Top 40 Courtney Cole Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “She’s like a breath of fresh air. I may be the Big Bad Wolf, but even wolves need to breathe.”

— Courtney Cole

2. “I can’t let you break my heart. I don’t have much of it left.”

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3. “Serva me, servabo te. Save me and I will save you.”

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4. “Sons must pay for the sins of their fathers.”

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5. “Because true love never fails. It never dies. It just goes on and on and on. Forever.”

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6. “What was it about relationships that made you feel so vulnerable? Oh, right. A relationship. In any relationship, you put yourself out there. You exposed all of your sensitive nerve endings and your heart and you just had to hope that you trusted the right person.”

— Courtney Cole

7. “But just because we can’t see something doesn’t mean it’s not there.”

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8. “We absorb the energy that’s around us, you know.”

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9. “Run, little mouse. The hawk is coming, and you’re going to get eaten.”

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10. “The irony is lost on you.”

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11. “Give me another chance,” I ask urgently. “I will do anything that you want me to do if you just tell me that we can start again. I know I don’t deserve it, but I’m asking anyway. I honestly don’t know if I can breathe without you. Please. I love you, Mila. Please tell me we can work it out.”

— Courtney Cole

12. “I’m doing all I can to stay afloat in a sea of insanity, but I’m drowning more and more each day.”

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13. “I stand on a wall to protect what is mine. I’m his and he’s mine. It’s the way it’s meant to be. We’ll protect each other forever, for the rest of our lives. No matter what.”

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14. “I love you. I love how you are so sweet and innocent and kind to people, but you are such a vixen in the sack. I love how you look at me. I love your smile. I love everything about you.”

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15. “I don’t want to start over again,” she says slowly. “I like what we had. I don’t want to re-do it. I love you, Pax. But I don’t know if I can handle it if you leave me like that again. You shut me out and i couldn’t help you. That’s not what people do when they love someone. You ripped my heart out and stomped on it.”

— Courtney Cole

16. “The only thing worse than drowning in grief is sharing a lifeboat with other drowning people.”

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17. “Words can harm people every bit as much as a weapon.”

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18. “So... I’m going to ask you again, babe. Stay with me. Stay with me here in my house. It’s only a five minute drive to your shop when it’s open. And you can use this studio for your art. I promise to try not to snore. And to put the toilet seat down. Most of the time, anyway. Just stay with me. Please. I never want to be away from you again.”

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19. “You don’t have to beat around the bush about it, Mila. If you want to be there at sunrise, just pack an overnight bag when you come out.”

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20. “Good night, sweet Finn. Good night, good night.”

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21. “Nocte liber sum. By night I am free.”

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22. “The universe takes care of iniquities, of people who have been wronged, of injustices that the world can’t right.”

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23. “DD and CP are inscribed inside a heart. Corny and sweet. I trace the letters with my finger. “What a coincidence,” I murmur, for some reason aching on the inside, aching to be that CP and for Dare to be that DD.”

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24. “What would you shave off for me if I died?” I would plunge to the bottom of the ocean for you. I’d comb it for shells and make you a necklace and then hang myself with it. Because if you aren’t here, I don’t want to be either.”

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25. “This was too much craziness for any one person to handle without ice cream.”

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26. “Answers that are not freely given aren’t really answers at all.”

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27. “Because traditions are soothing when everything else goes to hell.”

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28. “He kisses me with abandon, like he’s not afraid of the consequences, like it’s only him and me, and there’s nothing else around us.”

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29. “Life is full of kinks. And the great thing about kinks? They eventually work themselves out.”

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30. “I lose myself in a world that isn’t mine and for a while, that’s for the best.”

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31. “But heads and hearts don’t always agree; and my heart was guilty as hell.”

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32. “Am I insane?” I ask limply, and all feelings have fled my body. I’m numb. I’m a piece of wood. I’m a sponge, and I have no feelings, and I’ve absorbed all of this insanity for so long that now I’m insane myself. That’s the only possible answer.”

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33. “You aren’t understood, and I can’t explain it. That doesn’t mean you’re crazy.”

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34. “Maybe because your mom just died in a car crash?”

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35. “She said... Branden, the best things in life are worth the greatest risk. Sometimes, before we fall, we fly.”

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36. “We all have little tricks we play on our minds to make life bearable.”

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37. “You can have all the time that you need, Mila. I’ll wait forever if I have to.”

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38. “And we can’t begin something beautiful when there is still so much ugliness around us.”

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39. “She’s the reason I came to your house, remember? She called me or I wouldn’t have known that things were so bad. She loves you, Pax. And if there’s anything that you should take away from this is that you need to live for today. Tomorrow is not promised to you.”

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40. “Death is big,” Dare acknowledges. “But there are things bigger than that. If there’s not, then this is all for nothing. Life is worth nothing. Putting yourself out there, and taking chances and all that. All of that stuff is bollocks if it can just disappear in the end.”

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41. “I do not give a rat’s front teeth about decorum right now,” my father enunciated clearly and loudly. “I have a hole in my side! Have you not noticed?”

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42. “He deserves to be a focus.”

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43. “My name is Calla Price. I’m eighteen years old, and I’m half of a whole.”

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44. “I love you, too,” I tell him quickly. “I have for weeks.”

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45. “Fiction is best served alone.”

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46. “Insomniacs know that there is something about the night. A darkness, an energy, a mystery that shrouds things. It hides things at the same time as it illuminates them. It is this thing that allows us to examine our thoughts in a way that we can’t during the day. It is this thing that brings truth and clarity.”

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47. “I nodded dejectedly. She was right. There wasn’t a thing that we could do. But perhaps burn a few bunches of incense to Sekhmet. I would utter some frantic prayers to God too even though Christianity hadn’t even been thought of yet. It wouldn’t hurt to cover all of my bases.”

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48. “Free will is an illusion,” my father answers and his words his words his words are so dark.”

— Courtney Cole