Top 30 Auryn Hadley Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “One day, you’ll be ok with it. You’ll wake up and realize that no one can make you change but you. That whispers only hurt if you listen to them. That the power they have is the power you give them.”

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2. “Before you can fall in love with someone, you have to actually know them, not just think you do.”

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3. “Real love starts as chemistry, builds into friendship, and blossoms into something so magical that it makes everything else feel worthwhile, even the bad parts.”

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4. “Lust is something you want for you. Love is what happens when you want it for them. And when you want it for them more than your own safety? When you’d die for someone? Jade, that’s the kind of love that stories are written about.”

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5. “Then let’s make them pay.” She glanced at him and found him smiling back. “Leeroy Jenkins, mothafucka,” he said softly just before the explosions started going off behind the wall.”

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6. “It’s like being in love with the wind. I can’t hold you, but I can always feel you. You carry me to places I’ve never seen, you make me feel things I just shouldn’t feel.”

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7. “I need to love you now, just like you are, because I can’t stop the future. If the worst happens, then I’ll know I had the best days with you and that you got the best of me. I think that’s all we can ever really be sure of, so that’s what I’m trying to do.”

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8. “That emotion,” Treb said, his voice completely calm, “is called shame. It’s made from things others have buried under your skin and poisoned your mind with.”

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9. “There’s a difference between expensive and comfortable. Often, the two are not the same.”

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10. “It hurts so much less than the regrets of what you should’ve done, could’ve done, or wish you’d done. It’s there and gone. Regret lingers, eating away the joy in everything. Sometimes, it really is better to make a bad decision. It’s easier than making none at all.”

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11. “Screw all the rules. Screw everything that makes sense. Dez, I want to be flawed with you.”

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12. “Strength doesn’t come from muscles and mass. It comes from the heart.”

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13. “Lies aren’t always bad. Sometimes they’re the thing we need to keep going. To keep our enemies from knowing we’re actually a threat. To protect ourselves and those we care about.”

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14. “Make a decision. Good or bad, it doesn’t matter. Just make a decision and live with it. Embrace what you do have. Stop worrying about what you don’t. Ask for help, thank those who give it, and act like this is already done. Make the people with you feel confident, sweetness. Give them the power they can’t give themselves.”

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15. “The easiest thing to do is to always say yes. To turn yourself inside out to make everyone else happy. The hard thing? That’s speaking up when you know someone won’t like it. Screaming at the top of your lungs to make people listen. And you want to know a secret? The hard things are what make us strong. They’re what change the world.”

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16. “They’d never had anyone laugh at them, been forced to suck up their pride, or those other awkward things normal people learned from.”

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17. “The less insecure I feel, the less I worry. That’s all jealousy is. It’s the fear that I’m losing something to someone else. That they’re getting what I should have.”

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18. “It’s ok to want it. It’s beautiful to be different. It takes strength and courage, and those are never things to be afraid of.”

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19. “People are just people.”

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20. “Me, too,” Tsij agreed. “Especially Star Wars. I want one of those lightsabers.” Both Matt and Melissa laughed. Matt nodded emphatically. “I keep saying the toys are for my boy, but it’s a lie, and my wife knows it.”

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21. “She was the promise that a boy chained in a tavern or a girl starving in a basement could become something more. She was true love and complete determination. She was an example to follow and a cheerleader to encourage. Most of all, she was the voice.”

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22. “They hunted our prey, destroyed our homes, and killed our culture to make us serve them. When we objected, they twisted us, forcing us to stand taller, bleed more red, and even speak their words. Soon, we replaced their machines, and the humans were finally happy with their easy lives. In only a few generations, we became their greatest tool, kept in check by our primal needs and shackled by our own minds. Our.”

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23. “All my life, I’ve been replaceable, but I want to be wanted. I want my relationships to be more than just inserting tab A into slot B. For me, it’s an emotional thing. I want to be giddy and giggly. I want to be in lust.” I moved, knowing he had to be getting chilled without the hot water. “Sure, I want to fall in love with everyone, but lust and friendship are the bare minimum.”

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24. “If you’re going to fail,” Sal quoted softly, “then fail as big as you can. They’ll forgive you for anything you do with gusto, and it won’t even matter if they like you.”

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25. “If I created a design like this for someone, I think it would be a love letter. No one, not even a god, puts that much effort into something unless it’s meant to impress the recipient.”

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26. “Sweetie, sometimes being a warrior simply means taking the hits so someone else doesn’t have to.”

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27. “She couldn’t change who she was. She couldn’t be anyone but herself. She could fake it for a few moments, but she was who.”

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28. “You go away when you’re high. You get closer when you’re drunk. When you’re both? I dunno, just kinda feels like you’re empty.”

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29. “I’m supposed to be your girl.” “No. You’re supposed to be yours. I’m supposed to be mine, and Biqos is supposed to be his. Well, men for us, but you know what I mean.”

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30. “I’ll keep trying, though, if you will.’ ‘What if,’ she hiccupped a sob, ‘I freak out?’ ‘Then we start over. But we can’t go forward until we take a step.”

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31. “Unlike most of you, I’ve been married before, and I’m well aware that it’s easier to stay on a woman’s good side than to try to make up for a mistake.”

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32. “We’re not meek because we have to be. We’re meek because it’s easier. That fool just took away the easy option.”

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33. “We’re not perfect, Sia, but we’re not a force of some all-powerful evil. We’re just people who happen to disagree with what the angels are doing. Good and evil aren’t tangible. They aren’t inherent because of where we were born. They’re just a matter of perspective which changes depending on whose story you listen to.”

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34. “That was why he and Dez were different. They knew the rules were a lie. He was scared to be alone; she was scared to be with people. He felt like he’d fade away if he wasn’t touched; she felt like she’d be smothered out of existence if she was. He’d wanted so badly to die and make all the pain end; she still did. Everyone knew pain, but some lived closer to it than others.”

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