Top 500 Christina Lauren Quotes (2025 Update)
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401. “The acceptable grieving period for the loss of my marriage and all the things it meant for my life had expired. The rest of the world had moved on. I was supposed to, too.”

— Christina Lauren

402. “What we know is the unrequited possibility, the temptation of the idea. The make-believe. The adventure. But when you choose the adventure, it becomes real life.”

— Christina Lauren

403. “But I’m saying that I love you,” I continue,” because I sometimes think we as a society hold too many things back. We’re afraid of being vulnerable or rejected, we’re scared that we’re weird or say things that no one else thinks. And that’s okay. I’m not scared of that with you.”

— Christina Lauren

404. “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

405. “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

406. “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

407. “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

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

— Christina Lauren

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

— Christina Lauren

410. “Just look pretty for me.”

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411. “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

412. “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

413. “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.”

— Christina Lauren

414. “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

415. “I thought about getting a cat today. That’s a solid step into the commitment zone.”

— Christina Lauren

416. “What’s going on, Mystique?” I whispered. “What are we doing in this very dark bedroom, exchanging flirty eyes?” She held up her hands, her words coming out in a breathless tumble. “This room is Vegas. Okay? What happens here stays here. Or, rather, what’s said here stays here.”

— Christina Lauren

417. “It was the first time she’d slept in my bed and yet it felt like she’d always been there.”

— Christina Lauren

418. “How can he feel both like an adventure and a comfort?”

— Christina Lauren

419. “Everyone seems to be getting deep about finishing high school. And then our parents listen to us and laugh, like we’re still so young and don’t know anything.”

— Christina Lauren

420. “I’ll build anything you need,′ he whispers, kissing my jaw. ‘I’d do anything for you.”

— Christina Lauren

421. “Nothing clears the head better than watching a pile of muddy, sweaty Brits trying to break each other’s femurs.”

— Christina Lauren

422. “Fine. But in that case I should tell you: nobody makes me feel like you do.”

— Christina Lauren

423. “How many fingers would you like? – Max Stella.”

— Christina Lauren

424. “He pauses, and I know what’s coming before he even says it, and it’s like the sun chose this moment to press through the dense branches of the tree. “I’m totally gay.”

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425. “Everything feels yes.”

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426. “Will anything ever be permanent? What the hell am I doing with my life? I only get one shot at this, and right now, I’m finding my value only in being valuable to others. How do I find value for me?”

— Christina Lauren

427. “Oh my God, Tanner! Do you really care what kind of underwear he’s got on? Let’s talk about your goddamn outline!”

— Christina Lauren

428. “My heart wants to escape, to flap out of my body and into his. And, God. Is this what it means to become infatuated with someone? A heart becomes a hybrid, half yours, half theirs. Mine beats like this because it wants out. My chest aches to let his heart in.”

— Christina Lauren

429. “I’ve never met someone who is so good at switching gears and filing their feelings away so they can sort through them later. I’m not sure whether it’s the most impressive thing I’ve ever seen, or the most depressing.”

— Christina Lauren

430. “We’d been loud. Too loud? We were far down the hall, separated from the raging party by a number of rooms, but I still had no sense what the outside world had done while mine had melted in Hanna’s arms.”

— Christina Lauren

431. “She smiles at me. “You’re the biggest geek I’ve ever known.” When she says it, I hear pride in her voice. To Lola, this is the ultimate praise.”

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432. “Will dropped the Hiroshima of awkward,” Niall explained, “and Pippa followed up with Nagasaki.”

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433. “Something is happening between us. Something has been happening between us since our eyes met on the first day of class. I want to see him before he leaves town. I don’t care what Mom says. I don’t care what the doctrine is. After all, it’s not my church.”

— Christina Lauren

434. “Come home and kick me in the teeth if you need to, but then kiss me.”

— Christina Lauren

435. “How does one move on from a man so kind of heart and fine of ass?”

— Christina Lauren

436. “A movie,” Oliver repeats, and when I look back at him, I see him watching me with his mysterious, warm blue eyes. He licks his lips and I Have to look away. Oliver is both my former husband and my current crush, but it will forever remain unrequited: our marriage was never really a marriage. It was that-thing-we-did-in-Vegas.”

— Christina Lauren

437. “What kind of heart do you think lives inside here?”

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438. “My phone felt heavy and leaden in my pocket and I pulled it out, found the name of He Who Effectively Hijacked My Brain, and started to type.”

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439. “The way he smiles up at me is the same way he always looks at me; like there is nowhere else he’d rather be. There’s no awkwardness or tentative touches. It’s just us.”

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440. “Andrew tasted like peppermint and chocolate, smells like the smoke from the wood in the fireplace, and feels like sunshine. If you put all my favorite things in a Willy Wonka machine, I’m pretty sure Andrew Hollis is the candy that would come out.”

— Christina Lauren

441. “All you Millennials staring at your phones,” he grumbled.”

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442. “Good, because all of those voices in your head telling you that I wouldn’t be happy with you long-term or you’re not worth giving up my life for are just thoughts, Lil. Just because thoughts are loud or constant doesn’t mean they’re right.”

— Christina Lauren

443. “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

444. “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?”

— Christina Lauren

445. “Simply put, Evelyn Abbey is my former almost-girlfriend-turned-archnemesis-turned-tentative-ally whom I would now very much like to permanently seduce.”

— Christina Lauren

446. “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...”

— Christina Lauren

447. “I miss her so much I need a new language for it.”

— Christina Lauren

448. “Speaking to God feels like instinct, like it’s wired into me. I can’t imagine what I’d do if I left. It’s like standing in an open field and trying to point to the four walls. There’s just no framework to my life without the church.”

— Christina Lauren

449. “I wonder if he thinks he married a girl with two personalities: vixen and wallflower.”

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450. “He’ll be very good for someone, and I’m sad it won’t be me.”

— Christina Lauren