Top 100 Ilsa Madden-Mills Quotes (2024 Update)
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51. “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

52. “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.”

— Ilsa Madden-Mills

53. “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.”

— Ilsa Madden-Mills

54. “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.”

— Ilsa Madden-Mills

55. “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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56. “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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57. “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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58. “Everything might be falling apart, but hope never stops.”

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

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60. “I want the jug to be full. Now.”

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

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

— Ilsa Madden-Mills

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

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66. “Most of the time I can shove all that down and pretend it doesn’t hurt to be left behind by the people who are supposed to love you.”

— Ilsa Madden-Mills

67. “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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68. “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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69. “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.”

— Ilsa Madden-Mills

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

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

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72. “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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73. “Some people think God puts difficult people in our lives for a reason, to make us better people as we sharpen ourselves on the knife of their shortcomings.”

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

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

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

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77. “You kiss like it’s your last.”

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78. “I don’t know. What do we have to lose?” Only the rest of me. Doesn’t he know I would have kept on with him for as long as he wanted? The worst thing of all is that even after he ended us, I might have taken him back if he’d tried. How awful is that? To know a guy has power over you, to know he can tear down your defenses so much that you’d take any scrap you could get?”

— Ilsa Madden-Mills

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

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

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

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83. “Dillon McQueen does not give up easily. When he sees what he wants, he goes after it. He also sometimes talks about himself in the third person.”

— Ilsa Madden-Mills

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

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

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87. “Scars serve as medals of honor, and the strongest hearts have the most.”

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

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

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

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92. “He laughs and leans away from me, but not before the air around him shifts and I catch his cologne. He smells like the ocean, salt and sunshine and coconuts, and my chest swells.”

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93. “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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94. “Now, if she’d said ‘bless your heart,’ we might have had a tussle. Everyone knows what that means. It’s pity with a dash of condescension.”

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95. “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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96. “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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97. “Dreams are meant to evolve.”

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98. “I’ve told myself that I’m fine, that I’m slowly getting over him, but I’m lying to myself. Love doesn’t vanish. Even when you wish it would.”

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99. “I never met a girl I couldn’t say goodbye to.”

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

— Ilsa Madden-Mills