Christina Lauren > Quotes

“Favorite word?” he whispers.
I don’t even hesitate: “You.”
― Christina Lauren, Love and Other Words

“For some sick reason, fighting with this woman always ended with her panties in my pocket.”
― Christina Lauren, Beautiful Bastard

“I never got to fall out of love. I just had to move on.”
― Christina Lauren, Love and Other Words

“If only he would keep his mouth shut, he'd be perfect. A piece of duct tape would do the trick. I had some in my desk that I'd occasionally pull out and fondle, hoping someday I could put it to good use.”
― Christina Lauren, Beautiful Bastard

“Why can’t everyone be like you?”

“I can be enough of your world that it feels like everyone is.”
― Christina Lauren, Love and Other Words

“I can appreciate my body in a bikini and still want to set fire to the patriarchy.”
― Christina Lauren, The Unhoneymooners

“I’ve been waiting for you to come home for eleven years. I’ll go anywhere you go.”
― Christina Lauren, Love and Other Words

“Don’t spoil her with toys; spoil her with books.”
― Christina Lauren, Love and Other Words

“Limerence.'

There's no other word like it. The state of being infatuated with another person.”
― Christina Lauren, Love and Other Words

“This flirting is all well and good, but I mean it when I tell you, I cant have you leaving me again. It almost broke me."
My ribs seemed to squeeze all of the air out of my lungs at the thought. "I don't think I could. I don't want to be away from you again either."
"But you need to give me a chance to fix things when I screw up. You know I'm an ass sometimes."
"Sometimes?"
Growling, he whispered, "And I tear lingerie."
I pushed a curl off his forehead, "And hoard it. Don't forget the creepy hoarding.”
― Christina Lauren, Beautiful Bastard

“Beauty is only skin-deep, and ugly goes straight to the bone.”
― Christina Lauren, Beautiful Bastard

“I like your kind of quiet. Your heart isn’t quiet.”
― Christina Lauren, Love and Other Words

“This is how we reveal ourselves: these tiny flashes of discomfort, the reactions we can’t hide.”
― Christina Lauren, Autoboyography

“You broke up with her last night?”
He nods … “You’re the love of my life. I assumed I would get over you eventually, but seeing you yesterday?” He shakes his head. “I couldn’t go home to someone else and pretend to love her with everything I have.”
― Christina Lauren, Love and Other Words

“I knew everything happened for a reason. I just wished the reason would hurry up and make itself known.”
― Christina Lauren, Beautiful Bastard

“Well, you’re more, too. You’re my best everything.”
― Christina Lauren, Love and Other Words

“knew he was a book lover, but to be the same kind of book lover I am? It makes my insides melt.”
― Christina Lauren, The Unhoneymooners

“Treat your body carefully. Take care of it. Don’t let anyone abuse it, and don’t abuse it yourself. Every inch of your skin I made diligently; months I slaved over you. You are my masterpiece.”
― Christina Lauren, Love and Other Words

“A God worthy of your eternal love wouldn’t judge you for who you love while you’re here.”
― Christina Lauren, Autoboyography

“I am a homebody, through and through, and there’s nothing like being home.”
― Christina Lauren, The Unhoneymooners

“It never occurred to me that love could be anything other than all-consuming. Even as a child, I knew I never wanted anything less.”
― Christina Lauren, Love and Other Words

“I didn't know," he whispered. "I didn't know I could love you so much.”
― Christina Lauren, Beautiful Bastard

“Wait, you remember that?"
"Of course I remember that. You sounded like a frat boy and looked like a fucking model. What man could ever forget that?"
"I would have given anything to know what you were thinking right then."
"I was thinking, 'Highly fuckable intern, twelve o'clock. Disengage, soldier. I repeat, disengage.”
― Christina Lauren, Beautiful Bastard

“Women don't always want to be treated like we're delicate, or rare, or somehow more precious. We want to be wanted. We want sex to be just as raw as you do.”
― Christina Lauren, Beautiful Stranger

“The look in her eyes told me that under any other circumstances, I would either already be naked with her on top of me, or lying in a pool of my own blood on the rug.”
― Christina Lauren, Beautiful Bastard

“The way you seem nervous
makes me think you don’t know that I’m in love with you.”
― Christina Lauren, Beautiful Stranger

“I don’t actually care if you break my heart, Sebastian. I went into this knowing it could happen and I gave it to you anyway. But I don’t want you to break your own. You have so much space in your heart for your church, but does it have space for you?”
― Christina Lauren, Autoboyography

“Tell her you love her. Girls need the words.”
― Christina Lauren, Love and Other Words

“But this is your life, and it will stretch out before you, and you are the only person who can make it whatever you want it to be.”
― Christina Lauren, Autoboyography

“So here were the facts: I felt possessive of her. Not in a romantic sort of way, but in a "hit her over the head, drag her off by the hair, and fuck her" way. Like she was my toy and I was keeping the other boys in the sandbox from playing with her. How sick was that? If she ever heard me admit to that, she would cut off my balls and feed them to me.”
― Christina Lauren, Beautiful Bastard