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Top 30 Stephanie Oakes Quotes (2025 Update)

Stephanie Oakes Quote: “Anger is a kind of murder you commit in your heart.” If this is true, I’m a daily murderer. My heart is more full of blood than I ever imagined.”

1. “Anger is a kind of murder you commit in your heart.” If this is true, I’m a daily murderer. My heart is more full of blood than I ever imagined.”

— Stephanie Oakes

Stephanie Oakes Quote: “She would tell me to never change for anyone, because the people you change for are the people who control you.”

2. “She would tell me to never change for anyone, because the people you change for are the people who control you.”

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Stephanie Oakes Quote: “That’s how you avoid becoming a moth,” he says. “Stop asking others what to believe. Figure it out for yourself.”

3. “That’s how you avoid becoming a moth,” he says. “Stop asking others what to believe. Figure it out for yourself.”

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Stephanie Oakes Quote: “The worst crime you can do to yourself is to forget why you chose the path you’re on, but keep walking down it anyway.”

4. “The worst crime you can do to yourself is to forget why you chose the path you’re on, but keep walking down it anyway.”

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Stephanie Oakes Quote: “I think you should be angry if you’re angry. But it’s also true that hate has a way of hurting you more than the person you’re hating.”

5. “I think you should be angry if you’re angry. But it’s also true that hate has a way of hurting you more than the person you’re hating.”

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Stephanie Oakes Quote: “God’s real name is Charlie, he told us. He was born in York, Pennsylvania, in 1776, in the summer of the signing, when temperatures were high as rockets and humid as seas.”

6. “God’s real name is Charlie, he told us. He was born in York, Pennsylvania, in 1776, in the summer of the signing, when temperatures were high as rockets and humid as seas.”

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Stephanie Oakes Quote: “Jude used to try to make me laugh, and when I’d crack a smile he’d keep the joke going, like breath on an ember, making it grow into a fit of giggles that’d echo around the whole forest and make all the birds in the trees quiet.”

7. “Jude used to try to make me laugh, and when I’d crack a smile he’d keep the joke going, like breath on an ember, making it grow into a fit of giggles that’d echo around the whole forest and make all the birds in the trees quiet.”

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Stephanie Oakes Quote: “It is amazing that, though I am small and ungifted and barely educated, even I can appreciate the scale of the universe. And from this perch in space, for this moment at least, it seems unimportant whether someone made it, or if it made itself.”

8. “It is amazing that, though I am small and ungifted and barely educated, even I can appreciate the scale of the universe. And from this perch in space, for this moment at least, it seems unimportant whether someone made it, or if it made itself.”

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Stephanie Oakes Quote: “That’s all religion is. Strategy.”

9. “That’s all religion is. Strategy.”

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Stephanie Oakes Quote: “Jude taught me what love was: to be willing to hold on to another person’s pain. That’s it.”

10. “Jude taught me what love was: to be willing to hold on to another person’s pain. That’s it.”

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Stephanie Oakes Quote: “Did he say anything interesting?” I ask. “A revelation that the Lord is reborn in a chicken nugget, maybe?”

11. “Did he say anything interesting?” I ask. “A revelation that the Lord is reborn in a chicken nugget, maybe?”

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Stephanie Oakes Quote: “For years, we had stood on opposite sides of a divide, calling across because we could never jump the distance. This was the moment we discovered that, if we both shifted our weight forward, if we abandoned our fear of the drop below, not looking down, we could touch the tips of our fingers together. And though it wasn’t much, in that moment, it was enough.”

12. “For years, we had stood on opposite sides of a divide, calling across because we could never jump the distance. This was the moment we discovered that, if we both shifted our weight forward, if we abandoned our fear of the drop below, not looking down, we could touch the tips of our fingers together. And though it wasn’t much, in that moment, it was enough.”

— Stephanie Oakes

Stephanie Oakes Quote: “Moments like this occurred more and more frequently, and I think that was the biggest difference between us. That we could look at the same stars in the same sky, but not have the same questions. Not want the same answers.”

13. “Moments like this occurred more and more frequently, and I think that was the biggest difference between us. That we could look at the same stars in the same sky, but not have the same questions. Not want the same answers.”

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Stephanie Oakes Quote: “We’re stars who run off of stars.”

14. “We’re stars who run off of stars.”

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Stephanie Oakes Quote: “I am a blood-soaked girl.”

15. “I am a blood-soaked girl.”

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Stephanie Oakes Quote: “Belief shouldn’t be compatible with lies, but is.”

16. “Belief shouldn’t be compatible with lies, but is.”

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Stephanie Oakes Quote: “Everything in the universe comes from stars. Before anything else existed, there were just stars. Stars are like ovens,” she says. “Inside, they’re cooking planets and asteroids, and when they explode, out spews all this, like, space vomit that’s been cooking all these years. And solar systems formed, and Earth formed, and algae and eventually oxygen. And small organisms evolved into big animals and after about a billion years we came out, so that’s your answer. We come from the stars.”

17. “Everything in the universe comes from stars. Before anything else existed, there were just stars. Stars are like ovens,” she says. “Inside, they’re cooking planets and asteroids, and when they explode, out spews all this, like, space vomit that’s been cooking all these years. And solar systems formed, and Earth formed, and algae and eventually oxygen. And small organisms evolved into big animals and after about a billion years we came out, so that’s your answer. We come from the stars.”

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Stephanie Oakes Quote: “I guess people can’t be content without answers, even if they’re wrong. We’d rather have a lie than a question that we can never know the answer to.”

18. “I guess people can’t be content without answers, even if they’re wrong. We’d rather have a lie than a question that we can never know the answer to.”

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Stephanie Oakes Quote: “I replay the scene again and again, the broken mashed-up face looming over me, the knowledge between the two of us that I’d done it. That act of kindness is still more unfathomable to me than any cruelty.”

19. “I replay the scene again and again, the broken mashed-up face looming over me, the knowledge between the two of us that I’d done it. That act of kindness is still more unfathomable to me than any cruelty.”

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Stephanie Oakes Quote: “I figure out they’re not making me new hands. They can’t do that, the doctor says like I’m slow, and I turn away to glare at the wall, eyes burning. Growing up, I believed in miracles. I guess I don’t anymore.”

20. “I figure out they’re not making me new hands. They can’t do that, the doctor says like I’m slow, and I turn away to glare at the wall, eyes burning. Growing up, I believed in miracles. I guess I don’t anymore.”

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Stephanie Oakes Quote: “When I lost my son, I became a citizen of a country I never knew existed.”

21. “When I lost my son, I became a citizen of a country I never knew existed.”

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Stephanie Oakes Quote: “A human God. How preferable to an invisible God, I thought, one you’re not even sure exists. I was never taught basic math, but by the time I figured out how to finger count, I deduced that Charlie was around my age.”

22. “A human God. How preferable to an invisible God, I thought, one you’re not even sure exists. I was never taught basic math, but by the time I figured out how to finger count, I deduced that Charlie was around my age.”

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Stephanie Oakes Quote: “Crime is never preventable because the mind will always grow bored.”

23. “Crime is never preventable because the mind will always grow bored.”

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Stephanie Oakes Quote: “Even after months of healing, it doesn’t take much to make me bleed.”

24. “Even after months of healing, it doesn’t take much to make me bleed.”

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Stephanie Oakes Quote: “Growing up, I believed in miracles. I guess I don’t anymore.”

25. “Growing up, I believed in miracles. I guess I don’t anymore.”

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Stephanie Oakes Quote: “I could tell he was afraid, but not for the immediate future. Not for that night. He was afraid for the rest of his life. That it would always be like this, living in that cabin with his father going slowly decrepit from homemade alcohol, getting meaner. I knew because it was the same fear I felt every day. Fear of being stuck in a place forever.”

26. “I could tell he was afraid, but not for the immediate future. Not for that night. He was afraid for the rest of his life. That it would always be like this, living in that cabin with his father going slowly decrepit from homemade alcohol, getting meaner. I knew because it was the same fear I felt every day. Fear of being stuck in a place forever.”

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Stephanie Oakes Quote: “The Prophet saw him waver, too. He clamped his hand heavily against my father’s shoulder. “DO IT!” he bellowed. “DO IT NOW!” My father raised the hatchet above his head. It wobbled there, breath passing his chapped lips in ragged waves. He jammed his eyes shut as he brought the hatchet down and punched it into my wrists.”

27. “The Prophet saw him waver, too. He clamped his hand heavily against my father’s shoulder. “DO IT!” he bellowed. “DO IT NOW!” My father raised the hatchet above his head. It wobbled there, breath passing his chapped lips in ragged waves. He jammed his eyes shut as he brought the hatchet down and punched it into my wrists.”

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Stephanie Oakes Quote: “Grief is a kind of war, I think now. Loss is like a bullet. A person can only take so much.”

28. “Grief is a kind of war, I think now. Loss is like a bullet. A person can only take so much.”

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Stephanie Oakes Quote: “Someday, everyone will realize that physicists are punking everyone and really they’re, like, slam poets in disguise who say things that sound cool but don’t make any actual sense.”

29. “Someday, everyone will realize that physicists are punking everyone and really they’re, like, slam poets in disguise who say things that sound cool but don’t make any actual sense.”

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Stephanie Oakes Quote: “You want to know how to navigate life? Don’t live and die by the beliefs you had when you were young. Everything changes, that’s what you learn when you’ve lived as long as I have. The worst crime you can do to yourself is to forget why you chose the path you’re on, but keep walking down it anyways.”

30. “You want to know how to navigate life? Don’t live and die by the beliefs you had when you were young. Everything changes, that’s what you learn when you’ve lived as long as I have. The worst crime you can do to yourself is to forget why you chose the path you’re on, but keep walking down it anyways.”

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Stephanie Oakes Quote: “I wonder if you can overdose on words.”

31. “I wonder if you can overdose on words.”

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Stephanie Oakes Quote: “The grief world isn’t closer to where the dead live,” the doctor says. “You only trick yourself into believing that. If you stand up and move around and look at the living world, and start participating again, you’re closer to them anyway.”

32. “The grief world isn’t closer to where the dead live,” the doctor says. “You only trick yourself into believing that. If you stand up and move around and look at the living world, and start participating again, you’re closer to them anyway.”

— Stephanie Oakes

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