Top 35 Sasha Peyton Smith Quotes (2026 Update)

1. “I’ve always hated autumn, hated watching the earth die.”

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2. “I’m still learning what it means to love someone like I love him, but I think it means letting go of the big promises. Instead, I make him small ones. I will wake up each day and try to be a little better than the day before. I will tell him the truth, even when it is hard. I will trust him to make decisions for himself. I will give him the space to grow into the person he is becoming, and we will love each other through all the parts that still ache.”

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3. “I feel a hundred and fifty. And also maybe five. An elderly toddler. The world’s oldest idiot. I know too much and nothing at all.”

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4. “I wish you’d give me forever.”

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5. “Good girls don’t have a fire in their chest that begs for more things to burn.”

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6. “My heart isn’t a traitor. It doesn’t love him, but it remembers loving him, and really, what’s the difference in the middle of the night? They say time heals all things, but waiting and healing have never been my strengths. -Frances.”

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7. “I think perhaps this is how we survive in the world. Passing little bits of our magic back and forth to each other when the world takes it from us. It’s survival. It’s love. It’s family.”

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8. “Magic is an art, not a science. Think of this book as giving you suggestions, not instructions.”

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9. “Women are supposed to be competent at everything, but experts at nothing. Haven’t you heard?”

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10. “You’ve been haunting me my whole life.”

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11. “If I were a month, I think I’d be November, sad and cold and unremarkable, lacking the commitment required of being a fierce thing like January.”

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12. “I’m not strong enough to be under the same roof as you,” Emmett confesses against my mouth. “I am sick with the knowing I cannot have you.”

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13. “He was a romantic in the way only men can afford to be. In that moment, I hated him for it.”

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14. “How comfortable it is to be a thing that is feared.”

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15. “It seems only determined anti-romantic Ivy Benton was strong enough to scale bleeding-heart Emmett’s thousand-foot-high walls. I don’t even know if she’s realized yet just how devoted he is to her.”

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16. “Why did you leave?” Me. I leave that part off. Why did you leave me? He groans and pushes himself more upright. “Because I don’t think I’m strong enough to stick around and watch you win.” “Why’d you come back?” “Because I wasn’t strong enough to stay away.”

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17. “I reach out across the expanse of our shared bed and grasp his cold hand in mine. He squeezes, and I squeeze back. I could love you. Let me love you, but I can’t, and he knows it as well as I do.”

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18. “Mrs. Vykotsky smiles in the particularly annoying way the old smile at the young, with pitying condescension.”

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19. “He pulls back enough to look me directly in the eye. “Like you? Ivy Benton, I am obsessed with you. It’s going to kill me.”

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20. “Do you want me to convince you not to go?” Emmett asks. “Because I will. I will get on my knees.”

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21. “But Ivy was already mine inside my head.”

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22. “I don’t want to be good. I want to create something, be something.”

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23. “Emmett looks up at me. “I’ll be in hell when I see you on his arm, when I picture you in his bed, but I will watch, and I will burn for the rest of my life if this is the only way I get to have you,” he says.”

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24. “Remembering is heavy. It lasts so long.”

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25. “Magic is derived from the human soul; it is varied as humanity itself, but yes, with proper training, you’ll have the ability to move things with your mind.”

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26. “No husband. Oh boo-hoo. I’ll find some way to carry on.”

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27. “But I know now, the thing about love is that you don’t realize you’re in it until it’s too late.”

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28. “Have you ever been in love?” I ask in return. I don’t know what makes me say it. He nods slowly, like it pains him. “Just once.” “What did it feel like?” He thinks for a moment, his eyes boring into mine all the while. “Like getting run over by a carriage.”

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29. “He didn’t love the way I imagined love would be.”

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30. “When one makes a faerie bargain, one must be prepared to pay the price. There is one silver lining. I have nothing to lose.”

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31. “Thank you for believing I might be someone worth bleeding for, Lady Ivy.”

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32. “She’s easier to love when she’s not in front of me. I like her so much more when she’s not around.”

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33. “You can’t burn down the world for taking the things you love from you. I tried.”

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34. “I sit and I read and I wait for the end of the world.”

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35. “Sometimes I feel like one day every other girl was given instructions on how to grow up, and I missed the lesson.”

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