Top 160 Claire Contreras Quotes (2024 Update)
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51. “One more question. Enrique said when your wife left you, you took it well. Did you ever go after her? Try to convince her to stay?” “No.” “Why not?” “I don’t know. I was young, I was over it. She left me for my cousin.” He shrugs. “I just didn’t care enough to chase her.” “But you chased me.” “I did.” “And you’d keep chasing me? If I say no to this? If I turned you away?” “Probably.” I stare at him. “Why?” “Because you’re mine.”

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52. “You can try to steer your life in a certain direction all you want, but ultimately, the wind is in charge of your sail.”

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53. “I forgot to breathe. People said that was impossible, but I completely forgot to breathe, and when my mouth opened it was to take some of his breath, or maybe some of what I’d left behind inside of him when he left me.”

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54. “I don’t think I’m in love with you, Catalina. I know I am,” he says. “Stupid in love with you.”

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55. “Love always tries, and I never stopped.”

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56. “Real love stories never end,” he whispered.”

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57. “Forever. Yeah, right.”

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58. “Work and wine, maintaining sanity for unhappily married women everywhere.”

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59. “I know because, when she’s not with me, I feel like I lack oxygen, and even when I am with her, I feel like I can’t breathe enough.”

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60. “I love you. I’m in love with you. There is no after you.”

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61. “And nothing is more haunting than regret.”

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62. “Trust isn’t something you give people when they ask for it. It’s something that’s earned.”

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63. “Just because you’re looking for the one, doesn’t mean that you have to subject yourself to every single lousy date you’re set on.”

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64. “Life is short, and brutal, and painful, and it takes loved ones away from us as quickly as it brings them into our lives, but it’s also beautiful.”

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65. “The hearts I make are shattered, but whole. They’re kaleidoscopes that beam under the sun. They signify hope in love when you’ve lost it because, like love, you can look at a kaleidoscope a thousand different ways and find something new every time. Shattered or not, if you look carefully enough, you’ll find something beautiful in them, and all beautiful things are a little broken.”

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66. “I’ve lived in pain since the moment I lost you. I’ve learned to live with it, but I haven’t learned to accept it.”

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67. “His mouth felt like everything I envisioned heaven and hell must feel like: warm and welcoming, hot and seductive.”

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68. “34 C, baby,” he said loudly. I felt my face turn a shade of red as a woman walked by us. She shot me an amused look.”

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69. “Love was an illusion. An idea that society tried to sell to you. I believed in respect and honesty, but love? Love had never been on my radar.”

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70. “There’s no point in believing in destiny if you’re too stubborn to give in to it.”

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71. “THERE’S A LOT to be said about evolution and the way beauty sometimes blossoms from the most unlikely ducklings.”

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72. “That’s what family does, isn’t it? We put up with things from each other that we’d never take from anybody else. Even after being dragged through the mud and stomped on a few times somehow we still find it in us to forgive one another.”

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73. “He kissed me the way he appeared into my life, intensely and impossible to forget.”

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74. “I had never deserved this woman. Not when we were kids, not when we were teenagers, not four years ago, and certainly not now. I’d never done anything to deserve her attention or her love, yet, she gave it to me continuously without asking for anything in return.”

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75. “I had to accept the consequences of my actions. I told it because I believed history was something we should learn from. We studied it to not repeat the mistakes of the past. I.”

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76. “A date,” he repeated, his eyes assessing me closer now, as if he was trying to figure out who would ask me on a date. It was the moment I realized I could definitely grow to hate Prince Elias. How had I ever slept with this man? How could I have given him my virginity? I was disgusted with myself. “Yes, a date.”

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77. “That was what I found most comforting about it all: we were all confused together, and ultimately, all lost together, despite our ages, races, genders, and anything else that set us apart.”

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78. “He taught me to understand that the thing about love – real, over the top, makes you feel crazy, overpowering, strips you bare kind of love – is that when you’re soaring, you’re higher than you dreamed possible. But when you fall, you land inside the deepest darkest crevices, and are left alone to pull yourself out.”

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79. “He looked at me for a moment, seemingly stunned. “You love her.” I scoffed, but it sounded weak in my ears. “Please. I don’t even know what love is.” “I don’t either, but if I had to make a bet, I’d bet it was this – letting go of someone with the knowledge that you’d be miserable without them. You say you’re selfish, but you’re doing the selfless thing here.” “It doesn’t feel like I am.” It felt like I was breaking apart at the seams.”

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80. “The difference is the heart has a second chance, and maybe it’ll get broken again, but it’s already shattered, so maybe the fall won’t be as bad.”

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81. “Tessa.” His tone and the way he leaned in made me shut my mouth. “When it comes to you, there’s never any competition. You blow everyone else out of the water.”

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82. “Survival looks different on everyone. We can’t be judged for what we did or didn’t do, but enough is enough.”

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83. “Life is short. We’re only here to chase moments. I’d rather make those moments worthwhile.”

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84. “I don’t know how to wake up without your good mornings or go to sleep without your good nights.”

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85. “She loved me, but not enough to stay. Not enough to put me first.”

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86. “Las verdaderas historias de amor no terminan nunca.”

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87. “Like somebody is gripping your heart, but you don’t want them to let go because the ache would worsen without them.”

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88. “I understand, and I’m sorry to break it to you, but I’m not looking to hook up with you. Been there, done that, bought the shirt.”

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89. “Yet for some reason I’m around this guy for two seconds and I become a fifteen-year-old girl at a One Direction concert.”

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90. “He said the word date with such disdain, I was sure he absolutely hated me. I just couldn’t figure out why I cared so much.”

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91. “I don’t want to say that I feel complete when I’m with him – because I’m complete without him – but when I’m with him I feel like a better version of myself.”

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92. “I sell love. That’s a lot harder to sell than cars.”

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93. “I’m not any kind of girl. I don’t need a man, but I don’t hate romance. I think I’m kind of obsessed with romance, really, which is probably why I’m still single.”

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94. “Do you have to leave?” she whispered, her voice filled with exhaustion. “I have to,” I said, combing my hand through her hair. “Don’t you like it here?” “I do, but all of my stuff is there,” I said. “So bring it here,” she argued. “You can put it in my closet.”

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95. “I’m always numb unless you’re around. You make me feel.”

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96. “It’s a heart. They always break at some point. Sooner or later someone will come along and shatter it... might as well be you.”

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97. “The heart wants what it wants, and mine is clearly a sucker for pain.”

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98. “I messed up royally. This wasn’t an easy fix. This wasn’t a let me come over tomorrow and fix the training wheel I accidently broke. Or let me replace the canvas I threw a football in the middle of. This is life. This is what happens when you stop living in the moment. People grow up. They change, they move on, and you find yourself wishing you had looked up in time to walk with them.”

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99. “He’s freaking hot, but I can’t go out with him! This isn’t the fifteen hundreds. You can’t just go around trying to court me to people!”

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100. “Have you ever stopped to really consider how many people we share the universe with? I mean, really. I did the other day, and it made me feel smaller than an ant.”

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