Top 100 Jennifer Hartmann Quotes (2025 Update)

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

— Jennifer Hartmann

2. “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

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

— Jennifer Hartmann

4. “She feels like home.”

— Jennifer Hartmann

5. “Take a sad song and make it better.”

— Jennifer Hartmann

6. “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

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

— Jennifer Hartmann

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

— Jennifer Hartmann

9. “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

10. “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

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

— Jennifer Hartmann

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

— Jennifer Hartmann

13. “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

14. “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

15. “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

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

— Jennifer Hartmann

17. “Never underestimate a man willing to wait forever for the woman he loves.”

— Jennifer Hartmann

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

— Jennifer Hartmann

19. “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.”

— Jennifer Hartmann

20. “You feel like my lifeline.”

— Jennifer Hartmann

21. “I don’t know if there is a sense of dramatic irony in the fact that I’ve been taken captive with the one person in the world I hate most, or if there is a semblance of relief in the realization that I am not alone in this.”

— Jennifer Hartmann

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

— Jennifer Hartmann

23. “I’m sorry. I’m so sorry, Cora.” His breath tickles my ear and his tears dampen my skin. “Please forgive me.” I do. I always do.”

— Jennifer Hartmann

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

— Jennifer Hartmann

25. “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.”

— Jennifer Hartmann

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

— Jennifer Hartmann

27. “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

28. “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

29. “I hold onto him. He’s still my lifeline. He’s still all I have.”

— Jennifer Hartmann

30. “I knew it would destroy you, so I told him to blame it on me. You already hated me. It was better than letting you hate yourself, or having you think you weren’t good enough for that douchebag.”

— Jennifer Hartmann

31. “You deserve it all, Corabelle, and I’ll spend my whole damn life giving it to you.”

— Jennifer Hartmann

32. “Fifteen years. Fifteen goddamn years is the amount of time I’ve been subjected to Dean’s teasing, ridicule, and bad attitude. He’s the stereotypical ‘bad boy’ – surly, well-muscled, always reeking of cigarettes and leather. Pathetically good-looking.”

— Jennifer Hartmann

33. “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

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

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35. “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

36. “The loudest love is wordless.”

— Jennifer Hartmann

37. “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

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

— Jennifer Hartmann

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

— Jennifer Hartmann

40. “This is unfixable.”

— Jennifer Hartmann

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

— Jennifer Hartmann

42. “Love is a paradox.”

— Jennifer Hartmann

43. “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

44. “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

45. “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

46. “But I’m still mad.”

— Jennifer Hartmann

47. “Roses grow in spite of the thorns. There’s beauty at the end of that painful stem. But only if it’s allowed to bloom.”

— Jennifer Hartmann

48. “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.”

— Jennifer Hartmann

49. “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

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

— Jennifer Hartmann