Top 450 Tillie Cole Quotes (2025 Update)
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351. “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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352. “An unrivaled beauty, limited in its life. A beauty so extreme in its grace that it can’t last. It stays to enrich our lives, then drifts away in the wind. Never forgotten. Because it reminds us we must live. That life is fragile, yet in that fragility, there is strength. There is love. There is purpose. It reminds us that life is short, that our breaths are numbered and our destiny is fixed, regardless of how hard we fight.”

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353. “Use the darkness that lives inside you.”

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354. “I’d seen Poppy every day since I was five. Slept beside her almost every night since I was twelve. Kissed her every day since I was eight, and loved her with everything I had for so many days I’d stopped keeping track.”

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355. “We have our future to explore. We won’t be slaves to the past.”

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356. “You getting on or what, beauty queen? Looked like you were trying to hitch a ride.”

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357. “My daddy was gone. My daddy was in heaven. He was never, ever coming back.”

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358. “Where’s my little buddy?” Mamaw’s voice was quiet and sounded funny, but the smile she gave me made me feel warm. Giggling at my mamaw, I rushed to the side of the bed. “I’m here! I came home early from school to see you!” Mamaw lifted her finger and tapped the end of my nose. “That’s my girl!” I smiled real big in response. “I just wanted you to visit a little while. I always feel better when the light of my life sits beside me and talks to me some.”

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359. “And all I want is you... for infinity.”

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360. “I had no idea if my only reason for living could be saved.”

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361. “All he had ever wanted was to be happy – just him and me. For me, I wanted him to learn to be happy alone. Even though I would walk beside him every day in his heart.”

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

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363. “They were taking me from my girl, my soul. And I couldn’t do a damn thing about it.”

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364. “I hardly knew myself these days.”

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

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

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369. “Mae was mine. Fifteen long years of wanting her to be mine, and here she sat, curled up in my arms – a fuckin’ angel in hell.”

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370. “Because I love her. I love her more than I could ever explain. My single set of footprints in the sand.”

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

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372. “The soothing vocals of “Ave Maria” serenaded from the small speaker, and Austin looked at me and shrugged in embarrassment. “It makes her smile,” was all he said. I lost a piece of my heart to him right then.”

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373. “His lips worshipped me. I never thought I would ever understand the meaning of a kiss. How it could momentarily stop your heart from beating, or how such an innocent touch could make you feel so incredibly cherished.”

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374. “Looking at her as if she was mad. She was, of course. But so was I. It was what I loved most about us.”

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375. “He will awaken, through blood, what lies dormant in her soul. The darkness that had lurked hidden for years, sleepily waiting for the time to strike. To be born.”

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376. “Sleep, baby. I got you.”

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377. “Before you I was vacant of love. Now I am replete. Before you I lived without hope. Now I am inspired. Before you I was broken. Now I am whole.”

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378. “Dark. The only way I could explain his scent was dark.”

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379. “My mamaw always said that heaven looks however you want it to look, you know.”

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380. “I closed my eyes briefly. It was apt that Poppy left the same day that the cherry blossoms lost their petals too. They were guiding her soul home.”

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381. “I didn’t want to be in this place, in America.”

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382. “Valentin’s forehead rested against mine, and inhaling a shaky breath he confessed, “I feel alive.” I stilled at these heartbreaking words; then he added, “I feel like yours.”

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

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

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385. “You broke through the darkness and let in the light.”

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

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

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389. “I know you have that with Styx already. And some would argue that a marriage could not strengthen what was already a solid foundation to begin with.” She shrugged and met my eyes. “But something will shift in your heart, a spiritual embrace in your soul. And it will change you. Forever.”

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390. “It is strange, is it not, how such a small piece of jewelry can make your heart feel so complete?”

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391. “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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392. “Think of your face like the sky. The freckles, the stars, only make the sight more worth looking at.”

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393. “My heart slammed into a new kind of beat, one that knew it had the love of its other half. It.”

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394. “Of course it was irrational. Of course it was stupid. Of course it was impossible. But when your heart’s so deeply involved, logic flies straight out the window.”

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395. “Because I want to watch it die.”

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396. “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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397. “Two fractured souls made whole only by the other’s unconditional love.”

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398. “And he did. He had me. Just like I had him.”

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399. “Nature calmed me; it always had.”

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400. “Our final adventure.”

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