Top 80 Lauren Layne Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “Chemistry is like anything in life. The more you look for it, the harder it is to find.”

— Lauren Layne

2. “I’ve tried being someone’s second choice. I can’t do it again.”

— Lauren Layne

3. “Love is not a game, ladies. Treat it like one, and you’re bound to lose. Everyone talks about the rewards of finding that one person. Nobody warns you about the pain of losing him.”

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4. “You hurt me, I want to say. You’re my best friend. The one who’s supposed to tell me I’d be the best boyfriend in the world and that any girl would be lucky to have me, not the one who laughs outright at the thought that I might need someone to love.”

— Lauren Layne

5. “I have a serious lady boner for the guy I’m supposed to work for.”

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6. “He held me while I cried. And then made love to me so gently I wanted to cry all over again.”

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7. “Bow down, peons,” Lincoln said. “I’m a king among men.” “Where are you coming up with this?” Cole asked him. Lincoln pointed at Jackson. “Um, hello – Jackson Burke knows my name.”

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8. “Michael, listen. I get it. Nobody’s ever loved you first. You’re tired of being second choice. Or nobody’s choice. I get it. Because nobody’s ever loved me first, either. But I’ve been thinking about this, and Michael... I don’t think it’s about who loves you first. It’s about who loves you best. And that’s me.”

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9. “What now?’, she asked, feeling tired and broken.”

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10. “I only know what I want her to be – mine.”

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11. “I mean, why would you want the funny sidekick when you can have the heroine?”

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12. “Not every relationship is forever, but it’s easy to forget that until your own happily-ever-after goes sideways.”

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13. “There’s nothing rational about love.”

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14. “And if she’d thought the man was dangerous in a football uniform, he was positively lethal in a tux.”

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15. “Stephanie, huh?” I ask, when she doesn’t respond. “You go by Steph?” “No. Not Steph.” she says as we cross the street to the familiar green and white Starbucks logo. “My ex-boyfriend called me that so I’m kind of over it.” God, someone actually dated this cranky little midget? Then my eyes skimmed the perky cleavage beneath the tiny tank top. Right. There was that.”

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16. “If I thought Fridays were awesome when I was a full-time student, they’re downright euphoric now that I’m part of the regular workforce.”

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17. “Stephen had a girlfriend named Libby Tittles, or something unfortunate like that, and Korie had this on-again-off-again thing with her junior high boyfriend. But anyone who’s ever seen a movie, or watched TV, or just had basic awareness of human interaction saw exactly where Korie and Stephen were heading: Humpville.”

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18. “I look like the troubled girl parents warn their kids away from, and Ethan looks like the homecoming king.”

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19. “You can write about relationships all you want. Get as personal as you want. Your serial dating days are over, Ms. Greene. From here on out, anything related to your personal relationships better be about me.”

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20. “No, he was underwear-model, sexiest-man-alive, face-of-the-NFL gorgeous.”

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21. “Sometimes the perfect fit comes from discovering something we didn’t know existed. Could exist.”

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22. “I’ve moved before I realize I’m going to, and suddenly Stephanie is in my arms and I’m carrying my fake girlfriend through the Upper West Side as she mutters threats in my ear, and even though my delicate little flower is cursing up a storm, I find myself grinning.”

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23. “As she stared at the man she’d once harbored an unhealthy crush on – a crush she was no longer at all sure had dissipated – she realized that the answer to his question was everything. She had everything to lose.”

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24. “The point is,” he continued a little roughly, “I learned early on that we create our own narrative. It doesn’t matter what other people say about us as long as we know who and what we are. And here’s the other thing people don’t want you to know: you don’t have to be the same thing all the time. You can wear scuffed work boots one day, a bow tie the next.”

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25. “Women don’t like secrets, Mulroney. Even the ones that we logically know are necessary. They break our heart.”

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26. “And the kiss was better than the fantasy. Better than anything she’d ever experienced.”

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27. “Just that I figure at some point, some guy must have been able to make you smile. And I always wondered if it was the same guy that made you stop.”

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28. “But having that love unreturned feels a bit like crashing and burning.”

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29. “Real love – the kind that matters – is giving your heart to someone even after he tries to hand it back.”

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30. “The woman was just so damn vivacious, drawing people to her with every breath. Everyone liked Georgiana. And she’d chosen him. Somehow, this gorgeous, compelling creature seemed to want to spend time with him.”

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31. “New house rule,” I say. “You have to say it every day.”

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32. “By now I’m done expecting a laugh from this girl, but she suprises me, letting out a little giggle that reminds me of a rainbow escaping from a mud puddle.”

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33. “I haven’t even seen the guy in full light yet and I’m about fifteen seconds away from asking if his offspring would like to take up residence in my uterus.”

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34. “Watch out for that one, Grace 2.0 whispered. That smile will have you tucking your heart into your panties and handing the whole shebang over before he even buys you a drink.”

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35. “I wouldn’t be at all surprised if he jacks off to an Excel spreadsheet.”

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36. “And the fact that you used to be in love with him.”

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37. “The thought of Chloe changing kills me a little. She’s one of the most real girls I know, and I’d give anything to have her stay that way, just as she is.”

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38. “Someday, Mollie Carrington, men aren’t going to need to be bribed to dance with you. They’re going to fight for the honor.”

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39. “He kisses me on and on, and slowly I feel my doubts disappear. I let myself believe, just for a second, that he wants me the way I want him.”

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40. “In no ecosystem should we even be acknowledging each other’s existence.”

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41. “He’d been keeping his distance. He’d had to. But today he didn’t want to. He wanted to see her. Needed to see her.”

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42. “And I’d be lying if I didn’t take a lot of pride in what I think of as my personal superpower: the ability to accept and embrace things as they are, not as I wish they could be.”

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43. “Because you said you loved him. Because you deserve your fairy-tale ending. And because I’d do anything for you, Gracie Cooper. Even if it means letting you go.”

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44. “Life’s not easier for any of us. The best we can do is choose to get through it with the right people.”

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45. “Do they have exercises for personality? You should do those.”

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46. “Julie Greene had built a career out of falling in love. Staying in love? Not so much.”

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47. “Slowly, though, my fingers savoring the familiar soft skin. And then I let her go. I let her go all the way then, because she’s my best friend. And because I care way too much to hurt her any more than I already have by keeping her close.”

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48. “Isn’t this every woman’s fantasy, to be the one who tames the untamable?”

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49. “Lucy crawled on her hands and knees over to him, and he noticed the smashed Kleenex box in her hand. Without the slightest bit of hesitation, she sat beside him on the platform, swinging her legs around to dangle like his, and handed Reece the Kleenex box.”

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50. “I resign myself to apologizing to the miniature goth monster.”

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