Top 500 Christina Lauren Quotes (2026 Update)
Page 6 of 10

251. “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

252. “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.”

— Christina Lauren

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

— Christina Lauren

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

— Christina Lauren

255. “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.”

— Christina Lauren

256. “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.”

— Christina Lauren

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

— Christina Lauren

258. “When I get angry, I cry. It’s like the two wires cross in my emotional brain.”

— Christina Lauren

259. “He’d loved Lily so deeply that it changed his biology. Standing here now, it seemed his love for her hadn’t gone away, it had just been vacuum-sealed and stored. Back in her presence, the physical memory of his infatuation was released in a deluge, gasping to life, and adrenaline flooded his bloodstream.”

— Christina Lauren

260. “We’re going to be horrible parents.” Laughing, I agreed, “The worst.” “We’ve never known failure,” he said, eyes manically searching mine. “I mean, we will probably be the most uptight – ” “Strict – ” “Overbearing – ” “Neurotic – ” “No,” he said, shaking his head, his eyes shining again. “You’re going to be perfect.”

— Christina Lauren

261. “It’s too bad I’m only learning my heart and you have yours rolled in bubble wrap.”

— Christina Lauren

262. “So maybe if I ever met this Andy twat I wouldn’t actually punch his smug face after all. Maybe I’d shake his hand for messing things up with Sara so epically that she moved to New York and stopped being the woman who did what she was supposed to do, and started to be the woman who did what she bloody well wanted.”

— Christina Lauren

263. “His stomach growls, and it makes me giggle again, and he shushes me. I turn to look at him, and he’s already looking at me, and with a knowing twinkle in his eyes, he lifts his finger to his lips and whispers, “No talking, I just want to be under the tree with you.”

— Christina Lauren

264. “Because you seek out power struggles with men to avoid being vulnerable?”

— Christina Lauren

265. “An eight-hour flight, and there’s no movie,” I say to myself, glaring at the screenless seat back in front of me. “Maybe they’re hoping your life flashing in front of your eyes will be distraction enough.”

— Christina Lauren

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

— Christina Lauren

267. “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

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

— Christina Lauren

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

— Christina Lauren

270. “You give good innuendo.”

— Christina Lauren

271. “You describe them as my ‘guilty pleasure.’ Do you have any idea how condescending that is?” “Well, don’t they bring you pleasure?” I ask, confused. “How is that condescending?” “Yes, but why should I feel guilty for reading something that makes me happy?” I open my mouth to respond, and she pins me with a look so clear in its meaning it might as well be a warning shot fired overhead.”

— Christina Lauren

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

— Christina Lauren

273. “I wanted to slap him, and then pull him up by his shirt and lick his neck.”

— Christina Lauren

274. “Hesitating, he says, “But it has to be more than that.” “What do you mean, ‘more than that’? I’m not going to wear a thong.” “No, just – ” He runs an exasperated hand through his hair. “It’s not only about me being with someone hot now.” Wait, what? Hot?”

— Christina Lauren

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

— Christina Lauren

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

— Christina Lauren

277. “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?”

— Christina Lauren

278. “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.”

— Christina Lauren

279. “But at the end of the day”, she says, and puts her hand outside the open window, letting the wind pass through her fingers, “being myself is enough. I’m enough.”

— Christina Lauren

280. “Maybe the reason I can’t write about fictional life is because I haven’t actually lived.”

— Christina Lauren

281. “That look, that tenderness in her eyes, made me realize for the first time what was happening to me: I was falling in love.”

— Christina Lauren

282. “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

283. “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

284. “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

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

— Christina Lauren

286. “For the first time in my life I get it: home isn’t always a space; it can be a person.”

— Christina Lauren

287. “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.”

— Christina Lauren

288. “Just keep telling me pretty and it’ll be fine. Oh and wine. Wine will help.”

— Christina Lauren

289. “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.”

— Christina Lauren

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

— Christina Lauren

291. “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

292. “I realized it would have been dramatic, but I wanted to storm out and make him follow me and grovel for, like, an entire day.”

— Christina Lauren

293. “I wasn’t thinking of this roomful of people when I put the cologne on earlier. I was thinking of you.”

— Christina Lauren

294. “We need to be able to escape the source of pain before we’re debilitated by it.”

— Christina Lauren

295. “I don’t know. Because I love to read? I love that you can use words to convince people, or anger people, or entertain people.”

— Christina Lauren

296. “I don’t know how to go about the rest of my life pretending I don’t want her, with a force that rivals the pull of the tides.”

— Christina Lauren

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

— Christina Lauren

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

— Christina Lauren

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

— Christina Lauren

300. “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