Top 60 Monty Jay Quotes (2026 Update)

1. “Children are not responsible for keeping a parent around. It is the adult’s job to fight for their kids, to protect them, to battle the hard things in life so they don’t have to. You don’t leave your children. You fight for them because they can’t fight for themselves sometimes.”

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2. “Wait for the one that lights a fire in your soul. You’ll know when you see her, I promise.”

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3. “You’re my home, Vallie. I can’t run away from you. You’re in me, you always have been. Leaving you is worse than not having you as mine. I want to be here for you. Whenever you decide you need me, I’ll be right here. I’m not leaving you. I’m never leaving you again.”

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4. “I am in love with you. You gave my life color where they had left me grey, and I’d like to give you a life worth remembering. Will you let me do that?”

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5. “I fell in love with the world through your eyes.”

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6. “I know that I have loved you before, I will love you in this life, and I’ll love you in the one after. It’s always us, Vallie.”

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7. “She looked like every season in one person. Summer in her smile, spring in her touch, autumn in her cheeks, and winter in her eyes.”

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8. “What I have learned about life is that letting go doesn’t mean loving any less.”

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9. “I wanna know,” She breathes, “I wanna know what it is that makes the shadows so great. I want you to show me.”

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10. “I have never been so terrified looking at anyone in my life. I know if I give her the chance, she’ll be the woman I can’t live without. Hell, she’s already there. The one thing I promised myself I’d never do. To rely on someone for happiness, to trust someone with what I feel.”

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11. “Malnourished hearts will feast on anything that resembles love.”

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12. “We are bad people who do very bad things. Very well.”

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13. “I crave you,” I exhale, the admission slicing my throat on its way out. “My body wants you every second of the day and twice as much at night. I want you in the most unhinged ways, ways that would scare you.”

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14. “Hello, darling phantom.”

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15. “If she wanted my heart, I’d give it to her. She could keep it on a shelf in one of her jars-it was never mine to begin with. Not when it’s always been hers.”

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16. “He is a human who was hurt by the world. And all I want to do is be the reason he believes in it again. Even if I can’t do the same for myself.”

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17. “And all I want, all I crave, is for her to make me dirty. Bare the inside of her soul to me so that I can rip it to pieces if I want. Know every inch of her, dip my hands into her and be covered in everything that is Lyra Abbott.”

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18. “Rule number twelve from Thatcher’s Guide to Murder: never be late. Unless it’s fashionable.”

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19. “What I feel for Thatcher Alexander Pierson isn’t bad. It’s lovely and unique, something invulnerable that regular people could never appreciate. The emotion he evokes inside of me is the only pure thing I have left.”

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20. “He is not my love. He is my obsession. As in a person who continually preoccupies and intrudes on my mind. A sickness, a drug that I refuse to quit or seek help for. I don’t want to live a life he isn’t in.”

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21. “I can’t give her love, care for her in the way someone should, but I’m tired of not giving her me. Not when she’s the only person capable of having me.”

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22. “Surprising me, he slides my middle finger into his mouth.”

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23. “Valor and I were so broken that our pieces had found a way to mend each other. Our story was a tragically beautiful mosaic created from trauma. It’s why we were so connected. There were pieces of me holding hers together and vice versa.”

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24. “There is no way Rook Van Doren leaves Sage Donahue. It’s physically impossible in every universe.”

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25. “There is nothing about you I wouldn’t accept. I will meet your cold with my warmth. I will let your sharp edges do their worst because I was made to bleed for you.”

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26. “Beneath the girl she portrays to the world is a wielder of honed blades and rotten intentions. A viper with a nasty bite. A trauma soldier who still leaked pain and tasted of agony. She is the combination of life and death. The keeper of the reaper. A lovely grim death. A beautiful corpse.”

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27. “B walked into my life thinking he was just another person, but he walked out of it being the other piece of my soul.”

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28. “On this day, I vow to make your rage my own, to weather the storm of your revenge and keep you forever safe. I promise to stand by you. No matter what comes, you will never be alone. Till death do us part.”

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29. “I would battle heaven and hell for him. The world’s most addictive creature. My angel of death and not so secret obsession. There is nothing I wouldn’t do the for the tormented man in front of me.”

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30. “Lyra was my beacon of emotion. All these feelings I’d never once experienced were happening to me because of her. Being close to her was making me more and more human.”

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31. “The me I was always meant to become is who I am with her.”

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32. “With ease, I trail my touch to her exposed chest, tracing the letters of my name in the blood pooled atop her pale skin. Over and over, I write my name across her body just above her breasts.”

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33. “Thatcher Pierson. Death manifested into one perfectly made human.”

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34. “I wanted to be more than the man who scared her. I wanted to be a man she could love even if I had no idea what that meant for me.”

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35. “This is the third book we’ve had a conversation in. Without her knowledge, of course, but something about it makes me closer to her mind without needing to be near her body, just existing between the pages of her favorite books, reading her thoughts as if she’s right next to me, explaining word for word what it is she enjoys about each part.”

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36. “I knew that something had burst into our lives, something like fate. It messed with our strings, the ones that tie human beings. Fate twisted, looped, and knotted ours. Until it was so messy, so dirty, they weren’t strings anymore.”

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37. “Silas, I promise to be your peace when the world provides only war. To be your secret keeper and safe haven. Today, I vow to be the one person who accepts you for who you are and who you will become.” She glances up at me, holding my gaze as she speaks the last line. “Till death do us part.”

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38. “You’re my ghost, Lyra Abbott. Mine and only mine. You watch me, you exist for me.”

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39. “But for her? I’d kneel.”

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40. “A part of you died the night we met.” He presses his forehead to mine, letting me breathe him in. “Thank you for loving me with what remained.”

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41. “Time doesn’t heal. It helps you forget, and she doesn’t deserve to be forgotten. Ten years from now, am I going to remember how she smelled? Or what she looked like when she smiled? No. She’ll become a memory, and she deserves more than a memory, Rook.”

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42. “In that room that smelt of death, she felt like the last living thing. This beautiful, messy thing that I couldn’t kill.”

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43. “I’m not sure what I can give you, but whatever is left of me, whatever I have, it’s yours, for as long as you want it.”

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44. “Loving Coraline Whittaker is worth inevitable death.”

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45. “Bishop is more than just a person to me, he’s my person.”

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46. “There is no defeat when you refuse to lose. We can only be beaten when we give up on ourselves, Coraline.”

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47. “I need you to help me take the mask off. You’re the only person I know not hiding from the world. You burn for it. This place, it’s eating me alive, turning me into a person I don’t recognize. Show me anarchy, show me something violent.” I shake my head, needing to feel that escape. “Show me all your truths, Rook. And I’ll show you mine.”

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48. “Rose, come back!” He screams a scream that makes chill bumps rise on my skin. It’s his heart begging for her. Pleading for her. “Why didn’t you take me with you?” he cries. “I would’ve gone with you.”

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49. “There is only one woman I’ve ever wanted to kill, so terribly bad that I can almost taste how sweet her blood would be on my tongue. How pretty she would be, twisted up in anguish on my table.”

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50. “He is my Lucifer, and it’s time for me to show him I could be his Lilith.”

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