Top 120 Jennifer Hartmann Quotes (2026 Update)
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101. “Romanticize your life. Don’t live every day like it’s your last. Live every day like it’s your first. Lasts are tragic. Firsts are exciting and full of celebration. Look at every sunrise like it’s the first time you’ve ever seen colors like that before. Listen to your favorite song like you’ve never heard such a precious melody.”

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

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103. “I’m Reed.” “Halley. Like the comet.”

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

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105. “Imperfections are what bind us together. Our common thread. We’re all capable of screwing up, but we’re all capable of forgiving, too. That’s what makes us stronger humans.”

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

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107. “I was at home again. Not in Illinois, but in Reed’s glittering galaxy. A comet landing in the arms of its favourite star.”

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108. “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.”

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109. “I was lost when you found me, and I’ll be lost when you leave me.”

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110. “To lose is to have loved.”

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

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112. “Erasing the past doesn’t do us any favors. If everything had an easy way out, we’d be a brittle, complacent species.”

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113. “You still mine?” “Always.”

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114. “I’m absolutely petrified that you’re falling away from me, while I’m falling more and more in love with you. Every day. Every minute.”

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

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

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117. “Happy anniversary, Corabelle.” “Happy anniversary,” I whisper back, the tears already threatening to spill. I reach for my locket with my free hand, fisting the heart pendant between my fingers as my other hand clings to my husband. And on the count of three, we rush into the ocean, tears mixing with laughter, love swelling higher than the tide, and we jump into the water. Together.”

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

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

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120. “Love comes first. You’re grieving because love happened. You’re bleeding because love sank its nasty, beautiful claws in you. You’re crying because love filled you up and now it has nowhere to go.”

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121. “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.”

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122. “There’s no closure in something like that,” he continues, the words breathy. “That kind of grieving is an entirely different beast. Grieving someone still alive becomes choice, instead of chance, and I’ve had a whole lot of experience with that.” He swallows, dusting his thumb across the back of my hand. “Sometimes I think it’s the only thing in this world worse than death.”

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123. “You were unsure which pain is worse: the shock of what happened, or the ache for what never will.”

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

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125. “A life filled with regret is a life wasted.”

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126. “I start to drift away when I feel her lips against my cheek, just as light as before. A tickle, a whisper, a fleeting kiss. Healing. She feels like healing.”

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127. “I think that’s the only way to recognize your real home. You need to be lost first. You need to be wandering, forgotten, misplaced. Only then will you truly know where you belong.”

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

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129. “How lucky I am,” he chokes out, throat rolling with sorrow. “To have something that makes saying goodbye so damn hard.”

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130. “Speaking of too happy, why are you smiling like a serial killer who just stumbled upon his next victim?”

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131. “You didn’t fail me – you made a mistake. Mistakes make us human. Mistakes have the potential to mold us into better, stronger people.”

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132. “Are you here to save me?” Another kiss landed on my hairline, and he lingered there, squeezing me tighter, exhaling ragged breaths against my skin. “You never needed saving, Halley. You were never lost.” “I was,” I cried. “I was lost when you found me, and I’ll be lost when you leave me.” “No.” He kissed my forehead, my tear-tipped lashes, my quivering upper lip. “You were searching for something you already had.”

— Jennifer Hartmann