Top 140 L.J. Smith Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “Like a revolving door to hell.”

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52. “Amazing how he could make her feel. Safe in a vacant lot, warm in the middle of the night. Just being this close to him, being able to touch his thoughts and feel his presence, was comforting-and dizzying.”

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53. “Wasnt it Startre who said hell was eternity spent in a room with your friends?”

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54. “I am not an angel and I am not a spirit. I’m Elena Gilbert and I’ve been to the Other Side. And right now I’m ready to do whatever needs to be done, which seems to include kicking some ass!”

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55. “For a moment, as Damon glanced toward Elena, their gazes met and something electric passed between them. It made Elena tingle all over, that look did.”

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56. “Bonnie, believe in me. I’ll save you. I remember how to fly.”

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57. “I like strong female characters. I try to write them as role models for young girls.”

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58. “And just then Damon stepped out of the coat closet, and at the same time Aunt Maggie tripped him neatly and said, “Bathroom door beside you,” and picked up a vase and hit the rising Damon over the head with it. Hard.”

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59. “When she got control of herself a few minutes later, she realized that in his arms she felt almost what she had in her dream, that inexpressible sense of peace and security. Of belonging, utterly. As long as her soulmate was alive, and they were together, she would be all right.”

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60. “There is no good and evil, only black and white. But either black or white on its own is boring, Jenny. If you mix them you get so many colors – so many colors...”

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61. “She now knew that it was possible to love two people at once-because you could love them in different ways.”

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62. “Rob smiled his slow, infectious smile-and suddenly everything was all right.”

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63. “Stefan’s love bathed her, shone through her, lighting every dark place in her soul like the sun. She trembled with pleasure, with love, and with longing.”

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64. “He was the smell of winter rain and the sound of his predator’s heartbeat.”

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65. “I am the only one who can decide what will happen to me,” Kaitlyn went on very quietly. “No one else. Me. And I’ve already made my decision. I’m going back to that place and I’m going to try to stop them any way I can. Whether you give me the shard or not is your decision, but I’m going back anyway.”

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66. “Very touching. Do you want me to imitate a violin?”

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67. “Remember, no matter how dark the night, there is always a happy ending. But first, you have to make it through the night.”

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68. “I love you,” she said. “You made me fall in love with you. I don’t care how tall you are or what color your hair is-I care about you. You make me laugh. You’re smart. You’re gentle. And you’re real, you’re a real person, not some jock with a facade that’s going to fall apart when I get to know him. I know you already, and I love you, you idiot. I don’t care what you do with toilet paper.”

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69. “In grace and beauty and sheer fascination, they were alike. But where Katherine had been a white kitten, Elena was a snow-white tigress.”

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70. “And to see the white flash of Klaus’s eyes as he whirled on her. For one stunned instant she stared at him, and then lightning crackled. From an empty sky.”

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71. “It was like a song, one of those sweet, wrenching songs that makes the hair on your arms stand up. That makes you want to throw yourself on the floor and just bawl. Or fall backward and surrender to the music utterly.”

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72. “You see how it is with us? You can’t fight it any more than I can. You’ve tried; you’ve done everything you can to kill it. But you can’t kill my love for you.”

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73. “But where Katherine was a white kitten, Elena was a white tigress.”

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74. “Perhaps she’ll find that real darkness is more to her taste than feeble twilight.”

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75. “She was the one who was supposed to have walked with him through different lives, being born and loving and dying and being born again. They’d been born for each other, to help each other grow and blossom and discover and evolve.”

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76. “There would never be a place where he could belong completely, where he could truly be himself. Unless he chose to belong to the shadows.”

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77. “Maybe it just means that love can be stronger than fear.”

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78. “The image isn’t reality. Even though we’re used to thinking that way alot of the time. We show a kid a picture of a dog and say ‘This is a doggie’ – but it’s not. It’s just an image.”

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79. “And I swear she will never know my secret. She will never have to give up the sunlight because of me. Behind.”

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80. “Ghouls weren’t smart, but like the Energizer Bunny they kept going and going.”

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81. “Gabriel was trying to smile, but the expression kept breaking apart. He was looking at her as if he hadn’t seen her for years and years of searching, and had just now walked into a room and come upon her unexpectedly. As if he wanted to look at every part of her, now that he could do it honestly.”

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82. “He put an arm around his brother to help him up. And then, for a moment, he just held on.”

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83. “Each night I lie and dream about the one Who kissed me and awakened my desire I spent a single hour with him alone And since that hour, my days are layed with fire.”

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84. “We who are so lucky as to be born into the light – who see it every day and never think about it, we’re blessed. We could have been born shadow souls who live and die in crimson darkness, never even knowing that somewhere there is something better.”

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85. “Winter is coming, Elena,” he said, and his voice was clear and chilling even over the howling of the wind, “An unforgiving season. Before it comes, you’ll have learned what I can and can’t do. Before winter is here, you’ll have joined me. You’ll be mine.”

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86. “There was a silence. Hannah’s own heart was twisted with the force of her love for him. Her eyes were full.”

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87. “If you lose, there’s the devil to pay.”

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88. “Julian said the world was evil and horrible – remember? But then he proved himself that it wasn’t.”

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89. “More than anything.” Rob persisted. “You’d crawl on your belly over broken glass for her. Easy.”

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90. “Then she went to Damon. He was still lying where he had fallen. The ghosts had passed over him, taking no notice of him. Elena’s brightness hovered over him, one shining hand reaching to touch his hair. Then she bent and kissed the dark head on the ground.”

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91. “I need you like – like light. You’re light, all right – like a flame to a moth. I told you once that you shouldn’t mess with forbidden things – I should have taken my own advice.”

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92. “You only want everything you don’t have.”

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93. “I am as strong as I need to be. I am my only master.”

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94. “For a moment, without thinking of anything else, Jenny was simply proud of him. Fiercely, passionately proud that a human, a seventeen-year-old who hadn’t even heard of the Shadow Men until a month ago, could stand up to them like this. Could conceal his terror and smile that way and offer to die.”

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95. “There’s nothing to read into. I’m just here to collect my beloved Damon and Stefan is just helping me.”

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96. “She had never been so close to anybody. It was as if they were one being, together, not predator and prey, but partners in a dance.”

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97. “James, pull over, I want to kiss you.”

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98. “But Thierry was shaking his head. “It doesn’t matter.” His voice was still quiet, but it was filled with the authority of absolute conviction, a kind of bedrock certainty that held even Hannah mesmerized.”

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99. “She stood slim and proud as some medieval witch princess against dawn.”

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100. “Help when you can. Shelter when you have room. Guide when you know where to go, and be patient with the slow.”

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