Top 500 Mariana Zapata Quotes (2026 Update)
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151. “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

152. “Soccer has given me everything, but it’s also taken away just as many things.” He gave me a sad determined look. “I don’t want it to take you away as well. You are the least shameful thing in my life, Sal. Understand?”

— Mariana Zapata

153. “Unfortunately, you don’t get to choose family, Sonny had told me once. But you do get to choose everyone else. In this case, I was cherry picking who I was going to spend the gift of my life with.”

— Mariana Zapata

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

— Mariana Zapata

155. “Is this over now?”

— Mariana Zapata

156. “I had this one life, and if I didn’t make the best of it, then what was the point?”

— Mariana Zapata

157. “Which basically showed how amazing the human mind was; how you could care about someone but want to slit his or her throat at the same time.”

— Mariana Zapata

158. “Last night, some of the men in my tent talked about who would win in a fight, Superman or Jesus, for an hour. I couldn’t sleep, and I ended up thinking about that for too long.”

— Mariana Zapata

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

— Mariana Zapata

160. “I wasn’t as much of an adult as my birth certificate said I should be.”

— Mariana Zapata

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

— Mariana Zapata

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

— Mariana Zapata

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

— Mariana Zapata

164. “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

165. “Life could be brutally short, and happiness was never guaranteed.”

— Mariana Zapata

166. “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

167. “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

168. “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

169. “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

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

— Mariana Zapata

171. “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?”

— Mariana Zapata

172. “Ovaries. Where were my ovaries?”

— Mariana Zapata

173. “Like picture books if the ones with words don’t work for you.”

— Mariana Zapata

174. “That’s my girl.”

— Mariana Zapata

175. “Jonah Hema Collins was no deadbeat.”

— Mariana Zapata

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

— Mariana Zapata

177. “My schnecke. My little snail, do you know that’s what it means? It’s a term of affection in my country. My love. My snail. I don’t want to waste more time. I have nothing to hide and neither do you.”

— Mariana Zapata

178. “Nothing and nobody would ever come between my dreams and me.”

— Mariana Zapata

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

— Mariana Zapata

180. “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

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

— Mariana Zapata

182. “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.”

— Mariana Zapata

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

— Mariana Zapata

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

— Mariana Zapata

185. “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.”

— Mariana Zapata

186. “You didn’t know what love was until someone was willing to give up what they loved the most for you.”

— Mariana Zapata

187. “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

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

— Mariana Zapata

189. “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.”

— Mariana Zapata

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

— Mariana Zapata

191. “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.”

— Mariana Zapata

192. “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.”

— Mariana Zapata

193. “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.”

— Mariana Zapata

194. “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.”

— Mariana Zapata

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

— Mariana Zapata

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

— Mariana Zapata

197. “You should know one of my favorite things is making people laugh. And by “people,” I really mean myself.”

— Mariana Zapata

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

— Mariana Zapata

199. “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.”

— Mariana Zapata

200. “You know, you keep on being nice to me, and I’m going to think you like me.” That big body stopped right where he was and one gray eye was on me over his shoulder as he asked in that rough, serious voice, “Who says I don’t like you?”

— Mariana Zapata