Top 500 Christina Lauren Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “Find a woman who will be your equal in every way. Don’t let yourself fall for someone who’ll put your world before theirs. Fall for the powerhouse who lives as fearlessly as you do. Find the woman who makes you want to be a better man.”

— Christina Lauren

2. “Work like a captain, play like a pirate.”

— Christina Lauren

3. “Courage is being yourself every day in a world that tells you to be someone else.”

— Christina Lauren

4. “A watched pot never boils, and a watched phone never rings.”

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5. “Beauty is only skin-deep, and ugly goes straight to the bone.”

— Christina Lauren

6. “Chloe didn’t get here soon, Dominique would have to roll me to the door to greet my lady friend.”

— Christina Lauren

7. “I thought I would never touch you again.”

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8. “I wouldn’t exactly say we were scraping the bottom of the barrel by date seven, but Josh did feel the need to fake diarrhea, and I readily rushed him out to the car, apologizing profusely to our confused dates over my shoulder.”

— Christina Lauren

9. “It is better to light a candle than curse the darkness.”

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10. “Sometimes, the thing we want is right in front of us, and we’re the last ones to see it.”

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11. “Limerence.” There’s no other word like it: The state of being infatuated with another person.”

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12. “I don’t want to walk out that door and lose what we found in this room.”

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13. “Women don’t always want to be treated like we’re delicate, or rare, or somehow more precious. We want to be wanted. We want sex to be just as raw as you do.”

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14. “Lies. Lying liar who lies all the lies. Tell Me.”

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15. “Favorite word?” he whispers. I don’t even hesitate: “You.”

— Christina Lauren

16. “If only he would keep his mouth shut, he’d be perfect. A piece of duct tape would do the trick. I had some in my desk that I’d occasionally pull out and fondle, hoping someday I could put it to good use.”

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17. “The way you seem nervous makes me think you don’t know that I’m in love with you.”

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18. “I am. But if I could motorboat perfect tits like yours I might be able to find Jesus.”

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19. “Men date younger women all the time and get a pat on the back. Why does dating a younger guy automatically make me a cougar?”

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20. “I want you to watch. And tomorrow when you’re sore, I want you to remember who did it to you.”

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21. “For some reason, the two of us arguing was like some sick form of foreplay.”

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22. “For some sick reason, fighting with this woman always ended with her panties in my pocket.”

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23. “If I eat something delicious, I want him there to take a bite. If I see something beautiful, I want to turn to him and point it out. If I hear something hilarious, I immediately want to call him and tell him everything.”

— Christina Lauren

24. “You’re the love of my life. I assumed I would get over you eventually, but seeing you yesterday? I couldn’t go home to someone else and pretend to love her with everything I have.”

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25. “Losing you was the worst thing that’s ever happened to me, and I still feel the echo of that.”

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26. “Je ne regrette rein.”

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27. “But this is your life, and it will stretch out before you, and you are the only person who can make it whatever you want it to be.”

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28. “And love is love is love is love is love is love is love is love, cannot be killed or swept aside. – LIN-MANUEL MIRANDA.”

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29. “I give myself three more seconds to look at him, and it’s like another punch to the gut. He’s my person. He’s always been my person. My best friend, my confidant, probably the love of my life. And I’ve spent the last eleven years being angry and self-righteous. But at the end of the day, he tore a hole in us, and fate ripped it wide open. “I’m going to go,” I.”

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30. “I’ve never wanted anyone the way I want you. It took a long time before I wanted anyone else, physically, at all.”

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31. “I’ve been waiting for you to come home for eleven years. I’ll go anywhere you go.”

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32. “It’s okay if you don’t want it too. I’ll take anything you’ll give me. Just let me stay here until the morning, okay?”

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33. “I’ve loved you since I knew what love was and I can’t undo that. I would never wish to take that away. Loving you is all the proof I needed that love can last decades. Maybe even a lifetime, who knows.”

— Christina Lauren

34. “Why can’t everyone be like you?” “I can be enough of your world that it feels like everyone is.”

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35. “Tell her you love her. Girls need the words.”

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36. “If I died today, what would be written about me?”

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37. “He would wrap his arms all the way around her shoulders, press his face into her hair while his body curved over hers. His arms became a set of parentheses bracketing the sweetest secret phrase.”

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38. “Hope was a dangerous drug, and Lily was standing at the precipice between two worlds: one that promised everything she ever wanted in life, and another where she’d have to figure out how to make the life she had into the life she wanted.”

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39. “Treat your body carefully. Take care of it. Don’t let anyone abuse it, and don’t abuse it yourself. Every inch of your skin I made diligently; months I slaved over you. You are my masterpiece.”

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40. “I haven’t been living without him. I’ve been merely surviving.”

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41. “I’m sorry I was so quiet tonight,” he said, haltingly. I met his eyes in the mirror. “I like your kind of quiet. Your heart isn’t quiet.”

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42. “His arms became a set of parentheses bracketing the sweetest secret phrase.”

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43. “I’d follow you past the gates of hell, sir.”

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44. “I think of her everywhere. She is everywhere, in every moment, and also she’s in no one moment. She misses every single one of my moments and I’m not sure who that is harder for: me surviving here without her, or her without me, existing wherever she is.”

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45. “We’re married,” he said quietly, pressing another kiss to my belly button. “I’m your safe place. I’ve always been your safe place.”

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46. “It isn’t accurate to say that my heart stops, because really I feel it’s existence intensely, a phantom limb.”

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47. “Do you have any idea what it’s been like?” he asks, getting more frustrated now in the face of my inarticulate fluster. “Every day, I woke up and wondered if that would be the day I’d see you again. And if I did, how would it go? I missed you, so much. I’m twenty nine, and I’ve never loved another woman.” He stares at me, unblinking. “And every woman I’ve been with knows it, unfortunately for them.”

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48. “And it’s not that he’s unhappy. He’s fine. It’s all very deeply fine. A whole lifetime of fine.”

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49. “I like your kind of quiet. Your heart isn’t quiet.”

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50. “I know I’m like Pig-Pen in Charlie Brown, and I have chaos around me, but it’s like he doesn’t even care. He doesn’t need me to change or pretend to be someone else. He’s my person. He’s my best friend.”

— Christina Lauren