Top 90 Jenn Bennett Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “Feeling alive is always worth the risk.”

— Jenn Bennett

2. “Family isn’t always blood, and it isn’t contained in a single tree. It’s a forest.”

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3. “Sometimes you have to endure painful things to realize that you’re a whole lot stronger than you think.”

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4. “Judging other people unfairly doesn’t define them; it defines you. And in the end everyone will be disappointed.”

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5. “Can you miss someone you see almost every day?”

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6. “Can’t command respect unless you act like you deserve it.”

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7. “She’s got the strength of a tater tot.”

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8. “Grief causes irrational thoughts.”

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9. “Don’t be cautious. Be careful,′ she reminds me. Cautious people are afraid of the unknown and avoid it. Careful people plan so that they’re more confident when they face the unknown.”

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10. “Feeling alive is merely a rush of adrenaline.”

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11. “It’s years in the making, and it’s messy and convoluted, some of it even tragic. But I wouldn’t change the route, because we walked it together, even when we were apart. And the best part about it is that it’s unfinished. Uncertainty isn’t always a bad thing. Sometimes it can even be filled with extraordinary potential.”

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12. “This was the night bus, not a Journey song. Two strangers were not on a midnight train going anywhere. I was going home, and he was probably going to knock over a liquor store.”

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13. “Churros are like long Mexican doughnut sticks that have been fried and dipped in cinnamon or, as the sign tells me, strawberry sugar. They smell like God’s footprints. I’ve never had a real churro, but halfway down the promenade, I make a decision to give up on everything: finding Alex, finding another job, the meaning of life. Just give me that sweet fried dough.”

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14. “Tomorrow you’re going to be eating boring nuts-and-fruit trail mix, and you’ll think, Self, why did I go crazy with all those ridiculous bets? Sure wish I had some chocolate. And I will just laugh like an evil overlord.”

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15. “But there’s comfort in knowing that when your plans fall apart, you can survive. That the worst thing imaginable can happen, but you can get through it.”

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16. “Let’s go eat some pie and solve a mystery.”

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17. “One man’s deviance is other man’s lunch break.”

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18. “Doing nothing can cause as much damage as doing something.”

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19. “We all really do contradict ourselves and contain multitudes. How do we even figure out who we really are?”

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20. “Uncertainty isn’t always a bad thing. Sometimes it can even be filled with extraordinary potential.”

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21. “Distichiasis. Your eyelashes. A genetic mutation that causes double rows of lashes.”

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22. “I have no idea what you mean, but I support you completely.”

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23. “I will fix it for you. Hand on my heart, Bex Adams, I will fix it.”

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24. “My old therapist warned me that avoidance is a dysfunctional way to interact with people you care about, but now I’m starting to understand what he meant when he said it could hurt them, too. Maybe it’s time I figure out a better way to deal with my problems. Maybe Artful Dodger isn’t working so well for me anymore.”

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25. “He thinks I’m a snob? He’s not the first. Just because I’m quiet doesn’t mean I’m aloof. Maybe I just want to be alone. Maybe I’m not good at conversation.”

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26. “Yeah. I guess I’m a color-inside-the-lines girl. Worse, really – I’d rather shade inside the lines with a nice, light 4H pencil. Something dark like a 5B or 6B? That’s me going nuts.” He laughed, stretching out his long legs.”

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27. “But you know, sometimes people smile when they’re sad. And sometimes girls who look sad are really smiling.”

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28. “I’m not one of those cool, creative kids in my art class who make skirts out of trash bags and paint in crazy colours.”

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29. “I bet a lot of couples have wondered, if they’d met under different circumstances, perhaps they would’ve taken a different path and never ended up together. And in a way, you got that opportunity. You chose me twice. If that’s not meant to be, then I don’t know what is.”

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30. “And you’re apparently made of mountain. Are you sure you’re an engineer and not a lumberjack?”

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31. “Planning can’t save you from everything. Change is inevitable and uncertainty is a given. And if you plan so much that you can’t function without one, life’s no fun. All the calendars, journals, and lists in the world won’t save you when the sky falls.”

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32. “It’s being a capable human being, which is something I think a lot of people have forgotten how to do.”

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33. “You liked it?” He said this with a boyish tilt to his lips, as if he wanted to be proud of himself for thinking of it but needed her confirmation to be sure.”

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34. “The entire time they’re talking, I can’t tear my eyes away from Porter. What I’m feeling for him now is like drowning and floating at the same time.”

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35. “If you don’t pay attention to things, they wander off.”

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36. “You always go around sticking your hands down boys’ clothes?” he asks. “When they’re full of baked goods.” “Tomorrow I’m coming to work with ten pounds of pastries in my pants,” he mumbles to himself, making an ooaff! noise when I punch him lightly in the arm.”

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37. “If you want to take me somewhere, give me your wallet.”

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38. “If Brett is Sirius, brighter than anything else in the night sky, Lennon in the moon: often dark and hidden, but closer than any star. Always there.”

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39. “It’s hard to think about next week when you’re not sure if you’ll even make it through today.”

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40. “Spontaneity is overrated. Movies and television shows would like us to believe that life is better for party goers who dare to jump into pools with their clothes on. But behind the scenes, it’s all carefully scripted. The water is the right temperature. Lighting and angles are carefully considered. Dialogue is memorized. And that’s why it’s so appealing – because someone carefully planned it all. Once you realize this, life gets a whole lot simpler.”

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41. “Baily, I’ve BEEN yours. I’ve just been waiting for you to make up your mind.”

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42. “Everything we do in life affects someone else.”

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43. “I was eighteen, baby! I could finally... vote and buy all those cartons of cigarettes I’d been pining for. Yippee.”

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44. “I pause, unsure what to type. It would be weird to say I’ve missed you too, even though I have, because that feels like I’m betraying Porter. I’m so confused. Maybe he doesn’t even mean it that way. Maybe he never did. Lord knows I’m not good at reading people.”

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45. “Why is the vegetarian Buddhist dressed like a jewel thief?”

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46. “My brother was right about one thing: I didn’t really know how to be bad.”

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47. “What do I want?” His fingers brushed over loose strands of hair near my temple. “I want to call you every five minutes. I want to text you good night every night. I want to make you laugh. And I want you to look at me like you did that first night on the bus.”

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48. “He was kissing me like we were both on fire and he was trying to put the flames out, and I kissed him back like an arsonist with a pocketful of matches.”

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49. “Lennon is the moon: often dark and hidden, but closer than any star. Always there.”

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50. “Too weird for jocks, and not weird enough for hipsters, I was neither freak nor geek, and that left me stranded in no-man’s-land.”

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