Top 200 Kristen Callihan Quotes (2024 Update)
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201. “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.”

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

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203. “Because when I’m low, I don’t want to be the one seeking out company. I want someone to find me, to tell me I’m wanted, needed. And when I don’t get that, I sink lower. Maybe John.”

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

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205. “You act all high and mighty while you’re as susceptible to good looks as the rest of us. At least I have the guts to admit it.”

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

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207. “You’re the most beautiful thing I’ve ever seen,” he says, almost lightly, like he’s not slicing into my heart. I’ve spent my entire adult life either wanting you or wanting to forget you.”

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

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209. “Are we some kind of broken?”

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

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211. “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.”

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212. “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.”

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213. “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.”

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214. “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!”

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215. “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.”

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

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

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

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219. “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.”

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220. “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.”

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221. “Sweet mercy, but I might truly orgasm watching this man work his kitchen. I didn’t even know it was my kink. Maybe Lucian made it so. When he proceeded to separate an egg with an efficient snap of his wrist, I knew it was him. He was my kink. Damn it all.”

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222. “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.”

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

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224. “That’s the thing with endless things in real life. You never really know when they’re going to happen.”

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225. “It’s taken me years to truly understand that I don’t have to take other people’s crap lying down.”

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226. “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.”

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

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

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

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230. “More folk to my rock.”

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231. “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.”

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

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233. “To live is to adapt. We’re constantly reinventing ourselves. Don’t be afraid of failure or change, loves; it means you’re alive.”

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

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

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236. “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.”

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

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

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239. “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.”

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