Top 500 L.J. Shen Quotes (2026 Update)
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351. “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.”

— L.J. Shen

352. “Life was too short to deprive yourself of spending time with those you love, something I’d learned the hard way.”

— L.J. Shen

353. “I don’t want us to part ways yet. I want us to flip hourglasses. To stir up chaos. To start a blood bath.” He.”

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354. “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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355. “Everyone’s got a story, and we all have chapters we’d rather not read aloud.”

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

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357. “I felt his arms slowly enveloping my body as he acknowledged my surrender, opened the gates, and let my army skulk into his kingdom, wounded and famished.”

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358. “I know that they damaged you, and I still want you. I don’t even want to fix you. I just want you as you are. Broken. Misunderstood. Jerk. I want the real version, the dark version, the one who made me the saddest I’ve ever been in my life, but also the happiest.”

— L.J. Shen

359. “I will never love you, Dallas Costa. For that, I am truly sorry. Because you are certainly worthy of love.”

— L.J. Shen

360. “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

361. “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

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

— L.J. Shen

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

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

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365. “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

366. “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

367. “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

368. “So you took a match. Lit us up. And now we burn forever.”

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

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370. “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

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

— L.J. Shen

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

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

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374. “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

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

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

— L.J. Shen

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

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378. “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

379. “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.”

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380. “My hollow, aching heart that never quite recovered from losing her.”

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

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

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

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384. “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.”

— L.J. Shen

385. “Here’s the thing about love – it’s an uncomfortable feeling. It pushes your boundaries.”

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386. “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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387. “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

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

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

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390. “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

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

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

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

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394. “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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395. “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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396. “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

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. “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

399. “Angelo: It was always you, goddess.”

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400. “For a reason I can’t fathom, we want each other. Let’s not pretend otherwise, Kill.”

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