Top 140 Jay McLean Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “You can’t control what people do or how they treat you. You can only control how you react to it.”

— Jay McLean

2. “Be strong when you are weak, brave when you are scared, and humble when you are victorious.”

— Jay McLean

3. “Every morning you have two choices. Continue to sleep with dreams – or – wake up and chase them.”

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4. “Love has no limits. No boundaries. No time. It’s eternal. Forever.”

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5. “Love me when I least deserve it, because that is when I need it the most.”

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6. “You must make a choice, to take a chance, or your life will never change.”

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7. “You came into my life and you healed me. You made me feel alive again.”

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8. “Sometimes the wrong path can lead us to the right road.”

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9. “Sometimes the wrong path can lead us to the right road. And toward the greatest thing that will ever happen to us.”

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10. “My own home doesn’t feel like home unless you’re there.”

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11. “Love hard, love fierce, but love right. Be careful with your heart, guard it, and if you feel the need to be reckless, make sure you are the one making that choice.”

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12. “Seriously, how many times can a person break before the only things left are shattered fragments too small to piece back together?”

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13. “Today will live forever in the memory of tomorrow.”

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14. “And I look at him. Really, truly, look at him. And I fall in love all over again.”

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15. “You took my nightmares and turned them into dreams.”

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16. “And in the end, it’s not the years in your life that count, it’s the life in your years. “I.”

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17. “You’re my girl, Ava. My first and forever.”

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18. “The way he cares for me – the way he protects me. It’s fierce.”

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19. “If you want to learn what someone fears losing, watch what they photograph.” – Unknown.”

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20. “To those who struggle to find peace amongst the chaos of your silence. May your voices be heard.”

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21. “Our raw imperfections make us real and make us human but they don’t make us.”

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22. “You own me. You’ve always owned me. I was always yours.”

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23. “She’s so perfectly imperfect, and perfect for me.”

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24. “You can run, you can hide, you can choose not to see, but where the road takes you will always lead to me.”

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25. “When life gives you melons, you might be dyslexic.”

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26. “You impress people with your mind. With your kind heart and humble attitude. And while you’re a beautiful girl, your looks or the way you dress shouldn’t be the reason people are impressed by you. And when you’re older and boys start to notice you, I want you to remember that. Because if it’s only your looks they’re attracted to, then they’re not the one for you, Lo. You can do better. You will do better.”

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27. “I’ll make it happen... Just not in our dreams. In reality. We’ll drive toward the calm of the horizon until you feel like you’re touching the earth. And we can stay there. I’ll show you our reality. Just you and me. And it’ll be perfect. You’ll see.”

— Jay McLean

28. “When you spend your whole life faking happiness, it becomes a second emotion.”

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29. “They love each other. You said loved. Love doesn’t die just because one heart stops beating. When you love someone, you have the same heartbeat and it’s still there, just not as strong. So no. There’s no loved. Dad still loves her.”

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30. “You meant the world to me. And if you didn’t know that – if you couldn’t see that – then that’s how I’ll start. Every day I’ll show you, and every day I’ll prove to you just how much you mean to me. How much you still mean to me.”

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31. “You’ll always be my first love, Ava. Everything else is insignificant.”

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32. “I had whatever the equivalent of blue balls was for girls. Blue bean?”

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33. “I’m thinking that maybe I’m really far from more than a lot liking you, Mikayla Jones.”

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34. “Regardless of all the black-letter days you might have to endure, there’s always a red one waiting for you.”

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35. “I’ve never wanted anything as badly as I want you. I just want to be with you, and I want that to be enough.”

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36. “And there’s nothing sadder, nothing harder in the world than watching the person you love fall apart right before your eyes – and you can’t say or do anything to change it.”

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37. “But it is relevant. Because is and was is the difference between time standing still, and time moving forward.”

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38. “You’re it for me. If there’s no you, then there’s nothing else. No one else.”

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39. “What are you typing with? A potato?”

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40. “There’s a big difference between being happy and being selfish. Choose to be happy. Fire truck the rest.”

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41. “I’m sorry he hurt you, but hurting yourself isn’t going to change that. You can’t control what people do or how they treat you. You can only control how you react to it.”

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42. “I don’t just love you. It’s like the word I want to use hasn’t been invented yet. Maybe it’s because no one’s ever felt this type of love before. Maybe I’m the first to feel it. I don’t know. I can’t explain it. But those words – I love you – they just don’t seem like enough. Not anymore.”

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43. “Tears escape from my eyes, wetting my cheeks. They fall onto our hands, the same time I fall into him. “I love you,” I mouth. He quirks an eyebrow. “Olive juice?”

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44. “Babe,” I cut her off. “I don’t care about my friends, or what they think. I just care about you.”

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45. “I’m crazy about you. How can you not see that? How can anybody that sees me with you not see that? Yes, there have been other girls. And yes, they didn’t mean anything to me. But you do, Luce. You mean the world to me.”

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46. “There are some sacrifices greater than love. And some loves greater than any sacrifice. Tommy’s greater than both.”

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47. “If I told you to jump, would you ask how high? Or would you just jump? If there were no reason behind it, would you still take the leap? What if I told you that at the end, there would be nothing? What if you made a splash on the world and lived in an eternal state of floating? Would you make waves? What if you couldn’t float? What if air lost the battle, and you lost the war? Would you want to know what was on the other side? Would you care? Or would you just jump... because I was the one that asked you?”

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48. “We fall. We get back up. We kick. We push. Again and again. Because the joy of success is greater than the depression of failure.”

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49. “With every single kiss – he stole my breath and made it his, holding it captive. And I knew it then – that whatever we were meant to be – for however long time would allow it – it was going to be breathtakingly, heartbreakingly, beautiful.”

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50. “Are you planning on coming out and kissing me any time soon? Or should I just stab myself in the chest, rip out my heart, and leave it out in the open?”

— Jay McLean