Top 180 Tiffany Reisz Quotes (2025 Update)
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151. “Men. You’d rather die fighting than surrender to happiness. You are your own worst enemy.”

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152. “She opened it to the middle and pressed her face into the pages. She inhaled the scent of paper, ink and glue, and if they could make a perfume that smelled like old books, Allison would wear it every day of her life.”

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153. “Words are the thread in the fabric of the universe.”

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154. “That’s the point of the book – sacrifice can only get you so far. William and Caroline are just too different to make it work. And although two people can love each other deeply, sometimes love alone doesn’t cut it. We can only sacrifice so much of ourselves in a relationship before there’s nothing left to love or be loved.”

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155. “Her loss had left her lost. Loss? Such a misnomer. Nothing was lost. Something was taken. She felt robbed, like someone had broken into her life and stolen her valuables. It wasn’t a loss. It was a theft. And she knew she would never get it back.”

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156. “You do realize Kingsley is forty-five, yes?” “I told them,” Nora said. “Age is only a number,” Angie said. “So is sixty-nine,” Maxine said.”

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157. “There is God, there is you and there is Kingsley. Those are my three nonnegotiables.”

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158. “When he loved, what he loved, who he loved, he loved eternally.”

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159. “All is fair in love and sadism.”

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160. “You need another business? You tired of owning your basketball team already?” “I only own part of the team.” “Which part?” she asked. “I know which part I’d like to own.” McQueen laughed. “Tell me something, Miss Paris – what do you own?” Now it was her turn to spin on her bar stool, ninety degrees, and she met him face on with full eye contact, fearless and shameless. “I could own you by morning.”

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161. “His name is Spanks for Nothing. It’s destiny. We belong together.” -Nora.”

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162. “Our fears are the bastard children of our longings.”

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163. “Faye keeps forgetting what she’ll be giving up if she decides to stay here. Access to modern medicine, for starters. In 2015 people can survive cancer, tuberculosis, scarlet fever. Vaccines eradicated polio and measles. Do you really want to live in a world with iron lungs and polio, Faye? Do you?” “I guess I could go back to 2015 and live in a world with meth, heroin, terrorism, HIV and Ebola. Huge improvement, right?”

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164. “I have to go,” Nora said. “Things to do. People to beat.”

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165. “I love your submission to pain. It’s human nature to race toward pleasure and flee from pain. That you would fight your own nature to please me by suffering my crop arouses me more than anything you’ve done for me before.”

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166. “Penance? You? His lover? My dear Eleanor – you love a priest. The sin itself carries its own penance.”

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167. “You will walk the circumference of the entire globe and find yourself right where you started. Here,” he said, taking her into his arms.”

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168. “He had to be a hero for her. He wished the world still had dragons so he had something to slay for her.”

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169. “He’s a bastard, that blond monster.” “You know you love him.” “Entirely against my will,” Kingsley said, “and with all my heart.”

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170. “If one could marry a moment in time, she would have married that one. That moment when the stars were laughing with her and not at her. That moment when the sand in the hourglass was on her side and the house was once again her home.”

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171. “You are not allowed to get lost unless I want to lose you. You aren’t allowed to be found, unless it’s me doing the finding. And the only way you’re allowed to die is if I choose to kill you with my own hands. Your life doesn’t belong to you anymore, and if I have to murder you tonight and paint the snow with your blood to make you understand that, I will. You are mine, Kingsley. End of discussion.”

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172. “You know I’m a writer. I can’t tell you everything in the beginning. Then there’s no point to the story.”

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173. “Call the priest. You’re in a better mood when he’s around. He doesn’t brood like you do.” “He invented brooding. He holds the patent on brooding. He gets royalties whenever anyone broods. You just haven’t seen him do it yet.”

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174. “All I’m saying is if you’re gonna have a cracker for a daddy, might as well be a Ritz cracker, right?” Levi.”

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175. “And bourbon’s like the truth, you know.” “How’s that?” “The first taste burns, but once you get used to it, it’s the only thing you want in your mouth.” Miss.”

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176. “She fell in love when she fell into bed and woke up a few hours later still in both.”

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177. “Therefore once for all this short command is given to you – love and do what you will. If you keep silent, keep silent by love, if you speak, speak by love, if you correct, correct by love, if you pardon, pardon by love – let love be rooted in you, and from the root nothing but good can grow.”

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178. “If he wasn’t in a meeting he was in a beating.”

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179. “We value the most what we must sacrifice to have. I.”

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180. “But they were a family, weren’t they? And she’d gotten very good at lying. It didn’t even feel like lying anymore. It felt like forgiveness, leaving the past in the past. It felt like mercy. It felt like moving on... And what was one more secret in this house packed to the attic with secrets? Roland had secrets. So did she. It gave them something in common. Roland might be onto something. Maybe the secrets didn’t have to be a wall between them. Maybe they could be a bridge.”

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181. “Have you ever met the rose who was afraid of her own thorns?”

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182. “The master. The monster. The beautiful sadist. That was the secret she never told anyone, not even herself, that she loved him more for his cruelties than his mercies.”

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183. “A kiss was nothing. But to touch fingertips to another’s lips... so erotic, so possessive, so intimate.”

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184. “In all things involving Nora Sutherlin, proceed with caution.”

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185. “Art should be dangerous, you know. It should say something to society that society doesn’t want to hear. Do you know what the opposite of art is? Propaganda. There’s too much of that in the world. Not enough art. And certainly not enough of this...”

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186. “Funny how the worst thing that happened to a man could turn out to be the best thing sometimes.”

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187. “We all die. Side effect of being born.”

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188. “You’re white. You’re straight. You’re well educated, healthy and beautiful. Every time is for people like you.”

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189. “You never know who God’s gonna send into your life. The Creator can get real creative sometimes.”

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