Top 100 Abby Jimenez Quotes (2024 Update)
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51. “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

52. “This was the best date I’d ever been on. And it wasn’t even a date.”

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53. “I drink the wine, even if the only thing I’m celebrating is the fact that it’s Tuesday.”

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54. “How many moments like this had I already missed because of my own stupid hesitations and rules and reservations?”

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55. “Well, you don’t steal a hoodie and not wear it. Otherwise it’s just another senseless crime.”

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56. “We played like children. Had squirt gun fights in her living room, played the floor is lava. When it was negative five outside, we boiled water and threw it off the balcony to make fog. We blew bubbles to watch them freeze, made snow angels on the roof, had snowball fights.”

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57. “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.” “Good,” he said, pulling me close to kiss me with an enormous grin. “I was hoping for something like that.”

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58. “But my job is to help you with your crazy. Make you the best, most magnificent crazy you can be.”

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

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60. “Ali, men are two things. Disappointing and consistent. I believe you.”

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61. “Don’t get a cat,” she went on. “It’ll walk around pushing your drinks off the coffee table. You’re not emotionally strong enough for that.”

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62. “I’m beginning to think men are not sending us their best people.”

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63. “My eyes were still puffy, and I was a soft breeze away from losing it again – and I got my period. I get to bleed for a week without the sweet release of death.”

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64. “I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all, I still know quite certainly, that just to be alive, is a grand thing.”

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

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66. “That’s what I want. I want someone to be my universe.”

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67. “I already know how I’m going to die”... “How?” I asked. “Spider bite. Or being sarcastic at the wrong time.”

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68. “I don’t think things are preordained or written in the stars. I believe we make our own destiny.”

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69. “All right, so listen,” Bri said. “I was thinking we could do a double date thing when you get back.” I groaned. “Hear me out. It’s not at all convoluted.” This was going to be convoluted. “Both of us pick the hottest guys we can find on Tinder. Probably someone posing with a fish, but that’s not important.”

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70. “When she left, the only proof I ever had that she’d been here, or that she even existed at all, was the ache I was starting to feel when she was gone.”

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71. “There’s something more final than forever. It’s never. Never is infinite.”

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72. “Sometimes what you have to give is enough. Even if it’s a rock instead of a diamond.”

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73. “There are people you can know for a lifetime and they never get into your heart. And then there are those who are already inside it, before you ever even lay eyes on them. Adrian was a part of me always, I realized. It didn’t matter that I’d only known him for a minute in the day of my life, or a second in the day of his. He was eternal for me, immortalized in my soul, before, after, and forever. And forgetting him wasn’t any more possible than changing my DNA.”

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74. “Kristen, I vow that no matter what health issues lie ahead, I will love and take care of you. I will show you every day of your life that you’re worth everything. I will carry your worries. All I ask is that you carry your own dog purse.”

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75. “It only took me a minute before my thoughts slid back to Kristen. My mind always slid back to Kristen.”

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76. “Daniel, I can’t talk right now. I’m having an emergency.” She sounded like she was crying. I sat up. “Are you okay?” She sniffed. “No. Not really. The power is out, so the coffeemaker won’t work.”

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77. “And Daniel wasn’t just some random guy in a bar anymore. He had become the brightest light in my life, what I looked forward to every day. The man who spent two hours down by a river trying to find me the perfect rock. He saw me. And I believed him when he said he wouldn’t let me drown. My heart tugged.”

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78. “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.”

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79. “I didn’t usually watch new shows. I just rewatched the same ones over and over. I liked the familiarity, the predictability. If I rewatched a show, there were never any surprises. No emotional jump scares. I didn’t have to process new feelings or stress over cliffhangers. I knew where it was going and how it would end.”

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80. “Let me get one on your phone too,” he said to me. “You can send it to Kristen. Maybe she’ll print it and keep it where she keeps your balls.”

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81. “She beamed at me, nestled into me, perched on my lap, peppered me with kisses. I wish I’d been able to unlock this level sooner. I wish I’d met her years ago. High school. Grade school. A previous life. It all felt like lost time.”

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82. “Cheating was a completely avoidable scenario as long as you operated with the barest amount of common sense.”

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83. “I think about perfect matches. You know how with an organ donation a perfect match isn’t really perfect? There’s still a chance of rejection, even if all the stars align. Nothing is ever perfect. There’s just matches that have a higher chance of working than others. Maybe you guys were like that. It could have worked, but you’d spend your whole life forcing it.”

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84. “I’m cool buying tampons, but I’m not walking a tiny dog into a store in a purse.”

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85. “Even if you have no money or time or the weather is bad, you can still live an exciting life if you try.”

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86. “She was the foundation. She was the thing that all other things are built on. Everything was secondary to being with her.”

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87. “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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88. “Eight thousand nerves in the clitoris and still not as sensitive as a white man not getting his way.” She beamed at me. “I like this new you.”

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89. “I hated this. I just wanted to protect her, to keep her from ever having to endure anything else painful for the rest of her life. I wished I could wipe it clean. If I could take it from her and carry it myself, I would.”

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

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91. “The world is ending, Alexis. That’s what this feels like. So come with me now.”

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92. “I’m a woman. I can go into a bar penniless wearing sweats and a questionable rash and come out with leftovers and a buzz.”

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93. “I liked that she didn’t feel the need to impress me and I didn’t feel the need to impress her. There was something comforting about it, about just being you in whatever state you happened to be in.”

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94. “I was knee-jerk emotional responses, a minefield of bad days and walls to tear down, and they popped up at random, without warning.”

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95. “My hands wandered over her body and I pulled her close, kissing the back of her neck, waking her up slowly. I wanted to get lost in her, just for a little while, before the reality of what we had to go back to came into focus.”

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

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98. “I want everything with you.”

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99. “But maybe being a father was like this. Just being there and doing what needed to be done, one small task at a time until they added up to something good.”

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100. “He was in the worst position to be generous, yet he was. And she was in the best position to show grace, and she didn’t. And doing it would have cost her nothing. And that was the fundamental difference between them.”

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