Top 90 Lyla Sage Quotes (2026 Update)
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51. “It’s okay to love her, Gus. It’s okay to want her. It’s okay to want. You have so much love to give, Gus. I see it in the way that you love our daughter and in the way you care for your family – me included – and I just want you to have someone who can love you back the same way.”

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52. “My dad made sure all of us knew cooking basics, especially Gus and me. From the time we were little, he told us that someday we might have to share a home with someone, and when that happened, it would be important to split labor – whether that was cooking, cleaning, or whatever.”

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53. “I don’t have much to offer,” he went on softly. “Just a quiet life with a grumpy man from a small town, but I can promise to love you every day.”

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54. “I’d been awake since half past four, so I’d been waiting for her to wake up for almost an hour. At this point, I was pretty sure I’d been waiting for her my whole life, so an hour was easy.”

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55. “Clementine Ryder and Theodora Andersen are written in the stars,” I said with a chuckle. “Doesn’t get more cosmic than that.”

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56. “He put his hands on you, sugar. No one puts their hands on you.”

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57. “Emmy was worth the wait. I’d been waiting thirty-two years for her without even knowing it, and she’d been right in front of me the whole time.”

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58. “Honestly, I didn’t think I’d be able to stay away from her, no matter how hard I tried. Emmy Ryder was just... more. She was more than anyone was, or than anyone would ever be.”

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59. “Life had begun to feel bittersweet, and I was getting all of the bitter and everyone else was getting the sweet.”

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60. “I’ll go anywhere with you, Collins,” I said. “To the ends of the earth and back again if you asked me to.”

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61. “I need you to know that. Leaving this little house doesn’t mean you’re leaving me behind. It just means you’ve got something – or someone – worth chasing.”

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62. “I am a firm believer that if you pass them while you’re driving, you’re legally obligated to point at them and say “Cows!”

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63. “If you like who you are, why is it so hard to believe other people do too?”

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64. “There were parts of Teddy that would always belong to the world around her, but that didn’t matter because there were also parts of her that were all mine.”

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65. “I kept an eye on Emmy throughout the night. Not in a creepy way–just in a “I really like you and think you’re the most beautiful woman alive” way.”

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66. “I would never have to wonder what it was like to be loved, because Weston Ryder would love me all the way.”

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67. “Beautiful and my personal Achilles’ heel, just like he’d always been.”

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68. “Personally, I had my issues with the guy who created the forty-hour work week, but that was neither here nor there.”

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69. “He was like the sun. No matter what, he would keep coming up.”

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70. “I used to be fearless. Until I met Ada Hart. Now I had something that I was terrified to lose.”

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71. “A mark on your heart and soul that refuses to fade, no matter how much time passes or how much you think you’ve changed.”

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72. “You are many things, August Ryder, and some of those things aren’t great, I’ll be honest,” I said. “But a bad father isn’t one of them.”

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73. “I see you, Ada. I always see you, even when you won’t look at me.”

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74. “But, god, you are everything to me. You always have been, you always will be.”

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75. “Today, I saw the only thing in my life I ever thought was prettier than Rebel Blue, and that was Emmy.”

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76. “August Ryder,” I breathed as I sat up. “Are you offering me a mustache ride?” Gus smoothed two of his fingers over his mustache and said, “Saddle up, baby.”

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77. “I’ll love you until we’re dust.”

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78. “Life got so much easier when there were fewer possibilities – fewer choices to make, fewer chances that you’d make the wrong one.”

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79. “God, he was so gentle – so comforting. He talked to me the way people talk to plants when they want them to grow.”

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80. “He was beautiful. He always had been, but beautiful things can be dangerous, too.”

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81. “Get dressed, Emmy,” he said firmly. He reached inside the cabin and shut the door, my cue to do what he said. God, he was so demanding sometimes. I wondered if he was like that in bed.”

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82. “Thank you,” he continued, “for taking care of my baby girl.” “She can take care of herself,” I said. “I know she can, but you made sure she didn’t have to do it alone.”

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83. “I’ll love you until we’re dust, Camille Ashwood.”

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84. “You’ve gotta stop squaring up with men who look like they eat raw eggs for breakfast, Theodora.” This wasn’t the first time I’d watched Teddy get in a man’s face – I wasn’t sure she had any sense of self-preservation – but it was the first time I’d been worried that she might get hurt. She rolled her eyes. “Why?” “Because it’ll be embarrassing when they lose.” That pulled a smile out of her. I didn’t get a lot of smiles from Teddy. We didn’t get along very well, but damn, she was pretty.”

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85. “This place is mine. You’re the first person I’ve brought here.”

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86. “I was grieving all of the parts of myself that I lost or gave up in the name of comfort because I would rather have been comfortable than happy. I chose to prioritize my false sense of security instead of me.”

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87. “I was a man on a mission. And that mission – to put it in the most respectful way possible – was to get into Teddy Andersen’s pants.”

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88. “You’re like Mom. You’re very forgiving, and people will take advantage of you.”

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89. “I couldn’t help but think that the last time I accepted help – it got me Teddy. Maybe that meant good things could come from realizing you can’t do it all on your own. Because, surprisingly, Teddy Andersen was turning out to be a damn good thing.”

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90. “As far as friends went, I didn’t really have any–not because I didn’t want them, but because making friends as an adult is hard. Honestly, I enjoyed solitute, but there’s a difference between that and being lonely.”

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91. “I smiled, fighting the urge to bring up Cam’s pickle theory. She used to say that any successful relationship had a pickle lover and a pickle hater.”

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