Top 140 Jasmine Warga Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “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.”

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

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

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54. “My body is an efficient happy-thought-killing machine.”

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55. “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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56. “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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57. “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.”

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

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

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

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

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62. “As cheesy as it sounds, maybe the good days will make it worth getting through the bad ones.”

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

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64. “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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65. “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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66. “The first few times, I only walk by Ali Baba. I do not go inside. I am scared that I do not belong in a Middle Eastern restaurant in the middle of America. I am scared that the only place in Middle America that I belong is a Middle Eastern restaurant.”

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67. “Everything used to seem to final, inevitable, predestined. But now, I’m starting to believe that life may have more surprises in store than I ever realized.”

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68. “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.”

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69. “We’re suicidal, not innumerate.”

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

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71. “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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72. “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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73. “No. I think you are crazy in completely different way. In a beautiful way.”

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

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75. “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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76. “I frown. “See? You do think I’m crazy. Because of my dad.” He shakes his head, his smile becoming wider and more crooked. “No. I think you’re crazy in a completely different way. In a beautiful way.”

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

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78. “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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79. “Watching you be so happy when you think about science. It makes me kind of... happy.” He slouches his shoulders and shuffles his feet. “And that’s confusing.”

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80. “Comfortable is different from beautiful.”

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

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82. “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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83. “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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84. “The pitter-patter of wishes, desperate wishes.”

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85. “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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86. “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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87. “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.”

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

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89. “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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90. “That’s one of the things I hate the most about Mabel being gone. People want to remember her differently, perfectly. She was Mabel, my sister, my favorite person in the whole world, but she wasn’t perfect. I want to remember her as she was...”

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

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

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

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96. “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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97. “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.”

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98. “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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99. “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.”

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

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