Top 500 Krista Ritchie Quotes (2026 Update)
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201. “Relationships that take the most effort and the most time become the mightiest, most resilient bonds in the end. So if this theory proves right, their friendship will be the strongest of them all.”

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202. “Yeah, and that alternate universes usually have the worst endings with the unhappiest conclusions.”... “But we’re in Earth-616, love. We’re going to gave our happy ending. It just may take us awhile to get there.”

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203. “If people think that I’m betraying my family, they’re dumber than I thought,” he says. “Which is saying something because I think the human race has a chronic case of idiocy.”

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204. “Marilyn Monroe, Paul Newman, James Dean.”

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

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206. “It was like therapy. List-therapy. It’s a thing.”

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207. “I don’t want to live if you’re not living with me.”

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208. “Severing a relationship with someone who undeniably cares for you – it untethers something in your soul.”

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209. “She shrunk into herself and waited for me to stare at her like she was gross an dirty. But I just wanted to hold her and tell her that she was worth so much more than whatever she was searching for.”

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210. “We have consumed each other from day one. And we truly never let go.”

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211. “I’m used to being on the outskirts of a network, a connection that people use if they really need one.”

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212. “How is it possible to know what you’re good at and what you love so young? What if you never find out? What if you spend a lifetime searching with no real answer in the end? The future is depressing.”

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213. “Surprise kisses are the best.”

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214. “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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215. “Xander shoots his empty can into a trash bin. “‘Love is the death of duty.’” He quotes Game of Thrones again. “I always figured you’d eventually break the rules for someone you love. I just thought it’d be for Banks.”

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

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217. “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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218. “It could have been fantasy. While I love the idea of swimming with mermaids, climbing aboard a pirate ship, being the last beings on Earth – there is nothing better than my reality. I can’t think of a greater, more magnificent adventure. Than this one.”

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219. “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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220. “Anything else has no relevance. I can’t be what you need me to be. So you’ll have to accept this version or waste your time questioning something that has no answer. I know acceptance isn’t easy when you’re unsure of what you’re accepting, but all I can say is that you’re accepting me as me.”

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221. “She can’t be afraid to walk. There will be many, many days where she has to do it without either Rose or me present, and she needs to recognize that she holds the power to stand back up. We don’t.”

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222. “I fear the moment where neither of us can breathe again – when someone discovers our secrets. At any moment.”

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223. “I was twelve the night my brother died. Twelve the night that my gutted, grief-ridden dad looked me in the eye with this dark hollowness and said, “You’re the dispensable one. It should’ve been you.”

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224. “Never give up or back down on the things that fill your soul, Calloway. There is no worse life than a hollow one.”

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225. “It’s a full-bellied, world-altering laugh.”

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226. “Tension stretches between us, not the good kind, and it hurts to touch it.”

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227. “I know the kind of remorse that puts deep pain on your chest, the kind that feels as weighted as Atlas bearing the world. It’s soul-crushing.”

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228. “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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229. “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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230. “I think he just poisoned my uterus.”

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231. “I need you to keep looking at me like you’re going to burn a hole through my heart, and I need you to tell me that you love the real me. Every day, I need you, Rose. That’s how I’m going to stomach this.”

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

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234. “For the record,” I interject, “I don’t agree with Lo. I’m not a comic book elitist.” Anyone can read comics, and if you don’t it’s perfectly okay to enjoy the characters in other mediums.”

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

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236. “It’s a good kind of yes. The best kind. One filled with a thousand I love yous, the type of love that can make you fly.”

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237. “My constant. My Lo. I selfishly don’t want that to end.”

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238. “And I’ve known a short-life lived full is better than a long-life lived empty. But I’ll try my damndest to make sure we’re all living long and full.”

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239. “Fashion designers are crazy.”

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240. “Wampa cap securely on his little head. I pat mine. It’s still there. All is well.”

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241. “From our pretend weddings, to our pretend relationship – in the end, it’s all become reality. And I would love to never, ever grow up with Lily Calloway. In one universe, we’ll be young forever.”

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242. “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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243. “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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244. “Being called weird by Connor is like a unicorn calling a horse magical.”

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

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

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247. “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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248. “I don’t like repeating mistakes, but sometimes, I think we’re both forever stuck on a turntable.”

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249. “He’s masculine and tough and someone who chooses to feed my needs first and his second.”

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250. “Look at me,” I say, my voice husky. “Wolf scout.” His chest falls, muscles still flexed. My pulse thumps. I skim his striking but also tensed face, and my hand slides across his broad shoulder and rises slowly up his neck. I hold his jaw; I tighten his hand in my hand, and my lips veer to his ear. “Maximoff Hale, will you marry me?” He flinches, eyes widening and brows knotting with a thousand questions, and even more philosophical queries.”

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