Top 200 T.J. Klune Quotes (2023 Update)

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

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

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

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

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8. “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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9. “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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10. “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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11. “Change often starts with the smallest of whispers. Like-minded people building it up to a roar.”

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

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13. “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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14. “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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15. “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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16. “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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17. “Everything dies, Sam,” Zero said lightly. “It’s the price we pay for being alive.”

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

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

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21. “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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22. “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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23. “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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24. “I’m a dragon, and maybe if you’re lucky, I’ll be dragon my balls across your face later.”

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

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

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27. “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.”

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28. “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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29. “The world likes to see things in black and white, in moral and immoral. But there is gray in between. And just because a person is capable of wickedness, doesen’t mean they will act upon it.”

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30. “Sometimes our prejudices color our thoughts when we least expect them to. If we can recognize that, and learn from it, we can become better people.”

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31. “A home isn’t always the 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. Your bubble, Mr. Baker. It’s been popped. Why would you allow it to grow around you again?”

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32. “Humanity is so weird. If we’re not laughing, we’re crying or running for our lives because monsters are trying to eat us. And they don’t even have to be real monsters. They could be the ones we make up in our heads. Don’t you think that’s weird?”

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33. “Eric pressed himself against me, a long hot line of sweat and flesh. There was a roll of his hips against mine and I said, “Wow.” He laughed. The.”

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34. “There’s a choice. There’s always a choice. My wolf chose you. I chose you. And if you don’t choose me, then that’s your choice and I will walk out of here knowing you got to choose your own path. But I swear to god, if you choose me, I will make sure that you know the weight of your worth every day for the rest of our lives because that’s what this is.”

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35. “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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36. “Just because you don’t experience prejudice in your everyday doesn’t stop it from existing for the rest of us.”

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37. “He’d accepted long ago that some people, no matter how good their heart was or how much love they had to give, would always be alone. It was their lot in life, and Linus had figured out, at the age of twenty-seven, that it seemed to be that way for him.”

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

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39. “I was a speck of sand on an infinite beach, waiting for the tide to come in and wash me away. And here he was, the ocean, the waves, and I drowned in him.”

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40. “You want to know what it feels like to be castrated? Try having your nine-year-old brother protect you from your ex-girlfriend after you’ve told her you’re in love with a man.”

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41. “I was too busy writing sad ballads to unrequited love in my head and planning a life where my hand would be my boyfriend.”

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42. “A travesty of epic proportions,” Tock agreed. “How much you wanna bet they couldn’t even turn the computer on?”

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43. “My future,” Joe said, “is Ox.” Ah god, that made me ache. “Is that so?” Mom asked. “How do you figure?” “He’s really nice,” Joe said seriously. “And smells good. And he makes me happy. And I want to do nothing more than put my mouth on him.” “Ah.”

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44. “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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45. “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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46. “Do you have any tattoos?” “No? I mean, almost everyone I know does, but needles scare me, so I don’t have any. I mean, why would you want to sit in a chair and get repeatedly stabbed –.”

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47. “I would do anything to make you happy because no one had ever smelled like you did. It was candy canes and pinecones. It was epic and awesome. and it was home.”

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48. “But if you worry too much about all the things you could be, you’ll miss out on all the things you actually are.”

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49. “You can’t hide your head in the sand without expecting your ass to get burned.”

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50. “So I said Malakasham and Flora Bora Slam and Abra Wham, because everyone knew that you had to say magic words until magic happened.”

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