy

92. “Though, it seems to me that trying and failing is better than giving up.”

— Raven Kennedy

93. “But I do know this: All men, whether they’re a king or a peasant, covet what they do not have.”

— Raven Kennedy

94. “I watch him, equal parts horrified and entranced, as he continues to mack on the soap like he’s hoping it’ll sprout a cooter hole so that he can put his rising rod inside of it.”

— Raven Kennedy

95. “There’s an internal compass inside of me that laid still for so long, stuck behind its arc of glass, listless and without hope. But it’s been spinning since the moment I left, begging me to follow my instincts. To move toward something better.”

— Raven Kennedy

96. “Let him silence me. Let him lead me. Let him fool me. Let him cage me. Let him hurt me. I let him drug me and hold me against that cold wall, let him take another part of me that I’ll never get back.”

— Raven Kennedy

97. “No, Goldfinch,” he interrupts. “I’m good to you. But I am every bit the villain that I warned you I was.”

— Raven Kennedy

98. “He’s being kind now, his voice no longer hard or accusatory as his hand comes down to pat me. His fingers graze adoringly over my head, a heeled pet to be stroked. And right then, I wonder how the hell I fooled myself into thinking this was love.”

— Raven Kennedy

99. “Because those soldiers were meant to serve as your protection, and they failed,” he says evenly, all amusement gone from his expression, the shadows seeming suddenly darker over his face. “They don’t deserve for you to visit them.”

— Raven Kennedy

100. “Did I think he was beautiful before? I take it all back. He’s an ugly bastard.”

— Raven Kennedy