Top 100 Leisa Rayven Quotes (2024 Update)
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51. “What do you do when you see someone you love unraveling? Do you try to stop it?”

— Leisa Rayven

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

— Leisa Rayven

53. “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.”

— Leisa Rayven

54. “I take the lighter and resist the urge to hug him. Tristan says I can be a little too touchy-feely. Actually, his term is touchy-fucky but I modify it to make myself feel better.”

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55. “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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56. “We all have issues we’re trying to overcome, Miss Tate. Everyone wants to feel special, whether we admit it or not. And loving without limits and allowing ourselves to be loved in return is what life’s all about. Or at least, what it should be about. Everything else just gets in the way.”

— Leisa Rayven

57. “Heartache doesn’t teach you to be resilient. It teaches you to protect your fragility. It teaches you to fear love. And it draws a bright red circle around all the ways you’ve failed as a person and laughs while you cry.”

— Leisa Rayven

58. “What self-respecting American teenager gets to the ripe old age of nineteen without getting high at least once?”

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

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60. “Be the change you want to see.”

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61. “He’s a walking, breathing erogenous zone who fascinates me and infuriates me in equal measures.”

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62. “This man represents so many things to me. He was my first true friend. My first love. First lover. The master of more pleasure than I knew existed, and the architect of more heartache than I thought I could endure. It.”

— Leisa Rayven

63. “There’s only so much you can watch someone sacrifice before you realize they’re changing who they are for you, and not in a good way.”

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64. “This is precious. This is love. This is something I’ll never take for granted, because I know how it feels to be without it.”

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65. “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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66. “In fact, my yoga pants should be called “sitting around eating cheese pants.” A longer title, sure, but more accurate.”

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67. “I’m trying to keep my optimism in check, because getting too invested before I know our score is mightily stupid. But when just walking next to someone is this thrilling, you know you’re a goner.”

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68. “Despite all the things I would have changed about our journey, I’d never want a different destination. It’s always been you.”

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69. “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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70. “He takes a step forward, and I hate the way he looks at me. Appraising and approving. Hungry. It draws me in against my will, like he’s flypaper, and everything inside me is buzzing and trying to wrench itself free.”

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71. “His eyes widen. Then he laughs. “Elissa isn’t my girlfriend. Jesus, that’s disgusting. She’s my sister.” It’s my turn to be surprised. “Your sister?” “Yes.” Relief has never felt more odious.”

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72. “And so Ethan and I orbit each other. Get on with things. Learn the art of pretending. Hone our craft to lie to others as skillfully as we lie to ourselves.”

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73. “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.”

— Leisa Rayven

74. “He has one of those faces that stops you when you’re flipping through a magazine. Not textbook handsome, but mesmerizing. Like a book cover that begs you to flip it open and get lost in the story.”

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75. “She said people are too obsessed with conquering their fear when they should just learn to accept it and do stuff that scares them anyway.”

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76. “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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77. “The one thing I’ve learned while doing this work is that as much as I enjoy playing out romantic fantasies, it’s still just pretend, and more and more I’m craving something real.”

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78. “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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79. “I don’t think you understand. I have no moves. I’m move-less.”

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80. “I do a lot of things badly and a few things well. But I do one thing better than anyone else on the planet, and that’s love you.”

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81. “Every day when you walk through that door, it takes more and more effort for me to stay away from you, and I can’t keep doing it. It’s too goddamn draining.”

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

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83. “Do I need to explain how to make love to a woman? Because although I’ve never had the pleasure, I’m fairly certain it involves thrusting.”

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84. “The thing is, if people were books, Ethan would be a bestseller. A sexy, intelligent page-turner you’d find hard to put down, even after it reduced you to a sobbing mess.”

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85. “You disrupted my entire world, Even Tate. I’m used to being the one in control. The one people fall in love with. I’m not supposed to fall in love.”

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86. “Not just my body. It’s more than that. Some parts spark. Others melt. A flux of chemistry and catastrophe, the same compulsive need that keeps bringing us back together.”

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87. “I hit my favorite caffeine supplier near the subway station and get myself a big, fat triple-shotter. I need coffee like air this morning. Even with the muscle relaxants and alcohol, I didn’t sleep well. I kept having dreams that Max was in bed with me, all hard and warm and smelling like a spring orchard, touching me like I was precious and making me feel like I could do anything as long as he was by my side. It was the closest thing to a nightmare I’ve had in years.”

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88. “Sometimes people put up walls, not only to keep people out, but also to see who cares enough to tear them down. Understand?”

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89. “Cassie, I felt like a ghost while I was away from you. I was. Now, I want to feel real again.”

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90. “Just moving. Like most of our time together, we’re treading water. Trying not to drown.”

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91. “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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92. “You rubbed your girl flower on his love muscle, Cass. It counts.”

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93. “And I have the strongest feeling that having part of you is going to be better than having all of anybody else.”

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94. “Yep. Nineteen years of trying to be everything to everyone and ending up as no one to myself.”

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95. “I prepare to conjure a personality.”

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96. “You want to hold on to something?” he says. “Hold on to me.” He brings my hands to his chest.”

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

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98. “We all need fantasies now and then. Sometimes believing our lives can be different is the only thing that keeps us going.”

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99. “He’s a truly terrible dancer,” Ruby says. “It looks like he’s having a vertical seizure.”

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100. “If there were a Nation of Stupid People, I would be their queen.”

— Leisa Rayven