Top 200 Jennifer E. Smith Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “Sometimes the hardest things are the ones most worth doing.”

— Jennifer E. Smith

2. “He’s like a song she can’t get out of her head.”

— Jennifer E. Smith

3. “He’s like a song she can’t get out of her head. Hard as she tries, the melody of their meeting runs through her mind on an endless loop, each time as surprisingly sweet as the last, like a lullaby, like a hymn, and she doesn’t think she could ever get tired of hearing it.”

— Jennifer E. Smith

4. “You can’t know the answer until you ask the question.”

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5. “Love is the strangest, most illogical thing in the world.”

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6. “Don’t screw it up for yourself. If it’s gonna happen, at least let the universe do it for you.”

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7. “There was no point in waiting for someone who hadn’t asked, and there was no point in wishing for something that would never happen.”

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8. “But there’s no such thing as a completely fresh start. Everything new arrives on the heels of something old, and every beginning comes at the cost of an ending.”

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9. “She hates the fact that she won’t know. It’s feels like the last day of school, the final night at summer camp, like everything is coming to an abrupt and dizzying end.”

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10. “Is it better to have had a good thing and lost it, or never to have had it?”

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11. “Love isn’t supposed to make sense. It’s completely illogical.”

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12. “The geography of the thing wasn’t the point; it didn’t matter where they were: there was still too much space between them.”

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13. “Childhood memories were like airplane luggage; no matter how far you were traveling or how long you needed them to last, you were only ever allowed two bags. And while those bags might hold a few hazy recollections – a diner with a jukebox at the table, being pushed on a swing set, the way it felt to be picked up and spun around – it didn’t seem enough to last a whole lifetime.”

— Jennifer E. Smith

14. “Parents aren’t always right about everything,” Hadley says. “Sometimes it just takes a while to figure that out.”

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15. “Love isn’t magic. It doesn’t transcend time and space. It doesn’t fix anything. It’s just love.”

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16. “Numbers are shifty things. They rarely tell the whole story.”

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17. “Chemistry wasn’t something you could just create anyway; it was either there or it wasn’t.”

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18. “That’s the thing about flying: You could talk to someone for hours and never even know his name, share your deepest secrets and then never see them again.”

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19. “It’s not the changes that will break your heart; it’s that tug of familiarity.”

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20. “Do you ever feel like what’s happening at this moment will never happen again? Like you could never repeat it, no matter how hard you tried?”

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21. “People who meet in airports are seventy-two percent more likely to fall for each other than people who meet anywhere else.”

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22. “Is it later yet?”

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23. “Maybe the world isn’t full of signs so much as it’s full of people trying to use whatever evidence they can find to convince themselves of what they hope to be true.”

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24. “There’s a space between forgetting and moving on, and it’s not easy to find.”

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25. “But just as she turns to walk away she hears him behind her, the word like the opening of some door, like an ending and a beginning, like a wish. “Wait,” he says, and so she does.”

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26. “It’s not what it isn’t.”

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27. “We keep thinking there are only these two choices: We either grow apart or grow together. But maybe we can just kind of each grow on our own, and see how it goes. And then later, if it’s right, we’ll come back to each other and start again.”

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28. “It’s one thing to run away when someone’s chasing you. It’s entirely another to be running all alone.”

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29. “I like how you’re neither here nor there. And how there’s nowhere else you’re meant to be while waiting. You’re just sort of suspended.”

— Jennifer E. Smith

30. “The only thing harder than leaving is being left behind.”

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31. “No matter how long it’s been or how far you’ve drifted, no matter how unknowable you might be, there were at least two people in the world whose job it was to see you, to find you, to recognize you and reel you back in. No matter what.”

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32. “The morning felt like a mixing bowl just waiting for its ingredients; there was a sense of possibility to it, a promise of something more to come.”

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33. “Who would have guessed that four minutes could change everything?”

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34. “Not everyone makes it fifty-two years, and if you do, it doesn’t matter that you once stood in front of all those people and said that you would. The important part is that you had someone to stick by you all that time. Even when everything sucked.”

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35. “Childhood memories were like airplane luggage; no matter how far you were traveling or how long you needed them to last, you were only ever allowed two bags.”

— Jennifer E. Smith

36. “There’s a formula for how long it takes to get over someone, that it’s half as long as the time you’ve been together.”

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37. “Maybe growing up was really nothing more than growing away: from your old life, from your old self, from all those things that kept you tethered to your past.”

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38. “Is the kind of smile she loves best: It’s like a sneeze, a reflex, a twitch, helpless and automatic, and it only happens when he looks at her.”

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39. “She’s four minutes late, which doesn’t seem like all that much when you think about it’s a commercial break, the period within classes, the time it takes to cook a microwave meal. Four minutes is nothing.”

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40. “You know what they say, if you love something, set it free.”

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41. “Did you know that people who meet at least three different times within twenty-four hour period are ninety-eight percent more likely to meet again?”

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42. “Nothing’s all that scary if you can see it coming.”

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43. “How about we just go with sayonara then?” Graham laughed. “Or au revoir.” “Arrivederci.” “Hasta la vista, baby,” he said, and then he stepped forward and kissed her again, sending a shiver through her in spite of the warmth of the early-morning sun.”

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44. “That’s the thing. You almost never know when you’re saying goodbye to someone forever.”

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45. “There’s always a gap between the burn and the sting of it, the pain and the realization.”

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46. “And it’s more than just the distance, You know it is. Nobody survives this kind of thing. You pretend it’s going to work, and you make all these promises, and then you talk on the phone every night and text each other between classes and maybe manage a visit during fall break or something. But then everything’s awkward, because so much has changed, and you don’t fit into each other’s lives anymore.”

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47. “Hadley didn’t know it was possible to miss someone who’s only a few feet away, but there it is.”

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48. “Love wasn’t something you could take back. It was like a magic spell: Once you said the words, they were simply out there, shifting and changing everything that had once been true.”

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49. “I love Graham Larkin,” she said quietly, her voice full of emotion, and there was a flicker of surprise on his face, and then his expression softened. “You’re supposed to shout it,” he said, smiling as she tugged on the brim of the cap, forcing him to lower his face, bringing him closer and closer until their lips met. And even though they were in the middle of one of the biggest cities in the world, lost in a sea of concrete and wood and metal, she could almost swear he tasted like the ocean.”

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50. “My thoughts are scrambled by the nearness of him, and my chest aches with something deeper than love, something lonelier than hope...”

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