Top 100 Leisa Rayven Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “If there were a Nation of Stupid People, I would be their queen.”

— Leisa Rayven

52. “But this kiss? It’s ruined me. This is the type of kiss I never knew existed. It’s like falling and flying, all in the same moment.”

— Leisa Rayven

53. “Cassie, I want to be with you. Always. If that involves us being naked and making love in a hundred different ways, every day for the rest of our lives, that’s fantastic. If it involves us sitting and talking, wearing barbed wire and cast-iron body suits, that’s fantastic, too. I just want you. Now. A week from now. A year. A decade. Whenever you’re ready. What I want is never going to change. It’s you. Just you. Naked or clothed, doesn’t matter to me.”

— Leisa Rayven

54. “He’s untouchable. He’s freaking Teflon.”

— Leisa Rayven

55. “I get a crystal-clear image of Holt as a modern-day Mercutio.”

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56. “Still, he’s being nice to me, so I decide to be nice to his ass and allow myself to notice how hot it looks in his jeans.”

— Leisa Rayven

57. “He doesn’t move. Doesn’t look at me. I press my back into the door. It reminds me a backbone is there for a reason and not just to hang my bones on.”

— Leisa Rayven

58. “So, you and Quinn going to finally seal the deal tonight?” Josh asks. “Because God knows, if I have to witness one more second of you two panting over each other, I’m going to lock you both in a room until someone comes.”

— Leisa Rayven

59. “He’s sold his soul to Lucifer in return for sexual powers over frustrated virgins. It would explain a lot.”

— Leisa Rayven

60. “I invented chemistry with you. Everything else is just pretend.”

— Leisa Rayven

61. “Isn’t that the point of living? To find the one person in all the world who’s your perfect match?” “Actually, Taylor, the point of living is not dying. Romeo and Juliet failed at that part.”

— Leisa Rayven

62. “It took me a long time to expect more from myself. To see that being vulnerable takes a shitload more strength than being closed off and sullen.”

— Leisa Rayven

63. “We’ve tried being enemies. It sucked. We’ve tried being friends, and it’s not enough. The way I feel about you isn’t platonic anymore. It’s primal.”

— Leisa Rayven

64. “If I don’t really try, I can’t really fail, right?”

— Leisa Rayven

65. “Let me help you be brave.”

— Leisa Rayven

66. “Sometimes fate is what you make it, and I’m making my life with you.”

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67. “We just stand there for a while. Breathing each other in. Being. Still not fixed, but far less broken.”

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68. “He worships my skin, and makes soft noises that speak louder than most of the words he’s ever said. Like this, he’s mine. Completely. It’s so clear in the way he watches me. As if he’s looking for every new milestone of pleasure while he convinces all of my nerve endings to dance for him.”

— Leisa Rayven

69. “What do you do when you see someone you love unraveling? Do you try to stop it?”

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70. “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.”

— Leisa Rayven

71. “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

72. “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

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

— Leisa Rayven

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

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75. “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

76. “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.”

— Leisa Rayven

77. “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.”

— Leisa Rayven

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

— Leisa Rayven

79. “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.”

— Leisa Rayven

80. “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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81. “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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82. “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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83. “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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84. “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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85. “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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86. “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.”

— Leisa Rayven

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

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88. “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.”

— Leisa Rayven

89. “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.”

— Leisa Rayven

90. “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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91. “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.”

— Leisa Rayven

92. “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.”

— Leisa Rayven

93. “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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94. “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.”

— Leisa Rayven

95. “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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96. “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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97. “Just moving. Like most of our time together, we’re treading water. Trying not to drown.”

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

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

— Leisa Rayven