Top 300 Abby Jimenez Quotes (2026 Update)
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151. “But I already knew when my life flashed before my eyes, the best parts of it were going to be about her.”

— Abby Jimenez

152. “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.”

— Abby Jimenez

153. “It’s like I wanted to see if he still wanted me around after he knew me. The unscripted me. The real me. The messy me.”

— Abby Jimenez

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

— Abby Jimenez

155. “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.”

— Abby Jimenez

156. “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.”

— Abby Jimenez

157. “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.”

— Abby Jimenez

158. “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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159. “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.”

— Abby Jimenez

160. “Wow. Somebody in this car never had to ignore their drunk misogynistic uncle at Thanksgiving, and it really shows.”

— Abby Jimenez

161. “I know trust is hard for you. So that’s what I’m going to help you with.”

— Abby Jimenez

162. “I like you more than I’ve ever liked anyone too.” He paused. “I like you more than like.” We held each other’s gaze. “I like you more than like too,” I said quietly.”

— Abby Jimenez

163. “Because when you’re in love, you do hard things. And nothing about anything was easy right now.”

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164. “The truth isn’t supposed to be pretty, right? It’s the truth.”

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165. “Even if it was just a tiny moment in a long lifetime of moments, I was happy to be a part of it.”

— Abby Jimenez

166. “Your house is clean,” I said. “I don’t like how I feel when it’s not clean. It messes with me.”

— Abby Jimenez

167. “Be glad you don’t get it. It means your life has been a lot gentler than hers.”

— Abby Jimenez

168. “Use me,” he said, his eye resigned. “Use me for whatever you want. Just stay.”

— Abby Jimenez

169. “You know, they almost didn’t let me in here. They said I had to wait until you were awake and you could ask for me. They only let me in because you had me listed on your intake paperwork as your wife.”

— Abby Jimenez

170. “The way it lights someone up, how it can speak to you without a word across a crowded room. That split second of raw reaction when you’re seen and known. Relief, joy, happiness at locking eyes with someone you were looking for or seeing someone you didn’t expect.”

— Abby Jimenez

171. “Briana was sitting so close to me her leg pressed into mine. I had a hand on her knee, and she kept leaning into my arm. I almost forgot I was at my ex’s engagement party. Or that I was at a party at all. Briana did that to me.”

— Abby Jimenez

172. “You remember, and it’s the only thing in color.”

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

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174. “You know, love shows up, Briana. And even if you keep me away from you, my heart will still be where you are. So just let me be where you are.”

— Abby Jimenez

175. “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.”

— Abby Jimenez

176. “Loneliness in a relationship is the deepest loneliness of all.”

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177. “Home is something that’s always there, I realized. No matter where you are in the world, you know it’s where you left it, unchanged and waiting.”

— Abby Jimenez

178. “I didn’t care about money or status, that was not what did it for me with men. I liked intelligence and compassion and humanity.”

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179. “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.”

— Abby Jimenez

180. “I put an arm across the door. “I was musically assaulted today by a roving a cappella group in naval dress whites, and you think it’s funny?”

— Abby Jimenez

181. “I’m sorry someone made you feel like it’s hard to love you,’ she said.”

— Abby Jimenez

182. “I wasn’t interested in never being home anymore. I liked being home. These days, home was the only place I felt true peace.”

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183. “I want you to know that watching two complete strangers fall in love has been one of the greatest gifts of my life.”

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184. “Everything starts with you and ends with you. Anything else is just the stuff that happens in the middle.”

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

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

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

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

— Abby Jimenez

192. “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.”

— Abby Jimenez

193. “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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194. “I liked being alone. With her.”

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

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196. “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.”

— Abby Jimenez

197. “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.”

— Abby Jimenez

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

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

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