Top 300 Gena Showalter Quotes (2026 Update)
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201. “Didn’t anyone ever tell you that you can’t spell later without the word late?”

— Gena Showalter

202. “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

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

— Gena Showalter

204. “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

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

— Gena Showalter

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

— Gena Showalter

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

— Gena Showalter

208. “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

209. “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

210. “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

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

— Gena Showalter

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

— Gena Showalter

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

— Gena Showalter

214. “First rule of Teach Kane a Lesson: you don’t talk about Teach Kane a Lesson. Second rule of Teach Kane a Lesson: you don’t talk about Teach Kane a Lesson. Third rule of Teach Kane a Lesson: if someone taps out, you just keep fighting. Fourth rule of Teach Kane a Lesson: there are no rules. Got it?”

— Gena Showalter

215. “You have made me more frustrated than a zombie at a salad bar. Fix it!”

— Gena Showalter

216. “The doors closed, sealing her inside with him. I don’t judge by outward appearance. I really do not judge by outward appearance. But oh, wow, wow, wow, he had to be a time-traveling Viking sent here to abduct modern women to give to his men back home – because they’d killed all the women in their village.”

— Gena Showalter

217. “Until I’ve finished touching all of you, I’ll be as selfish as I please... and you’ll like it.”

— Gena Showalter

218. “Ali Bell doesn’t play hide-and-seek,” Lucas said. “She plays hide-and-pray-I-don’t-find-you.”

— Gena Showalter

219. “But truth was truth, and like any apex predator, it could defend itself.”

— Gena Showalter

220. “In that moment, Maddox fell completely, absolutely, irrevocably in love with her.”

— Gena Showalter

221. “Clay is in the Everlife now. We should be happy for him.”

— Gena Showalter

222. “The customer is always right, Brook Lynn often said. And Jessie Kay agreed... unless the customer was a douche bag, and then he was just a douche bag.”

— Gena Showalter

223. “Jessie Kay had once briefly considered thinking about exercising along with Monica’s video. Then she’d found a bag of Kit Kat Minis and the insane idea went back to hell where it belonged.”

— Gena Showalter

224. “But if anyone so much as threatened them because of what Kaia had once done, she would turn the Slumber Party Massacre into Blood, Bath and Beyond, a documentary by Kaia Skyhawk.”

— Gena Showalter

225. “The on and off thing is kind of annoying, isn’t it? First with Cole, now with Gavin. “Maybe you need a tune up.” I rolled my eyes. “I’ll just pop into the supernatural ability repair shop sometime tomorrow.” He grinned, his fingers tracing the line of my jaw.”

— Gena Showalter

226. “Everyone has a story, and I will be the author of mine.”

— Gena Showalter

227. “And the peace! The most magnificent peace. I lose myself in a place where time no longer exists and nothing is impossible. I can do anything I imagine. I can fight and win any war. Nothing frightens me, because I know I’m here for a reason; and I’m not alone. I have friends in high places. Friends here. Friends up there. Victory is mine.”

— Gena Showalter

228. “Hate never kept me warm at night. Never held me when I cried. Never patched me up when I was injured. Like.”

— Gena Showalter

229. “I am not the monster who lives inside me.”

— Gena Showalter

230. “Fail: First Attempt At Learning. Always try again. If you can’t save a world, save a city. If you can’t save a city, save a block. If you can’t save a block, save a family. If you can’t save a family, save a person. One person and problem at a time.”

— Gena Showalter

231. “A slice of chocolate cake – priorities! – a scoop of chicken potpie, slice of chocolate cake, scoop of yam casserole, slice of chocolate cake, two scoops of mashed potatoes, a slice of chocolate cake, a scoop of buttery green beens, a slice of chocolate cake -.”

— Gena Showalter

232. “To a man who has spent centuries seeing to only his own needs, you are indeed high maintenance, but I’m finding I do not mind maintaining you. -Zacharel.”

— Gena Showalter

233. “Yeah, okay. You’re right. I was having dinner with Zombie Carl the other night. You know, steak, rare, and a bottle of vintage type A. He told me all his secrets, but too bad for you I promised him I wouldn’t tell. In exchange I asked him to gather his best undead buddies and stalk me through my friend’s yard. And oh, yeah, it was totally fine if they wanted to use me as an all-night-dinner buffet, because having organs is SO last year.”

— Gena Showalter

234. “Everyone at school seems to go by a nickname. Kat, Frosty, Bronx, Boo Bear, Jelly Bean, Freckles.”

— Gena Showalter

235. “He popped his jaw, trying to relax against a new onslaught of aggression. It wasn’t as if he were the only one to suffer, he reminded himself. The other warriors had their own demons – literally and figuratively. Torin, of course, was keeper of Disease. Lucien was keeper of Death. Reyes, of Pain. Aeron, of Wrath. Paris, of Promiscuity. Why couldn’t he have been given that last one?”

— Gena Showalter

236. “Princess, your temper tantrums make you as defective as an open-ended condom.”

— Gena Showalter

237. “She stopped at the desk and held up a can for his view. “This looks like an ordinary hairspray can, right?” “Of course.” he said though he had no idea what hairspray was.”

— Gena Showalter

238. “Always blame the guy,” she said.”

— Gena Showalter

239. “Sister?” Jessie Kay scowled. “Do I really look like his sister? I clearly come from grade-A stock while his ancestors made a few poor choices along the way.”

— Gena Showalter

240. “Only as he shut the door behind him, barricading Gwen inside lest she decide to risk bumping into one of his friends to explore, spy or even search for a phone to call the Hunters – she’s not working for them, damn it! – did he realize he was about to knowingly pair a Harpy with the goddess of Anarchy. Great. He’d be lucky if his head was still attached in the morning.”

— Gena Showalter

241. “There was a pause, static, a muttered “Give me that,” by an indignant female. Then the normally quiet reserved Ashlyn was demanding, “Did you just drunk dial my husband?” “Yes, ma’am,” Strider said, and the other two finally burst into laughter.”

— Gena Showalter

242. “From blissful to tragic, innocent to ruined?”

— Gena Showalter

243. “Those we love, we can grow to hate. And life... life can be perfect one minute and in shambles the next.”

— Gena Showalter

244. “You’re making me rethink my stance on cold-blooded homicide.”

— Gena Showalter

245. “Being with a man incapable of telling a lie – a whole lot of awesome. Being with a man who could taste when you lied – sucked the big one.”

— Gena Showalter

246. “Haven’t you heard? Constipation is the new black. All the cool kids are doing it. Or not doing it.”

— Gena Showalter

247. “Maddox held Ashlyn for several hours as she napped, hopefully reviving body and soul. Time was his enemy, midnight fast sneaking up on him, but he didn’t wake her.”

— Gena Showalter

248. “The best way to spell victory? K-I-L-L.”

— Gena Showalter

249. “You speak what you believe, and you believe you’re doomed. If there’s one thing I’ve learned throughout the years, it’s that what you believe is the impetus for your entire life.”

— Gena Showalter

250. “One day,” Dane snarled, “I’m going to put your nuts in a grinder and make a testicle salad sandwich.”

— Gena Showalter