Top 450 Tillie Cole Quotes (2026 Update)
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401. “And my heart broke at the unfairness. The unfairness of us two, so fearful of what nightmares the deliberate touch of another might evoke.”

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402. “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.”

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403. “The joy in her expression seemed limitless, the peace in her spirit humbling.”

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404. “As I lay there, kissing both these men that’d so captured my soul, I realized that a heart is infinite. Love can expand and expand. My heart could hold as much as I was willing to let in.”

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405. “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.”

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406. “I think we should always touch, Rabbit.” “Yeah,” he agreed, his voice broken and graveled. “This way neither of us will get lost in Wonderland.”

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407. “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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408. “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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409. “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. It showed that love was simply the tenacity to make sure that the other half of your heart knew he, or she, was adored in every way. In every minute of every day. That love was tenderness in its purest form. Rune.”

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410. “We all bore scars, whether on the outside or in.”

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

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

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413. “We don’t ask questions about anything, we don’t rise up. We only know this life. And we accept it.”

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414. “My feet backed away from the window, and I forced myself to turn from the sight of the woman I loved in another man’s arms.”

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415. “I need her.” I tapped my head. “In here, I need her.” Then I bounced my fist over my heart. “And here. I feel her in here too.”

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416. “Can I have you?”

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417. “He was my very own forbidden fruit, one of which I had to keep far far away.”

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418. “With an abrupt squeeze of my hand in hers, she quickly smiled and said, “Just a stomach flu, baby. Nothing to worry about.”

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419. “My heart leapt as he called me ‘baby’.”

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420. “As I watched her eat another grape, assessing the taste and texture, I couldn’t help but think that my father would have loved her.”

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421. “Then I’m the first, because I want you without anything in return. Why does any human want anyone? My body recognises you as something that’s good for me. My mind recognises you as someone who’s right for me, and my soul recognises you as someone who is meant for me.”

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422. “He wants his girl back. He wants his Ellis back. He wants to free her. Free her from the bad place she’s been left in for too many years.”

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423. “You are in my heart. You are in my scarred soul.”

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424. “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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425. “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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426. “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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427. “Sleep, baby. I got you.”

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

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

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431. “As he cast one last look at Gabriel, Diel felt the collar click into silence. With an internal feral roar, the monster burst from its electric confinement and flooded Diel’s body, saturating his blood with pitch-black darkness.”

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432. “Because, even though love created wrecks of us all, it had to beat the barren wastelands that was utter loneliness.”

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433. “If it is my turn to be his savior, then I will happily step into the fire.”

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434. “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.”

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435. “Just like your picture, Maddie. I’m holding you just like your sketch.”

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

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

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438. “The moment I realized this had not just been about making love. But that something bigger, deeper pulsed between us. And then my heart broke, because whatever dormant spark had just ignited within us, it must not be given chance to flourish. Tears.”

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439. “You go where I go.”

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440. “Like you’re his air. Like you’re the water to whatever hellfire lives inside him.”

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441. “I didn’t like what the liquor was doing to me. I didn’t like not being in control.”

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442. “But it was the expression on her face that floored me. The look in her green eyes. In this moment, this single captured moment, there was that expression. The one she gave to me as readily as she gave to her music. The one that told me I had her just as much as she had me. The one that ensured we had stayed together all these years. The one that said even though we were young, we knew we’d found our soulmate in the other.”

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443. “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.”

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444. “As long as I can still hold Rune’s hand, I really don’t care if I ever walk again.”

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445. “I closed my eyes and replayed our lives in my mind. I remembered the times I hugged him and he hugged me harder. I remembered how I kissed him and he kissed me deeper. And best of all, I remembered how I would love him and he would always strive to love me more.”

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446. “Relief that she wasn’t the only one. That someone else knew her pain. Just like she knew mine.”

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447. “I thought of the journey ahead. Thought of the blood we would shed, the hearts we would stop and the lives we would steal.”

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448. “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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449. “Because if Styx was damned to hell, so was I. I would follow him into the fire.”

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450. “I know you. I remember you. You’re the girl I was designed to love, my God-given match, my solnyshko.”

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