Top 140 Jay McLean Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “It took me a while to work out what it was; love – the kind of love that shouldn’t exist for two sixteen year olds. It’s almost too much. Too heavy. Too soon. I used to worry about what could be left. What is there to look forward to when you fall in this kind of love when you’re so young? And then I worked it out. Forever. I have forever to look forward to.”

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52. “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?”

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53. “He wears his pain on his sleeves, and hides his joys in his heart, because he’s so damn terrified of losing them. And maybe that’s why you clash sometimes, because you’re the opposite, Becca. You only share your joy, while you hide your pain. And, maybe, if you can both find a way to balance that, you’ll find the coast.”

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54. “All these girls jog. You know what that means, right? It was nice knowing you, Blake Hunter.”

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55. “You’re pretty hard not to love.” He paused and cleared his throat. “Really hard not to love.” My eyes drifted shut. I tried to settle the thumping of my heart before I spoke. “Lucky you don’t love me.” He didn’t say anything, just reached over, took my hand, squeezed once, and never let go. Blake.”

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56. “You said that life’s just like skating; I just need to kick forward and take a chance, push off the ground and follow through. And when everything works out, I’ll coast.”

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57. “Some things will always be beautiful, even in the face of death.”

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58. “When your heart breaks and you lose absolutely everything you have left in life. The only thing you can do is cry.”

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59. “Because sometimes you need to have nightmares to appreciate the dreams.”

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60. “This time – you better be ready to fight for her. She doesn’t deserve anything less.”

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61. “You can keep your two wishes, I’ll just take the one. I want my girl, Lucy. My forever. And not just for our forever, but for eternity, and for always.”

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62. “I blink back my own and try to stay strong, for her. “If you need proof that magic exists, I’m right here.”

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63. “I was in the library reading – getting lost in another world that’s not my reality.”

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64. “I don’t get to speak to Ava as much as I want to. Or need to, really. I’m a goner. For real. And I’m not even mad about it.”

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65. “What I had wasn’t enough. I wanted more than enough.”

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66. “There’s no emotion greater than fear. No ache greater than grief. No sound greater than silence.”

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67. “I pick up the phone and press the few buttons until I can hear my heavy, creeper breathing over the PA system. I start beat boxing into the phone, making sure I spit more than necessary. “Yo, Marky Mark. Please come to your office immediately, there’s a funky bunch of manly stud waiting for you.”

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68. “We filled our days with porch-step kisses, filled our ears with three-year-old laughter, and filled our hearts with love. Deep, soul-aching, desperate love.”

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69. “Always faithful.”

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70. “You’re my reason, Ava. You both are.”

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71. “I still keep my room clean.”

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72. “And it doesn’t matter how many times he says it, the words have never lost their meaning. And they never will. Because it’s more than just words spoken, it’s his arms around me when I feel like I’m falling. It’s his lips on mine, kissing away the pain. It’s our hands holding as he leads me into the water to let me break. It’s us – chest to chest – helping each other heal. It’s us – giving each other Hope.”

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73. “How could I forget the day I found my person?”

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74. “You never have to be afraid of me, Becca, I’ll never hurt you. And as long as I’m around, no one else will either.”

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75. “Jake Andrews is definitely swoon-worthy. I should write a book about him.”

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76. “You’re my light, Amanda. In a life full of shadows, and darkness, and monsters, you’re my light. When the blackness fades, and the memories subside, you’ll be there. You’re always there.”

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77. “You miss her?” “Every second, of every hour, of every day.”

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78. “For her, true happiness means you, Warden.”

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79. “You’re just a little broken... That’s all. Now you just have to let me be the glue that keeps you together.”

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80. “Don’t you want to be the first to touch something? To reach out and grasp onto the world around you? You can’t touch it if you can’t see it.”

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81. “He leaves every morning and he kisses me. The type of kisses that should be goddamn illegal, Rose. And he’s getting hotter. How is that possible? He’s started hitting the gym again and there are muscles and his stomach and his hair’s like... I don’t even... and the kisses.”

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82. “Sticks and stones may break bones, but words dig and dig and dig deep into your heart until the hurt resonates, and your heart fails to remember the reason it beats in the first place.”

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83. “He punches the steering wheel. And then he breaks. The boy I love breaks. 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.”

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84. “He’ll want to stay there forever, in a life that was simple, and the only thing that mattered was love.”

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85. “We run. We jump. We fall. Deeper. Harder. In love.”

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86. “I tried to book two rooms at the same hotel, or at least a room with two beds, or even a room with a twin or queen bed, but the only ones available are singles, and even they were hard to find. Apparently some new Nicholas Sparks movie is being filmed here, and that ‘Zac Teflon’ boy from those high school movies is in town.”

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87. “Coast with us, Emerald Eyes?”

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88. “I’d give it all up if it meant I could see her again.”

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89. “You know what my favorite part of the day is? It’s those few seconds in the morning, when my mind wakes up but my body hasn’t, and I feel you in my arms. And I know that when I open my eyes, it’s you that I get to see.”

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90. “I would love nothing more than to be your hero, Becca Owens.”

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91. “But like they say, it’s not the years in your life that count, it’s the life in your years. And I sure as hell was going to make my life count.”

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92. “He said he believed in one true love, and that she was it for him. She was his person.”

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93. “The moment I fell in love with her. She made me feel weightless, feel free, feel airborne. So I kicked, and I pushed, and for the past year, that’s all I’ve been doing because it didn’t feel the same and I knew in my heart that without her, I’d never be able to coast.”

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94. “And I decide then and there that he may possibly be my favorite person in the entire world.”

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95. “So he has flaws, so what? Maybe that’s what makes him perfect.”

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96. “Sad face emoticon.”

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97. “I don’t think it’s our pasts that define us, and it’s not even our life’s final destination. It’s everything we do in between, the actual living, that creates who we are.”

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98. “The things most people took for granted were the things I made sure to pay special attention to: sunrises and sunsets; driving with the top down – or just driving at all; being able to wake up and know that it was safe to play outside with the kids, and, in a world populated by dictators and strewn with war zones, I wasn’t surrounded by any of them.”

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99. “You think this is awkward? You should see me dance. I’m like Taylor Swift, all over the place.”

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100. “So that when you found your Jake Andrews, you would know. You would know what it felt like to stand in front of your forever.”

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