Top 120 K.A. Tucker Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “Life has a funny way of creating it’s own tests. It throws curve balls that make you do and think and feel things that are in direct conflict with what you had planned and don’t allow you to operate in terms of black and white.”

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2. “And just like that, I sense a circle closing. Back to the beginning, and near to the end.”

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3. “I want to make you smile. For real. Always. We’re going to go for dinners, and see movies, and walk on the beach. We’ll go hang-gliding, or bungee jumping, or whatever you want to do. Whatever makes you smile and laugh more. Let me make you smile.”

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4. “Maybe we’re both lucky to have found each other.”

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5. “He said the truth is like that water: it doesn’t matter how hard you try to bury it; it’ll always find some way back to the surface. It’s resilient.”

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6. “I think I’m going to fall in love with this man.”

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7. “The mind, it can be a deceitful thing. But it is no match for the heart.”

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8. “Life is too short to do what other people think you should do.”

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9. “What’s wrong is that every morning and every night, I lie in bed wondering why you’re not beside me.”

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10. “The only thing I regret is that it ever ended. And I’m the one who’s jealous. Insanely so.”

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11. “Trent has kept his promise. He makes me smile every day.”

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12. “I can feel his very existence as if it’s wrapping its hand around my soul, cradling it, trying to protect it from harm and I’m terrified. Terrified because I don’t ever want the feeling to end.”

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13. “Out past isn’t who we are. I’m me and you’re you and that’s who we need to be.”

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14. “I barrel into his arms, my mouth connecting with his. Seizing him. Feeling him. Loving him.”

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15. “You want to play in the big boys’ yard, you need to follow the rules.”

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16. “But I will always find my way back to you,” he whispers against my lips.”

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17. “My best friend will demand a girls’ night out and then act like it’s a complete coincidence that her boyfriend shows up, even though I watched her text him our exact location a half hour before.”

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18. “I’ll make you whole again, Kacey. I promise you, I will.”

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19. “Up here it’s about having enough food to eat, and enough heat to stay alive through the winter. It’s about survival, and enjoying the company of the people that surround us. It’s not about whose house is the biggest, or who has the nicest clothes, or the most money. We support each other because we’re all in this together. And people either like that way of life or they don’t...”

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20. “I’ll have the bison burger and the pale ale on tap.” Jonah folds the lodge’s menu and hands it back to Chris. “And Calla will have a steak knife to drag across my jugular.”

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21. “Carpe diem, miss. Foolish youth is a strange and wondrous time that vanishes too quickly.”

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22. “Such a precious sun it is, the one that shines after a cold, harsh rain.”

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23. “She told me that the sooner you figure out how to like yourself through your own eyes, the sooner you’ll stop trying to see yourself through everyone else’s.”

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24. “I’m now unmistakeably attracted to the yeti.”

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25. “I want to be like water too. I want to be resilient, to go where I’m meant to go.”

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26. “He’s not like any other guy I’ve dated or crushed on. And while he’s capable of making my blood boil like no one else, I feel a magnetic pull toward him that I can’t explain.”

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27. “The moment they capture me, the moment I see that face, I know it’s her.”

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28. “The lightest caress of his breath against my neck sends shivers through my body.”

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29. “What if he’s a psychopath who tries to stuff kittens in ATMs?”

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30. “1. Have a torrid affair with a foreigner. Country: TBD.”

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31. “People’s entire lives can be uncovered in phones. Maybe.”

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32. “You had your chance with me, Shane Beckett, and you blew it.” With that, I disappear into my house.”

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33. “And so I walk away. I walk away from the voices, the shouts, the disappointment. I walk away from my deceptions, my mistakes, my regrets. I walk away from all that I am supposed to be and all that I cannot be. For all of it is a lie.”

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34. “Kyle may not have forgotten me, but he doesn’t seem to want to remember us.”

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35. “I want you to look at me the way you used to. I want you to think that I’m good. I want you to still want me.”

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36. “Boys do suck the brains out of smart girls.”

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37. “Stunned” cannot adequately describe how I feel right now. I am bursting with emotion – a volcanic mixture of happiness and sadness and adoration –.”

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38. “Do I abide by the black-and-white limits I’ve set for myself because that’s who I truly am or because that’s who I am while being judged? And how far into that gray area might I venture before I go running back to my familiar boundaries?”

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39. “Word to the wise: if you have to fight over a guy, he’s not worth it. Go for the one who’s waiting for you.”

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40. “His gentleman’s hesitation in the car earlier is gone, replaced with a confidence that provokes.”

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41. “I don’t care about any of it. All I want to do is lean forward and kiss him. Steal him away from the bad stuff, convince him to start over because I believe he isn’t beyond saving yet.”

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42. “The signs include warnings of wildlife dangers. I can’t help but wonder if they should also have warnings for idiot girls who follow guys they hardly know into the swamp.”

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43. “I guess even smart girls can make a clusterfuck of their lives, can’t they?”

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44. “Even after all these years, with college and boyfriends, and my career and my engagement to David, Kyle Miller has always been a sliver in my heart, a shadow in my thoughts. A lingering “what if” that I have never been able to truly shake.”

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45. “Dr. Stayner once suggested that all people face a day in their life that defines who they are, that shapes who they will become, that sets them on their path. He said that one day will either guide or haunt them until they take their last breath.”

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46. “What hold does Alaksa have on them? What makes this place worth giving everything else up?”

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47. “You’ll make friends for life here. People you can call up twenty years from now, for anything, and they’ll be there for you. I promise you, you won’t regret these days, ever.”

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48. “And then I want to come back here, light all these candles... ′ He kisses me again. ’... and tell you a story about a lowly Irish peasant bartender who falls in love with a beautiful American princess.”

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49. “This guy is piece of work. He doesn’t hide the fact that he’s a player, but that easygoing boyish charm of his somehow makes it kind of cute. And dimples. Deep dimples that pull a temporary shroud over my worry and make me feel like all is right in the world. I wonder if he’s always this flirtatious.”

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50. “This is me. This is what I want. I could trade it all today, for this. Has that ever happened to you? Have you ever stepped into a place and just known that you were meant to be there?”

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