Top 140 Jasmine Warga Quotes (2026 Update)
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51. “There’s no saving him from his deep hole. There’s no saving me from my black slug.”

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

— Jasmine Warga

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

— Jasmine Warga

54. “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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55. “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.”

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

— Jasmine Warga

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

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

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59. “I mean, you just don’t seem like a big fan of words yourself. So I thought you’d appreciate the lack of lyrics.”

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

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61. “I’m so tired of people saying it’s not my job to fix things. No one else is fixing them.”

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62. “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.”

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63. “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

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

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65. “I think the problem is that sometimes when we love someone, we see a certain version of them. and we get attached to that version. Convince ourselves that that’s the only version, true version.”

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66. “But sometimes, I’m ravenous. It’s almost as if I want to eat as much as I can to fill up the empty void inside of me. Other days I can barely bring myself to nibble on a piece of toast.”

— Jasmine Warga

67. “You’re like a grey sky. You’re beautiful, even though you don’t want to be.”

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68. “I wonder if joy has potential energy that leads to joy, like a happiness serum that lingers in people’s stomachs and slowly bubbles up to create the sensation we know as hapiness.”

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

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70. “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.”

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71. “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.”

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72. “The two of them fitting, interlocking, like mothers and daughters are supposed to. Fitting in a way that I never have. My edges have always been too sharp, my grooves too deep.”

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73. “The problem with suicide, which most people don’t realize, is that it’s really hard to follow through. I know, I know. People are always yammering on and on about how “suicide is the coward’s way out.” And I guess it is – I mean, I am giving up, surrendering. Running away from my black hole of a future, preventing myself from growing into the person I’m terrified of becoming. But just because it’s cowardly doesn’t guarantee it’s going to be easy.”

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

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75. “It’s funny -the things we do out of habit.”

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76. “But in the end it doesn’t matter what Roman wants to do. I’m beginning to learn that this is the exhilarating and puzzling and, frankly, the frustrating thing about love. Things that matter to the other person start to seem intriguing, even if they are actually quite trite when you really think about them.”

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77. “I start to daydream about gravity. Sometimes I wonder if gravity is the problem. It keeps us all grounded, gives us this false sense of stability when really we’re just all bodies in motion. Gravity keeps us from floating up into space, it keeps us from involuntarily crashing into one another. It saves the human race from being a big hot mess. I wish gravity would go away and just let us all be a big mess.”

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78. “It’s hard to see where we’re going since it’s now dark, and I wonder if in some ironic twist of fate, we’ll soar over the cliff without even realizing it. Like the universe’s final joke: you can’t plan your death, even when you try.”

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79. “It’s almost as if I want to eat as much as I can to fill up the empty void inside of me. Other.”

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80. “FrozenRobot of all people should know that there is nothing beautiful or endearing or glamorous about sadness. Sadness is only ugly, and anyone who thinks otherwise doesn’t get it. I think what he means to say is that he and I are ugly in the same way and there’s something familiar, comfortable, about that. Comfortable is different from beautiful.”

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81. “I can feel everything. And I want to keep feeling everything. Even the painful, awful, terrible things. Because feeling things is what lets us know that we’re alive.”

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82. “I don’t like the idea of other people poring over my secrets. I don’t even know if I have any secrets.”

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

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84. “He can’t make me love him when he’s going to leave me.”

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85. “We’re suicidal, not innumerate.”

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

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87. “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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88. “Do you believe in other universes? Do you think there’s another dimension where we’re happy?”

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89. “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.”

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

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91. “People are funny. The longer you are around them, the more you start to realize that everyone makes the same motions over and over again.”

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92. “Sometimes I wonder if gravity is the problem. It keeps us all grounded, gives us this false sense of stability when really we’re all just bodies in motion.”

— Jasmine Warga

93. “Comfortable is different from beautiful.”

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

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

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96. “When I come back to reality and glance at him, he’s staring right back at me. ‘Oh, hey. You’re back. Did you come up with some pressing physics problem you had to work out or something?”

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97. “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.”

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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.”

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99. “Guidance counselors always love to say, ‘Just think positively,’ but that’s impossible when you have this thing inside of you, strangling every ounce of happiness you can muster. My body is an efficient happy-though-killing machine.”

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100. “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.”

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