Top 300 Abby Jimenez Quotes (2026 Update)
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251. “Loneliness in a relationship is the deepest loneliness of all.”

— Abby Jimenez

252. “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.”

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253. “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.”

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254. “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

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

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

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257. “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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258. “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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259. “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.”

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260. “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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261. “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?”

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

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

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

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

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

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270. “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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271. “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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272. “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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273. “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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274. “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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275. “What I mean is you have been conditioned your entire life to live for everyone else.”

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

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277. “I want everything with you.”

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278. “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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279. “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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280. “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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281. “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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282. “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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283. “Everything I needed or wanted was wrapped up into one human being. It didn’t even seem possible.”

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284. “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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285. “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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286. “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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287. “He deserved to be the best friend. He wasn’t a technicality.”

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288. “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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289. “Because I was in love with Jacob unscripted.”

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290. “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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291. “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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292. “I wondered if you see things differently in childhood. If innocence can make anything beautiful.”

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

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

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295. “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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296. “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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297. “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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298. “Even bad memories are sacred in their own way.”

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

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

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