Top 20 Jennifer Close Quotes (2024 Update)

Jennifer Close Quote: “Sometimes she missed people before they even left her, got depressed about a vacation being over before it started.”

1. “Sometimes she missed people before they even left her, got depressed about a vacation being over before it started.”

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Jennifer Close Quote: “When a friendship ends, people don’t always give it the same amount of thought that they do relationships... most of the time, friendships end in a different way – slowly, and without declarations. Usually people don’t really notice until a friend has been gone for a while and then they just say they grew apart, or their lives became too different.”

2. “When a friendship ends, people don’t always give it the same amount of thought that they do relationships... most of the time, friendships end in a different way – slowly, and without declarations. Usually people don’t really notice until a friend has been gone for a while and then they just say they grew apart, or their lives became too different.”

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Jennifer Close Quote: “It wasn’t that I didn’t understand it, this jealousy, because I did. It’s just that it was hard sometimes to watch a group of grown people act like seventh graders trying to sit next to the coolest kid at the lunch table. Honestly, it just made you feel sad because you always thought people would outgrow this, thought that adulthood would be different. And it wasn’t.”

3. “It wasn’t that I didn’t understand it, this jealousy, because I did. It’s just that it was hard sometimes to watch a group of grown people act like seventh graders trying to sit next to the coolest kid at the lunch table. Honestly, it just made you feel sad because you always thought people would outgrow this, thought that adulthood would be different. And it wasn’t.”

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Jennifer Close Quote: “I just think you can’t be so quick to be so sure of other people’s situations. Examine your own situation. You also have a lot of choices. It’s not always easier for other people. It doesn’t work like that.”

4. “I just think you can’t be so quick to be so sure of other people’s situations. Examine your own situation. You also have a lot of choices. It’s not always easier for other people. It doesn’t work like that.”

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Jennifer Close Quote: “There are fall days in October that are so beautiful they take your breath away. The sky is blue and the sun is strong and the air is finally the tiniest bit crisp. Most of the East Coast is already bundled up in their winter coats, but we get to appreciate the last of the sunshine.”

5. “There are fall days in October that are so beautiful they take your breath away. The sky is blue and the sun is strong and the air is finally the tiniest bit crisp. Most of the East Coast is already bundled up in their winter coats, but we get to appreciate the last of the sunshine.”

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Jennifer Close Quote: “And like most big families, they were loud and secretly thought they were funnier and a little more special than everyone else.”

6. “And like most big families, they were loud and secretly thought they were funnier and a little more special than everyone else.”

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Jennifer Close Quote: “For him, kindness was a reflex, and I envied that.”

7. “For him, kindness was a reflex, and I envied that.”

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Jennifer Close Quote: “We could pretend this town was ours, but really it was just on loan.”

8. “We could pretend this town was ours, but really it was just on loan.”

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Jennifer Close Quote: “If a televised hug could affect an election, weren’t we all just really screwed?”

9. “If a televised hug could affect an election, weren’t we all just really screwed?”

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Jennifer Close Quote: “She could feel herself getting sentimental, which she always was. Sometimes she missed people before they even left her, got depressed about a vacation being over before it started.”

10. “She could feel herself getting sentimental, which she always was. Sometimes she missed people before they even left her, got depressed about a vacation being over before it started.”

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Jennifer Close Quote: “And then there’s the way that people come here, earnest and full of dreams, believing that they can make a difference. That’s the thing about DC – people are always leaving but that makes space for the new transplants, the crowds that keep flooding in, full of energy and wonder.”

11. “And then there’s the way that people come here, earnest and full of dreams, believing that they can make a difference. That’s the thing about DC – people are always leaving but that makes space for the new transplants, the crowds that keep flooding in, full of energy and wonder.”

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Jennifer Close Quote: “I wondered if people ever blamed the end of friendships on geographical differences, the divides that come from being born in different areas, culture clash.”

12. “I wondered if people ever blamed the end of friendships on geographical differences, the divides that come from being born in different areas, culture clash.”

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Jennifer Close Quote: “I didn’t know then that this was just part of DC, that everyone was always looking ahead to the next step, peeking around to see what other people were doing, calculating the next move.”

13. “I didn’t know then that this was just part of DC, that everyone was always looking ahead to the next step, peeking around to see what other people were doing, calculating the next move.”

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Jennifer Close Quote: “In college, 29 had seemed impossibly old. By now, she’d thought she’d be married and have kids. But as each year went by, she didn’t feel much different than she had before. Time kept going by and she was just here, the same.”

14. “In college, 29 had seemed impossibly old. By now, she’d thought she’d be married and have kids. But as each year went by, she didn’t feel much different than she had before. Time kept going by and she was just here, the same.”

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Jennifer Close Quote: “The fights they had now were much worse. Isabella had never fought like this with anyone before. With Ben, she had all-out, drunken marathon fights that lasted for hours. She was sure the neighbors thought they were crazy.”

15. “The fights they had now were much worse. Isabella had never fought like this with anyone before. With Ben, she had all-out, drunken marathon fights that lasted for hours. She was sure the neighbors thought they were crazy.”

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Jennifer Close Quote: “You can see it on their faces as they walk down the street. You can spot the new people from the way they smile at the monuments, how they stare at the White House as they pass outside the gates, feeling thrilled and thinking, I’m here, I’ve made it. That’s what I see, mostly, when I walk around now, which is for the best, because it’s not easy to stay annoyed in the face of so much optimism. It’s hard to ignore that much hope.”

16. “You can see it on their faces as they walk down the street. You can spot the new people from the way they smile at the monuments, how they stare at the White House as they pass outside the gates, feeling thrilled and thinking, I’m here, I’ve made it. That’s what I see, mostly, when I walk around now, which is for the best, because it’s not easy to stay annoyed in the face of so much optimism. It’s hard to ignore that much hope.”

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Jennifer Close Quote: “It made them restless and irritable while they waited for something to start. They all knew they ought to feel different in their new lives, but they felt the same and it put them on edge. Hot and impatient, they fidgeted in the heat, grumbling and asking each other, “What next? What next?”

17. “It made them restless and irritable while they waited for something to start. They all knew they ought to feel different in their new lives, but they felt the same and it put them on edge. Hot and impatient, they fidgeted in the heat, grumbling and asking each other, “What next? What next?”

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Jennifer Close Quote: “Sometimes, she knew, people just needed a little time to be able to picture themselves in a new place, to see possibility in a blank space.”

18. “Sometimes, she knew, people just needed a little time to be able to picture themselves in a new place, to see possibility in a blank space.”

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Jennifer Close Quote: “I hated that the Metro was carpeted, and that it was so far underground – you felt like a mole by the time you got down the escalator – and I hated that you had to swipe your card to get in and out of the station. I hated that you couldn’t eat or drink on the train, and I especially hated that everyone obeyed the rule, like they were afraid they’d be arrested for sipping a cup of Starbucks on their morning commute.”

19. “I hated that the Metro was carpeted, and that it was so far underground – you felt like a mole by the time you got down the escalator – and I hated that you had to swipe your card to get in and out of the station. I hated that you couldn’t eat or drink on the train, and I especially hated that everyone obeyed the rule, like they were afraid they’d be arrested for sipping a cup of Starbucks on their morning commute.”

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Jennifer Close Quote: “We all laughed, but what I really felt was a sense of claustrophobia, something that had been happening more and more. It was like the city was getting smaller the longer we were there. It was incestuous, the way everyone knew everything about people.”

20. “We all laughed, but what I really felt was a sense of claustrophobia, something that had been happening more and more. It was like the city was getting smaller the longer we were there. It was incestuous, the way everyone knew everything about people.”

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Jennifer Close Quote: “You can imagine anything to be fun in retrospect- look at all those people who long for high school.”

21. “You can imagine anything to be fun in retrospect- look at all those people who long for high school.”

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Jennifer Close Quote: “When, I wondered, did every pregnant person get together and decide that Mama was the appropriate term to use? Why did having a baby turn these people into hillbillies?”

22. “When, I wondered, did every pregnant person get together and decide that Mama was the appropriate term to use? Why did having a baby turn these people into hillbillies?”

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Jennifer Close Quote: “It seemed to Abby that the peacock was strutting, showing off his feathers to an invisible audience in the night. It didn’t look like he was worried about the peahen. He looked selfish and self-absorbed, like he knew he was beautiful. Abby watched his feathers blow in the wind, and she watched as the peahens followed with all of their strength. They followed because it was all they had ever down; they followed because it was all they knew how to do.”

23. “It seemed to Abby that the peacock was strutting, showing off his feathers to an invisible audience in the night. It didn’t look like he was worried about the peahen. He looked selfish and self-absorbed, like he knew he was beautiful. Abby watched his feathers blow in the wind, and she watched as the peahens followed with all of their strength. They followed because it was all they had ever down; they followed because it was all they knew how to do.”

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Jennifer Close Quote: “At the grocery store, a clerk told her she’d taken one organic avocado and one regular. “You can’t get the two-for-one deal,” he informed her. He acted like she had inconvenienced him, like she’d done it on purpose, like she was someone who would scheme to steal avocados. She didn’t apologize. “I pulled them from the same bin,” she said. “If your produce was organized, this wouldn’t have happened.” He got flustered and gave her the deal. She didn’t say thank you.”

24. “At the grocery store, a clerk told her she’d taken one organic avocado and one regular. “You can’t get the two-for-one deal,” he informed her. He acted like she had inconvenienced him, like she’d done it on purpose, like she was someone who would scheme to steal avocados. She didn’t apologize. “I pulled them from the same bin,” she said. “If your produce was organized, this wouldn’t have happened.” He got flustered and gave her the deal. She didn’t say thank you.”

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