Top 140 Raven Kennedy Quotes (2024 Update)
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51. “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.”

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52. “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.”

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53. “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.”

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

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

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56. “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.”

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57. “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.”

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58. “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

59. “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.”

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60. “It’s time to start choosing me.”

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

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62. “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.”

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63. “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.”

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64. “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.”

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65. “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.”

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

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67. “Love changes things.”

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68. “Secrets, I’ve learned, cost far too much.”

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

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

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71. “Rip sighs and scrubs his hands down his face in a rare crack of his stony facade. “You’re overreacting.”

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72. “You know those genes that some girls have, making them able to talk to anyone and turn heads? Yeah, I don’t have that. Those are some designer-type genes. My genes have holes in them.”

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73. “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.”

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74. “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.”

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75. “How did I mistake an owner for a lover?”

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

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77. “I need to find her. Need to be on the right side of the stars and in the same world where she exists.”

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78. “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.”

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79. “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.”

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80. “But I’ll curtsy for you instead, Your Moldering Majesty.”

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81. “And I’m terrified that one wrong step will have me tipping right over the edge, headfirst into a fall that I can’t recover from.”

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82. “You’d think that after weeks of traveling, I’d be used to using a latrine dug in the ground to relieve myself. But nope. There’s something about having to lift your skirts and squat in the snow that really drags a girl down.”

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83. “So then, when I finally get one stinkin’ arrow, what do I do? I miss! I shot it out and accidentally hit her little dog that she had hidden in her purse. She had to leave her date early because the dog hopped out and started humping people’s legs. It wouldn’t stop, and that little guy was fast.”

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84. “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.”

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85. “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.”

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86. “Yet it’s the hurts without marks that worry me the most.”

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87. “An honest-to-goddess growl comes out of my throat. “Why are you such an ass?”

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88. “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.”

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89. “Sometimes, you look at the silver lining so much that you drift into denial about the clouds.”

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90. “Now, I know that I was a girl clinging to my own stagnancy, because I was terrified of being thrown back into the world that had abused me.”

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91. “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.”

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92. “He hesitates a moment and then says, “I love you, but I don’t need your forgiveness, Precious. I just need your power.”

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

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94. “Just lie there. Just lie there and chip away, little by little. Just lie there and feel yourself die from the inside out.”

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95. “Sometimes, things need first to be ruined in order to then be remade.”

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96. “I know that, at the heart of it, he craves this control because he was worried about me, so I understand the root of his reactions.”

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

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98. “I roll my eyes even though he can’t see and I start to lightly wog. You know, the way you pretend to jog but it’s really no faster than walking, just bouncier? Yeah, that’s my goal. Fake it. I’m super good at wogging.”

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99. “Despite what I look like, I’m not a coin to be spent.”

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

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