Top 500 Christina Lauren Quotes (2024 Update)
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401. “It’s just hard to know which choice is right until it’s all over, I guess.”

— Christina Lauren

402. “I loved her in the way we love in high school, sort of intensely, idealistically, and without knowing each other all that well.”

— Christina Lauren

403. “But as I’ve never fallen in love and never felt that clawing ache for any one person, I never know which of them will end up being right. When Autumn said that about not being enough for me, I let it go and pretended I didn’t remember. The problem is, I do remember. In fact, I obsess about it, while pretending I’m not painfully waiting for the moment when someone knocks me over, makes me feel sure about them in a way I’ve never been sure about anything in my whole life.”

— Christina Lauren

404. “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

405. “I get the bedroom and Netflix, and you wander the island to check on your hidden horcruxes.”

— Christina Lauren

406. “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.”

— Christina Lauren

407. “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

408. “He rested a plank on his shoulder like a bayonet. and I nearly laughed, thinking, is that what it feels like to fall in love with a soldier on the other side?”

— Christina Lauren

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

— Christina Lauren

410. “You and I used to play vampires when we were kids and didn’t realize the marks we were leaving on each other’s necks were hickeys.”

— Christina Lauren

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

— Christina Lauren

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

— Christina Lauren

413. “As parents we put our kids through the strangest things because we think it’s giving them some sort of advantage.”

— 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. “I want to tell you I’m sorry,′ he says, voice a low burr. ‘Come home and kick me in the teeth if you need to, but then kiss me.”

— Christina Lauren

417. “I think I want to know you feel the way I do.”

— Christina Lauren

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

— Christina Lauren

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

— Christina Lauren

420. “You were perfect then, too, and you are perfect now.” Eyes watery, I laugh. “You are not a credible source.” “I am the only credible source. I’ve known you every second of your life.”

— Christina Lauren

421. “It was comical to compare that to the reaction I’d had to losing Chloe. I’d essentially turned into a filthy hobo, not eating, not showering, and surviving entirely on scotch and self-pity.”

— Christina Lauren

422. “I learned a very important thing that day: my mom would never try to change for a man, and I wouldn’t, either.”

— Christina Lauren

423. “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.”

— Christina Lauren

424. “Think Mr. Darcy, but without the lovely proclamations.”

— Christina Lauren

425. “I used to refer to her as social lubricant, but Robert made me promise to never use that phrase again.”

— Christina Lauren

426. “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

427. “I think your mouth is its own Greek god. Tongueseus.”

— Christina Lauren

428. “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.”

— Christina Lauren

429. “You’re honestly too good for me, but it doesn’t mean that I don’t want you anyway.”

— Christina Lauren

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

— Christina Lauren

431. “Is it weird that this roomful of straight men is fighting over Reid and not me?”

— Christina Lauren

432. “Fine. Have it your way, four. Is it bad form after only four months to tell you I think you’re my forever?”

— Christina Lauren

433. “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.”

— Christina Lauren

434. “My God, we are too young to be this old.”

— Christina Lauren

435. “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

436. “Will’s jaw was carved and covered in dark stubble. I had a sudden and overwhelming urge to feel it on my thighs.”

— Christina Lauren

437. “Seeing her face – strangely – like being home again, but also like meeting a beautiful girl for the first time.”

— Christina Lauren

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

— Christina Lauren

439. “I knew exactly what she meant when she whispered, “I missed you.” And all I could say back was “I missed you, too.”

— Christina Lauren

440. “I wouldn’t exactly say we were scraping the bottom of the barrel by date seven, but Josh did feel the need to fake diarrhea, and I readily rushed him out to the car, apologizing profusely to our confused dates over my shoulder.”

— Christina Lauren

441. “And so could I. Here, I could be the man who was desperately in love for the first time in my life.”

— Christina Lauren

442. “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.”

— Christina Lauren

443. “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

444. “I thought was a pretty clear picture of who he was, but I have to admit.”

— Christina Lauren

445. “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

446. “I’m terrified of what it would feel like if you weren’t in my life anymore.”

— Christina Lauren

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

— Christina Lauren

448. “I saw how he looked at you when he came in here Monday. He’d let you carry his balls around in your pocket.”

— Christina Lauren

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

— Christina Lauren

450. “Hannah. Shut up, right now. Come to my room and get laid.”

— Christina Lauren