Top 450 Tillie Cole Quotes (2025 Update)
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401. “What’s up, bitches? Are we headin’ to this jig or what? I wanna see what prime beef is on offer. Mamma’s taco needs a good ol’ fillin’.”

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402. “Our situation was complex, yet I knew that falling in love with her would be the simplest thing in the world.”

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403. “His affection had somehow become a salve to the constant fire of regret that burned, never-ending, in my heart. And this temporary reprieve, this short moment to be able to breathe, had everything to do with the man that led me home. The.”

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404. “The Hangmen were powerful. But my poppa had soured me too much to truly accept this club. I walked a shaky line. I both loved and loathed this place. Like the men it housed, it was both good and evil.”

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405. “My veins almost burst with need. They felt as though they were reaching from my skin, searching for the rush they craved, the liquid that was a balm on my tortured soul. On my sinful soul.”

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406. “I cried for the boy who was my sun. I mourned the boy I once loved with everything I had.”

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407. “I have only ever liked one boy in my life. I have only wanted one man to have as my own. I have only ever had one dream since I was eight. Styx, the dream is you. You stole my heart fifteen yes ago and you still haven’t given it back.”

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408. “I was wrong. So damn wrong. You need a strong man, babe. You need a man to love you, to protect you, to be your fuckin’ world.” Her breath paused and I smirked. “It’s me, babe. It’s so fuckin’ me.”

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409. “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.”

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410. “He always kept me safe. He would forever have my heart... even if I could never have his.”

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411. “She’d been so nervous as the boy took her on the sand, making her his, something switching inside of him as the came together, like the final piece of their souls had fixed in place and all that was left was them as one.”

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412. “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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413. “Ky smiled. “Then we bring the hounds of Hades to their door.”

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414. “Tales of loss don’t always have to be sad or sorrowful.”

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415. “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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416. “Our bodies will ache, we will tire, but we don’t stop!” I.”

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417. “Hadn’t realized how lonely I was until I had someone walking beside me, laughing with me under the sun.”

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418. “I only saw Poppy.”

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419. “During these past two years, I thought I’d endured all facets of pain. But I was wrong. I was so wrong. Because nothing could compare with the pain of seeing the one you love in the arms of another.”

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420. “Nothing compared.”

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421. “Sometimes I wished I could be Flame for a day, simply to understand what the world revealed itself to him. And to measure how different it was to the way it was revealed to me. I wished I could understand how the flames in his blood made him feel. How it managed to wear him down, minute by minute, until his only reprieve was to cut his skin and feel his blood spill.”

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422. “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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423. “I had yet to set eyes on Judah. His focus seemed to be on thrusting the commune into hysterical chaos. Spinning a spiteful web to encourage what I had refused to pursue. He wanted a holy war. He wanted the Hangmen dead.”

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424. “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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425. “Use the darkness that lives inside you.”

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

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

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

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429. “I just want you so damn much. When we’re like this, when we let it get this far, I kind of lose my mind.”

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430. “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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431. “You’re my reawakening.”

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432. “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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433. “I would not betray this family. I am a warrior; if I were to cross your rule, I would face you head-on, not hide in the shadows.” I.”

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434. “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.”

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435. “On Cowboy’s chest, with his hand running so delicately down my back, and Hush holding me so fiercely against his mouth, I was home.”

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436. “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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437. “It is easy to ignore someone’s sins when love blinds you.”

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

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

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

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

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444. “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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445. “And all I want is you... for infinity.”

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446. “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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447. “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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448. “We’d always been together. Her and me, from birth, we were always together.”

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

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