Top 500 Mariana Zapata Quotes (2026 Update)
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301. “Plus, it could be worse. Things could always be worse. I tried to never forget that.”

— Mariana Zapata

302. “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

303. “He definitely wasn’t a Pegasus. He didn’t impress me. Plus, I had been there when his mom ripped him a new one once years ago for talking back to her, so there was that, too.”

— Mariana Zapata

304. “Because that was the way surprises worked – they didn’t tend to pencil themselves in to your schedule and let you know they were visiting ahead of time.”

— Mariana Zapata

305. “What a cocky little turd. I.”

— Mariana Zapata

306. “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

307. “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

308. “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

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

— Mariana Zapata

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

— Mariana Zapata

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

— Mariana Zapata

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

— Mariana Zapata

313. “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

314. “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

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

— Mariana Zapata

316. “You probably sit in your Tesla and cry every time you wrinkle your sweaters.” Ivan barked out another laugh that was pretty much shouted up at the ceiling.”

— Mariana Zapata

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

— Mariana Zapata

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

— Mariana Zapata

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

— Mariana Zapata

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

— Mariana Zapata

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

— Mariana Zapata

322. “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

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

— Mariana Zapata

324. “Something warm touched my mouth later, and I’d swear I heard, “Drink it, baby,” whispered to me. And I drank it all. Whatever the hell it was.”

— Mariana Zapata

325. “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

326. “If you can’t worry about losing something you find precious, it probably isn’t all that valuable to you in the first place.”

— Mariana Zapata

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

— Mariana Zapata

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

— Mariana Zapata

329. “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

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

— Mariana Zapata

331. “You’ll never meet anybody more loyal than him, Van, and I don’t know anybody better that Aiden could have ended up with. You might be the only person in the world who can put up with his ass. I just hope you two do something about it and not waste time.”

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

— Mariana Zapata

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

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335. “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

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

— Mariana Zapata

337. “A fan of that ass, more than likely, I figured.”

— Mariana Zapata

338. “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

339. “I want you to be safe because you matter to me. You think I bring my partners to my house? You think I let them into my life? You think I spend time with their families? I don’t, and I never have.”

— Mariana Zapata

340. “Did you steal my damn heart, run off with it, and say I’ll see ya later? ‘Cause the answer to that is yes.”

— Mariana Zapata

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

— Mariana Zapata

342. “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

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

— Mariana Zapata

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

— Mariana Zapata

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

— Mariana Zapata

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

— Mariana Zapata

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

— Mariana Zapata

348. “Loneliness was a hemorrhoid you couldn’t see but could always feel was there.”

— Mariana Zapata

349. “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

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

— Mariana Zapata