Top 500 L.J. Shen Quotes (2025 Update)
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351. “But I want to kiss you. A lot. And everywhere. And... “He frowned, rolling his eyes with a sigh. “I guess I don’t mind if you end up liking it when I do.”

— L.J. Shen

352. “How had this guy not been assassinated yet? He was a walking, talking personal offense.”

— L.J. Shen

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

— L.J. Shen

354. “You’re breakable, Dean Cole. I’m going to do my best to keep you whole.”

— L.J. Shen

355. “I loved you when you hated me, I loved you when I thought you were indifferent to me, and I loved you when you were on the fence about me. But when I realized you loved me back? All bets were off. The world kept spinning. Days went by. Things changed – other than one thing, my love for you.”

— L.J. Shen

356. “It is said that no two snowflakes are alike. Each snowflake is beautiful and hypnotizing in its own unique silhouette. They symbolize purity. But every snowflake that’s lucky enough to settle on the ground is destined to be blemished by dirt. Snowflakes teach us the lesson that if you live long enough, you will eventually get soiled. But even your stains won’t tarnish your beauty.”

— L.J. Shen

357. “Seahorses prefer to swim in pairs with their tails linked together. They’re one of the rare monogamous animals, and engage in an eight-hour courtship dance which, among other things, includes swimming side by side and changing colors. They’re romantic, elegant, and fragile. Just like love. They remind us that love is meant to be wild, just like the ocean.”

— L.J. Shen

358. “There is nothing to find. Life is not about finding yourself. It’s about creating yourself. There’s something liberating about knowing your own bones, all the things you are capable of. Being unapologetically yourself makes you invincible.”

— L.J. Shen

359. “I laughed bitterly. “I can’t fall in love Celian. I’m broken.”

— L.J. Shen

360. “But if you look closely, you’ll find beauty in the ugliness, too.”

— L.J. Shen

361. “You know better than anyone bumpy starts don’t guarantee a terrible journey. In fact, the paths with the best scenery are the ones where you have to go through the mud.”

— L.J. Shen

362. “But villains are just misunderstood heroes.”

— L.J. Shen

363. “The girl wondered what would happen if the sun kissed the moon. She had no idea she’d find an answer to that question one day. Or that the person to give it to her would be that very lonely boy.”

— L.J. Shen

364. “What would it take for you to have coffee with me?” He breathed hard, picking up where we’d left off. Last time, I told him he’d need to save my life. I guess he just had. “For you to tell me why you want to do this.” “I need to fix you,” he said, his greens on my blues. To. Fix. You.”

— L.J. Shen

365. “Courtney. You sweet child of mine.” The only person who loved me thought I was someone else.”

— L.J. Shen

366. “My whole life has been pledged to this meeting with you.”

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367. “But what are villains, my dear wife, if not misunderstood heroes?”

— L.J. Shen

368. “Priceless and worthless are the same sum, presented in a different manner. Words make or break you.”

— L.J. Shen

369. “She smiled. I died a little inside.”

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370. “Push me, Vaugh, and I’ll push back harder. I’m not the same girl you threatened in Carlisle Castle.”

— L.J. Shen

371. “She called me adorable while I was inside her. Was I ever going to recover?”

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372. “I thought I was helping both of us. Then I got to know you and SurfCity didn’t matter anymore. Bane You mattered. You MATTER. You’re the only thing that matters, Snowflake.”

— L.J. Shen

373. “And standing there, while Sam was in the operating room, hanging in the balance between life and death, everything was crystal clear to me. If you loved somehow, you had to give them a second chance. Not for them. For you.”

— L.J. Shen

374. “Puppy love could never threaten a wolf.”

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375. “We were entwined and entangled, connected with invisible strings, each of us trying to pull away, only to create more knots that made us closer. And he was so sophisticated and quick-witted, I didn’t know how I could keep him, even if I wanted to. Dearly.”

— L.J. Shen

376. “If revenge and punishment were forms of art, my work would be all over the Louvre.”

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377. “But if we were silver, Vaughn Spencer was gold. If we were good, he was brilliant. And when we shone? He gleamed with the force of a thousand suns, charring everything around him. It was like God had carved him differently, paid extra attention to detail while creating him.”

— L.J. Shen

378. “Sure, I like my designer collection of dresses, shoes, and bags, and I have expensive tastes – maybe not as expensive as Knight’s, but definitely more upmarket than Vaughn’s and Luna’s – but I don’t need it. Materialistic things don’t excite me. I like them because they’re there and available. Because they’re a calorie-free treat.”

— L.J. Shen

379. “I knew I was jealous, but I also knew I had no business being jealous.”

— L.J. Shen

380. “His scent messes with my head. I want to reach out and caress his face. Kiss his wounds better. Beg for forgiveness. Curse him. Push him away. Cry on his shoulder for what we’ve done. For how it ended. For what we became afterward. Because I’m full of crap, and he is totally empty.”

— L.J. Shen

381. “I couldn’t even imagine her holding hands with someone else.”

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382. “Porque la mentira edulcorada era preferible a la verdad desgarradora.”

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383. “I’m here for you, Snowflake. I’ll be sitting on the sidelines cheering for you because you’re the strongest girl I know, but I’ll also be there if you need me. Needing someone wouldn’t make you any less strong, Jesse. It would just make you human.”

— L.J. Shen

384. “I love you so much that I hated you for a while. And now that I know that you are damaged, I love you even more. Perfect things are not relatable. Unbreakable is fascinating, but not lovable.”

— L.J. Shen

385. “Love is like death. It’s inevitable.”

— L.J. Shen

386. “You can’t be afraid of love, my dear. It’s like being afraid of death. It is inevitable.”

— L.J. Shen

387. “But when you were on your deathbed, there was no time to be mad. Vindictiveness was thrown out the window, along with any other soul-eating, negative trait that was ingrained in us. When you were on your deathbed, time reminded you just how precious it really was. Feelings were bare and open for the world to see, poke, and dig into.”

— L.J. Shen

388. “Next time I catch you stalking me from across the road, you better come say hi. Better yet, you better show me how much you miss me with your lips, instead of stripping me with your eyes.”

— L.J. Shen

389. “You’re only lonely if you’re not there for yourself.”

— L.J. Shen

390. “So, are you? Going to stay, Daria? Fight or flight?” Fight. Always fight.”

— L.J. Shen

391. “I’m taking a sick day, and my PA needs to tend to me.”

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392. “It’s on. She’s here, and she is angry, and she is funny, and she is all mine. Sweet and thoughtful and feisty – the perfect combination. Shiny Boyfriend can do nothing about it but sit back and watch.”

— L.J. Shen

393. “It’s like looking at a scalloped picture, frayed at the edges. Everything blends in the background, and she stands out.”

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394. “Hate is just love with fear and jealousy thrown into the mix.”

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395. “Listen to me. The two most important decisions in our lives are not ours to make. Our creation and our death. We don’t choose to be born, and we don’t choose when or how we die. But everything in-between? That’s our jurisdiction. We can fill in the blanks as we please.”

— L.J. Shen

396. “Thank you. Let me put them in water.” “What’s the point?” He groaned, still obviously struggling with nicotine withdrawal. “They’ll die at some point anyway.” “Just like us,” I answered with a small smile. “Death is not a reason to stop living.”

— L.J. Shen

397. “Not needing money makes you rich in another way, Rory. A better way. The less you depend on it, the less it limits you.”

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398. “We’re getting married,” I stated, not asked. “Maybe not today, maybe not tomorrow, but we are. And we’re having kids. At least two. Maybe more. I haven’t decided yet.”

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399. “Want to know if you love someone? Watch them suffer and see how much it tears you apart. Because when you were down, when you were hurt, Rory, every fiber of me burned right along with you.”

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400. “When someone hits me with a stick, I run over them with a tank.”

— L.J. Shen