Top 500 Mariana Zapata Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “You could take the girl out of the hood, but you could never take the hood out of the girl.”

— Mariana Zapata

2. “Kill them with kindness.”

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3. “At some point, you just have to decide to be the best version of yourself, the one you can live with and look at the mirror day after day.”

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4. “If I don’t remember it, it didn’t happen.”

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5. “Touch my wife again, and I’ll break every bone in your goddamn body.”

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6. “Touch my wife again, and I’ll break every bone in your goddamn body.” My wife. Not Vanessa. He’d gone with my wife. He’d cussed. For me. For my honor. He’d said the ‘G’ word and it was just about the most romantic thing I’d ever heard in my life because Aiden didn’t do that.”

— Mariana Zapata

7. “Because I’m okay with you having ten other people be your favorite. But you’re always going to be my favorite person.”

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8. “And it’s more fun to be nice when you know someone doesn’t like you since it’ll just make them feel like they’re the bad person, okay? Mind Games 101. You taught that class.”

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9. “You’ve gotta be the best thing I never knew I wanted.”

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10. “My mom said I had serious trust issues, but honestly, the more people I met, the more I didn’t want to meet more.”

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11. “The only people in the world who can hurt you are those you let have that ability, Van.”

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12. “What if everyone hates me and no one talks to me? What if someone throws something at me?” Aiden snorted, setting the shirt he’d been holding aside and picking up the next one on the pile. “What are they going to throw? Bookmarks?”

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13. “No, it’s not. We’re friends. You said I was your best friend, remember? You can love me but not be in – “ I couldn’t say it. I shut my mouth and gave him an exasperated look. “I can and I am. When you love something you do whatever you need to do to protect it, isn’t that right?” He tilted his face down, making sure our eyes were meeting.”

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14. “When you want something bad enough, you can always make it happen.”

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15. “What no one tells you is that the road to accomplishing your goals isn’t a straight line; it looks more like a corn maze. You stopped, you went, you backed up, and took a few wrong turns along the way, but the important thing you had to remember was that there was an exit. Somewhere.”

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16. “You can’t be that overprotective if you didn’t love someone.”

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17. “You are the goodest, sweetest thing I have ever had in my life, and I don’t want you to go screaming the other way, you understand me? One day I’ll tell you about everything,” he said softly.”

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18. “A dream is just a wish without a plan.”

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19. “Sometimes, maybe even more often than just sometimes, you were better off alone. Sometimes you had to learn to be your own best friend. To put yourself first.”

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20. “And I cried because I loved someone who might not love me back no matter how badly I might want him to.”

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21. “Everyone needs something to look forward to. You don’t have to live your life anticipating the future or dreading it, but you can have these little things you look forward to every day.”

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22. “It was my turn to blink.”

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23. “You know, Sal. It’s why we fight and make-up. Why we’ll always fight and make-up. You were the one that said to me that you fight with the people you love the most, remember? You and I fight all the time, see?”

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24. “You’ll always be the hardest working person I’ve ever known. There will only ever be you.”

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25. “Should’ve, would’ve, could’ve. One of my coaches had told me once that those were the most pointless set of words in the world. But you learn to live with them, you learn from them, or you let them weigh you down for life.”

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26. “You are my best friend, my love, my playmate and my teammate. You’ll have a team with me wherever we are, with whatever we are playing.”

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27. “We don’t get to choose who the people we love become or are, but you do get to pick if you want to stick around.”

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28. “Sergeant Major to a young soldier: “I didn’t see you at camouflage training this morning, soldier.” Soldier: “Thank you very much, sir.” All.”

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29. “And love without respect and appreciation isn’t actually anything. It’s worthless. I.”

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30. “I believe in you. In us. Regardless of what happens, you will always be the best partner I’ve ever had. You’ll always be the hardest working person I’ve ever known. There will only ever be you.”

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31. “When something is broken into too many pieces, you can’t stare at them and try to glue them back together; sometimes you just have to sweep up the pieces and buy something else.”

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32. “I don’t hate you,” I repeated, looking at him even though he’d glanced away by then. “Why the hell would you think that?” “Because you’ve said, ‘I hate you.’” I blinked. “That doesn’t mean I really hate you. I didn’t know you were that sensitive. I don’t like you, but I don’t hate you-hate you.”

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33. “I need you more than you need me, and that’s okay,” he told me.”

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34. “Grandson: Were you in the war, Grandpa? Grandpa: Yes, I was a fighter pilot. Kid’s mom: Weren’t you stationed in Illinois, Dad? Grandpa: Yes, and I’ll have you know not one enemy aircraft got passed Missouri! Good.”

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35. “Hell, better than watching Robby Lingus porn.”

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36. “Real love was gritty. The real kind of love never quit. Someone who loved you would do what’s best for you; they’d stand up for you and sacrifice. Someone who loved you would face any inconvenience willingly. You didn’t know what love was until someone was willing to give up what they loved the most for you.”

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37. “One of the worst things in the world was watching someone you love fall apart.”

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38. “I had a brief, blurry memory of being in kindergarten, watching Mason and Eli shove Play-Doh into their mouths while Gordo and I watched in both horror and fascination.”

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39. “My face went straight to between his pecs, burying itself there, cradling my face like the hardest and best-looking boobs in the universe.”

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40. “Mom wasn’t just a cougar, she was The Cougar. All other cougars hailed to her.”

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41. “You made your choices in life, and you had to deal with them. There weren’t take backs. You could never and should never expect a second chance.”

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42. “You can’t always wait for someone else to do the right thing when you can do it yourself.”

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43. “He couldn’t be considered my sugar daddy if we were legally married, right?”

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44. “What would I gain from telling you the first moment I realized you were meant to be mine? Nothing. You’re supposed to protect what you love, Sal. You taught me that. I didn’t wake up one day and know I didn’t want to live without your horrible temper. I saw so much of me in you at first, but you aren’t like me at all. You’re you, and I will go to my grave before I let anyone change any part of you. I know that without a doubt in my mind. This,” he pointed between us. “This is what matters.”

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45. “It was the worst non-break-up ever in the history of imaginary relationships with a man who didn’t even know I existed.”

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46. “If there was one thing I’d learned over the last few years, it was that just because you cared about someone, and just because they made it seem like they cared about you too, didn’t really mean a single thing at the end of the day.”

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47. “When I was a kid, I learned the hard way how expensive the truth was. Sometimes it cost you people in your life. Sometimes it cost you things in your life. And in this life, most people were too cheap to pay the price for something as valuable as honesty.”

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48. “Zoey gasped then, putting a small hand against her negative 32AAA boobies. “No!”

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49. “Why do you look like you just found out that Kulti guy got married again?”

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50. “Every single thing that has ever happened in my life has led me here, Sal. Destiny is a ladder, a series of steps that takes you where you’re supposed to go. I am the man that I am, and I have done the things that I’ve done, to get me to you.”

— Mariana Zapata