Top 500 L.J. Shen Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “The quietest man in the room is also the deadliest.”

— L.J. Shen

2. “Your pain is mine, and I want to shoulder it, because I can. Because that’s what I do. I carry my pain all the time. Let me take away yours, my touch.”

— L.J. Shen

3. “Life is like a book, a long chain of scenes threaded together by circumstances and fate. You never know how thick or thin your book is, so you better make the most out of every scene, enjoy each chapter.”

— L.J. Shen

4. “I’m living, but I’m not alive.”

— L.J. Shen

5. “No one is as deaf as the one who refuses to listen.”

— L.J. Shen

6. “I Hate Being Bipolar. It’s Awesome!”

— L.J. Shen

7. “Love is selfish. Love is raw. Love is unfair, and unpredictable, and unstoppable.”

— L.J. Shen

8. “In the words of Julia Roberts in Pretty Woman: Big mistake. Big. Huge.”

— L.J. Shen

9. “John Lennon quote. When his school teacher once asked him what he wanted to be when he grew up, and he said happy, and she said that he didn’t understand the question, and he answered that she didn’t understand life.”

— L.J. Shen

10. “Spoiler: the princess saves herself in this fairytale.”

— L.J. Shen

11. “The sun will rise again tomorrow.”

— L.J. Shen

12. “We break things all the time. It’s called life. If you don’t break, you don’t live. You don’t move. You don’t try. You don’t take chances. Breaking is a part of living.”

— L.J. Shen

13. “Loving someone is willingly accepting that they can destroy you.”

— L.J. Shen

14. “People are apples. Good apples. Bad apples. Too ripe or too raw. Hard or soft. Sweet or sour. And in every apple, there’s a core. A heart. Something that makes them uniquely themselves.”

— L.J. Shen

15. “Don’t fall in love. Fall off a bridge. It hurts less.”

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16. “Real love doesn’t disappear. It can turn into hate, and hate can turn into love, but those feelings won’t ever turn into indifference.”

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17. “When reality makes the decision for you, it’s easier to accept your fate.”

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18. “Feeling wanted and desired was addictive, and he doped me. If you want to put a spell on someone, make them feel special.”

— L.J. Shen

19. “She’s mad, but she is magic. There’s no lie in her fire.” – CHARLES BUKOWSKI.”

— L.J. Shen

20. “Loving you is like Listening to a song For the first time And somehow knowing all the lyrics.”

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21. “And please, before you say anything, never underestimate a broken person. We’re unpredictable, because once you’re broken – what’s one more crack?”

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22. “We’re sucking air from each other’s mouths. We’re doing it all wrong. My lips open for him. His open, too. My heart is pounding so hard I can feel the blood whooshing in my veins when he says, “Not yet. I’ll take that, too, but not yet.”

— L.J. Shen

23. “And this is the part they don’t tell you about losing a loved one to cancer: They’re not the only people being eaten alive. When they get it, you get it. The cancer nibbles away at your time with them, feasts on the happy moments, feeds off every second of bliss. It devours your paycheck and savings. It nourishes itself on your misery and multiplies in your chest, even if you don’t have it.”

— L.J. Shen

24. “If you want to be strong, be.”

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25. “There wasn’t one moment in time, from the second we met, that you weren’t mine. Just like I’ve always been yours.”

— L.J. Shen

26. “God and Dean are synonyms. Save battery power. Choose one next time you text me. What do you want to have for dinner?”

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27. “It looks like Brain and Hormones are in for a fight. Just as long as Heart stays out of the ring.”

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28. “Broken people do things better; we learned how to make it in life without the missing parts other people have. Because when you’re in the dark, you appreciate everything that shines.”

— L.J. Shen

29. “Though she be but little, she be fierce. William Shakespeare.”

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30. “You are my business.”

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31. “All is fair in love and war, and I’m certainly prepared for battle.”

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32. “She’s a maze with no escape. An ethereal, steady pulse. She’s there, but just barely. I love her so much I sometimes hate her. And it terrifies me, because deep down, I know what she is. An unsolvable puzzle. And I know who I am. The idiot who would try to fix her. At any cost.”

— L.J. Shen

33. “Men with big cocks have fragile hearts. You know the saying: big cock, big heart. Well, I’m proof it’s true.”

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34. “Dance with your demons, love carelessly. Selflessly. And most importantly, love yourself, even at your worst.”

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35. “Though I knew she was right. I was missing a few pieces. A few chips I needed in order to be able to love like a normal person does. That’s why I liked breaking things, and why I especially enjoyed breaking Emilia. She was the purest thing I’d ever met.”

— L.J. Shen

36. “We come into this world alone, and we die alone. If we get sick, we fight it alone. Our parents are not there to go through chemo treatments for us. They’re not the ones losing their hair, puking buckets, or getting their asses kicked at school. If we’re involved in an accident, they’re not the ones losing blood, fighting for their lives on the operating table, losing a limb. “I’m here for you” is the dumbest sentence I’d ever heard anyone say.”

— L.J. Shen

37. “I am strong, yes. But being strong doesn’t mean never getting hurt. It means having a high pain tolerance. I’m not dumb enough to amp it up.”

— L.J. Shen

38. “The world is an unfair place. It does not reward you for being good, or decent, or moral. But for being talented, driven, and cunning. Those things are not necessarily positive. And none of them – not even talent – is a virtue.”

— L.J. Shen

39. “Life is full of secrets, and narrow-minded people, and sugar-coated, empty conversations that hold no weight. What’s real is what’s inside us. What’s important is what we feel.”

— L.J. Shen

40. “It’s when the king is about to be dethroned that he is the wickedest.”

— L.J. Shen

41. “People were like onions, made of lots of layers. The deeper you went, the rawer the layer.”

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42. “I am air. Invisible and insignificant, but vital all the same.”

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43. “Maybe I am the monster. After all, I come out to play at night. But so do you, little one. You’re out in the darkness, too.”

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44. “But falling into the wrong hands is just as bad as crashing into nothing.”

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45. “No love is fully requited. No love is equal. No love is fair. There is always one side that loves more. And you better not be that side – because it suffers.”

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46. “I wish I could rewrite you out of my life But all your pages are highlighted Dog-eared and thumbed to death I can no longer read you But you are still my favorite poem.”

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47. “Sonder is the realization that each passerby has a life as vivid and complex as your own.”

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48. “I love her like a slave. I kneel in front of her like a subject. I crawl back to her at night like a drunk and I worship her like a believer.”

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49. “Maybe love wasn’t about feeling happy and whole. Maybe love was about breaking so the person you cared for would feel a little more whole.”

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50. “Because the birdsong might be pretty, But it’s not for you they sing, And if you think my winter is too cold, You don’t deserve my spring.” Erin Hanson.”

— L.J. Shen