Top 200 Jamie McGuire Quotes (2026 Update)
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101. “I think it’s pretty obvious that I don’t just want you.” He laughed once, nervous. “I can’t stay away from you. That qualifies as need.”

— Jamie McGuire

102. “Why do we do this to ourselves?” I asked, mostly to myself. “We’re grown adults. Love makes us so stupid.”

— Jamie McGuire

103. “You think she’s been listening to Taylor Swift on her headphones in here?”

— Jamie McGuire

104. “It would never work, Ellie.” “Why?” “Because we’re friends, and I want to continue to be friends.” “You just told me to kill myself.” He chuckled. “I didn’t mean it.”

— Jamie McGuire

105. “I squinted against the light pouring into the room. I couldn’t sleep all night, knowing when the sun came up, it would be all over. Abby stirred, and my teeth clenched. The few hours we spent together wasn’t enough. I wasn’t ready for it to be over.”

— Jamie McGuire

106. “His baby brother is getting married next month – well, not married but remarried. No, that’s not right either.”

— Jamie McGuire

107. “Your yesterdays were the path that led you to this chapel, and your journey to a future of togetherness becomes a little clearer with each new day.” Travis.”

— Jamie McGuire

108. “Losing Abby wasn’t a story I remembered from early childhood – it was in my face, debilitating me like a sickness, robbing me of my senses and physically, excruciatingly painful. My mother’s words echoed in my ear. Abby was the girl I had to fight for, and I went down fighting. None of it was ever going to be enough.”

— Jamie McGuire

109. “Nothing was more frightening than being manipulated by my own heart.”

— Jamie McGuire

110. “Okay, Trent. Pop my cherry.”

— Jamie McGuire

111. “My front door had seen jean skirts, dresses, even a see-through tube dress over a string bikini. A handful of times, spackled-on makeup and glitter lotion. Never pajamas.”

— Jamie McGuire

112. “One I did, Travis flipped off the lamp, and then pulled me against him without permission or apology. He tensed his arms and sighed, and I nestled my face into his neck. I shut my eyes tight, trying to savor the moment. I knew I would wish for that moment back every day of my life, so I lived it with everything I had.”

— Jamie McGuire

113. “Your mom wants to be here with you. She wants that very much. But Jesus wants her with him right now.” I frowned. “I need her more than Jesus does.”

— Jamie McGuire

114. “Your brain amazes me. Your thoughts are poetry.”

— Jamie McGuire

115. “Abby’s expression made me falter; she was afraid of what she’d just seen. She swallowed, and took a step back. Her fear only made me more angry, not at her, but because I was ashamed of myself.”

— Jamie McGuire

116. “I’ve had a year to write this speech, and I wrote it last night.”

— Jamie McGuire

117. “Maybe he used a bit too much hair spray, but the James Dean coif flattered him.”

— Jamie McGuire

118. “It’s somewhere in the unforeseen when the best, most important moments of our lives seem to happen.”

— Jamie McGuire

119. “It was as if we had fallen down a rabbit hole and landed in a frat house Fu ll of drunken toddlers. Suddenly, Eat Me had a whole new meaning.”

— Jamie McGuire

120. “Forgiveness was not easy for someone like me. When it was granted, more often than not, I was just giving someone a second chance to hurt me.”

— Jamie McGuire

121. “He abruptly pulled back, just a few inches, but kept me tightly in his arms. “I’ll do what i have to do, Nina. If you want to go away, we’ll go. If you need intimacy, I’ll make love to you. I’ll give up everything I have. I’ll give up my family. We can get in the car right now and just drive – I won’t even look back. Just don’t ask me to do this. I can’t do it. I can’t... ,” he choked.”

— Jamie McGuire

122. “Oh my God, dude! You were beginning to freak me out. Don’t do that to me! What do you really need to talk to me about?” His laughter faded when Thomas didn’t crack a smile. “Tommy, knock it off.”

— Jamie McGuire

123. “You must have voodoo in your hoohoo.”

— Jamie McGuire

124. “I kissed her temple, and we continued through the doors. Our past was now and now was in the past. Just as she’d promised, we were together again, in a moment of no sickness or pain – only love. And when love was real, so was forever.”

— Jamie McGuire

125. “I loved a man who I couldn’t love, who loved someone else but loved me more... Love could kiss my ass.”

— Jamie McGuire

126. “I leaned over, barely touching my cheek to his arm. Without hesitation, Tyler reached around my shoulders and hugged me against his side. I stiffened at first, but then relaxed, feeling the warmth of his body thaw my frozen bones.”

— Jamie McGuire

127. “Kiss the kids, and then you and I can celebrate eleven years of in-your-face-we-made-it.”

— Jamie McGuire

128. “Their marriage had reinforced what I’ve always thought and lived by – that stalking, harassment, and inflicting general misery on a woman will eventually pay off.”

— Jamie McGuire

129. “I stumbled into the living room, and Thomas handed me a bottle of whiskey. They all had some in a glass “You told them?” I asked Trenton, my voice broken. Trenton nodded. I collapsed to my knees, and my brothers surrounded me, placing their hands on my head and shoulders for support.”

— Jamie McGuire

130. “I had never wanted to kiss a girl so much in my life. “Happy birthday, Pigeon,” I said, trying very hard not to press my lips against hers.”

— Jamie McGuire

131. “No, but you’re the most beautiful thing I’ve seen in the morning sun.”

— Jamie McGuire

132. “Ellie?” he said. Just the reflection of his ice-blue irises seared through me. “Do you know what’s coming?” “Goodbye?” I said, only half-joking. Jubal smiled, concentrating again on the road. “Maybe not.”

— Jamie McGuire

133. “Jared cupped my jaw and his thumb brushed my cheek. ?As long as you heart is beating, so is mine.”

— Jamie McGuire

134. “I’ve never been so clear about anything in my life. I turned around, made my way to that room you were in, and there you were. Nothing else mattered. I didn’t even know if we would make it out or not, I just wanted to be where you were, whatever that meant. The only thing I’m afraid of is a life without you, Pigeon.”

— Jamie McGuire

135. “I want you. Just you. Nothing else. I’m not just content with that, Falyn. You’re not part of what I want. You’re everything I want. Anything else is a bonus.”

— Jamie McGuire

136. “To have everything and feel nothing was the worst kind of selfishness.”

— Jamie McGuire

137. “Just let me be nice to you.”

— Jamie McGuire

138. “It keeps me awake some nights... how much I’ll think about you when I leave here.”

— Jamie McGuire

139. “People have forgotten to use their memories. They look at life through the lens of a camera or the screen of a cell phone instead of remembering how it looks, how it smells” – I took a deep breath through my nose – “how it sounds” – my voice echoed over the smaller peaks below – “how it feels.”

— Jamie McGuire

140. “You reading this letter means that my son loves you. And when a Maddox boy falls in love, he loves forever.”

— Jamie McGuire

141. “I wanted to sleep with you. I thought about throwing you over my couch fifty different ways, but I haven’t because I don’t see you that way anymore. It’s not that I’m not attracted to you, I just think you’re better than that.”

— Jamie McGuire

142. “Your payback? You’ve made me believe all weekend that you were falling for me!” “I am! I have! Jesus Christ, Camille, how can I get.”

— Jamie McGuire

143. “The Maddoxes could sense trouble. At least it seemed that way, because whenever there was a fight, they had either started it, or finished it. Usually both.”

— Jamie McGuire

144. “Thomas loved me. He needed me. Maybe I wasn’t the first woman he’d loved, and maybe the kind of love a Maddox man felt lasted forever, but I needed him, too. I wasn’t the first, but I would be the last. That didn’t make me the second prize. It made me his forever.”

— Jamie McGuire

145. “The only thing I’m thinking about right now is holding you in my arms all night.”

— Jamie McGuire

146. “We weren’t rich, but I don’t remember wanting for anything.”

— Jamie McGuire

147. “Falyn,” Taylor said through his teeth, “I see you’ve met my brother Tyler.” “Tyler?” I asked, wiping his lips from my mouth. “My twin brother,” Taylor clarified.”

— Jamie McGuire

148. “Because, once in a while, Liis, I just need to see your face. I need to hear your voice. Some days are tougher for me than others.”

— Jamie McGuire

149. “As far as everyone is concerned, I’m in love with you today and tomorrow.”

— Jamie McGuire

150. “I won’t surprise attack your face.”

— Jamie McGuire