Top 500 Tillie Cole Quotes (2026 Update)
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101. “In such a short space of time, she had become my everything. My morning, noon and night. My reason to wake each day. In the end, she had been the greatest blessing I could ever have prayed for. A saint for the ultimate sinner.”

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102. “He kissed me until there was no part of me that didn’t know who it belonged to. He kissed me until my heart again fused with his – two halves of one whole.”

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103. “I had learned of late that someone who appears wicked on the outside, may actually turn out to possess the kindest soul of all.”

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104. “Strength is a shield, only to be lowered by trust.” Her.”

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

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106. “You can have me, solnyshko. You can have all of me. You always have, and you always will.”

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107. “One Direction’s “If I Could Fly.”

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108. “The female wrapped herself around my heart like a warm blanket. It beat with the hope, with the surreal feeling, that she knew what it felt like to be me. She knew loss and grief. She too harbored a scarred soul.”

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109. “Rune Kristiansen was way too handsome to scowl. A face that beautiful should forever wear a smile. “Go.”

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110. “I love you. I love you beyond anythin’ I could’ve ever imagine was possible.”

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111. “She was my living, breathing doll. She wore the face of the purest angel, masking such evil living within.”

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112. “A reminder that we were Poppy and Rune. Somewhere under all the hurt and pain, under all the new layers we’d acquired, we were still here. In love. Two halves of one heart.”

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113. “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.”

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114. “Because something so completely perfect and special is destined to fade. Eventually, it has to blow away into the wind.”

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115. “Why don’t we look at the person we love the most like it’s the last time we will ever see them? Because if we did, life would be so vibrant. Life would be so truly and completely lived.”

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116. “I feel fear over leaving you. I’m not scared of dying, Rune. But I’m terrified of going anywhere new without you.”

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117. “It’s okay to laugh,” she said, her voice as soft as a feather. “It’s okay to smile. It’s okay to feel happy. Or what’s the point in life?” What she was saying hit me hard. Because I didn’t want to do or feel those things. I felt guilty just thinking about being happy.”

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118. “Can you love a broken queen?” I asked, smiling though my face felt numb. Arthur searched my eyes. “Can you love a broken king?”

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

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120. “I did not know what life was until I found you. The boy who came into my life as a child. The boy with no voice who miraculously found words in my presence. The boy who kissed me on my lips, blessing me with the foreign, unreachable concept of hope.”

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121. “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.”

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122. “My life has been one of hardship. When you too have walked through a thunderstorm you understand, through perspective, how another soaked by familiar gray skies can feel desperate, too. Desperate people do desperate things.” I.”

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123. “He was my heart. The heart freely given to me as a child. The heart that made up one half of my own. The boy who, though breaking inside, loved me so deeply that he gave me this farewell. Gave me, in the present, the dream that my future never could. My soul mate who captured moments.”

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124. “Live free, ride free, die free.”

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125. “Her voice was as tiny as she was, but it was the sweetest damn thing I’d ever heard... and too long coming. Fifteen fuckin’ years to hear that damn voice again, and apparently, she’d been waiting for mine too.”

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126. “No goodbyes, remember? I reminded her. “You always say that there’s no such thing as goodbye. Because we’ll always see each other in our dreams.”

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127. “I didn’t know such a love could exist. And I had no idea what I’d done to deserve it, but I would never take it for granted. We had all walked a dark road to get to this place of light.”

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128. “My body recognizes you as something that’s good for me. My mind recognizes you as someone who’s right for me, and my soul recognizes you as someone who is meant for me.”

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129. “La plus belle aventure de ma vie venait de commencer.”

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130. “I would speak. I was tired of being silenced by men. I would speak, and they would listen! “Do.”

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131. “Because you belong to me, Kisa. You always have.” Luka’s face thawed and he pointed at my eye, then his left. “You’re a part of me, remember? God put a piece of you within me so when we were born, everyone would know we matched.”

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132. “You are not that way with me. You are caring. You are loving. You are my teacher, my protector. You keep me safe. Ky, you are my safety.”

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133. “He had been the one to save me. He was my sword when evil thoughts came to drag me down into the pits of despair. Flame was my protective shield when doubt and feelings of unworthiness began to take root in my heart, spreading like a cancer, countering any happiness I had found – and I had found it in abundance with Flame.”

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134. “Mama always said the stars aligned when we were born, that God made us a match. From the first time we saw each other, Luka took me in his arms and swore his protection over me to my mother. Mama used to say she caught him starting into my crib only hours after I was born. Then when she asked what he was doing, he asked her if he could have me.”

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135. “I’ll be the hand forever holding yours.”

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136. “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.”

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137. “It showed that love was simply the tenacity to make sure that the other half of your heart knew he, or she, was adored in every way. In every minute of every day. That love was tenderness in its purest form. Rune.”

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138. “I didn’t need grand gestures or fairy tales; a normal life with the boy I loved would have always been enough.”

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139. “Where I broke my heart for the heart I’d just broken. The one I’d always strived to save.”

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140. “That one moment could make someone’s life, in that brief second, infinitely better or infinitely worse.”

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

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142. “Live beautifully.”

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143. “I read once that when you dream each night, it’s actually a visit home. Home, Rune. Heaven.” I began feeling the warmth that that vision brought at my toes. It began to travel over my whole body. “My heaven will be you and me in the blossom grove. Like always. Forever seventeen.”

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144. “We all have people who carry us through the worst of times, the saddest of times, the times that seem impossible to break free from. In.”

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145. “In fact, I am beginning to think all I have believed my whole life is a falsehood. I find myself questioning if there is even a God. Or is religion used to control people, for a small group of people to get what they want?”

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146. “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.”

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

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148. “Yours,” I confessed, from the deepest recesses of my heart. “I am yours. It took you falling into darkness to make me see the truth and light.”

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149. “Why does it take a life ending to learn how to cherish each day?”

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150. “When you know that something is finite, it makes it that much more meaningful.”

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