Top 500 Mariana Zapata Quotes (2024 Update)
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201. “Graves aren’t quitters.”

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

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203. “I’d give you every ribbon, trophy, medal, anything at my house or at the LC if it meant something,” he told me. “I’ll give you anything you want if you stop crying.”

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204. “No game is ‘just’ anything,” was the sharp, no-nonsense reply that came out of the sauerkraut’s mouth.”

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205. “I wasn’t one to usually show off Lucy and Ethel because I was self-conscious of them, but money was money.”

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206. “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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207. “I’m not crying.” “You are the worst liar I have ever met.” He moved to rub my shoulder. “Why are you upset?” Every time he asked, I somehow managed to cry harder, my body shaking more; there were actual noises coming out of me. “It’s stupid.” “More than likely, but tell me anyway,” he said in a gentle voice.”

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208. “I really had missed this guy, despite everything. But there was a reason why amputees survived and thrived; you learned how to live without.”

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209. “Como estas?” He fell into that quick, soft accented Spanish that was a little foreign to me.”

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210. “It’s nothing you need to worry about,” I tried to tell him. And just like that, his face clouded over and he took another step toward me. “I wanna worry about it. Tell me what’s wrong.”

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211. “I registered for my card before work one day, since I figured that with my starving bank account I wouldn’t be able to afford buying any books in the near future.”

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212. “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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213. “I wasn’t going to let my fears get the best of me. I had this one life, and if I didn’t make the best of it, then what was the point?”

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214. “I loved him and it wasn’t even a little bit. It was a lotta bit.”

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215. “Do you have any idea how easy it is to love you?”

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216. “Before I’d even locked it, he was climbing onto my bed and reclining against the headboard. My mind said, “Danger!” But my ovaries screamed, “Naked! Now!”

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217. “Look like a hooker or look like a hooker. I went with the latter.”

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218. “It helped that my mom had always told me I was pretty just the way I was, even if I didn’t always completely believe her. That’s the kind of thing moms said. She’d even told my brothers they were handsome and those two looked like gremlins.”

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219. “His gaze was unflinching and solid. If someone could have light sabers in their eyes, it would be him.”

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220. “What did you want me to do? Ask him for money?”

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221. “Ovaries. Where were my ovaries?”

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222. “Demented and out-of-his-freaking mind, but handsome nonetheless.”

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223. “That’s what my life had come to? People being proud of me for keeping my mouth shut?”

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224. “I was jealous. Horribly, stupidly, pathetically jealous.”

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225. “He’s lucky I didn’t grab a chair and go WWE on his ass.”

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226. “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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227. “What was love if it wasn’t just a single word people used to try and describe something that wasn’t easily explained or grown in one action or declaration? I’d.”

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228. “I am the man that I am, and I have done things that I’ve done, to get me to you.”

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229. “I don’t know what I’m doing with you half the time.” Sacha snickered almost lazily. “I like you so much it makes me stupid.”

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230. “I thought broken things couldn’t help but love other broken things.”

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231. “His forehead tipped forward, and before I could react, before he said another word to me, he leaned forward, forward, forward and pressed his mouth just to the side of my mouth. A peck. A shot better than tequila, made up of friendship and affection and organic sugar.”

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232. “You did something and you could regret it, or you could not do something and regret it. You never knew which way it would go. Everything in life is a gamble.”

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233. “Trust me, I’ve wanted to punch you in the face a time or five.”

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234. “It was seven thirty in the morning, and I was at my dining room table for the last time ever when that now familiar, three-rap knock made my door rattle. I’d just gotten out of bed twenty minutes ago, and I was sitting around waiting for the waffle iron to heat up. Hell, I still had my pajamas on, hadn’t washed my face, or even brushed my teeth yet. My hair was up in something that looked like a baby pineapple.”

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235. “I can’t sleep,” the little boy admitted, still whispering like he was trying not to wake me up even more than he already had by scaring the Holy Spirit and a couple drops of pee out of me.”

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236. “Danish ancestry.”

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237. “Eyes up here, Taco.”

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238. “I fist-pumped in my brain because sane people don’t do that in real life.”

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239. “I was a chicken, but I wasn’t a quitter.”

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240. “I fisted my hand. “You don’t – you’ve never even had a girlfriend.” “So? Want me to lie and tell you I’ve had a couple dozen? Or you good with knowing it’ll only be you?” Well. Hell. “You’re too young. You’re too sweet. You’re too good for me. But I’m done standing around trying to suck up all the goodness you make me feel without you even knowing, Luna. You are my girl. Just you. Nobody else ever has or will be.”

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241. “It was about everything. About life and death, and white and black and gray. It was about having to be tough when you weren’t used to it. About having to grow when you’d thought you were done growing. In the back of my head, I knew what I’d said didn’t make any damn sense. But how could I explain? How could I begin to tell him that I had lost a part of myself with my brother’s death, and I was trying so hard to keep what I had left together with duct tape and paper clips?”

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

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243. “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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244. “We both know you love me.” I wanted to deny it. I really did. Mostly because I hated the fact that he sounded so smug. But we both knew I’d be lying. Maybe I’d never said the words, but he knew. Like he’d known about my learning disability but never said anything. Like he knew chocolate was my weakness and fed it to me when I needed it most.”

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245. “It was right then, in that instant, that I realized I might be a little in love with Aiden. Not in a way that was anything like the easy crush I had on him in the past, but different. So, so different.”

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246. “Sometimes the worst things you could ever hear were wrapped in sweet tones and calm voices.”

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247. “What is a can of a whoop-ass and where can I get one?”

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248. “If something happened to you, I wouldn’t be okay. I would never be okay.”

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249. “Ivan muttered in that perfectly balanced voice that was deep but not too deep, just perfectly aggravating.”

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250. “I would do anything for you.”

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