Top 500 Mariana Zapata Quotes (2026 Update)
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251. “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

252. “You and I fight, yes? It’s in our nature. I think you should get used to the idea.” The corners of his mouth tipped up just a bit. “Are we fine now?” he asked earnestly, expectantly.”

— Mariana Zapata

253. “What a cocky little turd. I.”

— Mariana Zapata

254. “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.”

— Mariana Zapata

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

— Mariana Zapata

256. “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

257. “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.”

— Mariana Zapata

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

— Mariana Zapata

259. “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.”

— Mariana Zapata

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

— Mariana Zapata

261. “But when Josh made his way toward me after practice, his eyes narrowed on the dads who were still sitting where I’d left them on the bleacher. He gave me this look that said he wasn’t amused by the two strangers sitting so close. He usually didn’t like men talking to me, and in this case, nothing had changed.”

— Mariana Zapata

262. “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.”

— Mariana Zapata

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

— Mariana Zapata

264. “I would do anything for you.”

— Mariana Zapata

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

— Mariana Zapata

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

— Mariana Zapata

267. “Every relationship turns into a bad one unless you find somebody to stay married to you for the rest of your life.”

— Mariana Zapata

268. “Maybe you didn’t have to get over your fears completely to conquer them. Maybe if you just faced them in general that counted. Or at least that’s what I wanted to believe.”

— Mariana Zapata

269. “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.”

— Mariana Zapata

270. “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.”

— Mariana Zapata

271. “We’ve all made stupid mistakes in our lives, and when you get older, you’re going to make a ton of them yourself, but that’s what I want you to understand – you have to learn from what you do, the good and the bad.”

— Mariana Zapata

272. “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.”

— Mariana Zapata

273. “Danish ancestry.”

— Mariana Zapata

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

— Mariana Zapata

275. “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.”

— Mariana Zapata

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

— Mariana Zapata

277. “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.”

— Mariana Zapata

278. “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?”

— Mariana Zapata

279. “You came and you tried to hurt me, and I’ll live with that. But I told you at the funeral if you ever put your hands on me again, I was going to break your hand.”

— Mariana Zapata

280. “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.”

— Mariana Zapata

281. “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!”

— Mariana Zapata

282. “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

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

— Mariana Zapata

284. “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.”

— Mariana Zapata

285. “We love you – I love you – because you’re mine. Because being around you is like being around the sun. Because seeing you happy makes me happy, and seeing you sad makes me want to do anything I have to to get that look off your face.”

— Mariana Zapata

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

— Mariana Zapata

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

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

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289. “If you want, you can tell me which two romances you read that you enjoyed. I’m curious, and by curious, what I’m trying to tell you is that I want to read them.”

— Mariana Zapata

290. “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.”

— Mariana Zapata

291. “It changes the way you see things and people when you get teased for being yourself, like you’ve got some other choice in the matter.”

— Mariana Zapata

292. “What the hell did he want a little sister for? What was I supposed to do? Pull one off a tree for him?”

— Mariana Zapata

293. “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. It was the greatest in its subtleties. It was the strongest in its selflessness.”

— Mariana Zapata

294. “There are some things you couldn’t say with words.”

— Mariana Zapata

295. “Sassy, that lady totally wanted to scramble your eggs.”

— Mariana Zapata

296. “They pooped. They all pooped. Every single one of them.”

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297. “She’s mine.” And he went for it. My heart went for it too – over the cliff that is.”

— Mariana Zapata

298. “Life was about taking chances. Going for what you wanted so that you didn’t get old and have pages of regrets. Sometimes you won and sometimes you lost, as much as I hated it.”

— Mariana Zapata

299. “You still like me even after that?” His smile was gentle. “You could steal the Mona Lisa, and I know you’d do it for a good reason. I don’t think there’s anything you could do that I wouldn’t be all about, baby girl.”

— Mariana Zapata

300. “There was a lot of things about love that you could only learn after you’d faced the real kind.”

— Mariana Zapata