Top 500 L.J. Shen Quotes (2024 Update)
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101. “I never planned on falling for him. It just happened. But that’s the thing about love, isn’t it? It’s like death. You know it will happen one day. You just don’t know how or why or when.”

— L.J. Shen

102. “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

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

— L.J. Shen

104. “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

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

— L.J. Shen

106. “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.”

— L.J. Shen

107. “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

108. “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

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

— L.J. Shen

110. “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

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

— L.J. Shen

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

— L.J. Shen

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

— L.J. Shen

114. “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

115. “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

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

— L.J. Shen

117. “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

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

— L.J. Shen

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

— L.J. Shen

120. “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

121. “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

122. “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

123. “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

124. “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

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

— L.J. Shen

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

— L.J. Shen

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

— L.J. Shen

128. “Ask me... what do I want?”

— L.J. Shen

129. “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

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

— L.J. Shen

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

— L.J. Shen

132. “The best life to live is the one people will judge you for.” She brushes her upper lip with the tip of her tongue. “Dance with your demons, love carelessly. Selflessly. And most importantly, love yourself, even at your worst.”

— L.J. Shen

133. “She was warm and silky. Delicious, really. I wanted to take her like a drug. All at once, in one gulp. I wanted to overdose on her like cocaine, and heroin, and crack, knowing the destruction I was willingly inhaling into my body. Because Indie, like drugs, was a temporary fix.”

— L.J. Shen

134. “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

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

— L.J. Shen

136. “Love is so much uglier than hate because when you hate, you’re not confused. When you’re in love, you’re dumb.”

— L.J. Shen

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

— L.J. Shen

138. “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

139. “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

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

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

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142. “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

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

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

— L.J. Shen

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

— L.J. Shen

146. “Spending time with my staff reminded me why humans were my least favorite.”

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

— L.J. Shen

148. “Alex Winslow was beautiful in a way storms were – only from afar. Just like them, he had the power to sweep and ruin you, two things I was too busy surviving to entertain.”

— L.J. Shen

149. “Just because your story had a few chapters where I wasn’t the main lead doesn’t make me any less the love of your life. And you’re mine. This is it. This is us.”

— L.J. Shen

150. “High school is a great place to murder a soul. The deities don’t care, and the mortals are too busy trying to survive.”

— L.J. Shen