Top 500 Christina Lauren Quotes (2026 Update)
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451. “MY THOUGHTS ARE stacked like a deck of cards and I have to continually shuffle the top one to the back of the pile.”

— Christina Lauren

452. “If they’d been on my wall while we were apart it would have hurt so much I would have gone fetal and subsisted entirely on Cap’n Crunch and self-pity.”

— Christina Lauren

453. “It seems smart to be a lesbian right now. Men are awful.”

— Christina Lauren

454. “It’s as if the massive building has been stripped of its outer layers, revealing the very pieces that keep it erect just underneath. Brightly colored tubes in green, blue, yellow, and red are interspersed with metal beams, and look as much like a piece of art as the items housed inside.”

— Christina Lauren

455. “I felt my heart reaching out, trying to claw its way out of me.”

— Christina Lauren

456. “You could break my heart. Just know that, yeah?”

— Christina Lauren

457. “I’m lonely. I’m lonely because I don’t tell people what I need or what I want, and then get hurt when they don’t figure it out on their own.”

— Christina Lauren

458. “Speaking to him is like having a conversation with a grouchy calculator.”

— Christina Lauren

459. “His kiss is an aching prayer; devotion pours from him.”

— Christina Lauren

460. “Being trapped in a tiny space, I decided it was a good time to dance.”

— Christina Lauren

461. “Ziggy was Jensen’s sister. Ziggy was the kid I never knew. Hanna was this uninhibited, self-possessed woman in front of me who I was pretty sure was going to effectively wreck my world.”

— Christina Lauren

462. “Being with Ethan increasingly feels like spoiling myself with a perfect new pair of shoes or an extravagant dinner out. I just remain unconvinced that I deserve this daily... or that it can last.”

— Christina Lauren

463. “Is it weird to anyone that this roomful of straight men is fighting over Reid and not me?” I ask. Chris, Alex, and Ed seem to give this fair consideration before answering “No” in unison.”

— Christina Lauren

464. “I suspect I would do almost anything for you,” I admitted.”

— Christina Lauren

465. “T-shirts like it was his life’s calling. I wanted to.”

— Christina Lauren

466. “Fondness warmed his gaze from the inside out, as if he was seeing exactly the person he wanted to see.”

— Christina Lauren

467. “The problem was that I wanted to talk about this and she didn’t. The problem was also that I’d somehow misplaced my balls and my spine.”

— Christina Lauren

468. “Everything was so much better before I knew what I was missing.”

— Christina Lauren

469. “What happens when emotion is too big, when it fills the chest and the veins and the limbs? I imagine sunshine filling me until I shatter – leaving starburst-coated girl shrapnel strewn across this bed.”

— Christina Lauren

470. “The problem was I became genuinely stupid when he was around.”

— Christina Lauren

471. “We’re all supposed to be mildly horrified and then start constructing the funny details about that-one-time-we-all-got-married-in-Vegas that we’ll share for the next thirty years. There’s no sweetness or kissing, Mia. Only hangovers and regret.”

— Christina Lauren

472. “It was two weeks of my life, a long time ago, but I loved him. I remember the feeling; it’s still the only time I’ve ever felt it. Maybe this is why I can call it back whenever I need to – though it’s been a long time since I tortured myself that way.”

— Christina Lauren

473. “All he’d ever truly wanted was her.”

— Christina Lauren

474. “Has it always been this way, and I didn’t notice because I was so happy to be included in their twosome, and I was so busy there was nothing else pressing on my mind? Was it such a relief to have something sorted, to not feel anything-not guilt or love or fear or. uncertainty-that I just let this routine become my future?”

— Christina Lauren

475. “He pulled the blankets over their heads, and they made love right there, right back where they started.”

— Christina Lauren

476. “It was comical to compare that to the reaction I’d had to losing Chloe. I’d essentially turned into a filthy hobo, not eating, not showering, and surviving entirely on scotch and self-pity.”

— Christina Lauren

477. “I learned a very important thing that day: my mom would never try to change for a man, and I wouldn’t, either.”

— Christina Lauren

478. “Think Mr. Darcy, but without the lovely proclamations.”

— Christina Lauren

479. “I used to refer to her as social lubricant, but Robert made me promise to never use that phrase again.”

— Christina Lauren

480. “I think your mouth is its own Greek god. Tongueseus.”

— Christina Lauren

481. “Is it weird that this roomful of straight men is fighting over Reid and not me?”

— Christina Lauren

482. “Fine. Have it your way, four. Is it bad form after only four months to tell you I think you’re my forever?”

— Christina Lauren

483. “Will’s jaw was carved and covered in dark stubble. I had a sudden and overwhelming urge to feel it on my thighs.”

— Christina Lauren

484. “Seeing her face – strangely – like being home again, but also like meeting a beautiful girl for the first time.”

— Christina Lauren

485. “I knew exactly what she meant when she whispered, “I missed you.” And all I could say back was “I missed you, too.”

— Christina Lauren

486. “And so could I. Here, I could be the man who was desperately in love for the first time in my life.”

— Christina Lauren

487. “I thought was a pretty clear picture of who he was, but I have to admit.”

— Christina Lauren

488. “I saw how he looked at you when he came in here Monday. He’d let you carry his balls around in your pocket.”

— Christina Lauren

489. “Hannah. Shut up, right now. Come to my room and get laid.”

— Christina Lauren

490. “You always hold out so long. I want it to feel so good you can’t last.” “You’re so evil,” I hissed and she laughed, turning her head to capture my mouth in a kiss.”

— Christina Lauren

491. “I pulled out my phone, sending Hanna a single note. You’re all I can think about anymore.”

— Christina Lauren

492. “Why should I spend my entire life doing something that doesn’t light me on fire like that?”

— Christina Lauren

493. “Did you know the back of your neck is perfect?”

— Christina Lauren

494. “I say a quiet “I didn’t mean it” to the air around me, wanting to take back whatever bad thing I might have just thrown out.”

— Christina Lauren

495. “Okay, when you smile at me like that, I want to climb. And God knows it’s been forever since I’ve been properly manhandled.”

— Christina Lauren

496. “But if you did, how would you touch me?” she asked, folding the garment neatly before placing it in an open drawer in front of her. I barely had to consider the question before my answer burst forward: “Desperately.”

— Christina Lauren

497. “I’m lonely. I’m lonely because I don’t tell people what I need or what I want, and then get hurt when they don’t figure it out on their own. Is it possible to be a highly functioning adult with a successful career, awesome friends and a lovely family, and still be a Level Five Hot Mess? I may be living proof.”

— Christina Lauren

498. “We never did lose what we found in this room,” he said, bending now and kissing my shoulder. “In fact, we turned it into the happiest hate-love of all time.”

— Christina Lauren

499. “When he walked away, shoulders square and broad, hair as black as the shadows under the tree, she felt a little hollow, like maybe he’d taken one of her ribs with him when he left.”

— Christina Lauren

500. “Wasn’t it enough that I was secretly giving her the chance to break my heart?”

— Christina Lauren