Top 140 Raven Kennedy Quotes (2025 Update)
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101. “To all the people who have been screwed over by cupids sticking their arrows where they don’t belong. May your book lovers be way more satisfying.”

— Raven Kennedy

102. “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.”

— Raven Kennedy

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

— Raven Kennedy

104. “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

105. “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

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

— Raven Kennedy

107. “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

108. “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

109. “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

110. “I cried beneath my parents’ kisses, but they told me to go. To be brave. That they would see me soon. One order, one urge, one lie.”

— Raven Kennedy

111. “I might not have magic, but resentment is a powerful thing.”

— Raven Kennedy

112. “I find that midnight is often the most illuminating time.”

— Raven Kennedy

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

— Raven Kennedy

114. “Why do people run? It’s awful. Did you know people actually do this for fun? I saw humans do it all the time. There must be something wrong with their brains,” I narrow my eyes at him and gasp. “Oh gods, you run for fun, don’t you?” I ask. “What am I saying, of course you do. That explains why you’re so unhappy all the time.”

— Raven Kennedy

115. “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

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

— Raven Kennedy

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

— Raven Kennedy

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

— Raven Kennedy

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

— Raven Kennedy

120. “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.”

— Raven Kennedy

121. “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

122. “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.”

— Raven Kennedy

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

— Raven Kennedy

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

— Raven Kennedy

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

— Raven Kennedy

126. “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

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

— Raven Kennedy

128. “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.”

— Raven Kennedy

129. “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.”

— Raven Kennedy

130. “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.”

— Raven Kennedy

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

— Raven Kennedy

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

— Raven Kennedy

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

— Raven Kennedy

134. “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.”

— Raven Kennedy

135. “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

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

— Raven Kennedy

137. “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.”

— Raven Kennedy

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

— Raven Kennedy

139. “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

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

— Raven Kennedy