Top 500 Christina Lauren Quotes (2026 Update)
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401. “What kind of heart do you think lives inside here?”

— Christina Lauren

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

— Christina Lauren

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

— Christina Lauren

404. “We get soup dumplings when we’re thinking about each other.”

— Christina Lauren

405. “This flirting is all well and good, but I mean it when I tell you, I can’t have you leaving me again. It almost broke me.”

— Christina Lauren

406. “I like the idea of saving to buy a place of my own or having some extra in the bank for an adventure once I figure out what kind of adventure I want to have. I see all these choices unrolling in front of me – career, travel, friends, geography – and despite things being insane and hard and messy, I don’t think I’ve ever liked myself more than I do now. It’s the strangest feeling to be proud simply because I’m taking care of me and mine. Is this what it’s like to grow up?”

— Christina Lauren

407. “I felt my blush warm my cheeks. “Because Jesus totally lives in my cleavage?” “Not anymore he doesn’t. Your boobs are now too small for him to be comfortable in there.” He shook his head, and I couldn’t stop laughing. “So selfish, Ziggs,” he said, grinning so widely that I actually stumbled a little.”

— Christina Lauren

408. “We’re only three class sessions in and I’m already behind? And to hear it from him? This buttoned-up Bible-thumper I can’t get out of my head?”

— Christina Lauren

409. “You know I cleaned that board a hundred times and those damn words never went away? And I don’t mean that in a metaphorical sense. She used a Sharpie, not a dry-erase marker, and it literally stained the words into the board.”

— Christina Lauren

410. “I was pretty sure I looked like an idiot. Will and Henry continued to sip their drinks and pore over the menu, oblivious to the fact that I was sitting across from them, damn near giggling and randomly breaking into the widest, goofiest grins imaginable.”

— Christina Lauren

411. “I’ve always been obsessed with words – so why can’t I seem to write a single one?”

— Christina Lauren

412. “I’ll have to find new excuses to get you up to the boardrooom and naked against the window.”

— Christina Lauren

413. “This way, it’s only a sketch, just a possibility. Even if it never turns into more, you are the only one who makes me that happy, and I am so grateful for it.”

— Christina Lauren

414. “We get to decide how much of our hearts we want to give them.”

— Christina Lauren

415. “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

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

— Christina Lauren

417. “I want more than just this.”

— Christina Lauren

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

— Christina Lauren

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

— Christina Lauren

420. “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

421. “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

422. “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

423. “Google tells me that West is the son of a billionaire, and a glance at my banking app tells me I am a thirty-dollaraire.”

— Christina Lauren

424. “In that case, I like living alone, but would rather live with you. I like sleeping alone, but would rather have you in my bed. I like having friends over for Thanksgiving, but would rather it just be the two of us, doing our first Thanksgiving as a couple, eating turkey off the bone, cuddling on the floor together.”

— Christina Lauren

425. “I had no idea who Real-Life Elliot was. My Elliot existed only on certain days, only in the confines of our library closet.”

— Christina Lauren

426. “I was so lost in love with this girl.”

— Christina Lauren

427. “But I also wanted to watch her sleep, and then watch her wake up and see me, and gauge her feelings from that first, unfiltered reaction.”

— Christina Lauren

428. “I want to be married,” I blurted. “I want you to marry me.”

— Christina Lauren

429. “She sees herself as a supporting character, even in her own life story.”

— Christina Lauren

430. “He’s smart, but I’m not sure he’s looked up from his phone in the past two years. If you want to have a conversation with him, you might want to consider strapping his phone to your forehead.”

— Christina Lauren

431. “Right now is the time in life that teaches you you’ll get through it even if you hate it.”

— Christina Lauren

432. “Even if it’s awful, it’s going to be okay,; she says. ‘You know how I know that?‘... ‘How?’ ‘Because even if it goes off the rails, even if everyone ends up shouting and crying and accusing, they’ll still leave at the end of the night, and we’ll still have our house and our life and this love that nobody can touch.”

— Christina Lauren

433. “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

434. “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

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

— Christina Lauren

436. “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

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

— Christina Lauren

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

— Christina Lauren

439. “I love that he’s respectful, even if I crave being disrespected by him, and only him.”

— Christina Lauren

440. “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.”

— Christina Lauren

441. “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.”

— Christina Lauren

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

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443. “He was my everybody.”

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

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445. “Do you ever have a feeling about someone? Like they’re your safe space and, I don’t know, like someday it could be more?”

— Christina Lauren

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

— Christina Lauren

447. “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.”

— Christina Lauren

448. “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.”

— Christina Lauren

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

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450. “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.”

— Christina Lauren