Top 160 Jay Crownover Quotes (2025 Update)
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101. “I don’t have much... but I want to give all to you.”

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102. “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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103. “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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104. “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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105. “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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106. “Who knew freckles could be so sexy?”

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107. “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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108. “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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109. “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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110. “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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111. “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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112. “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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113. “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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114. “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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115. “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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116. “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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117. “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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118. “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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119. “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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120. “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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121. “Even if the trophy is gone, you still won it and that victory lasts forever.”

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

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123. “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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124. “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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125. “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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126. “Sometimes all people can see is what’s different, but those differences are what make us who we are.”

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127. “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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128. “It was hard to trust someone enough to let them all the way in when I didn’t think they deserved to be there. -Cora.”

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129. “Love is never perfect, big brother. It’s what you make of the imperfections in it that makes the ride worthwhile.”

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130. “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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131. “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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132. “Talking about it, going over all the details, it’s not going to change anything. Someone is still going to be dead, someone is still going to be paralyzed, and I’m always going to be the bastard who’s responsible.”

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133. “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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134. “What I do know is I want you more than I want to keep breathing.”

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135. “Accountability was a foreign thing, and back in the day I avoided it like I owed it money.”

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136. “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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137. “How can things begin if you’re already planning the ending?”

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

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142. “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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143. “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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144. “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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145. “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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146. “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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147. “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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148. “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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149. “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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150. “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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