Top 90 Parker S. Huntington Quotes (2026 Update)
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51. “He taught me darkness. He taught me strength. Most importantly, he delivered the cruelest lesson of all – there’s beauty in every beast. Thorns in every rose. And a love story can blossom – even from the carcass of hate.”

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52. “I knew myself well enough to know I didn’t survive books. They tore me to shreds. I’d never met an inanimate object as talented at breaking hearts as a book.”

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53. “I dug my nails into his chest.”

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54. “A morsel of what I wanted to happen flashed behind my lids. Us. Tangled in the jungle gym. Screwing on the swings. Him, eating me out on the slide. I needed to run straight to my room, do fifty Hail Marys, and bathe in holy water. This was the playground I brought Jonah’s daughter to once a week. I’d never be able to play with Rowling there again.”

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55. “Finifugal originates from the Latin word fuga, for flight. It shows us that endings are fleeting. We may hate them. We may fear them. We may avoid them. But we don’t need to. Like sunsets, endings can be beautiful. The next morning, the sun always rises again, because there is no such thing as an ending, just a new beginning.”

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56. “She uncurled my fingers one by one and pressed my palm to my heart. “Hatred comes from here. When you hate someone, a piece of them is lodged in your heart. If you don’t let the hate go, you live with that person inside you forever.”

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57. “And, I realized, I love her. “Ask me the question, Tiger.” Her eyes fluttered open, not staring at me but into me. “Is this just lust?” “It’s everything.”

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58. “The problem with books about suicide is they’re written by people who are alive.”

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59. “Sometimes, I don’t recognize you, Nash. Doesn’t that scare you?”

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60. “Do you think you’re in anyone’s favorite memory?”

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61. “We were geode crystals. Beautiful. Tough. Shiny. Resilient. Destined for a life sheltered inside an ugly rock.”

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62. “Everyone will hurt you. The key to happiness is finding someone worth enduring the pain.”

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63. “Bolt is a contronym – a word that is opposite itself. If you bolt something, you hold it together. If you bolt, you separate by fleeing. Bolt is a reminder that words were made by humans, and sometimes, humans make mistakes. Mistakes are powerful, not because they have the power to ruin your life, but because they possess the power to make you stronger.”

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64. “Even if it means I’ll never be the man you give yourself to, I’ll always do anything to protect you.”

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65. “More importantly – she was finally coming to terms with the cover she’d been dealt with in life and remembering what the most important part of the book was. The spine.”

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66. “Nash reminded me of a favorite song. One you play so often you think you can’t stand anymore. But in the silence, when the world is quiet and your brain is pliant, the chords repeat in your mind, and you remember it’s your favorite melody.”

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67. “Don’t succumb to the fire. Be the bigger flame.”

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68. “I liked being too much because it meant I was never too little.”

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69. “Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak. Courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen. Winston Churchill.”

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70. “When I loved a book, I didn’t read it once. I read it over and over again – until the pages fell off, until I could anticipate the words before I read them, until they sunk into me and melted inside my bones in a way that never happened with books I’d only read once.”

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71. “Break me.” She stared at me like she wasn’t completely whole and didn’t entirely care. “Then put me back together, mismatched, scarred, and chaotic as this storm.”

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72. “He smelled of beer and leather and cigarettes and trouble. Like a bad boy.”

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73. “This is why ribs form a cage around the heart. It’s an untamed animal, and wild animals can’t be trusted.”

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74. “What you’re experiencing isn’t a dry spell. It’s a dust bowl. Tell me, do you find cob webs in there every time you get yourself off?”

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75. “I love you, Carina Amelia Gallo. You were made for me, and no matter where you are or how much time passes, I will always find you, because our love is fated, and Romeo needs his Juliet.”

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76. “I never really gave much thought to Fate, but every time I considered how hard the world must have worked to get our paths to intersect so many different ways, I became a believer.”

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77. “I lean against the door, watching my wife exist. Loudly. Messily. Unapologetically. Just the way a woman loved is meant to bloom.”

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78. “Sometimes, when I read, I realized I was happiest in a world that wasn’t mine.”

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79. “Dozens of emerald-green frames littered the wall, and in each of them, our love letters were proudly displayed. In the center, like a nucleus, rested my letter, surrounded by a stunning cerulean frame.”

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80. “This is not the beginning of something,” Kellan warned. “If anything, it’s the end.”

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81. “There was nothing to say. The final crack to the mirror had been dealt. We couldn’t fix it. We were irreparably damaged.”

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82. “Because that was what we were, essentially. Authors of our own stories.”

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83. “Living is an addiction, and it’s better to crave it than hate it.”

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84. “Courage is doing what you’re afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you’re scared. Eddie Rickenbacker.”

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85. “She craved my words, just like I craved the ones on her shirt.”

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86. “People are hardwired to believe charity is selfless. In reality, charity is giving to yourself by giving to others. That’s not selfless. That’s penance.”

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87. “My pinky brushed his. I stuck it out, letting it drag along his skin before retreating. His bumped mine. Was it sad that I considered this foreplay?”

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88. “I was not a forgiving person. I latched onto grudges and raised them like a favorite pet, never forgetting to feed them, entertain them, and keep them company.”

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89. “Falling in love makes you feel immortal. Don’t you want that?”

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90. “Nash Prescott was thrift-shop beauty, threadbare and jaded, the memory of something once beautiful lingering as he looked on the world with war-torn eyes.”

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91. “Sometimes, you have to forgive people if you still want them in your life.”

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92. “I mouthed words I loved to calm myself, letting them form on my lips without releasing them into a universe that destroyed.”

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