Top 140 L.J. Smith Quotes (2025 Update)
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101. “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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102. “It was as if the normal veil that separated two people had melted.”

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103. “He had been so many things. Seductive as silver and deadly as a cobra. And vulnerable like a hurt child underneath it all.”

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104. “She knew, then, that it had not been hatred that had made him avoid her for so long. No, it had not been hatred at all.”

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105. “Wings of PURIFICATION.”

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106. “Honesty is occasionally the best policy,” she said yawning. And then she added, “By the Black Staff of Beldar, I am tired. If I can find a usable bed in what’s left of my house I intend to collapse on it. And Elwyn, if you disturb me before dawn, I promise, I will turn you into a train of thought, and lose you.”

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107. “Does everybody ever want everything they can have? really?”

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108. “Mary-Lynnette had an inexplicable impulse to knock Ash flat and fall down on top of him. She’d never felt that for any boy before.”

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109. “I’m in love with you. I think everything you do is marvelous.”

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110. “Don’t worry about it, Mikey,” Dee said comfortingly. “You’ll probably be next, so you won’t be here when our Great Deception comes crashing down.”

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111. “War and hunting and chasing-that’s all there is. That’s life, Jenny-no one can escape it.”

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112. “She was looking more sleazy than grungy today, in an orange top cut so low that you could ski down the bare skin in front.”

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113. “The energy was still flowing steadily, and Kait had a sense of cleansing. Her entire body felt light and airy, as if her feet weren’t touching the ground.”

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114. “Damon, with his shock of dark hair, long lashes, and broad shoulders, caused women to look twice.”

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115. “I do believe in killing the messanger. You know why? Its sends a message.”

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116. “If it had been touch, it might have been pressure-not an uncomfortable pressure, but one that swept away all the pain of her headache. Like a river rushing through her mind, clearing out everything stagnant and clotted and decayed.”

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117. “It did cross our minds at one point. Actually, it seemed to keep crossing them. Back and forth. Maybe we should put in a crosswalk. – Ash Redfern.”

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118. “Our minds work alike, she thought. She had found her partner, her equal, the one to work and live and love with her. Her soulmate.”

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119. “The magnetic pull only got stronger. She wanted to be held. She wanted him to hold her.”

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120. “One more game,” somebody behind her said, and somebody else said, “But who’s going to be It?”

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121. “But Mary-Lynnette was thinking. Of course she’d like to find somebody who would accept her completely, who would share everything with her.”

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122. “But we did it,” said Alys. “We found Morgana and we helped her. How can you worry about detentions when life as we know it has just been saved?”

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123. “I would have understood if they had killed him.”

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124. “My first kiss and I’m camotose. Great.”

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125. “And her slender white neck was bowed over her book, the fair hair falling on either side of it.”

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126. “He lied, Jenny thought, racing up the steps. He changed the rules and he lied. Sometimes you can’t return good for evil; sometimes evil simply has to be stopped.”

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127. “Oh, all right, you big baby,” she said. “If you really want it. I should have gotten you a rattle and a pacifier, too.”

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128. “Mind if I have a bite?”

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129. “Poppy had known for years that she was going to marry him. It was one of her two great ambitions, the other being to see the world. She just hadn’t gotten around to informing James yet.”

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130. “Very touching,” said a voice from the stairway. “Do you want me to imitate a violin?” – Damon.”

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131. “Not that he regretted having killed the guy in Stockton. The one who’d been ready to shoot him over the five crumpled dollar bills in his jeans pocket. He was quite happy to have sent that particular home boy to hell.”

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132. “It’s as if the world is full of honeybees and I’m the only flower” -Elena.”

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133. “If you can find one good thing to say about her I’ll turn vegetarian!”

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134. “Damon knew the truth. Stefan was dead all right – but he had been dead for hundreds of years. And it was true that he was a vampire, but calling him a demon was like calling Tinkerbell armed and dangerous.”

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135. “The thing is- and I know this is going to sound strange-that I seem to love you sort of desperately.”

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136. “All her violence had drained away, replaced by a fear older and deeper than anything she’d ever experienced. An old, old recognition. Something inside her knew him from a time when girls took skin bags to the river to get water, a time when panthers walked in the darkness outside mud huts. From a time before electric lights, before candles, when darkness was fended off with stone lamps. When darkness was the greatest danger of all.”

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137. “It’s the idea that everyone has one and just one soulmate in the world, and that if you find them, you recognize them immediately.”

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138. “They had been a couple for so long that everyone thought of them as Tom-and-Jenny, a single unit.”

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139. “You don’t need right – if you have strength.”

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140. “You come back and you do it right now,” Morgead bellowed in her ears and in her mind. “Right now! Do you hear me?”

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141. “Julian could spin a web of shadows around you, with touches like the brush of moth’s wings and kisses soft as twilight. He could turn your own senses against you until the kisses left you dizzy and breathless and the moth’s-wing touches put you on slow burn. And by the time you realized what was underneath the softness, you were shivering and melting and lost.”

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142. “The boat sped on through the sparkling ocean and into the promise of the moonlit night.”

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143. “I may just have to make you my Queen of Shadows.”

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144. “She’d have him, even if it killed her. If it killed both of them, she’d have him.”

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145. “Why not fulfill his nature? Since he could not change it, he might as well revel in it.”

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146. “And then it was all so simple and natural. As if they both knew what to do without thinking-as if they’d always known what to do.”

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