Top 160 Jay Crownover Quotes (2026 Update)
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101. “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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102. “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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103. “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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104. “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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105. “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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106. “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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107. “Bad things happened, it was how we navigated the fallout afterward that really defined what our new normal would be.”

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108. “I’m not giving you his number because he’s mine and if you get anywhere near him I swear to God the thing I do to you will be chronicled on Investigation Discovery for years to come.”

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109. “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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110. “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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111. “I’m dying to know all about this mystical creature that got you to act human for once.”

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

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

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114. “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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115. “Anger takes up a lot of space if you let it.”

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116. “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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117. “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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118. “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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119. “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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120. “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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121. “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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122. “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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123. “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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124. “What I do know is I want you more than I want to keep breathing.”

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125. “Every girl I knew had to have a prerequisite infatuation with a bad boy at one time or another, of course they normally grew out of it when they realize the bad boy was just an ass and they deserved better.”

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126. “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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127. “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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128. “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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129. “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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130. “I don’t think it’s where you go that matters, I think it’s where you end up.”

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131. “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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132. “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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133. “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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134. “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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135. “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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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. “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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138. “I was the one who jumped; he was the one that stayed warm and dry.”

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139. “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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140. “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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141. “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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142. “Like recognized like. And while we had both been lost and floundering on our own, when we were together it felt like we were exactly where we were supposed to be.”

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143. “I can’t be perfect for you, but I can be someone you rely on, someone you want to keep around even though it isn’t always going to be easy.”

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144. “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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145. “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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146. “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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147. “I could chase the shadows with him. As long as he was willing to let me bring the light in.”

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148. “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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149. “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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150. “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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