Top 40 Jasmine Guillory Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “The only way out is through. I know it’s hard, really hard sometimes, but your options are to either give up, or push through the hard parts. And I know you don’t want to give up.”

— Jasmine Guillory

2. “Don’t bring a sandwich to a buffet.”

— Jasmine Guillory

3. “I’ve spent so long being afraid of love, because the last time I was in love, the man I loved only loved one part of me, but not all of me, and I thought love meant having to sacrifice a part of yourself. But then I was with you, and you loved every part of me, even the parts I don’t like. And that scared me more, because I thought there must be some trick and that I couldn’t let myself believe it or I’d fall into the trap. But finally I realized it wasn’t a trap.”

— Jasmine Guillory

4. “Does cookie dough ice cream go better with red or white wine?”

— Jasmine Guillory

5. “He opened his arms for a hug. “Thanks for all of your help today. With the books, and everything else. Now I definitely owe you a drink. Next week?” She let the hug linger.”

— Jasmine Guillory

6. “Life is short. I need to stop waiting for special occasions in order to treat myself.”

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7. “Life gets busy, with so many things that aren’t actually important but feel important. And there are plenty of weekend days where I could decide to forget my to-do list, spend a few hours at the beach instead, but I’ve only ever done that if there’s a special occasion.”

— Jasmine Guillory

8. “If only every workday could be spent in the sunshine with pineapples full of rum. She’d get very little work done, but she’d be in an excellent mood.”

— Jasmine Guillory

9. “As my friend Colleen always says, ‘Don’t bring a sandwich to a buffet.”

— Jasmine Guillory

10. “But not yet. Right now she needed to hug this whole weekend close to her chest and hold on to it tight before sharing it with anyone.”

— Jasmine Guillory

11. “He knew he loved her; he knew it to his core. He loved her for her kindness, her ability to laugh both at him and at herself, and her intelligence. But most of all, he loved her for the feeling he had when he sat next to her on his couch in silence or woke up next to her in bed, that feeling of peace and happiness. That he was with someone who understood him and everything about him. That everything was right with the world.”

— Jasmine Guillory

12. “I love you so much,” he said, she said, they said.”

— Jasmine Guillory

13. “Her bladder disagreed. It increased the pressure and reminded her of all of that champagne she’d drunk and those bottles of water that had closed out the night. Oh God, she really had to.”

— Jasmine Guillory

14. “Alexa looked down into her coffee again, gazing into the dark brown liquid like it was Dumbledore’s Pensieve.”

— Jasmine Guillory

15. “You dare to accuse me of not being a morning person? Just because I may not be able to speak a word to anyone else before I drink an entire cup of coffee does not mean I’m not a morning person! I love mornings! I just love to observe them from my bed, that’s all.”

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16. “There was no point in telling the woman you were stuck in an elevator with for probably only a few minutes that you’d broken the heart of the nicest person in the world, the snowball that had started this whole avalanche, and you probably deserved all of the looks you’d get all weekend, right? It wasn’t like he’d lied to her; everything he said was the truth, just not the whole truth. It wasn’t like he’d made Josh or Molly out to be evil, had he?”

— Jasmine Guillory

17. “I know you think I rush into things, and maybe I do. And I know my job makes things complicated. But you know, I only rush into the big things when I know to my core that they’re right. I know to my core you’re right for me, Olivia Monroe.” He kissed her cheek. “But no, I won’t propose right now.”

— Jasmine Guillory

18. “Why had he never tried hiding in a kitchen during a party before? You got to be around the party, but not, like, right in the middle of it, do something at least semihelpful, and not get stuck in prying conversations. Win-win.”

— Jasmine Guillory

19. “Olivia reached for her phone, connected it to his car Bluetooth, and cranked up a Dolly Parton playlist. “Thank God for Dolly,” she said. “See, she was the best part of the night.” They spent the rest of the drive back to her house singing along with Dolly, and they could tell a bunch of the cars around them were doing the same thing.”

— Jasmine Guillory

20. “You walk into any situation with an attitude that you’ve got this, you can defend yourself, you are strong.”

— Jasmine Guillory

21. “Women who know how to fight hold themselves differently. I’ve seen that in the women who’ve taught me, in the women who’ve taken my classes, and especially in myself. You walk into any situation with an attitude that you’ve got this, you can defend yourself, you are strong.”

— Jasmine Guillory

22. “He wrote his name on the small of her back with his thumb.”

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23. “My marriage sapped me of a lot of my strength, and what made it worse were the constant messages I got from society that women are weak, women should be afraid, women should settle for whatever they can get. And I want the women who walk into this gym to know that women have power and agency and deserve great things in life.”

— Jasmine Guillory

24. “Her first instinct was to get in her car, get on the freeway going east, and just keep driving. Yes, that was a good idea. She should drive until she hit the desert and then stay there. That way, she would never have to deal with this and maybe eventually it would go away.”

— Jasmine Guillory

25. “This wasn’t a staircase a person would simply walk down, it was a staircase you would descend. Preferably, in a long, trailing gown.”

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26. “They’d learned how to deal with two busy careers and a relationship, too; what the other person was like on an early Monday morning and a stressful Thursday night instead of just their idyllic weekends; that she never made the bed; that Drew always left the lights on.”

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27. “Cheese-flavored anything was the solution to every problem.”

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28. “See, this was why people told her that she read too many books – all she had to do was see one staircase, and she’d inserted herself into a fairy tale.”

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29. “I think I mostly realized I couldn’t live in fear anymore.”

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30. “Life gets busy, with so many things that aren’t actually important but feel important.”

— Jasmine Guillory

31. “Once I learned to trust myself, my instincts, and my emotions, trusting other people was a lot easier.”

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32. “The question I want you to think about is whether it will feel worse for you to push through this hard, scary feeling now, and do it, or if it’ll feel worse to turn around, walk back in the house, and wake up tomorrow, and every day after this, knowing you didn’t do this.”

— Jasmine Guillory

33. “Sixth, there are gardens, plural. I go take a turn around them every afternoon like some Regency romance heroine. And I can do that, because seventh, the weather is incredible.”

— Jasmine Guillory

34. “White men hated it when you reminded them of their privilege, she knew that all too well.”

— Jasmine Guillory

35. “Just because their standards are low does not mean that we should lower ours.” Maddie backed into the parking spot on a side street that they’d found after ten minutes of circling. “And why do you care about your cleavage? What happened to ‘If you’ve got them, flaunt them’?”

— Jasmine Guillory

36. “He believed her. Just like that. So often, guys would jump in to defend other men when women said they’d crossed a line. It had happened to her over and over again.”

— Jasmine Guillory

37. “Just because their standards are low does not mean that we should lower ours.”

— Jasmine Guillory

38. “Good God, sometimes it felt like all of society was complicit in trying to make life harder for women.”

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39. “You don’t have to be unhappy in order to be successful in life.”

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40. “Romance novels made you get too many ideas, everyone knew that. Made you think unreasonable, impossible, unlikely, totally implausible things. She needed to stop that, right away.”

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41. “The people in the hills had too much influence. They were rich and white; the teens she was trying to help were poor and brown.”

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42. “Oh boy, these cheese and crackers are exactly what I need right now’?”

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