Top 500 Mariana Zapata Quotes (2024 Update)
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151. “Sometimes when I have a bad day, it’s nice to remind myself that the world is a lot bigger than I am and whatever crap I have going on in my life.”

— 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. “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

154. “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

155. “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

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

— Mariana Zapata

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

— Mariana Zapata

158. “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

159. “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

160. “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

161. “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

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

— Mariana Zapata

163. “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

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

— Mariana Zapata

165. “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

166. “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

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

— Mariana Zapata

168. “No one ever told you how hard it was to make friends as an adult. But it was hard. Real hard.”

— Mariana Zapata

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

— Mariana Zapata

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

— Mariana Zapata

171. “I’m starting to understand that you can always make time for the things that matter.”

— Mariana Zapata

172. “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

173. “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.”

— Mariana Zapata

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

— Mariana Zapata

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

— Mariana Zapata

176. “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

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

— Mariana Zapata

178. “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

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

— Mariana Zapata

180. “Was it so wrong to love something you’d dedicated your life to that you wanted the best? No one ever became good at something without repeatedly working at it.”

— Mariana Zapata

181. “He gave us a chin dip in greeting, but we were both too busy acting like we were Dracula’s children to care.”

— Mariana Zapata

182. “Fine. It was fine. Everything was okay; at least it would be.”

— Mariana Zapata

183. “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

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

— Mariana Zapata

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

— Mariana Zapata

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

— Mariana Zapata

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

— Mariana Zapata

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

— Mariana Zapata

189. “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

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

— Mariana Zapata

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

— Mariana Zapata

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

— Mariana Zapata

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

— Mariana Zapata

194. “He shook his head and raised his gaze, his long eyelashes sweeping low as he leveled that ring of warm brown on mine. “You haven’t left me when I needed you. Why wouldn’t I do the same for you?”

— Mariana Zapata

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

— Mariana Zapata

196. “Who was that?” she asked me when we were a couple of booths down. “Some guy who caught me pulling my underwear out of my crack.”

— Mariana Zapata

197. “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.”

— Mariana Zapata

198. “No eclipse could overshadow the fact that I was absolutely in love with this guy, and it was the easiest and simplest thing in the world.”

— Mariana Zapata

199. “This – him – was easy. Effortless. It just felt right.”

— Mariana Zapata

200. “But my mom had told me once that regret was worse than fear.”

— Mariana Zapata