Top 500 Christina Lauren Quotes (2024 Update)
Page 4 of 10

151. “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

152. “Because the biggest mistake of his life – his infidelity – had given me the best part of mine.”

— Christina Lauren

153. “What is it?” I follow the path of his eyes to the pan on the stove where I’ve tossed the prawns with the pasta and vegetables. He winces. “It looks unbelievable. It’s just... ” He swipes a palm across the back of his neck. “I’m allergic to shellfish.”

— Christina Lauren

154. “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

155. “We were always too busy memorizing each other.”

— Christina Lauren

156. “I’m woman enough to admit that I’m completely obsessed with his forearms. They’re roped, thick, every single muscle defined. I want to see him haul a big net onto the deck of his ship. God, he would make majestic fisherman porn.”

— Christina Lauren

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

— Christina Lauren

158. “It’s too bad I’m only learning my heart and you have yours rolled in bubble wrap.”

— Christina Lauren

159. “Being near him is a little like slipping into a warm bath.”

— Christina Lauren

160. “I’m terrified of what it would feel like if you weren’t in my life anymore.”

— Christina Lauren

161. “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

162. “When I get angry, I cry. It’s like the two wires cross in my emotional brain.”

— Christina Lauren

163. “My stomach twisted with warmth when he said my name, and I knew I’d stand out in the cold all night if it meant he’d say it again.”

— Christina Lauren

164. “Maybe a boy would kiss me in those woods someday.”

— Christina Lauren

165. “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

166. “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

167. “When I lost her, it felt like I was drowning in all the love I still had that could never be given. It filled me up, choked me like a rag doused in kerosene, spilled out in tears and screams and in heavy, pulsing silence.”

— Christina Lauren

168. “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

169. “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

170. “These red marks that tell the room and the sky and the swollen moon outside for only a tiny trip of time: I belong to him. My body is his.”

— Christina Lauren

171. “Stop being so emotionally balanced!”

— Christina Lauren

172. “But most of all, meu docinha, imagine how proud I am to share this with you. You’re growing up. Starting my period was the process that eventually let me get pregnant with you, when I was ready.”

— Christina Lauren

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

— Christina Lauren

174. “It means you figure out exactly what you want your life to look like, and I find a way to fit into it.”

— Christina Lauren

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

— Christina Lauren

176. “He’s so far buried in his own dogma and his own world of shoulds that he can’t admit to himself that he’s into dudes, that it’s a piece of him, a perfect part of him, and it deserves admiration and respect and space the same way anything else about him does.”

— Christina Lauren

177. “We need to be able to escape the source of pain before we’re debilitated by it.”

— Christina Lauren

178. “But the thing is,” he said, smiling, “I don’t want anyone else. You’ve rather ruined me for other women.”

— Christina Lauren

179. “This throws me. As in I am a brick, and have been hurled at the glass window.”

— Christina Lauren

180. “I don’t know. Because I love to read? I love that you can use words to convince people, or anger people, or entertain people.”

— Christina Lauren

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

— Christina Lauren

182. “I realized it would have been dramatic, but I wanted to storm out and make him follow me and grovel for, like, an entire day.”

— Christina Lauren

183. “But come on. I know you well enough to know that you’re not carrying baggage.” He was holding her gaze, and she felt physically unable to look away. “You’ve chosen your circumstances, Jess. I like that about you. You take what you want and leave the rest behind. You decide.”

— Christina Lauren

184. “You knew that. You had to have known that I’d be here, waiting.”

— Christina Lauren

185. “Do you, House? Do you watch me all the time?”

— Christina Lauren

186. “But because the universe is a cat, and I am but a fuzzy ball of string.”

— Christina Lauren

187. “You describe them as my ‘guilty pleasure.’ Do you have any idea how condescending that is?” “Well, don’t they bring you pleasure?” I ask, confused. “How is that condescending?” “Yes, but why should I feel guilty for reading something that makes me happy?” I open my mouth to respond, and she pins me with a look so clear in its meaning it might as well be a warning shot fired overhead.”

— Christina Lauren

188. “I reach for my bag, pulling out gum, but he quickly moves to me, sliding his hands up my neck to cup my face. “Don’t.” He leans close, sucking on my mouth the way he seems to like so much. “You taste like me. I taste like you.” He bends, licking my tongue, my lips, my teeth. “I like this so much. Let it stay, just for a bit.”

— Christina Lauren

189. “And, if she did, I wondered if she could see in my eyes that it had been good, so good for me; it was making me want to kneel at her feet right now.”

— Christina Lauren

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

— Christina Lauren

191. “You’re looking at me like I’m food.” She held out her carrot, grinned wickedly. “Want some?” I shook my head. “I want you.”

— Christina Lauren

192. “He tilted his head and closed his eyes, moving in just enough to kiss me once, lips parted. “Tell me to stop, Hanna.”

— Christina Lauren

193. “The first mile was always the hardest. By the second, the world grew fuzzy at the edges and only the muffled sound of feet on the trail and the blood pumping in my ears filtered through the haze.”

— Christina Lauren

194. “Is that really how the human heart works? You tell it to chill, and it chills?”

— Christina Lauren

195. “Everything feels yes. His mouth is yes, and his hands are yes, and over me, on top of me now, he’s moving and yes, yes, yes.”

— Christina Lauren

196. “But at the end of the day”, she says, and puts her hand outside the open window, letting the wind pass through her fingers, “being myself is enough. I’m enough.”

— Christina Lauren

197. “Maybe the reason I can’t write about fictional life is because I haven’t actually lived.”

— Christina Lauren

198. “You don’t need him to like you. Or, you know, know that you continue to exist.”

— Christina Lauren

199. “I never expected falling in love with someone would just make me feel even more comfortable in my own skin. I sort of want to tell him, ‘I think I love you’ because I suspect he would make a soft sound of sympathy and agree that it’s unfortunate timing.”

— Christina Lauren

200. “Hanna,” I cut in. “I promise to do my best not to motorboat you at the altar.”

— Christina Lauren