Top 450 Tillie Cole Quotes (2024 Update)
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201. “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.”

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

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203. “I want to understand you, Maddie. I want to understand your world.”

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204. “A toast... to taking a chance, because that chance taken may be the very path that leads you to your happily ever after.”

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

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207. “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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208. “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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209. “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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210. “Strength is a shield, only to be lowered by trust.” Her.”

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211. “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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212. “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.”

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213. “I will be forever grateful that you saved my life, Styx, and sang to me so perfectly on your guitar. You have shown me more compassion in a matter of days than I have had my whole life.”

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

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215. “During these past two years, I thought I’d endured all facets of pain. But I was wrong. I was so wrong. Because nothing could compare with the pain of seeing the one you love in the arms of another.”

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216. “Nothing compared.”

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217. “Sometimes I wished I could be Flame for a day, simply to understand what the world revealed itself to him. And to measure how different it was to the way it was revealed to me. I wished I could understand how the flames in his blood made him feel. How it managed to wear him down, minute by minute, until his only reprieve was to cut his skin and feel his blood spill.”

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218. “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.”

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219. “I had yet to set eyes on Judah. His focus seemed to be on thrusting the commune into hysterical chaos. Spinning a spiteful web to encourage what I had refused to pursue. He wanted a holy war. He wanted the Hangmen dead.”

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220. “I have only ever liked one boy in my life. I have only wanted one man to have as my own. I have only ever had one dream since I was eight. Styx, the dream is you. You stole my heart fifteen yes ago and you still haven’t given it back.”

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221. “I was wrong. So damn wrong. You need a strong man, babe. You need a man to love you, to protect you, to be your fuckin’ world.” Her breath paused and I smirked. “It’s me, babe. It’s so fuckin’ me.”

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222. “No talking baby,” I whispered as my lips closed in on hers. “I’m gonna kiss you now and I’m gonna show you how fuckin’ good it feels.”

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223. “He always kept me safe. He would forever have my heart... even if I could never have his.”

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224. “She’d been so nervous as the boy took her on the sand, making her his, something switching inside of him as the came together, like the final piece of their souls had fixed in place and all that was left was them as one.”

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225. “But none of them are you.” Luka pointed to his eye again. “We match. Why would I want anyone else? Nobody else if you. Long brown hair, blue eyes and tanned skinned beautiful you.”

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226. “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.”

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227. “Ky smiled. “Then we bring the hounds of Hades to their door.”

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228. “Tales of loss don’t always have to be sad or sorrowful.”

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229. “They notice that during the saddest, or most despairing times of their life, there was only one set of footprints. For happier times there was always two sets.”

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230. “Our bodies will ache, we will tire, but we don’t stop!” I.”

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231. “With every day here in this new part of Wonderland, I got curiouser and curiouser.”

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232. “Hadn’t realized how lonely I was until I had someone walking beside me, laughing with me under the sun.”

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233. “I only saw Poppy.”

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234. “I would not betray this family. I am a warrior; if I were to cross your rule, I would face you head-on, not hide in the shadows.” I.”

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235. “It was a love born of cruelty and obsession. An evil soul bound to an evil soul. Sarai.”

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236. “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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237. “On Cowboy’s chest, with his hand running so delicately down my back, and Hush holding me so fiercely against his mouth, I was home.”

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238. “People were always rushing even though they had plenty of time. Although I had very little, I made sure everything I did was slow. Measured. Meaningful. I made sure to savor any new experience. To take a deep breath and drink in every new sight, smell and sound. To simply stop. Breathe. Embrace.”

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239. “An unrivaled beauty, limited in its life. A beauty so extreme in its grace that it can’t last. It stays to enrich our lives, then drifts away in the wind. Never forgotten. Because it reminds us we must live. That life is fragile, yet in that fragility, there is strength. There is love. There is purpose. It reminds us that life is short, that our breaths are numbered and our destiny is fixed, regardless of how hard we fight.”

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240. “I felt him relax as he whispered, “I love you.” Smiling into his chest, I replied, “And I you, Flame.” Flame sighed and murmured, “Mine.”

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241. “Use the darkness that lives inside you.”

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242. “I wouldn’t waste something so beautiful on people so ugly.”

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

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244. “He kissed me until there was no part of me that didn’t know who it belonged to.”

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245. “I just want you so damn much. When we’re like this, when we let it get this far, I kind of lose my mind.”

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246. “That is the beauty of freewill, Lilah. We choose our own actions. Unlike in commune, here we get to be the masters of our fate.”

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247. “You’re my reawakening.”

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248. “But when I thought of Rabbit again – the way he watched me, the way he looked at me, the way he cared for me – that feeling came back. My cheeks blazed with heat. I wasn’t sure if it was due to the temperature of the bathwater or my thoughts of Rabbit.”

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249. “Where’s my little buddy?” Mamaw’s voice was quiet and sounded funny, but the smile she gave me made me feel warm. Giggling at my mamaw, I rushed to the side of the bed. “I’m here! I came home early from school to see you!” Mamaw lifted her finger and tapped the end of my nose. “That’s my girl!” I smiled real big in response. “I just wanted you to visit a little while. I always feel better when the light of my life sits beside me and talks to me some.”

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250. “And all I want is you... for infinity.”

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