Top 500 Christina Lauren Quotes (2026 Update)
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201. “You’re honestly too good for me, but it doesn’t mean that I don’t want you anyway.”

— Christina Lauren

202. “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

203. “He just says a lot more with his eyes than with his mouth.” “Unfortunately for me, I don’t speak Danish Eyeball.” I laughed again and looked at Elliot’s profile as he stared.”

— Christina Lauren

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

— Christina Lauren

205. “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

206. “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

207. “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

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

— Christina Lauren

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

— Christina Lauren

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

— Christina Lauren

211. “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

212. “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

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

— Christina Lauren

214. “Ladies and gentlemen: her soulmate.”

— Christina Lauren

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

— Christina Lauren

216. “But the way to handle problematic things isn’t to just pretend they aren’t there. It’s good to see it and feel this way. Also, you can still be impressed with the artistry. Both things can be true.”

— Christina Lauren

217. “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

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

— Christina Lauren

219. “He smiled, but kept typing. You’re my forever, too.”

— Christina Lauren

220. “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

221. “Do you want to live in the sun?” he asked quietly. “Or do you want to go back in the shadows?”

— Christina Lauren

222. “But he’s also not your only client! Rule number one in business is to not ever let the big dog know how small the other dogs are.”

— Christina Lauren

223. “I like when you can’t hold back. It’s how I always felt with you.”

— Christina Lauren

224. “And honestly, the only way to avoid this conversation is to stand when System of a Down comes on, and pretend I am very, very excited to hear all of their songs that I’m not even sure I know. I close my eyes, and for just fifteen minutes, I try to push out all of these emotions. I dance away the feeling that I’m trying to talk myself into being attracted to Tyler.”

— Christina Lauren

225. “To hell you ride.”

— Christina Lauren

226. “But what can I say? I must be a conundrum wrapped in a mystery tied with a puzzle shoved in a pickle jar.”

— Christina Lauren

227. “I just had an out-of-body experience. Niall Stella just took off my shirt and admired my chest.” “Do you need to text someone?”

— Christina Lauren

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

— Christina Lauren

229. “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

230. “I shook my head. “I’ve never said ‘I love you’ before, if that’s what you mean.” Though Hanna would have no way of knowing I said it to her, silently, nearly every time we touched.”

— Christina Lauren

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

— Christina Lauren

232. “His skin is sun-warmed, firm, distracting. It’s like having a single bite of something delicious; I want to go back for more.”

— Christina Lauren

233. “I want to watch you come,” he whispers, eyes moving across my face. He pulls his thumb back and paints a wet line across my lower lip. “I want to feel you squeezing me and I want to eat your greedy little noises.”

— Christina Lauren

234. “Yeah, well, my family practically walks around wearing Team Chloe shirts under their regular clothes so it’s a little different.”

— Christina Lauren

235. “And not interested in anyone in particular?”

— Christina Lauren

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

— Christina Lauren

237. “I want to make her life better by being the best thing in it.”

— Christina Lauren

238. “I wanted his weight on me. I wanted to see him hovering over my body and then burn the image into my brain.”

— Christina Lauren

239. “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

240. “She smiles at me. “You’re the biggest geek I’ve ever known.” When she says it, I hear pride in her voice. To Lola, this is the ultimate praise.”

— Christina Lauren

241. “The way he smiles up at me is the same way he always looks at me; like there is nowhere else he’d rather be. There’s no awkwardness or tentative touches. It’s just us.”

— Christina Lauren

242. “Our eyes snag, and hold. His are green and yellow, with these razor-sharp flecks of brown. I feel like I’ve taken a running leap off a cliff and have no idea how deep the water is.”

— Christina Lauren

243. “I’m not sure she even has a millisecond of time to think about romance, but it’s fine; I think about it enough for the both of us.”

— Christina Lauren

244. “I want every wish he ever makes to be for this. A penny in a fountain. The first star. An eyelash. Eleven eleven.”

— Christina Lauren

245. “I know it hurts and feels like it will never be okay again, but it will. Someday. You’ll wake up and it will hurt a little less and a little less, until some boy or girl is smiling at you and it makes you stupid all over again.”

— Christina Lauren

246. “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

247. “But when I looked up and met her eyes, I lost it. She was staring at me and it was her – Hanna, this girl I saw every morning and fell in love with a little bit more every single time she opened her mouth.”

— Christina Lauren

248. “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

249. “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

250. “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