Top 200 Kristen Callihan Quotes (2026 Update)
Page 5 of 5

201. “My mother once told me that if you have something truly important to say, write it in a letter. Not an email or text or typed out. But to put pen to paper. A person’s handwriting, the places they press harder on the page, the blots and errors in the ink, show their soul. Put your thoughts in a letter, and the receiver has a record of it forever, not just a memory but something they can pull out and touch when they need a reminder.”

— Kristen Callihan

202. “Loving you was inevitable. You got under my skin at age eleven and never left.”

— Kristen Callihan

203. “Your soul doesn’t have a title or an occupation. It’s just you.”

— Kristen Callihan

204. “Brenna James has me by the balls, and I don’t want her to let go.”

— Kristen Callihan

205. “I need to talk. I need to be heard. Just once. And maybe, just maybe, I won’t feel like I’m falling apart anymore.”

— Kristen Callihan

206. “The worst thing about someone destroying your trust was that it became harder to give it to someone new.”

— Kristen Callihan

207. “In that instant, I am God. Omnipotent. Endless.”

— Kristen Callihan

208. “Have you ever looked in a bunny’s eyes, Libs? They’re just waiting for their chance to dominate. “Why do you think they are always so twitchy?” “Because they’re freaked something’s going to eat them for dinner?” “Nope. They’re plotting. It’s just a matter of time before they make their move. Mark my words.”

— Kristen Callihan

209. “I suspected that was the true mark of the devil: turning people into starry-eyed fools when they ought to know better.”

— Kristen Callihan

210. “Never in my life do I regret my youth more than at this moment. I bullied Delilah out of fear and ignorance. There’s no excuse for it, and I have no idea how to make up for what I’ve done. But I have to because this need for her is only growing stronger, deeper. I care for her. A lot.”

— Kristen Callihan

211. “I’m pragmatic, not pessimistic.”

— Kristen Callihan

212. “There is no such thing as perfect. Human beings make mistakes. Humans who feel greatly often make the biggest ones.”

— Kristen Callihan

213. “Now, all I could think was “Where have you been all this time?” I’d missed her before I’d even known her.”

— Kristen Callihan

214. “Mama waves a hand. “That doesn’t mean anything. You know, they say boys are meanest to the girls they like the best.” “I hate that saying. Meanness is meanness. To tell a girl that there’s some sort of benevolent action behind it all is to say that it’s okay for her to be victimized.”

— Kristen Callihan

215. “Just remember, it doesn’t matter how far you go; you’ll always be where your heart is.”

— Kristen Callihan

216. “The more I get to know you, the more beautiful you are to me.”

— Kristen Callihan

217. “You used to say we were like gas and oil. And that was not a good thing.” She bats that away with a flick of her wrist. “Gas and oil are combustible. Not ideal when you have two children fighting. But it’s an entirely different matter when you’re talking about love.”

— Kristen Callihan

218. “I have to pause here,” I say. “You, Jax Blackwood, Mr. Too Cool Rocker, just referenced Barbara Streisand.”

— Kristen Callihan

219. “I make jokes or downplay a situation because that’s how I deal.”

— Kristen Callihan

220. “I hate that saying. Meanness is meanness. To tell a girl that there’s some sort of benevolent action behind it all is to say that it’s okay for her to be victimized.”

— Kristen Callihan

221. “My dear, I was talking about loving yourself. If you don’t do that first, you’re always going to push away those who try to love you.”

— Kristen Callihan

222. “The second she walked back into my life, I became aware of two uncomfortable but undeniable facts: I am lonely as hell, and Delilah Baker feels like home.”

— Kristen Callihan

223. “Most of us pretend to be something we’re not. It’s only to a select few that we really show our true selves.”

— Kristen Callihan

224. “It’s primal and inescapable. That I’m experiencing this with Rye does funny things to my head, makes the room around me blur. All I can feel is him. He’s all I can see.”

— Kristen Callihan

225. “I can’t help myself. I lean in and kiss her like I’ve wanted to all day, deep and sweet.”

— Kristen Callihan

226. “Too bad emotions don’t listen to orders.”

— Kristen Callihan

227. “Letting her go was never an option.”

— Kristen Callihan

228. “The weight in my chest, the way it becomes harder to get up in the morning, because the bed is comfortable and dreams are better than reality. Everything becomes heavy.”

— Kristen Callihan

229. “I don’t want us to be a mistake, Bren.”

— Kristen Callihan

230. “You can have the world. Just reach for it.”

— Kristen Callihan

231. “More folk to my rock.”

— Kristen Callihan

232. “But at some point in every party I’ve been to, a sense of misery always seems to settle over it. As if everyone is trying desperately to convince everyone else that they’re having fun, while on the inside, they’re counting down the minutes until they can leave.”

— Kristen Callihan

233. “Mama used to say the brain can lie to you, but the heart always knows the truth.”

— Kristen Callihan

234. “I don’t want or need their commentary. This is ours.”

— Kristen Callihan

235. “I’m going to love you, Macon Saint. So long and so hard you’re not going to remember what it feels like to be without love.”

— Kristen Callihan

236. “Madam, do me the favour of refraining from speaking to me for the remainder of the flight. “Are you a duke? You talk like a duke.” His head jerks if he wants to look my way, but he manages to keep his gaze forward, his lips compressed so tightly they’re turning white at the edges. A travesty. “Oh, or maybe a prince I know” I snap my fingers. “Prince Charming!”

— Kristen Callihan

237. “God, I wanted to hunt him down, see if he was all right, try to make him crack that small but delighted smile of his.”

— Kristen Callihan

238. “Are we some kind of broken?”

— Kristen Callihan

239. “Countless people call me Saint. Only you call me Macon with that bitter honey voice.”

— Kristen Callihan