Top 280 Vi Keeland Quotes (2026 Update)
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101. “How many times could I stand to get rejected by one man? I’d rather be alone than alongside an unattainable Reed, playing this cat-and-mouse game that never ended. I didn’t want to quit working at Eastwood, but I was probably going to have to. I had some big decisions to make, and I was hoping the overseas trip would bring clarity.”

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102. “I can’t complain. At my age, you can either see your aches and pains as a burden or see them as a reminder that you’re still alive with plenty left to do. I choose the later.”

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103. “Scars are the maps to the story of where we’ve been.”

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104. “Now that you’ve admitted what your heart holds, perhaps the next step is sharing it with the person who holds your heart.”

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105. “Just a week ago, I felt like a butterfly that had spent years inside some sort of cocoon. I’d been afraid to venture out into the world on my own. But I flapped my wings a few times, and once I started to fly, the isolated darkness I’d been in for so long seemed more like a punishment than a place of protection. Now I desperately wanted to crawl back into that cocoon, yet it seemed I could no longer fit.”

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106. “You’re killing me, Elle. I feel like I’m fourteen with you. I’m walking around with a hard-on half the time from just thinking about you. I’m never going to be able to sleep tonight now.”

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107. “You need to make a decision to be happy and let it guide your future. Then make a left instead of a right, zig instead of zag. Sometimes that’s the only way to find a new path.”

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108. “Because music expresses all the things people can’t say, but are impossible to keep quiet.”

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109. “Sweetheart, sometimes the risk of what bad things could happen keeps us from experiencing all the good things life has to offer.”

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110. “Nothing. And I mean nothing, gives any person the right to cheat on the person they’re in a relationship with. I don’t care if you avoided her phone calls and spent months at a time away from home. All she had to do was tell you that she didn’t want to be with you anymore.”

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111. “I’m glad you’re back to your normal, perverted self. That half hour you practiced self control was awful.”

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112. “This book is dedicated to all the little girls who want to wear neon green to dance class when all the others are wearing pastel pink.”

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113. “But tough had its limits. Even a diamond, if you hit it at the exact right place, the spot where it was flawed and weak, would sometimes shatter.”

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114. “Maybe I couldn’t get you out of my head because you’re supposed to be there.”

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115. “I don’t think any of the things that happened are coincidence. I think life is a series of stepping stones that branch out in all different directions. We have no idea what path we’re supposed to follow, so we tend to walk a straight line and follow the biggest stones, because that’s the easiest thing to do. Coincidences are the smaller stones that lead you on a path that veers off. If you’re brave enough, you follow those stones, and you wind up exactly where you’re supposed to be.”

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116. “I’ll watch your ass for you. Make sure it stays in top form.” I wink. “How chivalrous of you.” “I’m good like that.”

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117. “There are two sides to that man. Thoughtless and thoughtful. Not sure he got the in-between gene.”

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118. “You can’t make someone love a person. But the opposite is also true. Nothing can make someone unlove a person, either.”

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119. “The man still had my heart, even though it now lay in his hands, broken.”

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120. “These little things can go a long way in reminding each other that your heart is never far, even if there are miles between you. Distance is only a test to see how far love travels.”

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121. “Both our dishes looked more like art when they arrived. “I hate to eat it; it’s so beautiful.” “I have the opposite problem. It’s so beautiful; I can’t wait to eat it.” His smirk told me his comment had nothing to do with his fancy looking dinner. I.”

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122. “I think you stole a piece of my heart the first night we met.”

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123. “Whatever you think is so complicated, isn’t. Don’t wait until you’re seventy and sick to figure out that life is pretty simple. Be with the people you love, and your life will feel full in the end, whenever that time may come.”

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124. “And he realizes some of the most important days he ever had were just ordinary ones spent with the right people.”

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125. “Some of the best times in life start off as bad ideas, my friend.”

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126. “I came in looking for coffee, but the smell of bacon wafts through the air and my body follows on its own. Coffee turns into two eggs, bacon and cheese on a roll, an orange juice and a chocolate pudding. Actually, two chocolate puddings. Because people who pass by fresh chocolate pudding without grabbing one just can’t be trusted.”

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127. “Being a parent is a choice, not a right. I really didn’t understand why my parents celebrated Gotcha Day until then. You’re Beck’s dad, no different than Martin Rose is mine. Anyone can become a father, but it takes a real dad to love and raise a child as his own.”

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128. “Anyone can become a father, but it takes a real dad to love and raise a child as his own.” “Come.”

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129. “My stop was next, but I wasn’t going to get off. Well, truthfully, I was getting off on something else: this highly tense staring contest. It dawned on me that she was also absorbing the fact that I, too, knew her identity.”

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130. “Love isn’t something you can turn off. When it happens, it takes a little piece of who you are. I think sometimes people keep fighting because they’re more afraid to lose that piece of them, rather than lose the person they love.”

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131. “I needed to let go of what I thought my life was supposed to look like in order to write a new story.”

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132. “When God was making the mold for good-looking men, he asked one of his angels what else he should add to make a man more attractive in her eyes. The angel didn’t want to be disrespectful by using foul language, so she simply said, ‘Give him a big stick.’ Unfortunately, the added piece was put on backward, and now all good-looking men are born with a large stick up their tuchus.”

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133. “How do you look? You look like you’re mine. I made a conscious effort to un-ball my fists. “I told you. You look beautiful.”

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134. “The question isn’t what are we going to do. It’s what are you going to do. Because I’m right here waiting for you to figure it out.”

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135. “First the shirt. His chest was so sculpted and beautiful. I could see all the tiny lines chiseled into his abdomen. If he looked this good in the window reflection, I couldn’t even imagine how insanely gorgeous he was going to be when I looked directly at him. Next.”

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136. “I think your body likes me, and your head is fighting it. The two should fight it out like adults – naked in the bedroom with me.”

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137. “Never in my life had I ever reacted to a man this way. Never had I felt so much fear and desire at the very same time.”

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138. “Ireland made me realize we don’t have a choice who we fall in love with. We fall in love by chance. But staying in love and making it work isn’t something that happens by chance – that’s a choice. And I’ve chosen to love Ireland.”

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139. “He has a dirty mind. I love it.”

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140. “Sometimes we believe things not because we know they are true, but because the lies are easier to accept.”

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141. “Sometimes confidence is worn like a mask to shield people from seeing insecurities.”

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142. “None of that would have changed anything. Because it was never about me. It was about him – his own inadequacies that made him need to prove something to himself.”

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143. “She’s fifteen. She sees what she wants to see in order to justify brooding. I’m not saying what happened to her is easy, but teenage girls will find a reason to brood even when there isn’t one.”

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144. “There was no middle ground with Charlotte. Either I was all in or all out.”

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145. “When you’re afraid to fall in love with someone, it’s usually because you’ve already started to fall, sweetheart.”

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146. “I was the one who dodged a bullet, Charlotte. I can’t imagine having gone on to marry her. I would have never known that my one true love was still out there. What I feel for you is beyond what I’ve ever felt in my life.”

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147. “I don’t know if it’s fate or a series of crazy coincidences that brought us together. But whatever led me to you isn’t as important as what will keep you here.”

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148. “But at that moment, I finally realized peace wasn’t about avoiding things. It was about making the choice to live life with all its chaos around you, and in the midst of it all, having calm in your heart.”

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149. “I always felt your love for me, even when you were trying to fight it like hell. That was what kept me from giving up on you. I will never give up on you, Reed. I’m in this for the long haul, because I want to be. Do you understand?”

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150. “Sometimes the path is created for us, and we can only follow.”

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