Top 500 Christina Lauren Quotes (2026 Update)
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301. “I shook my head. “I’ve never said ‘I love you’ before, if that’s what you mean.” Though Hanna would have no way of knowing I said it to her, silently, nearly every time we touched.”

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302. “Because the biggest mistake of his life – his infidelity – had given me the best part of mine.”

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303. “His skin is sun-warmed, firm, distracting. It’s like having a single bite of something delicious; I want to go back for more.”

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304. “I want to watch you come,” he whispers, eyes moving across my face. He pulls his thumb back and paints a wet line across my lower lip. “I want to feel you squeezing me and I want to eat your greedy little noises.”

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

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

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307. “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.”

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

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309. “I wanted his weight on me. I wanted to see him hovering over my body and then burn the image into my brain.”

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310. “I reach for my bag, pulling out gum, but he quickly moves to me, sliding his hands up my neck to cup my face. “Don’t.” He leans close, sucking on my mouth the way he seems to like so much. “You taste like me. I taste like you.” He bends, licking my tongue, my lips, my teeth. “I like this so much. Let it stay, just for a bit.”

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311. “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.”

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312. “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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313. “I want every wish he ever makes to be for this. A penny in a fountain. The first star. An eyelash. Eleven eleven.”

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314. “I know it hurts and feels like it will never be okay again, but it will. Someday. You’ll wake up and it will hurt a little less and a little less, until some boy or girl is smiling at you and it makes you stupid all over again.”

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315. “He’s so far buried in his own dogma and his own world of shoulds that he can’t admit to himself that he’s into dudes, that it’s a piece of him, a perfect part of him, and it deserves admiration and respect and space the same way anything else about him does.”

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316. “But when I looked up and met her eyes, I lost it. She was staring at me and it was her – Hanna, this girl I saw every morning and fell in love with a little bit more every single time she opened her mouth.”

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317. “These red marks that tell the room and the sky and the swollen moon outside for only a tiny trip of time: I belong to him. My body is his.”

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318. “But most of all, meu docinha, imagine how proud I am to share this with you. You’re growing up. Starting my period was the process that eventually let me get pregnant with you, when I was ready.”

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319. “It means you figure out exactly what you want your life to look like, and I find a way to fit into it.”

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

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

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

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

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

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327. “It still irks me that I’ll probably spend most of my life dividing the people I know into two groups: the people who support me without question and the ones who should.”

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328. “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. I leaned back on his shoulder and he dropped his phone into his lap, wrapping his shaking hand around mine. “Don’t be,” I whispered. “We’ve totally got this.”

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329. “I think he saw you as a way to rule something out, and then the opposite happened.”

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330. “I knew she was drawing my legs when her charcoal would scratch heavily on the paper. It was quieter when she drew the details of my face, and that was when her breathing would break down into tiny, shallow bursts of air, in and out. And I knew she was drawing my half-hard cock when she stopped breathing – so nervous, but so eager to practice.”

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331. “Give me those moments where I think he’s coming back. I can take the hurt. The reminder that he’s not coming back-and why-will keep me fighting.”

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332. “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.”

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333. “Well, statistically speaking, that’s really saying something.”

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334. “I used to think I was so together, but now the only thing I feel is a hollow sense of not enough.”

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335. “Look, Sara. The way Andrew treated you was unconscionable. We all saw that, and I regret not speaking up on your behalf. But you have the choice to decide how you grow from it. If you’re going to think every man is like him, you don’t deserve Max. Max isn’t that guy.”

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336. “Relief and anguish pulse heavily in my blood. I’ve wanted to see him every day. But also, I never wanted to see him again.”

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337. “Without further conversation, we began to read.”

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338. “He was my everybody.”

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339. “For once I was looking for complicated, and she was trying on simple.”

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340. “You don’t have to pretend,” he says. “You always take my breath away.”

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

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

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

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

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348. “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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349. “Remember that thing I alluded to on the plane?” he asked, eyes glued to her. A tiny smile played at her lips. “Jog my memory, Player Will.” He squeezed his eyes closed, took a deep breath before looking back at her, and said, “Marry me?”

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350. “I don’t think I’ve ever loved anyone quite like this. In this sort of giddy, obliterating game-changing way. Where I can see myself with her for the rest of my life...”

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