Top 250 Laurelin Paige Quotes (2024 Update)
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201. “What do you want?” There was no need to think before I answered. “Whatever you let me have of you.” “What if it’s everything?” “Then I’ll take everything.”

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202. “I wanted to say the right thing, more than I’d ever wanted to say the right thing in my life, but I wasn’t sure what the right thing was. I’d have to make a guess.”

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203. “Maybe I’m afraid that you should run from me.” “If I should, would you let me?”

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204. “I stopped wondering what this was and started wondering what it could be.”

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205. “In the meantime, the wound that needed attention was the largest one, the one that gushed and bled from my spirit like a slice across the carotid artery:.”

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206. “They tell the story of a man who’s drowning in his love for a woman. Drowning, but he can still breathe fine. The woman’s flawed, but to him, she’s perfect. She makes his head spin. She’s distracting and inspiring. And he’s so enamored with her that every part of him loves for every part of her. It’s a song about being open, about having no barriers. About loving with “all of me” and asking for “all of you” in return.”

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207. “I’m an awful host,” he said eventually. “I should tell you to make yourself at home, but all I care about is making myself at home inside you.”

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208. “I hated him. Hated every terrible wonderful emotion he inspired within me. Hated how completely and perfectly he mastered me. Hated how he could be absolutely brutal and yet still required my consent. Hated how much I could never stop loving him.”

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209. “I knew who I was and what my purpose was. I hadn’t been made to be noticed or adored. And this man – this man not only noticed and adored, but he worshipped.”

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210. “It didn’t matter if he was lying. All that mattered was that I believed him.”

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211. “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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212. “How could I let someone do those things to me and feel better about myself than I ever had? Feel more for him than I had for anyone I could remember?”

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213. “They ended in death and that was the best part of it.”

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214. “Didn’t everyone deserve a chance to change?”

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215. “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.”

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216. “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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217. “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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218. “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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219. “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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220. “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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221. “I need that from you. I need you to be that way with me.”

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

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

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

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226. “Strong on the outside, battling demons on the inside – she was, in so many ways, like me.”

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

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228. “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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229. “I’ll love her like this, without words, but with my life.”

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

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231. “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.”

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232. “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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233. “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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234. “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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235. “Precious, sun ray. See?”

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

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238. “Can’t help it. You inspire the naughty. You’re that kind of beautiful.”

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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250. “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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