Top 250 Laurelin Paige Quotes (2025 Update)
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101. “They ended in death and that was the best part of it.”

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102. “I shake my head in frustration. Of course I remember that. I’ve worked my ass off to get Pierce Industries to what it is today. If he thinks I don’t understand the value of hard work, then he has no understanding of what I do, of what I am. But in the back of my mind, I know that he’s talking about a different kind of work, and while I’ve already spent some time in the department of self-repair, I’m not sure that I’m willing to spend more.”

— Laurelin Paige

103. “His lips were frantic and frenzied against mine, as though no matter how much a gave him – and I gave him everything – it wasn’t enough. It could never be enough.”

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104. “A flood of inadequacy poured over me, a feeling of I-don’t-belong, but if not here, then where? The room began to close in around me, blanketing me with acute heaviness.”

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105. “But because you’re mind. And I’m yours. And that means I’m tied to you in every way. Good and bad.”

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106. “As we settle together, spiraling down from bliss, I land in a space of clarity. I stop worrying if it’s going to be Alayna that falls apart from this affair and start accepting that it’s going to be me.”

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107. “You hold the cards right now, Sabrina,” he said, his nose almost touching mine. “But don’t begin to think I’ve forgotten who’s in charge.”

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108. “I need that from you. I need you to be that way with me.”

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109. “It was easy to kiss him. It was familiar and safe. He tasted like gin and curry sauce and misbehavior. Not the fun kind of misbehavior, but the kind of misbehavior that left regrets in the morning, if not even the night before.”

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110. “I belonged to him the way that a good idea belonged to the person who thought it.”

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111. “The thought scratched at my insides, uncomfortable and itchy.”

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112. “I should have been willing to do whatever he preferred. That was how to snag a lover.”

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113. “For good or bad, all roads led back to him. Perhaps that’s what it meant to really be his.”

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114. “Then she turns toward the audience, and my breathe catches. Even here, twelve rows away, I can tell she’s the most beautiful woman I’ve ever seen.”

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115. “No,” I told him. “You tell me what I want. That’s what I want.”

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116. “I love Alayna Withers. And each drop of that love is so laced with pain that it travels through my veins like acid, burning and scarring me from the inside out.”

— Laurelin Paige

117. “Did this bother him because he’d made rules about his life? Or did the rules about his life come because things like this bothered him?”

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118. “There were at least a couple thousand people in front of me – all of them trying to show that they weren’t ugly too. A flood of inadequacy poured over me, a feeling of I-don’t-belong, but if not here, then where?”

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119. “He was so close to understanding me and yet so far. It felt like being thirsty and being offered a glass of sand.”

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120. “The kind of man who looked like he could fight for a woman and win. He’d protect her from harm and then brutalize her himself but only just enough. Complete trust.”

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121. “No, you’re not. You’re not scared. Or you’re not scared enough.”

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122. “It was how he looked at me, in a way that no man had ever looked at me, a hungry possessiveness present in his stare as if he not only had undressed me in his mind, but had claimed me to be sated by no one ever again except him.”

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123. “It was a kiss that took – took my desire, took my passion, took my will.”

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124. “My point is that you’re not his burden. You’re his reason.”

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125. “They can’t just unzip the pouch at the bottom of my abdomen and take it out that way?”

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126. “I have things that I want – things that aren’t you. Things.”

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127. “I closed my mouth, unsure how to answer, not prepared to lie. Not prepared to tell the truth.”

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128. “Those men, my peers, they were a sea of beautiful – calm and serene. Reeve was the ocean, dark and commanding and turbulent. They moved in gentle waves. Reeve stood still and set the world crashing around him.”

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129. “It was a good conversation to have, actually. I just didn’t know how to participate in it.”

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130. “Tell me what came between you and the woman you loved.”

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131. “Just... can the magic really last forever? Day in and day out. Does it get old after a while? What if there’s an expiration on happily ever after?”

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132. “No speech that started with murder had a happy ending.”

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133. “And suddenly, I was scared. Not of what Reeve would do to me, but of what I’d let him do to me.”

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134. “And then sometimes, rarely, in the middle of the night, he’d be sweet. Pulling me into his lap, kissing me, caressing me. Letting me fly but anchoring me with his eyes. Speaking words he’d never dare say in the light of day.”

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135. “Because I want you to scare me, and you know it. Because the way you’re vile fits the way I’m vile.” I sucked hard on his thumb. “You’re not vile,” he groaned. He drew his wet thumb from my lips and placed his hand firmly behind my neck so he could pull me down toward him. “Then neither are you,” I managed before his mouth crashed against mine.”

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136. “Good tension. Bad tension. I wasn’t sure if there was a difference when it came to Donovan.”

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137. “Truth was, one of the reasons I loved being praised so much was because I always secretly feared that I was a failure. That I hadn’t done enough. That I wasn’t enough.”

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138. “You really do belong to me, don’t you?” I nodded. “Yes. I really do.”

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139. “But his eyes caught me. There was something I recognized in them – a sorrow or a longing that was both gripping and haunting. I saw myself in those.”

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140. “It moved me that he would say he’d kill for me, except that he might actually mean it and then I was still moved but then I felt guilty about it.”

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141. “I think you’re a better man than you think you are.” But what I meant was, maybe you’re a better man than I think you are.”

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142. “I was made for exactly this. To please men like him. To please him. I wanted this.”

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143. “I couldn’t lose her. So I didn’t let her go.” “‘Didn’t let her go’? That’s what you meant by you kept someone.”

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144. “I hated myself for getting involved when I’d been set on closure. The thing was, and I hadn’t yet been able to admit it, I was beginning to realize I couldn’t have closure without first getting involved.”

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145. “I can’t imagine a without her. Even while we’re apart, she’s still so present in my life.”

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146. “No one but her, never before, never again.”

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147. “But I know better than anyone that if he doesn’t see that answer, it’s because he doesn’t want to.”

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148. “Besides, I don’t think that’s something you’d want to hear from your lover.” “Lover?”

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149. “I was brave but not that brave.”

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150. “I wanted him to show me and teach me and correct me. I wanted to learn to please him with a desperation I couldn’t explain.”

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