Top 100 Leisa Rayven Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “Shh. Don’t talk. Just let me smell you.”

— Leisa Rayven

2. “I would climb him like a tree and bang him like a screen door in a hurricane.”

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3. “Oh, the pretty penises. Not flaccid ones of course, because they’re just floppy, wrinkly, and gross. But the erect ones? Wow. Beautiful. Magnificent. Incredibly sexy.”

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4. “I’m not saying goodbye,” he says as he shoves his hands in his pockets. “Because this isn’t over. One day, fate’s going to fix this. Bring us back together. I believe that.”

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5. “Love cannot be found where it doesn’t exist, nor can it be hidden where it truly does.”

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6. “Never mind that it’s wetter than a Slip’N Slide in my panties right now.”

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7. “All of a sudden, I’m really tired. I feel like I’m always fighting to be with him, while he’s fighting to push me away.”

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8. “Oh, Sweetie. No one ever gets through their TBR list. For every book you finish, you’ll add five more. That’s just the way it works.”

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9. “Sparks of tension are swirling all around us, filling the air with all the things we’re not addressing. Most of the time, we’re as comfortable as life-long friends. But every now and then, it’s like even the most innocent of remarks will give away more than we can bear, so we clam up.”

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10. “Scared people either shut down and avoid the thing they fear, or get angry at it and lash out.”

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11. “I still can’t believe he just left. I mean, if you sleep with a girl for the first time, you at least send her a text, right? If not an actual phone call to say, “Hey, thanks for letting me deflower you. It was rad.”

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12. “Yes, I love you. But you have no idea how many times I’ve wished I didn’t.”

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13. “Loneliness is like a big, empty room inside you that echoes with the sounds of the life you’re not living.”

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14. “Dear Cassandra, sometimes it’s not about trying to fix something that’s broken. Sometimes it’s about starting again and building something new. Something better.” He looks over at Holt, who’s stopped pacing and is staring at us. “It seems like the old foundation is still there. Use it.” He leaves and pats Holt on the shoulder as he passes. “I hope to see you on Monday, Mr. Holt.”

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15. “I wonder if he ever looks at me and notices how different I am. How jaded I’ve become. How fragile. I wonder if he ever thinks that after all the effort he’s gone through to be with me again, I’m no longer worth it.”

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16. “God, Liss, I can’t live without you anymore, and I’m tired of pretending that I can.”

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17. “Humans are strange creatures. We lie every day, in a thousand different ways. The most common lie is, ‘I have read the terms and conditions.’ The second most common lie is, ‘I’m fine.”

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18. “When you’re so in love with someone you can’t imagine living without them, everything changes.”

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19. “I never realized how much it hurt to not be with you until I saw you again, and the pain went away.”

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20. “I mean, you turn me on and I’m a bona-fide cock lover. I have no idea why that hot-blooded straight boy thought he could be anything but totally obsessed with you.”

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21. “When you love someone, they should appear beautiful to you, no matter what they look like.”

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22. “Actually, his term is touchy-fucky but I modify it to make myself feel better.”

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23. “This is what love feels like. To no longer belong to yourself. To be pulled from what you know into what you feel. No wonder people live and die for this feeling.”

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24. “Bravo for faking it yet again, Ethan. You’re a perfect counterfeit copy of someone I thought I loved.”

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25. “My love life is like that game where you flip cards over to try and make a match, but the cards are on fire, and the table’s on fire, and everyone is in hell.”

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26. “It’s his words that slay me. His sometimes sweet, sometimes sad, always sexy words about love and loss seem to bypass my brain and speak straight to my soul.”

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27. “I take a swig of wine. A big one. It’s pointless. There’s not enough wine in the world for this.”

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28. “You terrify me. But not enough to make me think you won’t be worth it.”

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29. “I desperately want someone else to ruin me the way he does, but they don’t even come close.”

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30. “Loving you isn’t a choice. It’s who I am.”

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31. “Loving you,” he says, “is the stupidest, most selfish thing I’ve ever done, but I can’t stop. God knows, I’ve tried.”

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32. “The thing about developing an addiction is that it happens so quietly, you don’t know how much trouble you’re in until it’s to late. It tiptoes through the rooms of your mind and body, gently inserting hooks and strings into every cell, until you don’t know where you end and it beginigs. And untangling that web is nearly impossible.”

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33. “Tread carefully. That boy is an avalanche just waiting to happen.”

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34. “I know you’re thinking that you’ve been shut down for so long, you don’t know how to wake up. That all these messy feelings I bring out in you make you wish you’d never met me.”

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35. “I love you,” he murmurs as he rests his head on my shoulder. “I love you so much. Don’t leave me.”

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36. “It’s the subtle shudder when you hear the other’s person’s name. The times when you think about their smile and find it impossible to keep a straight face. It’s those small, precious moments you wish they were with you, because nothing means anything until you share it with them. More than a passion and love alone, it’s that internal alchemy that makes them part of you.”

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37. “The problem is, no matter how careful he is, I’ll always remember the other falls, and no matter how much he tells me he’s different, I’ll always know it was at my expense.”

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38. “I can’t believe that in the world of wrong we’ve created together, this can still feel so right.”

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39. “Be the change you want to see.”

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40. “My smile couldn’t be smugger if I bought it from Smuggy McSmugster at the Smug Store in Smugville.”

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41. “Do it. Be brave. Go after what you want with all the passion you possess. Nothing hollows out a heart more thoroughly than regret.”

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42. “The whole weekend turned out to be one giant round of excruciating foreplay, and if he doesn’t stop stalling and give me some relief pretty damn pronto, there’s going to be a girl-parts rebellion the likes of which he’s never seen. I’m wound tighter than Jane Fonda’s latest facelift, goddammit.”

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43. “I feel like I’m in a disaster movie, and that belt is the iceberg that’s going to sink the good ship Orgasm. It must be destroyed.”

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44. “I’ve never stopped loving you. From the day we met, you’ve been the only one for me. There’s never been anyone else.”

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45. “People are like stained-glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there’s a light from within.”

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46. “Just emotional? There’s no such thing. Emotions are nothing without a corresponding physical response. Adrenaline-fueled joy, heart-thumping fear, gut-churning loss.”

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47. “It’s not like I didn’t have friends in high school. I did. But I was always careful to be the Cassie I thought they expected. Happy, easy-going, nonthreatening. Smart but not intimidating. Pretty but not desired. The one who acted as the go-between when someone liked a boy, but never the one the boy liked.”

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48. “You think I can even pretend to remain professional with you anymore? You’re so strong in so many ways, but right now, you look like a scared little girl. Why is it so difficult to cope with the thought that you like me?”

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49. “Not I. Believe me, you have dancing shoes with nimble soles. I have a soul of lead so stakes me to the ground I cannot move.”

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50. “He’s looking at me, torn and passionate, and I don’t know how I thought I was truly alive before I met him. This is what love feels like. To no longer belong to yourself. To be pulled from what you know into what you feel. No wonder people live and die for this feeling.”

— Leisa Rayven