Top 500 Mariana Zapata Quotes (2025 Update)
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151. “Because if I remember correctly, your text message said, ‘I just kicked the hottest guy I’ve probably ever seen in the ass.’ And I asked you what he looked like and you texted me back, ‘Like a double bacon cheeseburger I’d take a bite out of.”

— Mariana Zapata

152. “I wouldn’t say I screw it up. It’s more like... you either need to chew a little more or a little less.”

— Mariana Zapata

153. “We got out of the car and made our way toward the door inscribed with ‘Pins and Needles’ in classy simple font.”

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154. “But I’m not a good man, and I’m gonna take everythin’ you want to give me and everythin’ you don’t.”

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155. “Those big hands left my thighs and before I could wonder where they were going, they landed on my cheeks. In a split second, he tilted my face just slightly down and we were eye to eye, his breath on my face. Those amazing hazel eyes were closer than they’d ever been. Then he kissed me.”

— Mariana Zapata

156. “I fell in love with the voice in the dark. No joke, no exaggeration. It was a pure, raw love.”

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157. “So, what you’re trying to say is you wouldn’t let him fertilize your flower?” Nikki snorted. Zoey made a stupid noise that sounded like a cough and a choke. “You wouldn’t let him hide his salami?” “Pump gas into your tank?” “Hibernate in your cave?” “Catch a ride on the Kitty Kat Express?” “Tenderize your meat?”

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158. “All I could think about as I stood there was that sometimes life gave you a tragedy that burned everything you knew to the ground and changed you completely. But somehow, if you really wanted to, you could learn how to hold your breath as you made your way through the smoke left in its wake and you could keep going. And sometimes, sometimes, you could grow something beautiful from the ashes that were left behind. If you were lucky.”

— Mariana Zapata

159. “Because every relationship will end up one of two ways: you’ll end up breaking up, or you end up marrying the person. And I don’t like wasting my time.”

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160. “Which star wars character works at a restaurant? Darth waiter ha ha ha!”

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161. “I hadn’t just backed up the toilet; I’d made the septic tank flood the house.”

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162. “You couldn’t expect anyone to take care of you better than you could take care of you.”

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163. “He had a desktop computer with a password I couldn’t break into.”

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164. “I was going to murder his ass. One day. One day long after I quit, so no one would suspect me. “Aiden,” I grumbled, even though I knew better. Grumbling only got me the look – that infamous, condescending expression that had gotten Aiden into more than one fight in the past. Or so I’d been told.”

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165. “Fear, I thought, was more like a hallucinogenic.”

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166. “I was from Texas. We had two seasons: fifty weeks of summer and two weeks of something between a semi-brutal winter and a crappy spring. If it were less than seventy degrees, you would never see me without a jacket on.”

— Mariana Zapata

167. “The Wall of Winnipeg was really here. Aiden was here. I didn’t know why, and honestly, I wasn’t even wondering why. I couldn’t have cared. Aiden had come. I sucked in a breath and got to my feet, the biggest smile I’d ever made making my cheeks instantly ache.”

— Mariana Zapata

168. “In that moment, I don’t think I had ever loved anything half as much as I loved Aiden.”

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169. “I hated people telling me that they would do something and then not. Disappointment was bitter.”

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170. “This is what matters. You are my gift, my second chance, and I will cherish you and your dream. I will protect both of you. “I’ve been waiting, and I will keep on waiting until the time is right. You are my equal, my partner, my teammate, my best friend. I’ve done so many stupid things that you’ve made me regret – things I hope you will forgive me for and look beyond – but this, waiting a little longer for the love of my life, I can do.”

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171. “Maybe that was the thing about love I’ve never understood before Aiden. 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.”

— Mariana Zapata

172. “I’ve been waiting every day of my life for you.”

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173. “My heart beating, I tipped my mouth up to kiss him the same way he had me, my hand reaching to touch the side of his neck.”

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174. “People think they have to be lions or lambs, but I’ve always just wanted to be something in between.” I bit my lip and lifted a shoulder. “Something that still has sharp teeth, just in case.”

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175. “You could’ve told me your mom and sister are the ugly ones in the family.”

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176. “The enthusiastic nod of my boy could win over the biggest Grinch. It was both a blessing and a curse. He used it on me on a regular basis.”

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177. “Jonah Hema Collins was no deadbeat.”

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178. “Loneliness even when you’re surrounded by others is something I understand well. I’m.”

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179. “One, we don’t know each other.” “We know each other,” Delusional argued.”

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180. “I’m really damn happy to see you, Ruby.” His voice was quiet, not hesitant but more cautious. “I look at you and I can’t stop smiling. That’s all. You’re adorable.”

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181. “I thought that someone liked me, but I realized that maybe it wasn’t the same kind of attraction that I was hoping for.”

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182. “I lost the name my mom had so carefully chosen and became a medical term.”

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183. “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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184. “Everyone deserves hugs and to know that someone in the world still worries about them, no matter what they’re doing, or even if they’re mad at one another.”

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185. “If I kept on looking at his bare chest any longer, I’d officially earn my Hussy Merit Badge.”

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186. “I put a hand over my heart like that would help the ache pounding away.”

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187. “Life was a lot easier spent next to a pine tree than a cactus.”

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188. “But then he said the words that made a dozen more butterflies explode into existence. “I’m really damn happy to see you, Ruby.” His voice was quiet, not hesitant but more cautious. “I look at you and I can’t stop smiling. That’s all. You’re adorable.”

— Mariana Zapata

189. “Dumbass, I mouthed before I could stop myself and be better. Meatball, he mouthed back.”

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190. “Always a bridesmaid, never a bride,” he muttered.”

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191. “I’m gonna hug you as long as you promise not to grab my ass, okay?”

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192. “There was a sigh and another whisper that sounded like I don’t want to hear it before he came back on the line to respond with, “Someone needs a couple stitches and doesn’t want to go to the hospital, and Peter says he’s not doing it.”

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193. “Then he did it, he crossed the line again. “Sal – Sal, don’t tell anyone, but you’re my favorite.”

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194. “Don’t mistake me giving you space as me not being interested. It’s not every woman I let into my bed, much less into my life, and even more into Amos’s life. Before you, it’d been nobody. So just because I don’t know what your mouth tastes like yet doesn’t mean I haven’t thought about it. Doesn’t mean I’m not going to. But Sofie would tell you I’ve got a big, fragile heart, and I think I do, so I need you to know what you want for my sake too, Buddy. Does that make it clear?”

— Mariana Zapata

195. “If my good mood were a raft named Gaby, it seemed like it was on the verge of sinking.”

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196. “I’ll do whatever it takes. Tell me what you want and you’ll have it. Anything.”

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197. “I don’t know anything about relationships, Van, but I know I love you. I know I’ve waited my entire life to love you, and I’ll do whatever I have to, to make this work.”

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198. “Just like I tell the boys, we don’t play for one single run, we play to win the whole game. And I’m in it to win it.”

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199. “I couldn’t even find it in me to be annoyed.”

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200. “Kids are innocent. They’re sweet, they’re honest. They’re cute. They know right and wrong better than adults do.”

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