Top 50 Lynsay Sands Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “Your face is marked with lines of life, put there by love and laughter, suffering and tears. It’s beautiful.”

— Lynsay Sands

2. “Time is not the great teacher. Experience is. A man may live a whole life, but if he never leaves his home to experience that life, he dies knowing nothing. A mere child who has suffered and lived can be the wiser of the two.”

— Lynsay Sands

3. “No matter how bad the situation gets, or how low you feel, there is still one little grain of hope left in your heart, and that makes you strong. It forces you eventually to wipe away the tears, slap a bandage on your wounds, and reenter the fray.”

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4. “Life isn’t always easy, Lissianna. It’s full of tough decisions and heartache, and things don’t always work out the way we hoped. Life just doesn’t come with guarantees. And while it’s true that sometimes, by avoiding taking a chance on people, we can avoid some heartache, we might also miss out on the best times of our life. Don’t be afraid to love.”

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5. “I’d rather lose her from my life, but know she was alive and well than lose her altogether to death.”

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6. “We’re just people Jo he said quietly. Yeah I suppose. People with fangs who drink blood live a long time and apparently do crafts. She shook her head.”

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7. “He was a firm believer in that old saying, a skunk smells it own hole first.”

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8. “I trust you with my life. I’m pretty sure I love you. But more importantly, I like you.”

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9. “You hate me now. I knew you’d be upset at the choice being taken away but I couldn’t see you die.”

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10. “Have you ever noticed how when you’re happy, time seems to pass by fast, while when you’re miserable it goes real slow? Life would have been a blink with you whether it lasted a millennium or a month.”

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11. “Certainly, it is. Love is love, and loss is loss. We all love, and we all die, and everyone suffers the pain of grieving. The trick is to enjoy what you have while you have it. Not run like a bunny from the good things because they might be taken away sooner than you’d like.”

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12. “The human heart is big enough to love more than one in a lifetime.”

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13. “I’m going to brush my hair and change my clothes if we’re going out. That gives you two ten minutes to get it out of your system, so I’m not stuck with a couple of frustrated horndogs all day. But no pressure,” she added on a laugh as she swung out of the room and started upstairs.”

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14. “Harpernus Stoyan, if you can’t behave yourself and go and turn all Roman hands and Russian Fingers under that comforter, you’re going to have to sit on the couch,” Stephanie snapped, sounding for all the world like a stern schoolteacher.”

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15. “I guess we both lose the bet. What bet Thomas asked entering the room. Boxers or briefs Jeanne Louise answered. I was betting boxers and Elspeth thought briefs. Instead he went commando!! So be warned ladies, don’t assume they are wearing any undies!!”

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16. “Did you see that? Buffy just staked that poor vampire. He had yet to even do anything untowared, he just crawled out of his grave and she staked him. That is just not right. She is taking out her problems with that Angel fellow on a vampire, that is what she is doing.”

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17. “Decker lifted his eyes skyward, expecting something to happen. He didn’t know what, perhaps for the stars overhead to explode into shimmery fireworks, or for the sky to crack open and pour down rain and thunder to mark the moment. But nothing happened. The most important moment of his life arrived not with a bang as he’d always expected, but with the quiet rustle of wind through the trees and a serene breeze brushing his cheeks.”

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18. “Birthdays could be such a bummer when you were older than the country you lived in.”

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19. “Ye can no’ run about kidnapping naked men and bringing them home, no matter how handsome and strapping and well-hung they are.”

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20. “Valerie sat back in her seat and sipped at her wine, doing her best to ignore the way Anders’s leg was pressing against her own under the table. He had been touching, brushing up against, or sneaking caresses all night. First under cover of their working together in the kitchen and then under cover of the table as they’d eaten. He was driving her wild.”

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21. “The dog kept tipping his head up to Annabel, and then to the path ahead, and then back to Annabel again. It was how he used to follow his father, Ross recalled, and suspected his wife had been adopted by the beast in his father’s place. He.”

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22. “One of the things Lissianna had learned through the centuries was that there was nothing more dangerous than a zealot.”

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23. “How many times have I told you never listen to a person’s words; watch their actions to see what is in their heart. A person can say many things they do not mean.” Charlie to Beth.”

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24. “Love is love and shouldn’t upset anyone. So what else are they thinking about when they get upset at your partner preferences?” she asked reasonably, and then answered the question herself. “Their minds are in your pants and on what you do. And while they’re welcome to bury their brain in their own pants, they have no business in yours.”

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25. “Christ, that had been an experience and a half. After all the panic and hurry, he’d charged downstairs only to find Valerie standing by the French doors in the kitchen looking guilty, mortified, and cute as a button in an overlarge T-shirt. The memory brought a smile to his face that quickly faded as he considered Valerie and how to gain her trust enough that she wouldn’t run screaming for the hills when he eventually risked explaining who and what he was. It wasn’t going to be easy.”

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26. “Yes. I tried to use the same technique with you. I didn’t want to pass out.”

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27. “She wondered why they didn’t understand that their true selfs were good enough, and if they weren’t, then the someones they weren’t good enough for, were really the ones not good enough.”

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28. “Annabel stopped rubbing the center of her lower back and ducked her head to hide the blush his words had brought on. It made Ross want to kiss her. Reminded.”

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29. “Really. It’s plain for anyone to see that he cares for you. His eyes rarely leave you and he’s terribly attentive. I’m positive he’s in love with you, Terri.”

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30. “I am fine,” Lucern muttered as she settled him into a chair. He found her concern rather annoying. If she was too nice to him, he might feel guilted into being nice back.”

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31. “I’ve found in life that the nicest people somehow seem to end up with the most unkind partners. I’ve never understood that myself.”

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32. “See, you have to marry me. I seem to scare off all the help.”

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33. “Harper shook his head. “Well, I’ve never been treated like a girlfriend in all my life. It was a bit lowering.” “Nah.” Tiny shook his head. “It’s a compliment. It means they don’t see you as sexually threatening. You’re a friend rather than a man friend.” “And that’s a compliment?” Harper asked doubtfully.”

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34. “Why? Because you feed on fluffy little baby cows and chickens and I feed on mortals?”

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35. “There is something that I’ll need to discuss with you if you agree to marry me, but it isn’t that I’m terminally ill. I’m not ill at all.” “You want to marry me?” Terri asked with pleasure. Bastien rolled his eyes. “Terri, honey. I just flew two thousand three hundred miles chasing after you. It wasn’t to ask you on a date.” “Oh, Bastien!” She launched herself off the couch. Bastien caught her with an, “oomph,” then found his face peppered with little butterfly kisses.”

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36. “If she couldn’t accept that vampires existed, he’d never convince her to be his life mate.”

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37. “Anders took the phone, but his attention was on the computer on his lap. It had gone into standby mode. As he waited impatiently for it to start up again, he muttered, “I should have told her.” “Told who what?” Mortimer asked, distractedly. “Valerie, I should have told her I love her. But I figured she’d think it was too soon and – ” He didn’t bother finishing.”

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38. “She loves me?” Vincent nodded, then grinned. “Well? What are you waiting for? Get in your car and get to the airport. Follow her,” he said. “You have to go explain the truth. Tell her everything. She loves you, Bastien. You need to tell her you aren’t dying, and that she will never have to watch you die a long lingering death.”

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39. “Her wonderful, sweet, perfect, fairy-tale romance had turned out to have a twist. Prince Charming was a bloodsucker.”

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40. “Where did your clothes go?”

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41. “Because he is good and kind,” she explained softly, then went on. “Because he treats me like a princess. Because he makes me laugh. Because he makes me happy. Because he took the trouble to read to me when I could not read to myself. Because he fed me and gave me wine when I could not eat or drink at balls. Because when he kisses me my toes curl, and when he makes love to me I cannot contain my passion.”

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42. “Annabel better not have headed back to England. He’d wring her bloody neck if she had. She was his. And why the hell would she go there anyway? Surely life with him was better than life with those two coldhearted English – “Nay.”

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43. “Nicholas this is one of those ‘yes’ or ‘no’ questions again. You seem to have a problem with those. Did you or did you not kill a woman – Jo.”

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44. “DJ can stay here and help Mabel with the fire.” “I don’t need any damned help with the fire,” Mabel said with irritation. “I’m sure you don’t,” DJ said soothingly, then grinned and added, “but I bet between the two of us, we can make it burn hotter.”

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45. “I do not threaten,” he assured her. “I.”

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46. “Straightening, he then stared down at her for a moment, his tight-lipped expression easing and twitching with amusement when she began to snore lightly. She was just so damned cute. Shaking.”

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47. “We’re human. We have emotions and those are sticky and confusing and rarely logical so we do stupid things.′ She shrugged, and turned off the car. ‘Welcome to the human race. You’ll make many more mistakes before your life is done. Accept it, deal with it, and move on.”

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48. “She looked so cute with her face all swollen and scrunched up like that. It made him think this must be what little evil elves must look like.”

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49. “I hardly think my berating you wildly when I arrived at the hotel was subtle behavior.” “No?” Thomas grinned. “You berated me in Portuguese. For all I knew you were telling me I was the sexiest thing you’d seen in your life.” “In your dreams,” Inez chuckled.”

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50. “There’s something wrong with the baby. I need you here, but not if he isn’t out of commission. Go cut his head off or something.” “What?” Valerie asked with disbelief. “Who do you think I am? The Queen of Hearts?” “No, if you were you’d already have cut his head off,” Leigh snapped and then groaned in agony.”

— Lynsay Sands