Top 500 Krista Ritchie Quotes (2024 Update)
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251. “I’m going to sew her one,” she tells me. “I’ve been designing it for the past week. I think I can finish it in the amount of time I have left.”

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252. “Because we’re extraordinary, not for the thinhs we do but for who we are.”

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253. “Lo tossed me a blanket in his father’s den, and I wrapped myself in the fuzzy fabric while he loaded the first season of Battlestar Galactica into the DVD player.”

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254. “I hope the man who taught me to float as a baby isn’t about to see me drown as an adult.”

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255. “He couldn’t want someone like me.”

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256. “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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257. “We all traverse in and out of people’s worlds, leaving footprints. Some larger, some smaller, but there is always a mark. We can’t sweep it away.”

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258. “I knew from the beginning that we’d be addicted after all.”

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259. “It’s what I’ll do now. It’s what I’ll do tomorrow and the next day. For however long this fight goes on. Just stand up. And I rise slowly to my feet. Heavy and shackled with weight. I still move.”

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260. “No matter what happens,” Lo says, his lips brushing my ear, “I’ll always be here, Lil.”

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

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262. “Why can only certain girls be “meant” for something? It shouldn’t be bad to want to be a mom. It shouldn’t be bad to want to only have a career. It shouldn’t be bad to strive for both or nothing at all. We all should just be what we want to be.”

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263. “She shakes her head but her lips lift. “Stop.” “Stop what?” “Being right.” She groans and leans back against the couch in a huff. “I hate that we’re all so worked up over it and you say a few words, and now everything makes sense again.”

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

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265. “We can never give up longing and wishing while we are thoroughly alive.’” My lips rise at Jane. “’ There are certain things we feel to be beautiful and good, and we must hunger after them.”

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266. “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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267. “Here’s the thing, as long as you’re there with me, wolf scout, it’s impossible for our wedding day not to be perfect.”

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268. “But I don’t want any more bad nights with you.”

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269. “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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270. “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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271. “Do you still think about me? Are you the same as you once were? How much have we both changed?”

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272. “He’s safety, the forceful gravity that grounds me, that helps stop me from ratting sideways inside a world that tries and tries to shake me.”

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273. “I burn when I watch her, when I hear her, my senses blistering into ash.”

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274. “Didn’t I tell you? he whispers, his gaze nearly glassing. “It’s the little things.”

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275. “I forgot, you’re made of steel. The bionic, unfeeling woman. Connor must love cuddling with your nuts and bolts.”

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

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277. “While they talk, I spot a magazine on a rack by the wall, a shirtless Zac Efron on the cover. I throb again, an ache that grows at the sight of two-dimensional abs. When did the star of High School Musical look like that? Jeez.”

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278. “He laughs and stares up at the ceiling, as though a higher power changed his life path. Maybe fate, luck – or him. His choice. He took the risk.”

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279. “You leave a trail of bodies with your glares.”

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280. “The only future I want is the one that ends with her.”

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281. “Am I a mistake – ” “No, myshka. You’re just the unexpected, beautiful thing in my life.”

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282. “Sometimes the dreams you construct for yourself at ten, twelve-years-old aren’t the same ones you thought they would be at twenty-four. And it just takes a while to finally make peace with that.”

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283. “Lo feigns surprise. “You like bruises? Jesus Christ, love. I don’t even know you anymore.”

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284. “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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285. “You know what happens when an angel and a devil create a bodily union? The apocalypse.” Jesus this is why he gave us a couple costume. “Do the right thing and don’t end the world tonight.”

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286. “While this is my battle, he’s here with me. He always is.”

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287. “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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288. “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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289. “I’m alive,′ I whisper, ’for these kinds of moments.”

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

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291. “I have nothing in common with kids. And no one needs to tell me I would make a horrible mother. I know it’s true. Which is why I plan to never have children.”

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292. “There’s a large part of me that craves the way Lo looks at me. Immortal. Impervious. A god among men. That has only been altered a handful of times over the years, and today I don’t want to add to the count.”

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293. “I know I’ve married the right person when words turn you on as much as they do me.” I read deeper into that, as I should. Translation: I could only ever be with you, Rose.”

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294. “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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295. “It’s those soft moments people don’t see. The ones I cherish from Charlie. It’s why I trust he’ll find his way.”

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296. “If I seriously evaluate my relationship with Connor, it will rank somewhere closer to strange than normal.”

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297. “In my soul, I know, hell is where I’m from.”

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298. “It’s love like this that’s worth living for.”

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299. “Age is a number that doesn’t reflect circumstance, environment or psychology.”

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300. “Lily and I – we may have started our relationship as pretend. But for as long as I can remember, our love has always been real.”

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