Top 450 Tillie Cole Quotes (2026 Update)
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201. “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.”

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202. “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.”

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203. “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.”

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

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

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

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208. “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.”

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

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210. “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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211. “But I wouldn’t cry. I didn’t think I knew how to.”

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212. “Poppy,” my mamaw said, as I looked up to see her green eyes shining. “This is your adventure. How I want you to remember me while I’m gone.”

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213. “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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214. “I love you, Li. Christ, I fuckin’ love you,” he confessed. I could hear the disbelief and shock laced in his voice. My heart swelled and I began to think of a life with him. A life far from all I had been taught was true, but my soul was attached to his... joined, melded with his.”

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215. “Sometimes, someone could stumble unannounced into the train wreck that is your life and begin to pull you out of the heavy rubble weighing down on your chest.”

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216. “Then my stomach dropped. How the hell did she think I would ever stay away? Even if she hadn’t told me why she cut me off, I would have found my way back to her. Even through all the hurt, pain and anger, I would have been drawn back, like a moth to a flame.”

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217. “I exhaled a long breath, feeling her body heat act as a fire to the muscles and bones that were beginning to ache. My body was shaking. The aftermath of what I now realized was a seizure.”

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218. “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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219. “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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220. “I get so lonely that at times, I literally think it might kill me.”

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221. “Rune was showing me to whom I belonged. He was giving me no other choice but to submit to him, to give myself back to him after withdrawing for too many years. Rune’s.”

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222. “But you, sir, you fight alongside us with pride, as a brother in arms. You give us pride for the Volkov family, and for our position in New York.”

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223. “Holding the object of my addiction in my hands compromised everything I had sworn to fight against.”

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

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

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227. “Our love was not typical and certainly not easy, but it was soul-deep and destined.”

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228. “You telling me there’s more in there? What is this place? A fuckin’ breeding farm for Victoria’s Secret? First Mae turns up, looking all kinds’a hot, then the big titted blond playmate, and now someone else?”

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229. “You fuckin’ bulldozed me, Pix. You, my tiny dark pixie, made all my defences crumble to dust.”

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230. “She thought me beautiful. No one ever looked beyond my scars.”

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231. “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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232. “He had taken a piece of my tainted soul... of my heart... and made him a part of me. He was in my every cell, my conscience. He was simply part of me.”

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233. “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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234. “I want more,” I said, closing my eyes, imagining the feel of his fingers on my face. Imagining him praising me. Petting me. Telling me I was his good little Dolly. “Teach me more,” I begged.”

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235. “Their taste, their feel, their breasts in your palms.”

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236. “We are nothing to these people. If my life is in danger anyway, I would rather die in the cause of something good than under the hand of someone’s anger.”

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237. “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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238. “Soulmates forged in fire, under the watchful gaze of Satan’s mocking eyes.”

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239. “I don’t need to look up at the stars to feel inferior, Austin. All I have to do is open my eyes and look at myself in the mirror.”

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240. “He’s never had a fighter like me before. I bring death.”

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241. “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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242. “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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243. “I wondered if this level of love, this soul-shattering kind of possession, was worth all the pain and the heartache. It was like being tethered to the ground by an unyielding rope, when all you wanted to do was let go and float away.”

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244. “Kiss eight hundred and nineteen was the kiss that changed it all.”

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245. “I have always been his. I will never see anyone else. I will always be his alone.”

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

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247. “Why the War Paint Pix? Why the Tattoo’s Austin?”

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248. “It wasn’t anyone’s fault if he didn’t belong in Wonderland.”

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249. “What are words? Sometimes the flick of a pair of eyes or the flush of skin reveals everything you need to know. Words can wound. Silence can heal.”

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250. “You, to me, are the only one I could ever love.”

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