Top 500 Christina Lauren Quotes (2025 Update)
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201. “Maybe the reason I can’t write about fictional life is because I haven’t actually lived.”

— Christina Lauren

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

— Christina Lauren

203. “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

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

— Christina Lauren

205. “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

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

— Christina Lauren

207. “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

208. “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

209. “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

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

— Christina Lauren

211. “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

212. “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

213. “Being with him feels a little like letting go of the handlebars and racing down a hill. And it also feels like being wrapped up in the warmest blanket. How can he feel both like an adventure and a comfort?”

— Christina Lauren

214. “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

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

— Christina Lauren

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

— Christina Lauren

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

— Christina Lauren

218. “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

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

— Christina Lauren

220. “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

221. “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

222. “I hate that I’ve worked so hard but when I look around – compare my life to everyone else’s – it feels like such a small drop in such a massive bucket!”

— Christina Lauren

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

— Christina Lauren

224. “Most nights I was desperate to call him just before I fell asleep, so I could hear his voice.”

— Christina Lauren

225. “You give good innuendo.”

— Christina Lauren

226. “Maybe it’s because we can be quiet together, and it’s never weird.”

— Christina Lauren

227. “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.”

— Christina Lauren

228. “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.”

— Christina Lauren

229. “Well, I meant it. And you can show me your appreciation when you get that hot little ass to France. Deal?”

— Christina Lauren

230. “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

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

— Christina Lauren

232. “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

233. “To hell you ride.”

— Christina Lauren

234. “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.”

— Christina Lauren

235. “And I already have a strong urge to devour you.”

— Christina Lauren

236. “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.”

— Christina Lauren

237. “High school is such an incestuous little pool.”

— Christina Lauren

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

— Christina Lauren

239. “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.”

— Christina Lauren

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

— Christina Lauren

241. “Will Sumner was Jensen’s college best friend, Dad’s former intern, and the object of every one of my teenage fantasies.”

— Christina Lauren

242. “But there’s a part of me that believes Elliot and I were always only meant to be best friends. I was so scared of taking the next step with him when we were teens, and as soon as we did, it fell apart.”

— Christina Lauren

243. “Era ca o febra, punand stapanire pe mintea si pe ratiunea mea .”

— Christina Lauren

244. “Maybe we should do things because we love them, not because we’ve always done them that way.”

— Christina Lauren

245. “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

246. “I’ve wanted this for months. And I know you feel the same. I love you. I feel you thinking it every time I say it, in the way your hands find some part of me to hold on to.”

— Christina Lauren

247. “You look great, by the way.” Her head shot to me, eyes surprised, and I quickly added, “I’m glad you didn’t let them cover you up with makeup. I would miss your freckles.” “You would miss my freckles?” she asked in a whisper and I winced inwardly at how forward I sounded. “What man says that? Are you trying to make me have an orgasm right now?”

— Christina Lauren

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

— Christina Lauren

249. “I like living alone, but would rather live with you.”

— Christina Lauren

250. “It’s about finding the woman who gets you thinking. She’ll be the one who’ll change your mind about everything.”

— Christina Lauren