Top 150 Tricia Levenseller Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “Doing the right thing is not always easy. And being the bigger person, the first to reach out with kindness, takes great strength of character.”

— Tricia Levenseller

2. “I value other traits above an affinity for torture and power over those weaker than oneself. I value brilliant minds, honest souls, and those with long endurance. I forge relationships based on trust and mutual respect, not fear and control.”

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3. “The first step to feeling good is looking good, and I look like the royalty I am.”

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4. “It’s easy to forget danger is near when one cannot see it.”

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5. “I am more than my fear and weaknesses, but so much of the time, they’re all I can think about.”

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6. “I live on the cusp of two worlds, trying desperately to fit into one.”

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7. “I am me because I choose to be me. I am what I want. Some people say you have to find yourself. Not I. I believe we create ourselves to be what we want. Any aspect of ourselves that we do not like can be altered if we make an effort.”

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8. “They’ve never found the body of the first and only boy who broke my heart. And they never will.”

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9. “I am me because I choose to be me. I am what I want. Some people say you have to find yourself. Not I. I believe we create ourselves to be what we want.”

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10. “Lass, you’ve the face of an angel but the tongue of a snake.”

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11. “I may not have been born in the sea, but I was born to rule it. I am the daughter of the siren queen.”

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12. “I can’t help myself when it comes to you.”

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13. “As for not liking people, that’s fine. I don’t really like people, either. Maybe we could not like people together.”

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14. “Submissiveness. I try not to cringe as the word enters my mind. Horrid word, that one. But it is what I must be if this is to work. For my father, I’m willing to become everything that I hate.”

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15. “I want to be hidden. I want to feel safe.”

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16. “You see, you saved my life. Now it belongs to you. I owe you a life debt. From now until I draw my last breath. I am your man.”

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17. “Of course you had a choice, Riden. You just had a hard one. And you chose the easy option, which was to do nothing.”

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18. “I hate feeling as though I don’t fit right in my own skin. As though the anxiety takes up too much space, pushing me aside.”

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19. “It is what originally caught my interest, but i lose interest in everything sooner or later. Everything save you. Because in you, i found my match. In you, i found my equal.”

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20. “All the time in the world is worth nothing if I don’t get to spend it with you.”

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21. “It’s a bold and stupid move. I like it.”

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22. “There are different kinds of fathers. Those who love unconditionally, those who love on condition, and those who never love at all.”

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23. “A sister is the most special gift you could ever be given. Better than any doll. She will be a best friend you can take with you through life. Someone who will love you no matter what.”

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24. “I want to kiss you again.”

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25. “Being underestimated always works to my advantage. But sometimes I find it offensive. That often makes me violent. It makes me question whether I should allow them to kill Riden, just so I can beat the hell out of all three of them without Riden watching.”

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26. “Sometimes Hestia can be quite silly, but I know she is an only child, with an absent mother and a father who wasn’t quite sure how to raise a daughter. She may be trying to imitate me in the extreme, but part of me wonders if she is so afraid of doing or saying the wrong thing that she thinks imitating others is the only way to be safe. Then it’s not her who is the one being rejected.”

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27. “Because happiness, however short-lived, is always worth it.”

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28. “But I also know that true strength comes from being willing to fail in order to progress.”

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29. “The second name is a sung name. It has power. Lina means protector, and I can see you have already lived up to it.”

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30. “Even a man who’s spent his whole life at sea has reason to fear her when she’s angry. But not I. I sleep soundly. Listening to her music. The sea watches over me. She protects her own.”

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31. “The sea watches over me. She protects her own.”

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32. “Good idea, you cleaning the room and all,” I say. “I’ll need something to do tomorrow.”

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33. “Master Riden only said I ‘probably’ shouldn’t speak to her, on account of beautiful women have a way of playing tricks on a man’s mind. But it wasn’t a direct order.”

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34. “I’m here because when I tried to get in that rowboat with my brother, I realized the last thing I wanted was to be away from you.” His hand runs up the length of my left arm, which is facing toward the sea. Away from the eyes of the crew. “I’m here for you, Alosa.” His fingers flutter against my neck, sending a shiver down my back. “If you can’t tell that, I’m not doing a good job of showing you.”

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35. “I’ve been training human women to fight for years. A woman is not helpless when she knows what to do. And even a man is helpless when outnumbered ten to one.”

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36. “My life is a world of opposites. One instant I’m safe in my forge; the next I’m on the run for my life. One second I’m fine, and then I’m lost to despair and panic. I can’t control any of it. And I hate that. I am more than my fears and weaknesses, but so much of the time, they’re all I can think about.”

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37. “I wonder what it would be like to have something like that. Someone whom you could trust and call your friend since childhood. I have many good women whom I trust and call friends. But they are all recent finds. I don’t have anything I’ve held on to since I was little.”

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38. “Everything my father did, he did out of love. He made me strong. He made me something that could survive in his world. Doesn’t matter what he did to get me here. I’m a fighter. The best.”

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39. “My little hellion. Quite the force to be reckoned with, aren’t you? Oh, say you’ll marry me, Alessandra!”

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40. “I value brilliant minds, honest souls, and those with long endurance. I forge relationships based on trust and mutual respect, not fear and control.”

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41. “I realized that words can be so hard to find when spoken aloud in the moment. But writing? It gives me the time to articulate just what I feel.”

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42. “All of a sudden, I don’t feel the as though I need the shawl wrapped around my shoulders. I’m so very warm and light. Once, there was another boy who made me feel this way. One who made me feel full and seen and loved. Now the bugs of the earth have feasted on his flesh.”

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43. “Eventually, he says, “Their attention is unwanted.”

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44. “But by the end of today, it seems I will have lost my sense of safety, my secrecy, and my dignity.”

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45. “I. Don’t. Deserve. This. My soul has worth, and I won’t let it depart this world just yet.”

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46. “So, no, Alosa, I cannot promise that I won’t ignore orders again. Like I said, when it comes to you, I have no control over my actions.”

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47. “You are worthy of love. Not everyone knows how to love the right way. But you remember how that feels and vow never to do it to others.”

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48. “The sound of my knife slitting across a throat feels much too loud in the darkness.”

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49. “Now someone’s nuzzling my neck. “You stole my blanket, Alosa.”

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50. “When fancy strikes, a man gets this notion in his mind that everything a woman does is for him.”

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