Top 500 Ana Huang Quotes (2024 Update)
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351. “Your father? What he do? He no plumber, is he? I no trust plumbers. Or Disney World. Working with mice, very shameful.”

— Ana Huang

352. “I’m translating the book into Latin.” He flipped the page and scribbled another sentence without looking up or touching his drink. “Why?” “It’s relaxing.” I blinked, certain I’d heard him wrong. “You think translating a five-hundred-page novel into Latin by hand is relaxing?”

— Ana Huang

353. “He was no longer just my brother’s best friend, but my friend too, though some of the thoughts I had toward him were less than platonic.”

— Ana Huang

354. “Someone once said hell was other people. They were right.”

— Ana Huang

355. “I’d fought and won impossible battles all my life, and the one for Bridget was the most important one of all. If she couldn’t or wouldn’t fight for us – because of her guilt, her duty, her family, or any other reason – I’d fight enough for us both.”

— Ana Huang

356. “Did you know tulips were worth more than gold in seventeenth-century Holland? Literally.”

— Ana Huang

357. “Interrupt me if you need me.” Christian leveled me with a dark stare. “I mean it, Stella.”

— Ana Huang

358. “Farrah had always equated the stars with love, which seemed as nebulous and out of reach as the diamonds in the sky. But as she stood there next to Blake, beneath the infinite skies of a foreign land, the stars felt a little closer.”

— Ana Huang

359. “I finally gathered enough of my wits to pull back, but before I could, a loud crash shattered the silence in the greenhouse. Steffan and I jumped apart, and my eyes fell on Rhys, who stood next to a broken pot of lilies. “My hand slipped.” His voice held not an ounce of apology.”

— Ana Huang

360. “Alex, stop. You’ll kill him!” I adjusted my shirtsleeves, breathing hard. “Is that supposed to deter me?”

— Ana Huang

361. “Out of the shadows and into the spotlight.”

— Ana Huang

362. “I couldn’t claim her the way I wanted outside these walls, but right here, right now, when it was just the two of us? I was going to take her until we were both utterly ruined.”

— Ana Huang

363. “On paper, he was as perfect as they came.”

— Ana Huang

364. “Half the time, I couldn’t believe she was real.”

— Ana Huang

365. “A slow, lazy smile tugged at his lips. “Smart girl.”

— Ana Huang

366. “You can’t measure your success based on someone else’s progress.”

— Ana Huang

367. “I’d forgotten how safe I felt in his arms, like nothing and no one could hurt me.”

— Ana Huang

368. “But I had a feeling if I waited for Alex, I might have to wait forever.”

— Ana Huang

369. “Sure, I was lost in life and scraping by on minimum wage in one of the most expensive cities in the world, but at least I wasn’t trapped in a cabin with a psychopathic husband or on the run from a serial killer who was obsessed with me.”

— Ana Huang

370. “On paper, our relationship had been fake, but there was nothing fake about the way he’d taken care of me, supported me, and believed in me. Nor was there anything fake about the way I felt when I was with him, like I could be me and he’d want me anyway, flaws and all.”

— Ana Huang

371. “We kissed like we were drowning, and the other person was our only source of oxygen. Wild. Frantic. Desperate. And it still wasn’t enough.”

— Ana Huang

372. “I’m afraid not.” Kai’s voice could’ve melted butter. “I don’t like sharing.”

— Ana Huang

373. “Yet Bridget had gone against my orders and snuck out in the middle of the night to attend the damn concert, only to get kidnapped afterward.”

— Ana Huang

374. “Let’s talk about why that guy is staring at me like he wants to rip my head off for the past fifteen minutes.”

— Ana Huang

375. “In Costa Rica, you asked if I’d ever been in love. I said no’ I lowered my head until our foreheads touched and her lips were scant inches from mine. ‘Ask me again’.”

— Ana Huang

376. “Deep breaths. You’re fine. You’re on solid ground. The lake will not rise up and drag you.”

— Ana Huang

377. “There was nothing more powerful than power people could relate to.”

— Ana Huang

378. “Not a hint of sunshine or life to be found.”

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379. “I tilted my head up, my first real smile in months spreading across my face. It was small, but it was there.”

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380. “Forget love and passion. What I wanted most was to slap the arrogant expression off his face and knee him in the family jewels while I was at it.”

— Ana Huang

381. “I’d stopped crying, but my heart still ached for him. For us. For everything we could never be because we lived in the world we lived in.”

— Ana Huang

382. “I love you, Vivian. More than I could ever hate your father. And more than I ever thought I was capable of.”

— Ana Huang

383. “A reminder. No matter how dark it gets, you can always find a light.”

— Ana Huang

384. “I’d walked the halls of Valhalla countless times, but every interaction with Vivian was like our first. I noticed something new about her every day – the tiny beauty mark above her upper lip, the way she slid her pendant along its chain when she was uncomfortable, and the mildly crooked slant of her smile when she was genuinely amused. It was infuriating. I didn’t want to notice these things about her, yet I inadvertently hoarded them the way dragons hoarded jewels.”

— Ana Huang

385. “I wanted Alessandra back in our bed, our house, our life. I’d been missing a vital piece of myself since she walked out, and it was incredible to think I’d somehow taken her for granted when I needed her more than I needed to breathe.”

— Ana Huang

386. “I’ll spend however many lifetimes I need to rediscover those parts of you, because you’re it for me.”

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387. “Perhaps I loved Rhys’s drawing so much not only because he was the artist, but because it immortalized a version of myself I could never be again. I gently rolled the sketch up and tucked it into a safe corner of my bedside drawer.”

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388. “Where was the girl from the morning after, the one who’d marched out of the house and vowed not to let fear win? She was as ephemeral as morning rain and dreams of perfection. Always fighting to live and always dying by the blade of my anxiety.”

— Ana Huang

389. “I’m not one of those girls who chases after guys who don’t want them.”

— Ana Huang

390. “I don’t expect you to answer. You never do.”

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391. “If I ever made it to heaven, I was going to have a long, hard talk with God about timing.”

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392. “Only once. First and last. Don’t forget that, princess.”

— Ana Huang

393. “One second, I thought he would kiss me. The next, he was kicking me out of his apartment. The man flipped hot and cold more often than a broken faucet.”

— Ana Huang

394. “My last date tried to rope me into a seance to contact his dead mother so she could “meet me and give her approval.”

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395. “But he makes me feel like I can be anyone I want to be. Better yet, he makes me feel like I can be who I am.”

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396. “It wasn’t like I was going to show up at Verve and drag her away from potential suitors like some territorial caveman. I had more pride than that.”

— Ana Huang

397. “It was like therapy, except with sports, beer, and a grumpy best friend.”

— Ana Huang

398. “By the time I finished, my room looked like how I felt: empty and hollow.”

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399. “The only thing I had left was myself. And for now, that would have to be enough.”

— Ana Huang

400. “Good. And don’t worry, Ms. Alonso.” Laughter remained in Christian’s voice as he lifted his glass to his lips. “I don’t believe in love.”

— Ana Huang