Top 50 Elle Cosimano Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “She lifts her hands to his face, her knuckles blistered and raw, as if she battled the world to get to him.”

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2. “Sometimes, the only way to find a solution is to break the rules.”

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3. “Just because it’s complicated, doesn’t mean there isn’t a solution.”

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4. “The worlds were empty. Hollow. As though he’d heard them so many times they’d lost their meaning.”

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5. “No matter where you are raised or what name you are given, you will endure. You will swim, you will dance, and you will love without fear.”

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6. “But I think maybe we had all found something too. The courage to face the pieces of ourselves that frighten us the most. And the power to realize those demons inside only control us if we let them.”

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7. “I reached for her, held my hand out in the space between us. She looked at it, and then to me. And then she placed her hand in mine. I shut my eyes and felt all the love that had always been there, that I had never let myself feel before. All thos things I’d thought my father had taken with him when he left. Everything I needed was here, inside her. ‘I’m sorry,’ I said, letting my own tears fall, ’if I made you feel like you weren’t good enough.”

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8. “Are you going to give me a reason to stay?”

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9. “I hope you’re worth it.”

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10. “And those traces of my father-the pain he’d left behind in the people he’d stolen from, the genes I carried that made me just like him-terrified me.”

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11. “But maybe we aren’t the sum of our mistakes or our genes or our circumstances or our fears. Maybe, in the end, we’re the product of our choices. And maybe it’s when we hold someone’s life in our hands – the choices we make in those moments – when we get a taste of what we’re truly made of.”

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12. “Vince and TJ have been best friends as long as we have. It’s not like they’re going to let one stupid kiss come between them. Maybe it didn’t mean anything. Maybe it was just a one-time thing. A mistake.”

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13. “I watched him fall into a dark corner of himself and I resisted the urge to touch him, not wanting to feel the depth of emotion I saw on his face.”

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14. “But just because you can survive alone doesn’t mean you should have to.”

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15. “I don’t know why I ask. It would be easier not to know. It’s easier to hurt someone when you don’t stop to ask them how they feel, or what they want. Easier to stop someone’s heart if you never bother to care about what’s beating inside it”- Jack.”

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16. “He seemed to consider that as he set down his can. “You do the job long enough, gets harder to tell. We’re all liars,” he said, taking the gun and reloading the magazine with a snap. “Some of us are just better at hiding it.”

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17. “Loan sharks don’t negotiate, Finn. They break kneecaps and chop off fingers.”

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18. “But the truth is, sometimes help doesn’t come in time, and we have to find the strength to face what lies ahead on our own.”

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19. “My Google search history alone was probably enough to put me on a government watch list. I wrote suspense novels about murders like this. I’d searched every possible way to kill someone. With every conceivable kind of weapon.”

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20. “She chuckled darkly. “And to think you were worried about a damn shower curtain. Nothing says ‘serial killer’ like a chest freezer in a garage.”

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21. “Let us not attribute to malice and cruelty what may be referred to less criminal motives.’ I make it a point never to assume the worst about people.”

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22. “It’s hard to want to kill someone once they’ve saved your life.”

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23. “I concede that getting drunk and stuffing a wad of Delia’s Play-Doh in the exhaust pipe of Theresa’s BMW may not have been the best way to handle the news when he’d told me they were getting engaged, but letting her walk away with half my advance and my husband felt like salt in the wound.”

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24. “She said she’d received a death threat at her house and she’d been too afraid to say anything to the police, because she didn’t believe they could protect her. OCN sent someone over to her house to check out her claim, and sure enough, they found a knife mark in her back door, exactly where she told them to look. Apparently, her story checks out.”

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25. “I could join you. In your tent. If you want me to. Strictly for medicinal purposes.”

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26. “Sometimes, she’d said, you can’t see the whole story until it’s laid out on the page, and the only way to figure out what happens next is to write your way through it, one scene after the next, until it’s done.”

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27. “I’m pretty sure confetti exploded from my ovaries as he set her gently on her feet.”

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28. “My relationship with Panera was complicated. I liked their soup. Panera didn’t like that I’d poured it over another customer’s head. In my defense, Theresa had started it when she’d attempted to justify her reasons for sleeping with my husband.”

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29. “Crazy, huh? How the people we hurt-the ones we love the most-can be the hardest to face” – Amber.”

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30. “Even more of a reason to put some money in savings, Finlay. A single woman can never be too prepared. You should have a nest egg.”

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31. “And that,” she says, leveling her cigarette at the cove, “was the most ridiculous tantrum ever.”

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32. “Julio rubs his eyes and watches the place where she disappeared down the sidewalk thirty-two minutes ago, as if by the sheer will of his longing, he can somehow bring her back.”

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33. “Julio sets his guitar in the man’s lap, wrapping the strap around the man’s shoulder... I fight the urge to pluck it out of his hands. To tell Julio we’ll all take turns carrying it. It’s hard to watch him walk away from the one thing he refused to part with.”

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34. “People who work in law enforcement see a lot of things most of us couldn’t stomach, and their job is pretty thankless. It isn’t always easy to be the good guy. Most days, playing the bad guy probably feels like the easier option.”

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35. “Julio may have been the one to dematerialize on that jail cell surveillance video, but Amber was the one left behind. And that hurts, too.”

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36. “Have you noticed any changes since you and Julio hooked up in the elevator?”

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37. “Nick and Vero glanced up as my heels clicked into the kitchen. Vero looked confused. “I’m sorry. Do I know you? Because I thought I worked for a vampire in yoga pants.”

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38. “We’re here, the four of us, together and alive, and the clouds above us part, making way for a sliver of sunlight.”

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39. “No one liked to be reminded that the pricey grass that covered their manicured lawn had been seeded in the same dirt as organized crime. And this post felt like more than an expression of solidarity. It reeked of ill will, the coded language of illicit business.”

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40. “I look at Fleur. At Julio and Amber. And in them- in us- I see possibilities I haven’t let myself see before. Together, we are the storm.”

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41. “No one pulls over repair trucks. And now I have a melting corpsicle dripping dead-guy juice in my trunk.”

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42. “We are not adding grand larceny of farming equipment to our growing list of felonies.”

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43. “Fleur: If we’re going to be together, it should be because we want to be, not because we’re afraid we’re falling apart.”

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44. “Fleur doesn’t fear death the way most Seasons do. She does not fear her own pain as much as she fears teh suffering of those she loves.”

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45. “Plan?” I choke out a laugh. “What plan? There is no plan.” My only plan was to run. To hide.”

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46. “I dug my mittens from the pockets of my coat and drew them on, wishing I had been prepared with something more Temperance Brennan and less Bernie Sanders.”

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47. “What we are is nature! We are forces that should never be tamed.”

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48. “Julio’s a total baby about the cold, too” he made me hold his hand all night.”

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49. “And every minute that goes by and Amber’s not here, my heart breaks for him.”

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50. “You can’t spend your whole life shut up in that house, making up stories.”

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