Top 150 C.D. Reiss Quotes (2026 Update)
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101. “Her enthusiasm infected me. She was light, life, energy. Everything. What wouldn’t I do for her, when she gave me so much? I would have married her in an instant. So I did.”

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102. “You want to say something you’re not saying,” I said. “I don’t want to be your girlfriend, so being honest isn’t going to come back and bite you on the ass.”

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103. “Why did you become a psychiatrist?” I asked. “Because it’s easy to fix the body. The mind though? Once that’s broken, it’s hard to set right again, but if you do help someone set it back, they can overcome anything.”

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104. “His self-awareness is frightening and exhilarating. His voice has a British lilt that’s masculine, confident, educated without being snotty.”

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105. “We weren’t going to last, not as a couple. Not as lovers or sinners. She loved me. I owned her.”

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106. “She was easily hurt and took it on herself to right any wrong she saw. Such a small body. So much weight.”

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107. “I didn’t know what we were saying to each other. We were just battering rams of hurt and betrayal.”

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108. “What we have isn’t something we made. It’s something that existed before we even met.”

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109. “Where I would go? Who would love me the way I needed to be loved? Would I spend the rest of my life in a state of free fall, doing everything I could to find out where the bottom was?”

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110. “She didn’t understand us. No one would.”

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111. “How far down the path had we come to have no obligations?”

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112. “Happiness didn’t come neatly packaged. It found you in the moments between tears and laughter, in the fights and brokenness, in the support and in the bond with someone who loved you as broken as you were and as whole as you’d become.”

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113. “Nothing. You need nothing. I provide you with what you need, and what I don’t provide, you don’t need. Think of it as a vacation from adulthood.”

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114. “The way everything she said made me smile had to be the Stockholm Syndrome.”

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115. “I worshipped her virtue while destroying it.”

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116. “I loved her. Wanted to love her. Needed to love her, and the second she kneeled, she’d be nothing to me.”

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117. “You’ve stuffed your needs into a bag and thrown them into the river because they scare you. But I see them, because I am the river.”

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118. “Your madness is silent and your sanity makes a racket.”

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119. “You are my life. It doesn’t matter what I am, or what I’ve done, as long as you’re mine.”

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120. “I didn’t know how to own him with the same surety. I didn’t know how to want things for us. But he was teaching me how to be his.”

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121. “Without you, this part of myself that’s open now isn’t an opportunity. It’s an open wound. Every time you shut down, it bleeds.”

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122. “But I was going to wait because I had the feeling he’d be worth it.”

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123. “Some things are in the stars. I was meant to protect you. And you were meant to rule.”

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124. “His hands cup my jaw like a grail. He’s passionate and starving for this kiss but generous. Responsive. Lavish with his attention, as if he’s the richest man in the world and he’s spending every dime on devotion.”

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125. “Promises were for children and people who weren’t worthy of trust.”

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126. “Spread me like a sheet of paper. Write your life on mine. Fold past and present together like a letter. I am yours.”

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127. “You dress for the world, but under that, you dress for me. I own your softest places, and what touches them is mine.”

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128. “The rules were: only the truth, even if it hurt. We would never protect each other from each other. And no judgment.”

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129. “His lips were a promise, a blood bond, a kiss of greeting and goodbye, and the years in between.”

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130. “Was I made for Antonio by dint of my genetics? Was I an animal from birth? Had the ream me been dormant all this time?”

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131. “I just wanted to watch her exist.”

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132. “His parents had skimmed from the very top of the gene pool to make that mouth.”

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133. “My life is with him. That’s how I live it. The rest is unnecessary complication.”

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134. “I watched him put his fingers to his lips and blow me a kiss before shaking his hand as if I was too hot to handle.”

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135. “I didn’t like jewelry that much anyway.”

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136. “How could I go back to earth, having kissed heaven?”

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137. “Really? Jessica came back? That’s amazing.” “Yes, but I don’t want her. I’m keeping the new one. Unexpected upside.”

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138. “I knew this city like a lover, and she’d whisper her secrets to me.”

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139. “I told my love, I told her all my heart, Trembling, cold, in ghastly fears – Ah, she doth depart.”

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140. “A man puts on clothes for the place and occasion. A woman dresses to make a point.”

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141. “She could rule the world. She already ruled me.”

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142. “I didn’t know how to exist inside my own contradictions.”

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143. “I love you, Kitten,” he said. “And I’m sorry I tied you up to say this. But I need you to hear it, and I need your defenses down.”

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144. “I didn’t believe she had as much control as she asserted. “You drive.”

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145. “She didn’t take a dime. She took everything that mattered.”

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146. “More than wanting you for myself, I want you to have a good life.”

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147. “That all you got?” “’The very instant that I saw you, did my heart fly to your service.”

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148. “He understood me and he still wanted me, not in spite of my failings, but because of them.”

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149. “He only said the one word. A prayer. A supplication. A breath from his heart to mine.”

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150. “What I meant was, I love your filthy mouth. And I love your mouth when it sings and jokes. I love your body, and everything it does to me. I love when you come, when you squirm under me, begging for it. I love your hands, and your eyes. I love your honor and integrity. I love your loyalty, your intelligence. I love your honesty, even when it hurts me. I’ve fallen in love with you, Monica. I didn’t think it would happen to me again, but it did. Thank you.”

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