Top 120 Jennifer Hartmann Quotes (2026 Update)
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51. “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

52. “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

53. “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

54. “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

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

— Jennifer Hartmann

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

— Jennifer Hartmann

57. “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.”

— Jennifer Hartmann

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

— Jennifer Hartmann

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

— Jennifer Hartmann

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

— Jennifer Hartmann

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

— Jennifer Hartmann

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

— Jennifer Hartmann

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

— Jennifer Hartmann

64. “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

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

— Jennifer Hartmann

66. “Can you sing to me?”

— Jennifer Hartmann

67. “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

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

— Jennifer Hartmann

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

— Jennifer Hartmann

70. “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

71. “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

72. “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

73. “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

74. “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.”

— Jennifer Hartmann

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

— Jennifer Hartmann

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

— Jennifer Hartmann

77. “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

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

— Jennifer Hartmann

79. “I’m an arrow to his heart – a dagger to his defenses. He knows what I’m willing to give and he takes every piece, every breath, every accidental crumb.”

— Jennifer Hartmann

80. “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

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

— Jennifer Hartmann

82. “You’re coming back?” “If you want me to. If you want this like I want this.” She quickly nods. “I want this, Dean. I want you. I want everything I told myself I didn’t deserve.” “You deserve it all, Corabelle, and I’ll spend my whole damn life giving it to you.”

— Jennifer Hartmann

83. “She watched the movie. I watched her.”

— Jennifer Hartmann

84. “You just need to be brave that first time, then all the other times come easy.”

— Jennifer Hartmann

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

— Jennifer Hartmann

86. “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

87. “But love without forgiveness? That’s like a tree without roots; it can’t stand for long. It can never truly live.”

— Jennifer Hartmann

88. “Healing. She feels like healing.”

— Jennifer Hartmann

89. “Expectation is a thief of joy – it hinders living. You need to take every moment as it comes, knowing some moments will be difficult and some will be beautiful. We only thrive when we’re fully present.”

— Jennifer Hartmann

90. “It’s still beating,” he whispers, his words a soft kiss against my lips. “As long as it’s beating, you’re okay.”

— Jennifer Hartmann

91. “Not everyone could scoop up their trauma in two shaking hands and mold it into something worth holding. Her pain was clay, taking on a new form, a new shape. One day, it could become her greatest masterpiece.”

— Jennifer Hartmann

92. “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

93. “That soup was from Dean.”

— Jennifer Hartmann

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

— Jennifer Hartmann

95. “Human beings were so damn resilient. We saw color through blackened vision, latched onto hope in hopeless places, and loved with every damaged piece of our broken-down hearts.”

— Jennifer Hartmann

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

— Jennifer Hartmann

97. “You’re here to save me,” I breathed out. Warm lips brushed against mine as he whispered, “Maybe you’re here to save me.”

— Jennifer Hartmann

98. “What good is the warmth of summer without the cold of winter to give it sweetness.” – John Steinbeck.”

— Jennifer Hartmann

99. “Maybe I’m desensitized to real men. Maybe my expectations live between the pages of books involving heroes with ten-inch schlongs and magical tongues, performing grandeur gestures to sweep their heroines off their feet.”

— Jennifer Hartmann

100. “To those who have weathered life’s harshest storms and sought its silver linings, And to those still seeking their sun, This one’s for you.”

— Jennifer Hartmann