Jennifer Passaretti > Jennifer's Quotes

“I’m sorry someone made you feel like it’s hard to love you,’ she said.”
― Abby Jimenez, Yours Truly

“It’s like I always say,” Mom said, wiping under her eyes. “Love shows up. That’s how you know when it’s real.”
― Abby Jimenez, Yours Truly

“If you're not making mistakes, you're not learning.”
― Percival Everett, James

“We're slaves. We're not anywhere. Free person, he can be where he wants to be. The only place we can ever be is in slavery.”
― Percival Everett, James

“All you children playing with fire, looking surprised when the house burns down”
― Leigh Bardugo, Ninth House

“The connections between and among women are the most feared, the most problematic, and the most potentially transforming force on the planet.”
― Adrienne Rich

“wishing harder than she’d ever wished before that for just sixty seconds someone would hold her, but no one holds moms.”
― Grady Hendrix, How to Sell a Haunted House

“These stuffed animals were how she had first learned to love something that couldn’t always love you back.”
― Grady Hendrix, How to Sell a Haunted House

“Time only moves in one direction no matter how hard we wish it wasn’t so.”
― Grady Hendrix, How to Sell a Haunted House

“Be strong, trust in the Lord, and stay hydrated.”
― Grady Hendrix, How to Sell a Haunted House

“I’m an atheist,” Mark said. “Pish,” Aunt Gail said, dismissing him. “You’re a Presbyterian, just like your parents.”
― Grady Hendrix, How to Sell a Haunted House

“It stops here. With me and you. It ends with us.”
― Colleen Hoover, It Ends with Us

“There is no such thing as bad people. We’re all just people who sometimes do bad things.”
― Colleen Hoover, It Ends with Us

“All humans make mistakes. What determines a person's character aren't the mistakes we make. It's how we take those mistakes and turn them into lessons rather than excuses.”
― Colleen Hoover, It Ends with Us

“He pulls back to look down at me and when he sees my tears, he brings his hands up to my cheeks. “In the future... if by some miracle you ever find yourself in the position to fall in love again... fall in love with me.”
― Colleen Hoover, It Ends with Us

“Your future contains dry bones. Your slow demise begins right when you hold the queen in the palm of one hand. Beware the bird, for it will betray you. And from that, there’s no coming back. But daughters are the key to justice, find the right one and keep her close. All signs point toward your murder.”
― Kristen Perrin, How to Solve Your Own Murder

“if TV has taught us anything, it’s that the murder rate in small villages is disproportionately high.”
― Kristen Perrin, How to Solve Your Own Murder

“Some people will never believe you no matter how hard you explain yourself. Trust me, there's no pleasing people. If they're determined to think the worst of you, they will.”
― Amy Tintera, Listen for the Lie

“I am not responsible for the fake version of me you created in your head.”
― Amy Tintera, Listen for the Lie

“Reading isn’t a privilege, sir. I believe we all have the right to leave our problems and escape into another world, if only through the written word.”
― Chris Whitaker, All the Colors of the Dark

“To love and be loved was more than could ever be expected, more than enough for a thousand ordinary lifetimes.”
― Chris Whitaker, All the Colors of the Dark

“The bad are the few, but often they shout louder than the many. Don’t mistake silence for weakness.”
― Chris Whitaker, All the Colors of the Dark

“When it comes to marriage, love is merely a visitor over a lifetime. Respect and kindness, they are the true foundations.”
― Chris Whitaker, All the Colors of the Dark

“Best education you can get,” he said. “See through someone else’s eyes and you understand more of everything.”
― Chris Whitaker, All the Colors of the Dark

“If you ever get the chance to make someone smile, or better yet, make someone laugh, then you take it. Each and every time,”
― Chris Whitaker, All the Colors of the Dark

“Grace costs you nothing”
― Abby Jimenez, Part of Your World

“Love follows you. It goes where you go. It doesn’t know about social divides or distance or common sense. It doesn’t even stop when the person you love dies. It does what it wants.”
― Abby Jimenez, Part of Your World

“There’s something more final than forever. It’s never. Never is infinite.”
― Abby Jimenez, Part of Your World

“It’s amazing how someone can touch you, even if you only know them for a moment in time. How they can change you, alter you indelibly.”
― Abby Jimenez, Part of Your World

“Love doesn't keep you in a constant state of turmoil. It gives you peace.”
― Karin Slaughter, Pieces of Her