Top 500 L.J. Shen Quotes (2026 Update)
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401. “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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402. “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

403. “To be alive and not really living was a terrible curse.”

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

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405. “It was peculiar. How both bad and good habits were born from boredom. How they turned into an obsession, an addiction, before you knew it. And how taking back control from them became a habit in itself.”

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406. “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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407. “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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408. “When someone hits me with a stick, I run over them with a tank.”

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409. “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

410. “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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411. “Anything essential is invisible to the eye.”

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

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

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414. “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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415. “Turn around and look at me, goddammit. Then you’d see I’d rather see my balls eaten by a tiger than watch you go out with someone who isn’t me.”

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

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417. “You cannot let it define you. Or stop you. Not anymore. Anxiety is a hungry beast. Feed it, and it will grow. Starve it, and it will die. This is my final decision. I’m sorry.”

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418. “I flew directly into my cage, asking him to lock me inside. Because the beautiful lie was far more desirable than the awful truth.”

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419. “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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420. “He looked too good to be so evil.”

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421. “Priceless and worthless are the same sum, presented in different manners. Words make you or break you. By cursing, you reduce yourself to someone who cannot convey their feelings sufficiently.”

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422. “Carbs and sugar equal oral orgasms.”

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423. “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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424. “He kissed away a tear that slid down my cheek, and I wish he hadn’t, because my heart broke a little more when he showed me tenderness. I wanted the ruthless version of him, the one that didn’t offer me hope, that didn’t promise a happily-ever-after ending.”

— L.J. Shen

425. “The Spencers had the wildest bedroom I’ve ever seen. If Pimp My Ride and Buckingham Palace had a lovechild, it’d be this place.”

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426. “The night before senior year I spotted you on those bleachers You looked adorable Your heart cracking for a guy Who would love to smash a foot in it and crush it into pieces.”

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427. “She smelled of flowers and coconut and my potential demise.”

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428. “The girl got a kiss on the lips from the boy who no longer howled at the moon and cried on a tree. On the forehead. Like friends do. Then he kissed her on the lips, like lovers do. Then he kissed the inside of her wrists, like soulmates do.”

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429. “When the nights get cold, the memory of your ex burns hotter.”

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430. “How is your soul feeling today?”

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431. “You’re Saturn,” she whispers. “Made of iron-nickel and surrounded by protective rings of ice and rock.”

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

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

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434. “Bet? Yo?” Kill looked at me like I was a horrific car accident. “Who talks like that? What do you have against the English language? You seem to butcher it whenever the opportunity presents itself. Did English hurt you when you were young? Show me where on the doll.”

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

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436. “You don’t look like a princess at all. You look like the more beautiful stepsister in a Disney movie. The underdog who gets the prince at the end. The one who wasn’t born with the title, but earned it.”

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437. “How did this girl, whom I just met, manage.”

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438. “Every decision you make has a reason. Think about it.”

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439. “In the words of Joe Exotic, I am never going to recover from this. Cillian holding my hair while he is making me puke.”

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440. “Peopling was by far more exhausting than running a marathon.”

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441. “He’s fine,” I clipped. “So are you.” The driver grinned. “I’m going to smoke your eyes like beef jerky if you as much as look at her that way again,” Chase groaned. It was the first time he’d spoken since we’d gotten in the car.”

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442. “The most important dance you’ll have in your life is one that does not require music. Alex Winslow, Broken Hearts Blvd.”

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443. “I died. The end.”

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444. “He fascinated and infuriated me.”

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445. “The therapist was good. I’ll give her that. She asked if I remembered being a fetus. I said no. Then she asked if I had any memories of not living. I said no. “That’s what death feels like, Rosie. You won’t remember it happened, so, in a sense, it’s almost like you live forever.”

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446. “I don’t want to like you Lenora, I want to ruin you.”

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447. “Most people love whatever’s the closest. What they’re used to.”

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448. “Because you’ve already dipped your sausage in my family gravy, and even though I know it’s a secret recipe everyone wants more of, I’m afraid you’re all out of luck.”

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449. “I won’t let you fall, Tex,” he said quietly.”

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450. “Every part of you is lickable. Nothing is going to change it. Especially your battle scars.”

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