Top 500 Tillie Cole Quotes (2026 Update)
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351. “Just before I reached the door, Adelita said, “You’ll be back here tomorrow night, Tanner Ayers. You can’t seem to stay away from me.” She smirked, but her cheeks flushed. “Just like I cannot stay away from you.”

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352. “This time, when I did look around, I saw she was holding a big mason jar filled to the top with lots and lots of pink paper hearts. “Wow! What’s that?” I asked, feeling excited. Mama placed it in my hands, and my mamaw tapped the lid. “It’s a thousand boy-kisses. Or at least, it will be, when you’ve filled them all out.”

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

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355. “I only saw Poppy.”

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356. “Nothing compared.”

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357. “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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358. “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.”

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359. “I wasn’t losing anyone else in my life. I was one death away from insanity at this point. I knew it – they all did.”

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360. “I want you.” Three words. Three simple words became my undoing. Spoken roughly, dominantly, yet it sounded like poetry to my soul.”

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361. “Then that fuckin’ nose twitched again. And I sank back into my woman... a pair of wolf eyes bringing me home.”

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362. “Maddie, please – ” Bella began to speak. “You stopped the men from hurting Rider in the barn when he came back from New Zion. We, your sisters, stood beside you in solidarity. Well, this is my barn.”

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363. “Being loved by Rune brought the heady sensation of warmth. Being hated by Rune was like standing on an arctic ice shelf.”

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364. “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.”

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365. “She was the miracle I never saw coming.”

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366. “This was my woman, my Kisa-Anna, the other half of my soul.”

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367. “Luka had a kind smile and the most beautiful dark-brown eyes. But it was Luka’s upper left Iris smudged with a small splash of blue that made our mothers think we were destined to be. Mama said God placed a piece of my eye within his so we would always know we shared one soul.”

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368. “Fragility consumed.”

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369. “I think when God designed me, he already had you in mind.”

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370. “You need to say goodbye, baby.” Her voice wobbled – hoarse and exhausted. She looked over her shoulder, to where Rune was sitting on the bed, laying kiss after kiss on my older sister’s hands, her fingers, her face, looking at his Poppymin like he always had – like she had been designed solely for him.”

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371. “You’re a young man now, not a child. Question is, what are you gonna do to earn your keep? To pay back what is owed? It’s a man’s duty to never be in debt.”

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372. “I know you’re only eight, pumpkin, but you have to be a big brave girl today, okay?”

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373. “I was loved by this boy, loved so fiercely that other loves paled in comparison.”

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374. “He found you. You taught him, through your words and actions, that life didn’t always have to be so serious. That life was to be lived. That life was one great adventure, to be lived well and to the full.”

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375. “You couldn’t lose someone you loved so much and ever return to the person you were before.”

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376. “Two shooting stars that burned out too quickly, never quite reaching each other’s skies.”

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377. “I ran my finger down her cheek. “Poppymin, you have me. You’ll always have me.” I cleared the lump in my throat and added, “I might be different from the boy you knew, but I’m yours.” I smirked, without humor. “Forever always.”

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378. “When AK kissed me, the whole world fell away. All the pain and demons that clouded my brain fell into a blissful void, locked away as the taste of him consumed me, chasing the dark.”

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379. “As I pushed her home, I sent a silent prayer to God, asking Him to give her just two more weeks. He could bring my girl home after that; she was ready, I’d be ready. Just after I gave her all her dreams. Just let me give her this final wish. I had to. It was my final thank-you for all the love she’d given me. It was the only gift I could give.”

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380. “A winemaker takes the seeds from a simple fruit, uses the earth to nurture it, then gives it new life in the most beautiful way.”

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381. “Luka released my neck and sat up. “Our families may be enemies, but Anri was my brother. I was 818 and he was 362. No family names divided us. No family history tore us apart. Pain and revenge brought us together.” I.”

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382. “There is no need for pride between us, River. There is no sin nor any perceived weakness that will make me love you less. In fact, helping you with your burdens welcomes you into my heart even more.”

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383. “When we are hurting and the world feels like it is caving in on us, we need people around us to hold us up.”

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384. “You see, Pix, I have scars too. It’s just mine are on the outside where everyone can see.”

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385. “I love you, Achille Marchesi, winemaker of the Bella Collina merlot. I found you, my missing part, here amongst the vines, and nothing you say will ever change that fact.”

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386. “Poppy was quirky, not cool. She wasn’t concerned with what people thought of her – she never had been. She read books, she studied for fun, she woke at dawn just to watch the sunrise.”

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387. “Your touch is poison. You’ll hurt her.”

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388. “Looking down at Dolly, I took my watch from my pocket, raised it to my ear and announced, “Tick tock.”

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389. “Because who are we without each other?”

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390. “Where the hell have you been?”

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391. “Poppy stepped closer to me, running her hand down my bare arm. “You’re cold,” she announced. I didn’t care if I was suffering from hypothermia.”

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392. “Someone I love taught me life is precious. She taught me not to do anything to jeopardize the adventure. And I listened.”

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

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

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395. “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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396. “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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397. “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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398. “She looked over at me. I couldn’t read the look in her eye, but then I heard the opening chords of One Direction’s “If I Could Fly” flood the room.”

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399. “Sometimes when a heart breaks, it starts to let in the light.”

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400. “Inessa,” he said in a husky voice, “without you here with me, I’d rather be dead. With you in my heart, and me in yours, I am alive.”

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