Top 40 Lucy Lennox Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “My Benny,” I whispered as I let my fingers trail down his face. “Don’t you know?” I asked as I let my finger glide over his perfect lips. Lips that were all mine now. “It’s always been you,” I told him. “Only you.”

— Lucy Lennox

2. “Landry and Zane both looked at me like I had twelve heads and they were all wearing crocheted bonnets.”

— Lucy Lennox

3. “Well, I’ll be damned. This is how it happens. I’ve finally lost my sparkle.”

— Lucy Lennox

4. “Not only that, but the use of Photoshop is turning realistic fit bodies into fake, unattainable bodies. It’s creating a cultural crisis.”

— Lucy Lennox

5. “Mm-hm. Yeah. Yep. Yes. That,” I said, teasing him with my silly babbled words from that night. “I would like that. Please. Yes, please.”

— Lucy Lennox

6. “The kitchen went completely silent. Even the refrigerator gasped in shock.”

— Lucy Lennox

7. “The fairy tale is ending, and I want so badly to just have a few more minutes with you. Another kiss from you. For you to know who I am and still look at me the way you’re looking right now.”

— Lucy Lennox

8. “It was the single most intimate and erotic experience I’d ever had. And I couldn’t help but wonder if it would remain so for the rest of my life.”

— Lucy Lennox

9. “Come with me now voluntarily, or I will throw your sexy ass over my shoulder and take you by force. Is that what you want, Nico?”

— Lucy Lennox

10. “That’s not how love works,” he said. “If you love someone, you don’t set them free like a damned butterfly. You chain them to your bed and use your mouth to convince them to stay.”

— Lucy Lennox

11. “You know me – living it up here at the Vista Bonita Active Seniors community. I’ve finally found my people.”

— Lucy Lennox

12. “Wes’s hands returned to my face, and his eyes bored into mine. In them I saw everything... In his eyes I saw a lifetime. One that stretched long into the past, but stretched forward into the the future too.”

— Lucy Lennox

13. “Meh. Maybe it’s not your time yet. But I’ll bet fifty bucks you could use some spice in your life, and a powerful missile in your silo wouldn’t go amiss if you know what I mean.”

— Lucy Lennox

14. “Maybe you’d be more interested in sausage than tacos,” she tried explaining.”

— Lucy Lennox

15. “Women are going to go apeshit for that. They hate not having pockets. This gown is full enough to hide whatever they’ll carry.”

— Lucy Lennox

16. “You also said baseball was more interesting to watch than golf.”

— Lucy Lennox

17. “No, oh god no, you don’t understand. This is just so I can give your dad a little head.”

— Lucy Lennox

18. “Brooks, do you need me to explain how printers work? ‘Cause twerking isn’t usually required.”

— Lucy Lennox

19. “War did that to people. It took practical strangers and tied them together in knots of steel.”

— Lucy Lennox

20. “I sometimes worried that we didn’t pay Kenji enough for all he did, but if we paid the man what he was worth, he’d own the company.”

— Lucy Lennox

21. “And only once did a soldier call out for another man. He called out for me.”

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22. “Vietnam was the kind of nightmare you can’t prepare for. It was battlefield amputations and choosing who got the last vial of morphine.”

— Lucy Lennox

23. “And then,” Tiller continued, “you said boiling water was more interesting to watch than baseball.”

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24. “Wanting to sleep with him? Yes. Wanting to hold him and care about him? No thanks. Nico was a proven flight risk. An angry, surly man who had a history of choosing himself over others. The kind of person who could pawn off his own niece onto a pair of strangers so he could go back to his own self-centered life. He wasn’t a kind, sweet man but an instigator with a chip on his shoulder against all things Hobie.”

— Lucy Lennox

25. “Prepare yourself. We’re called Wilde for a reason.”

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26. “I didn’t want to sleep with the man. I wanted to own him.”

— Lucy Lennox

27. “I want you to wear whatever shell you want and know that you are a one-of-a-kind turtle.”

— Lucy Lennox

28. “Maybe you’d be more interested in sausage than tacos,” she tried explaining. One of the ladies from across the aisle spoke up. “Can it, Tilly. Not every man likes the D.”

— Lucy Lennox

29. “And now, by failing to give your boyfriend the love he so desperately craved,” my mother continued, undeterred, “you’ve driven him into Ava’s arms!” “Yeah!” Mal agreed. He paused and frowned, then shrugged like facts had ceased to be important. “What your mom said!” I scowled down at him. “What the hell are you talking about? You know better!” I waved a hand in Paul’s direction. “Tell them, Paul!” “I mean, it’s true that Brooks was never very emotionally available to me,” Paul said sadly.”

— Lucy Lennox

30. “I remembered my long-standing vow never to trust my initial lust reaction to a hot guy.”

— Lucy Lennox

31. “And such a moment it was when I met the man who would turn one of those compact tiny capsules of time into a full lifetime stretched long and rich over decades, who would become the very half of my heart I hadn’t.”

— Lucy Lennox

32. “Collie hound pups about as cute as baby bunnies and confused about whether to herd or nap?”

— Lucy Lennox

33. “Play? You want me to play polo?” My voice rose an octave. “You want me to ride a horse?”

— Lucy Lennox

34. “Wait, so now she turns the gay ones straight?” Amos Nutter demanded wonderingly. “Well, I’ll be damned.”

— Lucy Lennox

35. “Jesusfuckingchrist, Charlie. You’re my person.”

— Lucy Lennox

36. “Is it rude to eat candy off your own shirt in public?” “Not if you share,” Hallie asked, reaching over to grab a big chunk off her sister’s boob. “If only my boobs were big enough to collect snacks from passersby.”

— Lucy Lennox

37. “I’m forty-two. In gay years, that’s dead.”

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38. “Monday, June 29, 2015, after the Obergefell decision in the Supreme Court.”

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39. “We’re here to support and honor these two men, who dared to love each other in a time of great change in our country and despite war, loss, kids, ranching, and late nights on call at the hospital.”

— Lucy Lennox

40. “I wasn’t sure skateboarding across the shiny floors of the Museum of Modern Art on a charity poster was what he’d had in mind.”

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41. “I really care about him, Grandpa Wilde,” I said quietly. “When I left him at Gadleigh, it was like I left one of my lungs there too. I can hardly breathe.”

— Lucy Lennox

42. “You hate the golfers,” he reminded me. “You once said, and I quote, ‘Golf isn’t much different than glorified fly swatting.”

— Lucy Lennox

43. “I’d never been a talker, mostly because people didn’t seem to need yet another opinion about something.”

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44. “Constance Baxter-Hicks felt most confident in late-eighties Laura Ashley. Good to know.”

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45. “Perhaps he was just passing through town on his way to an emo seminar and decided to stop in and light a candle for the loss of his ability to blend in.”

— Lucy Lennox

46. “I love you, Benny. I’ve loved you from the moment you sat down on that swing next to me. I can’t pick you because it’s always been you.” “Really?” he asked, his lips pulling into a soft smile. “Really.” “I love you so much, Xander.”

— Lucy Lennox

47. “I’d recognized the song as “Same Love” since Felix had played it on repeat sometimes in.”

— Lucy Lennox