Top 500 Christina Lauren Quotes (2026 Update)
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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. “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

153. “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

154. “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

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

— Christina Lauren

156. “Because I love to read? I love that you can use words to convince people, or anger people, or entertain people. But you can use them to... ” He shrugged, blushing a little. “Arouse people, too.”

— Christina Lauren

157. “I’d known heartbreak before, but this was a different sensation, like a lit match held to the bloody organ inside, holding steady, waiting patiently for it to dry out, harden into coal, catch fire.”

— Christina Lauren

158. “I’M HIDING IN the bathroom, crying on the toilet,” she said when Fizzy answered an hour later. Jess’s friend barked out a laugh and an “Aww, I love it when you ignore boundaries. Usually that’s my wheelhouse.”

— Christina Lauren

159. “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

160. “Your smoldering might eventually kill me, Will. And the best thing is I think you have no clue that you look at women this way.”

— Christina Lauren

161. “I could practically hear my brain bleeding.”

— Christina Lauren

162. “The past decade seems like a foggy blur, like we took a long road trip from one point of the earth and back again, traveling in a wide circle, destined to end up here.”

— Christina Lauren

163. “I needed you even more, I say, and begin sobbing again. But I couldn’t figure out how to forgive you.”

— Christina Lauren

164. “It reminds me of going to a seafood buffet with Dad when he took me to a conference in New Orleans. Dad got this intensely focused look on his face. Don’t eat the filler, he said, meaning breadsticks, tiny sandwiches, even the beautiful, tiny-but-flavorless cakes. Dad made a beeline for the crab legs, crawdads, and seared tuna. Breathless small talk right now would be breadsticks.”

— Christina Lauren

165. “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

166. “He bent, pressing his mouth to my knuckles, eyes closed. It felt like worship.”

— Christina Lauren

167. “It never occurred to me that you might be mine.”

— Christina Lauren

168. “You’re so lucky and you don’t even know it.”

— Christina Lauren

169. “A little. But I’ve wanted to ask every day, and every day I get scared.” Holding up his hand before she could misinterpret his words, he hastily added, “Not because I’m not sure. But because I want you to be as sure as I am.”

— Christina Lauren

170. “Hi, Hanna.” Her mouth dropped open and her beautiful eyes went wide. “You didn’t call me Ziggy.” Smiling, I whispered, “I know.” “Say it again?” Her voice came out husky, as if she was asking me to touch her again, to kiss her again.”

— Christina Lauren

171. “He tastes like cheap alcohol and contradictions, but it is still hands-down the best kiss of my life.”

— Christina Lauren

172. “Ladies and gentlemen: her soulmate.”

— Christina Lauren

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

— Christina Lauren

174. “I feel like we meet people in life and want so much for them to like us that we suck in our stomachs and pretend we don’t fart and tell them a bunch of things we think they want to know. If it works they fall for the person we want to be, and not for the person we are.”

— Christina Lauren

175. “I’m the human equivalent of a fart that clears the room.”

— Christina Lauren

176. “I could tell her, I have feelings for you I haven’t had before. I’ve been struggling with them since the first second I saw you, weeks ago. I don’t know what these feelings mean, but I want to find out.”

— Christina Lauren

177. “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

178. “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

179. “Time. I knew well enough that time numbed certain things.”

— Christina Lauren

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

— Christina Lauren

181. “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

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

— Christina Lauren

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

— Christina Lauren

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

— Christina Lauren

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

— Christina Lauren

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

— Christina Lauren

187. “Just because thoughts are loud or constant doesn’t mean they’re right.”

— Christina Lauren

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

— Christina Lauren

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

— Christina Lauren

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

— Christina Lauren

191. “He’d loved Lily so deeply that it changed his biology. Standing here now, it seemed his love for her hadn’t gone away, it had just been vacuum-sealed and stored. Back in her presence, the physical memory of his infatuation was released in a deluge, gasping to life, and adrenaline flooded his bloodstream.”

— Christina Lauren

192. “We’re going to be horrible parents.” Laughing, I agreed, “The worst.” “We’ve never known failure,” he said, eyes manically searching mine. “I mean, we will probably be the most uptight – ” “Strict – ” “Overbearing – ” “Neurotic – ” “No,” he said, shaking his head, his eyes shining again. “You’re going to be perfect.”

— Christina Lauren

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

— Christina Lauren

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

— Christina Lauren

195. “So maybe if I ever met this Andy twat I wouldn’t actually punch his smug face after all. Maybe I’d shake his hand for messing things up with Sara so epically that she moved to New York and stopped being the woman who did what she was supposed to do, and started to be the woman who did what she bloody well wanted.”

— Christina Lauren

196. “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

197. “An eight-hour flight, and there’s no movie,” I say to myself, glaring at the screenless seat back in front of me. “Maybe they’re hoping your life flashing in front of your eyes will be distraction enough.”

— Christina Lauren

198. “This, what we have, is the most amazing thing I have ever felt. Do you feel it too?”

— Christina Lauren

199. “My couch has never looked so inviting. My television is way better than the one we had in the suite. My bed is fluffy and clean, and I can’t wait until it’s dark enough to justify taking a running leap into my pillows. I am a homebody, through and through, and there’s nothing like being home.”

— Christina Lauren

200. “As if that would be my reaction to seeing you naked, Olive.”

— Christina Lauren