Top 500 Christina Lauren Quotes (2024 Update)
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201. “Maybe it’s because we can be quiet together, and it’s never weird.”

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202. “See, the problem with boobs is if you have big ones, you can never look thin. You get these burns on your shoulders from bra straps, and your back hurts. And unless you’re using them for their intended purpose, they’re always in the way.” “In the way of what? My hands? My face? Don’t you blaspheme in here.” He looked up to the sky. “She didn’t mean it, Lord. Promise.”

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203. “Romance isn’t gratuitous bodice ripping. It can be, and there’s nothing wrong with that, but in the end, romance isn’t about the fantasy of being wealthy or beautiful or even being tied to the bed.” More laughter, but I have their attention now. “It’s about elevating stories of joy above stories of pain. It is about seeing yourself as the main character in a very interesting – or maybe even quiet – life that is entirely yours to control.”

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204. “Well, I need to stay in France for another six months or so. You’ll need to live there with me for a bit before we can buy a house Stateside.”

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205. “Elliot was kind of my Everyfriend.”

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206. “The only person whose expectations you have to live up to is yourself.”

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207. “Can you believe me, though?” he asks quietly. “That the worst thing I ever did was for the best reason I ever had?”

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208. “I ask the universe, simply: Can you show me what will make me happy?”

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209. “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.”

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

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211. “Unraveled and bare, Jess knew in her bones that he was her ninety-eight.”

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212. “You’re wound so tight,” he whispers before bending to kiss my neck. “How do I make you unravel?”

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213. “It didn’t really get easier, per se. Our sadness just got quieter.”

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214. “Is it dangerous to want so much to know someone without first knowing yourself?”

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215. “I wanted to lie in bed with her at night, and bemoan the ordeal of planning a wedding. I wanted it all.”

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216. “And that was never his fault, even if it is his greatest failure.”

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217. “I could probably get us both off in, like, two minutes.” She laughed. “I’m not sure that’s something to brag about.” The hell it wasn’t.”

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218. “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.”

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219. “The conversation flowed. The silences were easy. She hadn’t spilled anything down her shirt and he’d called her competent. It was the best date she’d had in seven years.”

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220. “I want to be with you so much it’s making it hard to breathe.”

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221. “She’d looked out for me when she knew I was broken and lost without Chloe. In contrast, I’d let Sara continue on with a man I knew was unfaithful, all because I felt it wasn’t my place to interfere. Where would I be if Sara had done the same?”

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222. “It isn’t just that he’s good-looking. It isn’t only that he’s kind. It’s his calm center that’s a gravitational pull to my chaotic one. Every time I’ve met his eyes – from that first puke-filled night to now – I’ve felt a gentle hum inside my breastbone: I’m a satellite that’s found its safe-space beacon.”

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223. “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.”

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224. “You were cute. You kept smiling in your sleep.” “I thought you were reading.” He shrugs, and I laugh. “How Edward Cullen of you.” He frowns. “Who?” “Oh my God, Andrew, no. We cannot remain friends.” “I’m just kidding. I know the guy from The Hunger Games.” He bursts out laughing when my horror deepens.”

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225. “It wasn’t that she particularly treasured the idea of dying, or of other people dying; it was the visceral reaction to the creepy, the spectacularly scary, the otherworldliness of horror.”

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226. “A stranger singing “Jingle Bells” A dog doing a trick Someone reciting their Christmas list A teammate performing an act of kindness.”

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227. “I’m trying to fix all the parts of me that aren’t working because I know I have a choice in how my life goes – that it isn’t all luck – but as soon as I try to be proactive, it’s like no one wants to let me.”

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228. “Anyone who says money can’t solve problems has always had money.” She lifted.”

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229. “The things that I love about you aren’t going to go away when you go on your book tour, and they’re not going to go away when you go on your mission. I’ll still be here, and I’ll still be thinking about all those things. I’ll still be working on being a better person, a better friend, a better son. I’ll still be wondering what it would be like to be a better boyfriend for you. And you will be on your mission, thinking about how much you wish your weren’t gay.”

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230. “It wasn’t just a physical attraction between us. Of course I’d been attracted to women before. But there was something more with Hanna, some chemistry in our blood, something between us that snapped and crackled, that made me always want just a little more than I should take. She offered her friendship, I wanted her body. She offered her body, I wanted to hijack her thoughts. She offered her thoughts, I wanted her heart.”

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231. “In that case, I like living alone, but would rather live with you. I like sleeping alone, but would rather have you in my bed. I like having friends over for Thanksgiving, but would rather it just be the two of us, doing our first Thanksgiving as a couple, eating turkey off the bone, cuddling on the floor together.”

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232. “I had no idea who Real-Life Elliot was. My Elliot existed only on certain days, only in the confines of our library closet.”

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

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234. “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.”

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235. “I was so lost in love with this girl.”

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236. “Fondness warmed his gaze from the inside out, as if he was seeing exactly the person he wanted to see.”

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237. “The problem was that I wanted to talk about this and she didn’t. The problem was also that I’d somehow misplaced my balls and my spine.”

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238. “But I also wanted to watch her sleep, and then watch her wake up and see me, and gauge her feelings from that first, unfiltered reaction.”

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239. “Everything was so much better before I knew what I was missing.”

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240. “I want to be married,” I blurted. “I want you to marry me.”

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241. “What happens when emotion is too big, when it fills the chest and the veins and the limbs? I imagine sunshine filling me until I shatter – leaving starburst-coated girl shrapnel strewn across this bed.”

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242. “She sees herself as a supporting character, even in her own life story.”

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243. “The problem was I became genuinely stupid when he was around.”

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244. “Why did you come up my way anyway? I never got around to asking you that because you were sitting on my face most of the time.”

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245. “We’re all supposed to be mildly horrified and then start constructing the funny details about that-one-time-we-all-got-married-in-Vegas that we’ll share for the next thirty years. There’s no sweetness or kissing, Mia. Only hangovers and regret.”

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246. “I am very clearly the Pigpen to his Schroeder.”

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247. “It was two weeks of my life, a long time ago, but I loved him. I remember the feeling; it’s still the only time I’ve ever felt it. Maybe this is why I can call it back whenever I need to – though it’s been a long time since I tortured myself that way.”

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248. “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.”

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249. “Can I say it now?, he asks, pulling back a few inches. “Say what?” “That I love you?”

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250. “And I might propose to you soon. I stared at my phone, reading this line again, and again. “Okay,” I whispered. So give me a heads-up if you won’t say yes, because I’m mildly terrified.”

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