Top 160 Jay Crownover Quotes (2024 Update)
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51. “If you’re the one holding the pen, you’re the one in charge of how the story ends.”

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52. “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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53. “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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54. “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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55. “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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56. “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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57. “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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58. “I call my dad ‘Admiral Ass Hat,’ he doesn’t really think it’s funny.”

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

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

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

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

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

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

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66. “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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67. “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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68. “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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69. “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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70. “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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71. “My girl always jumped. It was one of the things I now realized I loved most about her.”

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72. “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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73. “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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74. “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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75. “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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76. “Love doesn’t go away because the person it’s attached to has changed. It simply changes with them.”

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77. “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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78. “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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79. “Ass in the chair, Soldier.”

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80. “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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81. “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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82. “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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83. “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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84. “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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85. “You’re the best bad decision I ever made, and you are, by far, my favorite story to tell.”

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86. “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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87. “We were marked and had been marked in unforgettable and forever ways. We were all better men for it. Marked men. None of us would have it any other way.”

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88. “Right now, I needed to be the man I tried so hard not to be in order to be someone worthy of the girl I was trying to save. I.”

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89. “If there was such a think as being tragically flawless and ferociously immaculate, then those were conditions that she definitely suffered from.”

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90. “In my experience as long as he treats you right and appreciates you then no man is the wrong kind of man.”

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91. “Who knew freckles could be so sexy?”

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92. “I learned the hard way that if you heard you were one thing enough times, eventually you had no option but to start believing it.”

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93. “I kissed her because I had to. I kissed her because I wanted to. I kissed her because kissing her was starting to make me feel like I had found something I wasn’t really aware I had been looking for. Mostly I kissed her because ever time she kissed me back I felt her settling a piece of herself even more deeply inside of me.”

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94. “You ever pull a stunt like you did last night again and I will use your intestines to string your Les Paul.”

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95. “Hell is yourself and the only redemption is when a person puts himself aside to feel deeply for another person. – Tennessee Williams.”

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96. “Love can really look strange in the Point. In fact, if you aren’t paying attention you might miss it altogether because it doesn’t look like love at all.”

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97. “She might look like a dream and taste like dessert, but I knew there was a lot of tart underneath that pretty outer shell.”

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98. “I was always waiting for the day he would finally try his luck, test the waters, even though he knew I was a shark that could tell he was bleeding out from a mile away.”

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99. “You don’t need anyone to show you how to be good, you’re so much better when you’re bad.”

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100. “It’s okay to be scared, I really think that’s how that whatever it is you’re meant to be doing matters, but it’s not okay to not find that thing you’re supposed to be doing because you’re afraid of something new.”

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