Top 140 Jay McLean Quotes (2024 Update)
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101. “And I decide then and there that he may possibly be my favorite person in the entire world.”

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

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103. “Sad face emoticon.”

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104. “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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105. “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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106. “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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107. “You think this is awkward? You should see me dance. I’m like Taylor Swift, all over the place.”

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108. “My Heart. My World. My Coast. My Becca.”

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109. “So my dad – he told me that instead of living life by time and dates, to live them by moments. And instead of trying to remember how old I was or what day it was, try to remember how I felt during those moments.”

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110. “I’ll always love you,” I tell her. “You’ll always belong to me, Becca.”

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111. “It’s going to be okay, Amanda.” He kissed my head. “I promise,” he said. “I’m going to make it okay.”

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112. “My hands don’t follow my mind, my legs move only through a lifetime of repetitive motion. My stomach is a roller coaster: dipping, sliding, swirling. And my heart? My heart belongs to Mary.”

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113. “And this – this is the moment. The moment I let myself fall completely in love with her.”

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114. “She was my person. She was it for me. Always.”

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115. “Tommy’s three years old today, that means you raised him for three years. You. And you did an amazing job because look at him,” she says, pointing to the pictures. “Look how beautiful he is. How happy he is. You did that, Josh. You gave him a life worth smiling about.” She pauses a beat. “We’re not just here to celebrate Tommy’s birthday. We’re all here to celebrate you.”

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116. “You know how sometimes you remembered someone, or something, and you closed your eyes, but you couldn’t imagine them. Like, you could kind of make them out in your mind, but you couldn’t see them?”

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117. “I knew in my heart that without her, I’d never be able to coast.”

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118. “I missed you every day, Becs.”

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119. “Because it’s not fair that you should have to love me broken, especially when I can never make you whole.”

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120. “He grabbed my hand and placed it over his heart. “You and me,” he shouted. “We’re going to make new memories. Ones that you aren’t afraid of. And it’s going to be amazing.”

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121. “You said that you wanted to be her reason for loving books. You said you wanted to be her reason for everything.”

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122. “You still make my world stop, Luce.”

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123. “There are so many things in my future that absolutely terrify me, but loving you for the rest of it isn’t one of them.”

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124. “I don’t want my past to determine my future – and my future is you, Josh.”

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125. “Because, Riley,” he says, kissing the top of my head. “I plan on loving you like he did.”

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126. “Inside, I break. Outside, I smile.”

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127. “You know what the problem with high school is? There is way too much of it.”

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128. “My dad – he would call it timeless, or classic. The type of beauty that no matter what time, age or era, would always still be beautiful. She was beautiful.”

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129. “And at her words, I release her. Because the last thing I ever wanted was to hurt her.”

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130. “And love is something we should be reminded of every day.”

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131. “Sure, I wanted all those things pre-Riley, but it wasn’t until I met her that all my reasons – my purpose – had a face.”

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132. “Ava: Once upon a time, you were my favorite brother. Trevor: Once upon a time, my sister grew the hell up and stopped being such a brat. Ava: Fine. Love you. Bye Trevor: Love you, too. Shithead.”

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133. “What’s beneath the bravado, Logan Preston?”

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134. “So, for six days Hannah had frozen me out, and I didn’t notice. For six hours, Chloe did the same, and it felt like my life was over.”

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135. “She was smiling. And it’s all I ever wanted.”

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136. “Maybe you don’t need to be a complete person, or maybe you do. But maybe, he’s it. Maybe he’s the other half of you.”

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137. “You know that jacket’s got my name on the back.” “It does?” He nods. “Kind of makes you mine now.”

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138. “She’s on the last few chapters of some book she’s been reading. She can’t stay away from it. We’re used to it by now. We always find her reading at the oddest times. Don’t we, babe?” He says the last sentence a little louder to get her attention.”

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139. “My Becca’s home.”

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140. “I don’t want to be just your friend, Mia. I want to be more. I want to be your Leo.”

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141. “You have no idea how much it hurts to want you as much as I do.”

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142. “Sometimes there’s a single line in a book, or a sentence, or an entire paragraph that gives you pause, makes you think, makes you open that page over and over just so you see the same few words again and again. Relive them. Rethink them. These are the pages that connect to the part of the spine that has the least amount of ink, the most damage.”

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143. “Boys in books are better.”

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144. “Beneath the stars, where her namesake lives, surrounded by Dark Matter, the fearfully unknown and indefinite future, I take her shaky hands in mine, and everything falls upon me like the first time I ever laid eyes on her. The conclusion hits me like a shot of caffeine. It stirs me. Jolts me. Annihilates me. Darkness does matter. But so does hope. So does love. So does light. And this time, I promise to remember the light. “Us.”

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145. “And that one girl?” she asks. “How did you get over that?” “As soon as it happens, I’ll let you know.”

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146. “We’re not big on celebrating love. We’re big on living in it.”

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147. “I like being the main character in your story.”

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148. “Love is not a noun. Love is something you do. Something you prove. Something you work hard to create. Love is not something that simply exists because you say it. Love is not a noun. Love is a verb.”

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149. “Love is not a noun. Love is something you do.”

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