Top 160 Jay Crownover Quotes (2024 Update)
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101. “How can things begin if you’re already planning the ending?”

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102. “I was the one who jumped; he was the one that stayed warm and dry.”

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103. “No matter what kind of armor we wear, all of it has a chunk, a dent that speaks to a battle we fought and lost.”

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104. “Since the beginning is where things seem perfect and the ending is always tragic, why don’t we skip to the middle? There’re good things in the middle.”

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105. “Bad things happened, it was how we navigated the fallout afterward that really defined what our new normal would be.”

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106. “She offered me her free hand, and for a second all I could picture was grabbing it and pulling her under with me, letting the water cover us both and take us somewhere we would both rather be.”

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107. “I don’t want you to be a part of my nightmares, Cora. But I’m selfish enough to ask you to want to be.”

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108. “Seeing those scars, those marks that he most definitely had never asked for, I had to wonder how he felt about being permanently marked up against his will.”

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109. “It looks like you’re still running, Ayd. Haven’t you figured out the horizon just gets farther and farther away, and the past stays exactly where you left it?”

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110. “She was like some kind of balm that made all the ravaged and torn pieces of my soul feel less raw.”

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

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112. “It seems that what we’ve overcome is what ultimately molded us into the people that we are instead of where we’ve come from.”

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113. “You gave all you had for other people, this is the universe’s way of paying you back. You earned it all, son, so stop feeling guilty about it and goddamn enjoy it.”

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

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115. “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.”

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116. “You seem... unsettled.” Was “unsettled” another word for horny enough to climb the walls? Because if so, then yes, I was most definitely unsettled.”

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117. “Sometimes you find the person who makes you want more, and you have to decide how much you’re willing to give.”

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118. “All I knew for sure was that she was inside me like cold drops of water next to all the burning things that had lived there for years. I was in no hurry to get her out, because something about her was cool and soothing to all the parts of me that had been on fire for far too long.”

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

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120. “Every time I can’t seem to figure out where I’m going lately I always end up where you are.”

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121. “He’s right. I should have told him how I felt forever ago. I just couldn’t. I was scared telling him I loved him would mean it would all fall apart and it would destroy me if it didn’t work out. He always tells me I color his entire world, but he did the same thing for me. If what I felt for Jimmy is beige, then what I feel for Rome is a damn box of Crayola crayons. I shouldn’t have been such a baby and just let him know. He is perfect for me, Nash.”

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122. “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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123. “Anger takes up a lot of space if you let it.”

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

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125. “I never wanted to be anyone’s first or their last. I just wanted to be a moment they would think about with fondness and a smile.”

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126. “I could chase the shadows with him. As long as he was willing to let me bring the light in.”

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127. “Love isn’t perfect. It’s hard work and sometimes it’s more effort to be in love than it is to just run away. If you keep looking for perfect, the real thing is going to pass right by you.”

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128. “Seems to me that when you add a pretty girl into the mix, that’s when you give a dangerous man something to really be dangerous for.”

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129. “I tilted her head back as far as it would go without dunking her back in the icy water and started to breathe into her mouth. I breathed in all the love I had for her. I gave her air flavored with my confidence that we were meant to be, and laced with the knowledge that she made me a better kind of man. I breathed out and filled her lungs with the future I wanted to share with her and all the memories I wanted to make with her.”

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130. “It felt like he was trying to make it so I would never be able to kiss anyone else in my life without having to compare it to this moment.”

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131. “I’d kissed plenty of boys in my time but never one that made my head spin to the point that it made me forget where I was.”

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132. “I think on the journey to finding the love we crave, the love we truly deserve, the first stop has to be the love we have for ourselves. That’s a love that can never be lost and can only grow and get stronger the more it is fostered and developed. Appreciate who you are. Love what makes you different.”

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133. “There was no instinct to pretend – there was only the wish to protect the girl I knew I would love forever.”

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134. “I always thought it was the firsts that matter, but now I know that it’s the lasts that stay with you.”

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135. “Stop trying to be something you aren’t and just let her love you.”

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136. “Fighting for everything made fighting for the things that actually mattered get lost in the noise and lose their significance.”

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137. “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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138. “They all had spouses and lovers who took some work and yet they never complained or asked for anyone easier.”

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139. “I probably have never done it right, but I have always loved you, Keelyn Foster.”

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140. “It’s not like most guys are going to pass muster with the Terrible Trio anyway. They’re a hundred times worse than a dad with a shotgun.”

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141. “There was a good chance that Shaw was going to break my heart and that was big and scary because I didn’t even know I had a heart to break before she came along.”

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142. “Man often becomes what he believes himself to be. If I keep on saying to myself that I cannot do a certain thing, it is possible that I may end by really becoming incapable of doing it. On the contrary, if I have the belief that I can do it, I shall surely acquire.”

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143. “That is one fireball of a girlfriend you got there. The OR team was drawing straws to see who would go out and update her and your family. I think she actually had them scared.”

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144. “That’s insanity. No other girl is going to come along and distract him. He is absolutely focused on you. We are not interchangeable objects, LEGO pieces that click together just because the parts fit. If he is telling you he wants you, then no one else is going to do. If you can’t believe what he’s telling you because of whatever your ordeal in the past is, pay attention to what he’s showing you. Actions always speak louder than words.”

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145. “It felt like the most meaningful conversation I had ever had was happening even though no words were exchanged as we looked at each other.”

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

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147. “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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148. “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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149. “I don’t have much... but I want to give all to you.”

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150. “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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