Top 180 Raven Kennedy Quotes (2026 Update)
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151. “When I chose to hide away, I was barely more than a girl. Vulnerable. Battered. Scared. Utterly sick of what the world had to offer.”

— Raven Kennedy

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

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153. “But one question burns in my mind for the entire day: What would happen if I didn’t?”

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154. “Gold and rot, intertwined.”

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155. “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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156. “The soft, hovering snowfall is gone, and in its place is a punishing surge, frozen rain sluicing down like spikes.”

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157. “One person’s pain doesn’t negate another’s. Our heartaches are not competition, but the bridge to empathy. So that we can look at one another and know that on some level, we understand. That’s one beautiful thing about grief, I think. That sometimes, we can find someone in the world to look at from the other side of the bridge of our torments and know that we are not alone.”

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158. “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.”

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

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160. “And yet, even though that beast is once again silent, I can still feel it there, watching. Some untapped creature ready to rise up. I go still at that thought, and an old memory slithers forward. Shove down weakness, and strength will rise.”

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161. “One person’s pain doesn’t negate another’s. Our heartaches.”

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162. “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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163. “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

164. “Coincidence is just the excuse people use when they don’t want to acknowledge fate.”

— Raven Kennedy

165. “I will be a monster if it means I can destroy one.”

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166. “But I’m not done. So I turn my rage toward Fifth Kingdom.”

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167. “I’ve always been treated like treasure, but with Slade, I’m simply treasured.”

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168. “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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169. “That night marked an end for me and for my ribbons. Yet it was an ending I badly needed. I needed to be forced to stand on my own two feet, without anything to catch me. I only wish they could have been spared that same journey. But I needed to be cut down to finally rise up on my own like a phoenix from the ashes.”

— Raven Kennedy

170. “You can pretend a lot of things in life. You can pretend so well that you even start to believe your own deceit.”

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

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172. “And for anyone going through a dark time, just remember a new dawn always rises. One day at a time. One step. You are strong, just like Auren, and you shine just like her too.”

— Raven Kennedy

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

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174. “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. I remember each piece of it as it broke away from me, until I was raw and bare, exposed to the harsh elements of the world with a chip gouged deep in my shoulder and a bitter taste always at the back of my tongue.”

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175. “Their answering voices are solemn but resolute. “For Fourth.”

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176. “There is no growth without rot. There is no sun without the dark sky. And there is no me without her.”

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

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178. “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.”

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179. “He wraps one hand around my throat and tips up my head. “I’m your god.”

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180. “If you’re a villain... then I’ll be a villain with you.”

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

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182. “When you feel swallowed by the dark, may you become your own light.”

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183. “Be glad I’m not your god, for I would give you no mercy.”

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184. “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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185. “Every day the sun rises, it rises for you,” he says quietly as he brushes a finger gently down my brow, over my cheek, before settling his hand against my own heart. “Every day I wake, I wake for you. And every time my heart beats, it beats with yours.”

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

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187. “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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188. “As if I could run away from my own disappointments. As if I could avoid my hurts, my shame, my dark thoughts that creep out every time I close my eyes for sleep.”

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189. “He may be the one on his knees, but I’m the one in complete submission.”

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

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191. “It doesn’t matter if it’s a tiny stick hut or a sprawling castle; if you want the scandals and the rumors, you go to the kitchen. Everyone talks in the kitchen. I think it’s the food’s fault. People go in there ready to open their mouths.”

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192. “Grief isn’t based on someone’s length of presence. It’s based on the impact of their absence.”

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193. “It’s amazing what people will turn a blind eye to because of time and surety.”

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

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195. “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.”

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196. “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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197. “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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