Top 50 Suanne Laqueur Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “Perhaps love is the process of my leading you gently back to yourself.”

— Suanne Laqueur

2. “Look, no gay man is oblivious to a beautiful woman. I’m gay, I’ve partnered women and believe me, you feel it going on. Beauty is beauty. And straight or gay, you are immersed in this intense, artistic chemistry which is both sensual and sensory. Chemistry is chemistry. It just isn’t rooted in sexual attraction.”

— Suanne Laqueur

3. “A watershed moment exists in every man’s life... sometimes it’s profound, sometimes it’s barely a blip. But every man has the moment when he stops being his mother’s son and becomes another woman’s man. When he goes from protected to protector.”

— Suanne Laqueur

4. “I want to wake up every morning and listen to your heart. I want to be the last man you slept with. When you say it’s been a long time since you made love, I want that time to be a matter of hours. Because I loved you last night. And I’m going to love you again tonight.”

— Suanne Laqueur

5. “If marriage was a prison yard, your spouse was the inmate who had your back. Together you were a devoted Gang of Two, each making sure the other didn’t get shanked or shivved. You.”

— Suanne Laqueur

6. “I only want you. No one could hold me in the dark the way you do.”

— Suanne Laqueur

7. “I can’t breathe without you.”

— Suanne Laqueur

8. “Love can bring out the best and worst in us. We’ve all been a jackass for love. But love makes us do amazing things. And if love drives us away, love is what brings us back. Love makes up pick up the phone. Love makes us listen. Love makes us say I’m sorry. Love makes us forgive. Love makes us better. Love makes us our best.”

— Suanne Laqueur

9. “Bowl of rejection,” Kees was saying. “Or bowl of regret. That’s what it comes down to, those are your choices. Which will taste worse? You ask me, rejection sucks, but you can choke it down. Regret will give you food poisoning for the rest of your life.”

— Suanne Laqueur

10. “Life has rules, Val thought. And you cannot come in the middle of the night and take what we agreed isn’t yours.”

— Suanne Laqueur

11. “A lot of times high school felt like a shipwreck. A social shipwreck with everyone in desperate survival mode and only one lifeboat. Everyone fighting for a seat, clinging to the sides and beating each other with oars to keep their spot. I can’t stand that kind of chaos, when people create drama for the sake of it.”

— Suanne Laqueur

12. “Don’t marry the guy who’s your drinking buddy,” she told Deane. “Marry the guy who holds your head while you’re throwing up, then wipes down the toilet afterward.”

— Suanne Laqueur

13. “People like you and me, we have too many nerves and not enough skin. That’s the issue. Too many nerves. Not enough skin. We feel things straight to our bones. We’re radar dishes. We take in everything and we feel everything. We feel pain that doesn’t even belong to us. We are the animal shelter of feelings. We rescue everything.”

— Suanne Laqueur

14. “I want to kiss you until I die.”

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15. “You’re the best thing to ever happen to me twice.”

— Suanne Laqueur

16. “She began to court happiness and found it a coy, elusive lover. Her tentative joy was studded with the sharp edges of broken glass and her dreams began to twinkle with it.”

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17. “All of the little triumphs of their love story had been banked away over the years, accumulating interest. Now they made lavish withdrawals, cashed in every bond, every insurance policy.”

— Suanne Laqueur

18. “Whatever you have, you give it to me. Whatever you put in my way, I will move it. I’m not afraid of anything you show me. I’ll never leave you.”

— Suanne Laqueur

19. “At some point you just gotta start living the truth of who you are and what you feel.”

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20. “He smiled like the sunrise, mouth stretching to show his teeth, cheekbones lifting to narrow his brown eyes. Their color made her think of the honey her mother drizzled into a shot of cognac – the Bianco cure-all for head colds and heartache.”

— Suanne Laqueur

21. “Invisible fingers had reached into her mind that day, found the flame of memory and pinched it out.”

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22. “His heart full of a fierce love for this tough kid, this vulnerable boy, this magnificent sister-son given into his care.”

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23. “Then his story started to sink into the surface, saturating him. A swampy mess at first. No plot, no arc, no thread. For a month, he simply threw handfuls of mud and gunk at the screen. He began to find rocks, then bones. And finally, he hit the vein of gold at the intersection of challenge and passion.”

— Suanne Laqueur

24. “Listen and learn it, learn to tell it, and tell it to teach it.”

— Suanne Laqueur

25. “He was a piece of the night, soft like velvet and hard like glass. A curtained window. Skin.”

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26. “I’m feeling so much. I don’t even have names for what I feel.”

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27. “Leaving isn’t always the end of loving.”

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28. “Loving her felt like creating something. A cathedral. Spires and stained glass and bells. But she broke one window and I indiscriminately tore the whole thing down.”

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29. “Do you trust I want you and I want us? Do you trust I’m here to stay this time?”

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30. “When I was with her, my cells were happy. I miss looking in her eyes and everything else just disappearing.”

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31. “I don’t have one word for what I feel, he said. It’s a thousand things at the same time.”

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32. “And if it gets out later, it has major potential to bite you in the ass. Like, you could lose an entire ass cheek. None of your clothes would fit anymore.”

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33. “I could never hate you. But now I can never love you.”

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34. “Some seek the light and hold the light in place. Erik Fiskare didn’t like being the center of attention, but he liked situations where he had to keep the attention centered.”

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35. “I love you so much,” he said. But his voice was hoarse and the first two words got lost. You so much. It settled into his heart like a creed. He said it again. “You so much.” She turned her head up to him. “So much you,” she said.”

— Suanne Laqueur

36. “She looked me in the eye and said, ‘If I lose him, I will die.’ I didn’t think for a nanosecond she was exaggerating.”

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37. “She was a beautiful china cup on a table, quietly asking to be filled. And little by little, Erik was tipping over and pouring out.”

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38. “The mothers always jump.”

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39. “To become a parent was to go around with your heart flayed open for the rest of your life.”

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40. “You broke and left, but then you came back. Because you were meant to be mine.”

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41. “Because music makes good citizens and beautiful hearts.”

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42. “Looking back was like flipping through a scrapbook underwater, a blurred collection of mementos stretching from May to August. Washed-out sepia tones. Pages stuck together, melding days into weeks. Weeks into months.”

— Suanne Laqueur

43. “Maybe that’s life. Trading in one tragedy for a better tragedy.”

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44. “Part of you still feels him. Because you never detached. You never fell out of love.”

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45. “Daisy seems the type who likes to make something beautiful with her partner, rather than just be carried around and adored in the spotlight. So I imagine she’s generous and forgiving in the dark.”

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46. “Like I said, my friend, she seems the type who likes to make something beautiful with her partner, rather than just be carried around and adored in the spotlight.”

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47. “His heart expanded until he was nothing but a heart. A giant pounding heart on two shaking legs walking over to her.”

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48. “He wanted all of her. Her thoughts, her words, her silences and her stillness.”

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49. “And every atom in her body was throwing itself on the floor in protest, beating fists and toes and yelling. Me. Want. Now.”

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50. “I didn’t come back to fight you. I came back to fight for you.”

— Suanne Laqueur