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. “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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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. “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.”

— Chloe Liese

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

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

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10. “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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11. “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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12. “Because I want us. I want you here, with me. Yesterday. A week ago. Forever.”

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13. “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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14. “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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15. “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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16. “And that’s when I became a problem, not a person.”

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17. “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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18. “Her cry breaks against my kiss, as I sweep her up in my arms, shielding her as best as I can from the rain. She shrieks with laughter, clutching her bag and cane tight against us, throwing her head back to the open sky. Tears of heartache become tears of joy, as the clouds break for the determined sun. I kiss Frankie and taste hope.”

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

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20. “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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21. “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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22. “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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23. “If I have baby fever, Lo’s having a baby febrile seizure.”

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24. “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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25. “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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26. “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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27. “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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28. “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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29. “In Freya’s aura, I forgot every single thing weighing on my mind – money, a job, money, food, money, my mother, oh, and money of course, because there was never enough, and it was an ever-present shadow darkening moments that should be bright. Like the sun ripping a cold, solitary planet into orbit, Freya demanded my presence. Here. Now. Just a few dazzling minutes in her gravitational pull and that pervasive darkness dissolved, leaving only her. Beautiful. Bright. Dazzling. I was hooked.”

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30. “Because I know that having arthritis, being autistic, does not make me less whole or human. It doesn’t make me wrong or broken. It makes some things in my life more challenging in ways, yes, and maybe I don’t represent the “norm,” but I can be someone who surmounts obstacles without it meaning there’s something fundamentally lacking in my makeup.”

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31. “I’d rather be afraid with you than fearless with anyone else.”

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32. “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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33. “A smile only for her.”

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

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

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

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38. “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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39. “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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40. “Books help me feel a bit more connected to a world that often is hard to make sense of. Books are patient with me. They don’t laugh at me instead of with me. They don’t ask why I’m “always” frowning, or why I can’t sit still. Books welcome me – weirdness and all – and take me exactly as I am.”

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41. “No one’s unsavable.”

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42. “Only you could be both sweet and a total jerk in the same breath.”

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43. “I don’t handle stressful situations well. I get anxious. Overwrought. Histrionic. It’s very Victorian.”

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44. “I feel bad, but it’s best he’s not here. You are a noisy lover, Mr. Bergman.” A blush heats my cheeks as I glare down at her playfully. “I think you mean, passionate, Ms. Zeferino.”

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45. “And for the first time in too many years, I know that I’m loved for exactly who I am.”

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46. “Don’t worry about tomorrow. Tomorrow will worry for itself,” my dad’s always told me.”

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47. “As if I’d want anyone else if I had you.”

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48. “Frankie crying made me feel like my heart was being cut out of my chest.”

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49. “I promise I’ll keep my eyes ahead, Freya.”

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50. “I can’t think of the word right now. But it means her medicine makes her body very friendly towards the germs. She needs something so she’s safe from my plague.”

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