Top 500 L.J. Shen Quotes (2025 Update)
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401. “And remember our flower rule: if it doesn’t make you grow or blossom – let it go.”

— L.J. Shen

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

— L.J. Shen

403. “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.”

— L.J. Shen

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

— L.J. Shen

405. “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.”

— L.J. Shen

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

— L.J. Shen

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

— L.J. Shen

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

— L.J. Shen

409. “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.”

— L.J. Shen

410. “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.”

— L.J. Shen

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

— L.J. Shen

412. “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.”

— L.J. Shen

413. “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.”

— L.J. Shen

414. “How is your soul feeling today?”

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415. “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.”

— L.J. Shen

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

— L.J. Shen

417. “Two things people should be grateful for without asking – love and to be saved. You are offered both. Yet, my dear, you seem quite ungracious.”

— L.J. Shen

418. “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.”

— L.J. Shen

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

— L.J. Shen

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

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421. “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.”

— L.J. Shen

422. “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.”

— L.J. Shen

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

— L.J. Shen

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

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

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

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428. “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

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

— L.J. Shen

430. “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.”

— L.J. Shen

431. “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.”

— L.J. Shen

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

— L.J. Shen

433. “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.”

— L.J. Shen

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

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

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437. “Knight is gorgeous, and not only does he know it, but he would also advertise it on a billboard if it were possible.”

— L.J. Shen

438. “Love. Four letters can’t cover what I feel for Daria Followhill. They seem too trivial, too small, too overused.”

— L.J. Shen

439. “Experience had taught me that time was good at two things: healing and killing. I waited for the healing part to come every single day.”

— L.J. Shen

440. “We’d helped each other tear down the walls, and I hoped, with every fiber of my body, that what we’d find underneath them wasn’t rotten.”

— L.J. Shen

441. “You,” he whispered, kissing my cheek, “are so effortlessly yourself.”

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442. “I know women are fond of battery-operated devices, but they’re never as good as the real thing.”

— L.J. Shen

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

— L.J. Shen

445. “I died. The end.”

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446. “He fascinated and infuriated me.”

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447. “He did have a bar cabinet, not to my surprise, considering he’d marry booze if it were legal in the state of Illinois.”

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448. “In a way that made me resent him simply because men that handsome aren’t trustworthy.”

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449. “You never know how thick or thin your book is, so you better make the most out of every scene, enjoy each chapter.”

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450. “Part of me wants to chase her. To watch in slow motion as she collapses underneath me and I rip her to shreds. The other wants her to stand toe to toe with me so we can battle it out until we’re both bloody and exhausted.”

— L.J. Shen