Top 50 Tate James Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “I’m here if you need me. I always will be.”

— Tate James

2. “I hate myself... for loving you when I have no right to.”

— Tate James

3. “The audacity of some men was astounding.”

— Tate James

4. “When you dream of me, make it rough.”

— Tate James

5. “After all, it was a fine line between love and hate, and our line was officially all tangled up in barbed wire.”

— Tate James

6. “Next time you try to make me jealous, pick a guy who can make you sleep through your messages the next day.”

— Tate James

7. “Now I just needed to get fake married to my real husband and clean the slate of assassins.”

— Tate James

8. “The truth, Madison Kate,” he murmured, “is that Riot Night wasn’t the first time we met.”

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9. “I needed someone like him. Someone separate from everything else. A lighthouse in the wild storm that was my life.”

— Tate James

10. “I don’t hate you, Kate,” he mumbled, his voice so thick with sleep I could barely make out the words. “I hate myself... for loving you when I have no right to.”

— Tate James

11. “Because she’s a sexually frustrated eighteen-year-old virgin and reads too many romance novels.”

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12. “You’re my whole world, Kate,” he whispered in my ear as he fastened my jeans again. “You’re my reason for breathing, and I’ll personally slit the throats of anyone who tries to take you away from me.”

— Tate James

13. “He was the lighthouse in the storm. He was my safe place. My saving grace.”

— Tate James

14. “I take that statement back,” he murmured. “Drunk Madison Kate is six million times more combative. Good to freaking know.”

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15. “Even from this distance, I trembled with anticipation and randomly pictured what it’d be like to climb him like a tree. Except naked.”

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16. “You aren’t exactly the type of woman to sit around and wait for a man to sweep her off her feet. But... is it selfish to wish that I had done that for you?”

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17. “I did the only thing any self-respecting woman in my position could do. I slammed my knee into his nuts. Then ran like hell.”

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18. “I’m not looking to reconcile with any guy who declares the female orgasm a myth perpetuated by feminazis.”

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19. “You hungry, Grumpy Cat? I’ve probably got some canned food in here somewhere.”

— Tate James

20. “There was always a choice in any situation, and I despised the saying “there was no other choice” because it was a lie. Simply because the other choice might suck goose balls, didn’t mean it was any less of a choice.”

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21. “But that was the thing about appearances, you never really knew what was going on beneath the surface.”

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22. “How could I ever love a royal who allowed his people to suffer just so he might experience beauty on his own doorstep?”

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23. “I’m not high-fiving that, Kody. God damn, how do you ever get laid?”

— Tate James

24. “It was incredible to think that a little over a week ago, I’d have cheerfully run that bastard over with a digger and now he was utterly vital to my completed feeling of safety and comfort.”

— Tate James

25. “Because, babe,” he replied, his whisper husky and raw, “no one can survive without their heart, and you’re mine.”

— Tate James

26. “I love you with my whole blackened soul, Kate.”

— Tate James

27. “There was a gun in the cutlery drawer; there would definitely be at least one in the panic room.”

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28. “Readers were living multiple magical, fantastical lives all within their heads. It was enviable and made sense that they were vivacious people inside their happy place.”

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29. “Just march downstairs, park your cute ass in my car, close your eyes, and pretend you’re back in Cambodia until we get to campus.”

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30. “She’d dived headfirst into the gauntlet of fire and come out harder than titanium.”

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31. “Paranoid,” he snickered. “That’s a result of all the coffee, you know.” I gasped dramatically. “You shut your lying face, Austin King. I won’t have you speaking badly of my one true love.”

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32. “If a gang leader only had one mode of transport, were they even successful? Doubtful.”

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33. “I love you with my whole blackened soul, Kate. You’re my everything.”

— Tate James

34. “Hell, the only teenager in the room was acting the most emotionally adjusted out of the lot of us.”

— Tate James

35. “Best way to get over a guy was to get under a new one, right?”

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36. “For one thing, Max Steele,” I chastised him, “I’m not your toy, you’re mine.”

— Tate James

37. “You have no idea how many times I’ve jerked off over you, Hellcat,” he murmured, kissing me lightly. “But the reality is a million times better.”

— Tate James

38. “Talking to Bree helped, though. Even if her best suggestion was to sneak into Archer’s room and superglue his nuts to his leg.”

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39. “Why is Cole trying? He’s not the friendliest human we have.” Caleb rolled his eyes like the answer should have been obvious. “No, but he’s a reptile. Surely they can, like, recognize their own kind or something?” “Of course,” I snickered. “How silly of me. Do you want me to try? I actually like snakes. They’re cool creatures.” Caleb looked aghast. “Kitty Kat... they have no ears!”

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40. “In a perfect world I would have had a sassy, flirtatious comeback, but pouting was what I was feeling, so it’s what I did.”

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41. “Knowledge is power, Princess Danvers,” he said eventually, his voice rough with some undecipherable emotion, “but ignorance is bliss. You decide for yourself which one you prefer.”

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42. “Cherise, it was lovely to meet you, but your taste in men is, frankly, appalling. I recommend making some life changes.”

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43. “Ugh. I hated that word. Lovers. Made me feel like a damsel with a French-speaking, long-haired pirate sweeping me off my feet.”

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44. “I’d recently killed a man; I could suck up enough courage to ask a pretty boy a personal question.”

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45. “You need to know, no matter how long it takes for you to forgive my actions, you’re mine.” His words vibrated with a power that made my skin prickle and my pulse race. “If I ever catch another man laying his hands on you, I’ll kill them without question. Are we clear?”

— Tate James

46. “Before MK has coffee? Are you insane or just suicidal?”

— Tate James

47. “What do you know,” I commented to Kody in a voice dripping false sweetness, “kicking him in the balls did reset his personality after all.”

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48. “Steele’s eyes flashed with unmistakable desire, and he raised his hand to my face. His thumb swiped over my lower lip, then he placed it in his own mouth, sucking the flavor from it.”

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49. “I briefly considered shooting her just to stop the annoyance. But we were in the very public foyer of a five-star hotel, and the cleanup cost alone would make it less than worth it.”

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50. “Readers were living multiple magical, fantastical lives all within their heads.”

— Tate James