Top 300 Gena Showalter Quotes (2026 Update)
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151. “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

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

— Gena Showalter

153. “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

154. “Destruction was calm, almost content- would he next break out in song like a Disney princess?”

— Gena Showalter

155. “The simple fact was, he loved her. Loved her with every breath in his body, every cell in his blood, every bone and organ he possessed. He loved her to the depths of his very soul. Had only taken five minutes after she’d walked away to realize it.”

— Gena Showalter

156. “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

157. “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

158. “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

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

— Gena Showalter

160. “Humans needed love to survive. Love was sustenance. Love was life. The more she poured into others, the more others could pour into her.”

— Gena Showalter

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

— Gena Showalter

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

— Gena Showalter

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

— Gena Showalter

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

— Gena Showalter

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

— Gena Showalter

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

— Gena Showalter

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

— Gena Showalter

168. “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

169. “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

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

— Gena Showalter

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

— Gena Showalter

172. “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

173. “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

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

— Gena Showalter

175. “The sky was dark and drizzly, as if the world wept for what it had lost.”

— Gena Showalter

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

— Gena Showalter

177. “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

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

— Gena Showalter

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

— Gena Showalter

180. “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

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

— Gena Showalter

182. “I put the fun in funeral.”

— Gena Showalter

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

— Gena Showalter

184. “Didn’t anyone ever tell you that you can’t spell later without the word late?”

— Gena Showalter

185. “I’m living my happily-ever-after already,” he replied, and she smiled. “In shadow, you are my light.” With their foreheads pressed together, she responded in kind. “In ice, you are my warmth.” “In life and in death, your love guides me home.” He kissed her. “In war, you are my prize. In darkness, you are my sun.”

— Gena Showalter

186. “Please tell me you aren’t one of those people who subscribes to the ‘say something nice or stay silent’ philosophy.”

— Gena Showalter

187. “If you’d rather not go with me, I will completely understand and won’t hate you for more than a day. Maybe two.”

— Gena Showalter

188. “I let my friend die,” I say slowly, softly. “That will never be the right thing.”

— Gena Showalter

189. “A man and wife should see the best in each other, should work together, should enjoy each other.”

— Gena Showalter

190. “To answer your question, you want me because I’m made of awesome.”

— Gena Showalter

191. “He gave her what no one else had ever been able to give. A past to cherish. A present to enjoy. A future to anticipate.”

— Gena Showalter

192. “I’ve known him a long time. I admire him. Hell, I might even love him. He helped me when – well, he helped me, and I owe him. He never lies, never plays games. He always says what he means and means what he says. And he has made it clear you’re off-limits.”

— Gena Showalter

193. “You’re just begging for a piece of me, you know that?” she growled. “I don’t know what gave you the idea I’ve lowered my standards, but I assure you, I haven’t. I want no part of you.”

— Gena Showalter

194. “And I know, sometimes storms were necessary. Even flowers needed to be watered. But... yeah.”

— Gena Showalter

195. “Better you’re my enemy and happy than my friend and miserable.”

— Gena Showalter

196. “Scars speak for you. They say you’re strong, and you’ve survived something that might have killed others.”

— Gena Showalter

197. “Can you tell I was a depressed, neurotic mess?”

— Gena Showalter

198. “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

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

— Gena Showalter

200. “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