Top 500 L.J. Shen Quotes (2026 Update)
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251. “If you leave me,” he said, “you take my soul with you.”

— L.J. Shen

252. “Love makes you do crazy, irrational things. Love and death are connected by an invisible string. Pull too hard, and you’re gone.”

— L.J. Shen

253. “The university is located between San Francisco, Oakland and my internal wish to kill myself.”

— L.J. Shen

254. “My daughter was beautiful and the world was ugly and I didn’t know how to help her. And it killed me like cancer. Slowly. Surely. Savagely.”

— L.J. Shen

255. “Los Angeles was like a B-Grade prostitute. She let anyone in, looked less than average, and once inside, you realized there was too much traffic and that whoever’d been there before you had left a mess. Add to this the pollution and white-toothed starlets who wanted to ride your anything – be it your knob, reputation, or black American Express.”

— L.J. Shen

256. “While I watched her cook, I suddenly realized it was her art. The pan was her canvas, the ingredients her paint. She cooked with fire in her eyes, with passion in her soul, with love in her heart.”

— L.J. Shen

257. “He tries to chuckle, but it splits the cut on his lip again. “There.” I take a step back. “Bet you’re feeling brand new.” “How was New York?” he asks. I can’t even think about that city without wanting to throw up. I wonder if I’ll ever be able to set foot in it again. “Don’t.” “Don’t what?” “Don’t pretend we’re friends.” I close the first-aid kit, push it back into the cabinet, and make my way upstairs to finish my entry. When I get to my bed, the little black book is not there anymore.”

— L.J. Shen

258. “You’re a collected debt, a retaliation, and, quite frankly, pretty decent arm candy. Good night, Miss Rossi.”

— L.J. Shen

259. “Forever starts now, Baby Leblanc. With you.”

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260. “It’s like the world is his oyster, but he doesn’t do seafood.”

— L.J. Shen

261. “I don’t want to make you forget. I want to make you remember. And I’m about to, Rosie.”

— L.J. Shen

262. “If disobedience was a competitive sport, my future wife would make it to the Olympics. And medal.”

— L.J. Shen

263. “I loved her when I hated her. And I loved her when I didn’t want anything to do with her. I was so crazy about her, the lines had blurred together. Feelings were mixed, emotions twisted together.”

— L.J. Shen

264. “Confide in me, my hideous little monster.”

— L.J. Shen

265. “Got us another ugly decoration for the bathroom. Can I come back now? I’d really like to save the therapy money for when our kid finds out I was at the Grammys when she was born.”

— L.J. Shen

266. “I may have saved you from a bleeding heart, but your bleeding heart saved me.”

— L.J. Shen

267. “I was mortified by the idea of beauty. It was powerful yet slippery. A beautifully wrapped gift I was bound to lose one day. I didn’t want to open it or ravish in its perks. It would only make parting ways with it more difficult.”

— L.J. Shen

268. “This is why humans invented lies, I thought. No other animal in nature lies. The truth is ruthless. It cuts you open, shoving your face into the mud. It forces you to look reality in the eye and deal with it. To feel the real weight of the world that you live in.”

— L.J. Shen

269. “Humans, as a concept, were not among my ten favorite things in the world.”

— L.J. Shen

270. “Sometimes the sun is a liar. Sometimes it’s out, even though it is cold.”

— L.J. Shen

271. “Your love story was no fairy tale. More like a witch tale. Wicked and real and painful.”

— L.J. Shen

272. “I’ve loved you in secret, and I’ve loved you openly in front of both our worlds, and if you think I’ll stop loving you if you put an ocean between us, you’re dead wrong.”

— L.J. Shen

273. “Yes, Troy Brennan was one hell of a sociopath, and he didn’t bother disguising his nature and putting on a mask when he faced the world.”

— L.J. Shen

274. “The interior designer must’ve been a medieval vampire, judging from the cold, lifeless colors and the giant iron chandeliers hanging from the ceilings.”

— L.J. Shen

275. “Jesse is not as charismatic as Ty, but they both fall under the category of people who can tell you to do just about anything, including rimming a dead donkey, and you’d do it.”

— L.J. Shen

276. “My daughter was beautiful and the world was ugly and I didn’t know how to help her.”

— L.J. Shen

277. “I hated liking her. In a sense, it was like handing her the keys to the pit of my soul while she was tanked as hell and telling her to drive carefully.”

— L.J. Shen

278. “She looked so much like an angel, sometimes I wanted to run a hand over her bare back just to make sure she didn’t have wings.”

— L.J. Shen

279. “Falling in love was so tragic.”

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280. “She could tell me a thousand things with her eyebrows alone, this girl. Sometimes I wanted to shave them off just to spite her.”

— L.J. Shen

281. “Vanity cost us every single thing we achieved for ourselves. Our athletic career. Friends. Family. Our love interests.”

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282. “Kissing him was like standing on the edge of a cliff. Nice view, but you knew it was deadly. Still, a stupid, irrational, dangerously alive part of you still wanted to hurl yourself down to meet your own demise.”

— L.J. Shen

283. “Eriksson taunts, picking up a grasshopper and dipping it in sauce. “But no pressure.” He.”

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284. “I wish you’d fall in love with me so hard you won’t be able to think about anything else. To eat. To breathe.”

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285. “I might be a punk, but you’re the hideous little monster who is falling for him.”

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286. “It’s not the right time to be together, I agree. But if we meet again, under any circumstances, any time in the future, we’re making this work, Rory. Feck spouses. Feck boyfriends and girlfriends. Feck the world. If kismet happens, we are letting it happen, no matter what.”

— L.J. Shen

287. “I smoked weed while she danced on the roof and threw me smiles every now and again. I watched her with a smirk. Life was good.”

— L.J. Shen

288. “Trent was tall, built, and tan. His black hair was buzzed close to the scalp, marines-style, and he wore charcoal slacks, a collared white shirt, and a vintage Rolex. Gorgeous prick. Stunning, arrogant bastard.”

— L.J. Shen

289. “Good news: I’m alive. Bad news: Sometimes I wish I wasn’t.”

— L.J. Shen

290. “Accepting the face that you loved someone was much harder than falling for that person. It took time. And courage. But when I finally took that time, found that courage, when I finally let my guard down, I’d discovered something spectacular.”

— L.J. Shen

291. “Rottweilers don’t turn into neutered Chihuahuas.”

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292. “He took my hand in his. Such a simple gesture, yet it felt as though he plucked the stars from the sky for me.”

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293. “It’s ironic, my need to be strong for a man who is my only weakness.”

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294. “In all likelihood, I was going to be in charge of his entire business empire soon. I would hold the purse strings, and Jo was worried that my main vice – vindictiveness – would mean she was going to lose her cushy lifestyle. For once in her miserable life, she was right.”

— L.J. Shen

295. “Finding happiness as an intelligent person was like finding a real-life unicorn.”

— L.J. Shen

296. “We weren’t switching back anytime soon. Not until I got what I wanted. He was staying in LA. Whether he liked it or not.”

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297. “For a fraction of a second, we were together, and it had felt divine. Not nice. Not safe. Not taken for granted. It was short and beautiful and painfully memorable. Like the tree I was obsessed with.”

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298. “I need. Give it to me, Trent, or I will find it elsewhere.”

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299. “You said you’d buy me what I need for my shower.” “I never said it’d be today. I ain’t Amazon Prime.”

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300. “Hunter Fitzpatrick, what are your intentions with my virtue?” I looked up, asking for the first time in a real, straightforward fashion. He smirked down at me. “Funny you should ask, Miss Brennan. I’m afraid I’m going for complete destruction.”

— L.J. Shen