Top 120 Aly Martinez Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “Every single day,” I admitted. “Every. Single. Day.”

— Aly Martinez

2. “It’s always darkest before dawn. We just have to wait a little while longer. The sun always rises.”

— Aly Martinez

3. “Life is a struggle, but it’s who you chose to take on the journey with you that matters the most.”

— Aly Martinez

4. “I couldn’t keep doing this to myself. One day, I was going to wake up and realize that, in my desperate escape from the pain in the present, I’d let the future pass me by.”

— Aly Martinez

5. “Problems don’t need a map. They’ll follow you everywhere.”

— Aly Martinez

6. “Stop with the buts and what-ifs. If you always expect to get kicked in the stomach, that’s all you’re ever going to get. There are going to be ups and downs, sweetheart. But you can’t let the lows color the highs.”

— Aly Martinez

7. “I’m yours. I’ve always been yours. Even when you didn’t want me to be.”

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8. “I’m able to be your rock even though, sometimes, I feel like I can barely support my own weight. But more than that, I love knowing that, even on my weakest days, you understand enough about how I’m feeling to be my rock also.”

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9. “Hers: My wildest fantasy. Mine: This is reality. That day had been such.”

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10. “You don’t have to love me, Ramsey. But just so you know, I do love you. I always have and I always will. But right now, I really just want my best friend back.” She tapped my pec. “He’s in there. I know he is. And you are seriously underestimating me if you think your petty lies are going to stop me.”

— Aly Martinez

11. “You were always mine.”

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12. “I more than like you. I hardly know you, but I want to keep you. Just the way you are. Maybe forever.”

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13. “Please stop hiding and actually live your life.” He pauses long enough to squeeze my shoulder. “It’s killing me to watch you fade into the background.”

— Aly Martinez

14. “I choose us. Now and forever. I swear to you I’ll always, for the rest of my life, choose us.”

— Aly Martinez

15. “I have loved you since before I knew I loved you. I have loved you since before I was supposed to love you. And I will continue to love you ever single day for the rest of eternity.”

— Aly Martinez

16. “It’s not enough. It won’t be enough until I have all of you. And I’m not even sure if that will be enough, Manda. I love you. I want you to be mine, but more than that. I want to be yours.”

— Aly Martinez

17. “I love you. I love you despite it all, and now, I’m standing here, begging you to love me despite it all too.”

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18. “Our relationship is not simple or straightforward. It’s not perfect the way young couples dream about. It’s rough and flawed, but it’s ours. And sometimes, if you get really lucky, something truly beautiful can come from the imperfections.”

— Aly Martinez

19. “You were never a distraction to me, Sam. You were always my reprieve.”

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20. “Sometimes you have to let go of the life you planned in order to live the one you’re given.”

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21. “We belong together. I love you, Alex Lawson, and I’m done waiting. This is our time.”

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22. “She needed someone she couldn’t plow over with her larger than life personality. A man confident enough to sit in her shadow while she forged her own path. She was a handful. There was no denying that. But somewhere out there was a man aching for a challenge because he knew, at the end of the day, the sweet she gave would always be worth the chaos.”

— Aly Martinez

23. “You made me see that friendship is a farce and trusting anyone other than myself is the biggest mistake I could make. It was a lesson I had been learning my whole life up until that point. But you tattooed it on my soul in a way I could never forget.”

— Aly Martinez

24. “There’s a reason time only marches in one direction. You can choose any second to start over again.”

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25. “Love is different. It’s not a one-size-fits-all. And it’s definitely not universal or transferable. There are no shoes to fill. Whatever you and Quarry have is unique to the two of you.”

— Aly Martinez

26. “I fell in love with you when I was at rock bottom. But I’ll never be able to look back on those dark days with anything but a smile. I wanted to jump, Sam, but I never once expected the fall to go up.”

— Aly Martinez

27. “I wanted to spend forever with you at thirteen. Nothing has or ever will change that. Eliza, I love you. And I am unquestionably serious about spending the rest of my life with you.”

— Aly Martinez

28. “Love me more than you hate her. Please.”

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29. “It’s different and bold. It stands out amongst a blank world of black, white, and gray. Orange is the early morning sun stretching across the sky and the color of a burning ember standing tall in the middle of a beach bonfire. It’s leaves in the fall, carrots in Nana’s vegetable soup on a cold winter day, tulips in the spring, and the ladybugs in the middle of the grassy park on a hot summer afternoon. Orange is life. It’s unexpected but beautiful.”

— Aly Martinez

30. “Sometimes fate brings you to a place in life for a reason. It’s not up to you to figure out what that reason is. It’s only up to you to decide what you’re going to make of it.” It seemed like such a profound comment even if it did confuse me.”

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31. “Perception. Is. Everything. People aren’t one-dimensional characters. We’re complex creatures. With feelings. Compassion. Morals. And the lack thereof. To some, I would forever be the villain. But even the darkest shadows require light to exist.”

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32. “There isn’t a woman in the world who doesn’t have demons of some sort. No matter who I end up with, it’s always going to be a struggle.” I kissed her hair again, letting it linger as if my lips were able to transfer the truth of my words. “Levee, I’d like to struggle with you.”

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33. “Truth,” I whispered against her temple. “I love you.”

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34. “I became utterly addicted to her and the escape from reality we provided each other. Throughout the years, she had boyfriends and I had girlfriends, but there wasn’t a single night that I didn’t hear her voice.”

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35. “At some point, you have to make your own life a priority. No one else can do that for you.”

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36. “Flint, don’t get so caught up on the shadow that you forget the man who casts it.”

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37. “In my world, where pain, filth, and fear were a way of life, why waste the possibility of finally feeling something incredible?”

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38. “This is an impossible situation.”

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39. “Every smile. Every laugh. Every kiss. Every touch. That was me. That was us. And that was the truth.”

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40. “Henry made the shooing motion toward him. “Go ahead, hot man. Smoke your cigarette. And, before you ask, yes, I’m perfectly okay with you envisioning it’s me you’re putting in your mouth.”

— Aly Martinez

41. “Hi, I’m Porter Reese.” I didn’t know it yet. But those four simple words changed my life all over again.”

— Aly Martinez

42. “I wait in front of the stadium, scrolling through Facebook on my cell phone. I swear if one more of my high school friends posts pictures of their lunch, kids, or dogs, I’m going on a spree reporting everyone as spam.”

— Aly Martinez

43. “I’ve always belonged to you, the same way you belong to me.”

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44. “Till always made things hard for me, but in some strange way, he always made them infinitely better as well.”

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45. “Her smile was one of the world’s best-kept secrets, because if any man experienced on, they would wage wars to hold on to it. It was life changing.”

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46. “I don’t stalk. I keep tabs.”

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47. “Okay. You’re stranded in a deserted train station during the zombie apocalypse. Quick, which book do you have with you?” “Hopefully The Zombie Survival Guide.”

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48. “Love rarely makes a man smile. Especially if said man is me and he has to deal with a crazy woman like you. That doesn’t mean I wouldn’t burn the world down for you. Extinguish an entire species. And then place their ashes at your feet if it meant you’d smile. But I probably won’t be grinning while I do it.”

— Aly Martinez

49. “If I could wish anything, it would be that we were strangers so we could have something real that wasn’t tainted.”

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50. “I’m yours, Clare. Take it all.”

— Aly Martinez