Top 50 Katy Regnery Quotes (2024 Update)

2. “Her eyes searched his, boring into his with the familiarity of someone who’d known him his whole life. She was confused and hurt, but talking about it wouldn’t help, would only weaken his resolve. He wanted her so badly, he ached inside.”

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3. “She looked like a wreck. She also looked like herself. “This is me,” she said, with a sheepish smile, pushing some flyaway strands of her brown hair back into the knot. “Well, I did wonder when your sister was going to cut you off from her supply of florals and pink.” “Do you miss anything, Miss Potts?” “Very little, dear. I’ve been alive for a hundred years or so.”

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4. “When she touched my face so tenderly, placing her hand on my cheek, part of me wanted to die... because I knew my life would never get any sweeter than it was in that moment.”

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5. “You terrify me.” She smiled, wiggling beneath him before pushing her pelvis up against his. “I’m harmless.” “You’re lethal.” “I’m waiting.”

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6. “For the first time in almost a decade, who he was and what he wanted took precedence over how he looked. The man inside, who’d hidden from the world in hurt and anger, was almost completely gone now, and in his place sat Asher Lee – confident and uncertain, fierce and tender, protective, wistful, loyal, vulnerable, attractive, and complicated – made whole again by the love of Savannah Carmichael.”

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7. “The gist of it was, if you lie, you must remember your lies. If you tell the truth, you don’t have to keep track of your words.”

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8. “Two things that lived separately and yet together: a brook and the sky, the wind and the water that coursed through both their veins. You needed both to sail. You needed both in tandem to achieve perfection.”

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9. “Even when we were apart, we were still together. Even when I thought you were gone, you still lived inside my heart.”

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10. “I’m not goin’ anywhere, Gin. My heart belongs to you. If you’re ever ready to give me yours, well, you come find me, darlin’. I’ll be waitin’.”

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11. “She loved him in a deep and singular way, almost as though God had crafted one heart in heaven, then split it between Holden’s body and hers, fating her to a never-ending longing to be with him, or a fractional life without him. She.”

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12. “Stop shakin’ your head, Griselda Schroeder, because this is my truth, and I am sharing it with you, and you need to respect that.”

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13. “When a heart breaks, it somehow stays whole. It keeps beating. It keeps pumping. Only the person who owns it knows that it’s been shattered.”

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14. “I’ll make you come. I’ll hold you while you sleep. I’ll change for you. I’ll live for you. I’ll never let you go.”

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15. “Yeah,” she said, and he could hear the wry amusement in her voice. “My happiness just farted so loud in my bed, I heard it from the kitchen. I don’t wish you my kind of happiness, big brother.”

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16. “My body is marked with you. My arms. My chest. My eyes. My head. My heart.” Tears rolled down her cheeks. “I can’t erase you. I’d have to die to be free of you. D-don’t you see that, Gris? C-can’t you see? There is only you for me.”

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17. “He kissed her like his life depended on it, because it did, and like he’d die if they stopped, because he might, and because he never wanted to live another day of his life unless it included kissing Daisy Edwards.”

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18. “With grateful thanks to all of the men and women who protect and serve The United States of America, and to Operation Mend, who serve the returning wounded among them. And for my father, who insisted that my brother and I stand up at parades whenever veterans walked by.”

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19. “She looked at him like he mattered, like she needed him, like all the happiness in her world was somehow bound to him, and it made a fierce longing, like he’d never experienced before, spring up within him.”

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20. “And I’ll tell you something else. I’m not worried that you’ll find someone else, because there isn’t anyone else on the face of the earth who could ever love you as much as I do. It’s impossible because no man has ever loved a woman as much as I love you. And I’m not worried about me finding someone else, because you brought me back from the dead and gave me a second chance at life. You’re my miracle, Savannah, and I will always belong to you.”

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21. “She loved him in a way that was necessary, not luxurious. She loved him like the tide loves the sand – trapped together, one lost without the other, pushed and pulled, but never ripped apart. She loved him in a deep and singular way, almost as though God had crafted one heart in heaven, then split it between Holden’s body and hers, fating her to a never-ending longing to be with him, or a fractional life without him.”

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22. “He was in love with her, but he had no idea what to do about it.”

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23. “What are we doing?” she asked, locking her hands around his neck. “I’m ruining you,” he said unflinchingly, “for anyone else.”

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24. “Emily Edwards was it for Barrett. She was the end of the line, the dream come true, his personal forever.”

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25. “I want to say something to make it all better as we walk in silence towards the parking garage, but nothing can take back my thoughtless words, and besides, I don’t really want to whitewash the way I feel.”

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26. “A stranger to compliments, she turned her face to this one, like a sunflower worshipping the sun. “Thanks.”

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27. “I jump, you jump.”

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28. “That was the moment he felt it. Deep inside. So deep, it was scary, like maybe it was a lock that had been there all along, but Verity Gwynn somehow held the key.”

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29. “I had someone in the crowd that night who had a name, who was dearly loved. Those of us who survived are the walking wounded. Or the walking dead.”

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30. “He was a miracle to her. A reward after struggle. Safety after fear. Tenderness after disappointment. And ever since the first moment she’d met him, she felt as though Erik was the person the world had intended for her, for whom she was destined; the cool, doubting cynic whom she was somehow able to help transform into the warm, tender romantic who held her as he slept beside her.”

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31. “This isn’t the sort of love that ends,” he said softly. “It’s forever. It doesn’t matter if you go to Phoenix and I stay here for a while. We’ll find each other again. Do you know that, Savannah Carmichael?”

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32. “And then she knew, she realized in startling, terrifying detail, that Asher Lee had had no one to come home to. After years away from Danvers, there was no one left to welcome him home. No loving parents. No friends. No one but an old friend of his grandmother’s, who agreed to come and keep house for him. He’d been utterly alone. He’d had no one left to live for, and yet he’d decided to live.”

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33. “Emily saw it in his eyes, the intense way he watched her without fighting what was happening between them. He loved her. She was sure of it.”

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34. “The life I could have with you is the only one I want, sunshine.”

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35. “I love you. I’ve always loved you. And I’ll go on loving you until I don’t anymore.”

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36. “There’s more in this world that doesn’t make sense than does.”

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37. “Operation Poke the Shark.”

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38. “Are you whole or broken?” “I’m whole,” he said, swiping at his nose and holding her blue eyes with his gray ones in the sparse and dying twilight. “I’m wh-whole because I’m with you.”

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39. “She would always love Holden. She would always want Holden. But until she could have him, she was going to live the best-possible version of her life, and one day – hopefully one day – they’d find their way back to each other again.”

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40. “There is no one tried-and-true recipe for forever. Every couple must make their own mistakes and share their own triumphs. But if I were to give one piece of advice, it would be this: stay together. The grass is most likely not greener elsewhere, and if you and your spouse have once shared love, you should always be able to figure out how to love again. Besides, you can’t have a happily-ever-after unless you are still together at THE END.”

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41. “I’m in love with you. With everything I am, I love you.”

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42. “I’ve been half d-dead for ten years, Gris, but then you walked back into my life, and I came alive again. You make me want to live. You make me want to be a better man.”

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43. “The problem with hope was that you were required to acknowledge the possibility of not getting what you desperately hoped for.”

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44. “The thing about surviving something truly tragic is that it changes your expectations forever. You make do with very little. You’re grateful for crumbs. You make the best of small mercies. You endure large trials. You understand that life owes you nothing. You expect nothing, and when something wonderful happens, you don’t trust it. You know it can’t possibly last.”

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45. “It does no good to stake a claim on someone’s heart. Unless they give it to you, it isn’t yours to take. All you can do is share your heart and hope she wants it. All you can do is offer it and hope she takes it. All you can do is love her and hope to God she finds a way to love you back.”

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46. “Asher,” she said, eyes closed, nuzzling his neck lovingly. “Yeah,” he finally managed, clearing his throat and taking a deep breath. “You stayed alive, Asher. I think maybe you stayed alive for me.” The impact of her words made him quake in her arms, and he exhaled like the wind had been knocked out of him.”

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47. “I’m whole. I’m whole because I’m with you.”

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48. “You can have this heart to break,” he said softly, devoutly, surrendering everything to her – his dignity, his control, his very soul – “if there’s even the smallest chance you might want it someday. Because here is what I know: even if you can’t ever give me yours, mine already belongs to you.”

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49. “Because for the rest of my life,” she said, dropping his eyes to gather her courage before lifting her chin and spearing him with her gaze, “I only want to be with you.”

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50. “I love you... I’ve loved you for so long, I don’t know how to stop.”

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