Top 500 Christina Lauren Quotes (2026 Update)
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401. “I want to be with you so much it’s making it hard to breathe.”

— Christina Lauren

402. “It isn’t just that he’s good-looking. It isn’t only that he’s kind. It’s his calm center that’s a gravitational pull to my chaotic one. Every time I’ve met his eyes – from that first puke-filled night to now – I’ve felt a gentle hum inside my breastbone: I’m a satellite that’s found its safe-space beacon.”

— Christina Lauren

403. “You were cute. You kept smiling in your sleep.” “I thought you were reading.” He shrugs, and I laugh. “How Edward Cullen of you.” He frowns. “Who?” “Oh my God, Andrew, no. We cannot remain friends.” “I’m just kidding. I know the guy from The Hunger Games.” He bursts out laughing when my horror deepens.”

— Christina Lauren

404. “A stranger singing “Jingle Bells” A dog doing a trick Someone reciting their Christmas list A teammate performing an act of kindness.”

— Christina Lauren

405. “Think out loud with me.”

— Christina Lauren

406. “When I signed up for this honeymoon, I had no idea it would involve so much nudity...”

— Christina Lauren

407. “Maybe I’m crying because I’m terrified that he’s come here to do more damage, to reactivate what I feel only to let me down easy again, missionary style.”

— Christina Lauren

408. “It’s just hard to know which choice is right until it’s all over, I guess.”

— Christina Lauren

409. “You’re looking at me like you like me,” he says. “It’s the mai tai goggles you’re wearing. I hate you as much as ever.” Ethan lifts a skeptical brow. “Really?” “Yep.” Nope.”

— Christina Lauren

410. “You’d think I’d be used to this sort of thing by now – navigating a room full of matched-up people, alone – but somehow it never really gets easier.”

— Christina Lauren

411. “Good sweet baby Jesus, I wanted to bang the smirk off this man.”

— Christina Lauren

412. “I like when you watch me. I can’t think straight when you have those crazy gray eyes on me.”

— Christina Lauren

413. “Eleven years later, and he still aches for what we had.”

— Christina Lauren

414. “I make a show of straightening my glasses and motion to myself. “I mean, you put out the honey, you’re going to get some bees.”

— Christina Lauren

415. “There was nothing messy or turbulent about it. There were no manic highs with Sean, but there were no angst-ridden lows, either. Sean was easy, and he and Phoebe were a family I could just... join. But in hindsight and in the stark contrast to the intensity of emotions I feel around Elliot, it almost seems insane.”

— Christina Lauren

416. “Simteam ca mi-e dor de el in fiecare rasuflare, in fiecare secunda ce trecea de cand il vazusem ultima oara.”

— Christina Lauren

417. “Statistics can’t tell us what will happen, they can only tell us what might happen.”

— Christina Lauren

418. “I want this to be everything you want it to be.” Leaning in, he smiles and says, “I want you to see your dream come to life.”

— Christina Lauren

419. “The panel shows the girl dissolving into a sky full of stars.”

— Christina Lauren

420. “I had a lot of memories of Will from the summer he’d lived with us while working for Dad: sitting on the couch with him and Jensen while we watched a movie, passing him in the hallway at night wearing nothing more than a towel around his hips, inhaling dinner at the kitchen table after a long day at the lab. But only from the evil influence of dark magic could I have forgotten about the tattoos.”

— Christina Lauren

421. “I’d always assumed he held the power and I held none, but in this moment I knew that I could have as much power over him as I wanted. I just had to be brave enough to take it.”

— Christina Lauren

422. “You’re a demon,” I said. “I feel like a bride guarding my virginity before the wedding.”

— Christina Lauren

423. “He could be mine, still.”

— Christina Lauren

424. “How insane would it have been to know Chloe in my early twenties? We would have torn this place up, and probably lasted only a weekend. Isn’t it amazing how you meet the person you’re meant to meet, when you’re supposed to meet her?”

— Christina Lauren

425. “His grin is so genuinely happy, it works a creaky hinge open inside me.”

— Christina Lauren

426. “I laugh because this feels genuinely impossible. How does one move on from a man so kind of heart and fine of ass?”

— Christina Lauren

427. “That I was in love with Niall Stella was only a secret in theory. He knew it, I knew it.”

— Christina Lauren

428. “Like a hot Latin Dementor, Alex materializes at his side.”

— Christina Lauren

429. “The silence stretched between us as did the minutes, and I wondered if she’d fallen asleep. I shifted slightly and was surprised to hear her voice. “Don’t go,” she said into the darkness. I bent, kissed the top of her head, and inhaled her sweet, familiar scent. “I’m not going anywhere.”

— Christina Lauren

430. “Drunk giggly Josh is my favorite, but drunk confident Josh is my new religion.”

— Christina Lauren

431. “I want a fella who notices everything about you when you first met, but would only notice everything that’s missing when you’re not around.”

— Christina Lauren

432. “My point is that you could never shut out Elliot. He’s your soul mate.”

— Christina Lauren

433. “I wasn’t thinking as I pulled him through the door and down the hall. All I could do was feel – feel how right we were together, and an overwhelming relief that he was here, and that I didn’t want him to leave.”

— Christina Lauren

434. “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.”

— Christina Lauren

435. “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

436. “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

437. “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

438. “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

439. “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

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

— Christina Lauren

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

— Christina Lauren

442. “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

443. “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.”

— Christina Lauren

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

— Christina Lauren

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

— Christina Lauren

446. “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.”

— Christina Lauren

447. “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.”

— Christina Lauren

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

— Christina Lauren

449. “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.”

— Christina Lauren

450. “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.”

— Christina Lauren