Top 200 J.M. Darhower Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “A coward dies a thousand deaths... a soldier dies but once.”

— J.M. Darhower

2. “Change doesn’t happen overnight. There’s no button that’s pushed to magically alter everything.”

— J.M. Darhower

3. “Every girl wants her very own Jack Dawson.”

— J.M. Darhower

4. “If you give the monster a name, it takes away its power, because we’re really just afraid of what we don’t know. If you name it, if you know what it is, you can be stronger than it. So face your fears and wipe your tears, remember? Face your fears and wipe your tears.”

— J.M. Darhower

5. “I love every inch of you,” I tell her. “Every part of your body that makes you nervous gives me pleasure. I see no flaws, nothing for you to be ashamed of or humiliated over... nothing you should hide from me. I’ve seen it all, and I love it. You’re beautiful, baby.”

— J.M. Darhower

6. “The family we’re born into is important, sure, but they’re not all we have. They’re not all we are. A part of life is making your own family. That’s the beauty of it all.” I smile softly. “Do you have a big family?” “I do,” he says, “but most of us aren’t blood related.”

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7. “Mind your own business and you’ll live hundred years. Problem is, you know, a hundred years is a long time. Do I really want to live that long?”

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8. “You fix what’s broken, not what’s lost. He’s gone. You can’t fix that. You can’t bring him back. But you can fix yourself; you can put yourself back together and not be the person who did that anymore. And I think that’s maybe the key, because you can say sorry until you’re blue in the face, but it doesn’t count until they see repentance.”

— J.M. Darhower

9. “Never make someone else the main character in your own story.”

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10. “You can play it safe, and I wouldn’t blame you for it. You can continue as you’ve been doing, and you’ll survive, but is that what you want? Is that enough?”

— J.M. Darhower

11. “I’m only one man, and I only have one life, and I’m not going to waste it regretting my decisions and wishing I could change things that can never be changed. Wishing gets you nowhere, sweetheart.”

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12. “When you dream, you can go anywhere. I always go to the snow.”

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13. “The dream lives on, Reece, and it never gives up on you, no matter what you might think. Dreams sometimes just change.”

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14. “I like to think I’m one of a kind.”

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15. “Being the first to do anything takes guts.”

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16. “Because time passes, and memories fade, but a beating heart never truly forgets anything. Never.”

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17. “Go for it, while you can. I know you have it in you. And I can’t promise you’ll get everything you want, but I can promise nothing will change if you don’t try.”

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18. “Everything about her is beautiful to me. Even when she’s scowling, when she’s angry and full of hate. She’s beautiful when she cries, when she’s in the throes of grief. She’s beautiful when she smiles, when she laughs at me. But she’s the most beautiful when she’s doing nothing. When she thinks nobody’s looking, when she thinks she’s alone.”

— J.M. Darhower

19. “The man is rough around the edges, something so primal about him, but there’s something else there, something unexpected. So much passion.”

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20. “I’m not heartless – my heart is just hardened, while the rest of me is hollow.”

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21. “Judge him by his actions and not your suspicions,” he says. “Because if the only measure of a man’s worth is what he does to make money, a lot of good men would be judged unfairly.”

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22. “Some things in life only happen once, the memories of them lasting forever. They’re moments that alter you, turning you into a person you never thought you’d become, but someone you were always destined to be. There’s no magical rewind button in life, no take backs or do-over’s to fix things you wish you could change.”

— J.M. Darhower

23. “I’m not a good man,” he says, “but I’m trying. I’m trying. I can’t make you any promises of perfection. I can’t promise I’ll be what you deserve, or what you need, or even what you always want. All I can promise is that I’ll love you until the day I die, and I’ll spend every moment I’m alive trying for you.”

— J.M. Darhower

24. “I’m not the hero here, angel, and I don’t want to be. But I’m not the bad guy, either.”

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25. “Ama, ridi, sogna – e vai dormire.”

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26. “Colpo di fulmine. The thunderbolt, as Italians call it. When love strikes someone like lightning, so powerful and intense it can’t be denied. It’s beautiful and messy, cracking a chest open and spilling their soul out for the world to see. It turns a person inside out, and there’s no going back from it. Once the thunderbolt hits, your life is irrevocably changed.”

— J.M. Darhower

27. “You come here because you wish to find your faith again. You can’t fool God, either. He knows everything, and it’s okay, because He’ll forgive you. The question is whether you’re ready to be forgiven.”

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28. “He set out to destroy me, but he fell in love with me instead. I fell in love with him, and that’s what destroyed me in the end.”

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29. “You’re the queen. I’m just a commoner.”

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30. “I promise to love you forever.”

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31. “My wicked little belladonna, beautiful, deadly, so tempting to keep tasting but so goddamn toxic every touch is just too much.”

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32. “I’m going to tell you a secret. A secret I’ve never told anybody. I, Ignazio Vitale, have always been afraid of the dark. If you tell anyone that, I’ll kill you.”

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33. “I know I was never enough for you, Jonathan, but I hope you find something that is.”

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34. “She’s an infuriatingly stubborn woman, I know it, but she’s my stubborn woman, and my hands are the only ones that will ever wrap around her throat.”

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35. “The devil tricked you to trigger the apocalypse, and then he stuck a knife through your chest, but I swear it was out of love.”

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36. “When you’ve got nothing left inside of you except for darkness, it becomes easier to snuff out somebody else’s light.”

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37. “I’m not a coward,” I say. “I don’t run.” “Then walk.” I.”

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38. “Notorious Lucifer, King of Hell, claimed to know love again.”

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39. “A job is a job, sir. If you’re doing it right, there’s nothing nice about it.”

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40. “People still judge a book by its cover, Avery. And your story? It’s beautiful. You’re beautiful. But I’m nothing but a ripped out page, graffiti where some should never be. Don’t taint your story with me.”

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41. “I know I should let you go, should let you walk away from me right now, but I can’t do it. I can’t. I’m selfish, and I’m in love with you, and I want nothing more than to keep you for myself.”

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42. “Edward Cullen?” “Yeah, you know, the vampire? From Twilight?”

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43. “Worse is loving someone who disappears and never knowing if they’ll come back. Because how do you move on if you’re not even sure they’re gone? The answer is – you don’t. When you spend most of your life chasing ghosts, eventually, you become one.”

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44. “The monster is peeking through, peering at me from behind his mask. He wants to come out. He wants me to play with him.”

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45. “Go to your happy place. Go to the house, the one with the red door and the white picket fence. Go back to where nighttime meant kisses and hugs, bedtime stories and cuddles with Buster. Go to where sunrises were promises instead of just false hope. Go to where love still lives.”

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46. “People make mistakes. They do things sometimes that you don’t like, that you wouldn’t do. But that doesn’t mean you should give up on them, that you should write them off. Because nobody is hopeless as long as they’re still breathing.”

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47. “Aw, you shouldn’t judge a flower by who picket it.”

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48. “Say what you mean and mean what you say or don’t say anything at all.”

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49. “I know he’s just a man. A man with flaws. A man with his own problems. And I know he can’t solve my problem. Not really. He can’t fix what’s wrong with me. Nobody can. They can’t even understand. But being around him, it makes me feel things, things I’ve missed just as much as the music and the laughter, things that make me feel alive again.”

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50. “Bellissima, I’d stop time for you. I’d give you the moon and the stars; I’d learn to defy gravity. There’s nothing I wouldn’t do, nobody I wouldn’t kill, if you asked me to. If you needed me to.”

— J.M. Darhower