Top 300 Abby Jimenez Quotes (2026 Update)
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301. “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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302. “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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303. “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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304. “Yeah, well the thrill of the unknown is what gets you murdered.”

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305. “And when I met her in the middle of the lawn and she hugged me, I was so overwhelmed with relief, I started to cry. I was a little girl again.”

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306. “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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307. “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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308. “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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309. “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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310. “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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311. “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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312. “Because life wouldn’t be worth living if I didn’t remember you.”

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

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

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

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

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320. “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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321. “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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322. “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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323. “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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324. “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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325. “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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326. “But I could love her better than anyone ever could for the rest of her life. That, I knew. And if there was even a fraction of a chance that might be enough, I was going to take it.”

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

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328. “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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329. “My grandma used to say that dragonflies mean change is coming.” She went quiet for a moment. “Must be a lot of change.”

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

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331. “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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