Top 300 Abby Jimenez Quotes (2026 Update)
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201. “Tell me your day today from start to finish.”

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202. “I was done being chased out of my own life. I was done locking my jail cell from the inside.”

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203. “I thought about what Emma said once. That framing is everything. That if you can frame the terrible things in the best possible way, that’s where true happiness comes from.”

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204. “Female trees produce fruit. Fruit falls, it makes messes, it attracts vermin. So most trees planted in urban areas are male. They put out pollen with no female trees to absorb it, so it ends up in the air instead.”

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205. “You should have brought the nurses donuts on your first day. You showed up empty-handed, that was your first mistake. Cupcakes might save you, but not the cheap stuff. Nadia Cakes, two dozen, get a keto one for Gloria, at least four gluten-free ones, and one vegan. Hector doesn’t do animal by-products. Bonus points if you get a doggie cupcake for Angelica’s new puppy.”

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206. “To me, love meant you stayed. But now I understood that love sometimes means you let someone go.”

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207. “I think something is wrong with me. Like there’s something in me, in my heart, that doesn’t work right.”

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208. “Maybe that’s the last thing we forget. Or we never forget it at all. Not really. We lose the words to say it. We lose the ability to show it. But we never lose the ability to feel it or recognize it when we see it. Love is the brightest color in a gray world.”

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209. “If you had the power to erase every memory you have of me so you didn’t know what you were missing, would you do it?” she asked. “No, I wouldn’t do it,” I said without even thinking about it. “Why?” “Because life wouldn’t be worth living if I didn’t remember you.”

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210. “I could break up with him and suffer. Or I could date him and take what I could. Make memories when I could. With everything in life, it’s what you can live with. It always is. And this was still better than nothing.”

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211. “I was someone who would never raise a hand to my own children, someone who knew the power of encouragement and compliments – even if it was too late for me to be the kind of man who could accept them myself.”

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212. “Don’t get a cat,” she went on. “It’ll walk around pushing your drinks off the coffee table. You’re not emotionally strong enough for that.”

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213. “But for me, it was a lifeline. An outstretched hand while I was falling, an umbrella in a downpour. A friendship is a hostile place.”

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214. “Nothing could convince me this woman wasn’t made for me to love. I think my soul recognized hers the second I laid eyes on her.”

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215. “Good people attracting other good people.”

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216. “And your forearms. I love them.” Well. I was never wearing long sleeves again. Winter was going to be rough. “When.”

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217. “You said the ones Amber got you were dead. I wanted to get you some that wouldn’t die.”

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

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219. “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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220. “You are not what happened to you. You are what you do next.”

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221. “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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222. “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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223. “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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224. “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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225. “Well, you missed out. They’re just old enough to not be annoying and they have all that sexual energy.”

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226. “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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227. “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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228. “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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229. “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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230. “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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231. “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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232. “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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233. “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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234. “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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235. “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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236. “The tile aisle is where it’s at. Those guys are ripped and they make good money. Also, they’re good on their hands and knees.”

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237. “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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238. “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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239. “I was a mosaic of someone else’s design where none of the fragments were put in the right place.”

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

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

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

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244. “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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245. “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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246. “Sometimes the start of something good begins during something bad,” he said. “We don’t get to pick when these things happen.”

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247. “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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248. “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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249. “Of course I want that. Who wouldn’t want to get hit by a love truck?”

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250. “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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