Top 500 Krista Ritchie Quotes (2025 Update)
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151. “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.”

— Krista Ritchie

152. “Friends aren’t forever.”

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

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154. “Broken souls are mended every day by mended souls that were once broken.”

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155. “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.”

— Krista Ritchie

156. “You’re the person that my soul has been searching for because my head was too stubborn to do it.”

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

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159. “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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160. “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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161. “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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162. “I am transfixed by Loren Hale, my everything.”

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

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

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

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

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

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171. “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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172. “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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173. “Lo made me promise to wait for him. Maybe I should have made him promise to return to me.”

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174. “She’s a firestorm that I won’t ever smother. I’m the one who inflames her, who riles her to a new, confounding degree. She’s my perfect match.”

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

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176. “He never gives up on me, even when I disappear at night. Even when I wane like the setting sun. His love is unyielding and exists to cloak me through heartache, through misery, through laughter and pain. I love him in every moment. In every smile. In every frown.”

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

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

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

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

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181. “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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182. “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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183. “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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184. “Connor kisses Rose’s forehead and I read his lips: I love you.”

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185. “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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186. “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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187. “Lies tear at relationships until they’re nothing but unwound threads.”

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

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189. “I need him to feel whole.”

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190. “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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191. “She deserves to be free of me.”

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

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

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

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

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197. “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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198. “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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199. “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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200. “Surprise kisses are the best.”

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