Top 120 A.L. Jackson Quotes (2025 Update)
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101. “You know, I always thought the two of you would end up together.” My head shook. “No. We have too much in common. Too much history to ever make that work.” “Isn’t that what makes a good relationship?” “Not when all that history is filled with pain.”

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102. “I think it’s the things that hurt the worst that mean the most, don’t you?” she mused, her hair flying around her face as if she’d stirred a new concept that’d been waiting to be revealed. “Good or bad. That’s what’s gonna shape us. Make us into who we are. Guide us on the path to what we want the most.”

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103. “Do I look like the kind of girl who follows a complete stranger out of a bar? You might be on the prowl, but I’m here to celebrate with my friend. Give her my time, because she pretty much gives me all of hers. And honestly, I’m kind of tired of the idea that a man can just snap his fingers and a woman will start peeling off her panties.”

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104. “Take care of yourself. Let yourself off the hook once in a while. You deserve to be happy.”

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105. “I see a treasure. I see a vision. I see light and goodness and grace. I see Heaven. I see everything I shouldn’t want. Everything I don’t deserve.”

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106. “And here I am, the greedy bastard standing with you in my arms because I don’t have the first clue how to stay away from you.”

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107. “It’s overwhelming and wonderful and terrifying, and what happened between us last night? It was bigger – more powerful – than anything I could have imagined.”

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108. “Feel like I’m someone different when I’m around you. Think that might be what scares me most. Fact you make me feel like I could be someone different. Someone better.”

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109. “It was the wounds inflicted that couldn’t be seen that always scarred the worst.”

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110. “I’m in this with you, Salem. You’re not alone any longer. Don’t you see? I have you, darlin’. I have you.”

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111. “Sometimes trauma reveals what we need the most, doesn’t it? It rips away all the questions to expose the raw truth underneath.”

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112. “But sometimes it was hard to watch all the things you wanted most, feel them burn inside of you, and have the deep-lying fear that they would never become a reality.”

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113. “They’re your children, Izzy. Yours. A part of you. How could I not love them both?”

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114. “If I could be a better man, I’d be him for you. If I could live a better life, I’d live it for you.”

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115. “But that troubled boy was my shining star. He’d taught me to have faith that people were so much more than their exteriors and their reputations. Made me have faith that destinies weren’t based on our circumstances but rather what we made of them.”

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116. “It’s time to go after what you want. It’s what we do. We fight for what we want. You walked away once. Don’t make the mistake of doing it again.”

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117. “What if I wanted it, Eden? What if I wanted it to work? What if I wanted it all? What if I don’t want to let you go?”

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118. “At Evan’s door, I paused. Kale lay on the hard floor next to the bed, a pillow from the couch under his head and a tiny throw barely covering his torso, still in his shirt and jeans. His arm was slung up onto Evan’s bed, his palm resting across my son’s heart.”

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119. “He deserves someone who will see him for who he really is, Eden. Not for what he’s done.”

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120. “An annoyed grown echoed from behind us. “Would you kiss her already? I’m about to revoke your man card, Leif, and I don’t even have one yet. That’s just embarrassing.”

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121. “Tempting me into chasing after that blinding, blistering hope. Wanting the striking, stark beauty of it. Hungry for something I’ve always wanted for the people around me, but never thinking I could keep any of it for myself.”

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122. “This girl’s shot me down at every turn and, each time, I got up for another round. Something feeling like maybe she needed me to fight for her.”

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123. “I tried to stay away. But I couldn’t. Not knowing what’s happening. Not knowing what you’ve been through.”

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124. “Heaven. It’d be Heaven, gettin’ you for one minute while on my way to Hell.”

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125. “You take what you’re given and make the very best of it. Live life to the fullest even when it might feel empty. Live like there are no barriers when there are walls towering in front of you. Be prepared to fight, even in times of peace. And be willing to live in peace when there are wars raging all around you.”

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126. “That’s what dreams are for. There’s always a million of them out there floating around us, just out of reach, waiting for us to catch them. A million more ready to take their place when we find the others.”

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127. “But fear is holding some of that back.” And I knew it then. He could see straight through me. “There are some things important enough they are worthy of that fear,” I told him, not sure why.”

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128. “Warning spreading wide. Knowing I was digging myself deeper. Losing sight. Burying myself in something that wasn’t mine to keep.”

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129. “I never stopped loving you. Not for a second. Not for a day. Because you’ve consumed every one of my goddamned thoughts since the second I left.”

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130. “My father had always said respect wasn’t earned, it was taken.”

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131. “Apparently, good things did come in small packages, and I was about two seconds from telling her that she was what I wanted.”

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132. “Because it shouldn’t hurt to be touched.”

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133. “If I was too deep, then I’d gladly drown.”

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134. “Do you think I could ever forget a single moment with you? Not ever. Not for a second. You were the only good thing I ever had.”

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