Top 500 Krista Ritchie Quotes (2025 Update)
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151. “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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152. “I’m just excited.” So excited that I start grinning like a fool every time I meet his eyes. I’m so giddy. His own smile grows. “You look lovesick, Calloway.” He messes my hair. “I think this must be the best sickness there is.” My cheeks hurt; I can’t contain anything.”

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153. “He is my breath. My soul. My life-force. I have spent forever with him. Being apart is the most unnatural feeling in the world. Three months – I could handle that like a bad itch. Forever without him?”

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154. “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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155. “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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156. “Diet Fizz as a chaser,” Nikolai says, “or a Fizz Life.”

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157. “My core screams for her, as though she’s mine and only mine, and I’ve finally returned home.”

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158. “And then his lips meet mine, kissing me with abrupt, forceful passion that explodes my chest. A breathless moan leaves me before I can catch it.”

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159. “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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160. “Look how far we’ve come. Look at us now. Ache for ache. Smile for smile. I only ever wanted to live this life with her.”

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

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

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

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164. “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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165. “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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166. “Lo made me promise to wait for him. Maybe I should have made him promise to return to me.”

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167. “I may not always be on your side, but I have your best interest at heart.”

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168. “He’s human,” I remind her. “He’s not perfect. No one is.” Her lips twitch. “Wise words from Loren Hale. You must have plagiarized a fortune cookie.” I let out a weak laugh, actually smiling at that one. She’s good.”

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169. “Giving something up isn’t the same thing as losing control. It’s the opposite, Lily. You’re taking back control.”

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170. “The man who raised me sat me down and said not to hate who I am because that’s a surefire way to die before you’re dead.”

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171. “The old say that those who die young find little love. No tie for more, yeh see, but if that’s so, then I’ll be surrounding myself with a little love over a great big love any day of the week.”

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172. “She has a WASP elitist mentality that would make my mother internally roll her eyes.”

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173. “Being called weird by Connor is like a unicorn calling a horse magical.”

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174. “I don’t judge people based on two numbers. I judge them from the inside-out.”

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175. “Je t’aime,” I choke, grasping her slick cheek. I love you. “Je t’aime. Je t’aime.”

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176. “In the end, it was not a boy who helped me. It was my sister.”

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177. “I’m feeling a lot lamer than usual. I mean, I know I’m half-lame most of the time, with flat comebacks and unintentional demonic glares. But I’m reaching new levels.”

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178. “My life has never felt more complicated, but this is a complication that I’d rather exist than not have at all.”

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179. “When Garrison talks about Willow and when Willow talks about Garrison, they look like they’re smiling up at the moon.”

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180. “Connor kisses Rose’s forehead and I read his lips: I love you.”

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181. “With my help, you’ll do better on the next one.” “I’m still her tutor,” Connor says. “No you’re not,” Rose tells him. “I have familial rights to this one.” She points at Lo. “You can take that rodent.” Lo flips her off.”

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182. “I grazed her from head to toe: black high heels, dark red lipstick, sleek brown pony and those tyrannical yellow-green eyes, burning holes into the glass. I was sharing an elevator with a tempestuous, electric storm that I refused to calm. I always wished to be swept into madness, if only for a moment, to truncate the mundane, ordinary moments of my existence.”

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183. “Lies tear at relationships until they’re nothing but unwound threads.”

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184. “It’s like leaving the bathroom with a piece of toilet paper hanging from my pants.”

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185. “I need him to feel whole.”

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186. “Her words defeated me, tearing down any ounce of resilience. I have nothing left to give, no comfort to spare. I feel like a shell, waiting for the hermit to return home.”

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187. “She deserves to be free of me.”

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

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

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

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

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193. “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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194. “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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195. “One day, you’re going to have to make a choice. You have to decide what kind of man you want to grow up to be. Whoever that man is, good character or bad, is going to change the world.”

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196. “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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197. “Surprise kisses are the best.”

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198. “He’s a true friend,” Lo says with a bitter smile. He says things just to agitate people, I swear.”

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199. “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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200. “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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