Top 500 Christina Lauren Quotes (2026 Update)

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

— Christina Lauren

2. “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

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

— Christina Lauren

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

— Christina Lauren

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

— Christina Lauren

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

— Christina Lauren

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

— Christina Lauren

8. “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

9. “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

10. “You are my masterpiece. I miss you. I love you.”

— Christina Lauren

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

— Christina Lauren

12. “It’ll be okay. Things always look worse from the inside.”

— Christina Lauren

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

— Christina Lauren

14. “Money can’t buy you happiness, but happiness sure is a hell of a lot easier to find when you’re not worried about where your next meal is coming from.”

— Christina Lauren

15. “He’s the one who taught me what love looked like and felt like and then taught me it’s a lie. I have never been able to come back from that.”

— Christina Lauren

16. “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

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

— Christina Lauren

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

— Christina Lauren

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?”

— Christina Lauren

20. “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

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

— Christina Lauren

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

— Christina Lauren

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

— Christina Lauren

24. “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

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

— Christina Lauren

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

— Christina Lauren

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

— Christina Lauren

28. “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

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

— Christina Lauren

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

— Christina Lauren

31. “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.”

— Christina Lauren

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?”

— Christina Lauren

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

— Christina Lauren

34. “Je ne regrette rein.”

— Christina Lauren

35. “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.”

— Christina Lauren

36. “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

37. “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.”

— Christina Lauren

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

— Christina Lauren

39. “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

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

— Christina Lauren

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

— Christina Lauren

42. “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.”

— Christina Lauren

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

— Christina Lauren

44. “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

45. “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

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

— Christina Lauren

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

— Christina Lauren

48. “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.”

— Christina Lauren

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

— Christina Lauren

50. “I don’t want you to walk away from me after I tell you I love you.”

— Christina Lauren