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Top 25 Lauren Gilley Quotes (2025 Update)

Lauren Gilley Quote: “Strong men need strong love, and a soft touch. Once you fall in love with a man like that, there’s no going back to ordinary.”

1. “Strong men need strong love, and a soft touch. Once you fall in love with a man like that, there’s no going back to ordinary.”

— Lauren Gilley

Lauren Gilley Quote: “I’m your last choice,” she said. “You tried everything, tasted everyone in Knoxville. And when the princess told you off, you came to me, the last ditch effort.”

2. “I’m your last choice,” she said. “You tried everything, tasted everyone in Knoxville. And when the princess told you off, you came to me, the last ditch effort.”

— Lauren Gilley

Lauren Gilley Quote: “Because I don’t like dating. I hate putting on a show and hoping someone will like me, and doing it again the next weekend and the next, with someone new. I don’t want ‘dudes.’ I want a man, who’s all my own. I want ‘the one.’” She gave him a halfhearted smile. “But you probably think that’s lame, don’t you, playboy?”

3. “Because I don’t like dating. I hate putting on a show and hoping someone will like me, and doing it again the next weekend and the next, with someone new. I don’t want ‘dudes.’ I want a man, who’s all my own. I want ‘the one.’” She gave him a halfhearted smile. “But you probably think that’s lame, don’t you, playboy?”

— Lauren Gilley

Lauren Gilley Quote: “What must it be like to be all James Dean and Steve McQueen in your leather and denim? Not giving a damn about anything?”

4. “What must it be like to be all James Dean and Steve McQueen in your leather and denim? Not giving a damn about anything?”

— Lauren Gilley

Lauren Gilley Quote: “Violence is never the answer.” A milder version of what the cops had told her. “No, ma’am,” Maggie agreed. “It isn’t.” Except when it was, sometimes.”

5. “Violence is never the answer.” A milder version of what the cops had told her. “No, ma’am,” Maggie agreed. “It isn’t.” Except when it was, sometimes.”

— Lauren Gilley

Lauren Gilley Quote: “The world is full of terrible things. But there are beautiful things, too, and you’re one of them.”

6. “The world is full of terrible things. But there are beautiful things, too, and you’re one of them.”

— Lauren Gilley

Lauren Gilley Quote: “A little fear’s healthy. The day we stop being afraid is probably the day we stop being human.”

7. “A little fear’s healthy. The day we stop being afraid is probably the day we stop being human.”

— Lauren Gilley

Lauren Gilley Quote: “Mercy grinned. “Do I smell a shotgun wedding? I’ve wanted to call you Daddy for so long now.”

8. “Mercy grinned. “Do I smell a shotgun wedding? I’ve wanted to call you Daddy for so long now.”

— Lauren Gilley

Lauren Gilley Quote: “Can you still make fire with my knife sticking out of your throat?”

9. “Can you still make fire with my knife sticking out of your throat?”

— Lauren Gilley

Lauren Gilley Quote: “Tango tipped his head back against the bench, staring up at the denim-colored evening sky. This was the most dangerous, the most wonderful, the most daring addiction of all: life.”

10. “Tango tipped his head back against the bench, staring up at the denim-colored evening sky. This was the most dangerous, the most wonderful, the most daring addiction of all: life.”

— Lauren Gilley

Lauren Gilley Quote: “But women were complicated, subtle, and so much stronger than men always wanted to give them credit.”

11. “But women were complicated, subtle, and so much stronger than men always wanted to give them credit.”

— Lauren Gilley

Lauren Gilley Quote: “Beautiful’ isn’t a feminine word. I don’t even think it’s a human word. It isn’t what something looks like; it’s what something is.”

12. “Beautiful’ isn’t a feminine word. I don’t even think it’s a human word. It isn’t what something looks like; it’s what something is.”

— Lauren Gilley

Lauren Gilley Quote: “Break up with him,” he said softly, “or I’ll put his head through a window.”

13. “Break up with him,” he said softly, “or I’ll put his head through a window.”

— Lauren Gilley

Lauren Gilley Quote: “Heartbreak was never cured; it just went into remission.”

14. “Heartbreak was never cured; it just went into remission.”

— Lauren Gilley

Lauren Gilley Quote: “Tango, ever the gentleman, gave her a wink. “I don’t have anything in my blood but beer and poor white trash. Figure I gotta get in good with these leader types.”

15. “Tango, ever the gentleman, gave her a wink. “I don’t have anything in my blood but beer and poor white trash. Figure I gotta get in good with these leader types.”

— Lauren Gilley

Lauren Gilley Quote: “He had to keep her at his side, because he’d need to lean on her the whole way, however long it took. He needed her to stick knives in the throats of the monsters he couldn’t handle himself.”

16. “He had to keep her at his side, because he’d need to lean on her the whole way, however long it took. He needed her to stick knives in the throats of the monsters he couldn’t handle himself.”

— Lauren Gilley

Lauren Gilley Quote: “Maybe ‘normal’ isn’t what you should be trying for. You’re too brave for normal.”

17. “Maybe ‘normal’ isn’t what you should be trying for. You’re too brave for normal.”

— Lauren Gilley

Lauren Gilley Quote: “He saw the brilliant halo around them for what it was: union. That perfect blending of acceptance, sympathy, empathy, understanding and physical need that coalesced into glue, until there was only the union between them, and both were powerless to describe it.”

18. “He saw the brilliant halo around them for what it was: union. That perfect blending of acceptance, sympathy, empathy, understanding and physical need that coalesced into glue, until there was only the union between them, and both were powerless to describe it.”

— Lauren Gilley

Lauren Gilley Quote: “Mercy was his ice breaker, his Jolly Cajun Giant, who could get away with saying whatever he damned wanted because no one wanted to climb up on a stepladder and stop him.”

19. “Mercy was his ice breaker, his Jolly Cajun Giant, who could get away with saying whatever he damned wanted because no one wanted to climb up on a stepladder and stop him.”

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Lauren Gilley Quote: “But women were complicated, subtle, and so much stronger than men always wanted to give them credit. They could swallow hurt whole and let it eat them from the inside out in a way none of his brothers ever could. And when they fought, their claws were sharper.”

20. “But women were complicated, subtle, and so much stronger than men always wanted to give them credit. They could swallow hurt whole and let it eat them from the inside out in a way none of his brothers ever could. And when they fought, their claws were sharper.”

— Lauren Gilley

Lauren Gilley Quote: “I think when you hate yourself badly enough to slit your wrists, you can’t haul yourself out of the hole. You have to be pulled out.”

21. “I think when you hate yourself badly enough to slit your wrists, you can’t haul yourself out of the hole. You have to be pulled out.”

— Lauren Gilley

Lauren Gilley Quote: “Aidan and Carter had shown up about fifteen minutes ago with a pressure washer, lots of detergent, and a bad case of being mentally twelve.”

22. “Aidan and Carter had shown up about fifteen minutes ago with a pressure washer, lots of detergent, and a bad case of being mentally twelve.”

— Lauren Gilley

$Lauren Gilley Quote: “The human heart was nothing but muscle, all meat and pulp, but she swore hers must be marble, because she felt the sudden spidering of cracks across it. The fault lines. It was a hard, cold lump behind her sternum, and it was fracturing, and it was all her fault.”$

23. “The human heart was nothing but muscle, all meat and pulp, but she swore hers must be marble, because she felt the sudden spidering of cracks across it. The fault lines. It was a hard, cold lump behind her sternum, and it was fracturing, and it was all her fault.”

— Lauren Gilley

Lauren Gilley Quote: “They were not smooth men, the bikers in her life, not fine, or well-loved by Mother Nature. The life – the wind, the sun, the drink, the sin, the violence – it took their soft layers away like sandpaper, over time, until there was a certain stark pride in their wrinkles and dark patches.”

24. “They were not smooth men, the bikers in her life, not fine, or well-loved by Mother Nature. The life – the wind, the sun, the drink, the sin, the violence – it took their soft layers away like sandpaper, over time, until there was a certain stark pride in their wrinkles and dark patches.”

— Lauren Gilley

Lauren Gilley Quote: “Never before had he said such long strings of sentences in French before, like he did now. In the sheltering dark, his thrusts were slow, deep, sure, his hands digging bruises into her hips, the French rolling in thick purrs off his tongue; she had the impression it was sexual, whatever he said, the way the words caressed and encouraged her.”

25. “Never before had he said such long strings of sentences in French before, like he did now. In the sheltering dark, his thrusts were slow, deep, sure, his hands digging bruises into her hips, the French rolling in thick purrs off his tongue; she had the impression it was sexual, whatever he said, the way the words caressed and encouraged her.”

— Lauren Gilley

Lauren Gilley Quote: “I dunno,” Mercy said, putting a little more pressure on the frail sternum beneath his boot sole. “Too many people tell the truth, and I’ll be out of a job. If he lies” – a wide smile for Fisher’s benefit – “then I get to go to work.”

26. “I dunno,” Mercy said, putting a little more pressure on the frail sternum beneath his boot sole. “Too many people tell the truth, and I’ll be out of a job. If he lies” – a wide smile for Fisher’s benefit – “then I get to go to work.”

— Lauren Gilley

Lauren Gilley Quote: “She’d put her teeth in his heart, long ago, and he’d left the print there, evidence that he wanted her love. That he returned it.”

27. “She’d put her teeth in his heart, long ago, and he’d left the print there, evidence that he wanted her love. That he returned it.”

— Lauren Gilley

Lauren Gilley Quote: “Because the world was scary, but family should have meant love and acceptance.”

28. “Because the world was scary, but family should have meant love and acceptance.”

— Lauren Gilley

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