Top 150 Nicole Williams Quotes (2025 Update)
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101. “Jesse was the guy a girl didn’t get over. End of story. Truest story ever told. I.”

— Nicole Williams

102. “You’ve always been the most beautiful thing I’ve ever seen, Clara.” The backs of his fingers ran down the length of my cheek. “That still hasn’t changed.”

— Nicole Williams

103. “But I didn’t have to pretend anymore, because the girl I’d seen when I closed my eyes was standing in front of me. “Josie?” I lowered my face until it was level with hers – until I could feel the warmth of her breath on my lips.”

— Nicole Williams

104. “Why would I want to go and get all normal when being abnormal is so much more interesting?”

— Nicole Williams

105. “Rowen Sterling: Putting the wise back in wiseass. I think I’ve found a kindred spirit.”

— Nicole Williams

106. “But you make the rest hard too. Make me work for you. Make me earn your love. It’s worth whatever price. Whatever cost. Don’t let me come to expect easy with you. Make me want to work hard for you.”

— Nicole Williams

107. “Your parents? How long have they been married?” I asked, changing the subject since I could see how it upset him. “Thirty-five unmagical years.” Max’s voice was dripping sarcasm. “That shows commitment, right?” I argued, not sure why I was arguing this. I was as big a skeptic of marriage and commitment as he was. “No, it shows a high tolerance to pain. They both would be happier apart, but they’re too stubborn to admit it.”

— Nicole Williams

108. “Don’t hurt me, Rowen,” he whispered in a way that tugged at any and every feeling I had for Jesse. I.”

— Nicole Williams

109. “There’s a problem with your whole ever-after theory, you know.” Besides me bringing it up with you? “What problem?” “Most glues will hold for a while but won’t stand the test of time. Most give out. There are very few kinds that can keep two broken things together forever.” I caught myself smiling, though I clearly should have been doing the opposite. “That’s why you have to hold out for the good stuff.”

— Nicole Williams

110. “Jesse. Smile. Dimples. Jeans. Hat. I.”

— Nicole Williams

111. “People like you, my tainted, deliciously flawed Rowen, are not and never will be anything close to golden.” Nope.”

— Nicole Williams

112. “No one had ever talked about me that way, like I was so close to perfect the imperfections were washed away. I.”

— Nicole Williams

113. “Nina was my sanctuary as much as she was my war zone. Peace and solace one moment, explosions and massacre the next.”

— Nicole Williams

114. “You’re the only woman I’ve ever been with. My first. My last.” He kissed the canyon at the base of my neck. “My only.”

— Nicole Williams

115. “Look at him... staring at me the way every person wants to be looked at by another person at least once in their lifetime.”

— Nicole Williams

116. “Live, Love, Learn. Then get real.”

— Nicole Williams

117. “Our reputations weren’t who we really were, they were who people told us we were.”

— Nicole Williams

118. “I’d turned into a giant ball of questions and conflicts and desires. I’d pretty much become my biggest nightmare. I was a rougher version of Jesse Walker. But a better looking one. A far better looking one.”

— Nicole Williams

119. “All I asked from you was your hand in marriage and now I want the rest.”

— Nicole Williams

120. “She wrung the life out of each day, loved like she’d never been hurt, and laughed like she’d never known sorrow.”

— Nicole Williams

121. “My heartbeat was so strong, I could feel it in my palms. “But I’m not your woman.” My head tipped back just enough I could make out his figure. “You’re the closest thing to it.”

— Nicole Williams

122. “How do you go and fall in love with someone new when you left your heart with someone else?”

— Nicole Williams

123. “I’d sacrifice this life and every life I have coming for you.”

— Nicole Williams

124. “Don’t let a dying branch take you down with it.”

— Nicole Williams

125. “Why was my body’s reaction to coming home the same as if I were being chased by a pack of wolves in waist-deep snow?”

— Nicole Williams

126. “No amount of fame was worth the cost of losing you.”

— Nicole Williams

127. “Because I couldn’t love anyone else but you.” His throat moved as the corners of his eyes creased. “I know there’re more romantic ways to say it, but that’s the truth. I might have made a vow on our wedding day to love you forever, but I’d known that years before saying those.”

— Nicole Williams

128. “He might have taken ten years. But he couldn’t have another minute of my life.”

— Nicole Williams

129. “Professor Landry was a prime example of someone who marched to the beat of her own drum, as evidenced by her policy that no one precede her name with Professor. She firmly believed that titles had been created to distinguish the upper class from the lower class, and she wanted no part in perpetuating socio-economic stereotypes. So she either went by Landry, Neve, or Hey, you. She didn’t really care, so long as the word “professor” never echoed off the walls she was within. She.”

— Nicole Williams

130. “IF A BRAIN could shrivel up and die from too much contemplation, mine was dangerously close to living out the rest of its days as a pruney, gray raisin.”

— Nicole Williams

131. “You’ve always got a choice. You have a choice now, and you certainly had a choice then. Don’t blame them for the choices you made.”

— Nicole Williams

132. “His eyes stayed trained on me, unblinking. “Fine.” Convince me you don’t want me like I want you.”

— Nicole Williams

133. “Stop!” I shouted right as his thumbs hitched beneath the waist of his jeans. If I had to watch the rest of the Jesse Walker strip tease, I would moan the alphabet.”

— Nicole Williams

134. “Getting you to realize that you and me, we’re not over.”

— Nicole Williams

135. “Lou didn’t need to tell me, Luce,” he said, looking between me and the field. “I don’t need someone to tell me when my girl’s in the stands. I could pick you out even if I was playing in the Superdome and you were tucked into the back row.”

— Nicole Williams

136. “I’ve lived every beat loving you, since I first met you.”

— Nicole Williams

137. “The thing was, if staying away from him made me unsmart, I never wanted to be smart again.”

— Nicole Williams

138. “She lived in shades of black and gray – sometimes a dark purple will slip in in the form of shoelaces or a headband – but she painted the entire world with color. She painted my entire world with color.”

— Nicole Williams

139. “No jures a Dios, Henry. Sabes lo que dicen. Ese es tu primer paso hacia tener un trato con el diablo.”

— Nicole Williams

140. “Because I don’t want to give you any reason to be mad at me. I don’t want to give you a reason to hate me because, as much as I might have have begged you to do that, you’re the single most important thing in the world to me, Charlie Chase. You’ve become my world. And how do I live in a world where you don’t exist?”

— Nicole Williams

141. “You’re right. So right. My heart is a god among mere mortals. A queen among peons. A rock star among the masses. There’s nothing to worry about. Everything will be okay.”

— Nicole Williams

142. “Damn it, kiss me, Luce.”

— Nicole Williams

143. “You mistake my jealousy for good old-fashioned cynicism.”

— Nicole Williams

144. “I didn’t just see a future when I looked at Luke – I saw the explanations of my past.”

— Nicole Williams

145. “I didn’t have the answers yet, but I wasn’t terrified of them anymore.”

— Nicole Williams

146. “He knew that the core of my doubts when it came to Jesse and me was that I didn’t deserve him. That I was the lack to his luster. That I was the coal to his diamond. That I was the nothing special to his everything special.”

— Nicole Williams

147. “I’m a realist,” I said. “Lying and making promises about forever is almost as bad as one day at a time.”

— Nicole Williams

148. “The woman I wanted to spend my life with was gone. I wasn’t in the mood to find a backup.”

— Nicole Williams

149. “Luke Archer kissed like he played baseball – intently, skillfully, and like he’d spent his whole life practicing for this one moment in time.”

— Nicole Williams

150. “I think someone’s usually supposed to make coffee in the morning, but I don’t have coffee because I’m still a child who thinks it tastes like ass.”

— Nicole Williams