Top 140 Raven Kennedy Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “I’m glad for the anger I see on his face. Misery may love company, but anger thrives on it.”

— Raven Kennedy

52. “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.”

— Raven Kennedy

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

— Raven Kennedy

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

— Raven Kennedy

55. “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

56. “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

57. “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

58. “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

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

— Raven Kennedy

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

— Raven Kennedy

61. “But they have a lot of secrets. For one, they know Rip is fae, and now, they know I am too. I can’t even begin to try and untangle the repercussions of that, the what-ifs.”

— Raven Kennedy

62. “It’s time to start choosing me.”

— Raven Kennedy

63. “The golden satin slams into Midas’s face, feathers bending around his head with a satisfying thump. Juvenile, sure. But it does wonders for my morale.”

— Raven Kennedy

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

— Raven Kennedy

65. “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

66. “Even the most powerful can be made to feel powerless.”

— Raven Kennedy

67. “Between life and death. Then, with a raindrop on my cheek that might have spilled from my eye, I open the door and walk into the inn. And I die, just a little bit more.”

— Raven Kennedy

68. “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

69. “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

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

— Raven Kennedy

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

— Raven Kennedy

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

— Raven Kennedy

73. “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.”

— Raven Kennedy

74. “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

75. “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

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. “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

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

— Raven Kennedy

79. “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

80. “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

81. “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

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

— Raven Kennedy

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

— Raven Kennedy

84. “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

85. “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

86. “Why am I so cursed to endure the greed of men?”

— Raven Kennedy

87. “All my life, men have had me, but I have never had a man.”

— Raven Kennedy

88. “I told him I wanted everything, and when you ask for everything from a person, you don’t get to pick and choose. You take them as they are.”

— Raven Kennedy

89. “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

90. “And right then, I wonder how the hell I fooled myself into thinking this was love.”

— Raven Kennedy

91. “She never asked what happened, and I didn’t offer up the information. But she knows. Women always do.”

— Raven Kennedy

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

— Raven Kennedy

93. “She shakes her head, gently tipping my chin up. “No, Slade. Not you. You don’t break things. You protect them.”

— Raven Kennedy

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

— Raven Kennedy

95. “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

96. “You’re mine, Auren. As wholly as I am yours. If there’s something you crave, if there’s some freedom you want to try the taste of, then you will do it, and I will be right there with you. Watching you devour your wants. And then I will devour you.”

— Raven Kennedy

97. “You’re very floppy.” I rest my head against his firm, muscled chest. “You’re very hard,” I counter. A rich, dark laugh slips from his mouth. “You’ve no idea.”

— Raven Kennedy

98. “My prioroties have changed. And I will let the world corrode and crumble in order to protect her.”

— Raven Kennedy

99. “He acts like my mere presence was a blot on the entire library, like I would’ve dog-eared a page or cracked a spine.”

— Raven Kennedy

100. “You may not be behind bars anymore, but you’re still in that cage. And I think part of you wants to stay in there because you’re afraid. But I think another part of you, the part you repress, is ready to be free.”

— Raven Kennedy