Top 500 Christina Lauren Quotes (2024 Update)
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351. “Finally she turns, reaching for the door. “You’re like my blanket fort.” “I’ve been called worse things.”

— Christina Lauren

352. “Scientists are often pretty critical of other scientists and what we choose to do with our time and knowledge.”

— Christina Lauren

353. “Calvin told me to do something with my brain, but how? Threads of ideas appear on the edge and are gone as soon as my fingers settle on the keys. There’s no connective tissue to string them together, no skeleton to hold them up. I want to live my life with the intensity I see on the stage up there, want to feel passionate about something in the same way. But what if it never happens for me?”

— Christina Lauren

354. “This was not going well. Friends, I reminded myself. Secret agent assignment. Learn the ways of the Ninja, and escape unharmed.”

— Christina Lauren

355. “I nodded but couldn’t form even a single word in response. I wanted him so much it hurt, and now he was touching me, finally...”

— Christina Lauren

356. “This is why hookups never work for me: I don’t like having to mentally process it all after. I don’t like questioning my behaviour, questioning theirs. There are too many rules to such a game that are purported to have no strings attached.”

— Christina Lauren

357. “But I’m afraid you’ll have to find your luck somewhere else. I’m quite fond of my testicles; I’d like to keep them. I’m not going to smooth the way for you here.”

— Christina Lauren

358. “Free beats talented, every time.”

— Christina Lauren

359. “When Elliot walked up to us... I swear that was the first time I’d seen you smile like that-with your entire body-and it made me question everything about your personality before then.”

— Christina Lauren

360. “My new dress itched and I wished I’d taken the time to ask around the lab about these Spanx things I had on. From this first experience with them, I decided they were created by Satan, or a man who was too thin for skinny jeans.”

— Christina Lauren

361. “I’d had a few of these quiet, crystallizing moments in the past few weeks. Moments where I simultaneously registered how much I’d grown up and how little I really knew about life and relationships. Some of these moments happened when I was watching Bennett and Chloe, and the quiet way they picked on and adored each other in equal measure. Another moment was here, playing a game by myself, feeling more content than I had in a very long time.”

— Christina Lauren

362. “So every day I would fight for Sebastian, and people in the same boat, who don’t have what I do, who struggle to find themselves in a world that tells them white and straight and narrow gets first pick in the schoolyard game of life.”

— Christina Lauren

363. “But if a tree falls in the woods, maybe it makes no sound.”

— Christina Lauren

364. “You could break my heart. Just know that, yeah?”

— Christina Lauren

365. “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.”

— Christina Lauren

366. “When you’re younger you want the boy who knows how to play the game but when you’re older you want the man who knows when it’s not a game anymore.”

— Christina Lauren

367. “Speaking to him is like having a conversation with a grouchy calculator.”

— Christina Lauren

368. “But when he kissed me? I didn’t feel lost in him the way I get lost in you.”

— Christina Lauren

369. “His kiss is an aching prayer; devotion pours from him.”

— Christina Lauren

370. “Do you want to join me at the park for a run?” “You run?” I asked. “On purpose?”

— Christina Lauren

371. “She looked up at me, almost triumphant with discovery. “I was right – you made the best noise when you came.”

— Christina Lauren

372. “I want more than just this.”

— Christina Lauren

373. “I’ll be yours every second if that’s what you want. You just have to tell me, Plum.”

— Christina Lauren

374. “Nothing is harder in a relationship than not respecting the person you’re with.” He leans his chin heavily into his hand. “I didn’t like myself with her. I was willing to try to be the guy she wanted rather than who I really am.”

— Christina Lauren

375. “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.”

— Christina Lauren

376. “I’d been so focussed on enjoying Sarah the mother, that I’d barely let myself enjoy Sarah, the woman.”

— Christina Lauren

377. “Being trapped in a tiny space, I decided it was a good time to dance.”

— Christina Lauren

378. “The silence grew, and I felt silently inspected. I’d been caught. It didn’t help that Jesus’ tiny decapitated porcelain head was watching me from the sideboard, judging. He knew.”

— Christina Lauren

379. “Ziggy was Jensen’s sister. Ziggy was the kid I never knew. Hanna was this uninhibited, self-possessed woman in front of me who I was pretty sure was going to effectively wreck my world.”

— Christina Lauren

380. “Stop being so emotionally balanced!”

— Christina Lauren

381. “Being with Ethan increasingly feels like spoiling myself with a perfect new pair of shoes or an extravagant dinner out. I just remain unconvinced that I deserve this daily... or that it can last.”

— Christina Lauren

382. “Do you want to join me at the park for a run?” “You run?” I asked. “On purpose?” “Yes,” he said, outright laughing now. “Not the I’m-being-chased running, but the I’m-exercising running.”

— Christina Lauren

383. “Is it weird to anyone that this roomful of straight men is fighting over Reid and not me?” I ask. Chris, Alex, and Ed seem to give this fair consideration before answering “No” in unison.”

— Christina Lauren

384. “Biological compatibility is independent of whether or not we like each other.”

— Christina Lauren

385. “You are my masterpiece. I miss you. I love you.”

— Christina Lauren

386. “I suspect I would do almost anything for you,” I admitted.”

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387. “T-shirts like it was his life’s calling. I wanted to.”

— Christina Lauren

388. “Have you ever been slapped? By yourself?”

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389. “I find myself wanting to congratulate past-me for doing or saying whatever it was that caught Ansel’s attention in the first place and-by some act of God or alcohol I still don’t understand-held it. Sometimes, I think, past-me is a genius.”

— Christina Lauren

390. “Ethan Thomas is doing something weird to my emotions.”

— Christina Lauren

391. “I’d suspect most people comment on your eyes,” he said quietly, running a fingertip across her collarbone. “That startling, bright blue.” Surely he could feel her heart scaling her windpipe. He didn’t seem to remember there was anyone else in the room. “But I prefer your mouth.” “You do?” Jess managed. “I do,” he said, and bent, kissing her forehead. “You don’t give those smiles away for free.”

— Christina Lauren

392. “His voice is both low and quiet, and it has this hypnotic rhythm to it. I wonder whether someday he’ll give sermons with that voice, whether he’ll throw down judgement with that voice.”

— Christina Lauren

393. “The thing about this music is that if you just stand here and listen, you’ll never appreciate it. You’re supposed to be part of it – part of the party. I think that’s why I like it so much.”

— Christina Lauren

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

— Christina Lauren

395. “To her, not packing our lunches every day or joining the PTA is a feminist rallying cry.”

— Christina Lauren

396. “Just look pretty for me.”

— Christina Lauren

397. “I pulled out a kitchen stool, sinking down onto it. Running a half marathon didn’t exhaust me as much as all of this did. My love for her was a heavy, pulsing, living thing, and it made me feel crazy, and anxious, and famished. I hated seeing her stressed and scared. I hated seeing her upset at my anger, but even worse was the knowledge that she had the power to break my heart and had very little experience being careful about it. I was completely at her fumbling, inexperienced mercy.”

— Christina Lauren

398. “When a husky laugh echoed behind her, Lily’s stomach absolutely fell to her feet. She knew how a rattlesnake sounded in the brittlebush on the ranch and the raspy croak of a passing raven. She knew the trickling of water in a spring and the impatient huff of Bonnie when she was done for the day. And Lily knew – even after all this time – the deep, vibrating sound of Leo Grady’s voice in the morning, the way it warmed up slowly, from rocks to gravel to a smooth, polished stone.”

— Christina Lauren

399. “When your time is yours, use it to create something, Father John had always told them. A picture, some words, anything. Don’t rot your brain with gossip.”

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400. “It scared me, a little, to not feel like I was getting used to this, to instead feel like I was growing more desperate for her every day. I had her. I lived with her. I married her. But my feelings for Hanna were foreign to me in their intensity, and the sheer unknown of our future left me feeling unsteady.”

— Christina Lauren