Top 500 Tillie Cole Quotes (2026 Update)
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301. “I have always been his. I will never see anyone else. I will always be his alone.”

— Tillie Cole

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

— Tillie Cole

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

— Tillie Cole

304. “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.”

— Tillie Cole

305. “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.”

— Tillie Cole

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

— Tillie Cole

307. “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.”

— Tillie Cole

308. “I welcomed bringing death to him. To all of them. I didn’t care who I killed. I never cared.”

— Tillie Cole

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

— Tillie Cole

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

— Tillie Cole

311. “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.”

— Tillie Cole

312. “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.”

— Tillie Cole

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

— Tillie Cole

314. “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.”

— Tillie Cole

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

— Tillie Cole

316. “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.”

— Tillie Cole

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

— Tillie Cole

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

— Tillie Cole

319. “I have never before been free to choose.” He paused; then, with a deep flush to the apples of his cheeks, he added, “But I chose to share my very first kiss with you.”

— Tillie Cole

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

— Tillie Cole

321. “Anger, more anger than I had ever experienced before, began to fill my body. I felt it like quickfire, shooting down my arms, my legs and my chest.”

— Tillie Cole

322. “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.”

— Tillie Cole

323. “A loved one’s death wasn’t a onetime thing that you had to endure. It was an endless cycle. A cruel Groundhog Day that burned away at your heart and soul until there was nothing left but scorched flesh where they once had been.”

— Tillie Cole

324. “Rob told me that grief never left us. Instead we adapted, like it was a new appendage we had to learn to use. That at any moment, pain and heartache could strike and break us. But eventually we would develop the tools to cope with it and find a way to move on. I was still waiting for that day.”

— Tillie Cole

325. “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.”

— Tillie Cole

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

— Tillie Cole

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

— Tillie Cole

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

— Tillie Cole

329. “I never thought of myself as a strong person. But it is amazing how much strength you discover you have deep inside, when someone you love depends on you to be their rock, when they find themselves weak. How much courage you can muster, when the one you love relies on you to keep him from falling to the ground. And how much happiness can be harbored within your soul, when you allow someone into your heart.”

— Tillie Cole

330. “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.”

— Tillie Cole

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

— Tillie Cole

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

— Tillie Cole

333. “In that moment, I felt like a true failure. I did not know how to care for either of them. I did not know how to fix the Cade brothers. They were both lost, both so filled with pain and fear which would not ease.”

— Tillie Cole

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

— Tillie Cole

335. “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.”

— Tillie Cole

336. “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.”

— Tillie Cole

337. “Love didn’t die; it was eternal. It was a tattoo on our souls. A gift that even death could not take away. If you have been loved, even if you have lost, that love will never leave. It will fill your heart and patch over the holes that grief leaves behind. We just must hold on to it when all seems impossible.”

— Tillie Cole

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

— Tillie Cole

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

— Tillie Cole

340. “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.”

— Tillie Cole

341. “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?”

— Tillie Cole

342. “Have I been enough for you too?” The gruff tone of Rune’s voice caused my heart to break, but I nodded softly. “More than anything,” I confirmed and, with a smile, added just for him, “You’ve been as special as special can be.”

— Tillie Cole

343. “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.”

— Tillie Cole

344. “We all have secrets, Austin. Some people’s are bigger than others, that’s all. Wouldn’t you agree?”

— Tillie Cole

345. “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.”

— Tillie Cole

346. “She was our most fierce protector. But it made her tired. So very tired, but she never stopped being there for us, loving us, being the mother we never had.” My.”

— Tillie Cole

347. “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.”

— Tillie Cole

348. “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.”

— Tillie Cole

349. “Though my life had been short, I had loved long. And in the end, this was enough.”

— Tillie Cole

350. “I’m a thief. I stole our precious time – two years of you and me – for nothing.”

— Tillie Cole