Top 140 Jasmine Warga Quotes (2024 Update)
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51. “Something inside me clicks. It’s like I’ve spent my whole life fiddling with a complicated combination only to discover I was toying with the wrong lock.”

— Jasmine Warga

52. “It’s funny how figuring out the gravitational pull of a random object can make you feel more grounded.”

— Jasmine Warga

53. “I wish I could draw you how I see you. I’d draw a boy with the most magnetic smile, and the kindest hands, and eyes that are gloomy, but can sometimes be bright. I’d draw a boy who deserves to see the ocean.”

— Jasmine Warga

54. “In these moments, it always feels like my skin is too thin, like everyone can see right inside me, can see my empty and dark insides.”

— Jasmine Warga

55. “No. I think you are crazy in completely different way. In a beautiful way.”

— Jasmine Warga

56. “I’m like a grenade made of ceramic -solid and dense and cold- but still fragile.”

— Jasmine Warga

57. “Here, that food is Middle Eastern food. Baguettes are French food. Spaghetti is Italian food. Pizza is both American and Italian, depending on which restaurant you go to. Every food has a label. It is sorted and assigned. Just like I am no longer a girl. I am a Middle Eastern girl. A Syrian girl. A Muslim girl. Americans love labels. They help them know what to expect. Sometimes, though, I think labels stop them from thinking.”

— Jasmine Warga

58. “My heart flutters as I realize I’m enjoying the light. I’m done with the shadows.”

— Jasmine Warga

59. “The inside of my mouth fills with the sour, metallic taste I’ve come to know as humiliation.”

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60. “My school is filled with kids who do not look like me. Kids with pale freckled skin, kids with hair the color of summertime corn. And kids with skin darker than mine, kids shorter than me, and kids taller than me. I have never seen so many different types of people in one place. I write to Fatima and tell her that sometimes it feels like the whole world lives at my new school.”

— Jasmine Warga

61. “No one person is all bad or all good.”

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62. “Comfortable is different from beautiful.”

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63. “My blackhole of a heart stalls, sucking all the air out of my lungs.”

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64. “I can’t wait until they don’t have me here anymore.”

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65. “You know, Zellie, there are enough broken things in the world. You shouldn’t go around breaking things just for the fun of it.”

— Jasmine Warga

66. “Depression is a part of you; it’s in your bones and your blood. If I know anything about it, this is what I know: It’s impossible to escape.”

— Jasmine Warga

67. “The pitter-patter of wishes, desperate wishes.”

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68. “I don’t know how to describe it, but the more I stare at him, the more I see his grief wrapped around him like shackles he can never take off.”

— Jasmine Warga

69. “Those men are now fighting against the government’s army, and the people who live in the town don’t know whose side to choose. They only want the violence to stop. Nobody knows which side is right anymore.”

— Jasmine Warga

70. “We lie there in the darkness in silence a few feet from the tent, my spine against his stomach, his hands on my sides. I’ve never been so aware that I am made up of bones and skin and I can practically feel my bones inching closer to the surface of my skin aching to get even closer to his.”

— Jasmine Warga

71. “I bet if you cut open my stomach, the black slug of depression would slide out.”

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72. “And maybe the black slug will always live inside of me. Maybe I’ll always have bad days where the heaviness seems unbearable. But as cheesy as it sounds, maybe the good days will make it worth getting through the bad ones.”

— Jasmine Warga

73. “Maybe it’s all relative, not just light and time like Einstein theorized, but everything. Like life can seem awful and unfixable until the universe shifts a little and the observation point is altered, and then suddenly, everything seems more bearable.”

— Jasmine Warga

74. “It’s funny how once you like someone, even the unattractive things they do somehow become endearing.”

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75. “I wish someone would give my heart a polygraph; it keeps lying and flipping and changing its mind.”

— Jasmine Warga

76. “The tricky thing about love is learning to accept and cherish all the versions of the person you love.”

— Jasmine Warga

77. “It’s the worst thing when your memories turn into memories themselves. Becoming unreliable duplicates of the real thing.”

— Jasmine Warga

78. “Anyone who has actually been that sad can tell you that there’s nothing beautiful or literary or mysterious about depression.”

— Jasmine Warga

79. “I wish gravity would go away and just let us all be a big mess.”

— Jasmine Warga

80. “Maybe he’s the type of person who turns his lies into truths in his head.”

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81. “Allowing yourself to be not okay sometimes is that big first step to actually being okay.”

— Jasmine Warga

82. “Maybe the sadness comes just before the insanity.”

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83. “He squeezes my hand so tight, I can’t feel it anymore. I wish someone would do that to my heart.”

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84. “Nothing scares me more than a failed attempt. The last thing I want is to end up in a wheelchair, eating pulverized food and being watched around the clock by some sassy nurse who has a not-so-secret obsession with cheesy reality TV.”

— Jasmine Warga

85. “I guess pretty much everything in life is about the perception of the observer.”

— Jasmine Warga

86. “With my dad, you always had to tread lightly, like you were walking on icy pavement–it was so fun when you were gliding, but it was very easy to slip.”

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87. “I know humans have been kissing since the history of time, but right now, in this very moment, it feels like kissing is a secret that only Roman and I know about.”

— Jasmine Warga

88. “He can’t make me love him when he’s going to leave me. When he wants to leave me. When he knows this is the end.”

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89. “You didn’t want to, I know you didn’t. And I didn’t want you to. I care about you too much to watch you die. I want you to live, Aysel. So I did it alone because I wanted to save you.”

— Jasmine Warga

90. “There’s no saving him from his deep hole. There’s no saving me from my black slug.”

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91. “Evolution isn’t always a positive thing.”

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92. “It’s funny the things we do even though no one is watching.”

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93. “We’re suicidal, not innumerate.”

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94. “There’s something poetic about the fact that the first boy to ever ask for my number is the same boy I’m going to die with.”

— Jasmine Warga

95. “We all want to believe that every day is different, that every day we change, but really, it seems that certain things are coded into us from the very beginning.”

— Jasmine Warga

96. “That’s my girl.” My heart jumps a little when he says that and I remind myself to get a grip.”

— Jasmine Warga

97. “I think of my black slug, slithering around, slurping up my potential energy for joy. I press my hand to my stomach and desperately wish that it didn’t exist.”

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98. “I believe strongly that we all have multiple versions of ourselves. And the true test of love is learning to accept all of those versions, even when it’s messy. Actually, especially when it’s messy.”

— Jasmine Warga

99. “I just want to be okay. I don’t want to feel okay. I want to be okay.”

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100. “I guess that’s the magic of songs. The very best ones, they let you forget that they were written by someone about something that has absolutely nothing to do with you. Instead, you bend them to your life, matching the “you” of the song with whomever you want. The songs feel so much like your pain, your love, your longing, that you forget they were born from someone else’s.”

— Jasmine Warga