Top 300 Abby Jimenez Quotes (2026 Update)
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151. “You said the ones Amber got you were dead. I wanted to get you some that wouldn’t die.”

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152. “I would throw myself over him like a bulletproof vest. Wrap him up in my protection.”

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153. “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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154. “You are not what happened to you. You are what you do next.”

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155. “You know what’s so dangerous about drowning?′ I said, looking up at him. ‘It’s silent. So unless someone’s paying close attention to you, no one saves you.”

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156. “She smiled and then scooted over and curled up against me and I got to put an arm around her. She snuggled into me and it was everything. My entire universe condensed to a single place and time.”

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157. “I will never judge you for how you climb a tree, Jacob. And you should know that you are an exceptional fish.”

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158. “I forced myself to stop thinking about it. To do what I always did – find gratitude in what I’d gotten instead of dwelling on what I’d lost.”

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159. “Well, you missed out. They’re just old enough to not be annoying and they have all that sexual energy.”

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160. “He’s gone, Justin. May God rest his soul.” I blinked at her. “Your boyfriend died?” “He’s dead to me.”

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161. “I wanted him to hold me after. To wake up with me in the morning and eat cereal in my bed while we watched TV. I wanted to see his pajamas on Christmas morning and find out what he looked like with birthday candles lighting his face and snow in his hair.”

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162. “Somebody told me once that it only takes a few minutes to know if you like someone. That our initial impression is usually the right one. I liked her.”

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163. “You deserve to be appreciated, Emma.” “I think I’m just used to feeling like I’m asking too much when I need something. Unless it’s Maddy. My mom- “You’re not asking too much,” he said. “You were just asking the wrong person. Ask me instead.”

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164. “And I thought about what Kristen had said, about my life being a shrine to him, and I realized I was still living with another man. And that man wasn’t ever coming home.”

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165. “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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166. “I’m so lucky I know you,” I said quietly. He paused for a moment. “I feel the same way. Like my life was a stuffy room, and you’re the breeze that came in when the window opened.”

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167. “It was a reminder that some things are worse than death – losing the things worth living for are worse than death.”

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168. “Being broken is not an excuse for bad behavior, you still have to make good choices and do the right thing. But it can be the reason. And sometimes understanding the reason can be what helps you heal.”

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169. “I loved waking up with her in the morning and that I would get to come home to her tonight. I loved going out to eat and talking about our days and making plans for tomorrow. I loved that she was going to use my shower and my pillow would smell like her hair.”

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170. “You earned your flowers in the Midwest. You waited for them for eight months. In California you had lemons in December.”

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171. “I’d like to look back on my life and remember every single thing. But if I don’t, I hope I remember that it was a love story. And that the love story was about you.”

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172. “I was a mosaic of someone else’s design where none of the fragments were put in the right place.”

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173. “Because life wouldn’t be worth living if I didn’t remember you.”

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174. “Anyone who says money isn’t everything has never had to live without it.”

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175. “He needed the razzmatazz that I brought to the relationship. And I needed his steadiness. He was level and capable. Someone you could always depend on, someone who would make you feel safe and loved and taken care of, who could talk you onto the shoulder of a freeway while you’re driving blind and panicking. He could keep you calm in a swaying gondola a hundred feet in the air or a room you can’t get out of, someone who would jump into a lake to save your phone. We were really well matched.”

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176. “You know how when someone dies, all anyone cares about is how?”

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177. “You are the flood Vanessa. Seeping and then pouring, washing away everything that I used to think mattered and then filling me up to the top until I’m drowned in nothing but you.”

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178. “I gave Nick the part of me I don’t give anyone. I gave him the kind of stupid, innocent love that you can only give before you know better. He got the best of me. And I’ll never find that me again.”

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179. “Wow,” I said, impressed. “How’d you learn how to do that?” “It’s easy. You join betta fish Reddit, ask an innocent question, and wait to get bullied.”

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180. “The gentle, tender steadiness about him. It felt like he was unchangeable. Like this is who he had always been, like he came out of the womb this way, a static flat line, and he would stay that way until the day he died. This kind of person was instantly recognizable, even to someone who recognized nothing. I.”

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181. “Of course I want that. Who wouldn’t want to get hit by a love truck?”

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182. “Well, if I had to guess, knowing what I know of Briana, she probably didn’t. She’s tough. Self-reliant. She’d try to muscle through it. But if you don’t deal with trauma, it just circles back around. She’s probably depressed. And depression lies, Jacob. Nothing it’s telling her is true, but she can’t know that in her state without help.”

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183. “You weren’t pregnant,” I said, over my shoulder, raising my voice so she could hear me above the screaming. “Where’d you get her?” “Target,” she deadpanned. “She was on sale and you know how you can never leave with just one thing,” she mumbled.”

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184. “Sometimes the best way to show love or be kind to someone is to meet them where they are.”

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185. “Unhealed trauma is a crack. And all the little hard things that trickle into it that would have rolled off someone else, settle. Then when life gets cold, that crack gets bigger, longer, deeper. It makes new breaks.”

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186. “I would stay forever if you asked me,” I whispered. “Then stay.” I broke in half.”

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187. “But maybe she did fall apart. Maybe she just didn’t let us see it. Maybe that was her way of protecting us from more cracks.”

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188. “Because when you’re in love, you do hard things.”

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189. “I must return to my isolation now. I need twenty to twenty-two hours of alone time a day to function.”

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190. “This wasn’t just a community. This was a family.”

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191. “What does this one mean?” she whispered. “This one what?” I said softly. She opened her beautiful eyes and looked at me. “This quiet,” she said dreamily. “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?” I held her gaze. “This one’s you.”

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192. “And for the first time maybe ever, I felt like I belonged somewhere.”

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193. “No, the whole point in me telling you this story is to remind you that we need to manifest our own destiny.”

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194. “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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195. “Drink some water.” “Water?” Leigh said. “That stuff that killed everyone on the Titanic?”

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196. “This is the thing nobody tells you about The One. How they’re timeless. How the moment they pop up again you’re right back in it, right where you left off. I was darted through the heart, hit by the truck, my brain taking the screenshot.”

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197. “I needed to not be at work today. I needed to sit around my house without a bra, my hair in a weird bun, watching reruns of Schitt’s Creek. 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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198. “I don’t know how, but it felt like this stranger was a guardian angel. Like the universe, had put him here to be there when i needed him, with his small giant acts of kindness. That’s the thing about kindness you never know how big the ripple is. How one little selfless gesture can make all the difference for the person who receives it .”

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199. “Could be Taco Bell,” Jacob said, giving his wife a playful eyebrow.”

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200. “I tried to enjoy it. I laughed in all the right places and smiled so that it reached my eyes. But all I saw now was the ending.”

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