Top 300 Abby Jimenez Quotes (2026 Update)
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101. “Ali, never underestimate what a man will do for five percent better sensation.”

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102. “I was always calm in a crisis. I had a lot of experience with it, my whole childhood had been a crisis. I had my parents to thank for that, the one thing they could take credit for.”

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103. “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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104. “The universe doesn’t just hand out true love.”

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105. “And just so you know, there is no greater show of love than someone bringing you food without being told.”

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106. “I beamed. “Kiss me, Daniel Grant.” He looked scandalized. “Right here? In front of everyone?” “Right here. In front of everyone.”

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107. “Now you just tuck that little trash panda into your cleavage. Quiets him right down.”

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108. “I think you can tell a lot about someone by how animals react to them.”

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109. “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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110. “When men stop assaulting women they meet on the internet, we’ll stop creeping on them to make sure they pass the vibe check. And anyway, if he wanted privacy, his account would be private.”

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111. “Yeah, well the thrill of the unknown is what gets you murdered.”

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112. “And when I met her in the middle of the lawn and she hugged me, I was so overwhelmed with relief, I started to cry. I was a little girl again.”

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

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115. “My grandma used to say that dragonflies mean change is coming.” She went quiet for a moment. “Must be a lot of change.”

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116. “A penguin love stone. When a male likes a female, he finds a perfect stone and he brings it to her. If she likes it, she puts it in her nest and that’s it. They’re paired for life.”

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117. “Because love shows up. And here I am.”

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118. “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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119. “The best moments don’t have to be big to be forever.”

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120. “I’m not superstitious.” I heard him suck air through his teeth. “I’m a little stitious.”

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121. “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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122. “I could feel it in everything suddenly. The way he touched me, the energy coming off him, the look in his eyes. And then I realized that I had always felt it. This was his quiet. The silence that I couldn’t decipher. It was me.”

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123. “It’s the greatest revenge to be happy. To have a good life.”

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

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

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126. “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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127. “I don’t need anyone. And I know that sounds sort of terrible, but it’s actually comforting to know that I have this ability to need no one. It feels like a superpower. Like I’m untouchable.”

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128. “No. When they’re that attractive or over six feet tall, they usually have the personality of a sexy palm tree.”

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129. “It’s too confusing. The truth scares them. Sometimes the best way to show love or be kind to someone is to meet them where they are.”

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130. “The moment Emma came into view, my entire world slipped into slow motion. My brain took a screenshot. I felt the moment freeze and save. She was beautiful.”

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131. “The love stories sold us the wrong thing. The best kind of love doesn’t happen on moonlit walks and romantic vacations. It happens in between the folds of everyday life. It’s not grand gestures that show how you feel, it’s all the little secret things you do to make her life better that you never tell her about. Taking the end piece of the bread at breakfast.”

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132. “Memories were like that, sometimes they bent reality.”

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133. “If you really loved me, you would have let me go.”

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134. “I got nervous in unfamiliar social settings, so I would say the wrong thing or become withdrawn, so it took time for people to warm up to me.”

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135. “It’s funny how similar longing feels to grief.”

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136. “Nothing offended me except for cauliflower and stupidity.”

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137. “Okay, first of all, that pig has a name. It’s Kevin Bacon. It’s rude not to use it.” She was laughing again. “Kevin Bacon?” “Yup. Doug has a petting zoo, and he names them stuff like that.”

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138. “Justin was on the island. Not the real one. The one in my soul.”

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139. “It’s funny to think that even sitting there on the floor with her, uncomfortable and tired, was better than sitting anywhere else in the world without her.”

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140. “But I knew now that Justin was the only person in the world I could ever disappear into.”

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141. “This is what depression felt like. I thought it had been bad back when I was with Neil. But this was a darkness I’d never experienced before. My body felt atrophied, like the simple act of getting up was a feat. Nothing made me smile. None of the things I typically loved appealed to me. And it occurred to me that I had drowned. I didn’t save myself. And now I was just floating, weightless, dead inside.”

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142. “This was not a woman I wanted to end things with after four dates. I was already thinking of ways I could make our dates more special, things I could bring her or places I could take her.”

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143. “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. Try to understand how they got them and help fill them with something that isn’t ice.” She peered at me. “If you can choose anger or empathy, always choose empathy, Justin. It’s so much healthier than anger.”

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144. “I want you to know that your empathy is beautiful, Emma. I hope you never lose that. I do hope that one day you get some boundaries though.”

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145. “I think the thing that always got me through the stuff with my mom was knowing that she didn’t want to be the way she was. Nobody wants to be the villain, Justin. If you start there, it’s easier to get how people end up who they are and where they are. My mom put me through a lot. She hurt me. A lot. But she’s full of more cracks than I can ever comprehend.”

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146. “What I mean is you have been conditioned your entire life to live for everyone else.”

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147. “My forest. All three of them, really. Our roots intertwined to give each other strength.”

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148. “I want everything with you.”

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149. “Being liked by Jacob meant something because he was so shy. It’s like when someone’s pet comes to sit with you instead of their person, and you feel like the chosen one. It made me feel a little special like he saw something in me.”

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150. “None of this matters. None of it. It’s just stuff. You can build another clinic somewhere else, but that? What you have with her? That is not easy to find. The universe doesn’t just hand out true love. And I know that’s what this is because I see you’re willing to kill yourself over it. So if you have that, if you’re one of the lucky ones, why in God’s green earth would you give it up?”

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