Top 200 Jamie McGuire Quotes (2024 Update)
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51. “Travis grabbed my wrists and wrapped them around his middle. “There’s nothing to hold on to but me, Pidge. Don’t let go,” he said pushing the bike backward with his feet.”

— Jamie McGuire

52. “Cuando estamos solos eres perfecto. Somos perfectos. Pero entonces permites que todo el mundo lo arruine. No espero que huyas de todo, pero tienes que elegir tus batallas. No puedes pelear cada vez que alguien me mire.”

— Jamie McGuire

53. “Abby closed her eyes and leaned down. I knew she meant to kiss the corner of my mouth, but I turned so that our lips met. It was my last chance. I had to kiss her goodbye.”

— Jamie McGuire

54. “Love is the most overused word in the English Language. It’s confusing to everyone. Some people live their whole lives and never get it right.”

— Jamie McGuire

55. “Everything that’s happened since we met has led to this moment. There is only one woman I’ve loved before you, and there will never be another after you.”

— Jamie McGuire

56. “Ugh! Why can’t Hell stay where it’s at? Why does it always have to break loose?”

— Jamie McGuire

57. “I’ve never seen him smile the way he does when he’s with you. I hope all my boys have an Abby one day.”

— Jamie McGuire

58. “Sometimes good-bye is a second chance. Clears your head. Anyway... missing someone makes you remember why you loved that person in the first place.”

— Jamie McGuire

59. “I don’t know why you put up with me, and I don’t know what I’d do if you didn’t.”

— Jamie McGuire

60. “Your observations aren’t always correct. Sometimes, things go deeper than what you see on the surface.”

— Jamie McGuire

61. “The day you appeared on our family tree, I wanted to cut it down.”

— Jamie McGuire

62. “My palms flat against the wall of the tile, I clenched my eyes shut. “Please come back” I said quietly. She couldn’t hear me, but it didn’t stop me from wishing she would come and save me from the terrible pain I felt without her there.”

— Jamie McGuire

63. “This whole thing might play out to be a completely wonderful, beautiful disaster, but I want that if it’s with you.”

— Jamie McGuire

64. “You’re going to break his heart, Abby. You’re going to break his heart! The one girl he trusts enough to fall for, and you’re going to nail him to the wall!”

— Jamie McGuire

65. “I knew I would wish for that moment back every day of my life, so I lived it with everything I had.”

— Jamie McGuire

66. “Who would have thought from the first time we met that we’d be sitting here? You couldn’t have told me three months ago that I’d be this miserable over saying goodbye to a girl.”

— Jamie McGuire

67. “You won’t have to worry about that. I am writing my own story. And in my story, I get a happy ending. No matter what happens, they can’t touch me.”

— Jamie McGuire

68. “I turned away from his grip, ashamed that I couldn’t tell him the truth. I was the one that wasn’t good enough. I would be the one to ruin everything; to ruin him. He would hate me one day, and I couldn’t see the look in his eye when he came to that conclusion.”

— Jamie McGuire

69. “You have said from the beginning that this was all happening exactly the way it was supposed to. You can’t pick and choose. It’s either fate, or it’s not.”

— Jamie McGuire

70. “And when a Maddox boy falls in love, he loves forever.”

— Jamie McGuire

71. “We all pretended it would get better, but the unspoken truth is always louder than the stories we tell.”

— Jamie McGuire

72. “He exhaled with a deep, contented sigh, speaking in a hushed voice. “I love you, Abby. I’m going to make you happy, I swear it.”

— Jamie McGuire

73. “Falling is easy. The hard part is getting back up.”

— Jamie McGuire

74. “I was in love with her; couldn’t imagine my life without her in it; but at the same time, I wanted her to have better.”

— Jamie McGuire

75. “My uncle John says people can only make us angry if we let them, and if we let them, we give them power.”

— Jamie McGuire

76. “My jeans don’t know your jean well enough to be washed together.”

— Jamie McGuire

77. “Statistically, our family was due for a girl, and I’m not sure the world could handle a female Maddox. All the fight and anger, plus estrogen? Everyone would die.” -Travis Maddox.”

— Jamie McGuire

78. “You’re a pain in my ass!” he yelled, glaring at me. I couldn’t stop smiling, and after a few seconds, Travis’ mouth turned up. He shook his head again, and then hooked his arm around my neck. “You’re making me crazy. You know that, right?”

— Jamie McGuire

79. “As tired as I was, it was difficult to stop watching her.”

— Jamie McGuire

80. “So, he hates women.” “No,” she said, looking off in thought. “He’s just sworn them off. Doesn’t want to get hurt again, I imagine.”

— Jamie McGuire

81. “A boy without a mother is a very curious creature. If Travis is anything like his father, and I know that he is, he’s a deep ocean of fragility, protected by a thick wall of swear words and feigned indifference.” -Diane Maddox.”

— Jamie McGuire

82. “Within the walls of our high school were the weak, the sad, the pompous, and the proud, all flying down the same road at a hundred miles an hour to an end for which we weren’t ready. Students who were barely able to remember to bring their coats home from school were waiting to be unleashed into the world as adults.”

— Jamie McGuire

83. “Wherever you are, I’m there with you. I don’t want to be anywhere you’re not.”

— Jamie McGuire

84. “You’re the only woman I know that still looks incredible with your head in the toilet. That’s saying something.”

— Jamie McGuire

85. “People have forgotten to use their memories. They look at life through the lens of a camera or the screen of a cell phone instead of remembering how it looks, how it smells.”

— Jamie McGuire

86. “It was ridiculous to be so emotional, but each time I did something to push him away, I was terrified it would work.”

— Jamie McGuire

87. “Holy flippindip! It’s colder than a frog’s ass in January!”

— Jamie McGuire

88. “Are you about finished?” Hazel deadpanned. She looked at me. “He started his period this morning.”

— Jamie McGuire

89. “He was mine, and I was his. If I knew anything at all, it was that only those two things mattered.”

— Jamie McGuire

90. “Any thoughts of being with Parker were long gone, and I knew it was because of my feelings for Travis. I thought about the different paths my life would take from that moment – trusting Travis with a leap of faith and risking the unknown, or pushing him away and knowing exactly where I would end up, which included a life without him – either decision terrified me.”

— Jamie McGuire

91. “It would never work, Ellie.” “Why?” “Because we’re friends, and I want to continue to be friends.” “You just told me to kill myself.” He chuckled. “I didn’t mean it.”

— Jamie McGuire

92. “Maybe it was just me. Maybe it was just me and her. Maybe together we were this volatile entity that would either implode or meld together. Either way, it seemed the moment I met her, my life had been turned upside down. And I didn’t want it any other way.”

— Jamie McGuire

93. “I decided a long time ago I would feed on the vultures until a dove came along. A pigeon. The kind of soul that didn’t impede on anyone; just walked around worrying about its own business, trying to get through life without pulling everyone else down. With its own needs and selfish habits. Brave. A communicator. Intelligent. Beautiful. Soft-spoken. A creature that mates for life. Unattainable until she has a reason to trust you.”

— Jamie McGuire

94. “The only woman I’d ever wanna marry just broke my heart...”

— Jamie McGuire

95. “She was my opposite: innocent on the surface, and damaged deep within.”

— Jamie McGuire

96. “You think she’s been listening to Taylor Swift on her headphones in here?”

— Jamie McGuire

97. “I think it’s pretty obvious that I don’t just want you.” He laughed once, nervous. “I can’t stay away from you. That qualifies as need.”

— Jamie McGuire

98. “One I did, Travis flipped off the lamp, and then pulled me against him without permission or apology. He tensed his arms and sighed, and I nestled my face into his neck. I shut my eyes tight, trying to savor the moment. I knew I would wish for that moment back every day of my life, so I lived it with everything I had.”

— Jamie McGuire

99. “Your mom wants to be here with you. She wants that very much. But Jesus wants her with him right now.” I frowned. “I need her more than Jesus does.”

— Jamie McGuire

100. “Your brain amazes me. Your thoughts are poetry.”

— Jamie McGuire