Top 500 L.J. Shen Quotes (2024 Update)
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351. “Everyone’s got a story, and we all have chapters we’d rather not read aloud.”

— L.J. Shen

352. “The sun is a lot like hate – beautiful and lethal and essential for our survival. It can blind you, but it also keeps you going. Hate motivates much more than love.”

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

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354. “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.”

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355. “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.”

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356. “Behind every untrusting girl is a boy who made her that way.”

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357. “No love is fully requited. No love is equal. No love is fair. There is always one side that loves more.”

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358. “The rules of chess were very simple: while it was true that the king was the most important piece in the game, he was also the weakest. The queen was the most powerful, and you best not forget that if you wanted to get ahead in life.”

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

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360. “Why didn’t you tell me we were in love? Why did you wait for me to find out When you broke my heart?”

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

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362. “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.”

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363. “Anything essential is invisible to the eye.”

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364. “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.”

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

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366. “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.”

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

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368. “You need a hug.” I frowned. “And a shrink. Not in that order.”

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

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370. “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.”

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371. “Love is overrated, not to mention fickle. It comes and goes. You can’t build a foundation on it. Mutual interests and alliance are a different story.”

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

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373. “I hope she’ll be a fool – that’s the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool.” – F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby.”

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374. “But villains are just misunderstood heroes.”

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

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376. “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.”

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377. “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.”

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378. “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.”

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379. “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.”

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380. “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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381. “Somehow, I’d let the worst happen. I continued loving him from afar, like the sun loved the moon. Coexisting, but distantly. Eternally star-crossed, but never close enough for comfort.”

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

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383. “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.”

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384. “Everything I touch is tainted, Penn. Everything I want turns to ash. I spent the entire semester trying to be yours, but you’ve never once claimed my heart. I’m sending you to Adriana’s arms, not because I don’t care, but because I do. So much. Maybe too much. Because I screwed up so many relationships, the only way for us to heal is if I take myself out of the equation.”

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

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386. “When you’re soft, you can contain more. And if you contain more, the world can’t break you.”

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387. “Ma’am, I’m afraid – ” “Don’t be afraid. Fear is never a good look.”

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388. “The idea was Penn’s, but it was Vaughn who backed him up and cited fire as the best way to burn things to the ground.”

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389. “I’m turning my back on Vaughn and Knight without saying goodbye because I know they won’t let me go. They’ll promise to protect me and fight my battles at school, and a part of me still wants that to happen.”

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390. “Always remember, Francesca – you’re worth more than the sums of your mistakes.”

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391. “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.”

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

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393. “She scooted next to me, wrapped in a gown that clung to her curves like I would if I wasn’t a hundred and one shades of messed up.”

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394. “Happiness was something you were eager to share. It was pain you wanted to keep private.”

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395. “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.”

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396. “I bowed my head down, plastering my forehead to hers, breathing her in. I closed my eyes. We both knew there was not an ounce of romance in that moment. It was a pure this-planet-is-crazy-and-the-human-condition-is-trash moment. It was an end-of-the-world moment, and there wasn’t anywhere else I’d rather be.”

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397. “Relationships, as I view them, are messy and redundant. I try my best to avoid them.”

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

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

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400. “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.”

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