Top 100 Jennifer Hartmann Quotes (2024 Update)
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51. “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

52. “To lose is to have loved.”

— Jennifer Hartmann

53. “You feel like my lifeline.”

— Jennifer Hartmann

54. “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

55. “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

56. “And now I’m practicing sign language and planning to go somewhere in a small town and look for my archer.”

— Jennifer Hartmann

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

— Jennifer Hartmann

58. “I’m right here, with you, and I’m still holding onto your heart. Please don’t ask me to give it back.”

— Jennifer Hartmann

59. “I remember every goddamn inch of you, Melody, and you sure as hell didn’t feel like his girl.”

— Jennifer Hartmann

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

— Jennifer Hartmann

61. “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

62. “One person’s suffering shouldn’t take the joy out of something others may find pleasure in,” I tell her. “It would be a very sad world if that were the case.”

— Jennifer Hartmann

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

— Jennifer Hartmann

64. “There’s no shame in the struggle, but you can’t stay there forever.”

— Jennifer Hartmann

65. “We can’t give our heart to another without loving our own first.”

— Jennifer Hartmann

66. “I didn’t think you ever noticed my heart.”

— Jennifer Hartmann

67. “You’re not responsible for the way others react to what you need to do to get better.”

— Jennifer Hartmann

68. “Healing. She feels like healing.”

— Jennifer Hartmann

69. “You’re right. My point is, no one is perfect. Everyone is a little selfish sometimes when it comes to matters of the heart.”

— Jennifer Hartmann

70. “But not all love is meant to stay. Sometimes it only serves a temporary purpose.”

— Jennifer Hartmann

71. “I’ve been stuck in a perpetual state of ‘what if’ and ‘what should be’ instead of accepting what is and working through it.”

— Jennifer Hartmann

72. “And maybe love is walking away because it’s the only way she’ll find the light again.”

— Jennifer Hartmann

73. “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

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

— Jennifer Hartmann

75. “Morning afters are confusing when you have no idea what’s supposed to come after.”

— Jennifer Hartmann

76. “But I know it’s love... it has to be, because if this isn’t love... Then I’m certain it does not exist.”

— Jennifer Hartmann

77. “The same neck I peppered with sorrowful kisses and soaked with my tears of shame.”

— Jennifer Hartmann

78. “We are bound, chained, tied... to our trauma, and to each other.”

— Jennifer Hartmann

79. “There are worse things than loving the wrong person. And that’s losing them.”

— Jennifer Hartmann

80. “I do think we could have been great,” she finishes. “If you weren’t a lion, and I was not a mouse.”

— Jennifer Hartmann

81. “I want dinner dates and movie nights and homemade breakfasts after long, magical nights of lovemaking. I want to hold hands in public. I want to go on road trips, see the ocean, and laugh until our bellies ache.”

— Jennifer Hartmann

82. “Cora twists her hair over one shoulder and my eyes drift to her exposed neck. The same neck I peppered with sorrowful kisses and soaked with my tears of shame.”

— Jennifer Hartmann

83. “I’m definitely in a nightmare, but it’s not one I’ll be waking up from any time soon – and it’s only just begun.”

— Jennifer Hartmann

84. “From the kiss – not from the mental image of fifty-thousand spiders scattering into hiding, waiting for us to fall asleep so they can crawl into our eardrums and build villages.”

— Jennifer Hartmann

85. “Home is something I buried a long time ago,” he tells me, voice cracking with sentiment. A breath passes between us, a drumbeat. And then he whispers, “But I buried it inside you. Just in case I ever wanted to go back.”

— Jennifer Hartmann

86. “Do you need a minute?” “No.” A minute won’t change anything. A minute doesn’t erase the damage done. A minute isn’t going to teleport me back to the safety of my own bed, where I can comfortably avoid my current reality and battle my demons in private.”

— Jennifer Hartmann

87. “That soup was from Dean.”

— Jennifer Hartmann

88. “We escaped from a serial killer, Cora. We can do anything.”

— Jennifer Hartmann

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

— Jennifer Hartmann

90. “I’m a bookworm who would much rather purchase adorable outfits for our family dog than for myself.”

— Jennifer Hartmann

91. “Can you sing to me?”

— Jennifer Hartmann

92. “Around, around, and around. Left, then right. Slow and careful and kind. Up and down. He’s tracing my vein. Like art. I can pretend this is something beautiful.”

— Jennifer Hartmann

93. “I want to experience raw emotion, inspired by other humans. Love, passion, companionship.”

— Jennifer Hartmann

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

— Jennifer Hartmann

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

— Jennifer Hartmann

96. “Every love story is worth writing, no matter how messy it might be...”

— Jennifer Hartmann

97. “My reality. The evidence of my failure.”

— Jennifer Hartmann

98. “The quiet is where I overthink. The quiet is where I backslide. The quiet is where I second-guess everything.”

— Jennifer Hartmann

99. “You still mine?” “Always.”

— Jennifer Hartmann

100. “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