Top 250 Laurelin Paige Quotes (2026 Update)
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201. “I hated her for throwing away what we’d been and for not allowing us to find out what more we could be. I hated her for not loving me enough. I hated her because I’d loved her too much.”

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202. “I’ve never been your boss, Alayna. If anything, you’re the one who owns me.”

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203. “But his quiet intensity gave him away. I saw the effort it took. Saw the desire cloud his features. Saw his eyes sweep along my skin. I stopped wondering what this was and started wondering what it could be.”

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204. “You’ll come with me.” “Okay.” Anywhere he said, I’d go. “Good.”

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205. “He could have my body. He could have my pleasure. He could have my desire. But I couldn’t give him my trust.”

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206. “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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207. “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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208. “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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209. “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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210. “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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211. “I wouldn’t call any woman who chases after a man boring.”

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212. “I know what you need. Trust me to give it to you.”

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213. “Considering how much I was beginning to fear the truth, maybe it was best to avoid it.”

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214. “He pushed away from me. Gently, but pushed away all the same.”

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215. “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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216. “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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217. “My chest was aching, splitting open. For the second time that day, I felt like I was suffocating. Except this time there was plenty of air, just no room for it in my lungs as emotion squeezed against them, compressing them and rendering them useless.”

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218. “I need her like I need air to breathe.”

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219. “The baby bean with its strong heartbeat disappears and reappears on the screen, like a picture coming in and out of focus. But the third time it happens, there’s something else on the screen too, next to our baby bean. In fact, it looks like nothing more than a second baby bean, suspended upside down in Livia’s belly, thinking little, silent baby bean thoughts.”

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220. “I didn’t lead you anywhere you didn’t want to go.”

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221. “We had gotten a permanent room by banging the manager, and, on occasion, his son.”

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222. “He tortured me completely all the time without even being in the same room with me, and he didn’t know it.”

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223. “The things he did to my body were beyond fantastic. Beyond what I’d ever known my body could do or feel. And this thing he was doing to my heart? I shouldn’t want it. Shouldn’t acknowledge it.”

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224. “I thinking? Internet-stalking was for the old Alayna Withers. I would not stoop to that level. Hudson wanted me with him. Always. What other proof did I.”

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225. “Why do you do this to me?” I whispered. His lips hovered above mine. Dancing. Teasing. “Do what?” “Trap me like this.” “It makes me feel like I have you.” I ached at my core. “I don’t want you to feel like you have me.” “Are you sure of that?”

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226. “They loved believing they’d affected a woman so much that she was reduced to communicating through gasps and groans.”

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227. “So I pulled out my Kindle and got swept away in a book.”

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228. “I was dead, she said now. I’ve been dead the whole time.”

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229. “Why can’t we worry about each other?”

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230. “You listened. You always listen.”

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231. “It was a good thing I was a pacifist, because otherwise I’d have started planning her murder.”

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232. “It had been wonderful and magical and all the adjectives that people use to describe “making love.”

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233. “I’d said that trust was equivalent to love. He was asking if I loved him.”

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

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

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236. “More. That was all I could articulate. Just, more.”

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237. “The environment was only a step away from a whorehouse on so many levels.”

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238. “His weakness was me. He wanted me and he hated that maybe as much as I hated him.”

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239. “Every second I stood before him it got harder and harder to remember why I existed if not for him.”

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

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

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

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

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

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247. “I didn’t see someone who wanted to hurt me. Well, not someone who wanted to damage me, anyway.”

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248. “Celia was already seated when I arrived at A Voce. I waited until after the waitress had taken my order for an iced tea and chicken and watercress salad before.”

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249. “That was the funny thing about smiles – if you flashed the right one, no one knew there was more going on inside.”

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250. “The things she thinks are her flaws are the very aspects of her that I adore most.”

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