Top 50 Lucy Christopher Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “It was like I existed in a kind of parallel universe, thinking thoughts and feelings that no one else understood.”

— Lucy Christopher

2. “Those blue, blue eyes, icy blue, looking back at me as if I could warm them up. They’re pretty powerful, you know, those eyes, pretty beautiful, too.”

— Lucy Christopher

3. “And it’s hard to hate someone once you understand them.”

— Lucy Christopher

4. “It happened like this. I was stolen from an airport. Taken from everything I knew, everything I was used to. Taken to sand and heat, dirt and danger. And he expected me to love him. This is my story. A letter from nowhere.”

— Lucy Christopher

5. “When the darkness gets easier, you know you’re sinking deeper, becoming dead yourself.”

— Lucy Christopher

6. “Lets face it, you did steal me. But you saved my life too. And somewhere in the middle, you showed me a place so different and beautiful, I can never get it out of my mind. And I can’t get you out of there either. You’re stuck in my brain like my own blood vessels.”

— Lucy Christopher

7. “It’s Hard To Hate Someone Once You Understand Them.”

— Lucy Christopher

8. “You saw me before I saw you. You had that look in your eyes, as if you wanted something. Wanted it for a long time.”

— Lucy Christopher

9. “I wish I had amnesia so I could forget what you look like.”

— Lucy Christopher

10. “Everyone wanted answers I wasn’t ready to give.”

— Lucy Christopher

11. “I want you to see that the person I glimpsed running beside the camel, running to save my life, is the person you can choose to be.”

— Lucy Christopher

12. “The people we care for aren’t always the one we should.”

— Lucy Christopher

13. “One day they’ll let you out of that dry, empty cell. You’ll return to the Separates, and you’ll feel the rain once more. And you’ll grow straight, this time, toward this sunlight. I know you will.”

— Lucy Christopher

14. “I remember that feeling of skin. It’s strange to remember touch more than thought. But my fingers still tingle with it.”

— Lucy Christopher

15. “I craved your warmth. I hugged myself, rubbing my fingers up and down. I guess people are like insects sometimes, drawn to heat, A kind of infra-red longing.”

— Lucy Christopher

16. “I thought you didn’t want to let me go.”

— Lucy Christopher

17. “Far, far away something made a single ghostly howl, like a banshee in the dark.”

— Lucy Christopher

18. “Everyone will look. Even if they think it’s impolite, still they will look.”

— Lucy Christopher

19. “You smiled then, and your whole face changed with it. It kind of lit up, like there were sunbeams coming from inside you.”

— Lucy Christopher

20. “I didn’t look back, but I knew you were still watching. It probably sounds weird, but I could just feel it. The hairs on my neck bristled when you blinked.”

— Lucy Christopher

21. “The deep blue of your eyes had secrets. I wanted them.”

— Lucy Christopher

22. “All I could think about was you. I wanted you in that apartment. I wanted your arms around me, your face close to mine. I wanted your smell. And I knew I couldn’t – shouldn’t – have it. That’s what I hated the most. The uncertainty of you.”

— Lucy Christopher

23. “In a moment, when I’m ready, I will turn off this computer and that will be it. This letter will be finished. A part of me doesn’t want to stop writing to you, but I need to. For both of us.”

— Lucy Christopher

24. “You saw me before I saw you.”

— Lucy Christopher

25. “People love what they’re used to, I guess. No. You shook your head. People should love what needs loving.”

— Lucy Christopher

26. “I’d never seen a man cry before, only on TV. I’d never even seen Dad close to crying. Those tears looked so odd on you. It was like the strength of you just seemed to sap away. The surprise of it stopped me from being so scared.”

— Lucy Christopher

27. “Your eyes were too intense to stare into for long.”

— Lucy Christopher

28. “There is no need to put your heart in a bottle, then you will die. – Ty from Stolen.”

— Lucy Christopher

29. “No one had ever looked at me like that before, with that kind of intensity. It unsettled me, surprised me I guess. Those blue, blue eyes, icy blue, looking back at me as if I could warm them up. They’re pretty powerful, you know, those eyes, pretty beautiful too.”

— Lucy Christopher

30. “It didn’t make me glow. I felt more like I was fading away, like the world had forgotten me.”

— Lucy Christopher

31. “I could hear you, talking to the daffodils and tulips, whispering to the fairies that lived inside their petals. Each separate flower had a different family inside it.”

— Lucy Christopher

32. “I mean, that star over there is blinking at me madly now, but for how long? An hour or two, or for the next million years? And how long will we sit here like this? Just another moment, or the rest of our lives? You know which one I’d prefer...”

— Lucy Christopher

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33. “I stayed there, curled up into the warmth of your body, under the blankets, like something soft in a shell. Your arms were firm as rock around me.”

— Lucy Christopher

34. “There were tiny stars behind my eyelids, a whole galaxy of tiny, spinning stars.”

— Lucy Christopher

35. “Pain means it’s healing.”

— Lucy Christopher

36. “I guess whoever built and buried that IED out there in the desert will never know how far that blast traveled. But all things ripple out, cause shrapnel.”

— Lucy Christopher

37. “This be OK?? I asked, innocently. ‘You want me to have no skin left?’ You rolled your eyes. Actually, don’t answer that one.”

— Lucy Christopher

38. “But without humans, the wild would take over. It would only take a hundred years or so for nature to win again.”

— Lucy Christopher

39. “You won’t be able to hurt me, or touch me.”

— Lucy Christopher

40. “You know, maybe if we’d met as ordinary people, one day, maybe... maybe things might have been different. Maybe I could have loved you.”

— Lucy Christopher

41. “Anyway, it’s easy to be what people want: give them something to stare at. nod and smile, tell them they’re gorgeous.” You flashed me your best charming grin before you added, “The three steps to money.”

— Lucy Christopher

42. “If there’d been an astronaut on the moon right then, I’m sure I could have seen him. Perhaps he could have looked down and seen me too... the only one who could.”

— Lucy Christopher

43. “I was surprised at her gentleness, her willingness to give in.”

— Lucy Christopher

44. “I remember the lights turning into blurs of blazing fire. I remember the air-conditioning chilling my arms. The smell of coffee smudging into the smell of eucalyptus.”

— Lucy Christopher

45. “Your beautiful mouth was moving like a caterpillar. I reached out and tried to catch it.”

— Lucy Christopher

46. “It was like I’d stepped out into an afterlife. Only there were no angels.”

— Lucy Christopher

47. “I chased money, pretended to be someone else to get it. It got easier the longer I did it... but that’s the trap, see? When the deadness gets easier, you know you’re sinking deeper, becoming dead yourself.”

— Lucy Christopher

48. “It was so big, that view. I’ll never remember it properly. How can anyone remember something that big? I don’t think people’s brains are designed for memories like that. They’re designed for things like phone numbers, or the color of someone’s hair. Not hugeness.”

— Lucy Christopher

49. “The sand stretched out gray and ghostlike and illuminated, a column of light leading forward. It was like something a dead person would see, a tunnel leading toward heaven.”

— Lucy Christopher

50. “How would she find her herd? How would she find you?”

— Lucy Christopher