Top 180 Anna Todd Quotes (2025 Update)
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151. “I’m not over you,” I calmly say, “but you didn’t give me much of a choice here, Dakota. You’ve barely spoken to me since you moved. You broke up with me, remember?” I look at her. She’s staring at the floor. “You wanted to focus on yourself when you moved, and I got that. I let you have your space and you didn’t do anything to stop me. You didn’t reach out to me at all.”

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152. “We change and we discover who we really are.” – Noah.”

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153. “My mood lightens with the sky, and I find myself singing along to Taylor Swift and tapping my fingers on the steering wheel as she talks about “trouble walking in” – and I laugh at the irony of the lyrics.”

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154. “I grab my purse and check my phone one last time. Of course Hardin hasn’t texted or called me. I hate the way I feel dependent on him, especially when I obviously can’t depend on him.”

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155. “Suit yourself,” she replies with a groan and childishly pulls her blanket over her head. I laugh and watch her still body, wondering what’s going through her mind. Is this like some method of reverse peekaboo that’s supposed to make me disappear or something?”

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156. “He tosses his bag onto the couch and walks around the living room, studying every inch like it’s a crime scene. “I need some advice,” I say with a sigh. Hardin stops at the chair and touches a pair of Tessa’s pajama pants. His fingers run over the fuzzy material, tracing the edges of the clouds.”

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157. “Go inside!” Hardin yells, and I immediately know that he is talking to me. I decide to listen to him, for once, and turn around and run into the house.”

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158. “Tessa’s the kind of person who tries to pull the best out of everyone. She gives more of herself than she should and she expects people to be kind, even when it’s not the most accessible part of their nature.”

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159. “I feel sorry for myself. Not really, but I would rather wallow and complain about my boring life than attempt to make new friends. I don’t know where to begin making friends.”

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160. “The order of the steps isn’t important. Either way, we end up the same place.”

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161. “I want to be my own stability and security. I want someone to love, and someone to love me.”

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162. “If the past and present both kind of sucked, and no one seemed to learn from their mistakes, why wouldn’t I be looking to the future? The future was sort of all I had to look forward to.” Jo.”

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163. “Nice? That’s the first word that comes to your mind when talking about your boyfriend? Nice is your ‘nice’ way of calling him boring.”

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164. “I once felt like Dakota was my entire journey and my destination, but I’m starting to feel like I was no more than a stop along the way for her.”

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165. “But that’s the problem with this type of quick anger: discharging it would make me feel better for a few moments, but then I’ll feel like crap after. Anger doesn’t often offer a solution, it only creates more problems.”

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166. “He ruled everything, until she came in and took his crown.”

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167. “The emptiness that I feel after dropping Hardin off is strange, and makes me feel a bit pathetic.”

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168. “She doesn’t reach out to me much – ever, really – so I have no idea how she feels or where we stand.”

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169. “Through the years, I learned not to focus on the past, but only look toward the future.”

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170. “You’re going to pay for that!” I yell. He fake-yawns in response, so I swim at him, and he grabs me again – but this time I wrap my thighs around his waist without really realizing it. A shocked gasp falls from his lips.”

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171. “Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same – it’s so perfect for the way I feel about him.”

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172. “But the look on his face as we drove away, he looked heartbroken. And you can’t be heartbroken if you aren’t in love.”

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173. “No, why would you? I mean, yeah, if you want to dump him, go for it, but don’t do it on my behalf.”

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174. “Would I have done anything differently if I had known what was to come? I’m not sure. I would love to give a straight answer to that, but I can’t. At times I am grateful, so utterly lost in the moment of passion that my judgment is clouded and all I can see is him. Other times, I think of the pain he caused me, the deep sting of loss for who I had been, the chaos of those moments when I felt as if my world had been turned upside down, and the answer isn’t as clear as it once was.”

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175. “These women watch nothing but the Food Network and the teen dramas on Freeform. Admittedly, I do like some of those shows. The one about the teenage demon-hunters is my favorite. That, and the foster-family one.”

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176. “I never knew grief until I lost you.”

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177. “That girl is long gone, though. She took a ticket straight to hell, and here she sits, silently burning.”

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178. “From our first encounter, Hardin changed my life in ways that no amount of college prep courses or youth group lectures could have.”

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179. “A veces tienes que dejar que la gente sienta lo que tiene que sentir, que oculten lo que crean que necesitan ocultar y que procesen las cosas a su manera.”

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180. “Look, I know you’ll defend him until you’re blue in the face, but you can’t blame me for wanting to have what he has. I want to be the one you’re defending, I want to be the one that you trust, even though you shouldn’t. I’m always there for you when he isn’t.”

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181. “The man who hates the world is most loved by it.”

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182. “Please text me tomorrow. A smile creeps across my face when she sends a picture of a cell phone, a sleepy face, and that damn tiger.”

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183. “This feels an awful lot like Katniss and Peeta’s Real or Not Real game.”

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184. “What if people don’t like it? What if they don’t even take the chance to read it, but they hate us for what’s inside of it?”

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185. “To tell the truth, I don’t think that Hardin regretted what he did to her as much as he should have, but her forgiveness did chip away at some of the bricks he’s spent years building between himself and the rest of the world, and I know it gave him a little peace.”

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186. “People don’t get married for the right reasons anymore, not that they ever did. In the past it was for status or money, and now it’s only to be sure you won’t be lonely and miserable – two things nearly every married person still feels anyway.”

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187. “Sie war mein Verband, ich war ihr Sicherheitsnetz.”

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188. “I would like to think that every novel I’ve read has became a part of me, created who I am, in a sense.”

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189. “Nothing hurts worse than not hurting at all.”

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