Top 500 Ana Huang Quotes (2025 Update)
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401. “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

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

— Ana Huang

403. “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

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

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

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

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

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408. “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.”

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409. “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.”

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410. “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

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

— Ana Huang

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

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

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

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416. “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.”

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417. “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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418. “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.”

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

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

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

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422. “Sometimes, the greatest threat to a company isn’t external competition. It’s internal incompetence.”

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423. “I understood why he was upset, but he was making it into something bigger than it was.”

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424. “I’d abandoned an evening with my books for a nightclub, for Christ’s sake. If that wasn’t a sign of my irreversible spiral, nothing was.”

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425. “But hurting Stella? There was no crime greater than that in my book.”

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426. “Despite my strange desire to shield Stella from danger, I wasn’t a protector by nature. My version of protection always came wrapped in the pieces of a snuffed-out life and tied with a bloody bow.”

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427. “I didn’t have time to be in my head, thank God. I’d been in my head for months, and it wasn’t a great place to be. I needed a change of scenery.”

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428. “Do not disrespect any woman like that when I’m in the room.”

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429. “I didn’t know what to make of my strange new feelings toward Josh, but I knew one thing: there was no going back to whatever we used to be.”

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430. “The band played, and the people around us whirled and danced, but in this world we’d carved for ourselves, it was silent save for our ragged intakes of breath.”

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431. “We’d progressed from the days when women couldn’t go anywhere or do anything without their husband’s approval, but the sad truth was, our value was still tied to our ability to “land” a partner, at least in society’s eyes. The number of times people asked me why I didn’t have a boyfriend yet was proof of that. Like my being single was a problem I needed to solve instead of a choice I’d made. Like my lack of a partner somehow meant I was lacking somehow.”

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432. “Periods sucked, but they were a useful weapon for shutting down questions from men.”

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433. “Maybe if I tried harder to be a good daughter –.”

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434. “I’ve never loved you more than in this moment. Watching you choose yourself when I didn’t will always prove as a reminder to me of your incredible strength and what a privilege it is to call you mine.”

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435. “It was eat or get eaten, and I for one had no grand aspirations of becoming prey.”

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436. “You’re extraordinary.”

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437. “Strong. Comforting. Logical. He was everything I needed when I needed it.”

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438. “The ring nestled against the velvet cushion gave the Wollman Rink a run for its money in terms of size.”

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439. “You don’t seem like someone who believes in coincidence.”

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440. “My nostrils flared. I was still hard as a rock, and I loathed it. Loathed her, for tempting me this way. Loathed myself, for not having more self-control when it came to her.”

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441. “The idea that I had to get a boyfriend to be deemed “interesting” made my skin crawl.”

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442. “I never thought I’d see the day, but Rhys blushed. Actually blushed.”

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443. “Minutes. Hours. Days.”

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444. “I see. Next time, refrain from doing so at a public event. It’s disrespectful.”

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445. “For a brief, unbidden moment, dark eyes and a crisp British accent flashed through my mind before I batted them away.”

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446. “I’d raced outside, my mind conjuring all sorts of horrible scenarios while I cursed myself for leaving her alone. For failing her.”

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447. “I wasn’t judging. Like everyone else, I had my masks, and they ran layers deep. But unlike everyone else, I had as much interest in ass-kissing and small talk as I did in injecting bleach into my veins.”

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448. “Another ghost of a smile, followed by a wicked gleam that had my pulse skyrocketing.”

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449. “I’m afraid we don’t serve glow-in-the-dark gin and tonics.”

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450. “What I was trying to say before we got off track is, we should attempt to get along,” she said breathlessly. “Get to know each other. Maybe go on a date or two.” Some of the earlier tension dissipated. “Are you asking me out, mia cara?” A smile touched my lips at her glare. “I told you to stop calling me that.” “Yes, you did.” I was going to call her mia cara every chance I got.”

— Ana Huang