Top 500 L.J. Shen Quotes (2024 Update)
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251. “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.”

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

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253. “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.”

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254. “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.”

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255. “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.”

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256. “We all have demons. True fighters chain them to the pit of their dark souls.”

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257. “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.”

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258. “If you leave me,” he said, “you take my soul with you.”

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

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260. “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.”

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261. “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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262. “Not everything is about you, Texas. In fact, very few things are. It’s a blessing and a curse, really. Knowing the world doesn’t revolve around your sassy little ass. Sometimes a guy just wants a steak.”

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263. “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.”

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

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

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266. “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.”

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267. “The thing about cold-hearted monsters is that in the dark, their touch is just as warm as any other person’s.”

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

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269. “Falling in love was so tragic.”

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

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271. “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.”

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272. “Because at the end of the day, we are all just phoenixes, rising from our own ashes, taking flight to an unknown destination, our wingtips forged by flames.”

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

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274. “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.”

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

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276. “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.”

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277. “My father asked me about Rexroth, my mom asked me about my father, and no one asked me about me. Or Theo. Or surfing.”

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278. “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.”

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279. “I had a sense that people enjoyed what they saw when they looked at me, but I was mortified by the idea of beauty. It was powerful yet slippery. A beautifully wrapped gift I was bound to lose one day.”

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280. “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.”

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281. “This is the story of a boy and a girl fighting storms and trying to find peace in the most unexpected place. They try and find it in each other.”

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

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283. “You should believe me,” she announced, “because in order to destroy you, I need to acknowledge you first. See, in order to ruin a person’s life, you need to hate them. Be jealous of them. Feel some type of passionate response toward them. You stir nothing in me, Vaughn Spencer. Not even disgust. Not even pity, though I really should pity you. You’re the gum stuck to the bottom of my boots. You are a fleeting moment no one remembers – unremarkable, unnecessary, and utterly forgettable.”

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284. “A sadistic jerk?”

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

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286. “I am hell bound, and you are heaven sent.”

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287. “Heart stops beating. Brain shuts down. Hormones are raging.”

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288. “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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289. “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.”

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

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

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293. “Even the biggest wave crashes. You’re about to hit the sand. I hope you like the taste of dust.”

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294. “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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295. “Since I found out being a pushover doesn’t equal being nice. Being strong is not only kind on myself – but on other people too.”

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296. “I don’t think I’m much of a father figure, but if you want kids, we’ll have kids,” he’d told me. “Hell, if you want rabies, we’ll catch it together. Make a day of it.”

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297. “Where are we going?” “I don’t know.” “My favorite destination.”

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298. “We’re all responsible for our own lives. Dumping the blame on someone else is for the weak.”

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299. “Guys are so weird. They can love a girl to death but still mess with other people.”

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300. “Catering to me. Serving me. Envying me. She was going to stay small and insignificant. Uneducated and opportunity-less. And above all – mine.”

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