Top 450 Tillie Cole Quotes (2024 Update)
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201. “I mourned Poppy and Rune – a couple of extreme beauty and even quicker death.”

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202. “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.”

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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212. “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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213. “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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214. “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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215. “You’ll still see me in your dreams. This isn’t a goodbye.”

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216. “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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217. “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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218. “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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219. “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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220. “My heart slammed in my chest. “Yeah. The most beautiful,” I answered.”

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221. “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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222. “You were born to stand by my side in Wonderland.”

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223. “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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224. “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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225. “Then I cried. I cried for the boy who was my sun. I mourned the boy I once loved with everything I had. I mourned Poppy and Rune – a couple of extreme beauty and even quicker death.”

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226. “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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227. “He dropped a kiss on the tip of my nose. “I haven’t been with anyone since the day I met you. For the first time in my life, I wanna be with just one person. I wanna be with you. It’s all a little new for me. Hell has officially frozen over and I’m crossin’ to the monogamy dark side.”

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228. “And then when it’s time for you to come home too, it’ll be me who greets you. And there’ll be no worry or fear or pain. Just love.” I sighed happily. “Imagine that, Rune. A place where there’s no pain or hurt.” I closed my eyes and smiled. “When I think about it that way, I’m not so scared anymore.”

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229. “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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230. “This silence was perfection. It was far better than words.”

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

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232. “Words can wound. Silence can heal.”

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233. “Forever always.”

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

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235. “People like to say that love at first sight is a myth, that instant love is for the pages of a fantasy book. But it isn’t. I lived it. Your mother and I were proof of that fact.”

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

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237. “It sounds good, don’t you think? Poppy and Rune, best friends for infinity!”

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238. “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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239. “He never forgot about you, Mae. Growing up, I watched him sign to Ky about you all the time, his chick with the wolf eyes. The chick behind the fence, the chick he kissed. It was constant. His precious number three, whatever he meant.”

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240. “You’re mine, Maria, my little rose.” He leaned down and pressed a single gossamer kiss on her cheek – the forbidden, foreign touch sent shiver’s down Maria’s spine. “And I will break you. I will make it so you can’t breathe without me. Can’t awaken without seeing me face in your mind. You’ll dream of me... and I’ll consume you. And when it’s all said and done, I’ll own you. You’ll never be rid of me. You’ll give me all I’ve ever wanted. Dreamed of. Finally... my little rose.”

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

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242. “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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243. “You are my hope, Ally. You’re every hope I’ve ever dared to have.”

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244. “Though you weren’t with me, you were in my heart. And that was enough to sustain me, even though I wasn’t happy.”

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

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246. “That is who I will be to Flame – wife, soul mate, angel. It does not matter in what terms Flame refers to me. He will always be the one my soul knows. He will always be the one my heart will rely on, when it is me who needs to be saved. That is what angels do, Asher. They guide and they save. If he needs me to be his angel right now, then that is who I will be.”

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

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

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249. “Life is more than how many breaths you take, but the moments that take your breath away.”

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250. “He hadn’t stroked my cheek. He hadn’t held me as I slept. He had slept on the floor beside the bed, if he slept at all. Most nights he just sat against the wall, staring into space. His nose would flare, his hands would fist, and my heart would break. I didn’t know what I’d done to upset him. I didn’t want to displease him. I only ever wanted to make him happy. He was the most important thing in my life.”

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