The Happy Ever After Playlist Quotes

“You can’t control the bad things that happen to you. All you can do is decide how much of you you’re going to let them take.”
― Abby Jimenez, The Happy Ever After Playlist

“Sometimes the hardest place to live is the one in-between.”
― Abby Jimenez, The Happy Ever After Playlist

“This was just a season, and there's beauty in all seasons. Even if you are looking forward to the next one.”
― Abby Jimenez, The Happy Ever After Playlist

“I was a ghost, wandering the rooms of a museum of the person I used to be, and Jason was like one of the living who could somehow see me and decided to wander the place with me.”
― Abby Jimenez, The Happy Ever After Playlist

“My "happiness" wasn't always the real thing. Most of the time it was a fabricated, forced version that cracked around the edges if examined closely enough. But it was the choice that was the accomplishment.”
― Abby Jimenez, The Happy Ever After Playlist

“But my job is to help you with your crazy. Make you the best, most magnificent crazy you can be.”
― Abby Jimenez, The Happy Ever After Playlist

“I would notice you in a crowd of a million.”
― Abby Jimenez, The Happy Ever After Playlist

“It’s just how I feel. I’m yours. All of me. I think I always belonged to you. Even when you belonged to someone else.”
― Abby Jimenez, The Happy Ever After Playlist

“You realize that repeatedly bringing me my favorite coffee is comparable to feeding a stray cat, right? You might never get rid of me now.”
― Abby Jimenez, The Happy Ever After Playlist

“Drunk me had no business putting that out there for sober me. She was such a gossip.”
― Abby Jimenez, The Happy Ever After Playlist

“You think you know what love looks like. You think the fairy tales and the romantic movies prepare you. And then you finally, really truly find it and you realize you never knew a thing about it until her.” He shook his head. “She was every love song I’ve never been good enough to write.”
― Abby Jimenez, The Happy Ever After Playlist

“I love your hands'- 'have them. They're yours' - 'you're giving me your hands?'- 'my hands. My voice. My back to do your heavy lifting, my arms to carry you to bed when you've had too much tequila. My money, my time, my heart. It's all yours.”
― Abby Jimenez, The Happy Ever After Playlist

“You can start over again. Start now.”
― Abby Jimenez, The Happy Ever After Playlist

“Sloan was moving slower in this relationship than I was. I didn't take it personally. I meant what I said: I'd wait for her. I'd wait as long as she needed. When she was ready, she'd let me know. And if I was doing my job as her boyfriend, making her feel safe - and making sure she wanted me enough - it would all work itself out eventually. There was no rush.
This was just a season, and there's beauty in all seasons. Even if you are looking forward to the next one.”
― Abby Jimenez, The Happy Ever After Playlist

“I want everything with you.”
― Abby Jimenez, The Happy Ever After Playlist

“I am so tired of being more sentimental about everyone and everything in my life than I am about myself.”
― Abby Jimenez, The Happy Ever After Playlist

“I was already tired tomorrow, just from today.”
― Abby Jimenez, The Happy Ever After Playlist

“It’s just how I feel. I’m yours. All of me. I think I always belonged to you. Even when you belonged to someone else.” His eyes moved back and forth between mine. “Tucker knew it. He took one look and he saw the other half of me inside of you and he brought you home.”
― Abby Jimenez, The Happy Ever After Playlist

“And that guy? You should climb him like a tree. Or at the very least shake his branches. See what kind of nuts fall out.”
― Abby Jimenez, The Happy Ever After Playlist

“How many moments like this had I already missed because of my own stupid hesitations and rules and reservations?”
― Abby Jimenez, The Happy Ever After Playlist

“Sometimes the hardest place to live is the one in-between. And sometimes in-between is all you’ll ever get.”
― Abby Jimenez, The Happy Ever After Playlist

“It was like my heart was split down the middle—I had one half and Sloan had the other. I knew without a doubt that from this point forward I’d have to care for her better than I cared for myself—because I could never be okay if she wasn’t.”
― Abby Jimenez, The Happy Ever After Playlist

“Goddamn, this woman had me. It was more than just physical. She fucking had me. I didn't even want to leave.”
― Abby Jimenez, The Happy Ever After Playlist

“I was knee-jerk emotional responses, a minefield of bad days and walls to tear down, and they popped up at random, without warning.”
― Abby Jimenez, The Happy Ever After Playlist

“was a ghost, wandering the rooms of a museum of the person I used to be, and Jason was like one of the living who could somehow see me and decided to wander the”
― Abby Jimenez, The Happy Ever After Playlist

“And I thought about what Kristen had said, about my life being a shrine to him, and I realized I was still living with another man. And that man wasn’t ever coming home.”
― Abby Jimenez, The Happy Ever After Playlist

“There was nothing outside of this tent tonight. Nothing. There was nowhere to be, no phone to check. No lights to turn off or doors to wonder whether I’d locked. Not even the faint white noise that comes with civilization. The only person I wanted with me was here, and the serenity of the lake and woods combined with Jason’s gentle affection made me relax in a way I hadn’t known was possible. Like I’d been tense my whole life and hadn’t even known it. All that was left was us.”
― Abby Jimenez, The Happy Ever After Playlist

“I put an arm across the door. “I was musically assaulted today by a roving a cappella group in naval dress whites, and you think it’s funny?”
― Abby Jimenez, The Happy Ever After Playlist

“I tried to enjoy it. I laughed in all the right places and smiled so that it reached my eyes. But all I saw now was the ending.”
― Abby Jimenez, The Happy Ever After Playlist

“Did Jason offer you the penis-cillin yet?” “Uh, what?” “Men think their penis is the cure for everything. I swear to God, I could have some terminal disease and Josh would be over here bouncing his eyebrows like, ‘Gurl, I know what you need.”
― Abby Jimenez, The Happy Ever After Playlist