The Night We Met Quotes

“Maybe this isn’t the kind of love that deserves to exist. Maybe it’s the kind that wars start over. The kind that topples empires and never leaves the world better than it found it.”
― Abby Jimenez, The Night We Met

“Life buries us. We get heavier and heavier as time goes on and we labor under the layers we’ve collected. Sometimes the layers make us who we are and sometimes they make us someone else entirely.”
― Abby Jimenez, The Night We Met

“The reality is that most people with addiction won’t do what they have to do for anyone else. They have to want to do it for themselves”
― Abby Jimenez, The Night We Met

“Sometimes necessity forces us to be the most efficient version of ourselves,”
― Abby Jimenez, The Night We Met

“Love is self-sustaining. It doesn’t get weak and die when you don’t feed it. Even when I put it away”
― Abby Jimenez, The Night We Met

“Maybe this isn’t the kind of love that deserves to exist,” I whispered. “Maybe it’s the kind that wars start over. The kind that topples empires and never leaves the world better than it found it.” His gaze bore into mine and I saw the exact moment he gave up. “Then let it all burn.”
― Abby Jimenez, The Night We Met

“There's something about going on a trip with someone. Seeing how the love exists everywhere, that it's something you carry wherever you go and not just the product of the world it was created in. Going grocery shopping together in a store you've never been to, figuring out what new place you want to eat at, discovering everything together and it all feels different and new except for them. They're the constant. They're the safe space.”
― Abby Jimenez, The Night We Met

“Maybe heaven was just an infinite car ride with Chris. Him behind the wheel. Us leaving everyone and everything behind.”
― Abby Jimenez, The Night We Met

“She’s not the great love of my life.” He looked me in the eye. “You are.”
― Abby Jimenez, The Night We Met

“I want to give you everything. I want to give you something that never ends,” he said”
― Abby Jimenez, The Night We Met

“Who really knows what’s the best or worst thing you’ve ever done? Because you’re not always there to see how big the ripple gets. Sometimes some small decision”
― Abby Jimenez, The Night We Met

“Time changes things, it doesn’t change people. People have to change themselves.”
― Abby Jimenez, The Night We Met

“I would spend my existence silently cherishing a woman I’d never have. Someone I’d never kiss or even hold hands with. This was my curse. The future I was condemned to. To never truly be happy—or to be happy for him. Because he did not. Fucking. Deserve. Her.”
― Abby Jimenez, The Night We Met

“This therapist listed the three careers that are least likely to cheat. Accountant”
― Abby Jimenez, The Night We Met

“I think she would defy what takes most people down in the end because she had the ability to shrug things off and keep going. Keep smiling.”
― Abby Jimenez, The Night We Met

“Maybe that’s how you learn truths about yourself”
― Abby Jimenez, The Night We Met

“It was Chris. It was always Chris.”
― Abby Jimenez, The Night We Met

“Love is self-sustaining. It doesn’t get weak and die when you don’t feed it. Even when I put it away, locked it up, shut in the deepest recesses of my heart, I still loved her in the dark. I could love her from a distance. I could love her in silence. I could love her without even wanting to. And I did. I”
― Abby Jimenez, The Night We Met

“I want to give you everything. I want to give you something that never ends," he said, tucking my hair gently behind my ear. "A book series you're obsessed with that has a hundred volumes. A song you never get tired of hearing on loop, a favorite meal you never get sick of eating. A love that never fades. Someone you can't wait to get home to, every day for the rest of your life. Something eternal.”
― Abby Jimenez, The Night We Met

“I ask myself if I’m doing something because it’s what I’m used to, or if I’m doing it because it’s objectively the best thing to do.”
― Abby Jimenez, The Night We Met

“But there would have been a morning sixty years from now when someone would search for a gravestone of a woman they don’t know to sprinkle their grandfather’s ashes over it in honor of a final request that nobody understands. I could never not love you. I tried.”
― Abby Jimenez, The Night We Met

“There’s something about going on a trip with someone. Seeing how the love exists everywhere”
― Abby Jimenez, The Night We Met

“When Chris drove”
― Abby Jimenez, The Night We Met

“It felt weird to move on, to work in a place my mom would never know about. To have a relationship and fallings-out I’d never get to tell her. It was like I’d shed a skin and I was a different person, and she’d never get to see the me of now, and I grieved that too.”
― Abby Jimenez, The Night We Met

“People tend to escape out the door they came in, even if it's not the safest route, because that's the door they know. They'll run right into the danger they're trying to get out of, just because it's familiar.”
― Abby Jimenez, The Night We Met

“There was this book I read once that talked about the psychology of people in survival situations. How humans have a hard time rewriting the script in their head. Did you know in an emergency people tend to escape out the door they came in, even if it’s not the safest route, because that’s the door they know? They’ll run right into the danger they’re trying to get out of, just because it’s familiar. I think about that like once a day. Most people go their whole life like that, escaping out the door they know. It actually changed the way I live my life.” “How’s that?” I said. “I ask myself if I’m doing something because it’s what I’m used to, or if I’m doing it because it’s objectively the best thing to do.”
― Abby Jimenez, The Night We Met

“The universe made the decision for you—rewrite the script. Don’t go back to waitressing. Pick a different door.”
― Abby Jimenez, The Night We Met

“He didn’t make me feel unsafe, but I could never shut off my brain with him like I could with Chris.”
― Abby Jimenez, The Night We Met

“Who’s the last person you were in love with?” she asked. I made a show of thinking about it. “Kendra Watson.” She gave me a look. “You just told me someone from grade school, didn’t you.” I blinked at her. “How’d you know that?” “Because you came at me with her first and last name? That is so third grade.” “You don’t tell people you’re dating Michael Maddox?” “No. I say ‘I’m dating a guy named Mike.’ Like a grown-up.”
― Abby Jimenez, The Night We Met

“But more than that”
― Abby Jimenez, The Night We Met