Who Do You Love Quotes

“Your first love is important. It’s part of your story. The story you’ll tell yourself, the one you’ll tell about yourself, for the rest of your life.”
― Jennifer Weiner, Who Do You Love

“I wanted love, the big love, the kind people wrote songs and made movies about. I wanted to be the center of some guy’s universe, the only thing he could think about. I wanted to matter that way.”
― Jennifer Weiner, Who Do You Love

“The measure of a man is, does he know how to love.”
― Jennifer Weiner, Who Do You Love

“He’d been lonely, and I’d been lonely, but if we were together, we’d never have to be lonely again.”
― Jennifer Weiner, Who Do You Love

“You'll get through it," she said, leaving out the part I already knew-because you're a mother now. Because mothers don't have a choice.”
― Jennifer Weiner, Who Do You Love

“Born on third base and think they hit a triple,”
― Jennifer Weiner, Who Do You Love

“He's a great guy, she said ,and he heard her try to sound enthusiastic,like she was selling herself on her soon-to-be-husband's greatness...and then,in a whispered rush, just before she cut the connection,he thought he heard her say,"Sometimes I wish it had been you”
― Jennifer Weiner, Who Do You Love

“I didn't trust people who forgot to eat.”
― Jennifer Weiner, Who Do You Love

“You have to open yourself up to the universe’s possibilities.”
― Jennifer Weiner, Who Do You Love

“If you want to hit someone or you want to throw something, I want you to run first. I want you to run until you can hardly lift your legs and your arms. Run until you’re exhausted, and then, if you still want to hit someone or throw something, you just wait ’til you’ve caught your breath again and then go for it. Try it,”
― Jennifer Weiner, Who Do You Love

“drawing of a boy with brown hair and”
― Jennifer Weiner, Who Do You Love

“Change the setting, change the mood ... She'd taught him to make himself go outside if he was in, or inside if he was out, to interrupt the plummet with something as simple as making a cup of tea or spending a few minutes working on crossword puzzles.”
― Jennifer Weiner, Who Do You Love

“Did any love ever feel as sweet as first love? Were we all just damaged goods now, battered cans in the grocery store sale bin, day old bread, marked down at the registered, hoping that someone would look past the obvious flaws and love us enough to take us home?”
― Jennifer Weiner, Who Do You Love

“It was as if real life had been canceled for the day.”
― Jennifer Weiner, Who Do You Love

“I should have been moved. I wasn’t. It was as if I’d been frozen, as if I was now a woman made of ice, and he’d come at me not with a torch or even a candle, but with a toothpick, and was plink plink plinking against the smooth impenetrability of my body. I couldn’t feel a thing.”
― Jennifer Weiner, Who Do You Love

“He had sacrificed so much -- And now? What if not even all that was enough to quiet that voice....the voice that said, 'You're not worthy, you don't deserve it, nothing you do will ever be enough.”
― Jennifer Weiner, Who Do You Love

“First of all, it's life. You don't win.”
― Jennifer Weiner, Who Do You Love

“Your friends will still be your friends, if they're good friends.”
― Jennifer Weiner, Who Do You Love

“mom about the fight, and he’d be grounded or worse. Maybe his mom wouldn’t even give him his Christmas”
― Jennifer Weiner, Who Do You Love

“I wanted love, the big love, the kind people wrote songs and made movies about. I wanted to be the center of some guy’s universe, the only thing he could think about. I wanted to matter that way. “Hey!”
― Jennifer Weiner, Who Do You Love

“It's just you and the track and the clock. It's the most elemental thing there is-the simplest and the hardest. No everybody is cut out for it.”
― Jennifer Weiner, Who Do You Love

“Rachel”
― Jennifer Weiner, Who Do You Love

“It was easy to make good choices when you had a web of people supporting you, not to mention money as a safety net when everyone else in your family did the right thing, went to the right college, held down a job.”
― Jennifer Weiner, Who Do You Love

“The measure of a man is, does he know how to love. Clement Sills knew how to love. That’s what he did. That’s what he taught every single one of us who were lucky enough to know him.”
― Jennifer Weiner, Who Do You Love

“I know I’ll never get every single thing I dreamed of. I’ll never be thin. I’ll never win a Pulitzer or even, probably, the pie-baking contest at the Agriculture Fair in Truro every August (because I think the judges are biased against summer people, but that’s another story). I will never get a do-over on my first marriage, or on my older daughter’s infancy; I’ll never get to not be divorced. I will never give birth again, and neither of my births were what I’d hoped for. I’ll never get my father back; never get to ask him why he left and whether he was sorry and whether he ever found what he was looking for. But, dammit, I got this far, and I got some stories along the way, and maybe that was the point, the point of the whole thing, the point all along.”
― Jennifer Weiner, Who Do You Love

“on noon at Friday,”
― Jennifer Weiner, Who Do You Love

“It was high school. Evil is kind of the name of the game.”
― Jennifer Weiner, Who Do You Love

“Sometimes I wish it has been you.”
― Jennifer Weiner, Who Do You Love

“I'm saying that it's a big decision. Your first love is important. It's part of your story The story you'll tell yourself, the one you'll tell about yourself, for the rest of your life.”
― Jennifer Weiner, Who Do You Love

“I don't answer. I shut my eyes and hold my breath and hope whoever it is will think I'm not here and go home.”
― Jennifer Weiner, Who Do You Love