Top 160 Samantha Young Quotes (2025 Update)
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101. “Cole Walker. Cole freaking Walker. All grown-up. And he was my new manager. I was so screwed.”

— Samantha Young

102. “Taking my hands in his, Vaughn leaned down to whisper across my lips. “I’ll give you anything, Bailey Hartwell, anything you want.”

— Samantha Young

103. “In public, you’re Joss Butler. Cool, self-possessed. In bed, you’re Jocelyn Butler – you’re hot, babe. Uncontrolled. Needy. Sweet,” he breathed. “I like that I know that. I don’t like the fact that other men do too.”

— Samantha Young

104. “It felt like we existed on some lonely part of this planet where there was only music and creativity.”

— Samantha Young

105. “For the longest time my company is what got me up in the morning. It was what motivated me every second of every day. Since the moment you started working for me, you are what has gotten me up in the morning. You are what motivates me every second of every day. And still I want more from you. Tomorrow the day is all ours, because I want to talk to you about something.”

— Samantha Young

106. “I felt like fate had just handed me two cups and I’d stupidly drunk from the wrong one.”

— Samantha Young

107. “He grinned at me, and it was a boyish weary grin aiming for wicked, but too tired and worried to reach it. “I love you. You’re mine. I’ll kill any bastard who tries to take you from me. So, here’s how it’s going to go: Ellie comes first, but while we’re taking care of her you can be as pig-headed as you want and pretend that we’re broken up. I’ll even let you. But I’m also going to be here, every day, showing you what you’re missing.”

— Samantha Young

108. “I’m yours,” he breathed harshly against my lips. “I’ve never been anyone’s until now. Do you understand?”

— Samantha Young

109. “I deserve more from you. I deserve more than to be put on some lonely, god-awful pedestal, to be used as an object for your self-flagellation and repentance for God knows what in your past. When someone tells you they love you, you don’t get to say, ‘I don’t deserve your love,’ and think that somehow exempts you from the consequences of rejecting them.”

— Samantha Young

110. “Okay, so I want to talk about it. Dammit, how can you be so good at the whole keeping things to yourself thing? It’s really hard.”

— Samantha Young

111. “What must it be like to be loved by him? I imagined it a heady thing, winning the love of a man who offered it so sparingly.”

— Samantha Young

112. “I won’t stay,” I warned him. “I won’t try to fight for you anymore. This is it. If you walk away it’s not for me. I won’t ever think that. I will always, always blame you for this. For ruining us.”

— Samantha Young

113. “What must it be like to want your parents’ happiness instead of resenting them for it?”

— Samantha Young

114. “I want to protect you while at the same time I want to shatter you,” he murmured against my lips, “but only in the best way possible.”

— Samantha Young

115. “Oh my God, why did he have to be such a romantic pain in my ass? “I’m.”

— Samantha Young

116. “I believed in all the things written within me, I’d just somehow along the way stopped believing in my book jacket.”

— Samantha Young

117. “Before you, I believed real, true, glorious living was in adventure, was in the extraordinary. But I’ve learned that time is not so forgiving, and the real beautify of life is in the fragile ordinary.”

— Samantha Young

118. “And like many wars it was built upon a mindless prejudice.”

— Samantha Young

119. “Almost twelve years of marriage and she’s still unlike any woman I’ve ever known.”

— Samantha Young

120. “You’re my home.”

— Samantha Young

121. “Finally I said, my words soft, “How did you get so wise, Effie?” “I’ve survived seventy-seven years on this planet,” she answered wryly, “and by making the right choices I even managed to live for most of them.”

— Samantha Young

122. “You are as subtle as an elephant at a mouse party.”

— Samantha Young

123. “When I was a child the world smelled of summer.”

— Samantha Young

124. “People can do extraordinary things to save the ones they love.”

— Samantha Young

125. “You left me.” His words caught like stinging cuts on my lips. “You left me and I was so in love with you. I didn’t want to find you because you broke my heart, Dahlia. You broke my fuckin’ heart.”

— Samantha Young

126. “I was done with him giving me space. I wanted a new kind of comfort from him. Specifically in the form of orgasms.”

— Samantha Young

127. “As the old car took me away from Scotland Street amid his incessant chatter, I felt like fate had just handed me two cups and I’d stupidly drunk from the wrong one.”

— Samantha Young

128. “That feeling was back – that feeling I’d had when I was fifteen years old and I was staring up into his green eyes in absolute delight. That feeling you get when you realize something special about another person and he goes from being attractive to downright kick-you-in-the-gut good-looking.”

— Samantha Young

129. “I’ve been in love with you for a long time. I’ve fought it. I’ve hidden it. I’ve tried to cast them aside. But since our night together I haven’t been able to hold my feelings down... I want to be with you. I want to see where this could go.”

— Samantha Young

130. “Life changes us second by second.”

— Samantha Young

131. “You’re worth everything.”

— Samantha Young

132. “This is Jai. And Charlie. But today you can call them Ass and Hat.”

— Samantha Young

133. “I would read anything. Absolutely anything. I loved being transported somewhere else, even back in time.”

— Samantha Young

134. “This isn’t over, Doc.”

— Samantha Young

135. “I’m happy where I am, as long as I’m there with you.”

— Samantha Young

136. “I want someone to love, to share life’s difficulties with, to have bairns and watch them grow. To make a little world with someone.”

— Samantha Young

137. “Sharing a dessert was strangely intimate. It did not help that we kept locking gazes.”

— Samantha Young

138. “I love you. You’re not your addiction, Mom. I love you. And despite everything I will always forgive you.”

— Samantha Young

139. “I know, the way the trees know they’re rooted to the ground, that I’m rooted to you. That no matter your answer here this evening, I am yours until I’m nothing but dust in the wind. Maybe even then.”

— Samantha Young

140. “I was too busy studying the shelves to see his expression, but I heard the affection in his tone when he replied, “I’ll take you anywhere you want to go, Evie.”

— Samantha Young

141. “Take off the dress.”

— Samantha Young

142. “If I’m content, truly content, to live alone, then I’ll make peace with the fact that society judges it unusual for me to stay single. But if I really want to find someone to share my life with, then I need to start making more of an effort to find that person. Even though it’s hard and it hurts, and I may never find him.”

— Samantha Young

143. “Don’t stay if I’m just another warm body to you. Stay because only my body will do. Stay because you need it to be me.”

— Samantha Young

144. “I love you so much, I think I would burn down the world for you.”

— Samantha Young

145. “It’s so easy to fall into the trap of believing you don’t have control over your life – if we don’t have control, then we don’t have to hold ourselves responsible for our failings, or even our successes. Some people use that as an easy way out.”

— Samantha Young

146. “Go wait for me in the annex,” he demanded. Her eyes widened slightly. “Clothes off. Keep your underwear on because I want to take it off. And lights on so I can see you. When I get there, I expect you on the bed with your legs spread.”

— Samantha Young

147. “A man who knows what you’ve been through, who knows what saying that to you would do to you, dosen’t deserve you. He chose to protect himself over protecting you and that is not okay. Do you understand? It’s not okay and you need to let him go.”

— Samantha Young

148. “He loved that woman more than he knew it was possible to love another human being. So what’s worse? He wondered, agonized. Throwing her away before they could build a life together? Or risking the chance of building that life only to lose it all? Was a limited amount of time with the woman he loved better than no time at all?”

— Samantha Young

149. “In some ways, life was less complicated back then. More difficult in a lot of ways, but less complicated.”

— Samantha Young

150. “Do you know what’s scarier than taking a risk and losing?” I shook my head. “Regret, Joss. Regret does awful things to a person.”

— Samantha Young