Outer Banks: Kiara’s 10 Best Quotes

Outer Banks is a series with high stakes and soapy drama in the middle of multiple treasure hunts. With all of the dramatic storylines, there is a lot of room for emotions to run high, making for some great line deliveries and very memorable quotes from the cast of characters. The story itself centers on a group of teenagers who frequently end up in danger while searching for lost treasure.

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One of those teenagers is Kiara (Madison Bailey). While Kiara is often one of the most level-headed members of the group, she’s also not opposed to jumping into situations and following her heart. That means some of her best lines come at moments of high emotion, and some reflect her being the most logical person in the room.

“I’m A Pogue, Mom! Sorry!”

Season 2, Episode 3 “Prayers”

Kiara leaving her parents home in Outer Banks

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One of the main threads running through Kiara’s storylines is her conflict with her parents. They never see eye to eye on her choices. Though her family is wealthy, and Kiara would technically be a Kook instead of a Pogue, she doesn’t claim that lifestyle. Instead, she’d rather live the Pogue life with her friends. She feels stifled by the hypocrisy she sees among the other Kooks.

It’s a point of contention — especially with her mother, who doesn’t want Kiara to struggle in her life, and constantly reprimands her for even the potential of getting into trouble. Kiara opting to run away from home only leads to further difficulties between them. Her parents end up sending her to a camp for troubled kids when Kiara cannot abide by their rules to stay away from the Pogues, but this line is still one that defines Kiara. She chooses to make her life her own.

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“They Think The Same About Me.”

Season 3, Episode 5 “Heists”

Kiara holding onto JJ on the back of his bike in Outer Banks season 3

This is actually one of the few times in the show that Kiara gets her information fundamentally wrong. When she says this line, it’s to JJ while riding off to help him get the stolen cross. It’s in response to JJ reassuring her that he already knows what her parents think about him when she tries to apologize for her father treating him so badly.

Kiara, however, doesn’t see that they think the exact opposite of her. They see JJ as a thief and a liar and a bad influence. JJ does steal, but not usually just for fun. Most of the time, it’s to survive. There is the rare occasion when he steals because he’s angry and swiping something. Kiara thinks her parents see her as untrustworthy, like JJ, but that is not the case. They want to protect her from him and the Pogue life.

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That break down of the understanding between Kiara and her parents is part of the reason their relationship is so damaged in the third season.

“Of Course You Think The System Works. Because It Was Made To Protect People Like You.”

Season 2, Episode 5 “The Darkest Hour”

Kiara yells at Ward outside the courthouse in Outer Banks Season 2

When John B is wrongfully accused of Sheriff Peterkin’s murder, Kiara knows the deck is stacked against her friend. He doesn’t have parents to fight for him, doesn’t have the money for a lawyer, and would rather be dead than end up in jail. She doesn’t understand how so many of the adults in town can believe that he would have shot the sheriff because one man says so.

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It leads to plenty of confrontations between Kiara and community members. As she’s not afraid to point out, the wealthy people who think John B is guilty have a safety net in the legal system that he doesn’t. Another line from the same season 2 episode is her “justice costs money,” because she knows the reality of the battle that John B faces. Kiara might have been raised a Kook, but her eyes are wide open to the divide between social classes in the Outer Banks.

“Maybe Don’t Compare My Feelings To Secretions?”

Season 1, Episode 5 “Midsummers”

Pope tries to comfort Kiara in Outer Banks

When the show starts, Kiara and Sarah are not friends. They were when Kiara attempted to embrace her life as a Kook before the events of the show started, but their friendship soured. In the first season, Kiara is so upset by the idea of Sarah joining the Pogues on their treasure hunt that Pope catches her crying. His attempt at comforting her involves explaining that corpses secrete fluid from their eyes just like tears.

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It’s a scene that shows how awkward Pope can be when things get emotional. It’s not his only time talking about corpses in the first season. Kiara is more weirded out by the exchange than comforted, which might explain why the two never seem to fit when they attempt a relationship in season 2. For all their feelings of mutual care, Pope and Kiara don’t really understand one another.

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“I’m Not Sorry I Called The Cops.”

Season 1, Episode 6 “Parcel 9”

Sarah and Kiara are upset in Outer Banks

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Before the events of the series, Kiara and Sarah were the best of friends. Sarah suddenly froze Kiara out with no explanation, which she later admits is something she does when people get too close. It’s something she works on during the first season when she finally finds the closeness she craves with the Pogues. Before that, however, Sarah snubs Kiara by not inviting her to a big party, and the police are called, getting Sarah and her friends into trouble.

Sarah suspects that Kiara called them in revenge, but Kiara denies it until the two are stranded on a boat overnight together. While Sarah could continue to be mad about it, at this point, they are both too amused to be mad at one another anymore. Kiara’s admission is the first true mending of their friendship. Though it was something that drove them apart before, it’s something they’re able to laugh about here.

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“Do You Have Any Idea How Special Your Son Is?”

Season 2, Episode 2 “The Cross”

Kiara and JJ argue over a plan in Outer Banks

Every member of the Pogues has issues with their parents, which is part of the reason their friends become their family. While there’s tension between Kiara and her parents, they don’t physically abuse her, unlike JJ’s father, or more accurately, the man who raised him. Kiara has seen the evidence of what Luke Maybank does to him, so she doesn’t have the patience for the way he treats his son when she and JJ end up helping him escape the police.

Kiara, in a moment of pure anger, asks him if he even really knows how special JJ is. While JJ and Kiara bicker constantly, they also become a formidable unit in their conflicts, so the exchange is gratifying for fans who know how much they care about each other. Though Kiara might have dated Pope briefly, and she cares about all of the Pogues, it’s exchanges like this that make it incredibly clear how special JJ is to her.

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“Don’t Give Them The Satisfaction Of Thinking This Worked.”

Season 1, Episode 6 “Parcel 9”

The boys return to a stranded Kiara and Sarah in Outer Banks

When John B first invites Sarah to join in the Pogues’ treasure hunt, Kiara is livid. When meetings between the whole group don’t work, the boys decide to take matters into their own hands. John B, JJ, and Pope decide to strand the two girls on a boat in the middle of the marsh overnight so that they’re forced to talk to one another. The plan works, which really gets on Kiara’s nerves. They spend the night talking about what exactly went wrong in their friendship.

She doesn’t want to admit that the boys were right about her and Sarah just needing to talk things out. The girls agree to attempt to pretend to still be angry when they pick them up, but it doesn’t last long. From their first attempt at pretending together, though, they’re a united front in the Pogues, creating one of the best friendships in the show.

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“We Only Have One Earth. We Should Be Giving It One Hundred Percent, Minimum.”

Season 1, Episode 1 “Pilot”

Madison Bailey as Kiara pointing in Outer Banks Season 2

Kiara lectures her friends a lot on the unfairness of the legal system, wage disparity, and more. The one thing that she never gives up on, however, is reminding people how important the environment is. It makes sense considering how much time the Pogues spend in and around the water that the environment and the state of the planet would be at the top of her list of problems to be fixed.

It even comes up in surprising moments, like when she’s in a sewer drain to retrieve a gun for JJ and Pope and sees just how much garbage is draining out to sea in the second season. It’s also a throughline for her character in the fourth season. She’s the one maintaining the garden that the Pogues grow themselves for their shop. She’s also the one who is the first to notice sea turtles hatching and making their way to the ocean in season 4. The environment is always going to be a priority for her.

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“Can’t You Guys Do Anything Without Me?”

Season 1, Episode 6 “Parcel 9”

Kiara and JJ hide in Outer Banks

It’s pretty clear that if one person is missing from the Pogues, they don’t function well. Each member of the group contributes to their plans, fun, and attempts at bringing Ward Cameron (or another antagonist in later seasons) to justice. They are all the glue that holds the group together. While a lot of fans think of Pope as the most intelligent of the friends, Kiara brings a much-needed level head to their plans, but also a willingness to do the things the boys won’t.

Kiara is the one who jumps into a sewer when Pope and JJ are too afraid to do it, though they won’t admit it. She’s also the one willing to steal her parents’ car when she’s on bad terms with them. Without her, the group would have an even more difficult time than they already do in their dangerous circumstances.

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“It’s Not A Coincidence Your Daughter’s Sitting With Us.”

Season 2, Episode 5 “The Darkest Hour”

The Pogues are upset in the courtroom crowd in Outer Banks Season 2

Kiara’s friends are terrified of the consequences of making Ward Cameron angry in the first two seasons of the show. They don’t want him to come after them or put anyone else in danger. Kiara doesn’t have that same fear as her sense of justice motivates her. She wants Ward to pay for everything he’s done to her and her friends.

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When John B is on trial, Sarah shows her support for him by making sure she sits with Kiara, JJ, and Pope in the courtroom. Even when Ward tries to talk to her, the Pogues do their best to keep Sarah away from him, but it’s Kiara who is willing to confront him. She makes it clear that she knows the truth, and so does Sarah.

While it’s a sign of how hot-headed Kiara can be when she cares about someone, it’s also a nice way to show how close she and Sarah are again, as Kiara puts herself on the line for someone she hadn’t talked to for months. Kiara is always willing to stand between someone she loves and danger, even if that puts her in danger in Outer Banks.

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Outer Banks follows a group of teenagers in the Outer Banks of North Carolina as they uncover a legendary treasure linked to the mysterious disappearance of the group’s leader’s father, leading to a series of dangerous and thrilling adventures.

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*Availability in US Cast Chase Stokes , Madelyn Cline , Madison Bailey , Jonathan Daviss , Rudy Pankow , Drew Starkey , Charles Esten , Austin North , Caroline Arapoglou , Cullen Moss , Marland Burke , Julia Antonelli , E. Roger Mitchell , Samantha Soule , Carlacia Grant , Charles Halford , Deion Smith , Nicholas Cirillo , Elizabeth Mitchell Release Date April 15, 2020 Creator(s) Josh Pate , Jonas Pate , Shannon Burke Expand