Top 250 Sylvia Day Quotes (2025 Update)
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201. “You put your hand on Corinne’s back like this again and I’m breaking your fingers.”

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202. “As for discipline and rules, I confess, I’ve never been good with either.”

— Sylvia Day

203. “And yet I understood the alienation of being around others who couldn’t really see you or chose not to. I’d felt the self-loathing that came with being a fraud, protraying an image of what you wished you could be but weren’t. I’d lived with the fear that people you loved might turn away from you if they ever got to know the true person hidden inside.”

— Sylvia Day

204. “Let the world talk and spread lies. We knew what we had. It didnt need to be qualified, justified or expressed.”

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205. “I prefer to spend time with you. You’re the most interesting person I know.”

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206. “I hate to freak you out,” I murmured between desperate kisses, “but you’ve got it real bad for me.”

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207. “Sure. You two are whack jobs separately. Together, you’re a goddamn nut house.”

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208. “She was every promise, every hope, every fantasy a man could have. And she was mine.”

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209. “I breathed him in, feeling the effect of him – his nearness, his support – permeate my being. The smell of his soap was muted now, the naturally seductive scent of his skin altering the fragrance into something richer and more delicious. When I was restless, he settled me.”

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210. “I’ll see you at five, ace.” “Not a minute later,” he ordered gruffly. I laughed despite myself, infatuated with every rough-edged facet of him. “Or what?” Pulling back, he gave me a look that made my toes curl. “Or I come get you.”

— Sylvia Day

211. “If I’d known you were out there I would’ve hunted you down. I wouldn’t have waited a second to find you.”

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212. “We knew our strengths and played up our assets. But we couldn’t see what made us unique enough for someone to really love us.”

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213. “Would the day ever come when I would see her and not feel the earth shift beneath my feet? She.”

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214. “That sensation of being caught – claimed – challenged me on the deepest level.”

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215. “When a story captures me, it comes quickly and easily.”

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216. “Now you are, but I had to pull away to make you do it. Be honest, Gideon, I came along and you realized you had a void in your life that I could fill, and you wanted to put me there and leave the rest of your life as it was.”

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217. “Gideon knew exactly what I liked. Not because I’d told him, but because he paid attention to everything about me.”

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218. “As he’d told me once, he had been the recipient of many I love yous over the years, but he’d never believed them because they hadn’t been backed up with truth, trust, and honesty. The words meant little to him, which was why he refused to say them to me. I tried not to let him see how it hurt me that he wouldn’t say them. I figured that was an adjustment I’d have to make to be with him.”

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219. “If you’re going to worry about anything, Gideon, it should be me. Because I can’t be rational when it comes to you. I’m crazy about you. Literally. I can’t think about a future without you – it freaks me out.”

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220. “It’s a Michael Douglas marathon wrapped up in one woman.”

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221. “Coffee is one of my major food groups.”

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222. “More like Cross blew your circuits during one of his sexathons. Still can’t get over that man’s stamina. Wish he’d swing my way and wear me out.”

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223. “His hand reached up to his chest and rubbed at the area over his heart as if it hurt him.”

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224. “If you leave, we lose and our pasts win.”

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225. “To call either of us virgins would be ridiculous, yet emotionally that was just what we were. Fumbling in the dark and too eager, completely out of our depths and self-conscious, trying to impress and missing all the subtle nuances.”

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226. “I was always running. My recovery was so fragile that I’d learned to protect it at all costs. When something threatened my stability, I ditched it.”

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227. “Gideon walked briskly and I hurried to keep up. When he stopped abruptly, turned, and dipped me back in a lavish heated kiss on the crowded sidewalk, I was too stunned to do more than hold on. It was a soul-wrenching melding of our mouths, full of passion and sweet spontaneity that made my heart ache. Applause broke out around us. When he straightened me again, I was breathless and dizzy. “What was that?” I gasped. “A prelude.”

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228. “You often appear lost in a world of your own making. It is supremely appealing to men to see a woman content with herself. We long to slip inside her and join her.”

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229. “I supposed, perhaps, you miss the promise of what could have been, while at the same time you are grateful that what it was instead is over.”

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230. “Did we choose love, or did we choose ourselves?”

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231. “Speculation is necessary in business, but in affairs of the heart, it often leads to poor judgement.”

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232. “I require distance from the past in order to grasp the future.”

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233. “That was why we were going to get past this and every other hurdle we faced: We would always meet each other halfway. She.”

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234. “I don’t have kids; I’ve never lost a pet. My parents, grandparents, siblings, and in-laws are all alive and kicking. What do I know about losing someone you love?”

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235. “The words she wanted to say burned her throat and tongue, explanations and declarations that would only cause more pain because the end would only be the same.”

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236. “If I owned Gideon, he possessed me. I couldn’t imagine belonging to anyone else.”

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237. “You’re sexy,” she asserted bluntly. “You play it down at work, which I understand and appreciate, but don’t waste it. It’s a terrible myth that a successful woman can’t be sexy without it ruining her credibility. Don’t buy into it.”

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238. “We’ll never be over, Eva.”

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239. “As I sat in my chair, her gaze followed me. I adjusted the fit of my headset and paused when I realized she was staring. She liked looking at me.”

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240. “What a pair we are, intrinsically broken but tied to one another by desire and death.”

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241. “I was happiest when I was alone with her. She revitalized me, made me anticipate living in a way I never had before. I.”

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242. “My life was ordered. Now, it’s an adventure.”

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243. “I loved him too much. I was constantly worried that I wouldn’t be able to hold on to him. He was lightning in a bottle, a dream I tried to hold in my hands.”

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244. “There is magic in a man who knows how to kiss well.”

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245. “Gideon brought into my life. The acceptance and the love. The safety. Gideon had given me my freedom back, a life without terror. Giving him vows in return was too simple a repayment for that.”

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246. “She wasn’t like any woman who’d come before her. Not just because of who she was, but also because of who I was when I was with her.”

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247. “But I couldn’t justify that one moment against all the other moments when he made me feel like crap.”

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248. “My eyes stung as they always did whenever I saw Cary happy. Dr. Travis was the closest thing to a father that he had and I knew how much Cary loved him.”

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249. “That he was working instead of spending time with me shouldn’t have rankled – I knew how busy he was – but it did. I felt abandoned and needy, which told me I was regressing into familiar bad patterns. The simple fact was, Gideon and I were the best and worst things that had ever happened to each other.”

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250. “Kiss me like you love me.”

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