Top 300 Gena Showalter Quotes (2026 Update)
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151. “I know girls want what they can’t have, and they want to be the special exception responsible for taming the boy no one else can, even though they probably won’t be.”

— Gena Showalter

152. “This is illegal. If you don’t let me out, you’ll be arrested. I swear you will. You’ll go to prison and be forced to have intimate relations with a man named Butch. Let. Me. Out.”

— Gena Showalter

153. “He’d never be able to touch her, and as passionate as she was, she would eventually need a man who could. He’d never had to worry about these things before because he’d never been with a woman. Not even before his possession. He’d been too busy then, too involved in his job. Maybe he needed to join Workaholics Anonymous, he thought dryly. He had to be the only millennia-old virgin in history.”

— Gena Showalter

154. “Physical pain will never compare to mental anguish.”

— Gena Showalter

155. “I would rather save the enemy who tells me the truth than the friend who tells me lies.”

— Gena Showalter

156. “With kindness, you brighten the world. With cruelty, you darken yourself.”

— Gena Showalter

157. “Do you think it takes true pain to experience true pleasure?”

— Gena Showalter

158. “If I had bodily functions, I think I would have peed my pants.”

— Gena Showalter

159. “I’d stood my ground against him. I wasn’t going to jump when he said jump. I was more likely to give him the finger.”

— Gena Showalter

160. “Would do anything for five more minutes. Just five. To hold her hand, to tell her I forgive her.”

— Gena Showalter

161. “Fried twinkies? Paris nodded. Only once, I’ve never forgotten the experience. It’s like heaven in your mouth, man.”

— Gena Showalter

162. “If “best years ahead” is the answer, then “things stupid people say” is the question.”

— Gena Showalter

163. “Hello, hello, hello. You’re here. You’re finally here. I’m Beast, though I prefer Bea. Guess what? I’m yours, and you’re mine.”

— Gena Showalter

164. “Once I learned, I went online and ordered every romance novel I could find. They’re fairy tales for grown-ups.”

— Gena Showalter

165. “His name has been added to the Book of New Life, and he’s a candidate for the Resurrection. You just might see him again – and soon! Light.”

— Gena Showalter

166. “I’ve heard it said your entire life flashes before your eyes as you die. Those words comfort those who have loved and been loved but torment those who have failed and been failed.”

— Gena Showalter

167. “Last will never be more important than commitment. Commitment stacks the odds of a successful relationship in my favor.”

— Gena Showalter

168. “Stop trusting your eyes and start listening to your heart. It sees more than you ever will.”

— Gena Showalter

169. “William: What do you think of the fact that your home has been invaded by women? Maddox: I couldn’t be more pleased, as long as none of them does something to hurt Ashlyn. And I take full credit for starting the trend.”

— Gena Showalter

170. “Low maintenance is what’s forgettable.”

— Gena Showalter

171. “A man devoted time to what mattered to him – to what he deemed worthy of his attention.”

— Gena Showalter

172. “I know you don’t want to see me because I’m “dangerous,” “deranged,” and “possibly the worst being ever created by Zeus – or anyone.” But underneath this chiseled, bronzed exterior beats a heart of gold, probably. You’ll never know the truth unless you come out of hiding and take another peek under my hood.”

— Gena Showalter

173. “There was something so best-musical-ever when people screamed and begged for mercy, and she could listen to a good musical all day.”

— Gena Showalter

174. “Living shouldn’t be synonymous with surviving.”

— Gena Showalter

175. “Because you aren’t who you think you are. You aren’t what everyone else believes. You might have delivered countless deaths but you love more fiercely than anyone I’ve ever known.”

— Gena Showalter

176. “I put the fun in funeral.”

— Gena Showalter

177. “What? My gastrointestinal clock was ticking. I wanted a food baby.”

— Gena Showalter

178. “Yesterday, today and tomorrow, my actions matter.”

— Gena Showalter

179. “Cold-blooded? Oh, no. This man suddenly burned.”

— Gena Showalter

180. “We are so not breaking out the violins and pity partying.”

— Gena Showalter

181. “Everything changed. The world. The seasons. Time. People. Nothing and no one ever stayed the same.”

— Gena Showalter

182. “Nothing and no one had ever belonged to him and only him – except Legion. Not that she would do anything necessary to save him, nor would he do anything necessary to save her. But. Yeah, there was always a but with him. He had been her first lover – and he wanted to be her last.”

— Gena Showalter

183. “CPR dummy looked like him and had clearly been stabbed. Repeatedly. In the groin. He thought she might have used the dummy for target practice, and tried not to be offended. Key word: tried.”

— Gena Showalter

184. “Please, I’d love to meet the guy you couldn’t handle, and give him and award.”

— Gena Showalter

185. “On way. He OK? Aeron Coming. Something wrong? Lucian Take me out of your address book. William.”

— Gena Showalter

186. “I’m sorry,” she said softly. “Even if you’d looked like you were born downwind of an outhouse, I would have snapped a thousand photos of you. And then used those photos to blackmail you later, but my reasons are inconsequential.”

— Gena Showalter

187. “Evelyn: There’s nothing wrong with embracing one’s emotions. Brittany: Mom, You don’t just embrace your emotions, you make love to them hard-core.”

— Gena Showalter

188. “No. Dang him, no!”

— Gena Showalter

189. “We’re gonna lie when the truth is hard? That’s how this relationship is going to work? All righty, then.”

— Gena Showalter

190. “I’m surrounded by pure male aggression, and I like it.”

— Gena Showalter

191. “Any time I thought I couldn’t love her any more, she surprised me by winning another piece of my heart.”

— Gena Showalter

192. “I looked around, counting the competition. Sixteen. To win, all I had to do was incapacitate each one, place my hand over their hearts and turn my palm into a flame. Easy. Yeah right.”

— Gena Showalter

193. “So what. He was made of awesome. Anyone who couldn’t see that wasn’t smart enough to be with him, anyway.”

— Gena Showalter

194. “Of course I know how to drive. Now, if you ask me if I know how to drive well, the answer would be different.”

— Gena Showalter

195. “I can’t promise we’ll ever use you for a hasty getaway,” Cole said, “but with a little work, you might be able to race my grandmother-while she’s on her scooter.”

— Gena Showalter

196. “People stared. Maybe because they were giants compared to everyone else, both in height and muscle mass. Maybe because of the telltale bulge of weapons at their waist. Or maybe because William opened a bag of Doritos and ate while he shopped. Hard to tell.”

— Gena Showalter

197. “I’m kind of jealous of people who haven’t met you. If ignorance ever goes up to $5 a barrel, I want drilling rights to your head.”

— Gena Showalter

198. “No one hit my friend and lived to tell the tale. That was my new motto, and one I would forever embrace.”

— Gena Showalter

199. “I may not be a doctor, but I’ve watched every episode of House. I’m pretty sure I know what I’m doing.”

— Gena Showalter

200. “I peered at Farrah and suddenly understood why the Seven Dwarves had sung their song. “Hi... ho.”

— Gena Showalter