Top 500 Mariana Zapata Quotes (2024 Update)
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51. “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.”

— Mariana Zapata

52. “The fact that I’d gone out to buy him hemorrhoid cream a couple of times probably helped solidify the lines in our friend zone.”

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53. “My abuela, God rest her soul, had always told me you get a lot more out of life being nice than being a cabrona.”

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54. “He’d been buck naked and had yelled like I’d gone in there to kill him, screaming with two hands covering his privates, “Don’t look at my nuggets!”

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55. “I haven’t done a single thing in my life to deserve you, schnecke, but I will never give up on you, and I won’t let you give up on me.”

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56. “Bein’ around you has always made me happy. Even when you were a baby, you were always makin’ me laugh.” His head tilted forward, and I barely heard him, but I did. “You still do. That’s why I... that’s why I’m always botherin’ you. You make everything fun. Everything good. You’ve always been my favourite girl, kiddo. Hands down.”

— Mariana Zapata

57. “This was about the baby chewing away at a toy in a way that made my nipples have PTSD from when I had breastfed her before she’d decided she was done with my boobs.”

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58. “Being judged and found lacking by the people who were supposed to love you never left anyone feeling all right.”

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59. “You want me to pretend we’re getting married or something?”

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60. “I needed to go help because it was the right thing to do and because I needed to be a role model for the boys. And running from obstacles wasn’t something they needed to learn from anyone.”

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61. “Because no one else was as kind or selfless, as giving or as patient, as loving in all the little and the big ways, as he was. I’d never really known what I wanted most of my life, but this – him – was it.”

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62. “That’s the girl I know. The one I partnered up with. The one I think is the best – and you better not ever ask me to repeat that because I won’t.”

— Mariana Zapata

63. “I wanted you to be my partner for years, dumbass. When Karina had told me you were thinking about switching to pairs, I had thought you would say something to me, even in passing as a joke. I thought you would say you were going to kick my ass, and I had planned on talking to you over it. But you never did. The next thing I knew, you had a partner. Some dipshit that wasn’t half as good as you.”

— Mariana Zapata

64. “Someone who makes me laugh.” The twitching went into overdrive. “Are you making stuff up?” Because, really? Kulti laughing? Ha.”

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65. “You can’t break apart love’s properties and make it something it’s not. I knew that now.”

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66. “Hi, Jasmine!” one of them greeted, a nice girl who, as far as I could remember, had always gone out of her way to be friendly to me. “Hi, Jasmine,” the girl beside her said too.”

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67. “He was lucky I had a tiny, itty, bitty crush on him; otherwise, he would have gotten the shank years ago. Then.”

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68. “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

69. “I just kept on crying. For my dad. For my mom, For my siblings. For myself. For not feeling good enough. For not feeling enough. For doing what I wanted to do despite all the noes and the eye rolls and all the things I’d had to give up along the way. All the things I’d lost that I might someday regret more than I already did.”

— Mariana Zapata

70. “I’m sorry for making it seem like you broke my heart. Sometimes I forget it got broken a long time before I met you.”

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71. “You say that as if there were anyone else in this world I would want. You have no idea what I feel for you.” He blinked and spat out something I never would have expected. “There is no gray area for me where you’re concerned. I don’t share, and I expect nothing less from you.”

— Mariana Zapata

72. “Everyone deserves love, but there are people that don’t want it, no matter how desperately and truly you might give it to them.”

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73. “What is Ivan’s favorite color?” I glanced at Ivan and made a face. “Black,” I answered, but mouthed like your heart. He rolled his eyes.”

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74. “People cried over endings, but sometimes you had to cry over new beginnings. I wouldn’t forget what I’d left. But I was going to be excited – at least as much as I could be – about this start and however it would end.”

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75. “A group of soldiers were standing at formation when their instructor said, “All right, all you dummies fall out.” Only one man in the squad stayed at attention while the rest wandered off. The instructor walked over to the soldier who hadn’t left and met him eye to eye. The soldier smiled and said, “Sure was a lot of them, huh, sir?” Best.”

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76. “Dear God. If that friendship continued, I’d probably have premature hair loss in no time.”

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77. “You are the most honest, good thing I’ve ever had. I won’t deny it to anyone.”

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78. “You suck, Meatball,” he called out a second before I knew the music was about to start. But I love you, his lips formed.”

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79. “I’m about five seconds away from going to kick Jonathan’s mom’s ass, and then kicking her mom’s ass afterward to teach them both a lesson.”

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80. “I’m still friends with people who have done me wrong because I know they’re sorry. Doesn’t mean I have to trust them as much as I used to.”

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81. “You want me to pretend we’re getting married or something?” Yeah. My mouth opened. Then it closed. It was my turn to stare at him. My turn to press my lips together. Then, and only then, did I tip my face up to the ceiling and freaking laugh.”

— Mariana Zapata

82. “Ivan who was leaning over me, his fist held just a couple inches away from my face. He was smirking. At me. “Wake up, Outbreak monkey. It’s time for your next Tylenol.”

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83. “It was like dressing an elephant in camouflage.”

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84. “I’d like for you to apologize to her,” Jonah said, still using that hard-ass voice that got me going. Then he added “Please,” and I swear my ovaries just about exploded. Well, it wasn’t like I didn’t know I had issues.”

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85. “Challenges were only hard if you went into them expecting not to succeed.”

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86. “I hugged him even tighter. It was in that moment, when I was hugging him as if my life depended on it, that I recognized the strange, gooey emotion that had been floating around in my belly the last portion of the night. I liked Sacha.”

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87. “It was the greatest in its subtleties. It was the strongest in its selflessness.”

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88. “Lovin’ you is the easiest thing I’ve ever done, and it’s the easiest thing I’m ever gonna do.”

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89. “Like football and art, like anything that anyone in the world has ever wanted, love was a dream. And just like a dream, there were no assurances behind it. It didn’t grow on its own. It didn’t blossom without food to feed it. It was the greatest in its subtleties. It was the strongest in its selflessness. And it could be forever with someone who wasn’t afraid to never give up on the possibilities it presents.”

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90. “Someone could tell you that they loved you every day, but still lie and cheat. Or they could never say those three words, but be there for you every day and be more than you ever wanted or dreamed. He wasn’t warm or cuddly, quiet or particularly nice to others, but he was nice to me, and in my heart I knew he would stand by me every time I needed him.”

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91. “Most people are too scared to ever put themselves in a position to be criticized. You shouldn’t care what they think if they don’t have the guts to do what you’re doing. You have to remember that too. The only opinion that really matters is your own and other people you respect. Everyone is scared of something, and perfection isn’t realistic. We’re humans, not robots.”

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92. “The problem with men, or males in general, that I’d discovered over the course of my life, was that they had huge mouths. I mean a whale shark has nothing on the average man with a couple of friends. Honestly.”

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93. “Sometimes I think you can’t be any cuter, and then you go and put on my underwear.”

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94. “The world was a heavy place, and I had a finicky back.”

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

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96. “I was in love with a man who maybe loved me according to others, but maybe didn’t love me the way that I wanted.”

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97. “Then again, it was one thing to do something risky that only caused physical pain. Physical pain you could manage with ice, rest, and anti-inflammatories. It was the other kind of pain, the one that snuck under your skin and settled up in quiet places you didn’t go visit that often, that wasn’t so easy to get over. That was the difference, wasn’t it?”

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98. “From what I’d seen in such a short amount of time, the tattoos weren’t just random crap people would regret when they were elderly. The pieces clients got seemed to be so much more than that. They were memorials and declarations. They were outpourings of love and pain. Letters and images, icons and symbolism, personal and eternal. It.”

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99. “I wouldn’t roll down that hill even if he’d been interested. Which he hadn’t. It was fine. I wasn’t interested either.”

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100. “I need a friend – I need you.”

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