Top 50 Lily Morton Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “I’m going back to the study,” I say happily. “I’m rearranging the books by the colour of their spines. It gives the room a much artier vibe.” Asa chokes on his tea, and I smile sunnily. “See you later.”

— Lily Morton

2. “When I’m licking a cock I like to pause to put my nose in a bush and have a good smell. It’s amazing.” He sighs happily while we stare at him.”

— Lily Morton

3. “It hurts to know that fate has given me the perfect person for me to love, but has failed to make it reciprocal.”

— Lily Morton

4. “Sometimes we think that a certain path in life is the way we have to go. We see other routes, but we avoid them because we’re so insistent they’re not for us, that we might get lost or hurt. Then sometimes fate sets in, and someone takes your hand or waves you over. You step off your chosen path, and find that although this one is new and scary, somehow your feet know the way to navigate it. You might even find that it leads you the way that you were always meant to go.”

— Lily Morton

5. “I don’t see anyone else Nell. All I see, all I want, is you.”

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6. “Yes, Cinderella won a real prize – a man who couldn’t see her true worth until she fitted in the shoe properly.”

— Lily Morton

7. “You’re my person and I think that I was just waiting for you. Man or woman, it doesn’t matter to me. The only thing that matters is that you are mine and I am yours.”

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8. “I snort at the thought, and he looks at me with one supercilious eyebrow raised. I sigh inwardly because anyone else would find that gesture charming and sexy. Instead, it just makes me want to poke a pen in his eye.”

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9. “I love you so much, so much,” he mutters. “It’s always been you. It always will be.”

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10. “I smile limpidly at him. “I am a bit of a flibbertigibbet. My teachers always used to say so.” “Did you go to school in the 1850’s then?”

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11. “Tradition comes from something being so brilliant and such a good memory, that you try to recreate it every time that you can.”

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12. “Everyone is entitled to love who they want, and people aren’t weird just because of who they love. No one is weird.”

— Lily Morton

13. “There are far too many Suzy Sunshines on this estate. I like a bit of vinegar with my chips.”

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14. “My Jude. My best friend, my lover and my heart.”

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15. “I feel something snap and settle in me. It’s the last piece of my heart, falling for him without any input from me at all.”

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16. “To: Gabe Foster From: Dylan Mitchell I have prepared the fourth pot of coffee for you to taste. I pray that this one meets your exacting taste buds, because I do actually have plans for the rest of my life.”

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17. “The truth is that I will always need you more than you need me. It’s also the truth that I’m not a good bet for someone as vital and young as you. I’m bad tempered, a perfectionist who is too serious, and too used to being on my own. You could go out tomorrow and find someone better for you, but the truth is that no one will ever need you like I do.” He pauses and then says firmly. “No one will ever love you like I do.”

— Lily Morton

18. “I don’t think that I feel anything deeply.”

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19. “I suppose what he does best is to encourage me to be the best, because he loves me. Maybe at its finest, that’s what love should be.”

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20. “Gabe might be a complete bastard, but I sort of think of him as my bastard, and I don’t like other people criticising him.”

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21. “Ask me,” I say quietly. I smile tenderly. “I guarantee I’m going to say yes.”

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22. “I may be clever, but I never said I was wise.”

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23. “I try not to have expectations of your parents,” I say earnestly. “Other than not to move too quickly near them, lest it activate their hunt and kill settings.”

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24. “He shrugs. “Oh, I know I’m pretty. I get told that a lot. Sexy? I get that too. You’re the first person to see something astute in me.” He nods his head. “Wow. Yeah. That’s great.”

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25. “I am the man who loves you utterly and madly. It gives me certain rights, one of which is to take some of your burdens and make them mine.”

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26. “I think over his insinuation that doing paperwork might make my pretty little head explode. Then I smile slowly. If he wants a bird-brained model. I’ll give him one.”

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27. “He’s a bit like a wildcat. Lovely to look at, but he will never be curling up in front of your fire.”

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28. “Will it ruin my hair and give me windburn on the delicate skin of my face?” “Probably,” he says, eyeing me cautiously.”

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29. “Beethoven Amadeus Bannister, I’m trying to ask you to marry me,” he shouts. “Jesus, is that your real name? No wonder you prefer Bee,” I say, but everyone ignores me.”

— Lily Morton

30. “Sneaky things, possessions,” I observe.”

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31. “Well, I know I’m a bad picker but I’d never have gone for Trump. That orange instant tan would have messed up my Egyptian cotton sheets.”

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32. “Oh, Henry, I’ve always wanted to be a patriarch. It sounds like something from The Thorn Birds.”

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33. “At some point he’s going to leave me. Everyone does. I want to grab the memories and greedily drink them in, but he pulls me closer, and I’m blind once again to everything but this man. This poetic, perennially cheerful Welsh man who makes me feel safe.”

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34. “You’re not the boss of me,” I say peevishly, and he grins suddenly. “No one is the boss of you, Milo. You’re gloriously intractable.”

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35. “I’m expecting to find a dog, but instead I find Max. He’s lying on the drive, blinking up at me, grimacing in pain and cradling his right arm.”

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36. “Is he sick?” the driver asks querulously. “If he throws up, you’ll pay for it.” “Why would I want to buy his vomit?” I ask.”

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37. “When I first met him on a photo shoot, I was dazzled by his long legs, slender, toned body, and those full lips that looked like they could rival a hoover for sucking potential. I completely failed to realise therefore that Dean’s workable brain cells are quite lonely.”

— Lily Morton

38. “Tim, there is nowhere in the world that has weather hot enough for those shorts. They’re held together by spit and willpower.”

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39. “There, leaning against a pile of my books like a present for me, was the man I now know is the love of my life.”

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40. “Since they got together and declared their love it’s been like being on the set of a romance by Barbara Cartland.”

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41. “Gid, you’re topping so much from the bottom you’re practically vertical.”

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42. “I think people’s opinions get better the deader a person is.”

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43. “Marriage is a ring on your finger and a signature on a piece of paper. It’s the love that gives it life.” “That was extraordinarily poetic.” “I have a very pretty soul.”

— Lily Morton

44. “I’m fine with it. Your past is your past. I mean, yours is more colourful than a bumper box of Crayola, but that’s you.”

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45. “You could go out tomorrow and find someone better for you, but the truth is that no one will ever need you like I do.” He pauses and then says firmly. “No one will ever love you like I do.”

— Lily Morton

46. “How did you squeeze oranges? I haven’t got a juicer.” “Between his thighs,” Mal offers helpfully, and I choke on the mouthful of juice I’ve just taken.”

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47. “I hope he looks back on our time together well and remembers me affectionately, but just for once, I would like someone to want me to stay. I want someone to miss me when I go.”

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48. “This is the best day of my life. Ever. And I include the time I was rimmed at a dressage competition.”

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49. “I do feel more alive with you around. I don’t want you to change. I like that you’re inappropriate sometimes. I never got the chance to do that, so it’s nice to listen to.”

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50. “So, in your view, children have pompoms and operate as urine dispensers?”

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