Top 70 Laurie Gilmore Quotes (2026 Update)

1. “These are chickens, right? They’re weird.’ ‘Silkie chickens,’ he said, striding toward her, a sort of shell-shocked look on his face. ‘Ooh... fancy,’ she teased.”

— Laurie Gilmore

2. “You’re a big dog person, I take it.’ ‘They’re better than people in every way.”

— Laurie Gilmore

3. “Reading was probably safer than hiking, anyway.”

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4. “Morally Grey, Enemies to Lovers, Grumpy-slash-Sunshine,’ he read off the other candle labels. ‘Slow Burn, at least that one makes sense for a candle.’ He set the last candle down and found Kira laughing at him. ‘Here, this one suits you best,’ she said, handing him a candle with Cinnamon Roll written on the side. He sniffed it. ‘Smells good. Still don’t get what any of that means, though.”

— Laurie Gilmore

5. “Will you be my best friend?’ the fox asked the rabbit. ‘But we’re so different,’ said the rabbit. ‘That’s why I like you.”

— Laurie Gilmore

6. “I have all my favorite days with you.”

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7. “He stopped in front of the old fence that kept Harry Styles, his rescue alpaca, safely out of the driveway.”

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8. “Jeanie slept like a baby. And not one of those babies that’s up all night. Like a really impressive sleeping baby.”

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9. “Dear God, did Logan wear reading glasses?! She did not stand a freaking chance with this man. She might as well just hand over her panties right now.”

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10. “You brought a book.’ ‘Of course I did.’ His mouth tipped up in the corner, unable to resist the little smirk on her face. ‘Of course you did.’ ‘I always bring a book, just in case.”

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11. “So, he was shoveling goat excrement to punish himself and to clear his mind. Who needed meditation when there was poop to clear?”

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12. “She liked relationships like she liked her chicken wings, hot and fast.”

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13. “Anyway, I need to steer clear of the hot farmer. The last thing I need is angry townspeople with pitchforks outside my door because I broke his heart at the town square dance or something.”

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14. “I always bring a book, just in case.”

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15. “I realized, maybe too late, that being independent doesn’t have to mean being alone.”

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16. “I am not! I just prefer to be inside. I’m an inside cat.”

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17. “He probably needed therapy, but that was an issue for another day.”

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18. “But first, coffee.”

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19. “Fall was a strange time for reinvention. Fall was better for... snuggling and eating food covered in gravy.”

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20. “When her favorite coffee place on the corner was closed for a week, she could barely function. And it wasn’t for lack of caffeine. There was no shortage of coffee shops in the city, but none of them were hers. She’d been in a bad mood all week.”

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21. “It was the magic of the flannel.”

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22. “And now here she was, grown up and without a single clue who she was without someone else demanding every second of her time. Without Marvin to manage, Jeanie didn’t know what to do with herself.”

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23. “He loved how early it got dark, how high and hot the bonfire grew, how the whole night felt cozy and spooky at once. Like he was safe here with his grandparents and his friends, but there still might be danger lurking just beyond the glow of the fire.”

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24. “I think I’ve had plenty of fun for one night. I should probably get to bed.’ ‘Haze, it’s nine o’clock.’ ‘I’m tired.’ ‘Haze, nine o’clock is an old-lady bedtime.’ ‘I’m an old lady.”

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25. “I was prepared to read every damn book in that bookstore just to spend more time with you.”

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26. “She was watching him now, her big eyes taking him in like she always did. She looked at him like maybe he didn’t come up short in her eyes. Hazel was the one person in his life who looked at him and he didn’t feel like she was searching for something that wasn’t there. And God, wasn’t that addictive? That feeling that maybe you were good enough.”

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27. “She laughed and it sounded like hope.”

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28. “See, people always think cities are dangerous, but small towns are where all the worst serial killers live!”

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29. “She wasn’t so much afraid of dying as she was of forgetting to live her life. Somewhere along the way, she’d forgotten to figure out who she was or what she wanted to be when she grew up.”

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30. “It was a slow day, bright and sunny, the type of day people wanted to be running around outside, not browsing the shelves of a bookstore. Not that Hazel understood that line of reasoning. She always wanted to be browsing the shelves of a bookstore.”

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31. “Cute in like a koala-napping-in-a-tree kinda way. Not cute in a I-want-to-get-in-her-pants kinda way. And that was fine. She’d made her peace with it.”

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32. “Jeanie Ellis had never killed a man before, but tonight might be the night.”

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33. “He held her gaze, the air crackling between them. He hadn’t imagined it. Every time he saw her, he felt it. This buzz under his skin. It was back, electric and real, like the storm brewing overhead.”

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34. “Somewhere along the way, she’d forgotten to figure out who she was or what she wanted to be when she grew up.”

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35. “They are going to come in here all hopped up on their latest smutty book, cackling like a coven of witches. And then they’re going to want to know everything about you.”

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36. “Sometimes life punched you in the face and then kicked you while you were down.”

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37. “He didn’t have a ton of friends; he probably shouldn’t murder this one.”

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38. “For the past seven years, she’d managed to avoid thinking about what she wanted and now all she wanted was this man, petting this cat, and holding her against his strong body like he had before.”

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39. “There was history in this house. It was worn in like the perfect pair of old jeans.”

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40. “I’m in love with you, Iris,’ he said, in between kisses, like it was normal, like they said it to each other every day, like it didn’t suck the air from her lungs to hear it said out loud. ‘I know it’s fast, and I know it’s maybe not what you wanted. But I do. I love you. I love every damn thing about you.”

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41. “Making out with Logan was just the cherry on top. New Jeanie liked cherries.”

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42. “Now he had to figure out how to live in the same town as her and not lose his mind pining after her. Because while Annie wasn’t his anymore, he would always be hers.”

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43. “Were people ever more vulnerable than when they were unapologetically excited about something? He didn’t think so.”

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44. “This day, this life, felt like a different type of achievement. The type that only required his presence not his perfection.”

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45. “Maybe she could be cheerful and dark, messy and competent, sunshine and rain, New Jeanie and Old Jeanie mixed together.”

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46. “He sighed. ‘Taylor, Rihanna, Lizzo.’ He pointed to the three chickens in her lap. ‘That’s Lady Gaga and Britney over there. And this is Selena trying to climb on your head.’ ‘What?!’ The laugh that burst out of her mouth startled the chickens and they flew up in a puff of feathers. Jeanie doubled over in a fit of giggles. ‘You named your chickens after pop stars?’ she wheezed.”

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47. “He gets all kinds of crazy ideas in his head after we read these books.’ ‘If equal-opportunity orgasms and parity in relationships are crazy ideas, then I don’t want to be sane!”

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48. “Maybe she hadn’t needed to change her life, maybe she’d just needed to change how she saw her life. How she saw herself.”

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49. “She wanted to say more. That he was a breath of fresh air in her musty life, that he was slowly reminding her how to let go, that he was waking her up like the Sun after a long winter.”

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50. “Hazel wasn’t her job or her curls or her cute button-up blouses. She was the tart spark of blueberries on his tongue, she was salt air and rainy days, she was the perfect book. She was kisses and secret smiles. She was everything. He just needed her.”

— Laurie Gilmore