Top 500 Christina Lauren Quotes (2024 Update)
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451. “I don’t know how to go about the rest of my life pretending I don’t want her, with a force that rivals the pull of the tides.”

— Christina Lauren

452. “Christ on a cracker, he’s pretty.”

— Christina Lauren

453. “I want to figure out what I like.”

— Christina Lauren

454. “Come in. Sit anywhere but on the bed. Don’t look cute, don’t get undressed, and don’t touch my underwear.”

— Christina Lauren

455. “Mom can’t help herself. “Does he know about you?” “About how I turn into a troll at sunset?” I shake my head. “I don’t think so.”

— Christina Lauren

456. “The stars could fall, the ocean could take over the land, and I wouldn’t even realize it until long after Finn slows his hips and runs his hand up my leg and along my side, until he reaches my jaw, cupping it and telling me he’s never wanted anything the way he wants me.”

— Christina Lauren

457. “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

458. “He could only do rowdy because he felt what I felt: that whip-crack unleashing that comes when you meet the person who frees you.”

— Christina Lauren

459. “She’d missed seeing me like this, I knew. She’s missed seeing me obsessed and hungry to claim, seeing me overcome and wild.”

— Christina Lauren

460. “Sometimes the fantasy of getting everything you ever wanted is so much easier than the reality pressing up against the glass.”

— Christina Lauren

461. “Writing is a tie – however tenuous – to him.”

— Christina Lauren

462. “Things are easy, and fun, and effortless. This isn’t how new relationships are supposed to be: they’re supposed to be stressful, and exhausting, and uncertain.”

— Christina Lauren

463. “Finally Max spoke: “They haven’t tried to kill each other in at least four months. It’s confusing the hell out of everyone.”

— Christina Lauren

464. “I stare up at him, hating the tiny fluttering that gets going in my chest because he knows the Harry Potter reference.”

— Christina Lauren

465. “But then I met you,′ he says.”

— Christina Lauren

466. “I was a giant lying liar.”

— Christina Lauren

467. “Finally she turns, reaching for the door. “You’re like my blanket fort.” “I’ve been called worse things.”

— Christina Lauren

468. “Scientists are often pretty critical of other scientists and what we choose to do with our time and knowledge.”

— Christina Lauren

469. “Calvin told me to do something with my brain, but how? Threads of ideas appear on the edge and are gone as soon as my fingers settle on the keys. There’s no connective tissue to string them together, no skeleton to hold them up. I want to live my life with the intensity I see on the stage up there, want to feel passionate about something in the same way. But what if it never happens for me?”

— Christina Lauren

470. “This was not going well. Friends, I reminded myself. Secret agent assignment. Learn the ways of the Ninja, and escape unharmed.”

— Christina Lauren

471. “I nodded but couldn’t form even a single word in response. I wanted him so much it hurt, and now he was touching me, finally...”

— Christina Lauren

472. “This is why hookups never work for me: I don’t like having to mentally process it all after. I don’t like questioning my behaviour, questioning theirs. There are too many rules to such a game that are purported to have no strings attached.”

— Christina Lauren

473. “But I’m afraid you’ll have to find your luck somewhere else. I’m quite fond of my testicles; I’d like to keep them. I’m not going to smooth the way for you here.”

— Christina Lauren

474. “Free beats talented, every time.”

— Christina Lauren

475. “When Elliot walked up to us... I swear that was the first time I’d seen you smile like that-with your entire body-and it made me question everything about your personality before then.”

— Christina Lauren

476. “He was always so calm, always adaptable. She realized, watching him, that he met challenges as if they were an expected part of his path. By contrast, she resented every tiny roadblock.”

— Christina Lauren

477. “My new dress itched and I wished I’d taken the time to ask around the lab about these Spanx things I had on. From this first experience with them, I decided they were created by Satan, or a man who was too thin for skinny jeans.”

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478. “I’d had a few of these quiet, crystallizing moments in the past few weeks. Moments where I simultaneously registered how much I’d grown up and how little I really knew about life and relationships. Some of these moments happened when I was watching Bennett and Chloe, and the quiet way they picked on and adored each other in equal measure. Another moment was here, playing a game by myself, feeling more content than I had in a very long time.”

— Christina Lauren

479. “So every day I would fight for Sebastian, and people in the same boat, who don’t have what I do, who struggle to find themselves in a world that tells them white and straight and narrow gets first pick in the schoolyard game of life.”

— Christina Lauren

480. “But if a tree falls in the woods, maybe it makes no sound.”

— Christina Lauren

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

— Christina Lauren

482. “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

483. “When you’re younger you want the boy who knows how to play the game but when you’re older you want the man who knows when it’s not a game anymore.”

— Christina Lauren

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

— Christina Lauren

485. “But when he kissed me? I didn’t feel lost in him the way I get lost in you.”

— Christina Lauren

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

— Christina Lauren

487. “Do you want to join me at the park for a run?” “You run?” I asked. “On purpose?”

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488. “She looked up at me, almost triumphant with discovery. “I was right – you made the best noise when you came.”

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489. “I want more than just this.”

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490. “I’ll be yours every second if that’s what you want. You just have to tell me, Plum.”

— Christina Lauren

491. “Nothing is harder in a relationship than not respecting the person you’re with.” He leans his chin heavily into his hand. “I didn’t like myself with her. I was willing to try to be the guy she wanted rather than who I really am.”

— Christina Lauren

492. “But when I looked up and met her eyes, I lost it. She was staring at me and it was her – Hanna, this girl I saw every morning and fell in love with a little bit more every single time she opened her mouth.”

— Christina Lauren

493. “I’d been so focussed on enjoying Sarah the mother, that I’d barely let myself enjoy Sarah, the woman.”

— Christina Lauren

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

— Christina Lauren

495. “The silence grew, and I felt silently inspected. I’d been caught. It didn’t help that Jesus’ tiny decapitated porcelain head was watching me from the sideboard, judging. He knew.”

— Christina Lauren

496. “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

497. “Stop being so emotionally balanced!”

— Christina Lauren

498. “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

499. “Do you want to join me at the park for a run?” “You run?” I asked. “On purpose?” “Yes,” he said, outright laughing now. “Not the I’m-being-chased running, but the I’m-exercising running.”

— Christina Lauren

500. “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