Top 150 Elena Armas Quotes (2024 Update)
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51. “Aaron Blackford, scowling Clark Kent look-alike, was in my office. Helping me and feeding me homemade snacks, and I was glad. Thankful even.”

— Elena Armas

52. “Five tacos – Aaron had gotten me five and not four, like I had told him.”

— Elena Armas

53. “You have to say something, baby. You are very quiet, and that’s starting to freak me out.” Baby. That baby did things to me. I liked it. Far too much.”

— Elena Armas

54. “Porque la vida no es ideal. Tiene curvas y baches. A un minuto te hace girar y al siguiente te has estrellado.”

— Elena Armas

55. “Every time I look at her.” He didn’t even blink as he talked, looking straight into my eyes. And I didn’t think I did either. I didn’t think I was even breathing. “All the time I wasted so foolishly. All the time I could have had with her.”

— Elena Armas

56. “I want your heart, Catalina.” Both of his hands rose to my shoulders, trailing up my neck and cupping my face. “I want it for myself, just how I have given you mine.” It’s yours, you beautiful and blind man, I wanted to tell him. Take it. I don’t want it anymore, I wanted to scream at him and anyone that would listen.”

— Elena Armas

57. “What they had was the real stuff. Honest, devoted, palpable love. The one that transcended distance, differences, and obstacles. The kind that was meant to be written about in books. Thinking of it filled my chest with warmth and longing for something I didn’t know I’d ever be able to find.”

— Elena Armas

58. “Sometimes we keep things from those we love for reasons we don’t even understand ourselves.”

— Elena Armas

59. “You like it when I speak in Spanish to you.” Yes. Obviously. “I guess I do.” “I can say it again for you, would you like that?” he offered, and then, instead of waiting for my answer – Yes please, sir, and can you record it, too, so I can play it for years to come?”

— Elena Armas

60. “Now, you can let me walk you out and drive you home” – he paused, like a total drama queen – “or I can carry you out of this building and into my car myself.”

— Elena Armas

61. “Anything that bothers you matters to me, and I want to hear about it,” he said from his position behind me. “Nothing about you is boring or doesn’t interest me – ever. Understand?”

— Elena Armas

62. “Some days, I found excuses to touch her. I’d tell her she had something in her hair. Or that I’d thought there had been something clinging to her clothes. Sometimes, I reached for her and didn’t come up with an excuse in time so I just smiled at her like a total idiot, and hoped for the best.”

— Elena Armas

63. “Seattle,” I repeated, chewing on this new piece of information he had given me. More. I wanted just a little more. “That’s Washington up north, right? I know because of Twilight. Forks is supposed to be a few hours away.”

— Elena Armas

64. “Aaron’s arms tightened around me. “Just for precaution,” he said, bringing me even closer.”

— Elena Armas

65. “You want to play, love?′ His voice had a dark to it. His fingers flexed. ‘You want a man that won’t run away scared? A man that’ll leave his bloody skin in he game?’ My heart tripped. ‘I’ll be your man, then.”

— Elena Armas

66. “You hugged me because you thought I wasn’t coming.” His gaze was searching. As if he couldn’t believe or understand what had just happened. “You’ve never hugged me before.”

— Elena Armas

67. “Rosie: you’re supposed to side with me. Lucas: I’ll always be on your side.”

— Elena Armas

68. “When someone mistreats you and I have the power to do something about it, I’m going to speak up. I’m not going to wait on the sidelines and watch you take the hit of it on your own.”

— Elena Armas

69. “While I was busy wondering if we were expecting anybody, it took me by surprise when an arm – which I was starting to get very well acquainted with at this rate – snaked around my waist and pulled me backward. My ass landed on something hard and hot, immediately molding into the space. Aaron’s lap. His breath caressed the shell of my ear. “You didn’t say good morning.”

— Elena Armas

70. “I talked her into believing that she needed me. Then, I showed her-proved to her-that she did.”

— Elena Armas

71. “Insanity – that was what this was. What was pumping in my veins.”

— Elena Armas

72. “You’ve never needed anyone to fight your battles, Catalina. That’s one of the things I respect the most about you.” His words did something to my chest. Something that created a kind of pressure I wasn’t comfortable with. Aaron never said stuff like that. Not to anyone and particularly not to me. I opened my mouth to tell him that it didn’t matter, that I didn’t care, that we could just drop it, but he held up a hand, stopping me.”

— Elena Armas

73. “Life-altering moments spanned from a few seconds to decades. It was part of the magic of life. Of living.”

— Elena Armas

74. “There’s no such thing as silly when it comes to dreams. No matter how new or old they are.”

— Elena Armas

75. “If you could, tell Aaron that I don’t think one can laugh at, or much less understand, jokes when one lacks a sense of humor, please.”

— Elena Armas

76. “You are right.” His voice was unspeakably flat. “Being your friend has always been the last thing on my mind.”

— Elena Armas

77. “You always have my undivided attention, Catalina.”

— Elena Armas

78. “Or the fact that he’d have to pretend he was in love with me.”

— Elena Armas

79. “If you were really mine, I’d do this all the time.”

— Elena Armas

80. “And then, as if he had been waiting for me to be ready to hear it, he went for the killing blow. “You are not on your own anymore. It’s you and me now. We are in this together, and we’ve got this.”

— Elena Armas

81. “You like The Lion King?” “Of course.”

— Elena Armas

82. “My lips parted with a silent curse word that would make my abuela take me to church by the ear.”

— Elena Armas

83. “I think I’m going to take it as a compliment,” he said as one of the corners of his lips bent up just the tiniest little bit. Smug Clark Kent look-alike. “Well, it’s not.” I reached for my mouse, clicking to open a random folder. “Thor or Captain America? That would have been a compliment. But you are not a Chris. Plus, no one cares about Superman anymore, Mr. Kent.”

— Elena Armas

84. “Aaron dipped his head, his voice dropping too. “Are you trying to impress me with sports lingo, Catalina?” The way he had said my name was new. I couldn’t explain how, but it had been different from any other time he had voiced those four syllables. And it sent a shiver dancing down my arms. “It’s sexy, but don’t ever feel like you need to impress me. I already am.” My lips parted. I thought my breath had hitched too.”

— Elena Armas

85. “All is fair in love and war.” It was in a way, I guessed. What I had trouble making sense of was, how did that apply when love was fake, and adversaries were left no choice but to join forces?”

— Elena Armas

86. “My eyelids eventually fluttered shut, but right before darkness engulfed me, I thought I heard Aaron whisper, “You feel complete in my arms. You feel like my home.”

— Elena Armas

87. “Did you smuggle doughnuts out of the wedding in your pocket?”

— Elena Armas

88. “Before I could muster the courage to stop him, the last person in the room I had expected to speak beat me to it. “We are done here.”

— Elena Armas

89. “Your family loves you, and that’s a kind of bond you can’t force. It’s a kind of love one doesn’t find anywhere else. It can be overwhelming, but that’s only because it’s always honest. And being a part of that, even if only for a few days, meant... the world. More than you could ever know.”

— Elena Armas

90. “I always have time for you.”

— Elena Armas

91. “When I finally kiss you, there won’t be any doubt in your mind that it is real.”

— Elena Armas

92. “Aaron was never late. He wasn’t programmed for that kind of careless behavior.”

— Elena Armas

93. “Because life wasn’t ideal. It turned and bent. It spun you out for a minute and swung you right back in the next.”

— Elena Armas

94. “My heart skipped a beat. Then another one. And then one more. Until no air was getting in or out and I could tell my heart had stopped beating completely. For the longest of moments, I remained suspended in time, thinking I’d never bounce back from this because my heart was not functioning anymore, but hey, if those were the parting words I had to leave this earth with, then I’d be happy.”

— Elena Armas

95. “I’m crying because we’re just friends, because none of this is real.”

— Elena Armas

96. “Because when I finally take those lips in mine, it will be the furthest thing from pretending. I will not be showing you what it would be like if you were mine. I’ll show you what it is. And I sure as hell won’t be showing how good I could make you feel if you called me yours. You’ll already know that I am.”

— Elena Armas

97. “Contrary to what I had hoped, food had done nothing to appease my mood.”

— Elena Armas

98. “If I were yours, I would not be capable of functioning without touching you.” His words made something in my chest constrict. “I couldn’t go a few minutes without doing this,” he added, squeezing my waist with his hand and slipping his thumb below my sleeping shirt, robbing me of the following breath. “Or something like this.” Aaron stepped further into me, pressing his hips against mine. A helpless whimper left me.”

— Elena Armas

99. “He. Did. Not. Fit.”

— Elena Armas

100. “I don’t send them all away.”

— Elena Armas