Top 100 Abby Jimenez Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “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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52. “Like my life was a stuffy room, and you’re the breeze that came in when the window opened.”

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

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

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55. “Do you ever see yourself acting crazy, but you can’t stop because you’re not a quitter?”

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56. “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.”

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57. “And we stayed there holding each other, inseparable, immovable, tangled like a tree that had grown into a chain-link fence.”

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58. “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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59. “This was me making space for her, even though she would never know it. My way of saying thank you for her friendship, even if it was too quiet to hear.”

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60. “Sup, girl. You think about what I said?” He grinned. “No, Shawn, I don’t have any Mexican in me, and no, I don’t want any.”

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61. “I didn’t want Vanessa to kiss me just because we were standing under mistletoe. I didn’t want her to kiss me because it was midnight on New Year’s. I didn’t want a one-night stand or to be friends with benefits. I wanted all of her. I wanted it the right way. I wanted her to want me back.”

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62. “I wondered how long the ripple effect lasted after someone died. Maybe until everyone who knew them was dead too? Or was it something that went on for generation after generation because the damage was handed down, touching each new person and changing them, even if they don’t know why?”

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

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

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

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

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

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

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70. “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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71. “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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72. “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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73. “Even duct tape can’t fix stupid.”

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74. “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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75. “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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76. “I drink the wine, even if the only thing I’m celebrating is the fact that it’s Tuesday.”

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

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78. “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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79. “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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80. “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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81. “I wanted to do anything that meant I got to spend more time with her.”

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82. “How do you share something like that? How could I tell him that my body could never do the one thing he needed it to? I couldn’t. I couldn’t get the words out. I couldn’t bear to see my value drop in his eyes, see him realize I wasn’t actually what he wanted. Less of a woman. Damaged goods.”

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83. “You can always figure out a way to have fun. Even if you can’t go anywhere.”

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84. “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.”

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85. “It’s just that you’re perfect, and my heart hurts.”

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86. “The only problem with anger is that it burns hot and fast. It doesn’t tend to burn long. Sadness burns long. Grief. Disappointment.”

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

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

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91. “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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92. “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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93. “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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94. “It only took me a minute before my thoughts slid back to Kristen. My mind always slid back to Kristen.”

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95. “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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96. “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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97. “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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98. “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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99. “Cheating was a completely avoidable scenario as long as you operated with the barest amount of common sense.”

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

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