Top 450 Tillie Cole Quotes (2024 Update)
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51. “Live beautifully.”

— Tillie Cole

52. “Poppymin was just like the cherry blossom... She only had a short life, like they do, but the beauty that she brought in that time will never ever be forgotten. Because nothing so beautiful can last forever. She was a blossom petal, a butterfly... a shooting star... she was perfect... her life was short... but she was mine... Just as I was hers.”

— Tillie Cole

53. “Every day is different. The colors, the shades, the impact on your soul.” She sighed and said, “Every day is a gift, Rune. If I’ve learned anything from the last couple of years, it’s that.”

— Tillie Cole

54. “I think hearts beat a rhythm like a song. I think, that just like music, we’re drawn to a particular melody. I heard your heart’s song, and yours heard mine.”

— Tillie Cole

55. “A pure soul always finds love. Even through hate, they will always find the ability to claim love.”

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56. “I’m the girl who wakes up early to watch the sunrise. I’m the girl who wants to see the good in everyone, the one who is taken away by a song, inspired by art.” Turning to me, she smiled. “I’m that girl, Rune. The one who waits out the storm simply to catch a glimpse of a rainbow. Why be miserable when you can be happy? It’s an obvious choice to me.”

— Tillie Cole

57. “Eventually, something or someone will come along in your life to show you that what other people think don’t matter. You’ll find the strength to not let what people say affect you in quite the same way.”

— Tillie Cole

58. “I didn’t know why, but capturing moments fascinated me. Maybe it was because sometimes all we get are moments. There are no do-overs; whatever happens in a moment defines life – perhaps it is life. But capturing a moment on film keeps that moment alive, forever. To me, photography was magic.”

— Tillie Cole

59. “Because how dare we waste a single breath? How dare we waste something so precious? Instead, we should strive for all those precious breaths to be taken in as many precious moments as we can squeeze into this short time on Earth.”

— Tillie Cole

60. “Maybe we’re like the cherry blossom, Rune. Like shooting stars. Maybe we loved too much too young and burned so bright that we had to fade out.” She pointed behind us, to the blossom grove. “Extreme beauty, quick death. We had this love long enough to teach us a lesson. To show us how capable of love we truly are.”

— Tillie Cole

61. “I wish that people realized how this felt every day. Why does it take a life ending to learn how to cherish each day? Why must we wait until we run out of time to start to accomplish all that we dreamed, when once we had all the time in the world? Why don’t we look at the person we love the most like it’s the last time we will ever see them?”

— Tillie Cole

62. “And this is why I love photography, I thought. It could pull out emotion, raw emotion, from a split second in time.”

— Tillie Cole

63. “That beat, that new lease of life pounding within my chest? It is his. The awakening of my heart belongs to Flame.”

— Tillie Cole

64. “I have fallen hopelessly in love with the Italian tattooed bad boy from the wrong side of the tracks. And I fall into his protective, open arms with one hundred percent abandon.”

— Tillie Cole

65. “I know I’m different. I know I don’t see the world like everyone else does. But I want to see your world, Maddie. Even if it’s the only one I’ll ever understand.”

— Tillie Cole

66. “She always said she had moonbeams in her heart and sunshine in her smile. Mamaw told me that meant she was happy.”

— Tillie Cole

67. “We are the Carillo Boys. Three brothers born into chaos and pain. Three brothers who’d endured tragedy and loss. Brothers until the end, bound by blood, our bond unbreakable by unconditional love.”

— Tillie Cole

68. “It is my eternal right to love you. And I will fight for that right until the sun sets on my life.”

— Tillie Cole

69. “I’ve never stopped loving you. You were enough to last a lifetime.”

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70. “This isn’t the end. It’s just a little pause in our lives.”

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71. “Then I packed away everything that reminded me of you.” I barked out a laugh. “Shame I couldn’t pull out my heart and pack it away too. Because that prick wouldn’t let me forget you, no matter how much I tried.”

— Tillie Cole

72. “A queen bows to no one, especially to her king.”

— Tillie Cole

73. “When I look at you, when you touch me, when I see your face... when we kiss, my heart plays a song. It sings that it needs you like I need air. It sings to me that I adore you. It sings that I’ve found its perfect missing part.”

— Tillie Cole

74. “Love doesn’t see color. Only pure hearts.”

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75. “Only Earl Grey will ever do.”

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76. “My Norwegian bad boy. My heart.”

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77. “I felt a love, that at seventeen, I was blessed to have received. A love that knew no boundaries. The kind of love that inspires music that lasts through the ages. A love that should be felt and meant and treasured.”

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78. “He’d come into my life like a storm. A storm I didn’t want, one I’d prepared all my life to hate, to fight. But it brought with it refreshing rain. It cleared the skies and brought out only warmth. Zaal was saving me, liberating me from loneliness.”

— Tillie Cole

79. “I’m that girl Rune. The one who waits out the storm simply to catch a glimpse of a rainbow. Why be miserable when you can be happy? It’s an obvious choice to me.”

— Tillie Cole

80. “Because you are my Hades, my misunderstood, tortured dark lord. And I am your queen, your Persephone, the blue-eyed woman who saw through your shield and won the trophy of your heart. Forever to keep. Forever mine. And mine, forever yours.”

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81. “Perfection with an imperfect heart.”

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82. “Please tell me there’s more hot bitches in that cell, Mae. One for each of us,” AK said.”

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83. “All the kisses that make your heart almost burst, the ones that are the most special, the ones you want to remember when you’re old and gray like me.”

— Tillie Cole

84. “I think we were meant to find each other, AK. I think we were meant to find each other, to leave hell together.” I didn’t reply. I had no words. “I think that no solution is quick, and no remedy will magically make our pain drift away. I believe that we must go on through this pain we are feeling in order to move on. And I believe whatever God or greater power exists above us brought us together so we may heal together. Heal the other in a way that no other person could.”

— Tillie Cole

85. “As special as special can be.”

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86. “Juan Garcia was a man who never lost. I ran before he’d tired of me. In his eyes, it was the beginning of a cat-and-mouse game. I was the mouse. And I’d been caught.”

— Tillie Cole

87. “May the devil be firmly on your side.”

— Tillie Cole

88. “She saw the light piercing the dark. She saw the good through the bad.”

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89. “Poppy, Poppymin, she was the cherry blossom. She was my cherry blossom.”

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90. “Okay, okay,” Viking conceded, holding up in hands. But he turned to Sister Ruth one more time. “Just one more question, then I’ll shut up.” “Okay?” Sister Ruth said demurely, eyes narrowed. “Do you like the taste of pineapple?”

— Tillie Cole

91. “Underneath the scars, the muscles, and the tattoos was a hurt and lost man.”

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92. “You two have always been like magnets, drawn together by some unknown force.”

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93. “I love you, Arthur Adley. More than any woman has ever loved a man before.”

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94. “Because for me, you are truth. My truth. My heart, is all you.”

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95. “Standing before her king like the royalty she was. My queen of the dark.”

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96. “You were meant to be together, so you could be her guiding light through all of this. You were created perfectly for her, to make this time for my girl special. To make sure her remaining days were filled with things her mama and I could never have given her.”

— Tillie Cole

97. “Cannot imagine your life without her in it? Would kill if anyone hurt her? Would die if you ever lost her? Can’t breathe or sleep without seeing her face? Love, I thought. A word so alien to my vocabulary, yet it seemed I had lived with it in me since the age of nine. Love.”

— Tillie Cole

98. “I’m terrified of going anywhere new without you... I don’t know me without you.”

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99. “He was living, breathing poetry. Not love poetry, but the poetry which tears out your heart, rips it to shreds, pushes it back into your chest, and makes you question what the hell just obliterated your soul.”

— Tillie Cole

100. “I have come to understand that death, for the sick, is not so hard to endure. For us, eventually, our pain ends, we go to a better place. But for those left behind, their pain only magnifies.” Poppy.”

— Tillie Cole