Top 500 Mariana Zapata Quotes (2026 Update)
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251. “I am the man that I am, and I have done things that I’ve done, to get me to you.”

— Mariana Zapata

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

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254. “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

255. “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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256. “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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257. “You should know one of my favorite things is making people laugh. And by “people,” I really mean myself.”

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

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259. “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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260. “I was jealous. Horribly, stupidly, pathetically jealous.”

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261. “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

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

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

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264. “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.”

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265. “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

266. “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

267. “Eyes up here, Taco.”

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268. “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

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

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270. “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?”

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271. “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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272. “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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273. “Finally, Aiden shrugged those massive, rounded shoulders and made sure our gazes met. “I like you as much as I like anyone.”

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

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

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

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278. “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.”

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

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281. “I would do anything for you.”

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

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

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

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285. “He annoyed me, but I was also annoyed with myself for letting his attitude bother me. All.”

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286. “Talk was talk. Anyone could say they were Batman, but not everyone could be Batman.”

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287. “It was the greatest in its subtleties. It.”

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288. “I’ll pay off your student loans and buy you a house.” I dropped my sandwich in the sink.”

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289. “Tall and still in fantastic shape, my poor, stupid, stupid heart gave a little thump in recognition of an attractive man. Then I stomped it to death and reminded myself he was just a guy.”

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290. “Sacha’s gonna buy you a mockingbird – ” I snorted, trying to cover it. His chest shook more but it didn’t break his song’s stride. If anything his sweet, beautiful voice got a little louder. “And if that mockingbird won’t sing, Sacha’s gonna buy you a diamond ring.”

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291. “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

292. “Fear, I thought, was more like a hallucinogenic. It was all in your mind, and there was nothing to really be scared of as long as you knew and expected the worst and the best.”

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293. “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.”

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294. “I’d do this all over again a hundred times as long as I met you in the end.”

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295. “It wasn’t until after you had a major regret that you understood the importance of not putting things off or being scared to do something about your problems.”

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296. “I asked the sweet Lord Jesus to bless me with the power of invisibility, at least for a few minutes.”

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297. “And why did I suddenly have the urge to go kick some ten-year-old’s ass? “He kept pushing and pushing me, and I told him to stop. But he started saying stuff about me and the other boy – ” I wasn’t just going to kick the kid’s ass, I was going to kick his mom’s ass too. And after I was done kicking his mom’s ass, I was going to kick his grandma’s ass to teach the whole family a lesson.”

— Mariana Zapata

298. “Do you love me?’, I asked him like I did every night just to hear him say it.”

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299. “I’ve missed hearing from you too. I thought I did something to make you not want to write anymore.”

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300. “Someone told me I can’t take back what I’ve done, but what I do from now on is what matters. It seemed fitting.”

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