Top 300 Skye Warren Quotes (2026 Update)
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151. “Once, he had needed her. He’d leaned on her strength and followed her light. Now, he knew that he could live without her. It was dry and boring and cold, but he could do it. He just didn’t want to.”

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152. “I’d rather die. But it’s hard to die, to lie down and let it happen. Not to fight. Not to reach toward the surface for air when you’re drowning. It’s almost impossible. I’m proof of that. I’m a living example of how low a person would go, if they have to. If they’re desperate enough.”

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153. “But sometimes it feels like if I want it enough, if I wish hard enough, it might happen anyway.”

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154. “Elemental, the way another man wanted to kiss or feel a woman up. Just instinct. “Will.”

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155. “I love the way you are. The way you’re terrified but do it anyway. The way you stand up to me when you shouldn’t.” I.”

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156. “I’m defenseless and he’s made of walls.”

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157. “Being back in society was a laugh a minute.”

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158. “You don’t know how to please a man, girl?”

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159. “And it’s going to end in a matter of weeks when I graduate high school.”

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160. “I don’t need another person to perform for.”

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161. “Sojourn? That’s a new way of describing prostitution.”

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162. “He felt the same carnal urge to claim, to mate, to please her. But above that sang a new melody, one he recognized as ancient – the desire to care for her.”

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163. “He felt vaguely guilty tying her down. Just not guilty enough to stop.”

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164. “To me that’s what the story is about. The things we do to ourselves. The way we hurt ourselves and mark ourselves.”

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165. “A slightly perverted adventure of questionable consent, but beggars like me couldn’t be choosers.”

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166. “That’s what we do to the women we love, isn’t it? We tuck them in a room, give them food and books, tell them to be happy.”

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167. “He clears his throat and takes a seat at the head of the table. “Right. Well. I doubt the interview will take very long. I’ll let him know you need to practice.”

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168. “But one day two bucks came to him for advice, covered in blood. The tiger was taken by bloodlust and jumped on one of them, ripping out his throat.”

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169. “I’m possessed by him. Owned. As much an object as any woman of ancient Greece – because nothing ever changes, not really. The societies we build, the secrets we hide. Men and women. The gods themselves. He.”

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170. “You don’t really know somebody if you don’t know their name, right.”

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171. “Do you think love is enough?”

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172. “He had realistic expectations. He was ugly as sin. She was the most beautiful woman he’d ever seen. It was only a matter of time before she never came back.”

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173. “I didn’t know how to be what society wanted from me. I couldn’t change myself, not even for him. He.”

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174. “Do I think love is enough? It’s the only thing at all.”

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175. “The man with all the power. The woman made real by his love for her?”

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176. “It felt like dying, but the part that really hurt the most was coming back to life.”

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177. “Make me bleed. Make me cry. I’d despise him in pure righteous fury. It’s the kindness I can’t trust.”

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178. “The woman. The woman closest to a man can tell you what he’s really like. Sometimes she’s the only one who knows.”

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179. “Every moment was defined in terms of pain or its lack. At least pain meant attention. It meant love. “What.”

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180. “He lived like a recluse, and she wanted to seclude herself with him. But the world would intrude and demand its due.”

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181. “Sometimes the best way to get past something is to go through it.”

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182. “He was a scholar, so goddamned intelligent he couldn’t see the writing on the wall. He wanted answers to life’s tragedies when their very unfair nature meant they had none.”

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183. “She’s beautiful, and his eyes work just fine.”

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184. “Myths can tell you about the people who make them, who believe them, but it’s the truth that matters.”

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185. “Everything you do must be in pursuit of pleasure.”

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186. “The heart is the cruelest enemy of all.”

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187. “He had been a little drunk himself. Not enough to play volleyball with the drinkware, but enough that his eyes had gleamed with a distant sadness. He pulled me close, and I nestled against him the way I had as a little girl, breathing in the cedar-salt scent of him. “I love your mother,” he said then, present tense. He loves her.”

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188. “The pieces line up, so ordered and polite. The battlefield before there’s bloodshed.”

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189. “I didn’t want to be a person that would see a person bleeding out and walk away. I couldn’t live with myself if I didn’t try. After.”

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190. “I never realized my tongue has this much power. Just a flick and the large frame of him tightens.”

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191. “It’s not wrong. But I care too much to let you stay.”

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192. “She couldn’t have known love without heartache. He couldn’t have found solace without pain.”

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193. “What would we ask if we could be sure to know the truth? I found myself quiet. The truth had always been terrifying. I’d learned early on not to ask questions. This.”

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194. “There is no freedom with other people. Only in being alone.”

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195. “Like he’d been desperate for me. Like he’d taken me. “From.”

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196. “I can watch my back. I can watch as the tiger gets closer. I can watch as he leaps. And there won’t be a damn thing I can do to stop him.”

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197. “She could see the worst parts of him, in the ugliness of his face and the degenerate use of her body. He showed her every dirty, unkind desire and God help her, she never told him no.”

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198. “Only then do I realize that showing my regular underwear and bra is somehow more intimate than a matching lace set. This is something I thought only my husband would ever see.”

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199. “Guilt is something I’m used to by now, but it doesn’t get any easier.”

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200. “It’s the right answer for someone like me. A victim.”

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