Top 100 Jennifer Hartmann Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “We’ll rise from the ashes with smoke in our lungs and scars on our skin, but we will persevere. We will thrive.”

— Jennifer Hartmann

2. “All broken things can be fixed. The hard part is deciding that they’re worth fixing.”

— Jennifer Hartmann

3. “Maybe love is singing her favorite song in the dark, just so she can sleep. Maybe love is giving away the shoes on your feet to help keep her warm. Maybe love is coming over in the middle of the night when the power goes out because you know she’s afraid of the dark. And maybe love is walking away because it’s the only way she’ll find the light again.”

— Jennifer Hartmann

4. “It’s still beating. You’re still okay. And I still love you. – Dean.”

— Jennifer Hartmann

5. “She feels like home.”

— Jennifer Hartmann

6. “You make me want to go skinny dipping at midnight, and dance in the rain, and wish on falling stars, and believe in a life so exhilarating, so liberating, that it feels almost tangible.”

— Jennifer Hartmann

7. “The loudest love is wordless.”

— Jennifer Hartmann

8. “Someone who makes you feel so alive, you can’t imagine going back to the shell of a human you were before you met them. Someone who sees you, really sees you, stripped down and raw, and wants to collect all your broken pieces and cherish them like they are something beautiful.”

— Jennifer Hartmann

9. “I think that’s the difference between a disaster and an adventure,” he says. “It’s the people you experience them with.”

— Jennifer Hartmann

10. “The Lotus will bloom into the most magnificent flower, even when its roots are in the murkiest of waters.”

— Jennifer Hartmann

11. “You’re going to lose me by trying too hard not to lose me...”

— Jennifer Hartmann

12. “I’m hopelessly, irrevocably in love with you, June Bailey. The desperate, aching kind of love. The kind there’s no coming back from. The kind there’s no way out of. The kind that’s going to be the death of me one day. I fall more in love with June than I ever thought possible as we clutch each other in a moonlit graveyard on her eighteenth birthday, with my mother on my mind, and the scent of sweet desserts dancing in the air.”

— Jennifer Hartmann

13. “She doesn’t need to pretend with me, though. She doesn’t need to hide. I’m here, and I see her – every scar, every flaw, every broken, hollow piece. And I understand.”

— Jennifer Hartmann

14. “We are bound, chained, tied – to our trauma and to each other. We’re in this together. And yet, I’ve never felt more alone.”

— Jennifer Hartmann

15. “One person’s suffering shouldn’t take the joy out of something others may find pleasure.”

— Jennifer Hartmann

16. “This is unfixable.”

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17. “Love is a paradox.”

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18. “I don’t want to lose you, but I don’t know how to keep you.”

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19. “You don’t feel like my enemy anymore,” I finish. You feel like my lifeline.”

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20. “Dean,” I finally say, loud and clear, then slink back into my seat with reddening cheeks. Lily does that thing with her mouth, gaping at me with her eyes bugged out. “Please tell me this is a Supernatural reference. I know those Winchesters seem so real sometimes when we’re all alone at night with our vibr –.”

— Jennifer Hartmann

21. “She thinks I’m an idiot, and I let her think it. I get a rise out of the incredulous look in her eyes when I say or do something stupid. It’s part of our game.”

— Jennifer Hartmann

22. “We’re both still alive, and as long as we’re alive, there is hope. I need to be present – stay in the moment. It’s not over.”

— Jennifer Hartmann

23. “Every love story is worth writing, no matter how messy it might be,” Holly says absently, still stroking my hair. “I would like to read your book.”

— Jennifer Hartmann

24. “But this sea is not made of water. And maybe drowning is the only way out.”

— Jennifer Hartmann

25. “I wish you fought for me as hard as you fought to get out of that basement.”

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26. “But I’m still mad.”

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27. “We’ll be best friends forever, right?” “Yes. Until I die.” “Even then, I’ll find a way to bring you back.”

— Jennifer Hartmann

28. “But what I’ve learned about broken things is that they can always be put back together. It’s just a matter of how much time you’re willing to put into making the pieces fit. How much patience. How much diligence.”

— Jennifer Hartmann

29. “Like every star in the galaxy tumbled to Earth and crawled beneath my skin.”

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30. “Maybe I’m just too picky. Mandy says I’m too picky. Oh well. Looks like my vibrator is stuck with me.”

— Jennifer Hartmann

31. “No relationship comes without a fight, but it has to be worth fighting for. It has to be worth all the sacrifices you’ll inevitably have to make.”

— Jennifer Hartmann

32. “It’s funny how home can mean one thing one day and something entirely different the next. I think that’s because home isn’t a place – it’s a feeling.”

— Jennifer Hartmann

33. “Well, as her sister and primary wing-woman, I’m going to set something up.”

— Jennifer Hartmann

34. “I thought you could fix me. But you’re killing me, Dean.”

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35. “Sometimes, sad things serve as a gentle reminder that we still feel.”

— Jennifer Hartmann

36. “We can’t give our heart to another without loving our own first. And that’s exactly what I plan to do.”

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37. “A bonded pair. They aren’t the only ones.”

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38. “Cora and I were ants. Small and fragile – lost in a cold, scary world. Set up to fail. We had each other, though. The ant is all alone.”

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39. “The only time I felt safe was when you were inside of me.”

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40. “Cilantro has cleansing powers.” “That’s because it tastes like dish soap.”

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41. “Pressing our foreheads together, gazes still locked, I whisper with ardency: “I love you, Syd. I loved you then, I love you now, and I’ll love you until my dying day.”

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42. “She’s stoned on sleeping pills and I’m drunk off my ass, and we’re messy, damaged humans clinging to each other as we battle through the storm together, but it’s okay because we’re together.”

— Jennifer Hartmann

43. “I can’t, Cora. Let him kill me. Please.”

— Jennifer Hartmann

44. “He’s not my enemy down here. He’s my lifeline.”

— Jennifer Hartmann

45. “I shake my head through the gut wrenching sobs. “I don’t want to be the ultimate sacrifice. I want to be the coffee one.”

— Jennifer Hartmann

46. “I won’t do that to you. I’d rather die,” he says to me. And he means it. I swear to God he means it.”

— Jennifer Hartmann

47. “His low, gravelly voice tickles my ear, sending the butterflies in my belly into overdrive. In fact, they may have exploded. My stomach is now a butterfly graveyard.”

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48. “I didn’t think you ever noticed my heart.” It’s a heavy declaration, and I hate that it’s true. Dean’s weary face grows even wearier as he absorbs my words. “It’s impossible not to notice, Cora.”

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49. “Just as we cannot force ourselves to love someone, we cannot force ourselves to unlove them, either. Fate can be foolish, and fate can be careless. But fate is always true.”

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50. “It was only three weeks, but it’s burned into every cell, every vein, every tainted pocket of my soul. Forever. And so is she.”

— Jennifer Hartmann