Top 500 L.J. Shen Quotes (2025 Update)
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151. “Spending time with my staff reminded me why humans were my least favorite.”

— L.J. Shen

152. “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

153. “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

154. “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

155. “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

156. “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

157. “Is it you that I love. It is you whom I want. It is you whom makes living a spectacular thing I want to experience, rather than participate in reluctantly, every day.”

— L.J. Shen

158. “She gives me storm, and I give her peace.”

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159. “The dust has settled over the blood we’ve shed.”

— L.J. Shen

160. “One hundred fifty K might,” he said, unblinking. Does he need a hearing aid? His eyes were so dark blue they sparkled like rare sapphires. He thought it was a negotiation. He was wrong. “It’s not about the money, Vicious.” I felt my teeth grinding together. “Do you want it in another language? I can write it down for you or even communicate it in the form of a dance.”

— L.J. Shen

161. “That’s the thing about broken princes. Not all of them have to die. If their soul is whole, they sometimes survive. Sometimes, they even grow up to be kings. Mine did.”

— L.J. Shen

162. “She was a blank, clean, white sheet for me to scribble on. And I scribbled. On her lips, on her jaw, her neck and collarbone. I jotted my hunger for her in vivid colors as.”

— L.J. Shen

163. “Wanker had the manners of a used tampon.”

— L.J. Shen

164. “When I finally lay my hands on you – and make no mistakes, Stardust, I will – you will be crying, all right. My name. Over. And. Over. Again.”

— L.J. Shen

165. “There was only one problem with the fact that my heart was so dreadfully, unexpectedly normal. Somewhere along the way, it had stopped being mine.”

— L.J. Shen

166. “Falling in love was so tragic. No wonder it made people so sad.”

— L.J. Shen

167. “You’re my someone. Always and forever.”

— L.J. Shen

168. “Dreams are just our reality on hold, Moonshine.”

— L.J. Shen

169. “I’d finally found him. The one man scarier than my father. Not that I was looking. Because while Vicious made a lot of noise, Trent Rexroth was the silent hunter who would circle you for hours, striking when you least expect it.”

— L.J. Shen

170. “We will always be something. You might move on and marry someone else, have his children and get your happily ever after, but you will never be completely done with me.”

— L.J. Shen

171. “Point was, she had plenty of girlfriends and a sister who made Lucifer look like a Care Bear.”

— L.J. Shen

172. “Organs, Jude, are like people. They need company, a backup to rely on. That’s why we have lungs, tonsils, hands, legs, fingers, toes, eyes, nostrils, teeth, and lips. Only the heart works alone. Like Atlas, it carries the weight of our existence on its shoulders quietly, only rebelling when disturbed by love.”

— L.J. Shen

173. “He waves me off, laughing now. “That was a minute ago. It’s time to move on. Don’t let the little things in life bother you, yeah?” Crazy as it sounds, I get what he means. Life is too short to get caught up in the small things.”

— L.J. Shen

174. “I wouldn’t want to live forever. What would be the point in that? Aren’t you hungry for something? Don’t you have dreams? What weight and significance do your dreams have if they don’t have a deadline? If you don’t have to chase them today because you can do it tomorrow, in a week, a year, or in a hundred years’ time?”

— L.J. Shen

175. “Maybe love was about breaking so the person you cared for would feel a little more whole.”

— L.J. Shen

176. “This wasn’t an argument. This was foreplay. She just didn’t know it yet.”

— L.J. Shen

177. “Even God can be bought for the right price.”

— L.J. Shen

178. “High school is an aquarium full of sharks. People are always broiling with the need to burst free. Only the strong survive.”

— L.J. Shen

179. “It was a mistake of epic proportions, I knew that. And just like any huge mistake, payback was going to be painful. Sadly, it was a price I was willing to pay.”

— L.J. Shen

180. “What if tomorrow never comes?” I whispered. “Then, my darling boy, we’ll make the best of today.”

— L.J. Shen

181. “Sometimes when I get off by myself, I think about Noah from IT.” I had no idea who Noah from IT was; I just knew he was newly unemployed. I slapped her ass again, and this time bit her earlobe – not gently – for good measure. “Give me his full name,” I growled. She laughed, throwing her head back. “There’s no Noah in IT. I mean, maybe there is. But I don’t know him.”

— L.J. Shen

182. “You were always mine. -Black.”

— L.J. Shen

183. “She shrugged. “Lucas gave me his laptop until the end of the tour.” Red cloth. Angry bull. Clenched fists. Don’t kill Lucas. He’s not worth the jail time.”

— L.J. Shen

184. “Nope, she would not be weeping with joy. But she would be weeping, alright.”

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185. “I saved myself for you like a goddamn Jonas brother.”

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186. “Lust is when you want the person to make you feel good. Love is when you want to make the other person feel good.”

— L.J. Shen

187. “The push and pull was back. She could push all she wanted, but she was going to be pulled back to where she belonged. My arms. I.”

— L.J. Shen

188. “She wore the gray Alexander Wang dress I’d bought for her birthday – it took me forever to find a cheap knock-off that’d make her rich friends laugh at her behind her back.”

— L.J. Shen

189. “I came here with plenty of holes in my shoes and plenty of nothing in my belly. Life felt like I was sipping it through a narrow straw. I always gasped for more.”

— L.J. Shen

190. “Surrender,” I whisper. “I want us to surrender to this, Rory, like you promised all those years ago.” Before life tainted what we had.”

— L.J. Shen

191. “He looked at me like I was the moon. Pale and lonely and so far away.”

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192. “Why did you want me alone? You say you can’t touch me, but you almost do. All the time. Last night, you lost control. Tomorrow, you will do it again, because we can’t stop this. Whatever it is, it is happening. You tell me I can’t sleep with other people, but you don’t give me what.”

— L.J. Shen

193. “Love is so contaminated. It tarnishes all that is beautiful and corrupts the soul. 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

194. “Yesterday I lay with you in a bed of glass We broke together trying to survive your past Still, in your pain I found magic The beauty in something so raw and tragic When life feels banal and ordinary and beat Run to me, my blue-eyed girl, to the place where pleasure and pain meet.”

— L.J. Shen

195. “Because sometimes, our favorite things are the ones that make us cry.”

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196. “I love you, but I love me, too. And I deserve more than you’ve given me.”

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197. “I put her under my spell, to make sure she was mine. Scribbling onto her the notes only I could play. Now that Tania was gone, Stardust was my main instrument. And it saddened me, because I knew I had to break her, too.”

— L.J. Shen

198. “Even villains have a happy ending every now and again.”

— L.J. Shen

199. “Penn Scully, Las Juntas’ wide receiver, is the hottest thing in SoCal. I’ve been wanting to sit on his face for a while now, too. Tonight’s my lucky night.”

— L.J. Shen

200. “Everyone can – and does – see my scars. No exceptions. My soul is empty, because I whored it out. I.”

— L.J. Shen