Top 50 Jennifer Echols Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “I understand I can’t have you. But I want to know you’re in the world with me.”

— Jennifer Echols

2. “And the rest is happily ever After.”

— Jennifer Echols

3. “I am full of fear.”

— Jennifer Echols

4. “But you are right, being stupid is not illegal. Otherwise half this town would be behind bars.”

— Jennifer Echols

5. “Love isn’t something you have to deserve.”

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6. “Boys are two years behind girls in maturity level.”

— Jennifer Echols

7. “I knew exactly what you’d done. I know that feelings. You have to do something. You have to change something radically, because you can’t stay like you are for another second, or you’re going to explode.”

— Jennifer Echols

8. “Boys don’t make passes at girls who wear glasses.”

— Jennifer Echols

9. “No matter how careful you are”... “there’s always going to be a mess, and you’re going to have to clean it up afterward.”

— Jennifer Echols

10. “But you can’t live your life worried about dying all the time. If you do, you’re dead already.”

— Jennifer Echols

11. “We wanted to enjoy the afterglow and we were trying our best to bond, but it was difficult with so many people between us, even though most of them were ghosts.”

— Jennifer Echols

12. “Talking about your feelings helps you let go of your anger. And it takes a lot of energy to be angry all the time.”

— Jennifer Echols

13. “No. I just don’t want to be a detective. They figure out what happened after the fact, when it’s too late. I want to prevent it from happening.”

— Jennifer Echols

14. “You’ve gone far away to a place with no horses and very little grass, and you’re studying how to write a story with a happy ending. If you can write that ending for yourself, maybe you can come back.”

— Jennifer Echols

15. “Your lot in life? A lot is something you draw, like straws. It’s chance. You didn’t get this life by chance. You chose it on purpose. If you’re dissatisfied from it, you can change it.”

— Jennifer Echols

16. “The TV said you should ignore bullies and they would stop harassing you. In practice this worked about half the time. The other half, you ended up with two tall boys shadowing you through a trailer park, their fingers taking little nips at your clothes, like dogs.”

— Jennifer Echols

17. “Yeah, I understood that last night at the wreck. Nothing says I love you like a dead body.”

— Jennifer Echols

18. “You can’t tell a seventeen-year-old anything. They think they’re immortal. They don’t listen. Seventeen-year-olds have to see it for themselves.”

— Jennifer Echols

19. “The Evil Twin was either Tracey or Casey Reardon. I wasn’t sure which one, and no one else seemed to either. All we knew for sure was that the twins were evil. Or, one of them was evil and the other just looked the same.”

— Jennifer Echols

20. “How did we get to this place where we had to be tough all the time and never said how much we loved each other?”

— Jennifer Echols

21. “Love hurt. Honesty made it hurt worse, and I could hardly stand it.”

— Jennifer Echols

22. “The nurse knocked softly on the door of the examining room and wheeled in a shiny silver tray displaying neatly arranged instruments of torture.”

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23. “Or that I couldn’t stand to watch anything bad happen to you, because it was like it was happening to me too. Is that love?”

— Jennifer Echols

24. “Nick might have enjoyed making out with me. He might even want to be with me. But more than anything, Nick wanted to win. And winning me over wasn’t enough.”

— Jennifer Echols

25. “That’s stupid. I said no because you don’t love me. – John.”

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26. “When something awful happens, sometimes people get stuck.”

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27. “I swear, Tiff, if my ass made good grades, you’d want to date my ass.”

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28. “I was vaguely aware that we’d been archenemies a few minutes before, and now he had me on my back on the sand.”

— Jennifer Echols

29. “When I told you I loved you, that’s what I meant. I never intended to be your experiment, or your walk on the wild side, or your favorite mistake.”

— Jennifer Echols

30. “If you drive down there,” I said, “he’ll just escape the other way. That’s what he’s counting on. You have to walk down there, point your gun at him, and yell at him in that charming way you have.”

— Jennifer Echols

31. “I should have run away from you and started college and gone on without you. But I would always have regretted it if I didn’t give this a shot. – Tiffany.”

— Jennifer Echols

32. “Did you alltake your pants off? The swim team really knows how to throw a party.”

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33. “He fumbled with something in his breeches. She had thought the past few minutes the most intense of her life, but they were nothing compared with the alarm and ashamed delight now rushing through her veins – until she realized he was only bringing out his pocket watch.”

— Jennifer Echols

34. “What happened was, I told you I loved you.”

— Jennifer Echols

35. “You had a bet. You couldn’t lose a bet. If you had a choice between me and winning, you’ll choose winning every time. It’s still true.”

— Jennifer Echols

36. “It was better that we never apologized to each other. Then we’d be admitting that we were wrong and we owed each other something. That’s where people got into trouble.”

— Jennifer Echols

37. “You should never start something when you haven’t finished the last thing. People feel used that way.”

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38. “Waiter, this is not the policeman I ordered. I wanted one with a lot less sauce.”

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39. “I wanted to remind you that you do not allow me to deliver boats, as I have been known to crash them.”

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40. “I guess we both understood that our relationship was built entirely on witty repartee, and neither of us thought we could be witty on four hours of shut-eye.”

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41. “But first I had to get through the ironing. It took a lot of patience. I had none. It took forever, and then I had to press the whole shirt again to get out the creases I’d pressed into it.”

— Jennifer Echols

42. “I remembered what Mr. Hall had told me when I first asked him for a lesson: the kids who watch planes are destined to be pilots.”

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43. “Sarcasm was a weapon for children.”

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44. “John pointed at me to get my attention. He circled his finger in the air to tell me to wrap it up, then pointed to his cop car. I made a series of baseball catcher’s signs.”

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45. “If I were stepping down from the bus at the rich end of town instead of the trailer park, I wouldn’t have to watch every word I said to make sure it wasn’t slang for an orgasm.”

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46. “Yes, I was good at reading people. I studied them so I could put them in my novels.”

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47. “I turned to the clarinets. They were a resourceful lot.”

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48. “Tell me about your project.” “It’s a surprise,” I said loudly over the siren. “I don’t like surprises.” No surprise there.”

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49. “He ran his hands through his hair and held on to the back of his neck both biceps bulging. Dang him for looking so hot when I wanted to run away.”

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50. “I’m in love with you.”

— Jennifer Echols