Mae > Mae's Quotes

“Love to me was honesty. Being real. Knowing someone's best and worst. Love was a push that said someone believed in you when you didn't.”
― Mariana Zapata, From Lukov with Love

“I could spend the rest of forever with you and it still wouldn’t be enough time to finish everything I have planned for us.”
― Lauren Asher, Terms and Conditions

“You’re my favorite four-letter word.” -Daisy to Ryke”
― Krista Ritchie, Hothouse Flower

“Beginnings are the hardest because they’re the parts that pull people in, that make them want the ends. And endings are the most painful, the parts that can leave you bleeding out.”
― Krista Ritchie, Hothouse Flower

“I was waiting for the sun to chase me,” he breathes, drawing me to his chest. In one swift movement, my lips are on his. The world is spinning. He kisses me like this is the moment he’s envisioned all his life. Like this is heaven on Earth.
For me, it is. A blissful moment before something that could be the end. The rush before the fear. He whispers, “I fucking love you.”
I smile, my lips tingling. “Guess what?”
“What?”
“I love you more than chocolate cake.”
― Krista Ritchie, Hothouse Flower

“You’re not a pit stop. You’re my finish line. There’s no one after you.”
― Krista Ritchie, Kiss the Sky

“You’re a hothouse flower,” I tell her. “You can’t grow under natural conditions. You need adventure. And security and love in order to stay alive.”
― Krista Ritchie, Hothouse Flower

“The parts of me that I love the most are the parts that belong to her.”
― Krista Ritchie, Addicted After All

“Lily Calloway...all this time, your superpower has been loving me.”
― Krista Ritchie, Addicted After All

“Sometimes the person we think we’ll become is the person we already are, and the person we truly become is the person we least expect.”
― Krista Ritchie, Addicted for Now

“Broken souls are mended every day by mended souls that were once broken.”
― Krista Ritchie, Fuel the Fire

“To me, he’s worth every loud moment, every peaceful silence, the crazy and the sad, the restless and the quiet.”
― Krista Ritchie, Hothouse Flower

“I’ve watched Lo become sober.
I’ve watched Lily curb a relentless addiction. (I’m proud of you, sis.)
I’ve watched Rose blaze her own trail and put fire to stereotypes.
I’ve watched Connor fall in love. With more than just himself.
I’ve watched Ryke Meadows unclip his shackles and rise again.
And me. I’ve discovered who I am.”
― Krista Ritchie, Long Way Down

“I’m tougher than you think. You just need to believe in me. You know, like a fairy.”
― Becca Ritchie & Kristia Ritchie, Long Way Down

“I have so many regrets. I don’t believe anyone who says they don’t. How can you live life making mistakes and never wish you could take one back?”
― Krista Ritchie, Addicted for Now

“You are your own anchor. Do you want to keep burning or are you going to let yourself rise?”
― Krista Ritchie, Hothouse Flower

“My advice,” I say, “don’t seek love from other people. Just love who you are enough that it won’t matter whether or not you find your Rochester.”
― Krista Ritchie, Some Kind of Perfect

“The best thing about reading is to escape from your life, to be able to live hundreds or even thousands of different lives.”
― Anna Todd, After We Collided

“Just because he can't love you the way you want him to doesn't mean he doesn't love you with everything he has”
― Anna Todd, After We Collided

“No one is truly innocent in this world, no one. The people who believe themselves to be perfect are the worst ones of all.”
― Anna Todd, After We Collided

“I can't promise that I won't hurt you again, but I can swear that I will love you until the day that I die.”
― Anna Todd, After We Collided

“I flip him off. He mimes catching and pocketing it. “Thanks. I needed a fuck you for later.”
― Krista Ritchie, Long Way Down

“I think the six of us—we’re all strong. We’re each just a different kind of strong. But we all have a
different kind of weak too. And I’m figuring out how to bottle my weakness to help them all.”
― Krista Ritchie, Addicted for Now

“My life is full of unconventionalities, abnormalities and awkward fucking situations. If you’re easily offended by crude language and inappropriate talks, you’ve taken a wrong fucking turn somewhere. You won’t understand me if you can’t handle me, and I’m not going to try to explain myself. I’m raw. I’m hard. I’m the thing you shy away from. So I’m warning you now. Back away. Because once you enter my life, I won’t ever let you leave.”
― Krista Ritchie, Hothouse Flower

“Friends aren’t forever. They’re not even for a while. They come into your life
and they leave when something or someone changes. Nothing grounds them to you.
Not blood or loyalty. They’re just…fleeting.-Daisy Calloway”
― Krista Ritchie, Hothouse Flower

“I think back to what Landon said about heartbreak, that if you don’t love the person, they can’t break your heart. Hardin repeatedly breaks my heart, even when I don’t think there are any more pieces to break.
And I love him. I love Hardin.”
― Anna Todd, After

“Because I'm okay with you having ten other people be your favorite. But you're always going to be my favorite person.”
― Mariana Zapata, From Lukov with Love

“You are who you are in life, and you either live that time trying to bend yourself to make other people happy, or… you don’t.”
― Mariana Zapata, From Lukov with Love

“I loved him. I loved this man so much that losing him was going to break my cold, dead heart into so many pieces I was just going to have to stick them in the same box I kept my dreams and carry it around with me forever.”
― Mariana Zapata, From Lukov with Love

“I’m not going to give up what I love just because I might not have it forever,”
― Mariana Zapata, From Lukov with Love