Top 50 Riley Hart Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “It’s funny how life works sometimes, isn’t it?”

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3. “I read somewhere that we’re all made of sunlight and stardust.”

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4. “Emotions are a funny thing, but they’re yours and you have a right to feel all of them. What matters is how you react to them.” Justin.”

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5. “Don’t judge your life based on the parameters of someone else’s. We all have our own individual experiences. What doesn’t make sense to you, will make sense to someone else. What is hard for you, might not be hard for someone else. People struggle with opening their viewpoints and realizing that their actions and feelings aren’t right because they’re theirs. Humans don’t work that way.”

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6. “I’m trying to move on. My past isn’t who I am.”

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7. “It’s weird, spending your life feeling different from everyone around you and not understanding why or how. You helped when you gave me those terms, but I still didn’t know who I was. Don’t know if I do now. Am I demisexual? I guess. But maybe I’m not, and I don’t know that it really matters. The only thing that does, for me at least, is how I feel.”

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8. “You just called and I didn’t answer. That’s on me and I realize it. I’m being a child. I’m being weak. I’m being a coward. I’m doing what you tried for years to do with me – keep your distance. Only our reasons are very different. You pushed me away because you didn’t need me close. I’m pushing you away because I do.”

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9. “When you look out at the water, at that endless stretch of blue, makes you feel small, doesn’t it? Small but somehow important. Like the ocean goes.”

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10. “He sucks the loneliness out of my bones.”

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11. “I’m the bartender. Everyone talks to the bartender, remember?”

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12. “I’m going to make you get on your knees for me, Nick.”

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13. “Nothing in this world was completely black or white. Wrong or right. Or if it was, what mattered was whose eyes it was being seen from.”

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14. “If you don’t risk your heart, you’ll never know what it’s like for it to fully be whole.”

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15. “It doesn’t matter who you love, brother, as long as you love them with your whole damn heart.”

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16. “Funny how lyrics to a song that held memories for you never went away.”

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17. “He was like the most beautiful words Cassius could ever write brought to life.”

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18. “That’s what love does to us. It rips us open, bares all our fears and insecurities, but there’s nothing more beautiful either because it heals us too. It makes us less alone.”

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19. “I’m gay now, so your traditional gender roles are a little blurred, aren’t they?” His.”

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20. “I’m sorry to just show up like this. I didn’t know where else to go. You’re the only thing here that feels like mine.”

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21. “We’re all connected, all made of the sun and stars. Always will be.”

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22. “We can’t really live without being afraid of something. You just can’t let that fear hold you back.”

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23. “You all rave about each other, but none of you seem to know what a mirror is to see those same qualities in yourselves.”

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24. “And then he cocked his head a little bit. A slight smile tugged at Tristan’s lips. “You talked to her. This was the first day of college you missed, and it was because you spoke with her all day on the phone.”

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25. “It’s a crossroads, Bryce. Which way are you going to go?”

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26. “It’s almost like you’re not tethered to the earth anymore. You’re just flying, nothing but space around you.” Landon.”

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27. “Roman. He’d seen Roman tonight. The first boy he’d ever kissed. The first person who knew he was gay.”

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28. “I’m not sure it matters how old you are. If something affects you, it affects you. No one has the right to say how long or in what way other people are allowed to feel things. Our emotions are our own.”

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29. “His hands cupped Cassius’s buttocks as they fed each other, quenched each other’s thirst with the pleasure of the moment.”

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30. “One way or another, he’d deserve them. There wasn’t another option.”

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31. “I didn’t get to see enough of your equipment. You ran away, remember? So how do I know if it’s excellent or not? But I can assure you, mine is.”

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32. “When he gasped for cleansing breath, because he hadn’t felt clean when he was using. It took getting clean for him to realize it.”

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33. “All he knew was all those empty rooms inside him were somehow filled when Mateo was around.”

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34. “Emotions don’t play by rules. That’s what makes them so incredible.”

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35. “Own it?” “Like even if it’s wrong, go with it. Don’t second-guess yourself and get all in your head, psyching yourself out.”

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36. “Imagine their mom’s surprise to find out not one, but both of her sons were gay.”

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37. “He looked up as Tristan reached him. No doubt he had tears mixed with the rain sliding down his face. “It’s my birthday,” he whispered. “That’s when he gave me the queen. He said it’s because I was the strongest person he knew.”

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38. “Cooper had told him so many things in their lives had been out of their control – their families, losing people, being torn apart – and now that they had each other, they already had everything they needed.”

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39. “If you think about it, the straight lifestyle is always the default, so I’m never surprised if it takes someone a while to recognize that part of themselves. Maybe they’d been forcing it out of their mind for so long, it becomes a habit.”

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40. “Sometimes it’s easier to talk to total strangers about the things going on in your life than the people you know.”

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41. “It’s a crossroads, Bryce. Which way are you going to go?” Nick finally repeated the lines from his dream. “Whichever way you are,” he replied. He’d do anything for his man. Go anywhere. Being with Nick was where he was supposed to be. “You lead and I’ll follow. I’m right here with you, Bryce. Always.” “Nah, I don’t need to lead, we’ll go together.” Together, the way they’d done everything since they met.”

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42. “Come on. Let’s get your mind off men and onto cars. Engines are a whole lot easier to deal with than people.”

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43. “Christ, being alive was hard sometimes.”

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44. “It’s inside you, swimming in the marrow of your bones. Pumping through your heart. In each breath you take.”

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45. “But that’s the thing.” Simon closed his eyes and took a deep breath. “You’re changing. You’re making amends. I’m not.”

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46. “It was the perfect distraction for Cooper to ignore the flood of... contentment... Hearing that their friendship had meant to Noah even a portion of what it had meant to Coop. Which, as a kid, had been everything.”

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47. “He could live forever. He could die in a second. None of it mattered.”

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48. “I heard you,” Austin said after a moment. “What you were saying, I heard you. And I am sorry, but I’m also damn proud of the man you are. And I think things are changing, and we both know it. Maybe they were always supposed to change, Dare, I don’t know, but they are and I want that. I didn’t know I wanted it until recently, but the need is so fierce, it steals my breath sometimes.”

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49. “We can’t get better, none of us, unless we face our past.”

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50. “It’s not a woman I want right now, Mom. It’s a man...”

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