Top 450 Tillie Cole Quotes (2026 Update)
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251. “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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252. “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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253. “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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254. “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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255. “I welcomed bringing death to him. To all of them. I didn’t care who I killed. I never cared.”

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

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258. “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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259. “My very own bad boy.”

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260. “Like we were the two halves of the heart we always called ourselves.”

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261. “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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262. “You are the timid one, the gentle brother – inside and out. You are the one to carry his heart on his sleeve. You are the one who watches silently from afar and loves with all his soul.”

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263. “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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264. “This silence was perfection. It was far better than words.”

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

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

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

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

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269. “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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270. “Philosophy contemplates the world in every facet – its creation, its beauty, its flaws, its meaning.”

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271. “You have light within you, Styx, and I feel it shining through like the rays of the midday sun. It is beautiful. You are a good man.”

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

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273. “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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274. “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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275. “In that cage we’re both Gods and monsters.”

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276. “A bashful smile ghosted his lips and his tense shoulders relaxed. “We’re in fuckin’ deep, aren’t we, Shakespeare?”

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277. “You live in hell long enough, you become a sinner too.”

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278. “Forever always.”

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

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281. “I raised my camera and pressed the button. I captured this rare moment: the exact moment when someone’s heart broke.”

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282. “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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283. “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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284. “You were born to stand by my side in Wonderland.”

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285. “I love you, Luka. In all these years without you, I never stopped.”

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286. “My Alice in Wonderland about to start her adventure.”

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287. “My eyes closed as I tried to chase away the lump in my throat. When I opened them, Poppy was watching me like she always did – in complete adoration.”

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288. “The real world isn’t ready to handle our reality. How could they accept that the gulags, the drugs, and the Blood Pit are real? It is the stuff of nightmares. How could they believe that males are being raised as killers, for sport and greed?”

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289. “Because sometimes, just sometimes, the sun and the moon align, bringing two people to the same place at the same time. Sometimes destiny guides them to exactly where they are meant to be. And their hearts fall in a tandem beat and their souls merge as one.”

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290. “It only took Romeo one look at Juliet and his fate was sealed. Maybe I’m just like my namesake, and maybe you’re just like yours.”

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291. “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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292. “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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293. “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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294. “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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295. “We all have secrets, Austin. Some people’s are bigger than others, that’s all. Wouldn’t you agree?”

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296. “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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297. “The scars on her face had freed her of her demons. She thought herself ugly. I thought she was the most beautiful thing I’d ever seen in my life.”

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298. “Plus, I have history fifth period and you know how much I love it. It’s my favorite class.”

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

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

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