Top 35 Max Monroe Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “Some days, adulting was too much responsibility. Get up for work. Brush your hair. Pay bills. It was an endless list of too many things and not enough time. The struggle was real, my friends. But.”

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2. “It only takes one minute of bravery. One minute of insane, embarrassingly crazy courage to change your life. Sometimes, it only takes that one minute for something great to happen.”

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3. “My heart in your hands and you in my arms, that’s all I’ll ever need.”

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4. “To live and learn through experience, rather than trying to get it all perfect the first time around.”

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5. “Most times, even if giving your heart away ends in heartbreak, the risk was still worth it. Sometimes, that risk gives you little miracles. and sometimes, that risk gives you life lessons that allow you to grow and learn more about yourself.”

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6. “When you make something a priority, anything is possible.”

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7. “Sweet baby pigeons in a kayak, my new boss was an Adonis.”

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8. “I wasn’t looking for someone who was perfect, just someone who perfectly affected me.”

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9. “The world is small, baby. But love is large. Big enough that coincidence occasionally rubs elbows with opportunity.”

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10. “Open wide! Everything you’re looking for is inside yourself.”

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11. “Learn from this, don’t live in it. It was a moment; plain and simple. You’re going to mess up. It’s how you move on from that, how you fight back against the failure.”

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12. “Every woman I’d ever known had two sets of memories: the one they wanted to remember and the one their heart wouldn’t let them forget. The first kind were chosen, mostly positive and personality building, but the second would live on forever, despite age and fatigue and life-stealing diseases like dementia and Alzheimer’s. Coded on the heart like a hard drive, the feelings never vanished.”

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13. “Sent. Think you can mess with me? Think again, honey. Student, meet teacher.”

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14. “She was beautiful in the way all women were, but she was also different. All this individuality that she never apologized for. It consumed her, and if I was honest, it was starting to consume me.”

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15. “Crazy women seek out things that are bad for them. The smart ones run in the other direction.”

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16. “I know you’re not ready to hear what I’m feeling, but just know, for me, tonight was more. It was everything.”

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17. “Good morning, lovely Meryl.” She clicked her tongue. “You better find some other roll to butter up, Mr. Brooks. It may be early, but my allowance of saturated fats is all used up for the day.”

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18. “The choices you make can’t scapegoat themselves on to other people, and the reality you face is one of your own making.”

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19. “With the way I craved her company, I planned to enroll her in the accelerated education program and keep her there until she had me mastered.”

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20. “I clutched at my chest with both hands in a pathetic attempt to ease the discomfort. Or maybe I was just trying to prevent myself from bleeding out from the wounds his words had caused because any good doctor knew they needed pressure to stanch the flow.”

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21. “This. This is great literature. It’s not highbrow or intellectual, but it’s an experience. It makes the reader live and breathe and cry and mourn the losses of its characters before they celebrate the victories. It touches on passion and personal poignancy.”

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22. “Hearts don’t snap like hard pretzels or burst like an overfilled balloon. No. A heart breaks in the heaving waves of a new reality. A tragic reality that has arrived uninvited. A heart breaks when you’re forced to face the possibility of a life you can’t bear to fathom.”

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23. “But what made a man was not the absence of mistakes, but rather, the way he handled them when he made them.”

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24. “I always thought it was a battle – head versus heart. But it’s not. Life’s about both. You use your head to protect the ones in your heart. Nothing else matters.”

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25. “I hate fun and happiness of any kind. I like to suffer and dwell, and when I’m really energetic, I leave myself little insults on my mirror in the morning.”

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26. “He had thanked me for letting him go down on me. I’d never claimed to be a genius, but I was pretty sure Kline Brooks had just wham, bam, and you can thank me, ma’amed me.”

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27. “Therefore, my snooze button was ridden hard and put away extremely wet. Every.”

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28. “What am I gonna do with me?” she whispered. “So lost in you.”

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29. “Boobear. He plays on the orange team,” she repeated as though it made sense. “Oh no, I think Boobear is hurt.” It.”

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30. “Translation: Total hipster. Although insanely good-looking, this guy would probably end up an NYC transplant in Portland within the next year. But I wasn’t ruling out seeing his gorgeous mug on one of my favorite Instagram accounts, Hot Dudes Reading. Because who doesn’t love seeing man candy nose deep in a book? My.”

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31. “It’s invigorating. And scary. Because when you’re in charge of your destiny, everything is yours to gain or lose.”

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32. “Or you can get some tits and go in there and demand a re-do.” “A.”

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33. “Most people never know more than a surface layer of each other’s personalities. They take the bolder characteristics of a first impression at face value because they’re lazy, and they carry those expectations and prejudices throughout the entire relationship.”

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34. “When you loved someone, you didn’t let them go. You fought for them.”

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35. “Meanwhile, a crowd was starting to form around my bed, patients and employees alike, and I wasn’t sure I liked the feel of that either. “Is this what it’s really like?” I asked all of them. “Just a crowd of strangers watching intently as you go through some of the most horrendous pain of your life?” Several of them nodded and laughed. “For about twelve hours,” one of them shouted. “Wow. What a horrifying miracle.” Melody’s.”

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