Top 120 Tia Williams Quotes (2026 Update)
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101. “Such a luxury, she thought, having someone who fills in your gaps when you’re depleted.”

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102. “How do you finish a love story that you... you never wanted to end?”

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103. “Just say it,” Eva said with a smile. “I’ve never said it. To anyone.” “It won’t hurt, I promise.” Shane grinned, a heart-stopping thing. Then laid his face on her breasts, closing his eyes. “Ready?” he asked. “Ready.” “I love you,” said Shane. “Dramatically, violently, and forever.” She kissed the top of his head, smiling brighter than the sun. “I’ve always loved you,” he whispered. “What a coincidence,” she whispered back. “I’ve always loved you, too.”

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104. “You know you’re the turtle, right? The one who comes and goes as he pleases while I wait for you?”

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105. “Besides, life sits shoulder to shoulder with death. It’s around us all the time.”

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106. “The whole afternoon was delicious – so much so that Shane was already nostalgic for it before it had even ended.”

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107. “In second grade, she’d snuck up on a napping Eva and colored her entire forearm with a highlighter. Because she was “important.”

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108. “Lizette would never get it. Eva needed her for everything. She’d just never had her.”

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109. “The beauty you create in the world. Your optimism, your brain. Your fascination with being fascinated. The way your face fits perfectly under my chin when we’re sleeping. Your tenderness, whether your focus is on the care of a single flower, or... me.” His gaze was unwavering. “Ricki, you’ve turned me upside down. For so long, I’ve lived life like it was something to endure, to push through. But with you? I know how precious it can be. And I refuse to live in a world without you in it.”

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110. “I cut myself. He didn’t do it. And I’d been taking drugs – your drugs, or getting them from your boyfriends – my whole life. I wasn’t your innocent little baby.”

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111. “No matter how dizzying his professional highs, Shane just couldn’t resist the pull of the tide sweeping him out. Self-destruction was always imminent. No, if writing had been the cure, the past fifteen years would’ve looked very different. He wouldn’t have taken so long to get sober. He might’ve picked a permanent place to live, put down actual roots. Invested in Seamless or Spotify. He’d have gotten serious about the business of living.”

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112. “Whether I lose you for years or wake up to your face every morning. I love you. You’re my home. And I want you forever.”

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113. “Finally, Shane angled the microphone up and spoke five words. “This is for the misfit.”

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114. “I’ve seen beautiful things and terrible things. Until you, I didn’t know that they’re two sides of the same feeling. I want you, Ricki. Actually, it’s not a want. It’s an uncompromising, inconvenient need. But it’ll ruin us both.”

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115. “Shane was her lighthouse. If he went dark, she’d be lost, treading black water forever.”

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116. “Years ago, she’d thought love wasn’t real unless it drew blood.”

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117. “And Breeze knew that what you haven’t reckoned with, you’re doomed to repeat. America was a ghost story with no end.”

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118. “Books were her kids.”

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119. “Girls are given the weight of the world, but nowhere to put it down.”

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120. “Like when Spotify plays a song you haven’t heard since childhood, and it reminds you who you are. Like “Oh yeah, I’m a person who knows all the words to Will Smith’s ‘Wild Wild West.”

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121. “Somehow, he’d snaked into her head and sunk his fangs into her brain, poisoning her with hope. A cruel trick.”

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122. “So instead of writing about Gia, a witch who uses her powers to fight for a man, I’m fighting for myself.”

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123. “I don’t have any education, and neither did they, but learning happens everywhere, if you listen.”

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124. “Hiii!′ she shouted. ‘I’m Charlii. With two i’s.’ ‘We all have two eyes,’ Shane muttered.”

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125. “What was it like, the luxury of not hurting?”

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126. “All these years.” Genevieve’s voice sounded reedy. “All these years, I thought he was a coward. A liar. I hated him.” “Well, who’s to hate if it ain’t him?”

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127. “Her old introverted instincts told her to fold in on herself and, in lieu of actually speaking to other humans, dream up scenarios in the shower where she and some chick would accidentally grab each other’s orders at a cute smoothie spot, and POOF: instant best friend origin story.”

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128. “The first time it happened was when Shane was seven, the terrible event that had sent him hurtling from foster home to foster home, where he learned new crimes, new dysfunctions, new ways to be unloved. That was one piece of it. The other was every time he broke his arm, it hurt, but when it dulled, he’d be shot through with this remarkable insight about himself. It was the only time he saw who he was, crystal clear.”

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129. “Have you ever been in a Walmart?” asked Eva. “Physically, yes. Spiritually, no.”

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130. “Just gimme your pain; I’ll take it all. Promise to stay, and I’ll never leave. Me and you, forever.”

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131. “How do you think she got there?” Shane’s voice was an unsteady mix of regret and pain. “I found her number in your phone, and I called her. When she got to the house, she called the paramedics. And the police. And sent me to prison.” The blood drained from Eva’s face. “No.” “Ask her,” he said gently. “Ask her.”

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