Top 60 Lyssa Kay Adams Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “Book club isn’t just about books.”

— Lyssa Kay Adams

2. “There’s no force on Earth as strong as a woman who is good and fed up.”

— Lyssa Kay Adams

3. “One of the most insidious ways that toxic masculinity destroys men is that it strips us of the ability to express our emotions and to connect, not just with women, but with other men. Because real men don’t do that, right?”

— Lyssa Kay Adams

4. “Now get the hell out of my life and don’t come back.”

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5. “The side-eye she gave him carried enough attitude to fuel a sitcom.”

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6. “Memories are unfair, you know? They don’t tell us until it’s too late that this one, this detail, is the thing you need to hang on to. Why do we remember the weird little stuff but not the big things?”

— Lyssa Kay Adams

7. “Because perfection is the opposite of authenticity, Mack.”

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8. “I just want to wake up next to you,” he said quietly. “Is that all right with you?”

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9. “All spouses become strangers to each other at some point in a marriage,” Del said. “All human beings are a work in progress, and we don’t all change at the same pace. Who knows how many people have gotten divorced simply because they failed to recognize that what they thought were insurmountable problems were actually just temporary phases?”

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10. “We expect women to do all the emotional labor in a relationship and then act confused when they give up on us.”

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11. “Fear is a powerful motivator, but so is love.”

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12. “The Little Mermaid had sparked a debate back downstairs, and now things had gone off the rails.”

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13. “If a man wants to leave you, wave goodbye and lock the doors. You’ve got better things to do than chase a lost cause.”

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14. “He found her in the library.”

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15. “We are all the sum total of our experiences at any given time, and our reactions to things are shaped by them. Just like in romance novels. Whatever a character went through before the start of the book will eventually determine how they react to things that happen in the book.”

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16. “I don’t want a man. I don’t have time for a man. They’re needy, clingy, and never keep their promises.” Mack whistled. “Damn, girl. Who hurt you?” “The patriarchy,” she deadpanned.”

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17. “First rule of book club? You don’t talk about book club.”

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18. “That is marriage. Security and stability with the occasional what the hell was I thinking?”

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19. “Don’t be ashamed for liking them. The backlash against the PSL is a perfect example of how toxic masculinity permeates even the most mundane things in life. If masses of women like something, our society automatically begins to mock them. Just like romance novels.”

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20. “She said, ‘Claudia, I know you are so happy right now that it’s hard to imagine things will ever be bad. But there will come a day when you’ll be sitting across from him as he is eating his breakfast, and all you will think is why? And then you’ll get over it, and things will go back to normal.’ That is marriage. Security and stability with the occasional ’what the hell was I thinking?”

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21. “We shouldn’t assume that women and girls don’t know the difference between reality and fantasy. We don’t fear that men who read murder mysteries and thrillers are going to have a hard time not becoming serial killers, so why should we assume that a girl won’t know that she doesn’t have to change from a mermaid to human in order to find love just because of a movie?”

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22. “Of course I can cook. I’m an adult. Feeding myself is part of the deal.”

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23. “Because you came to Michelle’s to offer your blessing even though it clearly broke your heart. Only a person who truly cares about a man would do something that selfless.”

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24. “You use weakness as a weapon. You’re so ashamed of your own mistakes in life, so afraid of your own fragility, that you accuse everyone else around you of being soft just for the crime of basic human frailty.”

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25. “That’s why fiction resonates with people. It speaks to universal truths.”

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26. “History was built by thousands of women who thought they were just housewives or just secretaries or just seamstresses until the day they got fed up and decided to fight back.”

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27. “Not everyone is willing or able to take on the world in a great big fight. It doesn’t make them weak or wrong.”

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28. “From the proverb. A word is not a sparrow.” Vlad finished the old Soviet-area saying. “Once it flies out, you can’t catch it.”

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29. “Our society has allowed men to get away with a lack of emotional intelligence by equating the expression of a full range of human emotion with femininity.”

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30. “It took me a long time to realize it wasn’t my job to convince him I was the prize worth fighting for.”

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31. “People screw up. A lot. The key to a lasting relationship is the ability to forgive over and over again.”

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32. “Romance novels are primarily written by women for women, and they’re entirely about how they want to be treated and what they want out of life and in a relationship. We read them to be more comfortable expressing ourselves and to look at things from their perspective.”

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33. “We spend a lot of time talking about the unfairness of how our toxic musculine society forces us to be ashamed of embracing romance novels. Yet we buy our books in secret. It’s time we practice what we preach.”

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34. “Forgiveness means recognizing that you are a different person because of the pain but realizing that so are they because of the pain they caused. I think it’s deciding that the new people you are are better people and that together you’re worth something.”

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35. “I’ve never been so accepted, so valued. I realized there are a lot of men like me. Men who aren’t afraid to be vulnerable. And these books, they show you what it’s like to be truly respected. I didn’t just see how I wanted to be treated in a relationship. I saw how I wanted to treat myself. How I deserved to be treated. How I deserved to be loved.”

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36. “Men don’t do subtleties, honey. You have to hit them over the head with things, and even then, you have to give them an explanation why.”

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37. “The suffocating ways that modern women are controlled without their consent every single day.”

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38. “You shouldn’t have to care about a women to recognize that the sexuel degradation of all women is a problem. You should recognize that it’s wrong simply because they’re humans.”

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39. “Gavin stumbled to the toilet just as something the colour of bad decisions exploded from his mouth.”

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40. “That your journey ain’t complete until you’re willing to stare into the glare of your own past.”

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41. “Fear forces us to do stupid things, brother. Make bad decisions, often against our own best interests and against wh-what we really w-want in life.”

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42. “It’s how they get to that happily ever after that matters and makes these books so special and instructive.”

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43. “Even with a dozen credible accusations against him, his most rabid fans still refused to believe that their precious hero would do anything wrong. The women must have been lying. They were just disgruntled former employees or spurned lovers.”

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44. “At seven o’clock, Noah pulled up in front of Mack’s house in a dirty white van that couldn’t have been more obvious in its nondescript creepiness if he’d spray painted “Free Puppies” on the side.”

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45. “Romance novels are primarily written by women for women, and they’re entirely about how they want to be treated and what they want out of life and in a relationship.”

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46. “I believe what Rosie is trying to say is that bad guys get away with it because the good guys look the other way.”

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47. “Think about how much healthier all men in this world would be if we could be this open with one another all the time.”

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48. “I would never hurt you like that, Lexa, because I love you more than I could ever hate him.”

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49. “He looked up with a smile that made Thea’s heart swipe right.”

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50. “The only thing that never changed was how hard certain Americans would fight to wall out the most vulnerable, who simply wanted a chance at a better life.”

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