Top 90 Jacqueline Simon Gunn Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “Sweat dripped down his chest. She never thought she could envy a piece of fabric, until she saw the T-shirt kissing his skin the way she wanted to.”

— Jacqueline Simon Gunn

52. “Sometimes I miss you, which is strange, because you weren’t at all the way I remember you.”

— Jacqueline Simon Gunn

53. “Sometimes we can’t find our future until we settle our past.”

— Jacqueline Simon Gunn

54. “I think sometimes we fall in love just because it feels so good to love someone, to desire them, to yearn for another human being, to cross the boundary of aloneness that is part of human existence.”

— Jacqueline Simon Gunn

55. “Hope can have sharp edges as it leaves you.”

— Jacqueline Simon Gunn

56. “She felt a wave of fury overtake her as she looked at him standing there naked. She loved him with everything she had, but the love ripped her heart right out.”

— Jacqueline Simon Gunn

57. “It’s hard to let go, especially after you’ve invested a few years. It’s hard to let go of who we imagined someone else was too. You loved him so you overlooked all the thing that were obvious to everyone around you. We all do it.”

— Jacqueline Simon Gunn

58. “Some people will never love you no matter how hard you try and some people will love you without you having to try at all.”

— Jacqueline Simon Gunn

59. “Because of that, he didn’t know how to love someone who actually loved him. He had learned a twisted, tormented kind of love filled with pain and exploitation.”

— Jacqueline Simon Gunn

60. “Mistakes we make in the past sometimes keep us connected. Heartache sometimes keeps us connected.”

— Jacqueline Simon Gunn

61. “Heartbreak is awful, but truth be told, if you have never had your heart broken, then you aren’t fully living. I want you to ask yourself this question because I want you to bask in the fullness of life. And in order to feel life – to experience life – you need to take risks. When you open your heart, you risk having it broken; or stated more accurately it will be broken. But do it anyway; open yourself up. If you don’t, you will never know what it means to live, to love and to be with others.”

— Jacqueline Simon Gunn

62. “I wanted to push away the very thing I wanted. Have you ever had that feeling? Was it because you were so afraid that you wouldn’t get it? Or because you were afraid you would, but deep down didn’t feel you deserved it?”

— Jacqueline Simon Gunn

63. “All I wanted was to merge with the same person who had broken me, thinking that he was the only one who could fill in all the little crevices making me feel whole again.”

— Jacqueline Simon Gunn

64. “She was the kind of woman a person could die over or kill over.”

— Jacqueline Simon Gunn

65. “Relationships don’t break you; they reveal you.”

— Jacqueline Simon Gunn

66. “He loves her for all of the reasons you were afraid to.”

— Jacqueline Simon Gunn

67. “I step outside, easy at first... there is noise; I don’t hear it. There are people; I don’t see them... I see the water; I am alongside it. There is a big hill; I conquer it. A mile of grass; I fly across it. With each step I am stronger, and then faster. My body engages; I am really flying; I am one with the road, but I no longer feel it. With every step forward I am faster and freer. Nothing can touch me; no one can find me. What I find is the truth. I find myself... I am a runner.”

— Jacqueline Simon Gunn

68. “Stop trying to get validation from people who can’t or won’t acknowledge your feelings. This reflects their inability to empathize. It’s a failure on their part and has nothing to do with you.”

— Jacqueline Simon Gunn

69. “He couldn’t give me what I wanted, because he didn’t have it to give. I saw an ideal of him and kept trying to get him to fit that mold because I didn’t want to let go of the illusion of who he was.”

— Jacqueline Simon Gunn

70. “I had trusted him. I had even trusted him after he betrayed me. I was too open for my own good. I still gave that man my heart even after he destroyed it.”

— Jacqueline Simon Gunn

71. “Closure. This was a word that humans used a lot. They told themselves there had to be some sort of ritualistic ending in order to close the chapter and move on, but I wondered if chapters ever really closed, because each one was dependent on the one before.”

— Jacqueline Simon Gunn

72. “I don’t want you to be someone you’re not. I think it’s one of the most beautiful things about love and one of the most tragic. We can only love people fully and completely when we let them be who they are. And sometimes that means you can love someone who you can’t be in a relationship with, because you want different things.”

— Jacqueline Simon Gunn

73. “No matter how many times we get hurt by love, we still crave it, and those who act like they don’t are just wounded and frightened of being hurt again.”

— Jacqueline Simon Gunn

74. “I didn’t want to go down a road I’d already been on. Why was it so hard to turn away from something that was already gone?”

— Jacqueline Simon Gunn

75. “Not all heroes come swooping in to rescue a damsel in distress. I think the greatest heroes are the ones that inspire us, the ones that help us recognize the hero within ourselves.”

— Jacqueline Simon Gunn

76. “And I always clung too hard to hope. Not because there was any, but because I had trouble letting go.”

— Jacqueline Simon Gunn

77. “I think when we love people we offer them the opportunity to break the barriers that prevent them from finding the love they deserve.”

— Jacqueline Simon Gunn

78. “We must dismantle the frame in order to see the full picture.”

— Jacqueline Simon Gunn

79. “I had always been a sensitive person with tons of little cracks and as strong and self-reliant as I could act, it took very little for someone to enter those cracks and hurt me.”

— Jacqueline Simon Gunn

80. “He’ll never be able to hide his feelings for you when he sees you. That’s the thing with enduring love. It can stay buried, you can deny it, but once you are near that person, those feelings pull you together like a magnetic bond.”

— Jacqueline Simon Gunn

81. “I loved the way I could feel him deep in my soul.”

— Jacqueline Simon Gunn

82. “I had been so afraid to open my heart to her, because I had been abandoned, neglected and very hurt, but she showed me that even though love can hurt, it can also heal.”

— Jacqueline Simon Gunn

83. “I hate guys like that, people like that. It’s all about what they want. The attempts to repair are only for their own needs. It’s got nothing to do with love.”

— Jacqueline Simon Gunn

84. “He was the quiet after the storm.”

— Jacqueline Simon Gunn

85. “It’s like you’re the house I never had, the security of walls I never had. I always had to keep my own bricks so tight because there was nothing else to protect me, until I met you.”

— Jacqueline Simon Gunn

86. “Until you, I never realized that people could change us. That we could find more within ourselves, that we always have more to give when we find people we want to give things to.”

— Jacqueline Simon Gunn

87. “Not trusting him and him not being trustworthy are two different things.”

— Jacqueline Simon Gunn

88. “He was always right beside me, but we were never in the same place.”

— Jacqueline Simon Gunn

89. “She wore her vulnerability like red lipstick, with nothing else.”

— Jacqueline Simon Gunn

90. “This was life. We had to learn to take the ending of something painful and let it become something else. Give it meaning. Use it as an opportunity to grow, to try something different, to be someone better.”

— Jacqueline Simon Gunn