Top 500 Mariana Zapata Quotes (2024 Update)
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301. “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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302. “But if every person weighed their dream against someone else’s, nobody would ever dream at all.”

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

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

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305. “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.”

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

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

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308. “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.”

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

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

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311. “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.”

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312. “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.”

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

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

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315. “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.”

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

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

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318. “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!”

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

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320. “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.”

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

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322. “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.”

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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332. “His blink was innocent, so earnest, I had no idea what to do with it. “I don’t mind you.” I don’t mind you. I started cracking up – really cracking up – and I was pretty sure it sounded like I was crying when I was really laughing.”

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333. “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.”

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334. “My middle finger twitched, but I kept it under wraps and with its brothers and sisters. We.”

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335. “You like having all those teeth in your mouth? Or you good with going home, missing a few of them?”

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336. “Why does Leia wear buns on her head? In case she gets hungry in a Senate meeting!”

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

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338. “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.”

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339. “How do you not know that you mean the world to me? I haven’t made it clear enough?” “I don’t know,” I stuttered. “Do you love me?” His gaze was so intent the entire world seemed to stop. “You tell me. I never stop thinking about you. I worry about you all the time. Every beautiful thing I see reminds me of.”

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340. “I’m fine not being the first man she’s ever loved because I know I’m going to be the last.”

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341. “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.”

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342. “Grief was the final way we had to tell our loved ones that they’d impacted our lives. That we missed them so, so much. And there was nothing wrong with me mourning my mom for the rest of mine, even as I carried her love and her life in my heart. I had to live, but I could also remember along the way.”

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343. “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.”

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344. “All I had ever wanted was to be loved.”

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345. “I thought we’d decided your ex was a moron,” Rhodes murmured. “I hope someday that if I’m gone, someone loves me enough to miss me for the rest of their life.”

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346. “Before you, it’d been nobody. So just because I don’t know what your mouth tastes like yet doesn’t mean I haven’t thought about it. Doesn’t mean I’m not going to.”

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347. “Jonah Hema Collins was no deadbeat.”

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348. “Plus, it could be worse. Things could always be worse. I tried to never forget that.”

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349. “Maybe that’s the thing about being a parent: you can just hope what you’ve done is enough. If you care. You hope that the love you gave them, if you really tried, will stay with your child when they’re older. That they can look back on what you did and be content. You hope that they know happiness. But there’s no way of knowing, is there?”

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350. “And the only way you could move was by taking that first step, and sometimes it didn’t matter which direction you took it as long as you did.”

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