Top 500 Christina Lauren Quotes (2024 Update)
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251. “All he’d ever truly wanted was her.”

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252. “Oliver nods, bending and pressing his cheek to mine again. “I don’t have a choice but to want to do this, Lola. I’m in love with you.” The.”

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253. “Has it always been this way, and I didn’t notice because I was so happy to be included in their twosome, and I was so busy there was nothing else pressing on my mind? Was it such a relief to have something sorted, to not feel anything-not guilt or love or fear or. uncertainty-that I just let this routine become my future?”

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254. “He’s smart, but I’m not sure he’s looked up from his phone in the past two years. If you want to have a conversation with him, you might want to consider strapping his phone to your forehead.”

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255. “He pulled the blankets over their heads, and they made love right there, right back where they started.”

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256. “This is my Hanna.”

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257. “This is how we reveal ourselves: these tiny flashes of discomfort, the reactions we can’t hide.”

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258. “The world seems full of men who are initially infatuated by our eccentricities, but who ultimately expect them to be temporary.”

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259. “I want to be here to bring you coffee. I want to take you out to dinner and order the same food and hear you recite the odds that we would have met. I want to hate-attend fancy social events together.” Jess laughed, a surprised burst of sound, and his tone softened. “I want you to call me for help – without an apology already on the tip of your tongue. I want to feel like I can kiss you again by your car at the end of the night.” He swallowed. “I want you in my bed.”

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260. “It’ll be okay. Things always look worse from the inside.”

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

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262. “He looked to me, his eyes softening. “This is my Hanna.”

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263. “I realize I should be mortified that Past Hazel was so dramatically inappropriate, but it’s not like I’m that much better now, and regret isn’t really my speed anyway.”

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264. “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.”

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265. “The Danger of Will Sumner, I reminded myself. Everything he says sounds filthy, and now you’re thinking of him naked. Again.”

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266. “I rarely admit this ambition anymore because it seems to always garner this exact reaction: an odd combination of surprised and impressed. And I can’t tell whether people respond this way because they like the idea that I want to do something difficult and creative, or because nobody looks at me and immediately thinks She’s got stories buried inside her.”

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267. “You didn’t even notice my shoes.” “Like hell I didn’t. God save the Queen,” he said dryly, winking at me. “I notice every single thing about you, Sara.”

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268. “He tastes like salt and air, as if the ocean wrapped around him when he was small and never let go.”

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269. “And also a little creepy to realize how alike we are.”

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270. “Something about her made me feel hungry, like I wanted to be as honest and calm about everything in my life as she was. I wanted to know Hanna, to hear her thoughts on everything.”

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

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272. “She was silly, and confident, and so much her own person it almost made the rest of the world seem monochromatic.”

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273. “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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274. “My chest warmed intensely when it occurred to me: this was our beginning. Right here, partially hidden by the steam of the shower, was where we clarified everything.”

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275. “Secret agent. Like a Ninja.”

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276. “I like your face.”

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277. “He’s a nice guy.” “I’m sure he is. He can be a nice guy who doesn’t get to kiss you.”

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278. “It’s these tiny reminders that hurt, the tiny moments where you think-let me just call out to him. Ah, right. He’s dead. And you wonder how it happened, did it hut, does he see me here in a sodden, sobbing puddle on his floor?”

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279. “I don’t want you to hide. I like you.”

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280. “I swear my mouth and my brain are siblings who hate each other and give each other wedgies in the form of mortifying moments like this. Now it seems my brain has deserted me.”

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281. “I wanted to bottle his sounds and eat them later.”

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282. “You look in the mirror and see all of the ways you are letting me down. I look at you and see everything I’ve ever wanted you to be. That admiration is where expectations come from, dai leu, not from disappointment. And if I want something for you, like marriage or a baby, it’s because these things have made me happier than anything else in life. You spend so much time working to make other people happy, and all I care about is that you are happy.”

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283. “One of the sound guys approaches with Fizzy’s small mic in his hand. “Ready?” he asks. At her nod, he reaches for the front of her silk shirt and the words shove their way up my throat: “I’ve got it, mate.” He hands it over without any indication that he’s heard the edge in my tone. But Fizzy has. Her smirk is louder than her bursting laugh could ever be.”

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284. “This flirting is all well and good, but I mean it when I tell you, I can’t have you leaving me again. It almost broke me.”

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285. “I like the idea of saving to buy a place of my own or having some extra in the bank for an adventure once I figure out what kind of adventure I want to have. I see all these choices unrolling in front of me – career, travel, friends, geography – and despite things being insane and hard and messy, I don’t think I’ve ever liked myself more than I do now. It’s the strangest feeling to be proud simply because I’m taking care of me and mine. Is this what it’s like to grow up?”

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286. “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.”

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287. “I was coming out here to ask why you were acting so weird, but I see I need to keep things present tense.”

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288. “I felt my blush warm my cheeks. “Because Jesus totally lives in my cleavage?” “Not anymore he doesn’t. Your boobs are now too small for him to be comfortable in there.” He shook his head, and I couldn’t stop laughing. “So selfish, Ziggs,” he said, grinning so widely that I actually stumbled a little.”

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289. “I want to say something sassy, but the only thing that comes to mind is how insulting it is that eyelashes like his were wasted on Satan’s errand boy.”

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290. “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.”

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291. “For some reason I was unable to call him by his only given name. Niall Stella was a two man honor. Like Prince Harry or Jesus Christ.”

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292. “The two syllables of his name tattooed a permanent echo inside her.”

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293. “We’re only three class sessions in and I’m already behind? And to hear it from him? This buttoned-up Bible-thumper I can’t get out of my head?”

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294. “It’s too bad I’m too eccentric for you. It’s too bad you’re too busy for me. It’s too bad I’m only learning my heart and you have yours rolled up in bubble wrap.”

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295. “Because I love to read? I love that you can use words to convince people, or anger people, or entertain people. But you can use them to... ” He shrugged, blushing a little. “Arouse people, too.”

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296. “I think I would have been delusional to think I could ever get this lucky.”

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297. “His smile ruins me. The feeling makes me uneasy, a dramatic lurch that tells me I need to have him or I won’t be okay.”

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298. “You know I cleaned that board a hundred times and those damn words never went away? And I don’t mean that in a metaphorical sense. She used a Sharpie, not a dry-erase marker, and it literally stained the words into the board.”

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299. “I was pretty sure I looked like an idiot. Will and Henry continued to sip their drinks and pore over the menu, oblivious to the fact that I was sitting across from them, damn near giggling and randomly breaking into the widest, goofiest grins imaginable.”

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300. “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.”

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