Top 500 Tillie Cole Quotes (2026 Update)
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201. “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

202. “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

203. “I wanna be with you,” he pushed, his big brown eyes almost pleading. “C’mon, Mol. I need you. Tell me you get me. Tell me you’re as fuckin’ into me as I am you.”

— Tillie Cole

204. “I felt the tears flowing thick and fast, but they weren’t in sadness. 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.”

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205. “Lifting my eyes, I met her dark gaze. “Do not mistake my quietness for weakness. I am stronger than what people believe.” I swallowed hard, praying she never moved her hand away from me ever again. Her eyes traced the flame tattoos that raced up my arms. Looking at me once more, she said, “I was forged in the fire, Asher. I was born to withstand the flames.” With that, Saffie’s hand slipped from my cheek and she walked back into her cabin, not once looking back as the door shut behind her.”

— Tillie Cole

206. “Looking at these captured moments I truly understood why Rune loved to take photographs. This exhibition demonstrated how capturing these images impacted society. They showed humanity at its best and at its worst. They highlighted life in all its nakedness and in its purest form.”

— Tillie Cole

207. “My heart is content. Without my beauty, but blessed with your unconditional love. For the first time in my life, I am content.”

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208. “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.”

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209. “We’d always been together. Her and me, from birth, we were always together.”

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210. “Words are the worst kind of ammunition. Physical pain fades in time, but bullets of cruelty forever penetrate the soul.”

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211. “My heaven will be you and me in the blossom grove. Like always. Forever seventeen.”

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212. “That that which is broken, once repaired, can be more beautiful than it was before.”

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213. “I was angry. I was drowning. So I gave up my passion because the passion within me had died out.”

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214. “If Cowboy was sweetness, Hush was spice.”

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215. “Spurred on, seeing her lips part and her eyes flutter to a close, I tipped my head to the side, bypassing her mouth, to run the tip of my nose down her cheek. Poppy gasped, but I kept going. Kept going until I reached the pulse in her neck; it was racing. Her skin was warm from dancing in the wind, yet shivering at the same time. I knew it was because of me. Closing in the rest of the way, I pressed my lips over her galloping pulse, tasting her sweetness, feeling my own heartbeat race in tandem.”

— Tillie Cole

216. “Every day is a gift, Rune. If I’ve learned anything from the last couple of years, it’s that.”

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217. “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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218. “His affection had somehow become a salve to the constant fire of regret that burned, never-ending, in my heart. And this temporary reprieve, this short moment to be able to breathe, had everything to do with the man that led me home. The.”

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

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

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221. “Because if we did, life would be so vibrant. Life would be so truly and completely lived.”

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

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

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224. “I closed my eyes briefly. It was apt that Poppy left the same day that the cherry blossoms lost their petals too. They were guiding her soul home.”

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225. “I never felt anything. Nothing, save the urge to kill and destroy those who destroyed us.”

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226. “I had never feared death. My faith was strong; I knew there was a life after this. But now fear had started to creep into my consciousness.”

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227. “I think that love is love, no matter the flaws, or faith of the person you choose to give your heart to. We are all fallen in some way, Lilah, none of us perfect, but to feel someone’s unconditional love, surely that is all that matters in the end.”

— Tillie Cole

228. “She was like a bird: at its most beautiful when flying free.”

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

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

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231. “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

232. “The new pastor at our church said that our babies are once angels in heaven, watching over us, keeping us safe, merely waiting for the right time to be called to us. They arrive when God sees fit to bless our lives.”

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233. “Tears poured ceaselessly from my eyes; the pain inside my body was settling into a new home. No part of me was spared.”

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234. “My heart leapt with hope. Hope that, maybe together, we may not be so damaged. That we could somehow make one another whole.”

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235. “I have always lived each day to the fullest. I know I’ve always embraced aspects of the world no one else does. I think, in some way, it was because I knew I wouldn’t have the time to experience them like everyone else. I think, deep down, my spirit knew.”

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

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

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238. “The commune where I had lived in Puerto Rico.”

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

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240. “It was my greatest dream too. Not to be rich. I’d been rich my entire life and still felt alone. My greatest wish in life was simple. It was him. My Tanner.”

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241. “I tapped the clock drawn in black eyliner around my felt eye. “Tick tock, Rabbit. Always and forever, tick tock.”

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242. “I knew I wouldn’t fail. This was my family now. And we would all survive. We had to, there was no other choice.”

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243. “I hadn’t touched or been touched in years. I didn’t know how to anymore. Allergic to human affection. Repulsed by the degrading feeling of touch.”

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244. “I’m half a heart. This, who I am now, was due to a life devoid of you. This darkness, this anger, was born from you not being by my side.”

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245. “Maybe it was because sometimes all we get are moments.”

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246. “Tanner,” I whispered and stared down at the white cotton. Not gold nor a diamond, yet the most precious thing I’d ever seen. I lived a life of luxury. Yet this torn piece of cotton had made me the happiest I’d ever been in my life.”

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247. “For never was a truer story of love conquering woe than this of Molly Juliet and her Romeo.”

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248. “I loved New York. I loved everything about it. Eclectic people – artists, suits and dreamers – all woven into the giant patchwork quilt of life. The busy streets, car horns and shouts the perfect symphonic soundtrack to the city that never sleeps.”

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249. “Are you scared, Poppymin? Because I’m terrified. I’m terrified of what the hell life looks like without you.”

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

— Tillie Cole