Top 70 Chloe Liese Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “But grief doesn’t get easier. It just gets familiar. You learn to live with.”

— Chloe Liese

2. “We can’t possibly hope to always live ‘happily.’ But ‘ever after’? That we can hope for and choose. Because ‘ever after’ isn’t an idea. It’s a person – an imperfect person who’s perfect for you.” Her eyes search mine as she gives me one soft, tender kiss. “You’re that person, for me. You’re my ever after.”

— Chloe Liese

3. “Don’t downplay your work,” she says fiercely. “Don’t make yourself small just because someone else has.”

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4. “At some point, every love is a tragedy. It just doesn’t have to stay that way. We choose our endings. That’s Aristotle’s point. Tragedy is built – it has a structure. And if that’s not the ending you want, then you get out of that trajectory. You change the narrative.” I.”

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5. “I hold her close and kiss her, then pull back enough so I can stare into those wide, deep eyes. “I love you. I always have.” Wind rushes through the trees, wraps around us, as I tuck her close, as I press a kiss to her lips and whisper, “It was always only you.”

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6. “Everyone deserves to have someone in their corner who believes the best in them even when they’re at their worst.”

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7. “You know it’s okay, right? For someone to see the best in you. For them to like the things you’re way too hard on yourself for.”

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8. “Being alone,” he says, “is not the same as being lonesome.”

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9. “I already accepted your apology.” “But I’m still suffering the consequences.” God, men really don’t get it sometimes. They want apologies to wipe away the pain. But pain takes time to heal. You can forgive and hurt as you recover from the wound.”

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10. “I’m saying happily ever after doesn’t exist. Not because life long love is impossible, but because, as we’ve learned, no couple can live happily, ever after. People whose love lasts, whose love grows and endures choose each other in the unhappily ever after, the dark moments, not just the dazzling ones. We can’t possible hope to always live happily. But ever after? That we can hope for and choose.”

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11. “Relationships aren’t perfect, Frankie. They’re living, breathing things. They have growing pains. They have highs and lows. They take trust and forgiveness. They don’t require perfection or flawlessness. They just require two people who want to love each other and keep learning the best way to do that.”

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12. “Life begets death begets life. The only thing we can do is honor the beauty and dependability of that cycle.”

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13. “Because I believe we all deserve the chance to be seen for who we are in our present, not for who we’ve been in our past. Because I believe that while you can’t rewrite life’s previous chapters, you have every present moment to do something new, something better, and I hold on to hope that anyone who wants to can shape their life into a story they’re proud of.”

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14. “I figured out what parts of belonging fit me best, and now that’s what I wear in the world. That’s how I learned to fit in.”

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15. “My little sister is on the spectrum. So, while everyone’s unique, and I’m no expert, I love someone who’s autistic. And I hope you know I’m a safe place for you to be you.”

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16. “My therapist says, show people who you really are, and you get the absolute thrill of knowing they love you for you. That’s why the friends I do have aren’t many, but they know and love the real me.”

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17. “That’s why I love Shakespeare Club, why I read books, because those made-up worlds contain some of the most tender, scary, beautiful human truths, navigated in the safety of imagination, whose wisdom and hopes I take with me bravely into my own life.”

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18. “The concept that “someone like me” could wear a two-piece is apparently revolutionary. If I wear something that no one would think twice about a skinny person wearing, it automatically makes me a body-positivity warrior, instead of just a woman wearing what she damn well pleases.”

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19. “And that’s when I became a problem, not a person.”

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20. “Art can only reveal, only make us more truthful. It’s just that sometimes being truthful feels like it’s made things worse. Because when you face the facts, then you have to live with them. Eventually, you have to do something about them.”

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21. “If you believe youre loveable, than you have to believe there’s someone out there up for loving you.”

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22. “Come on, obstinate offspring. Time to watch you squirm.”

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23. “In the kitchen, I notice my Nespresso machine was used, and a solitary spoon sits by the sink in a small caramel puddle. Milk with coffee. Exactly how Frankie likes it. Cream, if it’s available, one sugar. I sound like a creeper knowing that. But having unrequited feelings for a woman for over three years, with no appropriate opportunity to socialize outside of work without raising suspicion, you soak up every little detail you can when you’re together.”

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24. “Cupping her neck, I knead the tense muscles at the base of her skull. Frankie moans against my mouth, her lips parting, and the sound, I swear, it shakes the earth beneath my feet.”

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25. “If I have baby fever, Lo’s having a baby febrile seizure.”

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26. “Wherever You Are, My Love Will Find You to.”

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27. “Before Ren can say another word, I gasp as our towels drop completely. We’re naked, front to front. Ren opens his mouth, as if to say something, when a low whistle interrupts him. “Man, brother,” Viggo says around a bite of apple. “I need whatever workout you’re doing. Those. Glutes.”

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28. “I want to confess that I’m wild about her. I want to ask if she’s even a little wild about me, too.”

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29. “Because I want us. I want you here, with me. Yesterday. A week ago. Forever.”

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30. “A smile only for her.”

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31. “Reading a book is just like opening your heart to someone. You won’t know if you’ll connect until you try.”

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32. “Here’s the thing about reading romance: it’s taught me an appreciation for a good grovel, but it’s also taught me to recognize a toxic character when I see one.”

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33. “I threw everything into loving my mom because where she went, I went. She was my mom, my dad, my best friend, my everything. Then, when she was sick, I spent years worried and stressed and heartbroken that I was going to lose the one person I had let myself love with all my.”

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34. “That I deserve love for being exactly who I am,” I admit miserably. “That the person worthy of my love will love all of me.”

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35. “Gentle kisses chase gentler words.”

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36. “I love you,” I tell him. “And I’m terrified.”

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37. “So, she can keep holding my hand, then, and I won’t give her the plague.”

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38. “Hate, enmity, rivalry are all passionate responses. My personal theory is that they are incomplete expressions of one core human emotion: love.”

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39. “It’s not different. It’s being human. This is existence. This is friendship. We love each other. We take turns holding each other up.”

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40. “I hope you know this without me saying it, but you are the farthest thing from a disappointment that I have ever met, Jamie Westenberg. The people who matter know that. As my mom says, anyone who can’t love you for you doesn’t deserve your heart.”

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41. “You reacted badly to being loved well.”

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42. “Have you ever started out crying for one thing and found yourself crying for so much more by the time you really get going? That’s what happens to me sometimes. That’s what happens now.”

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43. “And listen, I love myself for who I am, every part of me, the parts that fit easily in this world and the parts that don’t, but it’s a whole other thing to ask someone else to love me for all of those parts, too.”

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44. “Feel some feelings. Get messy with me. Be my friend, Sebastian.”

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45. “I can’t lose her.” “So don’t. Go home and fight for her.” He laughs but it breaks with emotion. “How do you fight for someone who doesn’t want to be fought for? How do you repair something that they say is irrevocably broken?” “You show up and demonstrate hope. You show her that, yes, things break, and they’ll never be what they were before, but when you piece them together, they can still be beautiful, only different.”

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46. “Glorious burgers,” she says thickly around a bite. “I could never let them go. I mean Coach would kill me for eating this, but goddamn, there is nothing better than a double cheeseburger after a long day. I don’t care what my carbon footprint is. Kill that cow and get it in my belly.”

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47. “Your image does not need ‘managing’. It needs a goddamn resurrection.”

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48. “I’ll keep you safe,” I tell him. “I’ll love you with everything I can.”

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49. “Think about it. We don’t bother with people we’re indifferent to. We provoke and prank and tease those who get under our skin and make us feel, people who incite our passion.”

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50. “How original and singular each person is. The parts of our bodies that diet culture and photoshopping tell us we should try to erase and hide – human ‘imperfection’ – they were what I thought, and still do think, make us works of art. Stretch marks. Wrinkles. Freckles and fine lines and rolls and curves. I realized I wanted to make art celebrating that, defending that belief.”

— Chloe Liese