Top 450 Tillie Cole Quotes (2025 Update)
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151. “I love you, Arthur Adley. More than any woman has ever loved a man before.”

— Tillie Cole

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

— Tillie Cole

153. “Its like a dream... its like a painting. I want heaven to look exactly like this.”

— Tillie Cole

154. “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.”

— Tillie Cole

155. “Where I broke my heart for the heart I’d just broken. The.”

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156. “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.”

— Tillie Cole

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

— Tillie Cole

158. “It didn’t matter that I was a grown-ass woman – she was my kryptonite. One I’d wasted too many years trying please, trying to make love me. She was the only person who struck fear in me.”

— Tillie Cole

159. “I was forged in the fire, Asher. I was born to withstand the flames.”

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160. “Only music had the ability to steal my breath, and give life to the song’s story so flawlessly. So profoundly.”

— Tillie Cole

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

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162. “I only saw Poppy. In my world, only she existed.”

— Tillie Cole

163. “There’s no coming back from this. I’ll never forgive you for taking me away from her. Never. We’re done.”

— Tillie Cole

164. “Kisa... ” he whispered, rolling my name on his tongue and i froze, praying he would say something else... I know you, i remember you. You’re the girl i was designed to love, my God-given match, my solnyshko. But he didn’t. Instead he inhealed a deep breath and said, “why do i feel like I’ve known you all my life?” And at that moment i knew...”

— Tillie Cole

165. “My heart is now in your hands. You have honor, and pride, and the kindest soul in existence.”

— Tillie Cole

166. “They were for two fast friends- the music and the life that created it- telling one another that they had to part, but that one day, someday, they would be together again.”

— Tillie Cole

167. “And that is when I knew. I knew that what I was feeling was love. It had to be. Because it was all-encompassing and irrational, yet at the same time it felt so perfect and true.”

— Tillie Cole

168. “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

169. “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.”

— Tillie Cole

170. “Closing his eyes, Rune took my mouth in a kiss. And in this kiss I felt his outpouring of love. 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.”

— Tillie Cole

171. “We all have secrets. Secrets well buried. Until we find the one soul who makes the burden of such secrets just that little bit easier to bear.”

— Tillie Cole

172. “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.”

— Tillie Cole

173. “I love you more than I knew was possible. You are my grace. You are my redemption.”

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174. “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.”

— Tillie Cole

175. “What is love anyway? It is never simple, and never plays by exactly the same rules as for other people who are in love also.”

— Tillie Cole

176. “For the supporters of the Dark Romance Revolution. I adore your black hearts.”

— Tillie Cole

177. “You’re my woman. You’ve been my fuckin’ everything since I first saw you. Do you not understand that by now?”

— Tillie Cole

178. “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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179. “There’s nothing to do, Rune. Nothing to do but weather the storm.”

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180. “I’m your best friend too. And I’m not going anywhere. I promise. Forever always.”

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

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182. “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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183. “The demons both Flame and I lived with had merely been abated by our union, not exorcized. Love was a powerful remedy, but it was not a cure for some scars. They ran too deep. They were incurable. We had simply learned to live with our demons harnessed.”

— Tillie Cole

184. “As always, he didn’t want to embrace the truth, but it was there, locked deep in his heart.”

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185. “Months. She only had months left, not a lifetime, to fill this jar. She would never write the message on a heart on her wedding day like she wanted. She would never be a mamaw, reading these kisses to her grandchildren. She wouldn’t even live out her teens.”

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186. “No! I don’t want you kissing a boy for your jar! I won’t let it happen!” “But – ” I tried to speak, but Rune took hold of my hand. “You’re my best friend,” he said and puffed out his chest, pulling on my hand. “I don’t want you to kiss boys!” “But I have to,” I explained, pointing to the jar. “I have to for my adventure. A thousand kisses is a lot, Rune. A lot! You’d still be my best friend. No one will ever mean more to me than you, silly thing.”

— Tillie Cole

187. “When I knew I liked them both, my biggest fear had been that I’d be drawn to one more than the other. Was my heart designed to allow only one in? But as I lay there, kissing both these men who’d so captured my soul, I realized that a heart is infinite. Love can expand and expand. My heart could hold as much as I was willing to let in.”

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188. “I get so lonely that at times, I literally think it might kill me.”

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189. “My darkness polluting her light. But there was no other way. I couldn’t be without her. I would never let that happen. It was just the way it now was.”

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190. “You’ll still see me in your dreams. This isn’t a goodbye.”

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191. “One thousand and one,” I whispered aloud. I pressed another, and another. “One thousand and two, one thousand and three, one thousand and four.”

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192. “Devil. That seemed a good title for Arthur. Most people were terrified of him. He was unapproachable, with eyes that could cut you where you stood. And he had the allure of Satan too. A magnet to sin and temptation, stirring wants and desires inside of me that were anything but chaste and holy. And if the rumours were true, he had the evilness of the dark lord too.”

— Tillie Cole

193. “You would hold me just like this and we would talk. You’d tell me about your day and I’d tell you about mine.” I smiled at the normalcy of the picture. Because 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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194. “Kiss eight hundred and nineteen was the kiss that changed it all. The kiss that proved that a long-haired brooding boy from Norway and a quirky girl from the Deep South could find a love to rival the greats.”

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195. “We all have secrets, Austin. Some people’s are bigger than others, that’s all. Wouldn’t you agree?”

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196. “He tells the person that He had walked with them their whole life through. But, He explains, the times where there is only a single set of footprints were not when He walked beside them, but instead, when He carried them.”

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197. “The boy River had grown into Styx the man and, despite his flaws and his harshness, he was all I wanted. All I had ever wanted. I was completely consumed by his every touch, his taste and smell, and at that moment, I gave my soul whole-heartedly, to a sinner.”

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198. “I sighed in relief as my words began to come clearer. It was her- fuckin’ number three. My goddamn miracle.”

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199. “My heart slammed in my chest. “Yeah. The most beautiful,” I answered.”

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200. “I was sure that if I’d listened closely to the howling wind rushing by, I would have heard Poppy’s lips break into a wide smile as she danced her way home.”

— Tillie Cole