Top 500 Christina Lauren Quotes (2026 Update)
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151. “Your smile is weird,” Ed says when I reach him. “Like you’re farting.“... “Do you want to sit inside or outside?” He points to my stomach. “Maybe outside, better air circulation?”

— Christina Lauren

152. “Empty companionship was lonelier than being alone.”

— Christina Lauren

153. “It’s hard for me sometimes that we aren’t together. I never know where the lines are. I want to cross them all the time.”

— Christina Lauren

154. “I’m definitely not thinking about the quiet way she mumbled she loved me when I carefully lowered her semiconscious naked body onto her bed.”

— Christina Lauren

155. “I don’t actually care if you break my heart, Sebastian. I went into this knowing it could happen and I gave it to you anyway. But I don’t want you to break your own. You have so much space in your heart for your church, but does it have space for you?”

— Christina Lauren

156. “I’m not an optimist, but I’m not exactly a pessimist, either. I’m a wait-and-see-when-you-have-more-info-ist.”

— Christina Lauren

157. “Boobs have always been sort of a problem for me.” Will’s eyes widened. “Boobs are never a problem for anyone. Ever.”

— Christina Lauren

158. “Ea imi oferise prietenia, eu ii doream copul. Ea imi oferise corpul, eu doream sa-i stiu gandurile. Ea imi oferise gandurile, eu ii doream inima .”

— Christina Lauren

159. “I’ve essentially handed my heart over to the person who’s had it on reserve for half my life, and I’m terrified that he doesn’t realize what he’s holding.”

— Christina Lauren

160. “There’s a carcass composed entirely of sexual tension lying abandoned on the couch. I wonder if she can see it, too.”

— Christina Lauren

161. “My mind is a blender, coherent thoughts are chopped and killed.”

— Christina Lauren

162. “I woke up at noon and counted the minutes until I could go back to bed.”

— Christina Lauren

163. “I think I would have been delusional to think I could ever get this lucky.”

— Christina Lauren

164. “I met a hot guy,” I said without thinking. “Really hot. And, like, seventeen feet tall.”

— Christina Lauren

165. “Honesty has always seemed to work best for us:.”

— Christina Lauren

166. “When I get you to say more than two words at a time, I feel like I’ve won something major.”

— Christina Lauren

167. “And I already have a strong urge to devour you.”

— Christina Lauren

168. “You’ve never been for me, Maisie. I never knew you were an option.”

— Christina Lauren

169. “You’re a demon,” I said. “I feel like a bride guarding my virginity before the wedding.” “Well, then feel free to give it up, Ryan,” she said, pushing up onto her toes to kiss me.”

— Christina Lauren

170. “That’s because I’m more dragon than woman,” I replied with a wink.”

— Christina Lauren

171. “Give me those moments where I think he’s coming back. I can take the hurt. The reminder that he’s not coming back-and why-will keep me fighting.”

— Christina Lauren

172. “I hate that I’ve worked so hard but when I look around – compare my life to everyone else’s – it feels like such a small drop in such a massive bucket!”

— Christina Lauren

173. “Maybe it’s because we can be quiet together, and it’s never weird.”

— Christina Lauren

174. “As soon as we open our hearts up to love, we show the universe the easiest way to break them in half.”

— Christina Lauren

175. “And rumor has it the man could win a watermelon-eating contest, if you know what I’m saying.”

— Christina Lauren

176. “Steve Perry versus Arnel Pineda. At his confused expression, I explain, “The guy on YouTube who gained a following for covering Journey songs... then eventually became the new lead singer for the band?”

— Christina Lauren

177. “He was straightforward and quiet: he walked quietly, spoke quietly; even his anger was quiet. It was his love that was booming.”

— Christina Lauren

178. “He surprises me, cupping my face and bending to press his lips to my cheek. It’s far too close to my mouth to be innocent, but not actually touching my lips. It doesn’t quite count as a kiss. Does it?”

— Christina Lauren

179. “I believe now that the universe delivers random acts of kindness, and it’s on us to decide what to do with them.”

— Christina Lauren

180. “I hated her so much in that moment. I hated that she was right and I was wrong, and I hated that she was forcing me to make a choice. I hated how much I wanted her, most of all.”

— Christina Lauren

181. “Ethan Thomas is doing something weird to my emotions.”

— Christina Lauren

182. “Worrying is not preparation.” So.”

— Christina Lauren

183. “I’ve wanted this for months. And I know you feel the same. I love you. I feel you thinking it every time I say it, in the way your hands find some part of me to hold on to.”

— Christina Lauren

184. “I like living alone, but would rather live with you.”

— Christina Lauren

185. “I’ve spent years not trusting my ability to make decisions and quietly letting life just happen to me. It can’t be a coincidence that the moment I stopped being passive and followed my instincts, everything seemed to fall into place. I know what makes me happy – trusting myself. What a gift, right? I found happiness.”

— Christina Lauren

186. “I think I’m only now realizing how hard it must be to be a woman. Too thin or not thin enough. Do your job flawlessly, but don’t show up any of the men. Speak up, but don’t be bitchy. Smile. And then you have people like Brad totally playing into it. I.”

— Christina Lauren

187. “She’s candy-sweet at the surface and probably terrible at communicating negative emotions. Meanwhile, I’m like a sour patch kid on the surface, but will happily detail all the ways I think the world is going to hell.”

— Christina Lauren

188. “He’s not recruiting me to the oiled-up Gay Bliss Club of Northern Utah, but to the LDS Church.”

— Christina Lauren

189. “I want to tell you I’m sorry,′ he says, voice a low burr. ‘Come home and kick me in the teeth if you need to, but then kiss me.”

— Christina Lauren

190. “I realize that finding the perfect person isn’t going to be easy for me because I’m a lot to take,” she says, “but I’m not going to change just so that I’m more datable. At the end of the day, being myself is enough. I’m enough.”

— Christina Lauren

191. “Admissions make feelings intensify simply because they are given space to breathe. Admissions lead to love, and admitting love is like tying yourself to a train track.”

— Christina Lauren

192. “Sighing, I stood and walked over to where I’d left my shoes near the front door. “Okay, fine, I’ll come. But wear a shirt that shows off your tits so I have something to entertain me if I get bored.”

— Christina Lauren

193. “I generally want to commit a felony when I see him. I’m not sure that’s a sign of romantic compatibility.”

— Christina Lauren

194. “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

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

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196. “Stop being so emotionally balanced!”

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197. “Biological compatibility is independent of whether or not we like each other.”

— Christina Lauren

198. “In fact,” I add, “if George Clooney is ever accepted into the Oxford English Dictionary as a verb, that activity is immediately getting added to my bucket list. “As in, ‘Have you ever been George Clooneyed?‘” Oliver asks. “Exactly. ‘We went for a walk, and then George Clooneyed until around two. Good night.”

— Christina Lauren

199. “I used to wonder what it felt like to stand in the middle of a cyclone, a tornado, at the epicenter of an earthquake. Once or twice, when Tyler had bruised my feelings without any awareness of it, I would think, These emotions are tiny. Imagine standing right there when the entire Earth rumbles. I wonder whether what’s happening inside me is simply a smaller version of a tropical storm: everything is being blown around and upended.”

— Christina Lauren

200. “Will Sumner was Jensen’s college best friend, Dad’s former intern, and the object of every one of my teenage fantasies.”

— Christina Lauren