Top 100 Abby Jimenez Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “Sometimes family isn’t what you’re born into. Sometimes family is found.”

— Abby Jimenez

2. “This year was going to be my villain origin story, I just knew it.”

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3. “Hate is exhausting. Life is too short to hate. Let it go.”

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4. “Apparently dogs are the answer to all life’s problems.”

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5. “We’re all a little broken, Briana. We are a mosaic. We’re made up of all those we’ve met and all the things we’ve been through. There are parts of us that are colorful and dark and jagged and beautiful. And I love every piece of you. Even the ones you wish didn’t exist.”

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6. “There’s a special peace in sleeping next to someone you love.”

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7. “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.”

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8. “I had to remember that not everyone over-thought everything the way I did. Wouldn’t it be amazing to live like that? To not carry that burden around with you. To not feel constantly overwhelmed and overstimulated and second-guess every little thing.”

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9. “You should always have an adventure lined up. Having something to look forward to is tantamount to happiness.”

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10. “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.”

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11. “I’ll orbit around you and be your universe, because you’ve always been my sun.”

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

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13. “If you spend your life dwelling on the worst possible thing, when it finally happens, you’ve lived it twice. I don’t want to live the worst things twice.”

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14. “The only things you like sprung on you are snacks.”

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15. “Just because you don’t recognize the fight they choose doesn’t mean they’re not fighting.”

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16. “It was just the two of us, alone together, showing up. Because that’s what love does. It shows up.”

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17. “You can start over again. Start now.”

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18. “Sometimes we just want to complain. That’s it. We don’t want advice. We just want you to listen. You’re a good listener.”

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19. “I’m supposed to be somewhere at two and I know I’m not getting there until two fifteen, I don’t let myself be stressed until two. Because until then, I’m not actually late yet. All I’m doing is feeling the stress of a thing that hasn’t even happened.”

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20. “I don’t pretend to be happy. I just refuse to be sad.”

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21. “Jacob made me feel safe. He was like a living lullaby. A softly spoken word. The smell of coffee and toast in the morning or a cozy fleece blanket. The rain pattering on the roof on a day where you don’t have to go anywhere or do anything.”

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22. “You’re my soulmate. I’ll find you in the next life. Life I found you in this one.”

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23. “Sometimes the hardest place to live is the one in-between. And sometimes in-between is all you’ll ever get.”

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24. “If you’re with someone who doesn’t speak your language, you’ll spend a lifetime translating your soul.”

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25. “Just keep her laughing,” Doug said. “When a woman laughs, her eyes are closed more. She won’t notice how ugly you are.”

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26. “You and me? We’re different. We agree to be harmless to each other.”

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27. “It’s hard to find out that someone you love is fine with just setting your life on fire and walking away.”

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28. “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.”

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29. “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.”

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30. “I’d never met a woman like you before. You told me to go to hell and made me look forward to the trip.”

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31. “I knew from experience that sometimes when the wake-up call is big enough, you do, in fact, wake up.”

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32. “Eight thousand nerves in the clitoris and still not as sensitive as a white man not getting his way.”

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33. “You suffer from One Day Syndrome.” He wrinkled his brows. “What?” “One Day Syndrome. You live your life like there’ll always be one day to do all the things you put off. One day you’ll take the trip. One day you’ll have the family. One day you’ll try the thing. You’re all work and not enough play. Money can’t make you happy unless you know what you want, Adrian. So what do you want?”

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34. “I always think that when we’re quiet, we’re agreeing to be harmless to each other. That we’re just sharing the same space and letting each other exist exactly as we are, and neither of us would hurt or upset the other one.”

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35. “When you don’t care, everything’s on your terms. They can take it or leave it. It doesn’t matter to you, so ask for whatever the hell you want.”

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36. “I believe you. I can handle anything you need to tell me. You don’t need to protect me from the truth and I’m here to help you in any way I can. It’s not your fault. And you don’t deserve it.”

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37. “You are the kind of man who can’t see the shapes in the clouds. And it’s not because you lack imagination. It’s because you’re too busy to look up.”

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38. “I am so tired of being more sentimental about everyone and everything in my life than I am about myself.”

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39. “Mom had normalized this abuse. Indulged it. She’d made me a participant, reinforced this behavior by giving my father what he wanted when he acted this way. The most influential woman in my life had modeled this for me from the day I was born and told me to take it. She’d taught me this, primed me for my relationship with Neil. Made me believe that this was what love looked like.”

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40. “I was unmovable. I didn’t like change. I didn’t like to adapt. It was easier to decide to hate something or someone and stick with it, because the other option would be to expose myself to the unknown or open myself up to be hurt.”

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41. “I love you,” he whispered. “We are together. This isn’t over. And even if you leave, it won’t be over because you’ll take the love with you and it’ll bring you back.”

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42. “I would notice you in a crowd of a million.”

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43. “I know all of your quiets. I know when you’re alone with me and you’re quiet, it’s because your brain is still. And when you’re in public and you’re quiet, it’s because your brain is loud. But I don’t know this one. What’s this one?”

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44. “I’d follow a clown into a storm drain if he had a baby goat in pajamas.”

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45. “My whole life I’d always felt a little fractured and scattered. Probably because it was always someone else trying to decide what I needed to be. I was a mosaic of someone else’s design where none of the fragments were put in the right place. And now I had finally put myself together and I recognized myself for the very first time.”

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46. “All they do is lie and throw off your PH balance. They are a constant reminder that we don’t choose our sexuality, because who in their right mind would choose to be attracted to men. They are completely worthless as partners. Did you know that when a wife becomes seriously ill, she is six times more likely to be abandoned by her spouse than a husband is?”

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47. “I know it hurts, but just think, now you know what it feels like for a man with a cold.”

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48. “Why won’t you let me love you?”

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49. “This is what it feels like to be truly loved. I’ve never felt it before. And I didn’t even realize it until just now.”

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50. “Have you ever heard the saying that if you’re with someone who doesn’t speak your language, you’ll spend a lifetime having to translate your soul?”

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