Top 300 Gena Showalter Quotes (2025 Update)
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151. “With kindness, you brighten the world. With cruelty, you darken yourself.”

— Gena Showalter

152. “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

153. “I’m married, yes, but not for long. This girl will be getting a speedy annulment.” Another step. “No need. I’ll make you a widow.”

— Gena Showalter

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

— Gena Showalter

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

— Gena Showalter

156. “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

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

— Gena Showalter

158. “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

159. “But you will trust me again, Annabelle. You will want me again, and we will be together. I will behave. You’ll see. – Zacharel.”

— Gena Showalter

160. “William untucked the covers and stood, making a mental list of everything he’d need for the coming trip. A few blades, serrated and non serrated. A vial of acid. A bone saw. A spiked paddle. A cat-o’-nine-tails. And a bag of Gummy Bears.”

— Gena Showalter

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

— Gena Showalter

162. “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

163. “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

164. “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

165. “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

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

— Gena Showalter

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

— Gena Showalter

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

— Gena Showalter

169. “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

170. “I put the fun in funeral.”

— Gena Showalter

171. “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

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

— Gena Showalter

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

— Gena Showalter

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

— Gena Showalter

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

— Gena Showalter

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

— Gena Showalter

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

— Gena Showalter

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

— Gena Showalter

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

— Gena Showalter

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

— Gena Showalter

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

— Gena Showalter

182. “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

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

— Gena Showalter

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

— Gena Showalter

185. “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

186. “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

187. “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

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

— Gena Showalter

189. “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

190. “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

191. “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

192. “My demon’s a girl? Gideon said, astonished.”

— Gena Showalter

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

— Gena Showalter

194. “Hate is like drinking a vial of poison and expecting it to harm the other person, You’re not hurting the guy, only yourself.”

— Gena Showalter

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

— Gena Showalter

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

— Gena Showalter

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

— Gena Showalter

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

— Gena Showalter

199. “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

200. “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