Top 500 Christina Lauren Quotes (2024 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. “Courage is being yourself every day in a world that tells you to be someone else.”

— Christina Lauren

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

— Christina Lauren

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

— Christina Lauren

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

— Christina Lauren

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

— Christina Lauren

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

— Christina Lauren

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

— Christina Lauren

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

— Christina Lauren

10. “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.”

— Christina Lauren

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

— Christina Lauren

12. “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.”

— Christina Lauren

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

— Christina Lauren

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

— Christina Lauren

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

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

— Christina Lauren

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

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

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

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21. “Je ne regrette rein.”

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

— Christina Lauren

24. “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?”

— Christina Lauren

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

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

— Christina Lauren

27. “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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28. “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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29. “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.”

— Christina Lauren

30. “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.”

— Christina Lauren

31. “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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32. “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.”

— Christina Lauren

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

— Christina Lauren

34. “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?”

— Christina Lauren

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

— Christina Lauren

36. “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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37. “Do you live here now Lola?” Not-Joe asks from behind the counter as I walk past him to the back of the store. “Because if so, I could show you how to run the register so I can go smoke a blunt.” “I heard that,” Oliver mumbles from across the store. He looks up as I pass and gives me a little smile. There are a thousand words in that tiny expression, and I don’t speak the language.”

— Christina Lauren

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. “I can’t read him. I can’t grasp him. I have no idea what he’s thinking and if he’s messing with me or if he really is this good, but never before have I wanted so fiercely to lean forward and put my mouth on someone’s neck, begging them to want me.”

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40. “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

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

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

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43. “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.”

— Christina Lauren

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

— Christina Lauren

45. “Well, you’re more, too. You’re my best everything.”

— Christina Lauren

46. “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.”

— Christina Lauren

47. “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

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

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49. “I wanted to translate your frowns and find out what your problem with me was and then bend you over the back of my couch.”

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50. “If you can’t be good, at least be good at it.”

— Christina Lauren