Top 300 Abby Jimenez Quotes (2026 Update)
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51. “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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52. “I would notice you in a crowd of a million.”

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53. “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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54. “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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55. “Drunk me had no business putting that out there for sober me. She was such a gossip.”

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56. “Like my life was a stuffy room, and you’re the breeze that came in when the window opened.”

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57. “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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58. “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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59. “The world is ending, Alexis. That’s what this feels like. So come with me now.”

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60. “I do love Trader Joe’s,” I said, smiling at the bag. “Nothing like a grocery store that makes you have to visit another grocery store right after.”

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61. “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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62. “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.”

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

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

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

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

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69. “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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70. “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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71. “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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72. “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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73. “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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74. “Even duct tape can’t fix stupid.”

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75. “I wanted to do anything that meant I got to spend more time with her.”

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76. “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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77. “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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78. “Sorry, I had to give Brad his dewormer. I brought some for you too. Faith said you’ve been dragging your ass on the carpet?”

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79. “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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80. “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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81. “Ali, men are two things. Disappointing and consistent. I believe you.”

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82. “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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83. “He was Airport Dad. The guy who plans everything and drives you there and parks the car and lifts all the heavy bags. Carries the passports and makes sure everyone gets to where they’re going and they have what they need. It wasn’t just me who got to shut off their brain around him, it was anyone lucky enough to be placed in his care.”

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

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85. “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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86. “This is why I hated humans. They were the worst animals on the planet.”

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87. “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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88. “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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89. “But I could love her better than anyone ever could for the rest of her life. That, I knew. And if there was even a fraction of a chance that might be enough, I was going to take it.”

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

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

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93. “I didn’t want to drop her off. It didn’t feel like we’d gotten enough time, but to be fair the whole day wouldn’t have been enough time.”

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94. “I enjoy things as soon as possible. I burn the expensive candle, I use the fancy rose-shaped soap, and I drink the wine, even if the only thing I’m celebrating is the fact that it’s Tuesday.”

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95. “I liked being alone. With her.”

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96. “I think my soul recognized hers the second I laid eyes on her. Our bodies knew it the very first night.”

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97. “It’s funny how when you find someone you like as much as I liked her, the destination is suddenly wherever they are.”

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98. “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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99. “Choosing a life without them doesn’t mean you stop caring about them. It just means that you can’t allow them to harm you anymore. But if you don’t think your life would be better without them in it, then accept that they have cracks.”

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100. “That’s what apologies and perspective does. It changes how you feel about what happened.”

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