Top 160 Jay Crownover Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “It’s not about saving them after they’re lost. It’s about getting to them before they lose their way in the first place.”

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52. “It’s like being in love with a loaded weapon and you’re the safety.”

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53. “There is no going back but there is accepting your new normal.”

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54. “Loving someone you want to make your own has a different feeling, a different power than the love you have for family. It’s different and the chains that bind it can be unbreakable.”

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55. “No one shines as bright as you in the sky I’m looking at. To me there is no sun, no moon, and no stars in the sky, just endless miles of storm clouds and pretty, pretty gray.”

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56. “If you think about it, love and hate really aren’t that much different when you got right down to it. Both make you crazy. Both make you do things you never thought you would ever do, and both were so, so easy to get lost in.”

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57. “Sure. She’s classy, elegant, made of sturdy stuff, expensive as hell to keep running and keep pretty. She’s only good to me if I’m good to her, so obviously she’s a girl.”

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58. “I hated to admit it, but he was all sorts of sexy felon. God, what was wrong with me? That kiss had made me stupid.”

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59. “Is that a Buffy the Vampire Slayer poster behind your desk?” I couldn’t keep the humor and stunned shock out of my voice. She laughed and pulled me toward the kitchen. “Team Spike forever.”

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60. “How can things begin if you’re already planning the ending? Doesn’t seem fair.” His breath was warm and tingled the skin at the side of my neck. “You’re right. It doesn’t, so since the beginning is where things usually seem perfect and the ending is always tragic, why don’t we just skip to the middle? There’re good things in the middle.”

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61. “No one had ever given me any idea on how to handle it when the right one came along, but you weren’t the right one for him.”

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62. “That boy is sprung on you and he is a nice guy. A superhot, supersexy nice guy. Do you know how rare that is? He’s like a goddamn unicorn.”

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63. “Body art isn’t a contest. The only person that has to like it is the person stuck with it for the rest of their life. As long as you love it when you see it, that’s all that matters.”

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64. “I can’t live my life waiting for it not to hurt before I start existing again.”

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65. “I’ve heard you say my name in a lot of ways, Salem. Gotta say hearing you say it in bed when I’m about to eat you up is probably my favorite to date.”

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66. “Love isn’t something you can negotiate, Nash. When it happens, it becomes everything.”

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67. “Eventually we all need someone to try and save us; even if they fail, the fact that someone tried might be what matters most in the end.”

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68. “I really, really like that even though we both know you deserve so much better, I’m the one you want.”

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69. “Good people usually have a reason for doing bad things.”

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70. “You are the last person I want to kiss. The last woman I want in my bed. I want you to be the last girl that touches any and all parts of me, Salem, and that means so much more than a first.”

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71. “I would rather be broke and do something I love, than be wealthy working a nine-to-five job any day.”

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72. “You know home isn’t really about what color your couch is or what you hang on the wall... Home is about knowing you are in the right place with the right people.”

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73. “It’s how we deal with the things that hurt us most that defines us.”

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74. “At the end of the day little girl we’re all each other has, so no matter how tough it gets for any of us we just have to power through and keep it together.”

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75. “I told him if he pulled my tuition I would gladly get a job as a stripper to pay my way through med school, and he hadn’t liked it one bit.”

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76. “I call my dad ‘Admiral Ass Hat,’ he doesn’t really think it’s funny.”

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77. “That you do, Tink, but you also gotta keep your eyes open or the right one is going to pass you by because you were too busy looking for the white whale. -Phil.”

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78. “She might be a problem solver but I was Mr. Fixit. I didn’t break things, I repaired them.”

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79. “You poked the bear, Tink, so you better hope someone can put him in a cage.”

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80. “I’m dying to know all about this mystical creature that got you to act human for once.”

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81. “I was the least easygoing and carefree person on the planet. I was a storm cloud that ruined picnics, not something full of warmth and light. “I.”

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82. “This Ayden deserves to be happy, regardless of what the future holds, and this Ayden is the one who has to decide why she is settling for milk and cookies when what she really wants is edible body paint and furry handcuffs.”

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83. “Easy is very forgettable, my friend, complicated and difficult stays with you forever. Believe me, I married it.”

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84. “You were right, you are perfect for me because I’m just as imperfect as you are, but with you, it’s all just flawless.”

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85. “Addiction takes and takes and keeps on taking. It’s the most greedy and selfish thing in the entire world.”

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86. “We might have been on the outside looking in at our own families and our own lives, but at least we could stand outside together.”

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87. “My girl always jumped. It was one of the things I now realized I loved most about her.”

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88. “No one is perfect, Jet. We all have things that have happened, that are going to happen that make us who we are, and maybe you need to look past all the superficial stuff you see when you look at this girl and see what’s underneath.”

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89. “You can’t run from feeling things, even if some of those things are awful, because love opens you up to experiencing emotions you haven’t ever felt before.”

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90. “And then you opened your mouth. All that love, all that loyalty, all the innocence, even though life had kicked you around time and time again, and all I wanted to do was let some of that sweetness and light touch me. I’ve never had very clean hands, but the first time I touched you, that first gasp out of that perfect mouth, the first time I thrust into you, God, Dovie, you made me feel like I was the king in a land of second chances.” I was stunned.”

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91. “I understand what you meant about those closest to you hurting you the most now. I’ll be in touch.”

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92. “If the guy across from me was a cherry-red Ferrari, then I was a rusted-out and battered John Deere tractor in comparison.”

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93. “Love doesn’t go away because the person it’s attached to has changed. It simply changes with them.”

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94. “A guy has needs, but so does a girl. She just needs the right person to make her hot enough to ask for them to be met.”

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95. “You can’t deny that there is something there between us when we get close to one another that is completely unprofessional. I want your help, Sayer, but I want you, too.”

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96. “Ass in the chair, Soldier.”

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97. “When you find someone, someone who gets you, who understand you, it’s worth fighting for. The last thing you want to do is be five years down the road and look back and wonder what could have happened. Trust me, that kind of regret that kind of what-if, can gnaw on your soul until there is nothing left.”

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98. “Saint, hurting is how you know it’s real. If he didn’t matter, if he was just some guy, even back then it wouldn’t have lasted with you the way it has. You can’t run from feeling things, even if some of those things are awful, because love opens you up to experiencing emotions you haven’t ever felt before.”

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99. “Where you have been doesn’t define who you are, Zeb. I told you that when we first met that I understand that people make mistakes.”

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100. “It might have taken me a long-ass time to figure out the difference between first love and real love, but, Salem, there is nothing more real than what I feel for you.”

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