Top 500 Tillie Cole Quotes (2026 Update)
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401. “Dark. The only way I could explain his scent was dark.”

— Tillie Cole

402. “Death is the best lesson in life. Death teaches us to live, for the short amount of time we are here. Death teaches us to live with all our heart and soul, day by day, minute by treasured minute.”

— Tillie Cole

403. “For those who have lost a loved one, I walk with you. For those who have lost a piece of their heart, I hold your hand. For those who don’t know how to move on, I pray this book gives you solace.”

— Tillie Cole

404. “My thighs ached from the force of his grip. My back.”

— Tillie Cole

405. “Back off you big anabolic steroid, she needs fumigating due to the salty invasion of your Herman Von Long-schlong!”

— Tillie Cole

406. “Poppy kept talking, but I didn’t mind. I liked the sound of her voice. I liked her laugh and I liked the big white bow in her hair.”

— Tillie Cole

407. “Why do I get the feeling that you are telling me goodbye?” I.”

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408. “I’d come to understand that we showed our worst to those we love best. There was no judgment. Only complete, unwavering support.”

— Tillie Cole

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

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410. “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.”

— Tillie Cole

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

— Tillie Cole

412. “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.”

— Tillie Cole

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

— Tillie Cole

414. “You telling me there’s more in there? What is this place? A fuckin’ breeding farm for Victoria’s Secret?”

— Tillie Cole

415. “But what I loved most when I looked into his gaze was the kindness it held. He.”

— Tillie Cole

416. “And in that moment I knew – I was losing my heart to the object of my family’s deepest hatred. Zaal.”

— Tillie Cole

417. “Losing a loved one, no matter the circumstances, was the most heartbreaking thing a person could endure. But living for them, loving them even after loss, was healing too. Because they would always be around us, wanting us to live with all our hearts. Wanting us to love and wanting us to live a life so full, there would be no room for regrets when our time to pass arrived.”

— Tillie Cole

418. “Some minds, once cracked open, are lost forever, their prisons immune to breakthrough. But if there’s a chance, that’s how you bring your darlin’ back to you from the inside the panic room in her head. With things she loved.”

— Tillie Cole

419. “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.”

— Tillie Cole

420. “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.”

— Tillie Cole

421. “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.”

— Tillie Cole

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

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423. “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.”

— Tillie Cole

424. “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.”

— Tillie Cole

425. “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.”

— Tillie Cole

426. “Life. The strangest ride of ups and downs and heartache and loss. But also, a life with the world, the stars and the sun, joy and love. And of course, love. Love above most.”

— Tillie Cole

427. “Love if life, and you are my love... You are my entire life.”

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428. “He was Gabriel now. One of the fallen. And the one who would save them all. He didn’t know how. But he would. He was determined.”

— Tillie Cole

429. “I had never felt fear before, but I imagined the sinking hole I felt dropping in my stomach was something like it.”

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430. “Some people are only in our lives for a short time, but the mark they leave on us is a cherished tattoo.”

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431. “I believed that when someone was so imbedded in your heart, your soul, they never truly left.”

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432. “She was my balm, my clam. My Kisa-Anna.”

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433. “It was a constant battle. Seeing Poppy so carefree and happy filled me with the brightest of lights, but knowing these moments were limited, finite, running out, brought only darkness. Patches of pitch black.”

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434. “When he told the world that he was bad, he only ever told me he was in love.”

— Tillie Cole

435. “My name is Valentin Belrov. I have a sister called Inessa Belrov. I have a love called Zoya Kostava. They are being held captive. I have to set them free!”

— Tillie Cole

436. “I laughed at the absurdity of our situation. I was cartel. He was Klan. A fish and a bird had more of a chance of living a happy life together than we did.”

— Tillie Cole

437. “When I got home, Mama told me that my mamaw had gone to heaven. I ran to my bedroom as quickly as I could. I hurried to fall asleep. Like she promised, Mamaw was there in my dreams. So I told her all about the five boy-kisses from my Rune.”

— Tillie Cole

438. “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.”

— Tillie Cole

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

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

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441. “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.”

— Tillie Cole

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

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443. “Hardships aged the soul even if the skin your body wore told another story.”

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444. “I can still see your light. Beneath the anger, you’re still there.”

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445. “If it unburdens you, then it’s the lightest weight in the world.”

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446. “Because when you have lost something so precious, when something priceless comes along, you embrace it with both hands. And you never let it go.”

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447. “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.”

— Tillie Cole

448. “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.”

— Tillie Cole

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

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450. “He’d poisoned me. He’d ruined the girl he used to crave. I was a monster of his own creation.”

— Tillie Cole