Top 40 Leah Johnson Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “Jealousy is a disease, Marino. Get well soon.”

— Leah Johnson

2. “I believe all we have is our word, that when we say things we should mean them, and mean them wholeheartedly.”

— Leah Johnson

3. “I kiss her with everything I have. Like I’ll never kiss her again. Because this is real, we finally made it to this place, and it’s better than any fairy tale. Because I’m done letting people stop me. Because here, always, we deserve this good thing.”

— Leah Johnson

4. “Loyalty between lifelong friends is complicated and runs deep. More deeply, even, than I think you realize, until just how different you and your friends have become is practically unavoidable.”

— Leah Johnson

5. “I’ve never felt quite like this though. Like I don’t know if I’m running away from something or to it. All I know is that I’m tired, so incredibly tired, of having to run at all.”

— Leah Johnson

6. “We are not above mistakes, not stronger than death, but we sure know how to love. Even if it isn’t always perfect, especially when it’s a little messy, we know how to love one another fiercely. With everything we have.”

— Leah Johnson

7. “Terrible people aren’t always the ones doing something wrong. Good people mess up too, but that doesn’t mean we should let it slide.”

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8. “I never needed this race, or a hashtag, or the king to be a queen. I was born royalty. All I had to do was pick up my crown.”

— Leah Johnson

9. “But there are still those outliers. The people who are everywhere but fit nowhere. People who are involved but not envied-present, but imperfect-so the scrutiny pushes them out of the race. People like me...”

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10. “I don’t believe in fairy tales and love at first sight and all that, but for just a second, I think this girl and those eyes and the way her freckles dot the entire expanse of her face are cute enough to make a believer out of me.”

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11. “I’ve learned all the ways to keep my head down, to hide, to make myself scarce. But I never really learned how to say when enough was a enough. Until now.”

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12. “Silence and shame aren’t the same thing – not by a longshot. But sometimes silence is simpler.”

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13. “The thing about anxiety is that it looks different for everyone. I mean, yeah, of course there are some threads that run through all of us that mark us as, you know, anxious people: being restless, exhausted, just plain fidgety. But it’s the nuances that change the game.”

— Leah Johnson

14. “Just because it could be worse doesn’t mean you don’t get to acknowledge how much it sucks, you know.”

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15. “And I know then what I’ve always known: Campbell is never going to make a space for me to fit. I’m going to have to demand it.”

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16. “And I realize that she always looks like that, like she’ll always be there when I come back.”

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17. “I’ve been searching and searching and here, with her, is the first time I’ve ever felt found.”

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18. “Do you feel that?” Mack shouts over the music. Her hand slips into mine gently, bringing me closer. “Feel what?” I don’t know what she means, not exactly anyway, but I want to stand still and allow whatever is happening to completely wash over me. She pulls back to smile at me. “Everything.”

— Leah Johnson

19. “You ready?” She whispers into my ear. With you, always, I think. “As I’ll ever be,” I say.”

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20. “I nod anyway because honestly, if I’m gonna die, I want to die having said yes to her as many times as I can.”

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21. “It’s something magical.”

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22. “When you already feel like everything about you makes you stand out, it just makes more sense to find as many ways to blend in as you can.”

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23. “My church is the press of bodies together in the crowd, the pulse of a bass guitar vibrating under our feet, and a lead singer preaching the gospel of rebellion and revolution and love through beautiful harmonies and perfect chord progressions.”

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24. “High school is complicated, and the lines of demarcation that The Breakfast Club said divided us aren’t quite so clean-cut. The athletes are also the smart kids; the theater kids are also the presidents of the student council. But there’s still those outliers. The people who are everywhere but fit nowhere.”

— Leah Johnson

25. “That’s one of my favorite parts about concerts, you know?” She turns to lay on her side and props her head up on one arm. “It’s like being part of some, I don’t know, organism? A living thing. All of us part of a body that needs full participation from each cell to function. You know what I mean?” I was only adequate at science in school, but I understand what she’s saying. “Yeah, exactly. The bands are the lungs, but we’re the breath.”

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26. “Jordan gets it. Or, he used to get it. But that limbo, the space between the people we used to be and the people we are now feels like it’s always going to hang in the air between us.”

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27. “Everything is so much more magnificent and complicated than I had initially budgeted for.”

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28. “When I open my mouth, everything happens so fast – the way I can feel her everywhere, the way my hands steady instead of shake where they tangle in her hair because I’ve maybe never felt so grounded before, so rooted in a moment.”

— Leah Johnson

29. “She’s even been rumored to be dating Davey Mack, the band’s hot bassist slash colead singer and the closest thing to a real-life Finnick Odair anyone could ever ask for.”

— Leah Johnson

30. “Love is messy and awkward and ugly, but at least it’s honest.”

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31. “Olivia is a melody that has made a song of my universe, and I realize I want to spend a long time trying to figure out all the notes.”

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32. “It’s why I loved him so much all those years ago because he’s sometimes vulnerable and always honest. And the warmth I feel for him in this moment is proof of every good thought I’ve ever had about him; flaws and fears and mistakes all. He is every bit the friend I need him to be right now.”

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33. “I was born royalty. All I had to do was pick up my crown.”

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34. “Because she refuses to come out and say what people already assume to be true about her. Because, like she croons on their ballad “My Life, My Story,” what she chooses to do should belong to her and the people she shares it with. She doesn’t owe anyone anything.”

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35. “I try to channel the confidence of a mediocre white man in a boardroom: untouchable.”

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36. “These days, when I talk about success, I focus on what it means for women, as individuals, once they have broken the glass ceilings because that act alone isn’t enough. And this is what the public conversation must become. If we are truly going to make progress for women, we need to talk about what it means to support women. And women who have fought their way to unprecedented professional success need to be honest about what that battle meant for them.”

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37. “Someone once told me You spent your life running. Well, I wish you’d stand still, ‘Cause in this light you’re stunning. It’s my life, my story, And I want to share it with you. It’s my life, my story, But part of it was always yours too.”

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38. “I just want you to know that you can rest, Lizzie, baby.” She kisses the top of my head softly. “I got you when you’re ready to rest.”

— Leah Johnson

39. “Somewhere in the light-years of space between the spiritual and the scientific, between the known and the ineffable, there’s live music.”

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40. “When you thought you might never have something again, when it comes back to you, it’s somehow a hundred times better than you remember.”

— Leah Johnson

41. “It’s like we’re on display for everyone to see but somehow tucked away in a world of our own making up here.”

— Leah Johnson