Top 160 Jay Crownover Quotes (2025 Update)
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101. “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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102. “Anger takes up a lot of space if you let it.”

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

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105. “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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106. “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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107. “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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108. “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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109. “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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110. “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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111. “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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112. “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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113. “Fighting for everything made fighting for the things that actually mattered get lost in the noise and lose their significance.”

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

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

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116. “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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117. “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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118. “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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119. “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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120. “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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121. “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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122. “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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123. “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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124. “I don’t have much... but I want to give all to you.”

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125. “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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126. “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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127. “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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128. “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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129. “Who knew freckles could be so sexy?”

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130. “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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131. “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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132. “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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133. “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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134. “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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135. “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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136. “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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137. “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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138. “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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139. “I see death and tragedy all the time and nothing makes it worse than when it’s totally senseless. All she needed was some niceness, some basic human kindness, and she wouldn’t be on her way to the morgue and her parents wouldn’t be devastated. It’s heartbreaking and so senseless.”

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140. “I was caught up in the tempest of this woman and I was in no hurry to get myself free of her.”

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141. “I want you to know, this man – the man you are now – he is a man you can be proud of.”

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142. “He would always be something sharp and deadly on the inside, something that could be used to destroy, but every blade needs a sheath and every gun needs a holster to protect it. I had no problem offering myself up as the thing that kept this particular weapon secure.”

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143. “His drawl was so smooth, so velvet soft, as it wrapped around me. I just wanted him to whisper things to me in the dark forever.”

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144. “Even if the trophy is gone, you still won it and that victory lasts forever.”

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145. “I don’t think it’s where you go that matters, I think it’s where you end up.”

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146. “I didn’t want to be the thing that made her shatter. She might be a problem solver but I was Mr. Fixit. I didn’t break things, I repaired them.”

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147. “I was the girl that everyone always assumed was good... so they never asked... but he had and the world stopped.”

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148. “Bad decisions did lead to great stories and, in my case, great love. I’d make every single crappy choice and foolish error again if it meant I would end up exactly where I was right now. Every mistake was a piece of me, a part of my story, and without each of them there was no way I would be starting my own happy-ever-after in his perfect, stormy, blue-gray eyes.”

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149. “Sometimes all people can see is what’s different, but those differences are what make us who we are.”

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150. “Honestly, man, it’s whatever she wants. She wants a ring, I’ll by her one the size of her head. She wants a kid, I’ll take her to bed every night until she has one, and I won’t complain about it at all. If she wants to keep things the way they are now, until the end of time, then I’m cool with that, too. All that matters is that it’s her and me at the end of the day.”

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