Top 300 Abby Jimenez Quotes (2026 Update)
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201. “My forest. All three of them, really. Our roots intertwined to give each other strength.”

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202. “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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203. “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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204. “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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205. “You’ll never use it. Most of the stuff we hang on to we don’t actually need. My entire life packs into two large suitcases. And if it doesn’t, I leave whatever doesn’t fit.”

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206. “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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207. “What if he’s some gross dude who doesn’t floss and now he’s got a picture for his spank bank?”

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208. “Everything I needed or wanted was wrapped up into one human being. It didn’t even seem possible.”

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209. “I want everything with you.”

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210. “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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211. “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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212. “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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213. “You can tell a lot about a guy by how they deal with rejection and getting their asses handed to them.”

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214. “You can love someone and still not be willing to give up your way of life for them. And then there are those you love who you’d take a bullet for.”

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215. “He deserved to be the best friend. He wasn’t a technicality.”

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216. “Mom was standing in the door of the gazebo watching us. She was beaming from ear to ear. She knew. Something ingrained that told her she was seeing true love. Her heart remembering even though her brain had forgotten. She didn’t know who I was or who he was. But she still knew what love was.”

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217. “Because I was in love with Jacob unscripted.”

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218. “He was closing open tabs on a laptop in my brain one at a time until he was the only thing on the screen.”

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219. “I had to let go of any grasp on my old life, on my old insecurities or fears or scars, or I was going to miss out on the best thing that’s ever happened to me.”

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220. “And that was the moment. The first time my brain consciously registered what my heart had been telling me for the last few weeks. I wasn’t falling in love with her. I already was.”

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221. “I wondered if you see things differently in childhood. If innocence can make anything beautiful.”

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222. “All I’ve got left are memories. You still have a chance to make them.”

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223. “You didn’t remember to forget me,” I said, quietly.”

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224. “I’ve been waiting my whole life to feel like this and I thought it was a curse that nobody else ever worked out. But it wasn’t. It’s just that they weren’t you.”

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225. “It was weird to say, but she made me feel alone – the way I felt when I was by myself. Calm and unaffected. Like it was just us here and not a hundred other people.”

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226. “I wanted his fast breath and the moan in the back of his throat and the gasp in mine. I wanted to forget. To be so lost in him I couldn’t think about what scared me, or the cracks in my heart, or the things that didn’t work right in my soul. I got lost in myself all the time. But I knew now that Justin was the only person in the world I could ever disappear into.”

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227. “Even bad memories are sacred in their own way.”

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228. “A blink of an eye for a redwood, but timeless for me.”

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229. “What is up with this entire generation of aging adults who refuse to accept responsibility for themselves?”

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230. “And I could feel it all pressing on me from the inside, like a scream trying to get out.”

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231. “Like what?” she asked. “What else?” “Well, there’s Scape Goat – that’s Chloe’s mom. Chloe’s full name is Chloe Nose Bleat.” I ticked off on my fingers. “The chickens are Mother Clucker and Chick-a-Las Cage, there’s Barack O-Llama, the miniature horse is Al Capony.”

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232. “It was like there was no peaceful place to exist, no emotional safe space. I could have chaos, or I could have worry. I could be in the tornado, or I could be in the eye. But I could never be out of the storm. It was so, so exhausting to live this way.”

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233. “My father was trapped in my mother’s illness. He was her person. Every day she woke up and fell in love with him all over again. Every day he woke up living a nightmare. And this is what he got for leaving it, even for an hour.”

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234. “I think you probably want what every introvert wants – to be invited, even though you won’t come.”

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235. “You only have French’s mustard in your fridge,” she said. “I’m sorry,” I said, crossing my arms and leaning in the doorway. “I’ll do better next time.” “I hope so. It’s all fun and games until you ruin your wiener.”

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236. “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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237. “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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238. “The small memories are the fabric of your life, the ones so inconsequential that you don’t even remember them. You just remember how you felt when you were making them.”

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239. “We do not go out of our way for men. We do not inconvenience ourselves for men, we do not change our well-laid plans for men. No.”

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240. “It was like he was always thinking about me. A crow, bringing me shiny things. But really, all I wanted him to bring me was him.”

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241. “I don’t think she realizes how exceptional she is. I got the sense nobody tells her, which is weird.”

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242. “The breakdown I should have been having all day, but I’d been too busy adulting to properly lose it.”

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243. “A teardrop just ran down my thigh –.”

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244. “I am not drunk. I’m just talking in cursive.”

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245. “A quiet observation of her well-being had grown inside of me the way it did for all the people I cared about. Only not the same. Not the same at all.”

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246. “But maybe being a father was like this. Just being there and doing what needed to be done, one small task at a time until they added up to something good.”

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247. “Love shows up, Jacob. So show up.”

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248. “She couldn’t make more memories with me. But I could still make memories with her. I would be a witness to her life, even though she was done witnessing mine.”

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249. “Because you needed me,” he said simply. “I will always come when you call.”

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

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