Top 100 Lisa McMann Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “It’s just the end of some things. And the beginning of others.”

— Lisa McMann

2. “I know i’ll screw up. But i’ll keep trying, as long as you let me.”

— Lisa McMann

3. “Time to stop crying, time to get her act together and do something. Time to move beyond the pity party.”

— Lisa McMann

4. “Maybe I am insane. Maybe I really am.”

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5. “I highly regret this day in advance.”

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6. “I am alrrready herrre forrr you, Alex. Wheneverrr you need me, as long as you need me. And even longerrr,” he said. “It is my duty. But it’s also my pleasurrre.”

— Lisa McMann

7. “Read if you believe.”

— Lisa McMann

8. “And then they kiss. Slowly, gently. Because with the right person, sometimes kissing feels like healing.”

— Lisa McMann

9. “There will always be times we struggle, make bad decisions, even fail. What’s important is not that we fail, but that we learn and grow. And that we know that there is always someone out there who believes in us.”

— Lisa McMann

10. “It’s the intent, not the word, that makes something harsh.”

— Lisa McMann

11. “Passion is what must take the place of fury. Passion makes us want to live another day, to try to do the right thing. Passion contains love and fear and anger and motivation. Passion keeps you fighting when you want to give up.”

— Lisa McMann

12. “Once you read something, you can’t erase it from your brain.”

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13. “A trapped soul waits for redemption. It waits. And waits. For her to take her last breath.”

— Lisa McMann

14. “You – best secret boyfriend ever.”

— Lisa McMann

15. “Because there’s no way on earth she’s going to make it through college unless she grows some serious ovaries and turns this train wreck around.”

— Lisa McMann

16. “There’s just no happily ever after in Janie’s book. But they both know there is something. Something good between them. There is respect. And there is depth. Unslefishness. An understanding between them that surpasses a hell of a lot else. And there’s that love thing.”

— Lisa McMann

17. “I know it’s hard when things like this happen. It’s painful. Sometimes we make sacrifices. Sometimes we lose dear friends whom we love deeply, and that makes us want to hold our other loved ones closer so we don’t lose them, too.”

— Lisa McMann

18. “Whatever problems you may face, you must know this: I do believe in you.”

— Lisa McMann

19. “People who care about each other don’t hurt each other or make each other feel small.”

— Lisa McMann

20. “The thought of being with Shay Wilder makes me want to gouge my eyes out with a butter knife.”

— Lisa McMann

21. “If you want to touch me, Kendall, touch me. Don’t hide behind those little girl slaps.”

— Lisa McMann

22. “Great protuberating conch shells!”

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23. “She gets to school late. Bashful gives her a tardy, and won’t reconsider. Janie always hated Bashful. Stupidest. Dwarf. Ever.”

— Lisa McMann

24. “Alex leaned over to Samheed. “If we get an hour’s worth of music lessons, I think my head might explode.” “In that case, bring on the music,” Samheed muttered. Alex.”

— Lisa McMann

25. “I don’t like having the power to take away someone’s death. It’s too much responsibility.”

— Lisa McMann

26. “Maybe you don’t have to remember something for it to be true. For it to exist.”

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27. “But everything came flooding back too fast. Meghan was still unconscious, Sam and Lani were still missing, Simber was still at the bottom of the ocean, and Mr. Today.”

— Lisa McMann

28. “Sean Ranger, your poor dear sister is standing here in the lounge waiting for you, you dolt.”

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29. “And so it was that in the midst of chaos and color and light, in the glorious rebirth of a magical world, there remained two small vessels dark and drained. And those vessels were the heart and the soul of a brokenhearted young mage, sobbing alone in the sand.”

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30. “Carrie doesn’t seem to talk about anything with sharp edges. Maybe she’s afraid they might poke her and then she’d burst.”

— Lisa McMann

31. “Just because you fail once in a while doesn’t make you a failure. It makes you real.”

— Lisa McMann

32. “Jacian Obregon. It sounds like a melody. Or a tragedy.”

— Lisa McMann

33. “Go force your condescending man-logic on the next house. You can go now.”

— Lisa McMann

34. “With the notebook resting ominuslously on Janie’s bed, Janie procrastinates. Does her homework first. And pours herself a bowl of ceral. Breakfast – one of the five most important meals of the day. Not to be skipped.”

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35. “Dreams happen in the strangest places. Watch for them.”

— Lisa McMann

36. “Hell I wish all guys could just cry and not have it be such a big stupid deal. Shed a tear. Be a man. Whatever.”

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37. “She sits in the driveway, freezing, for thirty-six minutes. Arguing with herself. Because she thinks she’s in love with him too. And there are two ways she can be a fool in love right now. She chooses the harder one. And knocks on the door.”

— Lisa McMann

38. “Your glasses are invisible, and through them you see only yourself. You must turn your lenses around. Windows, not mirrors.”

— Lisa McMann

39. “I hate to do it.” “It won’t hurt them.” “That’s exactly why I hate to do it,” growled.”

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40. “There’s something about a guy who admits he’s a jerk that makes him forgiveable.”

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41. “Feels like I’m in a play and I don’t know all my lines.”

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42. “He moves like a dancer.”

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43. “If you believe you can read you can.”

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44. “The servant finds himself served first.”

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45. “Life is very complicated. Filled with dreams and adventures, and disasters and broken hearts, too.”

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46. “I smile and blush, and weave my way back through the dog room to the lobby and into the cat room, because when a boy with two kittens says he loves you, you do whatever you can to get to him as quickly as possible.”

— Lisa McMann

47. “Janie calls Cabel. “Hi, uh, Mom,” she says. Cabel snorts. “Hello, dear. Did you make it through the blizzard?” “Yeah. Barely.” Janie grins into the phone.”

— Lisa McMann

48. “When we come in, Trey is sitting up in the bed, him arm is a sling and a shadow of stubble on his face. “It’s about time,” he says. He’s got the look of a stoner on his face, and I he’s got a morphine drip going. Guess mom and Dad don’t think HE’LL get addicted. Eye roll.”

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49. “With practice, you will master your own dreams.”

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50. “Cabel gives her a quizzical look. “I am totally not getting enough attention here.”

— Lisa McMann