Top 500 T.J. Klune Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “You can plan for life, but life always has plans of its own.”

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2. “People suck, but sometimes, they should just drown in their own suckage without our help.”

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3. “A home isn’t always the house we live in. It’s also the people we choose to surround ourselves with.”

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4. “We should always make time for the things we like. If we don’t, we might forget how to be happy.”

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5. “You follow your heart because one day, it’ll lead you home.”

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6. “Hate is loud, but I think you’ll learn it’s because it’s only a few people shouting, desperate to be heard. You might not ever be able to change their minds, but so long as your remember you’re not alone, you will overcome.”

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7. “We get trapped in our own little bubbles, and even though the world is a wide and mysterious place, our bubbles keep us safe from that. To our detriment.” She sighed. “But it’s so easy because there’s something soothing about routine. Day in and day out, it’s always the same. When we’re shaken from that, when that bubble bursts, it can be hard to understand all that we’ve missed.”

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8. “Your voice is a weapon. Never forget that.”

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9. “I’ll never understand why people just won’t let others be who they are. It’s not like it’s affecting them in any way.”

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10. “I may have lost my mind,” he told her. “Isn’t it wonderful?”

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11. “So the real treasure was the friendships we made along the way?”

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12. “I believe in a lot of things. They don’t have to be real for everyone, just as long as they’re real for me.”

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13. “My love!” Kevin said. “You must rise. Get up! Get up so far into the future, we can meet and I can go to your bakery and eat the royal hell out of your croissants!”

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14. “And don’t all children deserve to be protected? To be loved and nurtured so that they may grow and shape the world to make it a better place?”

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15. “There’s music everywhere, Mr. Baker. You just have to learn to listen for it.”

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16. “It’s the little things, I expect. Little treasures we find without knowing their origin. And they come when we least expect them. It’s beautiful, when you think about it.”

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17. “You’re not broken.” He said, “You don’t know that.” I said, “I do. You’re alive. If you can take another breath, if you can take another step, then you’re not broken. Battered, maybe. Bruised. Cracked. But never broken.”

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18. “Change often starts with the smallest of whispers. Like-minded people building it up to a roar.”

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19. “There are moments in your life so profound, so extraordinarily crystal clear that even the remembrance of them is enough to feel like you’re being consumed by fire. Moments that might not mean much to anyone else, but mean the world to you.”

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20. “And one day I hope you get to love someone like I love you. If you do, and I know you will, you make sure you never let that go. It’ll be scary, but it’ll be the best thing that’s ever happened to you if you let it.”

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21. “Instead I said, “Flora Bora Slam, mothercrackers.”

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22. “I sit here, day after day, waiting for release. Waiting for death. Because I know when my heart no longer beats, my beloved will be waiting for me, and we will howl together in the stars.”

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23. “You were the only thing that made me feel safe when the earthquakes threatened to break me. I needed you here because when you’re not here, I don’t have a home.”

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24. “My path may have been set in stone, but stone crumbles, and sometimes we have to forge our own way through.”

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25. “I am eighty-three years old, but I only remember the last seventy-one years. You see, when I was twelve, I met a blue-eyed boy and fell in love. I can only remember the last seventy-one years because anythin’ before that day don’t matter. Nothin’ that came before could compare to anythin’ that came after. I wasn’t truly alive until he looked at me for the first time. And from then on, even if I didn’t know how it was possible, I knew he was mine. And he has been. Every day he has been.”

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26. “Everything dies, Sam,” Zero said lightly. “It’s the price we pay for being alive.”

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27. “Please just let me have you. Please. Nothing else matters if I can’t have you.”

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28. “The higher your expectations, the greater the disappointment.”

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29. “Because it’s always been you, Sam. I promise. I promise. I promise, because when I look upon these stars, there is nothing I wish for more than you.”

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30. “You’ve broken my heart, but it was mine to give.”

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31. “That’s the thing, Gussy. Some choices hurt. Some decisions hurt. But the only reason they hurt is because you care about them so much. You were my good decision, Gustavo. My right one. I’ve always thought so.”

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32. “I started with one squirt but didn’t think that was enough, so I ended up accidentally spraying on six more. I went back to the beach to wait, smelling like a department-store tragedy.”

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33. “I couldn’t find the words to say what I wanted. Sometimes, when your heart gets so full, it takes away your voice and all you can do it hold on for dear life.”

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34. “There’s still time left. The best thing I can do is to make the most of it.”

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35. “Good-bye, self-esteem and fuzzy feelings. It was so nice to make your acquaintance.”

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36. “Someone told me once that the light we see from them is hundreds of thousands of years old. That the star could already be dead and we’d never know it because it still looked alive. I thought that was a terrible thing. That the stars could lie.”

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37. “Paul?” “Yeah?” “Don’t take this the wrong way.” I tried not to flinch. Here it comes. Vince sighed. “I think I’m going to fall in love with you.”

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38. “I’m a dragon, and maybe if you’re lucky, I’ll be dragon my balls across your face later.”

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39. “They fear what they don’t understand. And that fear turns to hate for reasons I’m sure even they can’t begin to comprehend. And since they don’t understand the children, since they fear them, they hate them.”

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40. “A home isn’t always a house we live in. It’s also the people we choose to surround ourselves with. You may not live on the island, but you can’t tell me it’s not your home.”

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41. “Not knowing is better than pretending to know.”

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42. “It was weird to have a straight crush on a lady. But I powered through it.”

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43. “Never forget where you come from, but don’t allow it to define you.”

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44. “Don’t you wish you were here?”

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45. “Be gay. Do crimes.”

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46. “Things get lost in translation.”

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47. “Wallace groaned. “I hate everything.” “I don’t believe that for a minute. You may think you do, but you don’t. Not really.” “Well, I hate that.”

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48. “When something is broken, you can put it back together. It may not fit quite the same, or work like it did once before, but that doesn’t mean it’s no longer useful.”

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49. “A simple hello could lead to a million things. “Yeah,” Gus said. “Like herpes or getting fisted.”

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50. “Time is a river, I’ve learned. Always moving forward. But for people like me, people who have loved and lost, the river is something we fight. We swim against the current, trying to get back to the way we once were, trying to hold onto anything to keep us from getting swept away. It’s exhausting and eventually we tire. Still we push on.”

— T.J. Klune