Top 120 Colleen Houck Quotes (2024 Update)
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101. “He moved in a dance with the cosmos, practicing the steps that would take him to the places he wanted to see. As he circled, he gained wisdom and became truly more than he’d been.”

— Colleen Houck

102. “Ember had never imagined a kiss to be so innocent and so wanton at the same time. Her whole body trembled, and she felt as if she stood on the cusp of something wonderful. That if she was just brave enough to step over the edge, she’d experience the most exhilarating moment of her life.”

— Colleen Houck

103. “Love is the only thing in this universe worth risking all for.”

— Colleen Houck

104. “One day, if you make the most of it, can be more satisfactory than a lifetime squandered.”

— Colleen Houck

105. “I mean, realistically, what was I expecting here? A sarcophagus built for two?”

— Colleen Houck

106. “I knew then that my future had always been Ren.”

— Colleen Houck

107. “As the days and the years of your life go by, I will keep watch over you, and when your blossom closes its petals, finally surrendering to the night, I will meet you at the dawn of your new existence and I will be your new guide in the afterlife.”

— Colleen Houck

108. “Perhaps if you’d been willing to experience love and had had a few years of happiness, you might have amounted to something. As it is, your life is rather pathetic. What a waste.”

— Colleen Houck

109. “Reliance soon became trust. Trust led to admiration. And then, before I was even aware it happened, admiration transformed into a longing that was at once terrific and terrible, and I realized I was in love.”

— Colleen Houck

110. “Don’t forget, Lily, the sun always leads to life. To see the sunrise is to embrace life. The sunset is where you will find death.”

— Colleen Houck

111. “I could fall recklessly, dangerously, in love with a guy like him.”

— Colleen Houck

112. “A tear dropped from my cheek to his forehead. “Please don’t die,” I whispered.”

— Colleen Houck

113. “That light. It’s more powerful than she can make alone. He acts like... well, like a filament. She pours her energy into him, and he heats it. Then he sends it back to her just like a light bulb. They create a kind of vacuum between them; that is the connection I am referring to. It’s very special and rarely seen. When they’re touching, nothing else exists outside the two of them. All they are aware of is each other.”

— Colleen Houck

114. “What would Ren do in Oregon? Would he get a job? What would he put on his resume? High Protector and former Prince of India?”

— Colleen Houck

115. “He was as beautiful a man as her was a tiger.”

— Colleen Houck

116. “No one can understand what you’ve been through more than Kishan and Mr. Kadam. I think the best thing you can do to repay him is to give him that level of loyalty in return. He considers you and Kishan sons and the best way a son can honor his father is to be the kind of man that would make him proud.”

— Colleen Houck

117. “Like the trees, his roots went deep, and I daydreamed that if he wrapped me in his arms, he could safely tuck me away within his branches and hide me from the world. He was shaken by nothing. He feared noting.”

— Colleen Houck

118. “I’d been so afraid of losing that I’d never tried to win.”

— Colleen Houck

119. “How could I remain unyielding? His words penetrated the flimsy barriers I’d set up around my heart. I’d meant to set up a barbed wire fence, but the barbs ended up being covered with marshmallows. He slipped through my defenses easily. He touched his forehead to my hand, and my marshmallow heart melted.”

— Colleen Houck

120. “Before I could even form a question, he murmured some words in Egyptian and we were sucked into a whirlwind.”

— Colleen Houck

121. “He finally lifted his head and murmured against my lips, “It’s about bloody time, woman.”

— Colleen Houck

122. “If I didn’t get the tiger part of him back soon, I’d lose myself to the man forever.”

— Colleen Houck

123. “The human sun god was a stomach-dropping, chest-popping, feet-sliding, shoulder-swaying, hip-rotating, flutter-inducing, liquid locomotive, and I was surrounded by women who couldn’t wait to buy a ticket.”

— Colleen Houck

124. “He was my ultimate present my own personal miracle and I’d blown it. I’d given him away. It was like winning backstage passes to meet the rock star of your dreams and donating the tickets to charity. It sucked. Big time.”

— Colleen Houck

125. “A young man who doesn’t have the foresight to seek out the girl he wants to be with and actively pursue her, doesn’t deserve her.”

— Colleen Houck

126. “Eternity is a long time to exist without something to remember.”

— Colleen Houck

127. “All I ask,” the doctor said, “is that you keep in mind that all creations, all advances, all inventions, come with a price. They can be used for good or they can be used for evil. But in my philosophy, mine is not to determine politics or to decide if a certain advance should be created. Mine is to determine if it could be created. There’s no use in debating the morals when I don’t even know if something will work.”

— Colleen Houck

128. “Just because there is no perceivable alternate exit does not mean another exit does not exist. I believe there may indeed be a way to escape.”

— Colleen Houck

129. “If I were a Jedi, I had definitely turned to the dark side of the Force.”

— Colleen Houck

130. “I have no concern for the shape of my body as long as it is strong.”

— Colleen Houck

131. “An open mind and a willing heart are the beginning of many a great adventure. Let’s get started.”

— Colleen Houck

132. “You’re the air in my lungs, the blood in my veins, and the courage in my heart. I’m an empty shell without you.”

— Colleen Houck

133. “It dishonors the death of our loved ones to shut out happiness. We throw away what could have been and waste our opportunities. We each have a purpose, a destiny and to realize it we must reach beyond what we are capable of.”

— Colleen Houck

134. “I didn’t go for dangerous guys, especially bald guys wearing skirts who I couldn’t figure out. He.”

— Colleen Houck

135. “He shut the door softly behind him, and I threw a pillow at it just to prove a point. I stewed for an hour until I was finally able to drift off again, this time with a smile on my face as I imagined using the Scarf to dangle Ren in front of the kraken, but then in my dream I became the kraken and wrapped my tentacles around him, pulled him into my eternal purple embrace, and stole away with him to a murky cavern in the depths of the ocean.”

— Colleen Houck

136. “I smirked at Ren before answering. “Yes. I dreamed I fed Ren to the kraken.”

— Colleen Houck

137. “Regrets are only felt by those who do not understand life’s purpose.”

— Colleen Houck