Top 100 Lynn Painter Quotes (2024 Update)
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51. “Was it easier, he wondered? I felt like I couldn’t answer that question because I refused to let it get easier. I thought about her a lot – every single day – and if I started doing that less, surely it’d get easier. But the easier it got, the more she’d disappear, right?”

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52. “Please don’t ever become a stranger Whose laugh I could recognize anywhere –.”

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53. “Okay, don’t laugh. I’m looking for The Other Miss Bridgerton by Julia Quinn.”

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54. “Mr. Right – the nice-guy, dependable version – could be waiting around the very next corner.”

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55. “Because there were no ties with Wes, no connections to anything painful. Prom dress shopping, on the other hand, was layered in melancholic bindings that made me feel a world of things I didn’t want to feel.”

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56. “Her place in his heart was gone, and she only lived in his head now.”

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57. “Don’t cry, Liz.” He looked sad when he said it, like he wanted to cry too. Then he said, “Wait here.”

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58. “She’d always assumed I was obsessed with love because I was hopelessly romantic. I never corrected her.”

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59. “Your fart books, hello? I need some relief, ma’am. Where are the books on gastrointestinal emergencies?”

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60. “But you’ll always wonder if you should’ve talked to him if you don’t.”

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61. “In my wildest dreams, I wouldn’t have imagined the return of Michael Young.”

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62. “Employee handbook, thou art a beotch.”

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63. “When I’m around you, I kind of feel like I’m on drugs. Not that I do drugs. Unless you do drugs, in which case, I do them all the time. All of them.”

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64. “Everybody likes cats in sweaters.”

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65. “I wanted to skip down the hall yell-singing “Paper Rings.”

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66. “Wes was the good guy in the movie. Yes, he was funny and the life of the party, but he was also dependable and understanding and loyal. Even though i realized after prom that i didnt need him to be, he was a Mark Darcy.”

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67. “I remember everything about you, Em.”

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68. “I knew nothing about Nick Stark – other than what he liked to read, what he listened to, what he smelled like, where he worked, how his laugh sounded when he was sleepy over the phone – and he was probably the jerk I’d always thought him to be.”

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69. “My life is changing and moving forward, and she’s being left behind with my childhood.”

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70. “Can you pretty please wear the Chucks?”

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71. “Listen, Tiny Bartender.′ He grabbed the plate of nachos and slid it in front of her, because they both knew she loved selecting the first chip. ‘You have bewitched me body and soul, and I love you three times. Please tell me my hands are cold so we can get on with our lives already.”

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72. “Yeah, I definitely had perverted librarian issues.”

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73. “I have no secrets,” he said, and I wondered if that were true.”

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74. “Meteor shower tonight, if you’re interested. I’ve got Swisher, fyi.”

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75. “Then she ‘noticed’ my bloody knee and said I must’ve been so concerned about helping her that I hadn’t even realized I was bleeding. She cleaned me up, put on a Band-Aid, and gave me a Fudgesicle. Made me feel like a damned hero for face-planting on the sidewalk.” I laughed and looked up at the sky, my heart full. “That story is so on-brand for my mom.”

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76. “His eyes roamed over my cheeks and forehead and chin, and it occurred to me that the two of us were seeing that moment in entirely different ways. I was desperately hopeful that he would remember it all the next day, and he was memorizing every moment to look back upon fondly.”

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77. “I kept waiting for the ‘closure’ I was supposed to feel, but I was starting to think it would never come.”

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78. “I swiped at my cheeks and tried outrunning the sadness, but it stayed with me all the way home.”

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79. “He stayed silent through my entire breakdown, and once I stopped talking and started hiccupping embarrassing little sobs, he leaned forward and wiped my tears with his thumbs. “Don’t cry, Liz.” He looked sad when he said it, like he wanted to cry too. Then he said, “Wait here.” He gave me the One sec finger before turning and running into his house. I stood there, exhausted from the crying and shocked by his niceness, and when he came out his front door, he gave me a ten-dollar bill.”

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80. “Which kind of summed up the whole of my collective dating history, actually: meh.”

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81. “What if we let people think we’re dating, but only for, like, a week?”

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82. “I watched him head off in search of his happy ending, and then I pulled my phone out of my pocket. No messages.”

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83. “Is that song about a girl obsessed with her neighbor?”

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84. “I can’t talk to you when you’re like this.” “Happy? Excited? Hopeful?” I wanted to skip down the hall yell-singing “Paper Rings.”

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85. “I swear to God I will gut you with a vegetable peeler if you tell anyone.”

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86. “I mean, the soundtrack to Remember the Titans? Stone-cold ridiculous. The curator had managed a masterpiece that left the songs forever changed for every person who’d seen the film.”

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87. “He was an absolute mess, and my fingers itched to touch him.”

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88. “Jack: Later, TB. Hallie: You do see why that cannot be a thing, right? Jack: My apologies for calling you an infectious disease.”

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89. “You know, because you were remarkably unworthy of celebration.”

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90. “Bottom line – chick flicks are laughingly unrealistic. Like, ‘Oh, these two are so different and hate each other so much, but – wait. Are they so different after all?”

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91. “It was true love, Ted. I looked over, saw this guy, and I totally lost my mind. I know he’s loud and in-your-face, but whenever I look at him I feel a little weak-kneed. And when I drive him – forget about it. He’s fast and wild and a little unruly, and I can feel his throaty rumbles all through my body when I bury that gas pedal. That beast has forever ruined me for all other vehicles.”

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92. “Oh, good Lord. Wes was honking.”

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93. “Maybe I should move. To another country.”

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94. “In an instant, I’d lost my grieving buddy and gained a woman who was nothing like the mom I cried for every night.”

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95. “Dear God. Did the man ever look less than perfect?”

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96. “The truth was, I liked talking about my mom. Bringing her up in casual conversation-putting words about her out into the universe- felt like keeping a piece of her here with me, even though she had been gone so long already.”

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97. “There was something sweet in the way they moved from foes to friends, from athletic rivals to simple teenage boys, the minute that the metaphorical whistle blew the game over.”

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98. “He let go of my arms and I saw him flex his fingers before his hands dropped to his sides. Seriously? He was flexing his hand like he was Mr. Darcy at freaking Netherfield? He gave me a dickish smile and said, “How dare I?”

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99. “Besides, what’s more fun than a story that starts with a fake relationship?”

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100. “I went through a phase in sixth grade where I wore the same T- shirt every day, just to see if anyone noticed. they didn’t so I gave up after sixteen days in a row.”

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