Top 500 L.J. Shen Quotes (2025 Update)
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101. “A hard life equaled a life full of obstacles and challenging moments but also full of people you loved and cared about.”

— L.J. Shen

102. “Come all over my cock like the good, bad girl that you are.”

— L.J. Shen

103. “We were both drowning, and when we were together, it felt like I was coming up for air.”

— L.J. Shen

104. “Trent Rexroth wasn’t a crush. He was the very thing that’d end up crushing me if I wasn’t careful.”

— L.J. Shen

105. “I pressed my eyes shut, determined not to see what was on his face as I stripped off my dignity for him. Mama used to say that pride was the most exquisite jewelry a woman could wear even when you’re naked. But Wolfe had just ripped it from my neck, every pearl of confidence rolling on the floor.”

— L.J. Shen

106. “Love. I don’t use the L word lightly. I don’t go around telling people I love pizza or chocolate or Riverdale. I like those things. Love, I save for the important stuff. But I am hopelessly, tragically in love with Penn Scully.”

— L.J. Shen

107. “The guy I want is perfectly imperfect, and I’m completely fine with it.”

— L.J. Shen

108. “I don’t want your yesterday. And would never expect your tomorrow. But if we can have today, I will show you what love tastes like. And maybe, just maybe, we’ll forget about all our sorrows.”

— L.J. Shen

109. “Stars also symbolize the cycle of life, solitude and gravity. They glow in the dark energy that’s the majority of space, and remind us that even in the pitch black, there’s always something that can shine.”

— L.J. Shen

110. “Always part ways with people you love like you’ll never see them again.”

— L.J. Shen

111. “You were never a drizzle, Penn Scully. When I fell for you, you came beating down, and I felt you everywhere. You were hail.”

— L.J. Shen

112. “Yet the antidote to all the venom is honesty.”

— L.J. Shen

113. “Life is too short not to kiss the one you want.”

— L.J. Shen

114. “Fear is a prison, and in prison you played by different rules to survive.”

— L.J. Shen

115. “The heart doesn’t ask for permission to feel things. It simply feels.”

— L.J. Shen

116. “When you refuse to pay your dues to love, sometimes the price goes up. There’s an inflation, and you end up losing more than you’d bargained.”

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117. “I wanted him to swallow me whole, like a Venus flytrap – clamp his jaw and absorb every inch of me. Touch me. Fill me. Drown me in your poisonous kisses. Let me die from your venom, buried under your sinful skin.”

— L.J. Shen

118. “Troy was the guy who not only broke your headboard, but also broke your heart.”

— L.J. Shen

119. “Feigning happiness is even more depressing than just being your gloomy self.”

— L.J. Shen

120. “I just want you as you are. Broken. Misunderstood. Jerk. I want the real version, the dark version, the one who made me the saddest I’ve ever been in my life, but also the happiest.”

— L.J. Shen

121. “I looked like a giant trying to fit into a Barbie Dream House.”

— L.J. Shen

122. “Your love story started off on the wrong foot, but it will be magnificent precisely because of that.”

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123. “Isn’t that the essence of love? Find someone worth killing for? Someone with the power to ruin you?”

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124. “What do you want from me, Alex?” Everything. I want everything, and then all the things you’ve already given away to other people. I want them back, too.”

— L.J. Shen

125. “Too brutally blue to look real, and I wanted her skin to match them in color as I choked her for being so stubborn.”

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126. “You are that girl. My safe place. My asymmetric happiness. My Edgar Allan Poe poem. You are my Smiths, and my favorite fantasy book, my brownie, and summer vacations in lush places. There will never be anyone else like you. And that’s exactly why you deserve someone better than me.”

— L.J. Shen

127. “A hard life equaled a life full of obstacles and challenging moments but also full of people you loved and cared about. A bad life equaled an empty life. One that wasn’t necessarily hard or challenging but was devoid of the people you loved and cared about.”

— L.J. Shen

128. “Troy Brennan was the devil, but sometimes, even good girls wanted a healthy dose of evil in their lives. He’d.”

— L.J. Shen

129. “Dickward had the kind of smirk that would make women moan his name even when he was in another continent. He was happily married to Emilia LeBlanc-Spencer and strictly off the market. Shame they rocked the happily-in-love vibe.”

— L.J. Shen

130. “In my mind, we were two asteroids orbiting around each other. I thought I was the sun and you were earth, but now I see I got it all mixed up. You were always the sun. And even now, when I look at you, I don’t see regret and pain and suffering. I see the biggest opportunity, the sweetest promise, the road I should be taking.”

— L.J. Shen

131. “I’m not doing this out of fear or desperation or because my conscience won’t allow me not to try. I’m doing this of my own free will. Because he makes my reality better than my dreams. Because I am so painfully aware that we will all end up like Glen and Kathleen one day. We come from dust and return to dust. But while I’m here, on this planet, breathing, living, I want to do this alongside the person who makes me laugh. Who loves me unconditionally.”

— L.J. Shen

132. “She was in a probing mood, and I wasn’t in the business of denying my mother anything, especially when she’d spent the past week throwing up mucus, retching all night. Dad had put pillows all around their bathroom floor, and they sat there all night, every night. I heard them talk and laugh and whisper. Whenever she felt good enough, anyway.”

— L.J. Shen

133. “I’m throwing my bound fists against the door, begging. Tied, blindfolded and in desperate need to pee, I start pacing in a pattern, trying to figure out how big the room is and what’s inside.”

— L.J. Shen

134. “I want you,” he said simply. “Just you. Nothing else. Only ever you,” he breathed out in pain, closing his eyes.”

— L.J. Shen

135. “Ever notice how the heart is literally caged by the ribs? That’s insane. As if our body knows it can break so easily, it needs to be protected.”

— L.J. Shen

136. “We fell in love fast and slow. Hard and soft. With everything we had in us, yet we both refused to give anything away.”

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137. “Ask me... what do I want?”

— L.J. Shen

138. “Artists are terminally dissatisfied. With life. With love. With their work. You like being tortured, don’t you, little Luna? Sadness has a bittersweet aftertaste. Keeps us going.” He lit up his joint. “Being an artist is a miserable job. You’re pregnant with your work, only to give the baby away. An entire year of careful strokes of a brush, just to have someone else buy the painting.”

— L.J. Shen

139. “He was the Hunter. I was the prey.”

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140. “Kissing him was like standing on the edge of a cliff. Nice view, but you knew it was deadly.”

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141. “Don’t baby me. I’m not your home. People don’t ruin their homes; they build them. They cherish them.”

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142. “He was, in a lot of ways, like Lot’s wife. A hard statue, made of salt and stone, standing on a cliff, emotionless and proud after watching with glee as Sodom – or Todos Santos – was set aflame by its sinners.”

— L.J. Shen

143. “He was navigating the streets like a fire-spitting monster was on our heels, violating every driving law known to man, and inspiring some new laws in the process.”

— L.J. Shen

144. “I squinted at him. But he didn’t care. He was a kid from the hood. Nothing scared him, let alone my rich milky ass.”

— L.J. Shen

145. “Life didn’t give me lemons. It gave me a good opportunity to get even.”

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146. “You only get one life, Luna. One stab at this thing called happiness. Why deprive yourself of things you want just because they weren’t given to you the way you hoped for them to come? 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

147. “Told you my soul was dying. Or maybe it simply belonged to other people. Either way, I needed a new one. Unfortunately, it was one of the rare things my money couldn’t buy.”

— L.J. Shen

148. “He was toxic, poison, and he was going to kill everything beautiful in my life if I let him. He was the storm to my cherry blossoms. This.”

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149. “You were so clean, and I was filthy. I guess I wanted to dirty you up.”

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150. “The cherry blossom represents the fragility and magnificence of life.”

— L.J. Shen