Top 160 Jay Crownover Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “Opposites don’t just attract they freaking catch fire and burn the entire city down1.”

— Jay Crownover

2. “I’ve never trusted anyone all the time. It’s the people I care about the most that always seem to do the most damage.”

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3. “People could only hurt you and disappoint you if you let them.”

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4. “I’m good at staying on top of things that are a handful.”

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5. “If you’re the one holding the pen, you’re the one in charge of how the story ends.”

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6. “I feel like you and the past have been chasing me down ever since you walked into that shop, Salem.” She didn’t answer me but I noticed a little pink work its way into her dusky cheeks. “What are you going to do if I decide to let you catch me?”

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7. “I think I wanted it too much and you didn’t want it enough.”

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8. “Thank God. Now maybe he’ll stop acting like a cranky toddler that skipped nap time.”

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9. “There was no good without the bad, no joy without sorrow, no peace without war, and there definitely couldn’t be love without the sour taste of hate. You had to know what one felt like to fully experience and appreciate the other.”

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10. “I got used to everyone needing me, to them relying on me, and now that I wasn’t needed anymore I simply just didn’t know what to do with myself.”

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11. “You have me Shaw, any way you need me, any way you want me, you have me.”

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12. “This is what I have to offer you Shaw and just like you let me be your first, I’m letting you be mine.”

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13. “I’ve been fighting every single day of my life. Sometimes I think all I have left is fight.”

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14. “I don’t need luck. I have you.”

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15. “People could only hurt you and disappoint you if you let them. They only had the power to hurt you if you thought they were special and above that.”

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16. “I know you would have, but you’re here now when I need you the most, and that’s all that really matters to me. If you still want my forever, it’s yours, Jet. No one else has ever come close and you’re the only one I have ever wanted to offer it to.”

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17. “Karma has a way of catching up with you, especially when you laughed in her face one too many times.”

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18. “Because it’s always been you even when I didn’t want it to be, even when it broke my heart over and over again. It’s just always been you.”

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19. “Most things that are easy aren’t worth much. It’s the things you have to work for that matter the most.”

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20. “Dedicated to anyone who is trying to figure out where they are supposed to be. Don’t worry, friends, the universe has a plan for you; you just need to listen to what it’s trying to tell you and you’ll eventually end up exactly where you were always meant to be.”

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21. “Everything was tied together with thin threads of fate, and when one loosened or tightened it was surprising how impactful it could be.”

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22. “We are not interchangeable objects, LEGO pieces that click together just because the parts fit.”

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23. “I KNEW I was a mess. Unhinged and hanging on the precipice of becoming someone who was beyond any kind of redemption. I teetered on the brink of making bad choices every moment I was awake, but somehow, some way, I always managed to keep myself from going completely over.”

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24. “Whoever said crime doesn’t pay is an idiot. It pays great, which is why there is so much of it.”

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25. “Sometimes we get more than we asked for because we’ve settled for less for so long... When you pay your dues, your bound to be rewarded eventually.”

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26. “A superhot, supersexy nice guy. Do you know how rare that is? He’s like a goddamn unicorn.”

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27. “Saying sorry wasn’t enough; this time around, I was actually going to have to change. I.”

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28. “There’s always a first girl, Rowdy, but there is also the girl that is going to come after her until you get to the last girl. The last girl is the one that really matters.”

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29. “There were days when all I wanted was a hug and for someone to tell me that it would all be worth it in the end. Every grin, every pat on the back, every thumbs-up and unwavering positive reinforcement I handed off to others, there were days when I longed to know that the universe would turn that back around on me and I would finally be rewarded with the simple dreams that I had nurtured for so long.”

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30. “You found your family tree, Rowdy, and the branches are stronger and sturdier than most people with blood relatives have.”

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31. “I have not failed. I’ve just found ten thousand ways that won’t work. – Thomas A. Edison.”

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32. “You make me want to vomit, and you’re lucky we’re in a public place or there’s a really good chance I would be punching you repeatedly in the face right now.”

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33. “Rule, if this goes bad it’s gonna be so, so bad.” Her voice was just a husky whisper against my chest. “True, but if it’s good, it’s going be so very, very good.”

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34. “You’re the best bad decision I ever made, and you are, by far, my favorite story to tell.”

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35. “I didn’t know what I was doing, didn’t know what he was doing to me, but there was no doubt he made my day better by simply being.”

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36. “Bad stuff happens sometimes and it happens to people we care about. You can’t live life insulated because you are scared of getting too close.”

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37. “You want to go down in flames, I guess that’s your call, but I’m not going to watch you burn.”

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38. “I needed to go so he could bring me back. Show me my place in life. In this big, bad world. And once he had me, I was going to help him find his heart... because that elusive, tricky thing was mine.”

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39. “She was going to be my downfall. She was going to be my corruption and my vice. She was going to be my addiction and my compulsion and I was still going to fall headlong into her knowing the landing was going to be rough for both of us.”

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40. “Dedicated to any of you who might just need a little reminder that you are awesome just the way you are!!!”

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41. “There are probably a million and one regrets I have, and if they are going to be between us here or in bed, then let’s just stop it now, because I’m not going to do combat over my past when my future is finally starting to be something I want to invest in.”

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42. “I’m not saying it couldn’t eventually lead to more, but right now I feel pretty broken and I’m not really sure there are enough pieces lying around to put me back together.”

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43. “Well, there it was. If a perfect stranger could plainly see after only five minutes of watching us together that it was always going to be a battle to keep things with him on the level, what chance did I have of making anything between us work? With that depressing thought I went back to assisted suicide and tried to cheer myself up.”

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44. “Love isn’t logical or reasonable. Our hearts make no sense.”

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45. “After everything the past has tried to bury us under, we owe it to ourselves to be brave, to do more than float.”

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46. “My home is a little more complicated than coordinates on a map.”

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47. “Some people screw up, and then some people are screw-ups.”

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48. “You should take the time to find something real that interests you, Cable. You should find the thing that keeps your mind occupied and soothes you when all those cravings and demons rise to the surface. If you have something that matters to focus on, then it won’t be as easy for your bad habits to clamor for your free time.”

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49. “She called me her devil and I called her my everything. We clung to each other, sweaty, spent, and forever entwined. My starved heart and soul were gorged to the point of overflowing and every battle I’d ever fought felt like it had been nothing if this was my victory, being here with her.”

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50. “I never claimed to be an angel and even the devil could only play with fire for so long before he gave in to unholy temptation and danced in the flames.”

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