Top 180 Raven Kennedy Quotes (2026 Update)
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101. “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

102. “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

103. “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

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

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105. “We’re all captives of something, even things we don’t want to admit to.”

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

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107. “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.”

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

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109. “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.”

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110. “How can we deserve to see the delights if we always close our eyes against the horrors?”

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111. “I’ve always known exactly who she is. Light and life. Love and warmth. A gleaming vibrancy that I never deserved but never would have given up. She is mine and I am hers, for all of eternity. In every life. But in this one, she has been taken from me. And it’s my fault.”

— Raven Kennedy

112. “Your anger is misplaced, but I like it,” he says with a feral grin, sharp canines gleaming. “Every time you let it leak out just a little bit more, I can see you better, Goldfinch.”

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113. “I keep waiting for rescue to come, for a dawn to bloom, for a star to hatch, for a hope to surface. But it doesn’t.”

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114. “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.”

— Raven Kennedy

115. “All is fair in love and war, bitches.”

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116. “Having emotions does not mean you’re weak. It means you’re smart enough to let yourself feel.”

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117. “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.”

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118. “I told her I’d be the villain for her, and I was. Now, I need to also be the hero she would want me to be.”

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119. “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

120. “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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121. “Fury catches from the sparks, makes my eyes narrow in a squint. He expects me to falter beneath the threat, but instead, I burn hotter. “Touch them, and I’ll touch you.”

— Raven Kennedy

122. “Come back to me, Goldfinch.”

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123. “If you turn a blind eye in the name of loyalty, then you don’t deserve to see.”

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124. “Because hope, however false, does something for a trodden soul. Sometimes false hope is all you have, so you cling to it for as long as you can.”

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

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126. “If those stars really are goddesses waiting to be born, I should warn them to stay where they are in the safety of their twinkling light. Because down here? Down here, life is dark and lonely, and it has noisy bells and not nearly enough wine.”

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127. “Algae – still without a lick of rain on him – sneers at me. “You will pay for that.” I shrug. “I’m made of gold. I can afford it.”

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128. “Guilt doesn’t assuage the guilty.”

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129. “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.”

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130. “You’re so much more than what you let yourself be.”

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131. “Some people are in your life for only a moment, like a shooting star. Quick and short, but they light up a part of you for a second, and their brightness lingers even after they’re gone.”

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132. “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.”

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133. “Perhaps it just takes sitting at the edge of your world to find a little bit of hope.”

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134. “I’m ridiculously fun. You kind of have to be when the only person you hang out with is you. I wouldn’t want to bore myself.”

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

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136. “Again, I don’t know you. I respect your plight, but I’m not a face to be used,” I tell him. “I’m not a symbol, I’m a person. I’ve been gone for years, and I need to get my bearings and figure out where to go from here, not be pushed into doing something just because you say so.”

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137. “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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138. “I pretty much lost all modesty once she rifled through my whiskerwallet and helped stretch out my lovelips. There’s just no coming back from that.”

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139. “Remember, you are stronger than the dark, and you have the wings to fly.”

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140. “Maybe none of us truly know our own strength. Not until the world has hacked away at us. But the point is, we aren’t strong because of our trauma. We were always strong to begin with. We just needed to figure it out for ourselves.”

— Raven Kennedy

141. “I never misplaced my innocence. It wasn’t my own doing from a forgetful lack of care. It was taken from me, one cruel exploit at a time.”

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142. “My name is Auren Turley. And I am stronger than the dark.”

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143. “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.”

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

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145. “You challenged me to be more than what I’ve been made into. You showed me how to see the world without my blindfold.”

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146. “When my heart nearly burst with poison and killed me, I thought that was the end. I thought that was the worst thing that could ever happen. I was wrong. This – this is the worst. For the breeze to still flow and for steps to still tread, and for the world to just keep on going after she’s ended. For me to still live, while she’s dead in my arms. I don’t want it. I don’t want this life if I can’t share it with her.”

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147. “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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148. “I realize how much I’ve wished for this, this connection with another person. Not an alliance for similar goals, not anything driven by politics or society or even lust. 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

149. “I’m not prey, so what I need to do is run with the predators.”

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

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