Top 500 Mariana Zapata Quotes (2024 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. “If I don’t remember it, it didn’t happen.”

— Mariana Zapata

4. “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

5. “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.”

— Mariana Zapata

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

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7. “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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8. “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.”

— Mariana Zapata

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

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10. “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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11. “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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12. “It was my turn to blink.”

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13. “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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14. “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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15. “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.”

— Mariana Zapata

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

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17. “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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18. “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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19. “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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20. “And love without respect and appreciation isn’t actually anything. It’s worthless. I.”

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21. “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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22. “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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23. “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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24. “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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25. “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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26. “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.”

— Mariana Zapata

27. “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.”

— Mariana Zapata

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

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

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30. “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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31. “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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32. “The only people in the world who can hurt you are those you let have that ability, Van.”

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

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

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

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36. “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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37. “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.”

— Mariana Zapata

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

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

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

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42. “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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43. “Remember that idiotic question you asked me in the car? About what would happen when you can’t play soccer any longer?” He didn’t wait for any acknowledgment. “Nothing would happen. We would have a different adventure to go on. 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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44. “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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45. “When you want something bad enough, you can always make it happen.”

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46. “Love to me was honesty. Being real. Knowing someone’s best and worst. Love was a push that said someone believed in you when you didn’t.”

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47. “When life gives you lemons, you get to choose what you make out of them; it doesn’t always have to be lemonade.”

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48. “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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49. “What a sweet, lovely man-child, said no one ever.”

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50. “It was a blinding kind of thing, this unbelievable friendship – this love – I had with and for him. It was mine and it made me happy, and I reveled in it.”

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