Top 500 Christina Lauren Quotes (2025 Update)
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251. “Sometimes it feels like I have nothing,” he gasped, “nothing but my job and my friends.” That’s still a lot, I didn’t say. Because I understood: it wasn’t the life he’d imagined for himself.”

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252. “She looked away, and I almost told her to come back. I was growing addicted to the buzz I felt when she was looking directly at me.”

— Christina Lauren

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

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254. “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.”

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255. “Now my heart is pounding so hard, I feel it swooshing between us, and it makes me wonder whether our individual heartaches are silently duking this out from inside our bodies.”

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

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257. “It isn’t his first kiss – I know that – but it’s his first real one.”

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258. “I believe now that the universe delivers random acts of kindness, and it’s on us to decide what to do with them.”

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259. “There is no way to mess this up,” I said, right against her mouth. “Even if we didn’t get married tomorrow, you’re the love of my life. I’m with you until we both die, at the same time, when I am one hundred and you are ninety three.”

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260. “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.”

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261. “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.”

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262. “Oh my God, this is terrible. We’re just two dudes meeting to study. Bros. Bros don’t get nervous. Be a bro, Tanner.”

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263. “She was such a surprising mix of gentle and brash, of focused and flighty. It was almost as if I could see the little girl in her battling with the responsible woman, figuring out which would lead the way.”

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264. “We would lie on the floor of my closet – slowly being converted into a tiny library – and read for hours.”

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265. “I have no idea what I want to do. I want to write and read and talk about books with people. I want to listen to music and go out to dinner and just live.”

— Christina Lauren

266. “I’ve essentially handed my heart over to the person who’s had it on reserve for half my life, and I’m terrified that he doesn’t realize what he’s holding.”

— Christina Lauren

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

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268. “You’re like my blanket fort.” “I’ve been called worse things,” I tell her.”

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

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

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271. “Sare-bear. I can practically hear you thinking in there,” George called from his desk. “It is shrill and growing hysterical. Calm your tits. I put a flask in your desk drawer. It’s pink and sparkly but don’t fall in love; it’s mine.”

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272. “Okay, when you smile at me like that, I want to climb. And God knows it’s been forever since I’ve been properly manhandled.”

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273. “Why won’t you give me what I want?”

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274. “The way Emily describes it: when I meet someone I love, I become an octopus and wind my tentacles around their heart, tighter and tighter until they can’t deny they love me just the same.”

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275. “But if you did, how would you touch me?” she asked, folding the garment neatly before placing it in an open drawer in front of her. I barely had to consider the question before my answer burst forward: “Desperately.”

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276. “I’m open to falling in love with anyone. I’m happy to commit, but the specific parts don’t matter as much as the person.”

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277. “Hanna. I don’t know if I’ve ever wanted something more than I want you. I really don’t.”

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278. “Little did she know I’d follow her down this hallway even if it caught fire. I’d come to this dirty bohemian party with her after all.”

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279. “I’m lonely. I’m lonely because I don’t tell people what I need or what I want, and then get hurt when they don’t figure it out on their own. Is it possible to be a highly functioning adult with a successful career, awesome friends and a lovely family, and still be a Level Five Hot Mess? I may be living proof.”

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280. “Looking over at me, she licked her lips and my heart tripped as I registered she could taste herself from my fingers. I wondered if I’d be remembering her taste until the end of time.”

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281. “We never did lose what we found in this room,” he said, bending now and kissing my shoulder. “In fact, we turned it into the happiest hate-love of all time.”

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282. “You look mighty proud about something. Fire someone today? Kick a puppy?”

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283. “You two are a mess. Tomorrow night we’re doing Buck Up Sara Time the gay way.”

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284. “When he walked away, shoulders square and broad, hair as black as the shadows under the tree, she felt a little hollow, like maybe he’d taken one of her ribs with him when he left.”

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285. “I minimize the chat window, catching only a gif Millie sent of Kristen Bell pretending her middle finger is a tube of lipstick, and peek at my calendar.”

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286. “I’m dreaming of impossible things, I said.”

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287. “Wasn’t it enough that I was secretly giving her the chance to break my heart?”

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288. “Elliot was sexy. What boy our age used the word ripe?”

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289. “He looked back up again, giving me a crooked smile. “You have special underwear for when you’re on your period and I’m the dorky one?”

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290. “We’re talking about the same twenty-something bloke who wore a Wisconsin cheese hat and some flowy Jesus robes for Halloween, calling himself ‘Cheesus’?”

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291. “They’re eternal newlyweds.”

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292. “I feel a little like the way I used to when I’d dump out a bin full of Lincoln Logs, both overwhelmed and excited – except this is my life, with all these pieces to choose from, and I’m not sure what shape I even want to build.”

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293. “Didn’t I fire you this morning?” “Twice,” I answered for him. “You fired him on Sara’s behalf in the elevator when he referred to you as ‘Mistress of the Dark’ in front of that priest, and a second time when he offered to help Jensen get dressed later.”

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294. “I know what this is even if I’ve never felt it before. I’m falling in love.”

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295. “Think out loud with me.”

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296. “When I signed up for this honeymoon, I had no idea it would involve so much nudity...”

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297. “The craziest thing about parenting must be that it’s this huge experiment and you have no idea whether it’s successful until, like, decades later.”

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298. “Maybe I’m crying because I’m terrified that he’s come here to do more damage, to reactivate what I feel only to let me down easy again, missionary style.”

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299. “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?”

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300. “It’s just hard to know which choice is right until it’s all over, I guess.”

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