Top 500 Krista Ritchie Quotes (2026 Update)
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301. “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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302. “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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303. “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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304. “Marilyn Monroe, Paul Newman, James Dean.”

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305. “I never knew that a relationship could be so mental, so emotional before all the physical. I wonder if we’re doing this backwards or if this has been the right way all along.”

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

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

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

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311. “A bad day can overturn into a better one. And all we have to do is be with each other.”

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312. “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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313. “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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314. “It’s a full-bellied, world-altering laugh.”

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

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

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

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319. “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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320. “I have loved her for longer than I have loved myself. I found her when living seemed like a worse choice than ending it all.”

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

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322. “A tiger would birth a baby llama sooner than Rose would be barefoot in a dirty club.”

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323. “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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324. “It’s impossible to forget the kind of love that rattles my bones and screams I am alive every single day of my life.”

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325. “I hope,” I say, meeting Greg’s gaze, “that one day you’ll be able to see how much I love your daughter.”

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326. “I want to be some version of both. All of who I was and all of who I am.”

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327. “You’re not going to shatter it?” I ask. “All in the name of love? For your broken heart?” “My heart isn’t broken.”

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328. “I never realized how bored I had been with life. How mundane my surroundings looked. How unchallenged I’d become. I never realized all of these things. Until I met her.”

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329. “I’d help you every day so that you could see a better tomorrow. I will never give you less than that.”

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

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331. “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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332. “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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333. “His lips nearly brush mine as he murmurs, “I hear your heart.”

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334. “And with every daring event, I’ve been there, by her side, carrying her almost every time she’s fallen.”

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335. “I am more me now than I was before.”

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336. “I’m not in a rush, but down the road, I do wanna marry you the earthly way. And I never thought I’d marry anyone, but I never imagined I’d love someone as much as I love you.”

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337. “Neither of us is willing to give up what we love for each other.”

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338. “It’s easy to weigh personal experiences against other people’s relationships, but we can’t see the ins and outs and complexities of other couples the way that we understand and live through our own.”

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339. “How do you two even work?” His face is still in that grimace. “Are you always on top?”

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340. “She waits for me. Just as I asked.”

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341. “Rose actually laughs, the sound widening Connor’s million-dollar grin.”

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342. “I’m not there. I’m not with you.”

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

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344. “Our combined IQs wouldn’t even be humanly possible,” she cuts him off. “Exactly. We defy the impossible,” he says with a smartass grin.”

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345. “Ensemble,” she whispers in French. Together.”

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346. “I understand being sad in ways that don’t necessarily make sense. To wake up feeling a little dimmer than the day before, a little emptier, and his grief has manifested into this leeching sorrow. I.”

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347. “I don’t regret one day of breaking that rule. Because it’d mean regretting every moment that I spent with Baylee. And I don’t. I just don’t. I can’t.”

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348. “I value having details, but I never took into account the emotion behind them.”

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349. “I glare. “Those were expensive.” His lips brush my ear, nibbling, biting. “Et c’est inestimable.” And this is priceless. He clutches my face and kisses me, forcibly, strongly – his dominance bridging my body closer to him.”

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

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