Top 500 Christina Lauren Quotes (2024 Update)
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151. “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

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

— Christina Lauren

153. “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

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

— Christina Lauren

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

— Christina Lauren

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

— Christina Lauren

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

— Christina Lauren

158. “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

159. “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

160. “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

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

— Christina Lauren

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

— Christina Lauren

163. “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

164. “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

165. “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

166. “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

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

— Christina Lauren

168. “It’s not a crime to love, you know, he said.”

— Christina Lauren

169. “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

170. “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

171. “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

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

— Christina Lauren

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

— Christina Lauren

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

— Christina Lauren

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

— Christina Lauren

176. “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

177. “I can sense he needs distance and it pushes a small ache between two of my ribs.”

— Christina Lauren

178. “Of course happy couples fight! Two strong minds coming together are never going to agree on everything, and it’s healthy to express those feelings. But what we had to learn was that it was the way we were expressing our feelings that wasn’t healthy. Shouting doesn’t make anyone feel better. Storming off doesn’t fix any problems.”

— Christina Lauren

179. “To think God loves the trees, his brain paraphrases from a book he read once, but condemns that blossoming thing they do in spring.”

— Christina Lauren

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

— Christina Lauren

181. “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

182. “And girls do want boys who are interesting. Girls want the shy geeks who know everything and have big hands and good teeth and say sweet things.”

— Christina Lauren

183. “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

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

— Christina Lauren

185. “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

186. “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

187. “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

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

— Christina Lauren

189. “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

190. “Rumor has it your dad brought her flowers and she pulled off every petal and used them to spell PUTA in the snow.”

— Christina Lauren

191. “But how can I send my heart to him when he’s just said, in no uncertain terms, that he doesn’t speak its language?”

— Christina Lauren

192. “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

193. “I don’t think. I really noticed before how numb I’ve been. Or cared, maybe.”

— Christina Lauren

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

— Christina Lauren

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

— Christina Lauren

196. “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

197. “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

198. “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

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

— Christina Lauren

200. “You give good innuendo.”

— Christina Lauren