Top 100 Ilsa Madden-Mills Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “Let me be part of your beautiful chaos.”

— Ilsa Madden-Mills

52. “Oh, I see the promise in those beautiful eyes of his. The seriousness. The heat. I see him. He’s the kind of guy who doesn’t love often, but once he does, it’s with everything he has.”

— Ilsa Madden-Mills

53. “Didn’t know you liked K-dramas.” “Yeah, I’ve been waiting for this stupid guy to kiss this chick for about ten episodes, and if something doesn’t happen soon, I’m writing an email to the producers.” “It’s subtitled, and it’s a romance? Wow.” He takes in my open mouth. “I won’t judge you for eating a pound of bread when we met, and you don’t judge me for my K-dramas.”

— Ilsa Madden-Mills

54. “I was putting my foot down with my new neighbor.”

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55. “Let’s just say I know how to satisfy a woman, to have her crave me every moment we’re apart.” I volunteer as tribute. What? No.”

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56. “It’s now or never, Dax. Tell her how you feel. Own it. Embrace it. “Never have I ever loved someone so much that I’d get down on my knees and beg her to forgive me for being too young to know that what we had was the most beautiful thing in the world, and all I had to do was let go of my fears and love her forever.”

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57. “This is hell, I thought, living my life without my soulmate.”

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58. “When something hurts this bad, Nora, you need to let it go. Let him go.”

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59. “Do you have any idea how long I’ve wanted you?” “How long?” I ask on an exhalation, our breaths mingling. He smells like toothpaste and it makes me smile. He prepared before coming here. “Maybe since the moment you wrote that article, and I saw you on campus and made the connection. You don’t care who I am. You’re the most honest person I know.” “So before I spilled water on you?”

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60. “Fate had known all along we were soulmates. Now, I did, too.”

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61. “We all travel life’s highway, making good and bad choices based on upbringing and beliefs. And, in the end, we have to be able to live with what we’ve done.”

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62. “Loving Declan was like the rain storms I loved to dance in. Crazy and unpredictable, sometimes turbulent, sometimes gentle.”

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63. “No matter what came our way, I was in this for real. If he wanted to use his fists, I’d stand in his corner and kiss him before he put his gloves on.”

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64. “I’m the only one for you, just me. You’re my bad girl. No one else’s.”

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65. “It hit me then, my epiphany. Death is a constant, but love? It is rare.”

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66. “Is your name Angel and did you fall from heaven to be with me?” “Most likely I came from hell.” He.”

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67. “It’s not that pretty of a story.” “Scars usually aren’t.”

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68. “Alright, the next pretty bird that walks through that door is up for grabs.”

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69. “A person can want something at one point in their life, then want something entirely different later, especially after they’ve realized what’s important.”

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70. “His understanding of the theme of the book made me hot. Right then and there, I wanted to toss him down on the floor, crawl on top of him like the Jane Austen reader I was.”

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71. “You’re beautiful,” he said softly. Simple words. Heavy weight. “There’s no reason for you to be jealous of her. You’re everything she isn’t, and I like it. A lot.”

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72. “We’ve been rejected before, and when it happens, we make plans. We move on. We survive.”

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73. “Clarity happens to all of us when our heart jumps ship...”

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74. “As far as I knew, Nadia was still with her new guy, some fancy tennis player from Brazil. Donatello or Michelangelo or something. Ninja Turtle? Yeah.”

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75. “He’s a Greek god on steroids.”

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76. “My smart girl.” His lips hover over mine, his eyes burning with emotion. “Fate put us together. I love you. Please. Just. Never leave me.”

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77. “I shrugged and took a page from the stupid girl book and flicked my hair over my shoulder.”

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78. “It’s as if she’s disappearing a little at a time. You know that feeling you get, the one that makes your soul shrivel, the one that tells you what’s happening is out of your control. There’s nothing I can do to save her.”

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79. “We all have darkness. People you see on the street, people you work with, people you love, people you hate. If there’s no darkness, then there’s no room for light. And when that darkness hits you, and it will, all that matters is that you keep going, one step at a time until you’re up and back on your journey.”

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80. “I kiss his forehead, my heart full of love for him, for Darryn, for Francesca. Sometimes I feel so grateful that I’m terrified, like something awful might whisk them away from me. I know the root of that fear, leftover trauma that may never disappear. And when that happens, I remind myself that Francesca and I aren’t my parents. We’re special. We’re, well, fated, written in the stars. And I’ll cherish each moment we share.”

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81. “If I Can’t Have You” by Shawn Mendes plays on the speakers, a song about keeping your distance, about hating to admit how you really feel about someone you can’t have. Goose bumps skate over my arms. Why does that song make me think of him?”

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82. “But, maybe it was more. Deeper. I sensed a kindred spirit in her, a loner who ached to find someone to love for real. Like me.”

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83. “What you feel, you attract. What you imagine, you create. A jug fills drop by drop.”

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84. “I want the jug to be full. Now.”

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85. “I love you,” I say, the words broken. “I knew you’d sweep me away – and in the end, you’d crush me. I stayed right with you all the way because I couldn’t bear to not be part of your world!”

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86. “People feel how they feel. You can’t change that.”

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87. “I want something good. I want to not worry about a dark night in the woods, I want to replace it with beautiful things. With him.”

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88. “Somedays will eat you alive. They’re promises you make to fool yourself into believing everything will turn out right in the end.”

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89. “You never stop loving someone; you just learn to live without them.” –Nora Blakely.”

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90. “Truth can be awful and even excruciating, but once it’s released, it’s like a bird that’s been caged too long who finally flies to freedom. I.”

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91. “You were meant for me, he sends. I can’t breathe. Looking down at his words, I read them over and over, my heart pounding. Something has changed. I feel the shift in my heart, opening up.”

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92. “Big moments happen with the smallest actions, and sometimes it’s not until later we connect the dots, but in that instant, I knew that somehow, someway Declan was going to own my heart.”

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93. “Sometimes it only takes one sunrise to know someone.”

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94. “I know exactly which road to take, and it was back to you.”

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95. “You know the ones, songs about love and how you never believed it existed, until you met her; songs about how you’ve been alone for what seems like forever, but she’s gonna make it alright; songs.”

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96. “I wanted her in my skin. I wanted her in my soul. And I wanted in hers.”

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97. “Be good and you’ll be lonely.’” He arches a brow. “Mark Twain?”

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98. “You kiss like it’s your last.”

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99. “I want you. All those theories you got, and I got one for you: you’re in deep with me.”

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100. “Yeah. I believe in soulmates, but it’s up to us what we do with it.”

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