Top 500 Mariana Zapata Quotes (2025 Update)
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201. “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.”

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202. “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

203. “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

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

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205. “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.”

— Mariana Zapata

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

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

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209. “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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210. “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

211. “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.”

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

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213. “I don’t really have another choice. I figured I’d just cry and bleed all the way home.”

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

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

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216. “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?”

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217. “Ovaries. Where were my ovaries?”

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

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219. “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.”

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

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221. “Graves aren’t quitters.”

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222. “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.”

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

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224. “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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225. “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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226. “Nothing and nobody would ever come between my dreams and me.”

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227. “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.”

— Mariana Zapata

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

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230. “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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231. “That’s my girl.”

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

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233. “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.”

— Mariana Zapata

234. “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.”

— Mariana Zapata

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

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

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237. “I could have been more and I could have been less, but I was just me. At some point, you just have to decide to be the best version of yourself, the one you can live with and look at in the mirror day after day.”

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238. “Deep inside me, the wuss still ran strong in a few situations, but extra, extra especially when it was related to Zac Travis. Time had healed a lot of wounds but not all of them.”

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239. “I would do anything for you.”

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240. “You are my gift, my second chance, and I will cherish you and your dream.”

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241. “What was that saying? When life gives you lemons, go to a taco stand.”

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242. “Jesus Christ. He was wearing a suit for once, a dark gray ensemble that looked tailored to fit his wide shoulders, full arms, slim hips, and muscular thighs. How the hell did he go through the day without getting slipped a Rohypnol by every woman he came in contact with?”

— Mariana Zapata

243. “Two drinks, no more?” “Only two,” she confirmed. To give us credit, we were both straight-faced as we recited the greatest lie ever told.”

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244. “What is Jasmine’s favorite?” she asked. He glanced at me at the same time the woman looked away, “Red.” Then added like the blood of the children you eat. I was not going to laugh. I was not going to laugh.”

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245. “Every beautiful thing I see reminds me of you.”

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246. “I had a temper. I got angry easily. But I had made myself learn how to control it. I had decided early on that I wasn’t going to let that emotion define me. I wanted to be better. I wanted to be a good person. I wanted to be someone – not necessarily someone great or someone important – but someone I could live with.”

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247. “We outgrow clothes the same way we outgrow people, Len. We change inside the same way we do outside.”

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248. “It wasn’t until almost six o’clock that something wet nudged at my face and woke me up. It was the pink pig sitting on my chest, with Ivan standing off to the side of the bed, watching me, while he held his huge bunny in one arm.”

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249. “What’s the password?” “Gaby’s birthday should be a national holiday.” I grinned like an idiot, and fortunately, I was in my room alone so he couldn’t see my facial expression. It had to be bordering on ugly from how hard my cheeks strained in such a short amount of time. “Andddd?” I asked, in what had become our game. He laughed from the other side of the door. “I bought you a book.”

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

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