What does 'I love you' even mean? It's weird how different three words can feel. I mean, I've said it before but it's never felt so… big, you know? I'm not sure it meant the same thing then. Like, I was too young to get it.

—Christina Lauren in Beautiful Stranger

About Christina Lauren

Christina Lauren, the combined pen name of Christina Hobbs and Lauren Billings is an American author duo of contemporary fiction, teen fiction and romance novels.

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I think I'm only now realizing how hard it must be to be a woman. Too thin or not thin enough. Do your job flawlessly, but don't show up any of the men. Speak up, but don't be bitchy. Smile.

—Christina Lauren in Dating You / Hating You

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Money can't buy you happiness, but happiness sure is a hell of a lot easier to find when you're not worried about where your next meal is coming from.

—Christina Lauren

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When my old life died, it didn't go quietly. It detonated.

—Christina Lauren

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Falling in love isn't about who makes you feel the best, but who could make you the most miserable if they leave.

—Christina Lauren in Wicked Sexy Liar

Isn't it amazing how you meet the person you're meant to meet, when you're supposed to meet her?

—Christina Lauren in Beautiful Bitch

More quotations tagged with “youth”

The denunciation of the young is a necessary part of the hygiene of older people, and greatly assists in the circulation of their blood.

—Logan Pearsall Smith

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If youth knew; if age could.

—Sigmund Freud

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And then I felt sad because I realized that once people are broken in certain ways, they can't ever be fixed, and this is something nobody ever tells you when you are young and it never fails to surprise you as you grow older as you see the people in your life break one by one. You wonder when your turn is going to be, or if it's already happened.

—Douglas Coupland in Life After God

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There is no sadder sight than a young pessimist.

—Mark Twain

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The first years of man must make provision for the last.

—Samuel Johnson in The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia

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4 Apr 2018 Added