Top 500 Mariana Zapata Quotes (2025 Update)
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301. “All I had ever wanted was to be loved.”

— Mariana Zapata

302. “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

303. “What a cocky little turd. I.”

— Mariana Zapata

304. “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

305. “I mentally stepped into my Big Girl Socks – the equivalent I’d been given as a kid instead of Big Girl Panties because my dad thought that was a creepy expression. “I’ll.”

— Mariana Zapata

306. “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.”

— Mariana Zapata

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

— Mariana Zapata

308. “Come on then, shy boy, before your balls start receding back into your body too,” I told him. That had him snapping his eyes open to glare at me, his face scrunched up. “Hopefully my hand doesn’t slip.” “Hopefully I don’t lose my balance and my foot goes up your ass – ” “Okay! All right! Let’s start you two,” Coach Lee hollered, and I didn’t need to look at her to know she was shaking her head.”

— Mariana Zapata

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

— Mariana Zapata

310. “Aiden, on the other hand, wasn’t paying.”

— Mariana Zapata

311. “Reiner Kulti hadn’t known he was supposed to fall head over heels in love with me one day.”

— Mariana Zapata

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

— Mariana Zapata

313. “You didn’t find real things by looking, usually.”

— Mariana Zapata

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

— Mariana Zapata

315. “Home is where you are. I would go anywhere for you if you wanted me there.”

— Mariana Zapata

316. “Beauty fades, a good personality and chemistry doesn’t. “I.”

— Mariana Zapata

317. “I would much rather take someone being blunt and hurting my feelings in the process, than let me down.”

— Mariana Zapata

318. “The German shook his head. “No. No more. I won’t let you down; now stop crying. It makes me nauseous.”

— Mariana Zapata

319. “You’re mine, RC. That’s not changing.”

— Mariana Zapata

320. “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

321. “But if every person weighed their dream against someone else’s, nobody would ever dream at all.”

— Mariana Zapata

322. “But most grudges were a waste of time. They were a vortex where you lost time, energy, and happiness. Time, energy, and happiness you could apply toward something that was good, something that your whole life benefited from. Something that could actually make you happy.”

— Mariana Zapata

323. “Do what you have to do to be happy, okay? No one else is going to do it for you.”

— Mariana Zapata

324. “I woke up screaming. Or pretty close to screaming, considering I was still getting over a cold I’d caught from Josh two weeks ago that had left me sounding like a chain-smoker going through puberty.”

— Mariana Zapata

325. “I was loved, I had a home, I had a job, and it was Friday. There wasn’t much else I really needed.”

— Mariana Zapata

326. “He was the end to my beginning.”

— Mariana Zapata

327. “Nobody in their right mind would let you walk away from them. Not once and no way in hell twice, angel.”

— Mariana Zapata

328. “You know your reputation is just what everyone else thinks of you, your character is what you really are.”

— Mariana Zapata

329. “I wanted someone to love me like that. I wanted you to love me like that.”

— Mariana Zapata

330. “Eli flicked me off over his shoulder as he walked a little further inside. “I’m gonna fart on your pillow and hope you get stink eye,” he muttered.”

— Mariana Zapata

331. “Walking toward us, he tipped his chin down to nuzzle the puppy before stopping in front of me and dipping his cheek to plant a soft, dry kiss on my cheek that had me rooted in place.”

— Mariana Zapata

332. “And it could be forever with someone who wasn’t afraid to never give up on the possibilities it presents.”

— Mariana Zapata

333. “It was seriously killing me. This gigantic guy carrying an eight pound dog around in his huge arms. God help us. I needed to find some puppies and pay some ripped up models to pose with them. I could make a killing if I put them on calendars.”

— Mariana Zapata

334. “I more than loved him, and that made all the difference.”

— Mariana Zapata

335. “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

336. “You do whatever you have to do for the people you love.”

— Mariana Zapata

337. “My brother had pulled one of our mom’s largest crucifixes off the wall and held it in the air at me while he hissed, “I banish thee!”

— Mariana Zapata

338. “And you are all those things, they’re just mixed in with all those other traits I like even more.”

— Mariana Zapata

339. “An escape sometimes, anything is welcome even if you think it’s boring because it’s probably not compared to things here.”

— Mariana Zapata

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

— Mariana Zapata

341. “Gardner led practices with the assistance of the fitness coach and one of the other assistants while the infamous frankfurter did what he always did: a whole bunch of nothing.”

— Mariana Zapata

342. “If I had to choose anyone to help me bury a body, eat dinner with, or watch television with, it would be you, every time for everything.”

— Mariana Zapata

343. “A coach of mine used to say that no one likes a sore loser.” My eyebrows went into a straight line. “I find it hard to believe that you listened to him.” His brown eyebrows went up and a hint of an angelic, serene look took over his features. “I didn’t. I’m only telling you what I have been told, Taquito.” What a smart-ass.”

— Mariana Zapata

344. “I believe in you. In us. Regardless of what happens, you will always be the best partner I’ve ever had.”

— Mariana Zapata

345. “My birthday? Is he gay?” Eli asked me with a confused look on his face.”

— Mariana Zapata

346. “A part of growing up was accepting that you could be nice to others but shouldn’t expect that kindness to be returned. Being nice shouldn’t require a payment.”

— Mariana Zapata

347. “You’re asking me – oh, hell, my stomach hurts – to perform a felony, and your reasoning for having me do so is because you ‘like me as much as you like anyone,’ because you ‘don’t mind me,’ and because I’m ’even-tempered.”

— Mariana Zapata

348. “But I would never forget the way his words made me feel. The way he made me feel right then.”

— Mariana Zapata

349. “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

350. “I can and I am. When you love something you do whatever you need to do to protect it, isn’t that right?” He tilted his face down, making sure our eyes were meeting.”

— Mariana Zapata