Top 120 Jennifer Hartmann Quotes (2026 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. “Take a sad song and make it better.”

— Jennifer Hartmann

5. “She feels like home.”

— Jennifer Hartmann

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

— Jennifer Hartmann

7. “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

8. “I just know... I’m going to marry this girl one day.”

— Jennifer Hartmann

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

— Jennifer Hartmann

10. “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

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

— Jennifer Hartmann

12. “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

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

— Jennifer Hartmann

14. “When you care about someone, you worry about them, no matter what. That’s just the way it is.”

— Jennifer Hartmann

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

— Jennifer Hartmann

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

— Jennifer Hartmann

17. “You feel like my lifeline.”

— Jennifer Hartmann

18. “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

19. “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

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. “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’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

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

— Jennifer Hartmann

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

— Jennifer Hartmann

25. “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

26. “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

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

— Jennifer Hartmann

28. “Love blinds you. That’s its toxic trait. It blinds your soul.”

— Jennifer Hartmann

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

— Jennifer Hartmann

30. “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

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

— Jennifer Hartmann

32. “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

33. “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

34. “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

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

— Jennifer Hartmann

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

— Jennifer Hartmann

37. “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

38. “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

39. “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

40. “The loudest love is wordless.”

— Jennifer Hartmann

41. “You’re still my girl. You’ll always be my girl.”

— Jennifer Hartmann

42. “This is unfixable.”

— Jennifer Hartmann

43. “But I’m still mad.”

— Jennifer Hartmann

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

— Jennifer Hartmann

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

— Jennifer Hartmann

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

— Jennifer Hartmann

47. “Love is a paradox.”

— Jennifer Hartmann

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

— Jennifer Hartmann

49. “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

50. “Beautiful things never last, and that’s why fireflies flash.”

— Jennifer Hartmann