Top 500 Krista Ritchie Quotes (2025 Update)
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151. “I know what it’s like to be second-best to people you love. Hell, not even second-best. Third-best. Fifth best. In some scenarios, the worst.”

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152. “You feel so undeserving of everything around you. So you find a way to be deserving of it – by being smart, by being talented and successful.”

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153. “Happiness. I sense it all around me. For however fleeting it may be, I grasp it now. I hang on and I ride this moment out.”

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154. “His lips rise. “I usually dumb down around the intellectually deficient so I don’t come off like a complete prick.” I think he just called me stupid.”

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155. “You know that theory I have about friends not being forever... or even for a while? Well, every theory has an exception. Ryke is mine.”

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156. “I’m just hanging on, Banks.” He sighs heavily. “The only certainty I have right now is you and her.”

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157. “Don’t hang yourself with the slack you’ve been given.”

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158. “No matter how many boxes people try to put you in, as long as you know yourself, you’ll be fine in the end. And you may have to play by their rules, put up with their labels and use their terms – I’ve done so all my life – but it’s what you believe that matters most.”

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159. “Give Ryke Meadows my ashes. I want to be in the clouds, and no one is going to get there but him.”

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160. “I can do it this time. Please, let me succeed.”

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161. “I am not the girl you want to sleep with every week. I’m the chase. The one you catch and then release.”

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162. “I fear the moment where neither of us can breathe again – when someone discovers our secrets. At any moment, everything can crumble beneath us. The dangerous game both excites and terrifies me.”

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163. “Being in a real relationship was supposed to fix the kinks in our lives. It should’ve made our problems easier. We no longer have to pretend. We can be ourselves. We’re free from one lie. Isn’t this the part where our love overcomes our addictions? Where our problems magically solve from a kiss and a promise?”

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164. “I am transfixed by Loren Hale, my everything.”

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165. “Diet Fizz as a chaser,” Nikolai says, “or a Fizz Life.”

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166. “My advice,” I say, “don’t seek love from other people. Just love who you are enough that it won’t matter whether or not you find your Rochester.”

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167. “I’m a man of extraordinary talents, but I need you.” He swallows. “Do you hear what I’m saying?”

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168. “You’re pretty miserable, Mother, and you’re married.” – Rose Calloway.”

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169. “Life does move too quickly. And I can’t predict a second of it.”

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170. “Lo,” I interject. Please don’t leave me just yet. “Yeah?” “I’m waiting for you.” I love you.”

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171. “We’re like lightning and thunder, inherently different but alike enough to share the same sky.”

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172. “There is absolutely nothing you could do or say or anything that could happen that’d make me embarrassed to be your husband.”

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173. “I’m clawing at something that doesn’t want me. And to say goodbye is like severing a part of me that I can’t easily replace.”

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174. “Lo made me promise to wait for him. Maybe I should have made him promise to return to me.”

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175. “Strength comes in all different sizes and packages and molds.”

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176. “And overwhelmed. When someone reaches out and gives you a hand – for no other reason than to see your success – it’s powerful. And rare.”

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177. “I gave you my heart a long time ago, and I’m not sure I remind you enough that you still have it. All of it.”

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178. “He pushes back, still trapping me against the elevator wall. His breath hitches against my mouth, maybe overwhelmed at the newness of being with a man. Like he’s been starving for this his whole life and wants to drink his entire fill in one go.”

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179. “No cuddling?” “Not tonight.” “That’s my line.”

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180. “None of us are really normal. We’re all just strange pieces in the world.”

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181. “People say you can’t describe love, but I have this theory that you can. It’s just subjective.”

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182. “The relationships that take the most effort and time become the mightiest in the end.”

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183. “And Rose?” “Yes?” I breathe. “I’m tragically in love with you too.”

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184. “That’s not exactly fair, Court,” Mykal says, lifting up his plate to eyelevel. “I put a great deal of love into this meal.”

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185. “What is life if it’s not in pursuit of the things we love?”

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186. “We speak of moving mountains, but sometimes people can completely rotate the world, just so someone else can land upright on their feet.”

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187. “We’re terrible at so many things – remembering important dates, college, making friends – but the one thing we’ve always been halfway decent at is being together.”

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188. “I hate you rings in my ears. “You can hate me for two days, Maximoff, but I’ll love you for a thousand more.” I wipe his tears with my thumb, and he sniffs, calming down for a minute. “It may seem unfair, but we’re your parents – and if there’s anyone in this world you need to listen to and trust, who will always have your back, it’s us. We just need you to respect us when we tell you something. The same way that we respect you when you ask us questions. What do we do?”

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189. “Surprise kisses are the best.”

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190. “I’m not a teddy bear that girls can clutch. I’m sharp and hard, the thing that braces a girl to the bed, the one who grips her strongly and whispers with a husky, edged voice. I’m as rough on the outside as I am black on the inside.”

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191. “I grew up wanting to reach the peak of physical and mental perfection. It’s an unattainable goal. But one I set. One I seek.”

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192. “Light bathes him like the moon knows he’s beautiful. But even more than that, he’s bared more for me than I ever thought he would.”

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193. “Ryke would endure hell for eternity if it meant that I could go to heaven.”

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194. “Connor, Ryke, and Lo – they protect me all the time. They care about me when they don’t have to. These are three brothers that I’d never trade in, never swap out, and even though we’re not blood related, I know they’re mine.”

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195. “He’s always felt like home to me too.”

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196. “Love is irrelative to some.” Most people let me stop there. They never make me elaborate. But Savannah says, “And is it to you?” I have a couple fingers to my jaw, and I smile, something that looks empty and soulless on screen. “Yes,” I say. “Love holds no meaning in my life.”

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197. “Maybe that’s why I choose him and Lily and all these other people around me. It’s love. That’s what it’s always been.”

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198. “We’ve already been grabbed with malicious hands, baby brother. You don’t need to be evil to show us evil exists.”

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199. “I tuck a strand of my dyed blonde hair behind my ear. It’s waist-length and has a habit of being everywhere all the time. Like right now. I am pretty much swaddled in it. I empathize greatly with Rapunzel. She had it rough.”

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200. “And I vow, ‘Wherever you go, I’ll go’.”

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