Top 60 Lisa Renee Jones Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “Focus on what you can control... Kow what you can bend to your will, and don’t waste energy on what you can’t.”

— Lisa Renee Jones

2. “The past is a part of you and us. You can store it away someplace different, but you can’t make it go away. And you can’t even resolve it until you, we, face it.”

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3. “Don’t mistake my kindness for weakness. I am kind to everyone, but when someone is unkind to me, weak is not what you are going to remember about me. – Al Capone CHAPTER.”

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4. “I will tease you, bite you, and spank you.”

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5. “I never lie to any man because I don’t fear anyone. The only time you lie is when you are afraid. – John Gotti CHAPTER.”

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6. “Once the game is over, the king and the pawn really do go back in the same box. In death they are indeed equal. But in life, we are not. In life we are a product of more than our decisions. We are the consequence of how we cope with those decisions, and too often that is fear and guilt. Don’t let it be fear and guilt.”

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7. “Taking you to the shower. Me Tarzan, You Jane. Do as I say.”

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8. “I’ve always known we were two puzzle pieces that fit together in a hollow that is our pain. There was a time when I was certain we were too damaged not to destroy each other. Now I think we are saving each other.”

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9. “There are three sides to every story. Mine, yours, and the truth. – Joe Massino CHAPTER.”

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10. “It’s better to live one day as a lion than a hundred years as a lamb. – John Gotti CHAPTER.”

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11. “Isn’t that what we all want? To be with someone who consumes us? Who makes us want to give them all that we are, even though it’s terrifying?”

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12. “I look deep into his eyes and find myself wrapped in the familiar connection we share. It streams through me like moonlight on a bay, glistening through my soul.”

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13. “Just remember that people make their own choices, and then they live with them. We can try to change them, but we can’t make their choices for them. If you do everything you can to help, you have to accept the outcome they bring on themselves.”

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14. “Other people’s perfection is a facade we create when we are second guessing ourselves.”

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15. “Greed is a stronger force than gravity.”

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16. “Memories are the enemies that never die,” he says, turning away and shoving open his door, leaving me with the pain carved in those words that I am fairly certain he didn’t want me to hear. But I did, and they speak to me, diving deep in my soul with the blood of my own loss, and taking root. I say I want my memories back, but I’m not so sure I really do. It’s an idea I reject as I shove open my door and stand.”

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17. “My head drops back and I have a fleeting out-of-body moment where I see myself in the window, my hands tied above my head with my legs wrapped around the neck of Chris Merit, while he does delicious things to my body.”

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18. “All I want is the here and now, this piece of time. And please save the pillow talk for someone who wants it. Contrary to what you seem to think, I’m no delicate rose.”

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19. “We are raw and honest, or we are nothing.”

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20. “I wiggle an eyebrow. “I get to see you in a tuxedo?” “Better. You can help me take it off.”

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21. “What we need more than anything, Amy, is each other. I need you, baby. I need you alive and well, in my bed and in my life. The idea of losing you is torture, but I know you aren’t my property. You’re the woman who changed me in ways I don’t even fully understand.”

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22. “Dirty?” I supply. “Yes. It was. And I am. And so are you or you wouldn’t know what a hard limit is.”

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23. “I can feel this man in every part of my body and he has not even touched me.”

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24. “He pulls the door shut behind him and drags me against him, murmuring softly, “I understand why you left. I understand everything.” I cling to him, holding on for what feels like dear life. “I should have told you.” “You would have.” He pulls back to look at me. “When you were ready. We all have to deal with our inner demons in our own way, in our own time.”

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25. “What we deny owns us. You can’t control what you don’t first own and face. You simply delay the moment it owns you.”

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26. “I think it’s the whole ‘bad boy who’s so good but destined to break your heart’ fantasy. Which doesn’t sound like much of a fantasy when you put the broken heart part in the picture, but it is. It so is.”

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27. “Never say never, baby,” Chris replies, and then turns the key, bringing the soft purr of an expensive engine to life.”

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28. “I’m insane for you, Amy. ‘Like’ lasted all of ten minutes.”

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29. “I keep telling you, when you can’t control the action, control the emotion.”

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30. “Our laughter dissolves into a crackling current that steals my breath away. Our eyes lock, and heat pools low in my belly.”

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31. “The soft rasp of her erratic breathing is erotic, enticing, and I can almost taste her desire.”

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32. “If the person didn’t deserve your love in life... they don’t deserve your tears in death.”

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33. “I need him to know that I want to understand him because he matters, because we matter. Because life made me believe that what is blossoming between us wasn’t possible, but maybe, just maybe, it is.”

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34. “All I know is he’s letting me see it, and him, and he is exactly what he preaches. Raw and honest, and intense and I believe in this moment that we are a rainbow of the same colors, none of them bright or beautiful. We are the many shades of gray and black, hoping to find a glimmer of light in each other, not more darkness.”

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35. “That is control. Whether you want it or understand it.”

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36. “After saying goodbye, he makes another call that is quick and in French before setting his phone on the counter, crossing his arms over his black Sons of Anarchy T-shirt.”

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37. “Consciously or not, greed and power are deadly partners.”

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38. “If you tell me you don’t want to be with me. I will listen. I won’t like it, but I’ll listen. I need you to know that. But when you say you ‘can’t’ be with me, like some obstacle out of your control is stopping you from seeing me, I’m not going to listen.”

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39. “Money doesn’t determine worth.”

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40. “I decide to turn to my old faithful solution to all that is wrong in life. Coffee.”

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41. “Possession. Demand. Control. He wants it all.”

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42. “I’ve found that in life, the times we need help are often the times we deserve it the least.”

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43. “We think that if we surround ourselves with people, we can’t be alone, when the reality is that we’re always alone.”

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44. “I’d already decided you were mine, You just didn’t know it yet.”

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45. “I do not know what to do with the emotions inside me. I do not know how to be this close to someone and still hold on to myself.”

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46. “My voice softens. “But you’re right; I should have told you where I was going. I’m sorry to make you worry.” “Damn it, Sara.” He twines his fingers in my hair and lowers his mouth one hot breath from mine. “You are the reason I take my next breath,” he whispers. “Why can’t you see that?” His question steals the last of my anger. I soften against him, my fingers curving around his jaw. “Let’s go home, baby.” He kisses my forehead. “I have something to show you.”

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47. “When I said you were safe, he says softly, a hint of wickedness in his voice, I meant from everyone but me.”

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48. “The ability to become a person of our own making is the perfect lie. I concede that it might appear that some.”

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49. “Baby, I held back today to let you get over all you’ve been through. But don’t let that mislead you. You wouldn’t be here if I planned on protecting you from me.”

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50. “In my book, privacy is like a great pair of high heels. To be cherished.”

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