Top 200 J.T. Geissinger Quotes (2025 Update)
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101. “I’ve learned that no matter how well you think you know yourself, you can still be surprised. You can’t control what moves you. The only thing in your control is the choice over whether or not you surrender to it.”

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102. “Love is solid. Constant. If you’re not careful, you might mistake it for bein’ boring because it’s so reliable. Love is warm and deep and comfortable, just right, so you float in it peacefully without ever being scalded or frozen, like a perfect, relaxing bubble bath.”

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103. “My point is that I’m aware of my shortcomings. Because I know I’m not perfect, I don’t expect other people to be perfect, either. The only thing I demand from anyone – whether they like me or not – is that they’re real. Whatever and whoever they are, they own it. They don’t make fuckin’ excuses. I hate excuses.”

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104. “I’m sorry I said that thing about burying the knife in your skull. I didn’t mean it.” “You did.” “Okay, that’s true. But I would’ve regretted it if I did. I would’ve cried really hard at your funeral.”

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105. “Paradise isn’t a garden. It isn’t heaven, or some faraway, mythical place. Paradise is in the small, silent space between the faces of two lovers as they share their bodies and breath.”

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106. “The heart wants what it wants,” Cam says, watching me steadily. “But sometimes what you think is love is just a beautiful form of self-destruction. The worst thing in life is to give yourself away in exchange for nothing.”

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107. “What we call memory is the intersection between imagination and fact. Memories are the stories we tell ourselves about the important events in our lives. In the telling, some details get lost, others embellished, until truth is closer to fiction.”

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108. “Dressed in a black pair of men’s boxer shorts rolled over at the waist so they didn’t sag down her legs and a white men’s undershirt she must have found in one of the dresser drawers, with her choppy blue hair sticking up in every direction and her wild, glittering eyes, she looked like an insane, cross-dressing pixie.”

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109. “I’ve surprised him. I like that I’ve surprised him. He doesn’t seem like a man who’s taken aback by much of anything. “You don’t have a man, then.” Wow. How he managed to make that sound like, “Bend over the table and lift up your skirt,” I’ll never know. Carla was right: the man is fire.”

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110. “And who are you?” “The only one of me who ever has been or ever will be. Same as you. In a word: irreplaceable.”

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111. “You’re the reason the gene pool needs a lifeguard. Sassy goddamn woman. No one ever spoke to me.”

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112. “It’s dangerous, summoning old ghosts. You never know what they might want from you in return for digging them out of their graves.”

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113. “He has no idea what’s happening. Honestly, there’s nothing more adorable than a befuddled man. Especially when they’re huge and armed.”

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114. “We skipped the dinner dates and polite conversation and jumped straight to kinky fuckery.”

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115. “I don’t have baggage so much as cargo. It takes a certain kind of self-confidence to take me on.”

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116. “It’s not inexplicable. I like you the way Newton liked gravity.” “I don’t know what you mean.”

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117. “He’s wrong about me not having feelings. I have all kinds of feelings. Anxiety. Fatigue. Low-level depression. An unshakeable melancholy paired with gentle despair. See? I’m not the emotional iceberg I get accused of being.”

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118. “I’m not a competitive eater, lass, you can’t expect me to shovel an entire pie down my throat in less than half an hour.”

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119. “You own me, Sloane. Every corner of my worthless black soul. Every piece of my corrupt black heart. You own it all, and you always will. I’m your slave, not the other way around. Never forget it.”

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120. “Dear God. The daughter of a Mafia don is having an affair with the Latino pool boy. We’re a telenovela.”

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121. “Before he got his ass kicked out of heaven, the devil was the most beautiful angel of all.”

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122. “Okay. You go first. Do you really think I look like a camel?’ “No. I think you look like Rockefeller Center at Christmas, Japan in cherry blossom season, and the thousand vivid shades of green in the wild moors of Northern Ireland, all rolled into one.”

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123. “I pause, examining his expression. “Why are you so quiet?” “I don’t plan murder out loud.”

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124. “I tried to kick him under the table, but my legs were too short.”

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125. “Maybe I don’t have to be perfect. Maybe having one person who thinks I am is enough. Maybe his belief in me can be the seed that takes root in the stubborn, self-loathing dirt of my mind and grows into a garden of self-acceptance.”

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126. “Sometimes my mind gets the best of me and fixates on how many shitloads are in a fuckton, but these are the kind of things my therapist sighs quietly at when I mention and looks down at her hands like she’s lost all hope of being useful to society, so I’ve never gotten a solid answer to that.”

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127. “I know this is hard for you to understand, B Cups, but the girls need air.” “What they need is scaffolding.” She arches her brows. “Are you suggesting my glorious cleavage is sagging?”

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128. “Hi, Homer. I’m Reyna. It’s nice to meet you. You look like an orphan’s idea of Christmas morning.”

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129. “And another thing. Learn to stop saying ‘Sorry,’ and say ‘Don’t interrupt me.’ Learn to say ‘No’ and ‘None of your business.’ Learn to be unapologetic for who you are and what you like and the opinions you hold. I.”

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130. “You’ve both got a lot of broken pieces. But if you give it a chance, you might find that all your broken pieces fit together perfectly to make a beautiful whole.”

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131. “His dark eyes flash up to meet mine. He says hotly, “Simple is better on you. Perfection doesn’t need any embellishment.”

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132. “I crucify myself over all the things I should’ve told Theo while I had the time. We always think we have enough of that precious commodity, until fate steps in and proves us wrong.”

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133. “A healthy body is a gift. Don’t take it for granted. Don’t treat it like some cheap one-night stand. Treat it like the love of your life. Treat it with respect and tenderness, but most of all, gratitude.”

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134. “Because I could easily kill another man, but I never found the guts to kill myself.” She says softly, “Oh, Quinn. Not killing yourself wasn’t an act of cowardice. It was an act of courage. It takes so much more bravery to keep living when you’re in pain than it does to give up.”

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135. “Here are the rules.” Rules. For me? Hilarious. But I’m pretending to be cooperative, so I sit patiently and listen instead of laughing in his face. “One: I don’t tolerate disobedience. If I give you an order, you follow it.” Magic Eight Ball says: outlook not so good.”

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136. “I learned that love means nothing unless it’s acted upon. Love isn’t real without intent. It’s a verb. It isn’t passive.”

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137. “Now that is a man. My ovaries just fainted.” “Mine are doing the Macarena.”

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138. “I can’t wait to see his face. I also can’t wait to set it on fire and put it out with a hammer.”

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139. “Don’t let the worst things that happen to you be the benchmark for your self-respect. Don’t give bad people the power to hurt you again by believing you deserved what they did in the first place.”

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140. “No man could ever really own her. Like all unbroken spirits, she can’t be claimed.”

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141. “I think sometimes it’s easier for a man to be the worst version of himself than to let the world keep breaking his heart.”

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142. “Whatever love asks of you must be given, no matter the price. And I’d gladly give what love asked of me a thousand times over. Even if I had to do it every day until the end of eternity, I’d slice open my own veins with a razor blade and happily bleed myself dry.”

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143. “Life is too short to miss out on anything, even if it’s pain.”

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144. “Love isn’t born of the flesh. It’s born of the spirit, and so can transcend the bonds of flesh, and life, and time. The poet Rumi said, ‘Don’t grieve. Anything you lose comes around in another form.”

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145. “So this is love. What a nightmare.”

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146. “He winks at me. “Butt crack juice. Sourced fresh this mornin’.”

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147. “Don’t worry,” he says in a hard, dominant voice. “I’ll correct that bad behavior. I’ll correct it over and over again with the palm of my hand on your naked ass until you’re writhing on my lap and begging me to let you come.”

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148. “The more you try to believe in yourself, the more you actually do. Your mental self-talk is very powerful. You have to keep it positive.”

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149. “I’m trying to find a fatal flaw for insurance.” “Insurance? Against what?” I open my mouth but stop myself before blurting, Against falling in love with you.”

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150. “Do not act as if you were going to live ten thousand years. Death hangs over you. While you live, while it is in your power, do good.”

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