Top 500 Christina Lauren Quotes (2026 Update)
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51. “I like your kind of quiet. Your heart isn’t quiet.”

— Christina Lauren

52. “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.”

— Christina Lauren

53. “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

54. “Take this and stick it up your ass.” I.”

— Christina Lauren

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

— Christina Lauren

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

— Christina Lauren

57. “Best friend bat signal.”

— Christina Lauren

58. “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

59. “Don’t spoil her with toys; spoil her with books.”

— Christina Lauren

60. “Ah. There it is. “I’m a medical-science liaison, Eragon. Basically I talk to physicians.”

— Christina Lauren

61. “Anyone who says money can’t solve problems has always had money.” She lifted.”

— Christina Lauren

62. “Treat your body carefully. Take care of it. Don’t let anyone abuse it, and don’t abuse it yourself.”

— Christina Lauren

63. “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

64. “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.”

— Christina Lauren

65. “She was like a fire-cracker standing too close to a match: all potential energy, still wrapped up so neatly. He wanted to watch her explode. Hell, he was the match. He wanted to make her explode.”

— Christina Lauren

66. “Leaning forward, she asked, “Guys really like the anal, don’t they?”

— Christina Lauren

67. “Despite things being insane and hard and messy, I don’t think I’ve ever liked myself more than I do now. It’s the strangest feeling to be proud simply because I’m taking care of me and mine. Is this what it’s like to grow up?”

— Christina Lauren

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

— Christina Lauren

69. “I saw it and I thought it would make you laugh.” Josh’s eyes soften, and he gives me such an adoring smile, it’s nearly painful. “You look ridiculous in that. I hope you wear it all day.”

— Christina Lauren

70. “My heart is a drum, deep in the jungle of my chest, and it bangs and bangs and bangs for him.”

— Christina Lauren

71. “He is the stillness to my storm, the shadow to my bright sunlight, the Styles to my Harry.”

— Christina Lauren

72. “To think that God loves the trees, but condemns that blossoming thing they do in the spring.”

— Christina Lauren

73. “You don’t get to choose the circumstances. That’s the point of luck: it happens when and where it happens.”

— Christina Lauren

74. “Draw me like one of your French girls, Jack,” I said, looking up at him. He reached down and pinched my ass. “Cheeky.”

— Christina Lauren

75. “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.”

— Christina Lauren

76. “My chest twists in jealousy and possessiveness. I don’t like their silent exchange. I don’t like the feeling that they have a past, a rhythm, an unspoken language.”

— Christina Lauren

77. “So maybe your best everything should be your boyfriend.” I stared at him and he stared at me. I spoke without thinking. “Maybe.” “Maybe,” he agreed in a whisper.”

— Christina Lauren

78. “There’s something so intimate about sharing things out loud you could never say to another person,” I say. “Letting someone really see you – minus the filters.”

— Christina Lauren

79. “Every single point on Earth’s surface is the center of someone’s universe... The center of my world is right where I’m standing.”

— Christina Lauren

80. “Boy meets girl, girl likes boy, girl decides to let boy in her pants.”

— Christina Lauren

81. “Truth is, you’ll never meet a book lover who hates the quiet.”

— Christina Lauren

82. “I can appreciate my body in a bikini and still want to set fire to the patriarchy.”

— Christina Lauren

83. “I don’t want to get your hopes up or anything, but I look really great in this bikini. There’s no revenge like being with someone new who has a great rack.”

— Christina Lauren

84. “Sometimes I wonder if we should just be friends, so that I don’t have to worry about ever losing him.”

— Christina Lauren

85. “You know that just because we’re getting married doesn’t mean that anything between us changes, right? We’re still Will and Hanna. We’re still us.”

— Christina Lauren

86. “His ribs formed a Faraday cage around a crackling electric heart.”

— Christina Lauren

87. “Sometimes it feels like I think about you every minute,” he whispered.”

— Christina Lauren

88. “I think the fact that I never got to fall out of love with him – that I just had to keep moving forward, stumbling into something new and totally different – means that my brain and heart don’t know the protocol here.”

— Christina Lauren

89. “Now, before you think I’m putting too much thought into this, let me remind you that I am no longer in my twenties, and when you meet men at my age you immediately place them on one of three lists, just to make life easier for everyone: datable, not datable, or gay.”

— Christina Lauren

90. “We both know Hazel is a butterfly. I think you have the power to take the dust from her wings.”

— Christina Lauren

91. “I sucked on her neck, closing my eyes and wondering if she’d let me mark her there, so I could see it tomorrow. So everyone could.”

— Christina Lauren

92. “I’m not interested in being anyone’s plaything right now.” “I believe I’m asking to be yours.”

— Christina Lauren

93. “When I say ‘I love you’ I don’t mean that I love what being with you does for my career, or I love how often you’re willing to shag. I mean I love you. I love making you laugh, and seeing how you react to things, and getting to know the little things about you. I love who I am with you, and I’m trusting you not to hurt me.”

— Christina Lauren

94. “The only person whose expectations you have to live up to is yourself.”

— Christina Lauren

95. “Okay... that was unexpected but message received. Take your time. We’ll figure out the milk thing.”

— Christina Lauren

96. “A God worthy of your eternal love wouldn’t judge you for who you love while you’re here.”

— Christina Lauren

97. “I told you I wasn’t with anyone else; why wasn’t that enough?” “Because I’m used to men who say one thing and do another.” “But you expected me to be better than that,” he said, eyes searching mine. “Otherwise why admit you love me? Why give me a night like that?”

— Christina Lauren

98. “I catch a flash of bare ass and find religion.”

— Christina Lauren

99. “I wonder whether I’m single not because I haven’t met the right person yet, but because I’m not the right person yet. The other night, I had the most terrifying thought: Who would I be a good match for? Like, I honestly can’t imagine who that man is.”

— Christina Lauren

100. “Probably that women are always being told to behave in a way that makes everything more harmonious, productive, accessible. They’re told how to do everything from how to dress to how to smile. Men are never told to make things easier for people, but maybe they should be.”

— Christina Lauren