Top 500 T.J. Klune Quotes (2026 Update)
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451. “We had a good life. She loved me, and I made sure she knew every day I loved her, even if I had to pick up after her.”

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452. “Yes. Exactly. Lucy might cause fear in the majority of the world, but he doesn’t cause it in me. I’ve seen what he is capable of. Behind the eyes and the demon in his soul, he is charming and witty and terribly smart. I will fight for him as I would for any of my children.”

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453. “He said, “It’s you. I would always choose you. I don’t care if it’s a biological imperative. I don’t care if it’s some destiny. I don’t care if you were made specifically for me. It doesn’t matter. Because I would choose you regardless.”

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454. “The world could be beautiful – and it showed on the walls of the tea shop with the pyramids and castles and waterfalls that seemed to drop from the greatest heights – but it was also brutal and dark.”

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455. “If it were with a girl, I’d be telling you the same thing. Wrap it, Nicky. Always wrap it before you stick it anywhere”. He tilted his head and squinted at his only son. “Or if it’s stuck in you. It don’t matter to me one way or another. What’s that called? Bottoming? I don’t care if you’re a bottom or the other one. Use protection.”

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456. “Yes, well, there’s nothing wrong with having a healthy libido,” I said, trying to figure out if I should write about the time I sat on Ryan’s face or if I should maybe go to church a little bit more. It really could have gone either way.”

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457. “Why?” she asked as she trembled. “Why do you care so much?” “Because I don’t know how else to be.”

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458. “There’s a surface to you that’s hard but cracked. Dig a little deeper, and there is all this life teeming wildly. It’s a conundrum.”

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459. “We’re all on different paths, but death doesn’t discriminate. It comes for everyone.”

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460. “Free will is paramount, though it can get a bit messy at times... You try to make us think you understand, but how could you? You don’t have our humanity. You don’t know what it’s like to have a beating heart, to feel it crack. You don’t know what it means to be happy, what it means to grieve. Maybe some part of you is jealous of all the things we are that you can never be.”

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461. “You’re out of your mind.” “I prefer to think of myself as eccentric.” His.”

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462. “Every moment we live is another moment we’re already dying.”

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463. “Bravery is a virtue,” Arthur said. “In the face of adversity, it separates the strong from the weak.” “Or the stupid from the smart,” Talia muttered, squeezing Linus’s hand. “Boys are dumb.”

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464. “Sometimes, things get chipped and broken, but there’s still good in them.” “Adds character, I think,” Linus said. “And allows for a reminder of a memory.”

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465. “How does one arrive at the decision to kill God?”

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466. “But the funny thing about hate is the razor-thin line that separates it from something else entirely.”

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467. “I have other things to think about. Like tomorrow. Why is it that I must always worry about tomorrows?”

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468. “You are human and therefore inherently flawed. You make decisions based upon survival and instinct and nothing more.”

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469. “Growing tea isn’t for everyone,” Hugo said. “Most tea plants don’t mature until around three or four years. You can harvest the leaves before then, but something’s missing from the flavor and scent. You have to put in the time and have patience. Too early, and you risk killing the plant and having to start all over again.”

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470. “Oh sure, the idea of creating something new is always scary, but the act itself is cathartic. Liberating.”

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471. “That’s at least a part of my happiness, I think. Knowing I’d be found.”

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472. “We stand together,” Nick reminded him, “so we don’t have to struggle apart. You’re not alone in this, okay?”

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473. “We don’t interfere with death. We can’t.” “Why not?” “Because it’s always there. No matter what you do, no matter what kind of life you live, good or bad or somewhere in between, it’s always going to be waiting for you. From the moment you’re born, you’re dying.”

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474. “Full circle. From the earth we came, and to the earth we return. Pretty, if you think about it.”

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475. “Home is where we get to be who we are.”

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476. “Linus didn’t even bother thanking him, suddenly feeling daringly vindictive. Why, he didn’t even say goodbye as left the post office. It was positively scandalous.”

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477. “So they can do anal but they can’t have a talk about feelings? That seems backward if you ask me.”

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478. “From the moment your born, you’re dying.”

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479. “Smile and maybe tomorrow,” Arthur whispered in his ear. “You’ll see the sun come shining through for you.”

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480. “I hope you woke up in a strange place.”

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481. “Be it man or machine, Victor thought, to love something meant loving the ghost inside, to be haunted by it.”

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482. “Let’s lead with that next time,” Mr. Parnassus said. “It might sound more humane.”

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483. “His slacks were too short for his legs again. His socks were purple. Linus was doomed.”

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484. “And besides, everyone knows Superman is in love with Batman. Even though someone decided their ship name should be SuperBat rather than the golden opportunity that is ManMan.”

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485. “She crossed her arms and pouted. “Nothing’s stopping us. You told me that we should always try to achieve our dreams.” “I didn’t have murder in mind when I told you that,” Hugo said dryly. “That’s because you think too small. Go big or go home.”

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486. “Mrs. Klapper scoffed. “Perhaps you should consider making time, Mr. Baker. Being alone at your age isn’t healthy. I’d hate to think of what would happen if you were to blow your brains out. It’d hurt the resale value of the whole neighborhood.” “I’m not depressed!” She looked him up and down. “You aren’t? Why on earth not?”

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487. “Today he wore blue socks with clouds on them. Linus refused to be charmed. He mostly succeeded.”

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488. “Where we love is home – home that our feet may leave but not our hearts. – Oliver Wendell Holmes.”

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489. “There was no treasure after all! It was a lie to get you here for your party!” “Oh. I see. So the real treasure was the friendships we made along the way?” “You guys are the worst,” Lucy muttered. “The literal worst.”

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490. “I always thought unicorns were made from sunshine and rainbows and good feelings. Like you just appeared one day in a field filled with flowers and a big fat sunbeam falling all around you. And there’d be butterflies or something.” That sounded way pretty. And realistic for unicorn creation.”

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491. “I’m an adult who does adult things, like taxes and laundry and being sad for no reason.”

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492. “No one who started a sentence with ‘well, well, well’ ever wanted something nice.”

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493. “He never wanted this moment to end. For all the love songs he’d ever listened to in his life, he hadn’t been prepared for how a moment like this could feel.”

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494. “I know I will miss you.”

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495. “If we worry about the little things all the time, we run the risk of missing the bigger things.” “Has anyone ever told you that you sound like a fortune cookie?” Wallace muttered.”

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496. “You want mouth full of knight,” Tiggy said. “Knight take your flower and eat it.”

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497. “Bravery meant the possibility of death. And wasn’t that funny? Because it took being dead for Wallace to finally be brave.”

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498. “The song of the Alpha was a tremendous thing, and no one sang it like Oxnard Matheson.”

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499. “Big man is right,” J-Bone said, coming up behind them. ‘People suck, but sometimes, they should just drown in their own suckage without our help.”

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500. “But it was better to have had it for as long as he did than to never have had it at all. What a tremendous thought that was.”

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